Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Inc CfoWey nuruer trial COST Napa
county about $1,000.
The potato worm is affecting crops in the
swamp, Tulare county.
A viticultural society is to be organized
in the town of Sonoma.
The population of Prescott, A. T., is
supposed to be about 2, 500.
Oakland suffered loss of but $40 from
fires during the celebration.
The town of Marshield, on Coos bay,
Or, has about 625 inhabitants.
a feature of the Lemoore, Tulare county,
celebration ON Monday last, was bull
fight.
Telephone connection between Pendle-
ton and Umatilla, Or, will soon be com
pleted.
A daily morning edition is now issued
by the Woodland Republican,, with A. E.
Wagstaf as editor.
The first new wheat of the season was
received in Stockton last Saturday. The
quality was excellent.
The Chinese population of Astoria, Ore
gon, is 2,09S; l,l76 in the main town and
992 in Upper Astoria.
The increase of acreage in grain in
Wasco county, Oregon, is five times what
it was three years ago.
a large cinnamon bear which had killed
many sheep, was shot last week in Lyon
valley, Mendocino county.
The Snake river in Oregon was rechris.
tened by the Willard party, and now goes
by the ZANE pf the Lewis river.
The census returns are estimated to give
Butte county a population of about %, DOC
"a gain of 5000 since the last census.
Sam Davis, of the Carson appeal, was
married last Sunday to Mrs. Mighels,
widow of Harry Mighels, founder of the
paper.
The people of Gridley have subscribed
very literally to a fund for the erection OF
Catholic church in their village. Nearly
81, 500 has been raised.
There are IS Masonic Lodges in Wash.
ington Territory, representing something
over 1000 members, ST. Johns of Seattle
being the largest, it having so members.
The Herald, published at Mammoth
City, Mono county, by VIM. w. Barnes
one OF our most valued mountain ex.
changes-has commenced its third volume.
CALIFORNIA; wool clip this year (sprine
and falD will probably be not less than
81, 600, 600 pounds. The total value of il
promises to be nearly double that Of any
preceding wool crop.
A badger walked through the business
street of Centerville, Or, the Leader says,
and whipped all the dogs in town as he
went through, and the men let him 90 of
unframed, as they liked his pluck.
The track has been completed on the
Sonoma Valley Railroad down to the
wharf, except through that portion of the
Bihler ranch now in litigation. The wharf
will be completed this week, and will be
about 2, 600 feet in length.
The older Tusconians have habit oil
sleeping out-of-doors in the summer time.
By 9 o'clock at night on the sidewalks can
be seen sprinkling of cots, and at II
o'clock they file out in force, and the cor.
rails have become family bedrooms.
Parties from Silverton, Or, who have
visited the elk range in the mountains, re-
port snow three or four feet deep fourteen
miles from Silverton, and the trail to Table
Rock impossible for fallen timber Sc
much snow in June was never known be.
fore in Oregon.
The surveyors running the line from
Reno for the northern section of the Ne
vada and Oregon Railroad are now in Long
valley, about So miles from Reno. The
party on the southern section are south OF
NVashoe lake. No difficulty is being en-.
countered by either party, and both are
getting along well.
George w. Ward last week attempted
to cross Trinity river at Douglas City,
Trinity county, in a skitf, but the boat
was capsized at the bridge and Ward went
under, but seized the upturned boat as he
came to the surface and rode it, bottom
upward, until a landing was made at Mud
Bar, about a mile below.
The Eureka New Leader states that an
Intellectual attempt was made at the race
track there on Saturday to" dope" Emma
SSaggs, the race mare of Swaney & Ker.
meen. Some interested person managed to
get big handful of morphine into the
mares mouth, but she did not swallow
enough to affect her in any way.
a short time ago two boys in San Diego
built for themselves small boat, and after
taking on board three months provisions,
sailed down the coast sixty miles to Todos
Santos Islands, where they have established
camp and are now actively engaged in
seal fishing, she'll hunting, etc., with every
prospect of a profitable return for their
hardy undertaking.
August Signarux, of Dark Canyon, near
Yankee Hill, Butte county, hung himself
recently. The deceased was native of
France. aged 81 years. A little dog that
the deceased had possessed for several
years is missing, and as the man had been
eking out scanty existence for many
months, it is thought that he ate the ami
NAL and that his insanity was caused by
the pangs Of starvation.
Father Wilbur says that with the births
nocks as the 543 originally brought to
Simcoe, w. T. During the year they have
erubbed 200 acres, and raised 900 bushels
of wheat besides potatoes and corn. They
were lazy at first, but when they learned
that they must work if they drew rations,
they became industrious. Efforts are be-
ing made to bring them in on the same
discipline as the Simcoe Indians.
Chief Justice Porter tells the Plumas
National the following remarkable tale
About the lst of June, while the snow was
yet ten or twelve feet deep in Onion val
ley, COW and calf belonging to Nat
Mullen were both bitten by rattlesnake
and both died. The COW was skinned, and
a dog belonging at the house refreshed
himself with meal from the carcass. He
got to the door of the house, and there fell
dead. The snow-bred rattlesnake must be
poison all the way through.
John Abbott was captured, after an
arduous pursuit, last October at Tomb
stone, A. T., on warrant accusing him of
stealing property amounting to 81, 100 from
the Government end private parties. He
was sentenced to be imprisoned at Alca-
traz for ten years. The day before yester-
day, says the Tucson Star, Mr.. Abbott re-
appeared in this city free man. 1t APP
pears that it has been satisfactorily proved
to the minds of the Federal authorities,
notwithstanding the finding of the jury,
influenced by the testimony of eleven wit
nesses who fully identified the prisoner,
that he is after all not the man who COM
mitted the robberies This is another
proof that mistakes will occur in the best
regulated Courts.
A new reservation has been set apart for
the Suppai Indians, says the Tucson "a.
T.. Star. They live on Cataract creek, a
tributary of the Big Colorado. Yayapai