Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-23

horses in Lake county, Or, and also along
the northern California line. The Lake
county E.caminer says: From M. A. Fos-
ter, who was down from Summer Lake
Saturday, we learn that the disease shows
no signs of abating. He speaks of it as
kind of lung fever, and the animal shows
symptoms similar to those shown by horses
when afflicted with the epizootic, which
caused such mortality among horses sew
eral years ago. Parton & billiard have
lost some sixteen head by the disease.
Barnham lost five animals last week The
Fosters have lost number of valuable an
imals, and others have suffered to greater
or less extent. There appears to be no
remedy for the disease.
In last November, John Bogard, S. A.
Gyle, S. N. Merrill, S. A Griggs, and
Ward & NARROW turned about 25, 600
sheep loose upon the foothills between
Deer and Mill creeks, about fifteen miles
east from Tehama. The sheep were lately
gathered in, but between 5000 and 10000
of them were missing. Scouts were sent
out in every direction to see if they could
find any indications of the manner in
which the sheep had disappeared, but al
| though some carcasses were found, nothing
could be discovered to show how the
sheep had vanished. Ten thousand sheep
is big loss to suffer out of 1000, and it
is seriously thought that they were run
off, and means will be undertaken to know
the cause, if possible, of their sudden
disappearance Red Bluff Sentinel.
Colusa San, February Dist Last Tues
day Curt. Platt, farmer residing on the
east side Of the river, just below Prince
ton, had some 81, 200 stolen from him by
Chinaman who had been at work for him
two years. Mr.. Platt had drawn the
| money from the bank at Colusa on Mon
day, and had hid it in the hay in the barn.
On Tuesday morning he found it all right,
and went out to work with some othersin the
| fsld. The Chinaman went out with them,
leaving no one about the house but the
Chinese cook. In few hours Mr.. Platt
sent the Chinamsn to the house for some
water, but he did not return with it. Mr..
Platt went to the house but found no Chi
naman, and then he went to hunt for his
money and found it gone. The Chinaman
was seen passing up through Frank Steeles
place, and also by the ferry. No trace of
him has been found.
! Friday afternoon of last week German
by the name of Joseph Tasche, who had
been employed by j. M. Smith in hauling
wheat, was found dead close by the river
about five miles from Vina. Mr.. Smith
and Mr.. Cobleigh, when coming to town,
found the body. The Coroner's jury found
that the deceased was named Joseph
Tasche, native of Germany, and aged
about 45 years; came to his death on the
18th of February, 1880, by falling off a
wagon and laying exposed to the cold air
during the following night that whether
his death was accidental or intentional, we
have no means of knowing. On key
found upon the person of the deceased was
the following inscription s'Joe Tasche,
Sac. CAL, 1880" 1t is very evident that
excess of liquor was the cause of his death,
as he had been drinking very hard during
Thursday and Friday.-[Tehama Tocsin,
February DIST
| We are informed that the coming sum-
mer will be one of considerable activity
in river mining on the South Fork of
Feather. This stream in early days yielded
an immense amount of gold, but for several
years past the water has been diverted
from its bed SO that not enough was left to
run the necessary pumping machinery
and do the washing, but within the past
two years the hurdygurdy wheel has been
brought to the aid of the miners, and by
purchase of few inches of water from
the Feather River and Ophir Ditch, the
claims can be drained at less expense, and
work commenced much earlier in the sea-
! son than when the whole volume of water
was in the river. Should the ditch COM
pany show a liberal spirit this summer,
which we believe they will, several claims
will be opened, and chance will be given
to many of the unemployed to obtain
work. / Butte Register
| L. I. Glenn, a young farmer living near
Summerville, in this county, says the
Baker City (Oregon) Sentinel, met with
fearful accident last Saturday, near his
residence, while in the timber cutting
wood. 1t seems that he bad cut down
small tree, which in falling had lodged
against the other, and Mr.. Glenn felled an
other tree across the first for the purpose of
weighing it down, and in doing so one of
the trees swung around, and as Mr.. Glenn
| turned to run he was caught just above the
heels by the tree, which threw him to the
ground, and, falling across his legs broke
both the bones of each in two places. He
remained thus pinioned in the snow for
some time, when his voice was heard by a
young man, who came to his assistance.
There was but one way to get him out, as
the tree was inclined to roll every time it
was moved, and would thus get across his
body. To dig him out with an AK was the
only alternative. While this was being
done, MIR. Glenn stood up on his knees and
! encouraged his rescuer, and gave advice
concerning the best mode OF proceeding.