Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-27
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Football on skates IS the latest sensation
in Butte, Mont.
Arizona claims to produce the best wheat
and -four in the world.
Catfish eighteen inches long have been
caught in Soap lake, near Gilroy.
\ fishing party at San Diego caught $50
barracuda ON Monday, weighing in all 600
pounds.
The new well of the Oakdale Water Com
pany taved in few days ago, and was
completely destroyed.
A law was passed by the recent Montana
Legislature prohibiting the killing Of quails
in that Territory for the next six years.
Professor H. T. Bickel, of the Paradise
Valley (Nev.) school, has been rendered
the position of Principal of the California
Normal and Scientific College located at
Nacayille.
The Phoenix CA. t. Gazette says there
will be quite rush to take advantage of
the new insolvency law in the Territory by
business men who want to rub it out and
begin over again"
prominent Stockton divine says Stock
ton is religious city, contaninga breadth
and sweetness of the Christian faith not
common upon earth" That minister must
have had his salary raised
The editor of the San Lcandro Reporter,
who was recently fined s. by a Justice Of
the Peace for contempt, offered to pay the
fine by canceling an old bill of 81 so which
his Honor owed the editor
Blanche NJ Sanderson, 4 years old, the
daughter of MI and Mrs. William n San
derson, of Oakland fell into d boiler of
scalding water several days ago, and died
from the effects of the burns on her body.
A man who had to attend upon the
Mayor of Los Angeles on Monday morn
ing for being drunk, remarked that being
a very regular customer, he naturally ex-
pected special treatment He got thirty
days.
The almost total absence OF snelt and
the comparative scarcity OF salmon in the
Columbia river, Just at this time, is at
tributcd TO the seals, which have made
their appearance in large numbers in the
river.
Alta special meeting of the Directors of
the Homo for the Adult Blind, to be estab-
lished and maintained according to the
provisions of an Act of the last Legislature,
by which Act the Directors of the school
for deaf nutes, at Berkeley, were made
Directors of the new Home, it was decided
that The Home be located in Oakland
Allen Ireland, of Miles City, Mont, has
a baby which seems to be full of enterprise.
Last Sunday morning it fell out Of bed,
striking on its head, and was apparently
dead for two or three hours. 1t has since
swallowed the amber mouthpiece OF its
fathers pipe disposed of a thrcadless spoon
and is experimenting with Chinese egg.
A couple of horse thieves last week I'M
dertook to abduct from the Crow Reserva-
ton in Montana fifteen Indian ponies. The
steal was soon discovered by the Indians,
and thirty-two bucks, we'll armed, started
in hot pursuit of the thieves, and overlook
them at the head Of Five-Mile creek Sun
day night, recaptufcd the stolen ponies and
killed the thieves.
On the 9th instant an Indian named
Bull, while on his way from Fort Belbnap
to Fort Assinabone, Mont. drove his squaw
into the brush and shot her dead He
shortly afterwards net Jack Brown, the
Government guide and scout, and probably
thinking he would be arrested, the Indian
ran q few yards, sat down, and putting the
muZzle Of his gun to his forehead, blew out
his brains.
Last Monday week 4 Chinaman called
Jimmy crossed the line from British
Columbia and stole a package of goods
from a logging camp near Seniahmoo,
Whatcom county, w. T. He drew shot
gun on the camp boss, who stopped him.
but was taken and placed in confinement
at SemiahmoO. During the night twelve
masked men took him from the loci, up,
cut off his queue and hung him up to a
tree three times, and then told the terrified
and half-dead fellow to get back to British
territory. The act was done Us q warming
to Chinese invaders.