Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-20
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

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Population of Paiaro township, Santa
Clara county, is 4, 100.
There are about forty patients in the
Los Angeles County Hospital.
Two more oil wells are being sunk at
Newhall, Los Angeles county.
Many forest fires are raging in the noun.
tains of Washington Territory.
Harvest hands at Kernville and Havilal
are being paid 81 and So day.
All of the Republican office holders in
Alameda county are up for denomination.
There will be about 1000 foreigners on
the Great Register in Santa Clara county.
The farmers who are hauling their wheat
to Stockton are storing and not selling it.
Strawberries end new potatoes are be.
ginning to come into the Montana mar.
kets.
There were sixty-fve births in Oakland
last month, being twice the number Of
deaths.
According to the Census Enumerators
there are 536 Mongolians in Santa Cruz
county.
The semi-annual statement of the Bank
of San Luis Obispo shows surplus Of
$1,000
The thermometer at no IN on the l4tl
stood at no In the shade at Live Oak
Suffer county.
The Alden Fruit Factory in Los Angeles
has resumed work. 1t has been idle fol
several years past.
The Silverthorn murder case cost Shasts
county SO; 200, and the man was declared
not guilty after all.
Tintic. Utah, with its rich mines, is now
agtating narrowgauge railroad connection
with the Utah Southern.
At Wells, New, large number of calve;
and yearlings are rapidly dying from a
disease called the g black foot. %
The Silverton (Or.) Narrow-gauge will
be finished to that place in four weeks.
Five hundred men are employed.
HOLSTER, with over twenty places
where Intoxicating liquors are sold, has
not single temperance organization.
Near Rock, Capay valley, Yolo county,
farmer reports finding the track of a
snake which measured % inches across.
The mosquito has been so aggressive
that work had to be suspended in some of
the fields and orchards about Haywards
last week.
The MERGED Vigilance Committee had a
general rodeo last week, and ran in num-
Der of the vermin that infest the San Joa-
quin valley at the harvest season.
Since his marriage Sam Davis, of the
Carson dppeat, frequently uses the edito-
rial "we" in his columns, when prior to
that event it was the editor of the Ap.
peal"
The Grand Central Hotel block at Oak
land, 1t is reported, has been bought by the
South Pacific Coast Railroad Company,
which will erect colossal depot and ware
house upon it,
There are 39S mortgages recorded in Ma
rim county, representing 81, 1885, 57. Last
year the number of entire assessments was
1000; this year, under the law requiring
subdivisions, there are 3, 800.
The Santa Anna Herald says that ON the
morning of the 4th a favorite COW be-
longing to Mr. Rosenbaum gave birth to
three fine calves-two white and one
spotted. The COW family were doing well
at last reports.
The Woodland Democrat says We
learn, on good authority, that the CHAMBERS
in the most virulent form has appeared
among horses and mules on the road lead.
ing to Merritt Station from the locality
Immediately east of Willow slough.
Austin, Nevada, is having trouble about
her water supply. Water is disappearing
from the wells in the city. The Reveigie
speaks of one well in which the water.
three weeks ago, was eighteen feet in
depth, and now there is not over a foot.
The beehive has long been an emblem of
industry among the Masons, but it re-
MANNED for Dayton, New, to vivify it into
reality at a Masonic hall. A veritable
swarm of bees has located over the door of
the lodge-room there and engaged vigor-
ously in its industrial pursuit of gathering
and storing sweetness.
Says the Fresno Erpositor.. C. D. Davis
exhibits a fossilized tooth found ON upper
Kings river. 1t is u inches long, 81
inches wide and 3 inches deep, that is
from the surface of the tooth to the gums.
where it seems to have been broken off.
1t is deeply notched, and evidently belongs
to some prehistoric water reptile.
One OF those queer freaks which Nature
takes sometimes was seen In Quartz valley,
Sislliyou county, last Sunday night, in the
shape OF belt of white frost about forty
yards wide and reaching across the valley.
The boundaries of this frozen belt were
distinctly marked, and the vegetation
within its lines was incontinently wilted.
Six weeks ago setter pup was born in
San Jose with only three legs The pup
otherwise was perfectly formed, and is now
as healthy and risky as one could wish.
The missing member is the right fore. leg.
The canine gets around about as well as his
perfectly formed relatives, and does not
seem to consider himself as entitled to any
sympathy.
An idea OF the Importance of the Los
Angeles division of the Southern Pacific
Railroad can be gathered from the fact
that there are now at Los Angeles fifty
locomotives, sixteen of them among the
largest in the United States, besides an al
most countless number of cars of every
description, to which additions are being
made almost daily.
A fire occurred between and 10 o'clock
Friday night, at Sylvester Graves place on
the Saratoga road, about two miles from
the town of Santa Clara, and near the
Rucker chapel, which destroyed his barn
and its entire contents, valued at about
So, O00 Eleven fine horses, Of the best
stock in the vicinity, persisted in the fire.
and one more was so badly injured that it
will die.
The Contra Costa Gazette reports fire
last Tuesday on the ranch of the McCabe
brothers, six miles west of Brentwood
Mr.. Sharp, of Ygnacio valley, was thrash
ing the crop, and about sunset, while the
thrashing party were at supper, a cloud of
smoke was seen, and ON rushing in that d.
rection they found the separator, cleaner
and derrick forks destroyed, as we'll as the
product of fifty acres Of grain in stacks.
An enormous piece of rock recently fell
in narrow canyon between Rock creek
and Chamberlain flats, in Kliclitat county,
W. T. 1t came from ledge above road,
and nearly crushed traveller and his
horse. 1t then went over the precipice,
flying through the air distance of l, 700
feet, went through band of stray sheep
below, numbering about IS, killing out.
right about 45 of them, while the rest were
hurled through the air against the sur
rounding rocks and manned or injured.
A correspondent of the RECORD UNION
sends the following from Middletown, Lake
county The Republicans of Middletown
,,,a+ ~ tho school housa on fba 18th inrtaut