Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-13
COAST and STATE.

Three feet OF snow on the level IN
Truckee.
Quail are said to be very abundant
around the sink of the Carson.
EFor week or two past the measles have
been having quite a run in Auburn.
g The thermometer registered as low as SO
below zero at Sawtooth, Idaho, lately.
A man named Hermann, travelling as q
prestidigitateur, was egged in Walla Walla
recently.
An Indian was exhibiting young wild
eat in the streets of Phoebe, the other day,
saws the Record. These animals can not
be tanned, even if reared up by hand.
A. B. Mofitt has $50 acres of wet land
in San Fernando valley which will yield an
enormous crop of wheat this year, from
the present appearance of the plant. Los
Angeles Express.
During the last four years Oregon has
exported to the Eastern States not less
than 400, 600 head of beef cattle Most of
these cattle were produced in the counties
east of the Cascades.
Farmers in the vicinity of Suisun and
also in the upper end of Solano county re-
port the crop prospect as being very good.
There is some complaint in regard to the
condition of green feed, which is very
backward on account of cold weather.
The Grass Valley daily Tidings and Free
Lance, one Of our most valued, newsy and
lively mountain exchanges, has been en-
larged to seven-column four-page paper.
The publishers say it is in keeping only
with the business demands upon the paper.
Fifty new boxes are about to be put in
the Auburn Postoffice toward helping to
meet the demands of the large and grow
ing mail business of that town. These IA
cilities have been more than doubled dur
ing the past five years, and yet the cry is
for more box accommodation,
An unusual number of sand-hiI cranes
have made their appearance in this neigh
borhood. Some people gay these birds
come only in dry seasons. They are very
fine eatiDg-much better than goose, and
almost equal to the turkey. II they are in
great numbers our sportsmen can have a
chance at them.-[Colusa Sun.
The "long felt want" of Santa Cruz for
a sportsman's club has at last been met,
and an organization was effected on Satur-
day by the election of G. Bowman, Presi.
dent j. S. Green, Vice President, and Ed
Price, Secretary. Sheriff Daken is inter.
esting himself in adding to the list of men,
bers and the club will soon be in practical
working order-in time to save the trout
streams from being robbed in the early
spring. Cruz Courier.
The long continued, intensely cold
weather is beginning to tell on stock in
Elko county. New. The Independentlearn
from Commissioner Hopeyman that while
On his way down from his home In Glover
valley he noticed number of dead cattle
lying near the road along which he travel.
ed, evidently starved and frozen to death.
Commissioner Campbell also says cattle are
beginning to succumb to the cold about
Halleck and vicinity. The mercury has
fallen lower along the Humh oldt, however,
than in any of the valleys in the county.
We took spin last Monday through the
lower foothills Of this county, and were ia.
vorably surprised to find the great interest
manifested by the settlers of that section
in grape culture. Nearly every man who
OWES land is putting out more or less vines,
and those who owned vineyards previously
re adding to their dimensions. VIM. Eos
ter will add about seven acres to his vine.
yard this year, and all his neighbors are
making corresponding exertions. From
Fosters to Crosby's place-about two
miles-will soon be one continuous vine
yard and when il is, and the grapes are
ripe, Foster says they propose to invite the
editors and school teachers of Placer county
to come down and take walk through it.
PLACER Herald, February 18th.
A correspondent, writing to the Placer
Herald from Michigan Bluff, informs it
that on Sunday evening, February 5tb, p
McHale, Justice of the Peace at that place,
was notified that the bodies Of two China.
men had been found in cabin on Amer.
can Bar, on the Middle Fork of the Ameri-
can river. On Monday morning he went to
the Bar and there found the bodies as
stated. They were lying on their beds,
and looked as if they had been murdered
while sleeping, as there was no evidence of
any struggle. Each had received single
blow on the head with some heavy instru.
ment. A small sledge-bammer, lying near
their beds, it would seem, must have been
the weapon used. The depression in the
skull of each of the victims looked as if
made by such a tool The men were
known TO have had considerable money
about them. From appearances they had
been dead about three weeks. Their
money purses were found on the floor.
turned inside out. The murder was evi.
IDENTIFY the work of Cinnamon.