Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
All the saw.mills on the Truckee river are
shut down for the season.

All the saw.mills on the Truckee river are
| shut down for the season.
The preliminary examination of T. Van
Noordep, charged with arson il setting fire
to his shoe store, was concluded in Woodland
Thursday afternoon, and the defendant was
discharged
Thursday afternoon the remains of q man
were found in newly.made grave alongside
the Santa Monica road, nine miles from Los
Angeles. An examination of the body
showed that the head had been crushed by
club or some other blunt instrument.
The Silver City Aralanche learns that
Wood. Bowden and Kellogg. the thieves who
Valley, and who were arrested but after
wards broke Jail, at Dillon, Montana, were
hung by vigilsntes. This report is doubtless
correct, as the party who started in pursuit
of them, after they broke Jail, took no
shackles with them.
A patient named Burns escaped from the
Reno Insane Asylum last Saturday night
while the dance was going on. He was heard
of from near Verdi on Sunday, and Monday
last Billy Madden, one of the guards of the
asylum, went to Truckee in hopes of fndiog
him there. But he didn't, and after leaving
a description of the wandering lunatic with
the officers there, Madden returned to Reno.
Over $1,000 has been spent on the levee
of District No. l. in Suffer county, this year,
of which nearly Sc, 900 was paid out for labor
The hight of the levee for distance of three
miles has been increased by two feet, and the
width of the crown remains about seven feet
This district rejoices in a very substantial
levee. and has every reason to be well satis-
fed with the seasons work, which has been
performed in thorough manner
The other day, says the Sierra Valley
Leader, Mr.. Keller, of Randolph, dug a well
about fifteen feet deep. From the bottom he
threw out lot of gravel. Hank Hines hap.
pened along, and remarked that it was as
fine lot of washed gravel as he ever saw, so
he washed out PAINFUL and obtained a fine
prospect. 1t is now proposed to sink the
well deeper. and see if bedrock can be
reached, and TO ascertain the extent OF the
gravel deposit.
On Saturday last a ball of fire about two
feet in diameter was seen by Mrs I. S. Mer.
chant to fall at Brush and Thirteenth streets,
Oakland. She ran off in fright and stun
bled against an old gentleman, who went
back and deliberately examined the object.
AT first the heat was so intense that he had
to fall back, but ne subsequently, thrust his
cane into it, when that part OF the cane
penetrating it was instantly consumed.
Twenty minutes afterwards he and Mira.
Merchant returned to the spot the ground
was hot, but the meteor, if such it was, had
completely vanished.
A few months since Gridley man, named
D. "A. Osborn, published to the world, through
the columns of the Record, that he would not
be responsible for any debts contracted by
his wife, as she had left his bed and board"
1t seems that Osborn is again going to take
chance in the matrimonial lottery but there
is a little proviso in the matter. He is put
ting out some inducements to the woman.
Among the deeds recorded at Oroville this
week was the following, which explains the
affair: sd. A. Osborn to A. Kuri, provid.
ing that grantee shall marry the grantor be-
fore December 9, 2SSs-W. ] of S. L. I Sec.
81, L. is n, r. L.
The weather in the Sierras for the past
week has been the right kind for ice men.
Every night the mercury goes down several
degrees below zero at Prosser creek, Bocs
and Camp 20, and the days are clear and cold
and the ice thaws little, if any. At Prosser
creek they have from nine TO twelve inches
of clear ice. It freezes about an inch in
every twenty-four hours, and by the latter
part OF the week they will commence har.
vesting. At Boca they have about eight
inches, and will commence work in few
days The Peoples Ice Company, at Camp
20, have about eight inches, and will COM
mence cutting ss soon as they can get ready.