Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-10
THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
-vsn.y .FEBREARY 10. 1850.
COAST NEWS FLASHES.

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Los Angeles police appear in uniform.
A fire is raging in the tules near Benicia.
Catfish are multiplying fast in the Hum
boldt river.
The Chinese population OF Portland,
Or. is 2,4S3.
Typhoid fever prevails in parts of Gala
veras county.
a county history of Tehama is now
being written.
There are no less than eight mammoth
copper lodges within very short distance
of Prescott, Arizona.
A Healdsburg hen has produced a tele-
scoped egg. measuring q inches in length,
and only Il inch in diameter.
The Nevada Central Railway locomo-
tives are using coal which is brought over
the Central Pacific from Evanston.
Snow, says the Arrizona Miner, is fully
four feet deep along the heads of the Has
sayampa, Lynx and Turkey creeks.
Printers travelling without Union card
are warned not to visit Bodie, as they will
receive no encouragement whatever.
Wildcats, foxes and other varmints are
troubling young lambs on James Austin s
ranch, three miles east of Santa Rosa.
The Genoa (Nevada) people have a world
of trouble with their school. 1t is closed
again, owing to the resignation OF the
teacher.
The Cave Valley Indians bury their dead
by digging hole, placing the body in it,
placing poles across the grave and spread
ing blanket on top.
The cattle shipments from Winnemucca
to California during the month of Decem-
Der aggregated 3, head, and the ship
ments for January will probably equal that
number.
After this the Los Angeles fire companies
will not be allowed to 60 to fire faster
than a trot What the result will be when
the fire is a couple of miles off the reader
can judge.
In Bakersfield, Kern county, number
OF leading gentlemen have been organizing
an association to promote and protect home
industry, to introduce new products and to
establish manufactures.
A rarity of six Base Range prospectors
will start for the Skaeit mines about the
lst OF March. The inaceessibility and re-
moteness of this new find has a wonderful
charm for the rowing spirits.
a petition is being circulated around
Vallejo, to be forwarded to our Repre-
sentatives in Washington, requesting them
to use their endeavors towards having the
eight-hour law enforced. About 220 names
have already been obtained.
The Yamhill (Or.l Reporter says: This
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Fears were expressed some time ago that
the focks and herds Of the country would
be sadly reduced, but so far we hear of no
losses, though the animals are faring hardly
as well as usual, in some instances.
The Calaveras Citizen learns that two
men, pocket hunters" by profession,
struck rich gold pocket about two miles
from San Andreas, near the San Andreas
and Mokelumne Hill road, and have, up to
the present time, extracted several thou
sand dollars worth of gold, and still the
pocket shows no sign of exhaustion.
A young man named Paul, less than 20
years of age, is charged with having robbed
the overland express in Northern Califor-
MIA some time since, and it is said that the
evidence against him is direct and certain.
To avoid officers who were On his track, he
last week deserted the Day school-house
on the Calapooia, Oregon, where he had
been teaching.
The route to Dayton to be followed by
the proposed new railroad, says the Silver
City Times, has been definitely agreed
upon. 1t is that down Daney Canyon to
the wood flats at Dayton. distance of six
miles from the Mound House. The road
has been already located as far as Main
street in Dayton and the grade stakes set.
The railroad will pass alongside of County
Commissioner Shaw's lumber yard, in the
heart of the town. There are nine men en-
ployed in the survey, which is in charge of
a civil engineer.
ERA barrel with one head out and a gas
burner fitted in the other was turned over
the old Polhemus well on Temple street
the other day, and the supply of gas accu-
INFLATED within was sufficient to furnish
steady light The well was bored for oil
by Polhemus about fifteen years ago, and
is now filled with debris up to the surface.
1t is about two miles out Temple street and
on property owned by Mr.. NJ. Iced Fur
Their experiments are to be made by Messrs.
Chandler and iced, who have the matter
in hand.-[Los Angeles Express.
We have now on exhibition in the
museum of the Times office q piece of
wood taken from the center of a white oak
tree that was five feet in diameter, in
which is lodged q stone about six inches
through. This tree was recently cut down
on the ranch Of Mr. William Collins, sit.
uated about three miles north of lone City
The stone was found about twelve feet
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three feet in diameter. This is quite
curiosity as the tree is undoubtedly from
$50 to 200 years old, it having lost all Vi.
tally many years ago [[Amador Times.
And still the frosty nights continue with
no indications of rain Nine weeks of
continuous winter weather, with snow and
frost, has not before been witnessed, at
least during the past ten years. The rains
thus far have been light, and yet there
seems to be an abiding confidence that the
season will, on the whole, be favorable to
wheat growers. No grain is yet suffering,
but, on the contrary it looks healthy and
vigorous. Plowed land is wet to the depth
OF about two feet, sufficient for the present,
but by no means a guarantee OF a full
harvest without coplous spring rains.
Heavy rains in the southern counties in
spire the hope that when this frosty
weather shall have terminated, pluvial
blessings will come to cheer and console
antioch Ledger.
A lady friend who recently returned
from visit to San Jose, where she had
been visiting the family of n Soderer, who
formerly resided in Columbia, informs us
of the mysterious appearance of a mans
head (profle view ON the wall of one of
the hard-fnished rooms of Soderers dwell.
ing house The outlines, it is said, are as
perfect as il drawn by the hand of the
artist. Three times has this mysterious
photograph been whitewashed over and as
often reappears, showing every line and
the same expression as distinctly as when
it made its first appearance, two years ago.
The closet mentioned is of wood, the wall
of the room forming the back of it. The
question now asked is, Is it from natural or
supernatural causes? Who is ready to in
vestigate and furnish the desired informa.
ton ~ Tuolumne Independent.
Contra Costa Gazette, The grain-seeding
in our section is about finished, and that
put in last month and this will have the
advantage of favorable conditions fol
growth upon turn of mild weather; but
we have still freezing NIGHTS as with few