Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-17
YHE DAILY RECORD-UNI6N
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Good progress is being made with the
brick work on the asylum at Reno.
&c. Harlow succeeds Sam ?. Davis as
proprietor and editor of the Carson appeal.
Harvey Morber has been sentenced to be
hanged at Ukiah, October l4Sh, for murder.
Mrs. May Morrison, aged 81. was thrown
from horse in Long Valley, Mendocino
county, and killed.
The precinct of Wiilapa, Pacific county,
W. T., says the Ast0riaa, is seriously
afflicted with the smallpox.
Considerable sickness prevails in the
reservation and around Paskenta. Diph-
liberia is one of the ailments.
The yield of wheat in San Luis Obispo
county viii be but little more than one
third of what it was last year.
The Santa Barbara Weekly Press has en-
indicated foz another thirteen years.
The hottest weather of the season was
experienced last week at Ukiah, the
thermometer reaching 1922 in the shade.
The residence of J. C. Cox, who lives
seven miles from Gualala, was destroyed
by fire reeeatly. The loss is about 81 900;
uninsured.
a lady by the name of Gimlin, living
near the ranch Of john Ellis, near Milville,
was Frustrated from the effects of light
ming last week.
The pressing need of this season in Men
doeino has been more laborers in harvest
and hop fields, on sheep and dairy ranches
10 the coast timber belt and at the mills
The success in river mining along the
Klamath river, has caused boom in build
ing, and several houses are going up at
Virginia Bar, for stores, saloons and dwell
ings.
A well at Benicia bored for artesian
water has struck carboniferous gas, and 1t
is proposed to light the Arsenal and Bar
racks. The well cost the Government
S5l, 600
The Lakepors Bee Democrat has entered
npon It's tenth volume as the Bee, its
seventh as the Democrat, and its second as
the Bee Democrat 1t is a spirited and
well conducted journal.
Now is the time the dutifui husband
becomes smeared with SCOT and stove
polish, and learns the art of putting up q
stove at the expense Of $50 or more worth
OF household furniture.
Point Arena is going to commence
growing again shortly, and in a substantial
manner. Several new brick buildings viii
be erected 70 take the place of those re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Carr s Haggin have about 600 men on
their pay-rolls, IN Kern county, and their
disbursements for wages amount to not
less than 81 600 day, Of which Bakersfield
feels the effect very sensibly.
The Red Buff Cause says A contract
for putting iron piers under the bridge
across the Sacramento river az this place,
has been let TO the Pacific Bridge Company
OF San Francisco, by the Board OF Super
visors.
A large number of names are being sent
in to the San Luis 0bispo Grange, and its
leaders now believe they. will have no
trouble ia forming shipping combination
whereby they will secure great reductions
in freights
The Oh co Enterprise says that the new
Deer Creek hydraulic mine In Tehama
county Will start washing down bill in
about one month, using six thousand
inches Of water It is said that complete |
arrangements have been made for i'm
pounding their debris.
The Colfax, w. T., Gazette of September
81 says Judge E. n. Sweet informed the
Gazette that IN digging well at C@ur
d'Aene Mission last week the laborers
struck two-foot ledge of chalk at dis
lance Of forty-eight feet from the surface.
The chalk is a pure article.
It is said that Justice Patton, of Sweet
land, committed jerry Lynch to jail for the
rest of his life. 1t is said that instead of
sentencing him to Jail for six months,
unless bond be sooner given, he sentenced
him to Jail ''until bond is given, which
makes life sentence, unless jerry gives
bond-a thing he is not likely to do.
The total pack of the Columbia t0regon)
salmon canneries for the season is estimated
at $40, ia cases, of As pounds each. The
shipments to England to date aggregate |
%, 004 shipments to San Francisco, 49, |
$50; leaving on the river 1873, 1853 cases.
The total pack of last year was $50, 900 |
cases. The income from the pack this year
has been s., 10000.
Crops on overfowed lands on the river
are remarkably rapid in growth. D. S.
S.uar5 has a crop OF Sonora wheat on his
ranch below Maine Prairie which is now in
the milk, although it was sowed six weeks
ago. He has also 100 acres of buckwheat
and showed US some fine large stalks IN
flower, which were the growth OF five
weeks.-[Dixon Tribune.
Toussaint, who was tried at Spokane
Falls, W. T., for attempted incendiarism,
and sentenced to FIVE years in the Peniten-
tiary, mysteriously disappeared on the
II i,.1 !
which he was confined. It is the general
opinion that he was taken from Jail and
foully dealt with, and an attempt made to
convey the opinion of his having escaped.
OF the Nevada and Oregon Railroad over
twenty miles of grading has been done and
between ten and twelve miles of track
laid, and cars are running over It. About
400 men are at work, and the road Is build
ing as rapidly as it can be made. There Is
but one drawback to its progress, and that
is the scarcity of iron. So much railroad
building is going on that foundries cannot
supply the demand, and iron cannot be
had Lassen Advocate.
A Colusa correspondent Of the appeal
writes Wild ducks are plenty, and some
geese are to be seen about Butte creek.
Bate creek and the slough furnish fine
sport for the angler, as there are a great
many catfish and perch in them. Some
hunters report deer very plenty in the foot.
hills of the Coast Range, and also good
many honey bees. 0ne gentleman said he
had found several bee trees which he In
tended to cut as soon as the weather gets
cooler.
F. a. Benjamin came in from San Fran
..fl
Boston, Mr. My!ert of Quincy, and Mr..
Keddie. Caet Engineer OF the Sierra Iron
aud Quincy Railroad They left here to-
day, and will 90 over the line of the pro-
posed road. They intend to open the i'm
mense iron deposit west of Mohawk valley.
and put up works right there. They will
have rolling mills and factories when all
their plans are carried out. They have
not positively decided on a route, but ex-
pect to build from Reno direct. They have
not made a positive choice of a gauge,