Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-17
STATE AND COAST.

At "scrub race" in Los Angeles
county last week over 81, 800 changed
hands.
Los Angeles purposes to refund its in
debtedness in Sl36,O00 20-year per cent.
bonds.
Since the last rain Gilroy farmers have
been assiduously burning over their stub
BILE fields.
During the last year the Santa Aua Val
ley Irrigation Company received 81, 800,
and paid out Sl0,55
Lumbermen say there has not been
time for years that men were so scarce on
the Truckee as at present.
TIE Red Bluff Peoples Cause Office, with
every thing in it, narrowly escaped being
consumed by fire Saturday evening.
Last week there were icicles seven inches
long, more or less, hanging pendant from
the FELTON, fume, Santa Cruz county.
There are Indications of petroleum in the
rock taken from the tunnel being run for
the Santa Cruz Water Company at Eagle
| Glen.
A tract of $50 acres of land near Santa
! Ana was sold to an Eastern company for
s3S, 600 last week, and will be planted in
| fruit trees.
The Oiai farmers have begun to give at.
tention to the culture of grapes. There
are about so, 900 grape cuttings ordered for
the two valleys this season.
Ducks, snipe and other water fowl are
becoming more plentiful in San Benito
county. Good shooting can be had at Soap
lake and on adjacent sloughs.
There has been quite an exodus of wheat
ships from the Columbia river during the
past week, and several more are waiting an
opportunity to get over the bar at As
toria,
One year ago there were $4,000, 600 feet
of dry lumber in the hands of the lumber
companies between Truckee and Verdi,
but the demand has been so great this sea-
son that at the present time there are not
1000, 900 feet ready for shipment
The Pacific Mail steamship Rio de Jan.
| eiro reports at San Francisco that on
November Sth William Murri, aged 40
years, native of Italy, died of apoplexy
and his body was buried on Saturday at
sea.
The Watsonville transcript says that
| all the saloons in that town were closed
last Sunday but three, and that the proprie-
tors were arrested the next morning. Two
Of them plead not guilty and demanded a
jury trial, the other one paying fine
of $40.
Many of the farmers of Lake county are
beginning to speed the plough since our
last heavy rains, and much of the ground
that was summer-fallowed is being sowed
in grain. Our heavy rains for many days
past have started the hillside feed and the
volunteer crops look nicely indeed. In a
week or two nature will have put on much
of the verdancy of spring. 81 Lakeport Bee.
| Within the past thirty days 3.035 bales
of hops from the Puyallup yards, Wash
ington Territory, have been shipped to San
Francisco. viz: Steamship Dakota, two
trips, 3, 266 bales Idaho, last trip, 759
bales. Several hundred bales are yet
awaiting shipment, and large quantity
were left in the railroad house last week,
the Idaho being unable to take them.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, whose death by
drowning IN the Umatilla river, Oregon,
was recorded few days since, was 40
years of age and leaves husband and nine
children. Her husband narrowly escaped
sharing her fate through heroic efforts to
rescue her. He was rescued by Indians
who, hearing of the accident, rushed to the
rsscue.
The work of raising and strengthening
the Brown valley grade within the city
limits was completed yesterday. This
practically completes the seasons work on
the city levee. A little work, however, re-
mains to be done on the east levee, to stop
sipags. The work on the Brown valley
grade at Drums ranch will probably be
finished in the course of week or ten
days. This is being prosecuted at the ex-
pense of the county, by contract with
S:ahl & Grant. Their force is now en-
ployed at point about three-quarters of a
mile below the brush dam. Marysville
Appeal, November 18th.