The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-05-17
CALIFORNIA ITEMS.

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A Chinese girl at Monterey has 81,
fingers on each hand and six toes on each
foot. &
The orange trees in D1erced are covered
with blossoms, and appearances indicate
large yield Of fruit and quite good
supply Of lemons.
A flowing well has been struck at Old
San Bernardino at depth Of 495 feet.
This is the deepest well yet struck in San
Bernardino Valley.
Two little girls OF Los Angeles were
recently quite badly poisoned by cactus
stings while wandering in the hills in
search of wild flowers.
A famous spring near the foot of Broad
street, Nevada City, Cal, which had
flowed since the earliest settlement, has
just gone dry. 1t is supposed some we'll
digger tapped the stream.
Wildcat skins in San Joaquin county
are forty cents apiece. A farmer living
near Campo Seco has slaughtered nearly
100 of the 'varmints, and few days
ago sold the skins in Stockton.
An Indian hunter killed, during last
season, on Humboldt Bay, Cal, enough
birds to yield him lightweight pounds
OF feathers. 1t is estimated that ten
birds yield one pound of feathers. Such
being the case, his string for the season
was $50. - W.
The Red Bluff Cause says: A squirrel
has taken up its quarters in the rear Of a
store, where it is leading luxuriant life.
1t eats from ones hand, and has made
friends with the cats, and repairs to the
nut and cracker boxes regularly at lunch
time
Theodore Wores, in painting San
Francisco picture with Chinaman in it,
had to battle with superstitious objec-
ton to being drawn 1t was the work
of months to get models. Ii Chinaman
was bribed to come for one or two days
he was sure to desert on the third, leav-
ing the artist with q hall. finished sketch.
The eggs produced on the ostrich farm
in California were not available for hatch
ing this year, so they were thrown on
the market as Easter eggs. They brought
from So to "a apiece in their natural
state, and were soon sold. The huge
eggs were painted handsomely in oil col
ors. and many beautiful specimens were
sent East to show what the California
hens can do.
A Wheatland dispatch OF May says:
Some men employed by DR.. Melton, at
his residence in this town, commenced to
dig a well yesterday, and, when at the
depth OF ten feet, found several fine
nuggets of gold--one estimated to be
worth $40, the Others of less amount.
"A number of pansful of dirt have been
washed, and all show fine quality of
leaf gold. There is considerable excite
ment over the discovery, and other par.
ties are talking of prospecting in that
vicinity. T 'y9G s.
The Nevada Transcript of May says:
There was serious accident at the Der
bee mine this week, but information as
to particulars is slow in coming to hand.
Mr.. Burroughs, who was up that way,
says that at about II o'clock Wednesday
night cave occurred while two men,
one of them named Callahan, were re-
moving some pillars Of gravel, and that
they were imprisoned till o'clock Thurs.
day morning, when their fellow.workmen
got them out. Galatians left leg was
mashed some, one of the men has frac.
tured bone in his wrist, and both of them
are more or less bruised.
John Sloan, of Valley Springs, Gala.
veras county, writes to the San Francisco
Bulletin as follows, under date of May 9:
"We have stock and dairy ranch. Our
calves this year are coming deformed;
some with legs weak, some with legs
twisted, some with shoulder blades grow.
ing in the wrong direction, and jaws stiff
Last year we had one that was entirely
helpless, as to his legs, the bones bending
in any direction, and another whose back
was so bent that he could not live. One
of our neighbors lost his whole stock of
calves last year, too much deformed to
live. The people about here say that the
cause is the cows eating acorns. Some
attribute it to the eating of buckeyes.
viii you please tell us the probable
cause through your paper, and the rem.
edy, il, there is any?''
A real nice looking old lady went into
the Senate gallery in Washington the