Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-18
COAST AND STATE.

A Montana man named Newberry was
lately bitten by rattlesnake, and It was
found necessary to amputate the limb.
Says the Arizona Gazette. Besides her
great mineral wealth, Arizona is admirably
adapted to stock. raising and in few years
will rank high in this business.
The Indians on Payallup Reservation,
w. T.. have recently bought eighteen sew.
ing machines. Among these is large
manufacturing machine for the shoe fac.
tory.
The steamer built at Seattle, w. T., for
the Government was launched Monday and
named the Steadfast. She will enter the
Coast Survey service and will be under
command of j. j. Gilbert.
Euclide Trambly, Canadian French.
man by birth, last week committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head with
shotgun at the farm of his brother. in. law,
P. B. Lecroix, near Willows.
The saloon and lodging house of Jacob
Williams. at st. Johns, Colusa county,
was lately fired by an incendiary. The
building and contents, involving a loss of
about 81, 100, were total loss.
The railroad north of Redding is reported
to be located for a distance of sixty miles,
and the contract has been let to build that
/ distance, which will carry the road to
point north of the Sacramento bridge.
The Washington Territory Democratic
Convention has teen called to meet in Van.
couver on the llth of October for the nom.
nation of a candidate for delegate to Con.
gress and Prosecuting Attorneys for the
several districts.
The Supervisors of MERGED, by major.
ity vote, have ordered all moneys paid by
traders, peddlers and saloon keepers for
State and county licenses since the new
Constitution went into effect, to be re.
funded, without interest, to the claimants
The Anacortes wv. T. J Enterprise says
The tide marsh lands comprising the com.
bined dsltas Of the Stilaguamish, Skagit
| and Samish rivers, contain about IL, 900
acres, the principal portion of which is un.
der cultivation. The price of land will
average $50 to $50 per acre.
J. P. Stewart, of Puyallup, w. T.,
picked 1000 pounds of berries from one
acre on his place this year, 1000 of which
he has put up; 6, 900 he has sold at an av
erage price of ten cents pound over and
above the cost of picking. He has paid
SAoV " Ahuiaho plChiuS GHcIl, anu re.
allied at these figures 5000, which is very
fair showing for one acre.
A fire lately caught in the grass in the
foothills on the Corral de Piedra ranch,
San Luis Obispo county. Some 1000
acres were burned over before the fire was
| checked. Soon after the fire started up
again and ragged with great fury in the
| chaparral on the eastern slope of the hills
At times it ran to the very crest of the hills
and threatened to break over and descend
among the grazing lands and diaries on the
coast side. On Tuesday last fire started
in the foothills about five miles northeast
of San Luis Obispo, on the Cuesta road. A
large amount of valuable sheep pasturage
has already been destroyed.
Says the Anaheim Gazette A singular
and costly accident happened few days
ago to the thrashing machine of Messrs.
Gwin & Greeley. They were at work on
the grain of Mexican living near Spadra,
and suddenly an explosion was heard and
flames shot out of the machine and speedily
enveloped it. Before they were extin.
guished the grain belt, straw carrier, der.
| rick and derrick wagon, ropes, etc. and
stack of grain were burned, inficting loss
of about $500 on the machine. The cause
of the accident was shotgun cartridge
which had been either maliciously or acct.
dentally dropped into the straw, and when
it was tossed into the thrasher it exploded
upon reaching the cylinder, with the result
stated.