Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-25
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

A street railway will soon be in opera
tion in Austin, New.
In irrigating in a field near Bakersfield
the dogs killed eleven weasels last week.
A skate weighing 25O pounds, caught off
the Farallones, is on exhibition in Oak
land.
Cherries, the first of the season, have
made their appearance IN the Oakland
market
Grass Valley convent girls have organ
lied a baseball club, and hold daily prac-
tice games.
In Marin county the total railroad assess
ment is S207, 100 80, while last year it was
only S4l,250
1t is estimated that it will take >, 900, OGO
grain bags to sack the crops in Solano
county this year.
a number of deaths from malignant
scarletiua are reported near Pleasant View,
Clackamas county, Oregon.
Grasshoppers are Matching out on the
Truckee Meadows, and are causing much
anxiety to the ranchers there.
The population of jackson, Amador
ScuLCy, 10 III IlOuSSS
are wanted and none are to be had.
A species of sIn-perch has been found in
Tulare Lake that gives birth to its young
instead of spawning as fish commonly do
Straw hats have within few days taken
the place of snow wshoes, as the most salea-
bic articles in the market in Nevada City.
The Arizona Miner says that st. Johns,
4bo of Anocha h.,
population Of 500, and as yet no Postofiice
The walnut trees in the vicinity of Los
Angeles are heavily loaded with nuts, and
the crop will probably be an exceedingly
heavy one.
The San Diego Union reports that the
schooner Emma made the run from Port
Bath, Lower California, to San Diego, $50
miles, in the short time of forty mine hours.
A party of gold hunters have been pros
pecting in the spur of the coast range east
of Hollister during the past few weeks
They found plenty Of quicksilver and anti
mony, but no gold.
There are about 500 Indians on the
Warm Spring Reservation in Oregon They
are busy sowing grain, and are improving
in the arts Of industry. About forty chill
dren attend the school.
A light hay crop in the Santa Cruz val
ley is reported. A number of fields have
been prematurely cut, for fear that if left
standing its rankness from the continued
rains would cause it to be borne down un-
der any moderate storm that might yet
occur.
Fears are entertained by many of the
Stanislaus farmers that the supply of har-
vest hands in that county will not be equal
to the demand. The crop will be q tre-
mendous one, and an army OF men will be
necessary to harvest it. Horses will also
be in demand
The Trinity Journal tells this snake
story John Hagleman is working on the
fiat short distance below Paul from
backs cabin. On Wednesday of this
week being somewhat fatigued, he laid
down on pile of rocks near by to rest
and while in that position fell asleep. He
had not been asleep long before he was
awakened by feeling something or other
! crawling into his pocket. He jumped up,
ran his hand into his pocket, and pulled
out by the tail huge rattlesnake, which
he instantly killed.
| John G. Templeton informs the Los An
geles Herald that while prospecting in
Tar Creek canyon, in the seepage region,
he had occasion to make road through
the snow four feet deep. In doing so he
came across an immense rattlesnake in a
torpid condition. After dispatching the
monster, he found that it measured seven
feet in length by twelve and half inches
/ in circumference, and had twenty-five
rattles. These, which he cut off and
brought with him as trophy, show that
his snakeship had attained the venerable
age OF twenty eight years, counting three
years for the first button and one year for
each rattle.
On Thursday afternoon Domingo Ferazi,
a young Swiss farmer, aged 20 years, was
shot by Adelbert Church, lad IA years of
age, about two miles east of Tomales,
Marin county. Il appears that Adelbert
and his brother Frank, aged l6, both sons
of S. R. Church, wealthy farmer of that
section, were returning from school Oh
| horseback, when they met Ferazi proceed
on horse. The boys endeavored to stop
| his way, when an altercation ensued, and,
as is reported, the younger brother draw
ing revolver, fred four shots at the Swiss.
The first one inflicted slight wound on
the left side of the head, the second struck
him in the neck, the third penetrated
the muscles of the left arm, while the
fourth struck him in the left side, the ball
passing between two of the ribs and lod 2.
ing in the lobe of the lung. The man sprang
upon his horse and rode to his home
The boys were arrested the same evening
The wound caused by the last shot is con
sidered a serious one, and doubts ar,
entertained of his recovery. There i
intense excitement in Tomales over tn,
affair.