Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-20
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


The Piutes at Fort McDermit. New, are
having feast over an issue to them by the
Government of 5000 worth of beef and
flour.
A number of residents of Astoria, Or.
are afflicted with trichina, caused by eating
knocked pork, and there is considerable
excitement in consequence.
Isaac Parker, of Sebastopoi, informs the
Santa Rosa Republican that his grape crop
the past year was picked by white girls, and
they picked over one ton per day.
The Nap;i Register says Numerous farm
iaborers have been seen passing up the
valley lately seeking employment in vine
yards and orchards where Cinnamon are
now employed.
A movement is on foot in Nevada county
to extend some of the big mining bitches
to the lower foothill country, where the
water can be applied more generally for
irrigating purposes.
The Nal says: The remains of the late
Stockton Cremation Society have been sent
TO the undertaken, and will be buried in the
paupers plot. The poor young thing died
of lack of nourishment.
The Eapa Reporter saws The postoffice
at Suscol has been discontinued. Mrs. SUIT
ter, the postmistress, has moved away, and
nets about seventy-five cents a year.
The Lompoc Record says: The whaling
season thus far at Point Conception has
been unfayorable on account of rough
weather. Only seven whales were taken
on the down run, but better results are ex-
pected on the return of the oily monsters
north, which commenced February LIST.
The work has already commenced on the
big Northern Pacific tunnel, in Stampede
Pass. Fifty men are atwork at the mouth
OF the tunnel Two hundred men will be
required to build the approaches and cut
through the rocks at the east portal. When
boring is commenced about 700 men can be
utilized at each end, and they will work on
eight-hour shifts.
Clarence Gray fhe condemned murderer,
IN JAIL at Winnemucca, New, continues to
act the role of maniac The officers give
him bath daily. and keep his hands NUT
He'd TO prevent him from tearing his clothes.
he eats with apparent relish what victuals
are put ig(his mouth but the officers say be
Will nQthelp himself to food, however hun
gry/he may be.
THE Virginia New Chronicle says it has
decided to erect an industrial school
building with the s., 600 bequeathed by the
-iate William Sharon, The Anilding will be
two stories high, the lower part devoted to
ihacnlnerv ana appliances Tor giving the
boys instruction in mechanical handicraft
and the upper room utilized as sewing
room and general workshop for the girls.
Some Isrospectors in the Cababi noun
tains, A. T., recently came upon four hui
man remains buried under loose rocks and
close to the surface. They were inclosed
by wall of stone almost round in form.
Attached to the bones of the feet of one
was found pair of coarse shoes of the
stogyn kind and much like those worn
BY miners of the present day. The soles Of
the shoes were we'll preserved, but nearly
all of the upper leather had rotted away.
They also found smooth-bore gun barrel
forty-four inches in length, detached from
the stock. Engraved on the barrel is g U.
S. Toms" and on the stock the figures
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