Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

UUAST NEWS UlIPPlNGS,
More attempts at arson in Austin, New.
The Utah peach crop is an utter failure.
There are thirty-fv persons camping at
Bonner lake.
There were several brush fires near Mon
terey last week.
The San Joaquin river will soon be too
low for navigation.
An immense meteor was seen near Anti
och last Wednesday.
The region about Bonner lake is noted
for wild strawberries.
San Luis Obispo Fire Company is getting
new hose and other apparatus.
There are to be three miles of snow
sheds built near Cisco this season.
Cannery men are preparing for the fall
run of salmon at Ellensburg, Or.
There are 95S children in Mariposa, only
rs per cent. of which attend school.
DEMONSTRATING continues to prevail
throughout southeastern Arizona.
Bungling forgers are at work in Port
land, Or, counterfeiting checks, etc.
One of the salmon fishermen at Astoria.
Or, has earned 81 300 in three months.
A Bear Harbor (Mendocino) farmer owns
fve-legged calf, now two months DID,
About 4, 900 people attended the Gale.
donian picnic near Carson, New, last Sat
urday.
The Central Pacific Railroad has 452
miles of railroad IN Nevada the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad has 81 miles.
Last Friday, at Napa, Mrs. Hammond's
little girl was horribly bitten by cross
dog with which she was playing
The grain crop of San Bernardino county
will be : Barley, 800 900 bushels wheat,
5000 sacks oats, 5000 bushels.
Valuable coal beds have been found at
point near the Arizona and New Mexico
line and near the line of the s. P. R. r.
Since the first of last March there have
been thirty-six cases of diphtheria in
Coquille City, Or. eighteen of which were
fatal.
The Industrial Aid Association of Kern
is taking steps to introduce the prairie
chicken of the Western States into that
region.
The Dalles, Or, is infested with Migrants,
who greatly annoy the citizens by prowl-
ing about, begging and committing petty
thefts.
The orange yield in the Riverside settle
ment will reach 500, 600 oranges, which at
SIS per thousand will bring $50, 500 to the
producers.
a total of los arrests was made by the
police of Astoria, Or. during July. Fines
to the amount of 1899 were paid into the
city treasury.
The San Bernardino Times says that
within few weeks $50, 900 have been ex-
pended by Eastern home-seekers for land
in San Bernardino valley.
The upper Sacramento, from Colusa to
Red Bluff, is said to be in better condition
for river boats to pass up and down now
than for any time in fifteen years.
Piute squaws at Mono lake are gathering
their winter supply of food. They scoop
up tons of curious sort of water insect
found in the lake and dry them.
W. 0. Bush, of Thurton county, W T.,
has been appointed Commissioner from
Washington Territory to the United States
international Exhibition of 1883
Last years grain exhibit in Powder River
Valley, Or, foots up as follows: Wheat,
l3, 533 barley, $4,000; oats, so, 450, max.
ing total of 1913, SAB bushels of grain.
There are now over one hundred families
settled on Camas Prairie, Washington Ter
ritory. Three county roads have been
surveyed into the valley, the shortest be-
ing to Klickitat Landing.
The first number of the Sierra Free
Press, published at Forest City, Sierra
county, is at hand. The paper looks well
geographically, and its columns are filed
with interesting matter.
The quarry from which the stone is
taken for the Coos Bay breakwater is
located on the bank of Coos river, Or,
and is a mountain of rocks, convenient for
transportation and easily quarried.
Coos Bay loggers are anxious for the
passage of scaler's law by the Oregon
Legislature this fall The Neacs says that
if it is passed no more 600 foot sticks will
be taken out of the center of AGO foot logs.
China Point, on the Utah and Northern
Railroad, is SO named because two years
ago a stage-l load of Cinnamon who were en-
route to Montana in the winter season
were overtaken by furious storm, and all
persisted.
A Montana stage was upset July 2Sth,
near Missoula, the driver having gone to
sleep. Three persons were seriously in
jured, and the passengers had to remain on
the ground until morning, though it rained
and showed.
The seventh annual convocation of the
Episcopal Church for the district embrac-
ing the Territories of Montana, Idaho and
Utah met in Helena, Montana, August LIST.
The Right Rev. DR.. S. Tuttle, Bishop,
presided.
In Salt Lake City, August 9th, man
was hauling load of hay, and some
scoundreliy boy crept under the wagon, set
fire to the hay and escaped before the fire
was discovered. 1t made warm times for
the man on the hay.
John Woods, of Poway, San Diego
county, while driving along the road re-
Gently, was attacked by swarm Of bees.
They settled in clouds both upon young
Woods and the horse, and commenced
action at once, infiicting many stings.
The surveyor of the proposed Crescent
City and Oregon road says in his report
that jackson, Josephine and Lake coun-
ties, Oregon, import $3.50 tons of mer-
chandise, of which $500 tons will seek
the new route, and will pay Sc per ton
tolls or SIS, 900 per year.
THE ILLINOIS SHIP CANAL.-The Illinois
ship.canal project, designed to establish a
thorough water-route from the great lakes
at Chicago to the Mississippi river, has of
late been considerably ventilated in the
newspapers. A lengthy statement of this
proposal has lately been made by Daniel G.
JENNIE. Chief Engineer of the Illinois and