Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-23
COAST SQUIBs.

Divorce Is epldemlc al San Bernardino,
California.
Colorado has established a cattle quar-
antine against several States.
The population Of Bodie is said to nave
decreased in five years from 5000 to 500.
Since the rejection OF the Chinese bill by
the Dominion Parliament, Cinnamon are
pouring into Victoria.
Eureks, Humboldt county, CAL, is still
barred to Cinnamon. When one gets in
town he is escorted out.
The Star Mining District in Southern
Utah presents a much ~livelier aspect than
il has done for several years.
Thu present outlook is favorable for an
immense crop of fruit in Oregon and Wash
ington Territory the coming season.
Charles Crocker's permanent residence
will hereafter be in New York City, and
he has sent for his family to join him there.
A terrific cyclone struck Clinton, A. T.,
last Monday, tearing away q portion OF
Central bridge and unroofing a number of
houses.
Vacant houses at Truckee are hard to
find, and there is a great demand for fur
nished and unfinished rooms owing to
nc" iAAf"Ap
The Arizona Live Stock Association held
a meeting at Tucson on the 10th inst. to
discuss measures for the quarantining of
diseased cattle.
The plazas at Portland are to be improved
and ornamented with fountains and care
fully laid out paths, the latter to be lined
with rows of trees.
Trouble is anticipated in Yavspai county,
A. T., over the failure Of some ministers to
file marriage certificates within the ninety
days required by law.
Denver Tribune OF the 18th instant:
First-rate cattle have sold during the week
at from 81 rs to 81 IS. They are all
home-fed, or Nebraska corn-fed.
The Denver, Western d Pacific Railroad
was sold at public auction last Saturday,
and was bought in by H. M. Orahood,
trustee, for the ~bondholders, for $500, 900.
An undertaken of Tucson, A. T., has
held the embalmed body of a man since
1882 as collateral for the cost of the opera
ton, which his relatives in the East refuse
to pay.
The Idaho Avalanche says: We hear it
intimated that good placer diggings will
soon be shown to the public not many
miles from Silver. Wood, water and grass
are plentiful in the vicinity.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports IL failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the week ending last
Saturday, as compared with II for the pre-
vious week and 8 for the corresponding
week of 1884.
Lew Robinson, sixteen years Of age,
was found guilty of murder in the second
degree, at Covelo, Mendocino county, Cal
~ifornia, Wednesday. The prisoner killed
A. Davis, a merchant, in a quarrel over a
watermelon last Fall.
A fight was recently arranged between a
rat and a dog at Portland to settle a wager
about the merits of the latter, a thorough
bred terrier that had been imported at
| great expense. After a brief struggle in a
ring that had been formed the dog was COM
pletely whipped and fed in terror.
1t is currently reported that one Of the
first California appointments made will be
that of John W. Twiggs, as Assayer OF the
| Mint, to succeed Alexander Martin. Mr..
| Twiggs has for some years been connected
| with the Selby Smelling and Refining
Works. He is a son Of General Twiggs,
who had so prominent q place in the Mex
lean war, and cousin to Secretary Lamar.
A rumor recently circulated through
Southern California to the effect that the
California Southern would connect with
the Atlantic d Pacific at Waterman, instead
of Daggett, has been denied by the railroad
officials. 1t is stated that Waterman Il
Porter, the owner of a large mine at
Waterman, offered the railroad company
S25, 900 to make the junction at their sta
ton. but the offer was refused, as the min
ing interests of Dagget were considered
more important and permanent.