Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-08-14
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ty jail.
Castro Valley crops are large and IF
good quality. s
Big river, hendosino county, ia said
to abound in trout.
Several freigh. ears were dischel near
Dixon yesterday. Ta
Land troubles continue in the Mendc-
cino settlement, Fresno county.
Some vineyards near Healisburg are
suffering FROM blight this year.
The report that smallpox is at New
port Mendocino county, Is denied.
The petroleum oil refinery at Newhall
station was burned Yesterday; loss, $780,
900.
The mill which was crushed oy an ava
lanche las. winter at Carlisie, Meadow
Lake district, is being rebuilt. .. s..
An enterprisihg man is thinking Of
gathering up all the drift timber on th-
Mendocino coast and rafting it down to
San Francisco. .s
Several bathers at Santa Monica got
into the under current and tangled in
the kelp, and but for timely help would
| have been drowned,
Within radius of Is miles of Truckee,
! there are 900 men at work in the wood
! their salaries range from $40 to 81 25 per
month, including board.
Wild strawberries, sweet, luscious and
plentiful, cover many acres Of the msa-
dows near Donner Lake. They are ripe
at presant and fishermen and tourists find
them exceeding tempting. t.
Owing to the ravages of worms, the
price of alfalfa hay is going up in Gan
Bernardino.
lone City horses have the epizootic.
Haniord people have given the gam
blers notice to leave
Pieces Of pure copper have been found
on the C5rlado Islands, according 70
the San Diego Uainn.
A rattlesnake was killed on the school
ground at Ukiah last week by somn Of
the school children.
The schooner Orrin went ashore at
San Pedro recently. but was got OF
with slight damage.
AT Nortonsyille recently, Archie Mad
den, aged 3 years, was burned TO death
10y coal oil explosion.
The London Chrome mine, San Luis
Obispo, is extracting fifteen tons per
day. -.. .-
Miss Hurley, Of Santa Barbara, who
stole articles from church, has been
sentenced to six months Imprisonment
and $3.50 fine.
Last Friday the box which wes unde,
the corner stone Of the old Normal
school building, San Jose, was opened
Everything was in perfect preservation
Rust has made its unwelcome appear
ance in the Willamette Valley, but prob
ably too late to do serious damage
The Albany Democrat reports th'
. drowning Of CLANCY Moore in Grail
Greek. He had gone in SWIMMING, ane
was probably attacked with cramps. Tn,
body was recovered on the followin,
day.
e The property of the late George B
+ Hagar, who was so foully murdere'
+ nearly two months ago, was sold at Day
ton On Saturday last at public auction.
RI There are now five Hancock and Ems
d iish Clubs in Coos county. Betwee
o two and three hundred names enrolled
and the work has just began.
The bee men in the foothills of Pass
dena, have been compelled to surroun
their hives with fences of barbed wir,
= to keep off the bears which make fir,
1 quent raids for honey. ,-...... ..
. About 700 salmon were caught at I'll
q Cloud River Fishery at one haul las
70 week; only about sixty were females I
haul was made last Sunday evening, an
Il out of sixty salmon caught, only thrt
we're females,
The Siirer IStateis informed that Hur
to boldt Lake, or Sink Of the Humboldt
Sc as it is frequently called, is dry. A
W area Of about thirty square miles whie
IS "a few years ago was covered with waite
Il; IS row as dry as desert. This chan,
IS has been caused by divsrting the wat.
r. # the Humboldt river to the lands alor
e, the stream.