Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Vallejo has a new industry-that of rat
fishing. The requisites are a chair, cool
spot in front of saloon at known rat
rendezvous common fish line and bait
of cheese.
The century plant at Mr.. Millikin's, in
Elmira, was blown down a week ago. 1t
was planted in 1872, and measured So feet
in hight. The bloom had not come to per-
lection.
a tramp named Thomas OBrien, while
drunk, was run over by the switch engine
at Truckee Thursday night, which crushed
his arm so badly that it had to be am
putated.
Typhoid fever is very prevalent in and
about North Bloomfield, Nevada county.
There are some ten or twelve cases of this
always dangerous disease in that neighbor-
hood.
Water is becoming very scarce in Salt
Lake Valley, and many farms and gardens
are suffering from drought The +" abund-
ant supply" predicted for the season is not
Forthcoming.
The crop Of barley in Utah this season
will average about twenty-five bushels to
the acre. In some instances, however, as
high as sixty-five bushels to the acre has
been grown.
A fire broke out in the field of V. P.
Richards, near Gridley, Butte county,
Friday, from an ash pile. About forty
acres of stubble was burned and over fifty
sacks of wheat destroyed.
The Sonoma Valley Railroad has been
completed to Sears Point, the last spike
having been driven last Friday night. The
Sonoma people can now reach San Fran
cisco in two hours and half.
At Benicia last week, while some ladies
were in bathing, Miss Flora Williams mar
rowly escaped drowning, but was rescued
by Miss Susie Mcdonnell, who is the best
lady swimmer in that town.
w. Fl. Todd of Choteau county, Mon
tana, has fine mountain sheep about one
year old, snd quite tame. The animal IS
a rare specimen and will be sent East to
one of the leading geological gardens.
Notwithstanding ten or fifteen thrashing
machines and outfits have been In opera
ton for month in Suffer county, clti.
zen of Marysville states that not half the
grain territory has been invaded yet.
While Tanners fast was in progress, the
editor of the Boulder (Col.) Neacs and
Courier drew courage from it and an.
nounced eff Tanner survives, we shall
stick to journalism forty days longer.
w. A. Grade, at Hopeton, has 200 acres
of cotton that promises well. Specimens
have recently been exhibited In San Fran
cisco, and have made a favorable I'M
preston on persons skilled in such matters.
The first number of the Marysville
Weekly Ledger has been received. Its
eight pages are filled with the news OF the
day and carefully selected miscellaneous
matter, all well arranged geographically.
The camp meeting near Freestone,
Sonoma county, is in full blast. One of
the preachers on Sabbath last said that
California had the biggest mountains, the
biggest trees and the biggest sinners in
the world.
The Reno New Gazette says that good
deal of sunflower seed comes in California
wheat. Some of it was sown in Washoe
Valley last year, and the volunteer crop of
sunfiowers stands as thick as the wheat
did last year.
A Bodie prespector lately dug up the
skeleton of an Indian at the foot of the
Queen Bee hill It was evident from the
mode of burial that the Indian met with a
violent death at the hands of some white
man many years ago.
The Eureka New Sentinel says: We
are satisfied that the burnt district will be
rebuilt, but the process must, in the very
nature of things, be slow. There is too
much vitality in this community to admit
of permanent scars.
A vaquero attempted to lasso bear on
the desert east of Silver Lake, Southern
Oregon, short time ago. Bruin didn't like
it much, and turning on his enemy, caught
his horse by the shoulder, tearing it fear
fully and unseating the rider.
The Los Angeles Express says that Ma
deau & Gennert will turn out one thousand
tons of raw sugar from their mill this sea-
son. They will have beets enough for only
about six months run. Next year a
much larger crop will be planted.
T. f. Cakes, the new Vice-President of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany, is now visiting Eastern Oregon and
| Washington Territory. He is accompanied
| by s. G. Reid, the retiring Vice-President,
and the other officers of the corporation.
The body of A. Lohry, wel[known
merchant OF Uniontown, Ell Dorado county,
who committed suicide by drowning on the
18th of April, was found Friday afternoon
near Jayhawk, eight miles north and west
of Shingle Springs, on the American river.
On the ranch of Joseph Billou, near st.
John, Colusa county, Friday, man by the
name of D. P. Fleming got caught in the
betting of the thrashing-machine and his
right arm was terribly lacerated and
broken There are also fears of internal
injuries.
a question has been raised in Clallam
county, Washington Territory, as to the
legality of votes cast at the Neah Bay pre-
cinct, the voters of the same being resi-
dents of United States Indian reserva-
ton. and beyond the jurisdiction of terri
torial civil laws.
Wednesday night rencounter occurred
between John Terney and r. n. Walton,
at the latter's saloon, near the Center
street base ball grounds, Oakland, in which
the latter struck the former over the head
with billiard cue and knocked him down.
Terney fell upon his left leg, which was
fractured by the fall.
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