Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Both the Jail and hospital of Stanislaus
county are well filled.
Two soldiers deserted from Alcatraz
Island Wednesday night on raft.
Work on the artesian well at Modesto
has been suspended. The depth of l,045
feet was reached.
According to the Anaheim Gazette, F. j.
Schmidt was out hunting recently and wit
messed combat between three buzzards
and rattlesnake, in which the latter was
killed and then eaten.
An agreement signed by twelve team
sters makes the charges for hauling freight
between Ukiah and Cloverdale $40 ton,
excepting wheat. Whoever violates this
contract forfeits $3.50 in gold coin.
Strawberries and snow constitute a
rather strange and curious combination,
yet strawberries could be had in Austin,
New, Wednesday morning when the snow
was over six inches deep on the street.
Mr.. Kingman, Engineer of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, is in Pres
colt, A. T. He says he is coming right on
through the Territory as soon as possible
and $50, 600, 900 of Eastern capital is COM
ing on fast behind him.
Arizona freights are still increasing, says
the Los Angeles Journal, about as much
merchandise, together with road materials
going forward as can be well handled with
the rolling stock at the command of the
road, and that is being supplied literally
also.
A gentleman has presented the San
Diego Ne,cs with an orange grown on his
place near that town, which for size is
real nugget, and measures 13axl4 inches
around. The fruit is quite perfect in color,
but was injured by the late frost, so that
its qualities cannot be well tested.
The State Board of Equalization have
assessed the total value of the Southern
Pacific Railroad within this State at Sl0,-
4S3, SIS. This valuation is divided pro
rata among the counties through which the
line passes, according to the mileage in
each county, the rate per mile being Sl4,-
1888.
During this week wool buyers have been
numerous at Stockton, and there was con-
siderable competition among them. Two
weeks ago wool was quoted at Is and 10
cents per pound, and there was no market
Now the quotations are from 20 to "a cents
per pound for good wool, and still there is
a great demand.
The giant powder explosion smashed
several windows in Berkeley, and the CON-
pany has employed a party to repair
damages. Many persons have taken ad-
vantage of the company's free offer, and
have presented bills equal to five times the
cost, and have included in the bills win
dows that were broken six months ago.
1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody good.
The Newark ALAMEDA county, Enter
prise is responsible for the following: Te-
mescal has a pirate. He recently kicked
young man out of his house and from
his daughters company This is a joke,
and when we refer to pirate the average
man may not see where the joke comes in,
but when he knows that pirate and free
booter are synonymous he sees the joke at
once.
The name of the great poet, William Cul.
len Bryant, appears on the mortgage tax
list of Santa Clara county. The mortgage
was given by Charles HI. Bryant, formerly
an attorney in San Jose, now deceased, to
w. G. Bryant, his cousin. 1t is dated
September "a, 1877, and is given as Sc
Soliof III eiiS hiSho VI hopS iOi Vi,-OO
payable in two years, with interest at
seven per cent. per annum, payable annu-
ally.
That item about Sheriff Cunningham's
recapture of Michael WEIGH, under the
train at the depot in Stockton the other
night is still on its travels. The Carson
Appeal, said to be the most truthful paper
in Nevada, thus records it "The Sheriff
was under the train like flash, and as he
grasped the robber the cars went over a
trestle- work 160 feet high. The
robber attempted to swing free, but
the Sheriff, hanging by his toes,
held his prisoner by the hair for about
sixty yards. The determined robber,
drawing sixteen inch bowieknife, cut off
his head, and, leaving it in the Sheriff's
hands, dropped into the seething gulf be-
low. He then swan ashore. and made his
escape to the mountains, where he is row.
ing about minus his head. The officer
brought the bloody trophy to the city and
claimed the reward"