Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-05
AFTERNOON SESSION
ARnukp TEE COAST.

The Utah Territorial Library is reported
10 deplorable condition.
The new flour mill building at Salem,
Oregon, will cost $50, 600.
The Eureka LeGder has changed hands
and is owned by II. Mullen, a banker.
An effort is being made to have the Den
yer Exposition kept open till October 3lst
Valentine Sells, while riding harvest.
ing machine near Butte, Montana, was
thrown in front of the cutter. His foot was
cut eff at the ankle.
a party Of surveyors have been engaged
for a week past ia surveying the Milton
Mining Compsny's ground, situated be
tween Cherokee and Badger Hill -ESan
Juan Times.
A Reno man has discovered that red ants
will destroy bedbugs. Now if some in.
ventive Remote will discover what will
Kill red ants, the long suffering sagebrusEer
viii be happy.
The piece of horn silver weighing 10, coo
| pounds and valued at &c., eco, taken cut
OF the Lake Valley mines few days since,
is to be cent to the Denver exposition to
astOnish the natives.
a large gang of Cinnamon have been
| sent 10 St. Helena to pick hops on Clocks
ranch, as other help cannot be got. The
| crop promises very finely, ard at present
| quotations, from 40 to 30 cents per pound,
there is money this year in the business.
! The new survey OF the lice between Ian
| der and Nye counties, New, the westerly
,ection of which was made a few days ago,
/ De c'ding the town or precinct of Pedro
! ti5old Park TO be within lander county,
! has just been completed through to tie
! Eureka line.
| 4 Montana Vigilance Committee post
poned a lynchiDg matinee for two hours
in order to allow the victim to shake in a
rattle in which he had chance. Thus
| doth the spirit of Christian magnanimity
crop out even in the rough and uncouth
wilds of the West.
A gentleman while working on a new
building near the terminus of Willow
street, San Jose, the other day discovered
a tarantula hole in the ground, in which
were three tarantulas and kind of she'll
or cocoon, supposed to contain tarantuia
eggs. The shell was broken and he count.
ed three hundred young ones.
Charles Hansen, an Arizona prospector,
lately found, sixteen miles from ella, the
skeletons of man and burro. There
were a pack-saddle, blankets and utensils
near. The remains were, doubtless, those
of an unfortunate prospector who got lost,
and persisted for want of water, or was
bitten by some poisonous reptile.
The winter system of irrigation is grow
ing IN favor not only with fruit. growers
but with farmers as well. The folly of de.
pending upon the capricious rain when one
can flood his lands with fertilizing river
water is gradually being made apparent to
those whose location enables them to thus
bid defiance to drought. Il Ansheim Ga
zette.
Major William Clark, Scotchman, aged
rs years, was found dead Thursday mile
south of You Yet in which locality he
has resided for 30 years past. Life had
been extinct ten or twelve days when the
discovery was made. and probably resulted
from old age and exposure. Clark's cabin
burned down two months ago, and sioce
that time he has been camping in the open
air near the ruins.
Saturday afternoon, while Martin
Mitchell and Jacob Long were cleaning out
an old drift 60 feet below the surface in
! the Blue Lead mine at Willow Valley Ne.
vada county, and were in about 80 feet
from the incline, they struck through into
some other old workings and rush OF
water came, sweeping them to the mouth
OF the drift. Long was not hurt much, but
; Mitchell sustained very serious injuries
about the head.
, A man from San Diego appeared before
the Land Commission recently at Los An.
geles to make final proof for the pre- emp.
/ finy, nf aarfain Eox,aran,a,.- Il
county. He made affidavit that he was 60
years OF age, widower ard the father Of
thirty-two children. His name is Philan.
der Bell. He added that lie was looking
: out for another wife, preferring a>eorn4<
! Itfs-snd that he thought >Sis ssarcf
was successful his FAIRLY !.iifIy would be CON
siderably increased yet This is about a;
good showing as any one man in the State
saa make. II there is any one can beai
! him let him come forth.
, A very peculiar incident happened the
other day from which moral may BIZ
drawn. A Garden Grevite and his wife
c were riding about the country, the lady
driving and the man with shotgun in hand
keeping bright lookout for game A rab
bit showed itself, and in order to get
good aim it was necessary to turn the
horse somewhat. The animal was NO
readily responsive to the rein, and the i'm
patient sportsman gave the horse prod IL
the rear with the muzzle of the gun. Tn.
energetic punch resulted in the discharge
Of the piece, and the horse fell dead
a pierced with shot. Moral-Don't whit
your horse with a loaded shotgun. L Ana
> helm Gazette.
c G. w. Stapleton has returned, saws tn,
Butte Montana Miner, from a business
trip to Glendale and while there was tolt
of lake which hunter had seen near tn,
! headwaters of the Wise river, about eight,
L miles south of Butte. 1t is situated higi
up in the mountains and surrounded b,
steep crags, and the water is frozen solid
notwithstanding the remarkably warn
weather in that section. The hunter il
r convinced that it never thaws, and state,
:, that in the center of this great body of ic,
is large avalanche of snow piled up to ,
great hight, which has evidently fslleI
from the crags surrounding the lake. "a;
described as beautiful spot, scenery q -,
and the whole country alive with 6 e
o A glorious place, no doubt, for summe
excursion.
d From Jacob Moak, who is down from
|. Big Meadows, we learn that the dairy in
terests there have been this season mos
successful and profitable The grass ba
e been good and hay plentiful In the cours,
of conversation with Mr.. Moak we learned
something of the magnitude of the dairy
interest at the Meadows. The Dota Bros
!, and r. Slower are about the largest butter
. makers, and turn out about so pounds
!; each daily; Bunnell. 40 pounds; Backal
q Bros, 50; Jake Moak, 40; Olsen, 60
!; Thad Slower, 30. and quite number o
!; small diaries which would probably ado
. go or 300 pounds more daily, making tn,
daily product of butter reach nearly 7Ot
/; pounds. There are very few cattle at tn,
! Meadows for sale in fact, beef is high anc
scarce, and eight cents is freely offered TO
1; all that can be purchased.-[Chico Enter
! prise.