Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-11
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

Russian river crops are heavier than for
| years past.
The Santa Clara Agricultural Fair begins
October 4th.
The farmers of Powder River Valley,
Oregon, are haying.
| Virginia, Nevada, is to have wrestling
match, Cornish style.
Nine towns and cities in Oregon have a
population of over 1000.
Austin Adams of McMinnville, Oregon,
aged Ia, shot himself Ast week.
The mines of Southern Oregon have
paid fairly during the past season.
The dairymen of Virginia, Nevada, have
agreed not to buy nor use refuse swill to
| feed their cows.
railroad from Santa Rosa to Adelanti, and
thence to Benicia.
| An employee of the Moscow mills, on
Russian river, was killed last week by a
rolling log on the hillside.
A new artesian well has been success
| fully bored southwest of Lemoore. Its
entire depth is 100 feet.
1t is believed that the Gibsonville fire
last week was incendiary. Twenty eight
buildings were destroyed.
Farmers in many sections make sad com
plants about the quail which are so nu-
merous as to destroy their crops.
Near Julian, San Diego county, hun
ter named Bunton, has killed the largest
| Californian lion ever seen in that region.
! 1t measured 81 feet in length.
The Downieville Messenger says: There
is a regularly organized gang of Cinnamon,
about Morristown, who spend the bulk of
their time in trying to rob sluices.
The body of c. H. Peterson, Trinity
county pioneer was discovered in flume
which passes through Weaverville. 1t is
thought he died from an apoplectic fit.
The Bodie narrow gauge has laid 4, 200
feet of the iron which was formerly on the
Silver City switch at the Mound House.
They discharged l60 men week before last.
The acorn crop of Fresno county is a
total failure in the foothills this season.
except on the oaks along the river, where
there is a light mast. This is discouraging
to hog raisers,
Experiments in growing rust proof wheat
| originally brought from Iowa have been
tried in San Joaquin county for several
years. The wheat is dark-colored This
season considerable quantity of it was
raised on Roberts island.
Up to July 10, 1878, San Diego exported
LOG, $50 pounds of comb and 81, 500 pounds
of liquid honey (of the crop of that year,
while this year the export 1.-THE crop OF
| lSS0), to the same time has been III ,022
pounds comb and lO7, 100 pounds liquid.
A game cock was killed in Salt Lake last
Saturday, and upon being dressed, a needle
about one nd-a-half inches long was found
protruding from the gizzard and sticking
into the heart about half an inch There
was also found good sized marble in its
gizzard.
The Peach Tree Ranch of Miller & Lux,
San Benito, is fourteen miles long and five
miles wide. The valley portion of the
ranch averages three-quarters of mile
wide, and contains the best land in the
valley, /, 500 acres of which was cultivated
to grain this season.
Montana grain and vegetable crops prom
Use to equal, if they do not exceed, that of
1879, the largest ever produced. Hay
alone will be less than the product of a
year ago. The season is late, but the har.
vesters it is believed, will all get in their
work ahead of Jack Frost.
Quite large party, consisting of five
families with eight wagons, one buggy and
100 head of horses, are camped at the Hay
den ranch, at the head of Huntington
creek, Nevada. preparatory to leaving for
Washington Territory. The party is made
up principally of old residents of Ruby
Valley.
In Madison valley, Montana, Henry Rib.
let's hired man recently bought pistol,
which he left under his pillow. a boy,
who usually slept with him, went to his
room, and, it is supposed, was examining
the mechanism of the pistol, when it was
discharged, the bullet entering the head
just above the left eye and killing him.