Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-27
COAST AND STATE NEWS.

Santa Rosa is to have musical convention
about March 2lst.
Capitalists propose sinking for oil in the
town of Santbarabara.
The Mendooino county wool. growers
meet the first Saturday in March.
Everything indicates very good year
for fruit, vegetables and grain in Sonoma
county.
The wild ducks in the vicinity OF Nelson
Station are to be seen IN countless numbers
and are proving very much of nuisance.
Many citizens are digging up their gum
trees. AT Arson Goodspeeds lot the roots
ran distance of forty feet and interfered
with his well.
The Golden Chasselas is strong grow
ing vine and good bearer, as far as we
have observed, in the moist heavy soil OF
the valley where most other sorts mildew.-
[Santa Rosa Republican.
The proceedings against the Chamberlain
Bros. at Chico, charged with cattle steal
ing, have ended in the refusal of the mag
istrate to hold the defendants to answer.
The Record says this is one of the cases
where conclusions were jumped at too
hastily.
Mr.. Rowe, says the Virginia City Enter
prise, the man who lost his eyes and both
arms in the explosion at the Forman shaft,
is in excellent health. All he now wants
is to know how to make living. He is
ready to do anything that can be suggested
to a man in his situation.
a good deal of prospecting is being done
in Flowery District, and some good rock is
being found near the surface. A day OF
two since man who was at work on a
claim near the old Rodgers struck into a
small pocket, from which he took out in a
few hours gold quartz to the value of $50.
Va. City Enterprise.
With our present rain, we may say that
the crop prospects of Colusa county are
good. The grain was looking well before
the rain, even on the poorer quality of
land in fact, the frost and cold weather
did not seem to affect the alkali land as
much as the higher and better quality. Oh
course we will need more rain for good
crops, but Colusa will have wheat to SELL
[Colusa Sun, 18th.
The new town of Luning, which is stu.
ated on the Carson and Colorado Railroad,
about twenty-five miles southeast of Haw.
thorne, is the center from which will radi-
a.e the trade and travel of four new rich
mining districts-Gillis, Garfield, Santa Fe
and Silver Star These districts are now
attracting much attention, owing to the
many and valuable deposits of mineral dis
covered within their boundaries. Il Austin
Reveille.
The Colusa Sun of the 25th says Son
the 22d of February, Warren Wentworth
came across a rattlesnake, as lively as in
midsummer, crawling along the banks Of
Bear creek. Considering the fact that the
snake does not generally wake up be.
fore April, this is rather unreasonable. 1.
is all the more SO on account of the fact
that we have had such a cold winter.
Warren got away him and brought the rat.
ties to town. Since the above was in type,
a gentleman told US of another one found
on the river just above town, which was
running along as though it was the right
time of the year for snaix. Snakes out OF
their stupor on the 22d of February, the
coolest winter we ever had. is something
very extraordinary. Pshaw, that's easily
explained. The snakes came out to have a
legal holiday, knowing the ODD to be dies
non, and that it don't count, in the regular
business of the snake in sleeping the winter
through.
Miss Florence Cripe, says the Tehama
Tocsia of the 25th, mystericusly disap-
peared from her parents home on Mill
Creek Thursday night. 1t was thought
she had committed suicide. However, i;
has Developed that the girl left note for
her parents, saying that she was gone and
she hoped they'd treat the other girls bet.
ter. The note intiuiated that she intended
to drown herself. The mother, who found
this note, alarmed the neighborg, search
was Immediately instituted, and they took
lanterns and finding footprints of lady g
shoe in the plowed ground, followed them
towards the river until they we're lost 10
an open grass pot. The bank of the river
was searched but no trace could be found
the search was then given up until the
next day. Friday morning it was learned
from Spanish family living close by, that
the girl was seen to get in wagon towards
dark that afternoon, and was driven off by
young man; and as wagon tracks were
discovered on the grass plot yesterday
morning, that theory of her disappearance
seems to hold good. The girl has been
made to herd sheep and do other work
about sheep camp that naturally belong
to men. And it is said by those who know,
that because of this the girl got disguised.
The young lady is the same one, it will b.
remembered, who gained some notoriety al
Vina month ago, in law suit instituted
by her mother, who had Put /" Thompson
arrested for kissing her, and who was fine1
81 so for the osculatory assault.