Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

| A California lion was killed by large
| dog near Grass Valley last week.
The Carson 4ppea thinks the real indus
try of Nevada is cattle, not mining.
| The Humboldt river is now bank high
| and the bottoms are oyerhowed in some
places.
The levee protecting the Lisbon district
broke this week, and fine crops were over
| flowed.
Samples of wheat five feet high and be-
| ginning To head out, have been brought
| into Stockton.
Rich chloride and black metal ore has
been found in the Seventy-seven mine near
Belmont, New.
Boatmen at Vallejo, who sell liquor with
out license, are being looked after by the
Town Marshal
\ leper was found among the Chinese
passengers that reached Victoria, B.. c., on
the Queen of the Pacific, Thursday.
Vim. Donovan, aged rs, was asphyiated
by escaping gas at the residence of his
father-in-law in San Jose Tuesday night
John Worsley alias Juan Vacilo, who
killed his wife at Los Gatos in June, 1892,
has reached San Jose in charge of an officer.
The roads TO the Geysers, which were
closed temporarily by the recent rain
storms, are now open and in good condi-
ton.
A quarrel among three Cinnamon over a
pagan courtesan at Tuscarora, New, last
week, resulted in one of them being killed
and another fatally shot.
The body of a male infant that had been
strangled to death with a string, was found
in a rubbish pile at Genoa, New, last week
and the case is being Investigated.
w. H. Watkinds has been removed from
the Office of Chief of Police of Portland, Or,
and the appointment of Samuel b. Parrish
TO the vacancy confirmed by the Council.
Some of the cattle thieves who broke
Jail at Baker City, Or, some time ago, are
said to be in Jordan valley, Baker county
They are desperate fellows, and no recent
attempt has been made to capture them.
Commissioners who have examined the
twenty-tive-mile branch Of the Cascade di-
vision of the Northern Pacific Railroad
built east from Tacoma toward Matches
Pass, found the road tirst-class, and will SO
report.
Charles Sweeney and Robert J. Linden,
Jr., partners in the largest business house at
Spokane Falls, w. T, were indicted Tuesday
by the Grand Jury on a charge of grand
larceny, and have stepped across the line
into Idaho to avoid arrest.
The first marriage ever celebrated in the
Ceur d'Alene mines was that performed by
Rev. w. c. Slippen, of the NJ. Z. Church, at
Murrayville, April g. 1884, when Henry
John Scott, bachelor, was united in the
bonds of matrimony to Laura Bell Wright.
Wednesday lad named William Mich
inns, living at Field Gulch, Washington
Territory, while fooling with loaded shot
gun, accidentally shot himself in the face.
The charge tore away a portion of the
lower jaw and cheek, making a horrible
wound. The boy, it is said, cannot re
cover.
Friday morning Antonio Buelna went to
a house on lower Santa Barbara street,
Santa Barbara, in " hich resides a woman
known as Francesca Lopez, and from the
outside raised a window in the woman's
bedroom and fired four pistol shots at the
bed, which was occupied by herself and
child. Three of the shots went through
the footboard of the bed, the other going
through the floor. 1t was an almost mi
raculous escape. The would-be murderer
was arrested at Santa Paula, Ventura
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