Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-02
COAST AND STATE.


county, Oregon, with good prospects for
the election of the Republican ticket.
The streets of The Dalles are crowded
with wool. laden wagons, transportation OF
the spring clip having fairly commenced.
The Oregon State Grange has held its
fifteenth annual session at Salem last week.
The delegation vas large, members being
present from all parts of Oregon and Wash
ington.
The Pendleton (Or.) Touring mill com
pany have just received and put up in a
new piece of machinery, which cost 81, 000
1t is used in the manufacture of the new
patent process -four.
At Volcano, A,mador county, recently,
as j. D. Stoken was exhibiting pistol to
a customer, unconscious that it was loaded,
it accidentally went Off, the ball striking
Victor Baker, his brother. in-law, in the
head, causing death in about forty minutes
afterward.
a rancher in the Pacheeo mountains,
San Benito county, who had recently lost
several hogs in a mysterious way, took his
gun the other day and went in search of
the marauder. Before returning home he
had encountered and shot three large Cali.
fornia lions.
In two hours last Thursday, says the
Shasta Democrat, with hand mortar,
Dent Young and Bill Murray pounded out
thirteen ounces of gold from rock taken
out of their claim on Fiat Creek, that sells
for SIS IS per ounce. This is not what is
known as the Murray claim, as some sup
pose-it is new "find."
Bronco writes TO the Yuma Sentinel
that if person be bitten by rattlesnske,
"as quickly as possible cover the wound
with baking powder, ard renew every
twenty minutes. II will be found GER
tain remedy. The baking powder soon
becomes matted with greenish fluid. 1t
is the surest remedy known outside of
whisky straight.
There has been left in Umatilla county,
Oregon, this spring, between $500, 900 and
$500, 900 by the different buyers OF cattle,
sheep and horses. It is estimated that
l60, 900 sheep have been driven cut of the
county. The prices paid for these sheep
were from 81 so to 81 % each. 1t ID
thought 5000 head OF horses have been
sold az an average price of SD 80 per
head. From 30 600 to 80, 0G0 cattle have
been sod, at $40 to $50 per animal.
The disappearance of Elmer Clendenen,
son of the blind miner at Randolph Flat,
is noted. According to the Grass Valley
Things Cendenen and another young man
were coming from Bloomfield, and on ar
irving at the toll bridge, on the Yuba, they
found they had no money to pay toll, and
in consequence attempted to swim the
river. After desperate and terrible
struggle young Ricard succeeded in land
ing safe, but Clendenen has not been seen
or heard of since.
The engineer of freight train passing
Cape Horn on Saturday saw large Cali
fornia hon ON cliff above the track eating
goat. The lion covered at the men,
but did not move from its position, though
reaching China Ranch deer was found ON
the track with its back broken. The deer
in climbing out of cut when train No. .
was passing, fell back and was struck by
the engine, with the above result. The
train men cut its throat and took it to Blue
Canyon.
Everybody in the John Day country, Or
gon, is now busy gathering cattle and
horses, shearing sheep, etc. Cattle buyers
are getting their herds together prepare
tory to the long drive over the mountains
to the Eastern markets. Nearly all the
cattle in the John Day and its tributaries
will be driven out of the country this
spring, Most of them 90 East, but few
OF them will be driven to the southern part
of the county and will eventually find their
way to San Francisco. Sheep shearing has
been retarded by the cold storms of the
first of the week, but will now proceed
without further interruption. The fleece
is good, considering the extraordinary hard
winter passed through.
During a session of the Territorial Legis-
lature of Nevada, of which the late Father
McGrath was Chaplain, member-A., of
Virginia City-was descanting on the use
less expense of Chaplain. Let him
pray for something practical" said the
member. "What 2" said bystander.
"Well," was the reply, " 1 an running
prospect tunnel at Virginia for water. The
rock is very hard and the water very
scarce. Let him pray that the rock be-
come softer and the water more abundant
They told McGrath, and he remembered
him next day as follows "Oh, Lord,
bless member A.; make the rock in his
tunnel as soft as his head, and the water
as abundant as the whisky he drinks.
Amen"
Numerous plans and devices have been
made to destroy codling moth. None,
however, have been entirely successful.
The Grass Valley TSdings thus describes
a trap invented by the proprietor of large
and orchard near Grass Valley
The arrangement is very simple, ard con.
sists of tin cans baited with vinegar or
very hard cider that has been sweetened
with sugar or molasses These traps SO
baited are distributed (the more the BETTER
the orchard. In the night time
the codling moth, and other moths, go to |
the traps and get caught in the sweetened |
cider. He tells US that he has already |
captured many of the codling variety of |
moths. He made the discovery that moths |
would go to such bait last summer, when |
he had left lot of apple pomace out over
night, without pressing Next morning |
The moths had gathered thick upon the |
pomace. Try this trap-there ia no patent |
IN it, and it is cheap.
There is nothing absurd in the PROPOSE
ton, says the Reno Gazette, that an alum.
lance of power for all working purposes
can be transmitted from the Truckee river
to the Comstock mines. In fact it would |
not be at all difficult to perfect system of
cables for transmitting power sufficient to
10 all the pumping and hosting required |
by the mines. 1t is only a question of time
and money-there is not single obstacle |
N the way. The idea at first may seem
Utopisn, but there is nothing dreamy about |
It when viewed in proper light. Nor
would the cost be excessive compared with
results. 1t would enable miners to work |
much lower grade of ore than can now be
mjlled. AS mechanical propo.
,ition no obstacles can be presented The
water OF the river can be backed up and
saved, so that at no time in the year will
there be less than 5000 inches, which may
De turned upon an overshot wheel of suffi-
,ient diameter and breast to develop enough !
power to run the whole country.
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