Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-27
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

(, STATE AND COAST NEWS.
Extra wheat trains are now being run on
the Stockton asd Copperopolis Railroad.
Gus. Bidwell has finished his telephone
| line from Greenville to Bidwell Bridge, and
| it works satisfactorily.
The Yakima is falling rapidly and is
| fordable on the bars between Yakima City
and the Moxie, w. t.
Lakeview has got the base ball fever,
and the Lakeview ball catchers challenge
any other nine in Lake or Modoc countiesl
a forty-acre barley field on the Norris
ranch, at Centerville, Amador county,
lately thrashed out sixty bushels to the
acre.
Henry c. Wharton, an extensive farmer
of Gridley, failed recently. His liabilities
are placed at So. 000 assets are about
50, 600.
Grading on the Eureka and Colorado
River Railroad will, it is reported, be COM
meneed at Eureka within week or ten
days.
The population of Del Norte county is
2 4S4. Happy Camp numbers l42, but
Crescent City is not given separately from
its township.
Salmon are running in all of the British
Columbia rivers in large numbers, and the
canneries are all busy. The estimate catch
is 200. 600 cases.
Michael 0'Connor, well known citizen
of Sutter county. died at the residence of
j. +. Barrie, in West Bear River township,
on Thursday evening.
1t is said that the crop of Sutter county
this year will be only about half an average
crop. Late-sown wheat is looking fine,
especially on bottom lands.
Sheriff Harkey, of Sutter county, last
year had 700 acres In wheat that brought
him "a coo bushels. The same acreage
this year yielded but 6. 600 bushels
The contract for building the Dixon
High School has been let to Messrs. Henry
and Pritchard, of Dixon, for Sc, l00 Work
thereon viii be commenced immediately.
Red Bluff, with taxable property amount.
ing to over 81, 500, 900, conducts its munich
pal affairs from year to year without levy
ing and collecting tax, except for special
purposes.
John NJ Estes, County Clerk of Trinity
county, has purchased half interest in
the Shasta county Democrat, published at
Redding. The publishing firm now is
Barnes & Estes
a considerable delegation from the sew
eral lodges of Sons of Temperance of San
Francisco will pay fraternal visit to Red
wood City Lodge, No. II, on the I'd of
August. Germania Hall has been engaged
for the reception of the visitors.
One of our vineyardists put up forty
gallons of grape syrup, and the cask con-
tanning it retained so much sugar on the
sides and bottom that the question of the
manufacture of sugar from the grape is
being discussed. -[Santa Rosa Republican.
Major Stephen Cooper, of Colusa county,
| who is So years of age, homesteaded
quarter section in Modoc county the other
day. The Major came to California in
1915, and served in the war of 1912. He
was elected in 1880 TO carry the Electoral
vote of the State to Washington.
An official visit to the Oroville bridge
shows that greater portion of the heavi-
are in place, and the work of clearing away
the debris and laying the floor remains.
| 1t is thought that it can be in readiness for
travel within the coming two or three
| weeks.
From what we saw last week, in COM
pany with the gentlemen from the Univer-
sity, the phylloxera is scarcely to be more
dreaded than the vine-knot. One hand
| some vineyard twelve years old will lose
one-third of the crop this year and proba.
bly, one.half next year. Santa Rosa Re-
publican.
Mrs. II. Bolt, of Applegate, jackson
county, Oregon, was on the 18th attacked
ferociously by large eagle. She picked
up club and hit the bird on the head,
stunning it, and following up her advan-
tage, soon dispatched it. The eagle
measured over seven feet between the tips
of the wings
A Mr.. Hamill, engaged with hay press
near Rosevilie, got his hand caught in the
follower last Tuesday, and had the flesh,
from the wrist to the elbow, almost entirely
torn from the bone, besides having the
hone badly crushed. The accident is a
very severe one, and it is feared the in
jured man may lose his arm
The bridge between st. Louis and La
Porte is still In the wrecked condition as
left by the January floods. Unless it is
soon rebuilt snow season will be around
before the work is done, and effectually
blockade all that upper country from COM
munication, through the nearest and most
available outlet, with the outside world
[Downieville Messenger.
The population of Sutter county, by
the returns of the census, is as follows:
Butte township, including the village of
Meridian, 1891 Meridian village, 1856 /;
Nicolaus township, including the village of
Nicolaus, 907; Nicoaus village, 1856 SUIT
ter township, S95 Vernon township, 662 /;
Yuba township, including Yuba City,
1904 ; total, 5,l59.
The San is the title of new paper just
issued at San Diego. 1t is published by
the San Publishing Company and edited
by Horace Stevens. 1t is four page, six
column paper, about l6 by Is inches to
each page. 1t announces itself as an indie
pendent paper. Its initial number is newsy
and compact, and shows spirit, energy and
good taste throughout
Antioch Ledger. Farmers who have
thrashed inform us that the wheat yield
pected. Mrs. Whelihan, from 200 acres,
has $500 sacks, of 1876 pounds each John
McQuade, from $50 acres, has l, 100 sacks;
A. NJ. Graves, l,40O sacks from I30 acres
the ranch of Peter Whittle, deceased, 1875
sacks from l40 acres o. A. Vorce, from
40 acres, has l $50 sacks. This is fair
illustration of the yield in this neighbor-
hood.
The Santa Rosa Republican thus refers
to one of Sonoma's best known pioneers,
General NJ. G. Vallejo: We saw him
driving furiously down street. looking
round-faced and ruddy, with dark side
whiskers like an Euglishman. He stopped,
aIiohted with the nimhleppss of man of
years. and yet he was the Commandante
at Yerba Buena (San Francisco) when the
brig Pilgrim and Dana were there in
1888 4, forty. eight years ago.