, 1882-06-02

ore from Wood River this year will
be, at the lowest calculation, 2000,
tons.
The dwelling of A. G. Varney at
Truckee, with its contents, valued at
$1,000, were burned May 10, Unin-
sured
AUBURN wants a high school. One
of it's citizens has agreed to give four
acres of ground, and it is proposed
to raise $1,000 for the erection of a
suitable building,
Mrs. ANTHONY, a school teacher,
was arrested on the 9th at Oakland,
sharged with setting fire to house
occupied by her. She had furniture
in the house insured for $4,000,
SINCE Nov. 10, the commencement
of the shipping season, there have
been shipped from the Santa Ana de-
pot 14,374 boxes of oranges, 7S9 boxes
of lines and 459 boxes of lemons.
The vigilants of Kelton, New, gave
fellow who had stolen an overcoat
a good horsewhipping on the 18th of
May. He had been ordered to leave
town, and did so, but returned too
soon, and got whipped for doing so.
The Colusa Sun reads the farmers
of Colusa county lesson, and points
out to them that if they had a few
acres of their ranches laid out in
fruit trees and vineyards they would
not be so bad off now that the wheat
crop is failure.
A coal mine has been discovered on
the San Jose river, forty three miles
from Albuquerue, N. NJ, on the At
lantic and Pacific road. 1t shows a
vein of eight feet or more. The
mine is only one-quarter OF a mile
from the railroad.
JAMES STRAINS orchard, on the
east side of the Feather river, has
been almost submerged beneath
slickens Last year he padded a
little boat from tree to tree to gather
the fruit. Now all his trees, except
those on high land, are dead.
H. S. Dickey, one of the editors
and proprietors of the Cotton Gal,
Semi Tropic, went insane over reli-
gion and a patent gig-top and was
taken to the Stockton asylum, where,
after a weeks stay, he died on the
18th of May. He was 20 years old.
The Corralitos Paper Mill runs it's
waste water, which is strongly i'm
pregnated with lime, into Corralitos
creek. This water is deleterious to
fish, and has in one instance poisoned
stock. The Sportman's Club of Cor
ralitos has entered a complaint against
the paper mill for violating the game
law.
The Pioneer Tannery at Vallejo
was burned on the 18th. The water
supply in that part of the town in
which the tannery.i is situated is very
insufficient. On this occasion an
adequate amount could not be OBJ
tanned from the hydrant, and the
progress of the flames was unchecked.
There was $1,000 worth of leather
destroyed.
EARLY Sunday morning, May IA,
Joseph Hier, an insane pioneer near
Buttes, Sutter county, arose while the
man who was hired to watch him
was asleep, killed a Frenchman en-
ployed on the place and a dog and
stabbed his cow He tried to kill his
wife and children but they were locked
in room. Then he set fire to the
house and granary. The house was
saved and the maniac arrested.
The Chico Record says there will
be almost total failure of crops in
Colusa county this year. On the
Glenn ranch they will not have use
for one half the machinery employed
last year. DR.. Glenn had hoped to
raise 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, and had offered his foreman,
Pike Gupton, bonus Of $4,000 if
that quantity of grain was harvested
on the ranch this season.