Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-31
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Alvarado is making preparations for a
harvest home ball.
An artesian we'll is to be sunk on the
Bolsa ranch, near Gilroy.
An extensive lime kiln has been opened
near Clipper Gap, Placer county.
The iron rails between Reno and Verdi.
New, are being replaced by STEEL
There is proposition to establish exten-
sive smelling works in San Diego.
Cattle are doing we'll in the Toiyabe
range and at the head of Reese river, New.
1t is said that not more than one.fourth
of the grain in Stanislaus county is yet
thrashed.
Some one put poison in the streets of
McdestoS last week and killed thirty or
forty dogs.
A party Of Stockton people went down
to Vallejo on piscatorial expedition last
week, and returned home with 400 fish.
Another large canal is needed to get
sufficient water from Kings river to wet
the broad acres between Kingsburg and
Fresno.
At Hills Ferry, recently, Joseph Buck
ner struck woman named Hearn with a
pair of brass.knuckles, and was sentenced
to six months in the County Jail.
Palos Verdes is the name of the new
landing of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company at the wharf recently erected by
the company in Los Angeles county.
The Santa Cruz Courier. Item has I'M.
proved on the chrome racket as an induce
ment to subscribers. 1t offers a round trip
ticket to San Francisco, good for one week.
The Roseburg (Or.} Independent says
that the mountains towards Coos Bay are
on fire, and south OF Canyonville immense
trees are falling. Deer and bear seek tho
open prairies for safety.
Enoch Walker and John B. Wesley
have fifteen or twenty acres Of sorghum
growing in Jackson county, Or. 1t prom
ises extremely well. They have machinery
for the manufacture of syrup.
There is colony of fifty or sixty bea-
vers located in Feather river, near the
Henrietta property, five miles below Orc.
vile. They are very Industrious, and have
cut down many good-sized trees.
Low tides prevailed at Olympia, w. T.,
last week, atfording opportunity for catch
ing large CLANS. These are taken weigh
ing from five to eight pounds each, and arc
readily sold for twenty-five cents apiece.
The Del Norte Record states that the
surveying party on the Smith river wagon
road were compelled to abandon their
work ON Wednesday, in consequence of
the whole country on the line of survey
being ON fire.
Lee Castor, of Gold Hill, aged IL, passed
the last examination for admission to the
Annapolis Naval School. In case CASTOR
does not accept the appointment, John Mo-
Donald, also of Gold Hill, who received the
next highest average, will be appointed.
The combined length of the four grain
warehouses of Livermore is 1000 feet the
combined width, 900 feet the average
width, 53 feet; the combined area, 63.-
600 square feet, equal to l.2 acres tao
combined storage capacity, $4,000 tons of
grain.
Six hundred and fifty feet of the Coos
Bay (Or.) breakwater is completed. The
appropriation being exhausted the hands
are discharged. It is believed that an
additional expenditure equal to that al
ready made will give "a feet of water on
the bar.
Says the Downieville Messenger. There
are still several snow arches on the East
Fork, about five miles above. The largest
is several hundred feet long, spanning the
river and completely covering it with a
depth of solid snow to the height of nearly
100 feet.
Friday Hon. A. J. Wagner Of Pine
creek, Butte county, found watermelon,
which he took home, and of which the fam
lily partook The mother, three sisters and
boy were poisoned As there was no
prompt assistance on hand, the cases are
likely to prove fatal.
The oldest man in California is Juan
Morino, now living on the Rancho La
Brea, about six miles west of Los Angeles.
He is at least ITO, and may be several
years older than that, for his father was
one of the twelve founders of the pueblo
of Los Angeles. Los Angeles was founded
in 1871, at which time Juan was s lad of
10 years and upwards.
General Hatch has returned to Reno.
New, from Carson. In reference to the
completion of the survey of the northern
portion of the Nevada and Oregon Rail-
road, he says it has proved highly satis-
factory. The route is easy, and no seri.
GUS difficulty has been met with. There
is every prospect of a serious commence
ment of work ON the road.
Considerable money has been spent in
stocking the San Joaquin river and the
tributary sloughs with catfish The catfish
that were planted in the river have pros.
pered and produced after their kind to a
surprising and gratifying degree. The
Stockton Herald has been informed that
boys take great delight in catching the
young catfish in nets and hauling them out
on the banks, where they are allowed to
perish and rot.
In the State of Nevada prairie chickens,
rufiied grousel, woodcock, wild geese,
brant, swans, any kind of ducks, sand.
hill cranes, plover, curlews, robins, mead
ow-larks and bitterns may be shot from
September lst to April lst. Sage-hens and
snipe may be hunted from August lst to
September lst. Insectiverous birds are
always protected. All kinds of deer, an
telope and mountain sheep may be shot
or shot at-from July LIST to January lst.
The Kern Californian says We learn
that Haggin e. Carr are making extensive
preparations for large influx of settlers
this Fall. Surveyors are engaged laying
and distributing bitches, and building ma
terial is being hauled to the various points
where needed. The extraordinary liber-
atty of the terms they offer is now pretty
generally known throughout the State, and
is bringing them SO many applications that
they can select those they wish, and they
have no need to deal hereafter with men
not of the best class,
a messenger from the Hsines ranch, To-
Gated about twelve miles from San Fran.
cisco, on the Redwood canyon road, gives
the details of another battle on the Fl So
brante. 1t transpires that man named
Watson, returning home late Saturday
night, found the bars across the road a
short distance from Hudson's house nailed
up. He broke them down, at the same time
daring any of the Hudson family to make
their appearance. Yesterday morning early
he, in company with man named Rickard,
reappeared at the gateway, and again find
ing the bars nailed up, he gave orders to
the latter named person to smash them in.
Both were armed with Henry rifles. While
the bars were being broken in Mr.. Hudson
appeared on the scene, and during heated
interview Watson shot at and hit him in
the chin, inficting slight flesh wound.
Hudson's sons appeared with shotguns and
fred at the attacking partiess with no ap-
parent effect. Mrs. Hudson appearing, che
1t-a cr,-oatad with fu-o ehnts bnt xr;+h No