Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-23
COAST NEWS.

The Chinese at Modesto have organized
amongst themselves what they claim to be
a Lodge of Freemasons.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company has over 1000 feet in continuous
line of warehouse, in Astoria.
On the 9th of next month, Admission
Day, the Nevada City Light Guard will
have parade and target shoot.
Several valuable dogs have recently been
poisoned at 0foville, and the citizens offer
reward OF 500 for the discovery of the
person who does the deed.
On Saturday evening at Woodland, Yolo
Chapter of the Eastern Star was organized
under special dispensation by the Worthy
Grand Matron and hume rous assistants.
band of mutton sheep, numbering
5000, passed through Bleber, Iassen
county, last Monday, on their way to CO.
lusa county. They were purchased By /.
W. Brownell, of Yolo county, in Umpqua
valley, Oregon.
The mountains are literally covered with
bands of sheep. They Will be kept in the
timber for month or SO longer, and then
be driven to the Clover country" The
second crop OF wool is now being taken off.
[Bodie Free Press.
When Judge Searls was up at Downie
vile the other day he pointed out to editor
Downer, of the Messenger, location up
alongside the North Fork where one day
in 80 some miners took out over Sc, 600.
The Judge used to hold Court up there.
Thus saith the Los Gatos Neqrs. The
Sacramento RECORD UNION makes its ap.
pearance in our sanctunl this week. We
hail it as an old and valuable friend and
if our scissors forget not their cunning we
will make it look like circus-hoop after
the clown has jumped through it.
An exchange has adopted the original
head over its kilograms OF Electric Es-
sence." If the alliterative idea is fully
carried out electrified readers may soon be
petrified with such startling headings as
Telegrsphic Tincture," "Galvanic Cab
bling, = Battery Babbliugs," Magnetic
Murmurings, Voltaic Voices" and the
like. Virginia Chronicle.
Several years ago fire originatin Z in the
Chinese quarters of Colfax DESTROYED not
only their houses but a goodly number of
those occupied by the whites The Chinese
were then compelled to rebuild some dis.
lance from town, but they are so fond of
being close to the whites that they have re.
turned to their former location, although a
wide space is left between the Chinese
buildings and those of the white people =
[Grass Valley Union.
There are about ESQ men now employed
at the Island, says the Vallejo Times, and
it is not probable that the force will exceed
that figure much this summer or fall. 1t
is true that the dry-dock gets $3.50, 900 this
year. At least 500, 600 of that amount
will go for material, which will leave
$50, 600 to be expended for labor. Divide
that into twelve parts, and it allows some
labor, and viii employ about us men
throughout the year.
A gentleman was sitting in front of an
Auburn saloon the other evening, when a
humming-bird came humrning along, and
ahghting on the mans face, run its bill in
his nose, under the impression. doubtless,
that it was a honeysuckle. :" Whoo, Shoe
there!" says the now excited individual.
As the bird hummed away he said, with a
shudder "Golly I've seen big cock
reaches, and I've encountered monstrous
gallinippeIs, bit that mosquito gets away
with all of them. Are they thick here in
Auburn
Our San Francisco Geographic report
| gives US over half column of Charley
Ferris g Tichborne" nonsense, which we
do not print. Nobody can have any par
ticular objection to the publication by the
San Francisco press OF whole columns of
this ineffable trash, if their readers like it.
Here in San Diego, where Charley Ferris
has been living for the last ten years, the
only comment excited by the ''Tichborne "
development has been one of surprise that
he had succeeded in obtaining anywhere the
least attention to his utterly absurd story
[San Diego Union.
L. d. Parkinson, of Kelley Creek, tells
the Winnemuoca New Steer State that
what Is known among cattlemen as "black
leg has made its appearance in the east
ern part OF Humboldt county, and is prov
ing very fatal to young cattle. Calves
under year old are its principal victims,
and those in good condition seem to be
more liable to catch the disease than poorer
ones. The disease generally proves fatal
in few hours. Mr.. Parkinson says he
examined several which died Of the disease
internally, but could discover no signs of
disease in their vital organs, though cattle.
men say it affects the liver. The legs,
however, appear as if they had been bruised
or pounded, the flesh being quite black,
hence the name black leg" The disease
first made its appearance in eastern
Nevada, about two years ago, and several
young cattle died Of it last fall up the
Humboldt.
On Sunday evening James Logan, in COM
pany with several others, went to the
brewery of Mr.. Frommer, which is located
on the coast road about midway between
Kibesillah and Westport, and inquired of
the proprietor whether he could get beer
for the crowd for two bits, when the former
called the latter an opprobrious epithet,
and added that ne always wanted to treat
dozen for bit. This caused an slterca.
ton, during which Logan drew his pocket.
knife and stabbed Frommer a number of
times, killing him on the spot. Our in
formant stated that both of the men were
intoxicated at the time of the difficulty.
Logan is a young man, % or "a years Of
age, and mas been in the employ of Captain
Claxton for several months past as a
teamster, and bears good reputation.
Frommer was about 30 years of age, and
Single. - heuuOCiLo bAspaICu, AuSuSO
18th.
Important litigation is about to ensue
over the franchise of the Little Truckee
river This river has its source at Weber
lake. The waters of Independence lake,
Sage Hen creek and others are tributary to
it. In 1872 the Legislature of California
granted to the Boca Mill and laundering
Company the right OF collecting tolls at the
rate of GO cents per thousand logs and lum-
Der foated down this river, and 80 cents
for every cord of wood, provided that the
mill company expended the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars inside OF three years in
making improvements along the river by
building dams, chutes, ETC., and removing
rocks and other distractions from the bed
of the river. 1t was expected at the time
the franchise was granted that large sum
OF money would be realized from tho right.
The Boca Mill and LAUNDERING Company
claim that by reason of the diversion Of the
waters Of Sage Hen and other causes, thew
have been injured to the extent OF forty
thousand dollars.
For the past three years this section has
been afflicted by the grasshoppers. As a
consequence the farmers have lost all their
crops and got heavily in debt From affiu.
ence several have been reduced to poverty.
Last year the pestiferous insects laid i'm.
mense numbers of eggs-in fact the earth
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