Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-16
Idaho Springs. Col. has bank.

Eighteen hundred dozen watermelons
were shipped from Lodi, San Joaquin
county, last week.
Lake View, Or, has tripled in size dur
ing the last three years and contains now
over 100 houses.
Crickets are working sad havoc ON some
of the vegetable ranches on Dry creek,
Lake county, Oregon.
The new Crescent City wagon road will
be only 8, 100 feet above the level of the
sea at the highest point.
The culverts and bridges for the Oregon
and California railroad between Albany and
Lebanon, Or, are completed.
George Bats, of Brownsville, Yuba
county, has two carp ponds, and he has
been successful in raising fish.
Work on the Normal School building at
San Jose is progressing rapidly. The force
of men has been increased to eighty.
An infant son of r. C. Merrill of San
Gregorio caught his neck in a shp.noose,
August Sth, and was choked to death.
The Chinese of Stockto have raised the
sum of 81, 500 to celebrate with becoming
ceremonies the Feast of Lanterns in that
city.
One hundred and ten new applicants for
admission to the State Normal School were
examined Tuesday. About thirty failed to
pass.
The citizens of 0akdale have broken up
Mexican dance-house formerly in that
town, arresting and filming the inmates sew
eral times.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company is expanding this year 50. 900, 600
in improvements, and have planned to ex-
pend as much next year.
Last Sunday, says the Dallas (0r.) PLAIN
dealer, six hunters left Wilbur at o'clock
A. NJ and returned at G p. NJ, each one hav-
ing deer tied behind his saddle.
Two cabins and nearly one-half of the
public bridge at Point New Year, Pesca-
dero, were consumed by fire last week
probably the work of an incendiary.
H. w. McEwen, who has an orchard
about four miles from Suisun, has ON exhi-
bition specimen Crawford peach ten
inches in circumference and weighing ten
ounces.
The point of land to the east of Vallejo
Junction is to be cut away for about 20
feet from the track, in order that signal
flags may be seen at the junction as the
engineer rounds the curve.
Between now and New Years it is
thought that the station at Vallejo juno
ton will be very much enlarged, and the
accommodations increased, as the travel is
sufficient to warrant it.
The work of stretching the telegraph
wire between Elk mountain and Gunnison,
Col, is completed, and workmen are now
engaged on the extension between there
and Crested Butte and Gothic.
1t is proposed to clean out the grasshop-
pers of Sierra Valley by irrigation. 1t is
found that they leave damp ground, as
their eggs will not hatch in moist earth.
The Sierra Valley Ditch Company will fur
nish the water.
A writer in the Redding Independent
gives the following as Indian names for
rivers For the Sacramento, Wy. MIN, or
North river for Pit river, Pool MIN, or
East river for McCloud river, Winnim-
min, or Middle river.
A little son of Joseph Upton fell into
the Umpqua river, in Oregon, recently, and
after remaining under water fifteen min
utes and drifting 400 yards down stream,
was rescued by his father. and in about
two hours restored to consciousness.
The report that snow still lies upon the
approaches to Crater Lake, Oregon, in
such quantity that the lake can only be
reached by the use of snowshoes is ascer-
tanned to be mistaken one. Several par
ties have visited the lake recently.
If one,h half the stores, two-thirds the
saloons and two thousand idlers should
leave Bodie, says the Standard Nelcs, we
would have the best business camp on the
coast. As it is somebody feeds the idlers
and the merchants have to foot the bill.
At Red Elephant mountain, Col, August
I'd, cabin occupied by one August Law
son, a Swede, took fire and burned to the
ground, and the unfortunate man, becom-
ing sutfocated with smoke. was unable to
make his escape, aud persisted in the
flames.
Several Mexican horse-thieves in Fresno
recently attempted to kill John Brickley,
who had given information which led to
the arrest and hanging of one of their num-
Der. Brickley escaped and three of the
Mexicans have been captured. One of
them is a brother of the notorious Chavez
A meteor was seen at Antioch one even
ing last week. the body of which appeared
to the sight to be three feet in diameter.
It's light lasted for fifteen minutes, then
leaving luminous appearance in the
heavens like milky way. During the
continuance large numbers of stars were
falling.
Saturday night while the clerk for Agent
Frazer was at his Office at the depot at
South Arkansas, Col. a man came IN os-
tensibly to purchase ticket for Buffalo,
New York, and, watching an opportunity,
knocked the clerk senseless with sand
billy and then rifed the cash drawer of
500.
The Chico Record notices some sad cases
of cruelty to animals. A wretch named
VIM. Anarlin beat one OF his horses with
six-foot club, and ended by thrusting the
sharp end into the poor animals side,
Lately, too, a man named Alderman tried
to ride a colt, and failing, drew knife and
stabbed it nine times.
There was quite smash.up on the
Southern Pacific Railroad at Cucamongo
station on the morning of the 10th inst.
between two freight trains. The outgoing
train was very heavy, and there being a
down grade going into Cucamongo, the
brakesmen were unable to control the train
when the other was discovered. No one
was injured.
"Throw up your hands, said a garroter
to C. F. Reid in lonely spot in Bodie last
Tuesday night. Up went Reid's hands,
but in his right was monstrous bowie
knife. '.Oh, don't - cried the garroter,
as the descending knife cut his shoulder to
the bone. The garroter proved better
runner than Reid, and escaped with only
one cut. % A handy knife" said Reid to
himself, as he put up the weapon and
turned homeward.
Charles Rash, who has just returned to
from three weeks trip in
Sierra and Plumas counties, says while he
and party of four friends were returning
from, Jamison City to Gibsonville, they
struck an impossible snow.drift After
five hours to break roadway for
the horses, they were compelled to abandon
the route. Their wagon was lowered with
ropes over the perpendicular rocks into a
valley below, through wt1ch they hanked
the great snow deposit.
On Tuesday last, as Walter Finchley and
another teamster were descending the Pur.
don grade, near Grass Valley, the brake OF
the wagon behind Finchley gave way, and