Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-24
COAST AND STATE.

IT is rumored that an independent paper
is about to make its appearance in Santa
Rosa.
The Southern Pacific Railroad line is just
now infested with tramps travelling in both
directions.
Wild ducks are plentiful, and hunters
are daily meeting with great success at
Lower Lake.
Drummers are compelled to pay county
license of s26 and city license of $50 be-
fore they can drum " in Virginia City.
A wildcat, four and half feet long and
weighing forty-five pounds, was killed near
Lafayette, Contra Costa county, few days
ago.
The wooden mill movement at Red Bluff
is beginning to take form, looking to
definite results, and that those will be sue
cessful.
The wind on the Colorado desert was SO
violent in the late storm as to blow the
lumber off from the open cars OF the south
ern train.
Judge McKenney, of Nye county, Ne
vada, has made the officers of that section
happy by deciding the salary law to be in
their favor.
The Sunday law was obeyed at Dunni.
gan's last Sunday. The town wore the
most quiet, sleepy appearance it has had
for many years.
The Common Council of Phoenix, Ari-
iona, has declared all wssh-houses within
the city limits to be public nuisances, and
ordered their abatement.
The Phoebe New Record says man in
Bunkeryille, Lincoln county, in that State,
has six wives and forty children, who
"were sent him by the Lord"
One of the most promising portions of
Napa City is North Napa, where an unu-
sual number of dwellings have been
erected during the past summer.
Several fine catches of smelt have been
made lately from the Pajaro beach wharf.
The Monterey fishermen come over very
near the jacksonville beach and make big
hauls.
A town, to be called Croker, has been
laid out on the south shore of Carquinez
straits, seven miles below Martinez, at Va
Iona station. 1t is named in honor of ex.
Supreme Judge Croker.
Grapevine setting in Los Angeles is de-
cidedly on the increase. A. Bridger has
sold this year 10000 foreign cuttings from
one vineyard. One million cuttings will
be set out this winter by r. Nadeau.
The Legislature of Washington Territory
will be petitioned to pass law authorizing
Clarke county to borrow S25, Coo upon
county bonds running for term of years,
to be used in building Court house and
Jail.
Robert NJ. Darr, convicted of the murder
of Philip G.bney, at Ten-mile river, Men,
docino county, and sentenced to imprison-
ment for life, by his counsel has fled bill
of exceptions preparatory to an appeal to
higher Court.
The recent rains, though raising the
Klamath river slightly, washed tailings in
the vicinity of the Virginia Bar ferry, so
that it is very difficult to cross the boat,
especially with heavy load, on account of
the slickens bar.
The Stockton Independent says there has
been an unusual fuctuation of the tides at
that point this year. Whether it is due
to the cutting of new channels for the
river, the planetary conjunction, or to
other causes, cannot be stated.
The delayed overland train made the
fastest time on the record of the Central
Pacific road from Wells to Winnemucca,
beating the Jarrett & Palmer train. They
made forty-eight miles an hour, and once
ran seven miles in eight minutes.
A writer in the Oakland Times, noticing
the obituary notice of Thomas Brown. who,
it was claimed, built the first fume on the
Feather river and probably the first in the
State, says the first flume built in the
State was constructed in June, 1850, at
Craig's Flat, Sierra county.
All the land capable of cultivation along
the Carson and Colorado road, says the
Enterprise, is being taken up and settled
upon. Many fine little valleys are to be
found within easy reach of the road. Also,
there is good deal of plain land that
might be brought under cultivation, should
artesian wells be found to succeed.
There is an eucalyptus tree, better
known as an Australian gum, standing in
the yard of Dr.. J. f. Boyce, of Santa
Rosa. 1t is 200 feet high, and has cir
conference at the base of Is feet. It is 20
years old, and its evergreen branches pene-
trate far above all its other companions
and are visible from all parts of the city.
An Oregon exchange gives long &C.
count of fearful bear fight near Sheri-
dan, in which Alfred Wilson conquered a
large black bear after fight of several
hours. He was aided in the battle by five
dogs, all of them being fearfully torn in
the encounter, his wife, two daughters,
and finally a man, who came to the
rescue.
The wool growers of Mendocino have
organized as an association to buy, sell and
ship wool on commission. They propose,
they say, to have buildings suitable for the
purposes designated, to procure machinery
for baling, to secure the services of an ex-
pert grader. and to put their wool directly
on the Eastern market, but to dispense
with numbers of intermediate people.
The Santa Barbara Press says that in the
vicinity of Lompoc and Los Alamos every
available acre of arabic land has been
rented or purchased. This is something
that was never before known in the history
of the county. Parties twenty miles from
landing are giving one.foarth of the crop
as rental for farming land, and thousands
of acres more could be rented upon the
same terms.
Mr.. Phillips, living at Rural, Tulare
county, had a singular adventure last Mon
day, and one that was of a dangerous and
desperate character One of his dogs at
tackled hog, which he could not succeed
in calling of, so he grasped the dog by the
neck, and endeavored to pull him off, when
the dog turned and buried his fangs in
Mr.. Phillips arm, clinging go tenaciously
that he could not extricate himself and in
the scuffle they both fell down an embank.
ment into the river. Mr.. Phillips was
obliged to hold the dog under water and
drown him before he would let go.
Some men who were employed by NJ. S.
Hills in digging well about two and a
half miles north of this city, on the Shasta
road, found piece of brass embedded in
the cement twenty feet below the surface
1t is circular in form, about an inch in
diameter and notched ike spur or gear
wheel, one of the cogs being incomplete,
but the remainder are finished. 1t is about
one-eighth of an inch in thickness. except
near the center, where screw thread
about fve.eights of an inch in diameter
and nearly half an inch in length, projects.
There never has been well nor habita.
ton within half mile OF the spot within
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