Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The project for wooden mill at Gridley
has been abandoned.
Frsnk Wilson fell from the cars near La
Puente station Saturday and was killed.
Some of the snowbanks on the Central
Pacific have TO be blown up with powder.
Trinity county boasts of as many and as
rich quartz mines as can be found in the
State.
Thousands of sheep are reported 20 have
been killed in ColusA county during the
recent cold snap,
An effort is bsing made to have the Vet.
erans' Home at Yountville ready for occu.
patton by Memorial Day.
A cougar, seven feet six inches in length
aud weighing I33 pounds, was caught in a
steel trap on the klamath river last week.
Herr John Frantz Luther heads colony
of Germans, 500 strong, who are on their
way to Southern California, where they
will settle as farmers.
An Indian named "Man. Afraid of Moth.
ing married white woman in Montana
recently, and in one week after the we'd
ding applied to his tribe to have his name
changed.
The Horticultural Pavilion at Riverside
is to be provided with fine set of scenery,
drop curtain and other appurtenances to
make it suitable for the performance of
dramas and operas.
An attempt was made to hurn the State
University at Eugene City, o., Tuesday.
Quarrels among the students and with the
faculty are the supposed cause of the at.
tempt at incendiarism.
A dispatch from Portland, Or, says
Late last evening all the wages due the
printers in the office of the North,ceSt
Nelcs were paid in full, and the compost.
tors have gone to work.
William Rutherford has gone to Europe
to make purchases of machinery for the
proposed East Oakland cotton mills. A
considerable lot of machinery is now on it's
way overland from the East.
Mr.. Steere, of Santa Monica, killed so
linnets in one day with half an apple
sprinkled with strychnine and placed on an
apricot limb. The linnet is very destructive
of seeds, fruit-buds and fruit.
A man by the name of Donley, living on
Cape Horn mountain, Clarke county, w.
T., while hunting one day last week, mis-
LUX HIS DOJ lOE q NllUCab anu StlOS MIN.
the ball striking him on the head, fractur.
ing his skull.
The rumor has again gained currency
that the Narrow-gsuge Rsiiroad Company
has purchased the Oakland, Brooklyn and
Fruitvsle street railroad line, and that in
short while passengers will be carried
from East Oakland to San Francisco for 10
cents.
Senator Vroo ran was prostrated by a
sudden attack Of serious illness on Tuesday
while in pursuit of his law duties at his
office in East Oakland. The Senator was
too i'll to be removed from his office, and
an improvised couch had to be furnished
for him.
The farmers of Berryessa valley have ap-
pesled to the Napa county Board of Super
visors for 4 liberal bounty for the scalps of
destructive wild animals The stock of
the people of the valley suffer from raids
made by California lions, wildcats, foxes
and coyotes.
On the night of December II, 1883, a
stage in Inyo county was robbed of Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s express box. Last week
Lou Schatten, driver of the stage, and Bud
Hanniss and Arlie Main, two well-known
citizens of the county, who were passengers
in the stage at the time, pleaded guilty of
the robbery,