Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-06
PACIFIC COAST ITIMs.

Willows is raisipg funds for a public
park.
Hoodlums broke the Methodist Church
bell at Pomona last week.
The new City Hall at Santa Rosa was
dedicated Saturday night.
The Utah Legislature has but ten more
days in which to legislate.
The food in the Salinas river drowned
all the squirrels infesting the lowlands.
The late cold spell in Southern Oregon
killed thousands of robins and blue-jsyss
r. NJ. Rucker, near Woodland, lost
400 sheep cut of :, 500 during the last
cold spell.
Surveyors are at work on wagon road
to connect Grass Valley with San Juan and
other points north.
An unknown man had his head severed
from his body by the Northern Pacific
road at Trout Creek, Or, Saturday.
Allen & Olingor, on Butte Greek, are
planting u. 600 Bartlett pear trees. and
viii have . pear orchard of sixty acres.
The Nevada Live Stock Association, re.
Gently organized at Winnemucca, is to
embrace Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho
and Utah.
The report comes from Chilootin, B. c.,
that beef and cattle are doing well, but
great loss among breeding stock is expect
ed from the deep SHOWS.
A party Of over five hundred immigrants
arrived at the town of Cheney, w. T.,
Saturday. They will settle principally In
eastern Oregon and Washington Territory.
The cannery at Collinsville is working
thirty.three Cinnamon, making cans for the
coming season. It ia said they intend
making between l,500, 600 and 100000
cans.
The carpenters and joiners of Victoria,
B. c., are on strike. They want a re-
duction of working hours to fifty -four a
week-equal to an advance of ten per cent.
to employees.
A snow-shoer says he saw over 500 dead
jack rabbits while crossing from California
go Reno. They had starved and frozen to
death, and were but a few feet away from
their burrows.
The annual public school meeting was
held at Portland, Or, Tuesday night, for
the purpose of fixing the amount of the tax
for the maintenance of the schools Of Port
land for the coming year.
Bert Gibbs, aged l3, while assisting his
father, who was splitting rails on Camas
Prairie, Douglas county, Or, Thursday,
fell in front of the descending ak. His
skull was cut, and he viii probably die.
There has been another check to build.
ing the bridge over the Willamette at
Portland. The Circuit Court has decided
against the Bridge Company. An appeal
to the United States Supreme Court will
be taken.
The Oakland Democracy has made the
following nominations For Mayor, J.
West Martin Clerk and Treasurer, John
Martens; City Attorney, B. McFadden
Police Judge, - Roseborough Marshal,
Edward H. Hamilton School Superin.
tendent, T. o. Crawford.
Within the past two months, says the
Bakersfield Californian, the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company have sold $4,000
acres of land in the northern prolongation
of the great valley of San Benito county.
Besides this large quantity has besn To-
Gated under the Desert Land Act. Il is
believed that these landp can easily be
irrigated by means Of artesian wells.
Three Bodie mines will pay dividends
this month. These are the Bodie Consoli.
dated, Standard Consolidated and Syndi-
cate. This is the first time in the history
of mining st Bodie that three mines in that
section have paid dividends in the same
month. Bulwer commenced paying in De-
cember, 1882, and paid to January, 1884.
Syndicate paid its first dividend in Febru-
ary.
It is stated that the means employed in
raising the sunken collier Umatills, now
resting on the bottom Of Esquimalt harbor,
B. c., will be ss follows: About twelve
channels will be tunneled beneath the ship
through these channels chains will be
passed, and the ends made fast to two
ships or barks anchored at low water on
each side of the submerged steamer. 1t is
believed that by this means the vessel will
be raised off the bed OF the harbor at high
tide, when she will be towed into shallow
water, and at the next low tide the process
will be repeated, until the hull is above
water, when she will be pumped out.
beached and temporarily repaired before
going to San Francisco, where she will 90
on the dry dock.