Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-07
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| A Constable tracked James Marden-
wanted for murder in Arizona, to King.
man, n. NJ, but failed to make the arrest.
as his man had died from sn: all. pox an hour
before the Constable's arrival.
A $40 000 ditch is being built nv the
South Yubs Canal Company in Nevada
county, which will convey water for min.
ing purposes from Quaker Hill to Town
Talk, distance of twelve miles.
A Gridley tCal.) farmer hunts geese with
COW. 1t is stated that he has trained the
animal to walk out to where q hoo,, of
geese have settled down en- the grain,
! browsing ali the way alorp, he WALKING
alongside on the eff side from the geese
and when near enough the COW lies down
and he shoots into the flock and captures
| thirty or forty.
A man from the mountain fastness of
! Modoc was in Red Bluff the other dav
tie is 81 years old, and never saw rail.
road until few weeks ago. He was ORIG
inslly from Old Virginia. He moved 70
Missouri in 1916, came to California in
1850, and all this time has been 40 far
away from civilization that he could NOT
hear the iron horse snort,
The smallest baby was born in Candida.
ria, Nevada, few weeks ago. The father
and mother are strong and healthy, weigh.
! ing 100 and l60 pounds. The child is a
male, perfectly formed. When IL frat sam
light it weighed eight ounces. It's face ia
| about the size of horse chestnut. The
mothers wedding ring was pulled over its
foot up to the knee Three such bahie,
could play hide and seek in cigar box.
1t is in good health.
The G;arro Villa, I
per eggs are not as plentiful this fall az
they were last. The hoppers deposited
large quantities of eggs in Allen TrembIe's
fields, aud he began to feel DISCOURAGED
but large numbers of birds fed on them
nearly cleaning them out. Then. too. the
warm weather of October hatched ont
many which have since been killed nv the
storm. Mr. Tremble thinks the PROSPECTS,
ere good for a respite from the ravaees of
the plague next year.
According to the San Bsrnardino Times,
Governor Stanford has under consideration
grand irrigation scheme. which. If tye.
cuted, will surp2ss ANYTHING before ar.
tempted in this STAG. Isis 70 c-este i'm.
nense reservoirs IN Lytie creek. Santa Ara
and Mill creek caGyone. cooseryipp az
! course, existing water rights and providing
IN their stead g uniform supply, and by
storing the winter water create q supply
sufficient to irrigate scope of country in
Guiding the entire plain between San Der.
nafdlno and Pomana, as we'll as San Ber-
nsrdino valley and the plains lying east
and south OF Riverside.
The numbering is about over. and the
figures run up pretty Eieh, gu the Truckee
river. The Reno Gaz tie estimates that
Brlckell 4 Kruger head the list with r..
0Oo, GOO feet; Ellie Ellen cut 3 600 600;
Shstfer the same; Richardson Bros. 4. COO
900 the Boca Mil Company, 5, coo, 600;
Lonkev & Smith, 6,000, 030: Bnrchslter,
.,o9o. GOO, aud the Dog valley mill of Kstz
Henry, G,000 600; making a total of
~. 0O0, 600 feet. Prices were good. Prob
ably 40, Geo coo feet of this quantity sold
Tor about So thousand, footing rp $780,
ooO, and the rest sold as clear lumber for
about S35, making over 5000. COO more
over 100000 earnings for the nine milla
that run, some of then, only part of the
time.