Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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harvest fields.
The San joaquin river is high from
melting SHOWS.
Red Bluff has 5Sl children between the
ages of and IL.
| The border lands of Lake Tahoe are FILL
ing up with settlers.
Grasshoppers and crickets are thick at
Clear Lake and vicinity.
| There is talk of organizing military
company in Grass Valley.
Los Angeles county furnishes four crazy
persons per month to the insane asylum.
The Mare Island Navy VI ard allowance
for June is SIS, 000, plus s.. 900 surplus for
May.
| Deer and antelope are quite plentiful in
the lava beds east of Dry lake, Lassen
county.
Five tourists from Vallejo are under ar
rest in Lake county, on the charge of shoot
ing a heifer.
The county bridge at Lafayette, Or,
across the Yamhill, will be 900 feet long
and 20 feet high.
Blood horses are arriving at Salem from
California and Eastern Oregon for the
State Fair on June 29th.
By the marks visible on trees, the water
stood twelve feet above the picnic grounds
at Guerneville last winter.
The sink between Suisun and Banicia is
said to be now under control of the railroad
company, and will soon be filed.
Ten schooners are now engaged in seal.
fishing off Cape Flattery, W. I. The
catch so far is not more than 5, 000.
Six men have become insane at the Foss
logging camp, near Astoria, Or. An in
vestigation as to the cause will be held.
May 22d Flathead Indians raided the
Yellowstone valley, Montana, and stole
numbers of cattle and horses Citizens
are in pursuit.
Frost, Saturday morning killed many
tender plants in the lowland about Santa
Rosa. Tie oldest inhabitant had no recol-
lection Of the like.
During May S63l. 734 worth of foreign
exports were shipped from the Columbia
river. The total for five months of the
year was 81, 634, 1914.
A new wharf is proposed at San Diego,
as it is thought that the business will SC
improve that single wharf will no longer
be sufficient to accommodate it.
The school census in San Jose shows thai
there are 8, l65 children there. OF these
1850 are girls, and LASS are boys; G2l oil
these did not attend school last year.
Squirrels are becoming more and more
destructive in Los Angeles county. Some
landowners have sent to France for lot q
bisulphide of carbon with which to exter
inmate them.
There are at present no boats running or
Goose Lake, but steamboat is contracted
for, which will run regular trips on the
lake, and be ready by the 4th of July fol
the first trip.
About Goose Lake are yet thousands o.
acres of Government land, and the settler.
are rejoicing in the expectation that the
Reno, Nevada and Oregon Railroad vii
soon reach that point.
The Associated Stock. Growers of Sur
River, M. T., have contracted for l0t
blood bulls for their ragge The price
paid was $4,000, and they are to bt
brought from Illinois.
Davis Creek valley is said by the Noun
tain Tribune to be one of the most pic
turesque valleys in Northern California 4
appears, in size and beauty of scenery
very much like Big valley.
Walla Walla, W. T., is infested with
petty larceny thieves. Several have re
ceived notice to leave or be hanged. Yigi
lantes are forming in various localities tt
rid the country of bad characters.
The Nevada Transcript gushes in boast
ing way over the fact that the couple whose
baby won the prize at the printers picnic
in Sacramento formerly lived in that city
but does not state that the child was borr
two years after leaving Nevada.
The La Conner, W. T., Mod says The
Indians on the reservation are diking /;
large tract of several hundred acres O
marsh land for cultivation in grain. The
proceeds of the crop will be divided among
those who assist in retaining the land.
Some distance from the mouth of Cowlit.
river W. T., near its banks, and within
easy approach to the Northern Pacific Rail
road, is said to be much good lard, easily
cleared and well watered. The highlands
while heavily timbered, possess rich soil
Stephen Butts, an old resident o.
Columbia City, Or, is the subject Of for
tunate windfall, giving him over $500, 600
by the recent death of an uncle, the late
John Francis, founder and owner of the
principal part of the town of Bellevue,
Iowa.
Hiram Arnold of San Rafael was lately
smoking tobacco, when loud explosion
shattered the bowl of the pipe, filing his
face with sparks. 1t was discovered that
pistol cartridge had been mixed with the
tobacco. The ball imbedded itself deep in
the wall.
| A Tombstone, A. T., paper reports that
recent wind-st there struck Captain
Clark's house, wrapped itself around the
gables and roof like the arms OF an octopus,
uprasing it and carrying it bodily from its
foundation, at the same time crushing
the north gable down to the level of the
eave-plates.
Scott rode so miles, in New Mexico, to
oblige friend by killing Donovan. He
| found Donovan in saloon, gained an intro
duction, and sat down to play an ostensi-
| bly, amicable game of cards. But Donovan
was an observant man, and he saw that his
companion was more excited than the game
warranted so he slyly drew his revolver,
cooked it, and laid it across his knees I'M
der the table. Consequently, when Scott
cried: ''I've come here to kill you, and
attempted to shoot, he received death
wound himself.
correspondent of the Arizona Demo
crat, writing from Florence says: Adams
vile, five miles down the river, is now a
deserted village. Its houses are empty
and going to ruin its streets are silent
and deserted the coyote and ella mon
ster gambol undisturbed through its aban.
doned stores and lonely gin mills. Yet
Adamsville was thriving town before
| Florence had an existence; and it has a
history of blood and violence as sangui-
nary as any place in the Territory. "Cut-
ting and shooting" once held high carnival
here, and the graves of the victims lie
thick around the old town. =
CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR IN GREAT
! BRITAIN.-The thirst of the inhabitants of
Great Britain seems to be decreasing In
1878, 1,l90. $50, 40l gallons of wine, spir-