Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-01
STATE AND COAST.


quire some l,050,000 ties and 40, 600 tons
OF rails.
n. A. Covarrubias has obtained the IA.
nous horse Ben Butler, of Santa Barbara.
for the use of General Stoneman, Grand
Marshal of the great procession to take
place on September 5th, Centennial Day.
[Los Angeles Commercial.
Henry Dougherty, who was supposed TO
have been lost in the mountains surround
ing Lake Tahoe, returned to his camping
party in good health and spirits, having
been neither ehewed to death by bears, nor
kicked to death by coyotes.
E. A. Marble and wife, actors, are under
arrest in Stockton for inducing Lille Wat.
son, minor, to leave her home. The girl
insists she went away of her own free will
and because of the money offered her to
aid in travelling theatrical company.
The new bridge up Rogue river is just
at the falls, where one branch of the
stream makes an unbroken vertical descent
of 100 feet. Above the bridge are the
rapids, the stream falling some 800 feet or
more in about three quarters of mile.
Fathers Odermatt and Frei, two monks Of
the Order of st. Benedict, are visiting
Jacksonville, Oregon, and think some of
establishing a monastery there. 1t is re-
ported that one man has offered to sub.
scribe 81, 600 toward such an institution.
In Reno, on Friday afternoon, Mrs.
Brady, aged about co. was arrested on
charge of having discharged shotgun at
Mrs Odett. The alleged reason for the
shooting was that the husband of Mrs.
Odett had refused whisky to the shootist.
Mark Walton, the most prominent and
successful fruit raiser in this section of the
county, informs us that the eodling moth
is making fearful ravages upon his apple
crop. They burrow themselves in the fruit
and it soon drops from the tree Antioch
Ledger.
There is a fine echo at Webber Lake. A
few days ago party OF Reno excursionists
were on the lake IN a boat, and while there
began to sing. There was no bass in the
party, but the echo came in with the re.
frain and filled the missing part. Tde
effect is said to have been magnificent
John D. Mitchell, correspondent OF
paper in Kansas, is commissioned by num-
Der of families in his section to visit Cali
fornia, and endeavor to find suitable lands
on which they may locate. He is at pres
ent in Chico, and intends to examine the
country thereabouts with that purpose in
view
The San joaquin Valley Argus, pub
hshed at Merced, announces the close of
its eleventh and commencement of its
twelfth volume. The Argus claims that
as its volumes increase in number, so in
creases its patronage, and that it now
stands upon more solid foundation than
ever before.
A new town has been laid out at North
Buttes, at point where the North Butte
hall and school-house has been standing
for several years. The name of the new
town is Pleasanton, and Is ten miles south
west of Gridley. A mail route has been
established between the latter place and
the new town. II is situated in one of the
richest agricultural sections Of Sutter
county.
A cinnamon bear was captured by Will
lam Dehnaka and another man at Cold
Springs Hill, Nevada county, one day last
week. A horse had died in that neighbor-
hood, and the men used the dead animal
for bait. They built trap and caught
MIR. Bear, which weighed over 800 pounds.
They caught him alive, and intended
taking him to Forest City; but in their
endeavors to lasso the animal he was so
badly beaten that he died
Rev. J. w. Brier, Sr., has sold his farm,
situated near Grass Valley, to Dir. Proctor
Moulton, lately of Eureka, Humboldt
county. This farm has been successfully
cultivated for some years, and experiments
made upon it have demonstrated that the
foothills are good for more than one kind
of production. DR.. Moulton, who is a
son-in-law of Mr.. Brier, will continue the
farm on the same principles that have
heretofore obtained there. II Grass Valley
Free Lance.
The regular grade stakes Of the survey
recently made along Wood river for the
Central Pacific Railroad Company can be
seen every 100 feet up as far as the divide
between Galena and Sawtooth. On the
divide about twenty-five or thirty men
were busy for couple of weeks running
lines for the cuts, tunnels and embanl1
ments which will be required to cross the
range. -Four deep cuts, two half-mile tun-
needed Il Wood River Il. I. Times,
ne lOWH Ol IOWeT lIike Is beautifully
located about one mile from the eastern ex-
tremity of the southeastern arm of Clear
Lake, on slight declivity of a hill facing
north. Many of its buildings, although
not constructed of the most substantial
material and in an elaborate style, are yet
neat and comfortable, and some quite
handsome. The school. house, erected some
years ago alta cost of nearly Sll 900, stands
on an eminence in the eastern part of
town, and is quite imposing in appearance.
The California State Grange will hold It's
next annual meeting at Santa Rosa, on the
first Tuesday in October next Santa
Rosa Grange has been busying its commit
tees with preparations for that event. At
its meeting on Saturday last the commit
tees reported that arrangements had been
effected with the hotels in that place and
with the railroad company, which, 1t is
thought, will be abundantly satisfactory to
all members who do themselves the honor
of attending the meeting of the State
Grange.