The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-06-05
COAST NEWS.

!. two rising towns in Sierra county.
The Sacramento Bee complains becaus
the policemen there go upon the bonds o
men whom they arrest.
A Yuba county farmer, having sec,
nothing Of the grasshoppsrs up to thi,
dste. believes that they will escape then
: the present year.
In the hind quarter Of steer killed
in Santa Cruz slaughter. house recently
was found ten-penny nail deeply i'm.
bedded in the aesh.
II 10 now found that the frosts did but
little injury to the fruit setting in Honey
Lake. Sierra, Truckee, Carson and other
valleys in the mountains.
1 Visitors to the Los Angeles ostrich
farm are to be charged fifty cents each.
A sign posted at the entrance reads:
"All dogs found on this farm will be
shot"
Horned toads were frequent article
of mail matter at the San Diego Post
Office until the Postmaster shut down on
the matter By liberating all the reptiles
that came in.
An organized band Of thieves has been
discovered in Oroville. They had made
up series Of operations to rob, but the
arrest and confession of one Of the gang
broke the programme.
A plank was recently received at Peta.
luna from Guerneville which was 81
inches thick, 66 inches wide, and IA feet,
long. containing $50 feet of lumber and
weighing 1850 pounds.
This is great year for grass on the
northern coast. and. as one Of the ranch.
ers expresses it. there is need to NOW
the grass down in order to enable them
to find the sheep.
The three Englishmen whom a couple
Of desperadoes attempted to murder at
Soledad we're named John. Arthur and
William Draper. One Of the three was
shot in the abdomen and may die. and
one Of the other two was slightly
wounded.
A duck was Matched in Suffer county,
last week. which had four legs. It had
not been out Of its shell very long before |
chicken came along and, being offended
By such violation of the order Of IA.
ture, 1t incoutinently broke the neck Of |
the lusus nature.
An eleven.year.old girl named Donald. |
son, fooling with shotgun on ranch |
near Yountville, on the 25. succeeded
in peppering three youthful playmates.
None were seriously hurt, though hit |
with numerous shot.
Congressman Morrow. 10 letter to . |
friend in Santa Rosa. predicts that by |
the time Congress sdjourns. the people |
will find that the California delegation
will have accomplished more for the
restriction Of Chinese immigration than !
has been done during the whole period |
Of the agitation up to this time"
On the 9th Of May man named west.
who had been employed at one at the |
smelters in Globe, Arizona. was found |
dead on the road near that town with
two bullet holes through his head and |
one through the body. He left Globe Q |
day or two before, and was known to |
have had 500 on his person.
The Chilcat Indian Of Alaska is .
aingsd cat. The tribe does the packing |
for the miners on the Yukon river, and |
an ezorbitant price is charged for it. The |
miners discharged the Chilcsts and hired |
some cheap labor Indians. who we're
Immediately killed by the Chilcats in |
the interest Of their transportation mo.
nopoly.
The Stockton lIail announces that
large numbers Of counterfeit grssnbacks
have recently been put in circulation in
that city by gentlemanly strangers. As
. rule the notes are very poor limitations
and can be easily detected. The coun.
terfeit notes are mostly Of the denomina.
tion Of Sc, though some $40 bills have
also shown up.
A teamster named Simpson, employed
on the Montana Central Railroad, went
into the mountains near Helena to look
for his horses, which had strayed away.
While there he was stricken with some
strange disease. disabling him from walk.
ing, and for FIVE days and nights he re.
manned there without food, but with an
abundance Of water. Finally he was
found when on the point Of death, and is
in q fair vsv IN raoov.r