Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

| The harvest is about finished in Una
tilla county, Oregon. The weather has
been excellent and crops good.
| Modoc county asks a share of popular
admiration for steer seven feet one inch
high, that weighs l. 800 pounds.
The assessment roll of Yolo county for
this year foots up Sl3, 352 69O-an increase
of nearly half million over that of last
year.
The Odd Fellows of Chico have under
consideration the purchase of land between
the school house and race track for new
cemetery.
Weaverville is clamoring for connection
with the world by telegraph line. 1t
wants it bull. before the SHOWS of next
winter fall.
A Chinese wash.house in Stockton,
where several cases of smallpox are said
to have originated, was burned by order of
the Board Of Health.
On the Colorado desert species of tor
toise grows to weight of twenty-five
pounds, and the meat of this is considered
great delicacy among the Indians.
The Stockton Fire Department has
elected as Chief Engineer, Israel Rolf
First Assistant Engineer, w. B. Wollam ;
Second Assistant Engineer, j. w. Brady.
/ Apples are so plentiful in Sonoma valley
that come farmers concluded not to pick
them. But now that the apple crop in the
East has turned out bad, they will have a
market.
An army officer has been sent to Fort
" lar, ~ r. aot,,o,tao opl
ments for the construction of military
telegraph line from that post to Ashland,
Oregon.
The supply of white labor is insufficient
to harvest the hop crop near Healdsburg,
and one farmer has employed hundred
coast Indians to work in his field. The
crop is very abundant.
The volunteer fire department of Colusa
has pet tered out, and the San proposes that
ten picked men be chosen who can be re-
lied on to take charge OF the machine, and
pay them IS per month each.
The Mendocino Dispatch asserts that
three Indians in that vicinity ran thirteen
miles by road, the other day, in one hour
race with another tribe, to come off soon
Bartlett pears from the vicinity of Sui
sun, Solsno county, are being shipped to
Chicago. The freight charges on twenty
car loads recently shipped were Sl7, 900.
The fruit realizes about 81, 500 on each
car. load.
Nearly all the farmers in San Joaquin
county are through harvesting, and are in
Stockton every day negotiating for the sale
of their grain. The question which seems
to trouble them is whether to sell or to
hold for better prices.
A young lady of an inquiring turn of
mind writes to know who are "the boys !"
with whom her brother and cousins go up
to Butte Meadows to have some fun Why,
don't you know. Julia? Apple John, Tom
and Jerry, Bill Yards and James Jams. =
[Chico Chronicle.
Lions and bears are killing great many
sheep in the mountains of Butte county.
So destructive have they become on the
ridge between the North and Middle
Feather that parties owning sheep now
feeding there are obliged to hire men to
protect their flock from those wild animals.
A cutting scrape took place in Anderson
Sunday that will probably result in the
death OF one of the parties. 1t appears
that saloon keeper named Hill and man
living on Cottonwood creek named Shields
were gambling, which resulted in Hills
winning about SIS and shotgun from
Shields, besides getting him in debt several
dollars more After they quit playing
quarrel ensued, and Hill grabbed chair,
and in the attempt to strike Shields fell on
the floor, when Shields jumped on Hill
and stabbed him with knife four times in
tins breast and once in one of the arms, in
fiicting wounds that it is supposed will
prove fatal. Shields was arrested and
taken before Justice Spann, who sent him
to the Shasta Jail to await the result of
Hills wounds.