Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
COAST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Courthouse.
There will he no fair held in Linn coun.
ty, Oregon, this fall.
Lane county, Oregon, contains 8, 745
children of school age.
A mammoth's skeleton was lately found
on Powder river, M. T.
Two beavers were recently shot in Big
Chico canyon, Butte county.
MERGED county has bought the MERGED
river toll bridge for Sll 200.
The Chico Water Works Company, in
running tunnel, have found vast supply
of water.
Wheat is coming into Albany, Or, at
the rate of 5000 bushels daily The price
offered is sc cents.
The total assessment of the property of
Spokane county, Washington Territory, is
S2,0S3, 24S, of which S452, 700 is railroad
property.
Carefully prepared statistics show that
Scott's valley, Siskiyou county, has pro-
duced this year about 100, 900 bushels of
wheat, $1,000 of oats, and about Is, 600 of
barley.
The new Masonic Temple being built at
McMinnviile, Or, cost between "a, 500 and
So, 600. The corners stone was laid on the
22d instant, upon which occasion there
was a grand entertainment and basket
dinner.
The heat in the Touchet valley, W. T.,
last week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, was intense. Wednesday afternoon
mechanics were compelled to quit work,
and several were threatened with sun.
stroke.
I'll. Davis, who wandered away from
home near Butte Creek, Marin county,
three weeks ago, was found by sheep.
herder Monday, nude and dead. He is
supposed to have been insane, and died of
starvation.
A young lady ia Lost valley, Lane eoun.
ty, Oregon, borrowed thrashing machine
of Jos. Parker. and in one half day
thrashed out 20l bushels OF oats. She
bucked her own straw, held the sacks,
tended the riddles and oiled the separator.
Joseph White, of Bake-Oven, Wasco
county, Oregon, began as a sheep-herder in
that region without funds five years ago.
He recently sold out his band of sheep for
Sc, 800. From his this years shearing he
sold from 67S ewes 81, l5S worth of wool
and raised AIS lambs.
The initial number of the ErpoSitor, pub
lished at Downieville by Charles H. Squire,
has been received. Though not as large as
barn door, nor as small as a postage
stamp, it is neat.looking sheet, and well
filled with news IN regard to the locality In
which it is prin tied.
Last week w. C. Moyan, being near
Alhapx, Loot %ho Scr
Christmas. Desiring to know what allied
the horse, he, assisted by others, made a
post-mortem examination. They were
somewhat surprised to find in the stomach
enough binder wire to fill one of the hands.
They were the small pieces twisted to.
gether and clipped off on thrasning, and
through the mucous membrane OF the
stomach in several places, of course caus-
ing death.
Boise Statesman About two weeks ago
w. P. Hall, foreman for NJ Ryan, arrived
at the Snake river bridge at Blackfoot,
Idaho, with |, 800 head of cattle. The
herd was very wild, as it had been made
up of four different bands. An uusuccess.
full attempt was made to get the cattle
across the bridge. Some of them had en-
tered the river, and it was decided to swim
the whole herd. Hall rode his horse out
into the deep water above the bridge, but
got into an eddy. He then called to j. G.
Van Deventer to throw him rope. Van
Deventer responded, but the rope caught
in his spur and he was pulled from his
horse, and with the animal houndered
| about in fifteen feet of water. He managed
TO remount the horse, which struck out I'M
mediately for the cattle in the middle of
the river. After hard struggle and sew
eral narrow escapes similar to the one de-
scribed, he reached the shore mile below
the bridge. Some of the cattle were car
ried two miles down the stream, but only
| eleven head of worn.o out and lame animals
were lost. Van Deventer could not swim,
and his escape from drowning seems won.
derful. 1t is said to be the first time a
mounted horse ever SWAN Snake river.
The Roseburg Independent says son
last Saturday, as the Overland stage left
Roseburg, the Silver Cornet Band gave it
| a serenade. On the l4th day of August,
1859, the Overland Stage Company 5
coaches first arrived at what, at that time,
was the very small villsge of Roseburg.
The arrival of these coaches was the open
ing of new era in the history of the
southern portion of the State. Before that
time the only means of locomotion was on
horse or mule, or with ORLEANS or pack.
| trains for freight. Now, after twenty.
| three years, we bid farewell to a good and
| faithful servant, who has been superseded
by the railroad. While We hail the change
that will in short time connect us by rail
with the Eastern States, and which we
hope will bring US population and wealth,
we cannot witness the departure of the old
line without the deep regret that must fol-
low the loss of an old and well-tried friend.
Through storm and sunshine, over mount.
ain trails, through black mud and high
water, the old company never failed, ex.
cept when it was impossible to do other
wise, during all these long years, to bring
us the news from abroad and to advance
the interests of this portion of the State
It was the precursor Of the railroad, add
now that the time has arrived to give way
to its successor, it only remains for us to
express the many obligations we have been
under to the old company, and to bid it
farewell"
NEW CoNsUMPTIvE CURE.-A Pennsyl.
wanna woman who was supposed to be dy-
inv Of ollck consumntion oava ber doctor