Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-05-03
COAST AND STATE.

COAST AND STATE.
G. T. Montgomery mas retired from the
Healdsburg Enterprise
Swarms of pilgrims and tramps line the
roads between Bozeman, Montana, and the
eud of the Northern Pacific Railroad track.
The Park Association of Sonoma county
are making preparations for grand meet
ing on their Santa Rosa grounds this sea-
sJn.
The horses Oh the San MARITIME ranch.
near Gilroy. are suffering from the pinkeye
disease. Thirteen have died from its
effects.
Horse stealing is common at Auaheim,
and the people of that settlement have
followed in the footsteps of the people OF
Riverside, and are organizing society for
the prevention of horse stealing.
The snow on the hillside south OF
Downieville, reaching nearly down to
the river, and green fields and blossoms
on the north side form a contrast which
cannot be seen IN many parts OF the world.
Nevertheless, such is the actual fact
An insane man is wandering about near
West Point, in Calaveras county, who is
frightening the women and children by 60
ing to houses, demanding food and making
threats. On being pursued he disappears
in the brush, and has baffisd all efforts to
capture him.
The Chico Record says there will he al
most total failure Of crops in Coluss
county. 1t says on the Glenn ranch they
will not have use for one half the machinery
they employed last year. DR.. Glenn had
hoped to raise million bushels of wheat
this year, and offered his foreman, Pike
Gupton, bonus of $40, ,000i that quantity
OF grain was harvested on the ranch this
season.
There are many small fur bearing ami
mails ID Siskiyou county, some OF which
ara quite valuable, especially the silver
gray and other foxes, and marten, the fur
OF the latter being equal to the Russian
sable. Siiver-gray fox furs are not as val.
liable as formerly, but bring very good
| prices. Mink skins are worth but very
little now, but beaver. otter, fisher and
other small animals furs still bring about
the usual prices.
The crops throughout the county will
this year be remarkably good, with the
exception of some part of the desert re-
claimed by the Galloway canal. The partial
failure there ia due to the fact that the
severe cold which prevailed in the noun
tains during the winter and spring detained
the usual supply of water IN the embraces
of the frost until month later than usual.
| But it is not too late for alfalfa and sum.
mer crops. In Linn's valley, Tehachepa
and other parts Of the mountains the sea.
son is the best for several years, and the
crop prospects are corresponding. 81 Kern
Californian.
The prospect for bountiful harvest this
season is more than hattering. On Tuesday
last we took a drive to Vacaville, and all
along the line the eye was greeted
with the finest stand of wheat, taken as
a whole, that we have ever seen. The
RAIN this season has been equally dis
tributed-ths publican and sinner are
treated alike, and all are made TO rejoice
thereat. The weather so far has been cold,
checking the too rapid growth, which is Of
ten detriment. and as a result the grain
covers the earth like a mat. The fruit
crop, too, from all reports, never looked
more promising -[SolanO Republican.
The New York Sun gives these directions
for finding the new comet Late in
the evening say about II o'clock, you will
see pretty well up in the northeastern
heavens the bright star Vega, in the Harp.
1t may be certainly recognized by means Of
two faint stars close by it, with which it
makes a beautiful triangle. The comet is
almost on a line drawn from Vega to the
Polar star, and you can find its place by
noting that it is below and little to the
left OF the head of the Dragon, which is
:: marked by lozenge-shsped figure lying a
! few degrees northwest of Vega" 1t is
about eight o'clock here when it is eleven
in New York.
a man from the country by the name Of
EBrush came In possession of hive OF bees
this morning in very curious way. He
ihitchea his team in front of the jail, and
in little while queen bee came along and
settled on the seat of his wagon. Shortly
afterward the air was filled with bees,
(which at once began to swarm around the
: squeen until the whole hive had settled
By little careful manipulation, the owner
of the team soon gathered the swarm in Q
T box, which he proposes to carry home with
\ him. Several fugitive colonies have beer
captured in town within the past few days
l-[Los Angeles Express, April 9th.
The annual meeting OF the State Sports
r lman's Association will be held in San Fran
Ilcisco on the 4sh instant On the 9TH anC
t 10th the Association will hold a pigeon
t shooting tournament, the programme fo
g (which will be as follows First day-Firs
s match, six single rises, ground trap rules
e entrance S5 second match, six doubl
rises, entrance, S. Second day-Firs
!. match, twelve single rises, q yards, en-
t trance $40 second match, SIX single rises
q entrance SIS, ground-trap rules except as t
\ kind of traps. The entrance money in al
e the matches will be divided into five prize
f of 40, 25, 20, 10 and per cent.
5 A writer in the Santa Rosa Repubhca
g says that Kelsey creek, on the road t
8 Clear Lake, sis filled with black fish, cha
t paul, trout, perch, etc, about foot ii
4 length. They are running pstresm, an
n the water boiled with them going owe
= the rifles. They are numbered by thou
sands-it would hardly be exaggers
ton to say millions. Looking bacl
E after crossing, we saw the whit
n bellies of perhaps two dozel
= fish turned up as their bodies foated away
:, killed by the horses and the wheels of tn
4 stage. A little boy stood in the edge o
!. the creek and kicked enough out on th
o bank, directly, to fill a potato sack. :"
n Esrts far TeurySfs and Er.siaranss