Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

Hay is selling for Sl2 per ton in Honey
Lake Valley.
Custer county, NJ. T., has new Jail. It
cost Sl4. 225.
The Marysville Levee Commissioners
have warned all persons not to ride or drive
on the levees.
In Yuba county the tax collected
amounts to S94, 730 81 amount delinquent,
So. 26S 06; total, slOs. 99S 62.
During the last buffalo hunt lin Montana
Vic Smith, of Glendive, a professional
hunter, killed Sl7 head of buffalo,
The Chinese merchants of Red Bluff pre-
sented Justice Comstock on New Years
day with diamond ring worth 800.
Grading for the extension between Los
Angeles and Cotton, on the California
Southern road, is actively progressing.
The Appeal says: At no period during
the past two years has Carson been infested
by so many hard looking characters with
out visible means of support as at the pres
emit time.
The Historian (Oregon) says: Upon our
desk lies strawberry plant, in fullest
leaf, with nine berries upon it in every
stage of ripeness, from palest kernel to
scarlet fullness.
The Trinity Journal has entered upon it's
twenty eighth volume, not having missed
single issue since the first number was pub
lished. 1t appears in a new typographical
dress throughout.
On January lst there were s30 tons of
wheat stored in Stockton warehouses,
against 43 500 tons December lst. There
are, also, 1,Sl5 tons of barley, 2l5 tons of
rye and 30 tons of corn.
A disease unknown to W. P. Mast of
Burton, Or, has made its appearance
among his fat hogs. First they quit eat
ing, then have fits, and in two or three
days they become blind.
On Wednesday a stick of timber came
into Olympia, w. T., on the railroad from
Fosters camp. which was I20 feet in
length and 3S inches in diameter at the
top end. The stick measured 900 feet.
The Carson New Appeal says: There
are three young ladies visiting this city at
present with handsome fortunes One is
worth $500. 600, the other $50, 000 and
the third is said to have 500. 900 in United
States bonds, with half million in pros.
pective.
On Saturday Charles Lucas, of Marys-
vile, cut twig from one of his orange
trees that contained sixteen fully developed
oranges. The twig was about eighteen
inches in length, and with the fruit and
some little foliage, weighed one ounce less
than ten pounds.
Hunters are warned against eating game
killed in the vicinity of the sink of Cache
creek, Yolo county, as the residents of that
L., L. Il
of poison lately for the purpose of exter-
infest that region.
Desperadoes went to Chinaman's wash
house at Weeksville, M. T., the other day
and demanded his money. The Celestial
gave up some $500, after which they or
dered him to skip. They also carried away
clothes in his wash. and lots of people lost
| their undergarments.
A paragraph was published last week
stating that 1.-THE parties who were arrested
for the robbery of the Postoffice at San
Buenaventura were discharged" The
Postmistress, Jennie Goodwin, writes
"The San Buenaventura Postoffics has not
been robbed during my administration, nor
do intend it shall be"
A man at Boise, l. T., proposes that if
he is given the exclusive right to sell spirit
uous liquors in that town he will agree to
| pay the indebtedness of the city and school
district, and forever keep up first-class
public school sufficient to educate all the
children, pay good liberal salary to every
preacher for every church in the city and
build new church every five years.
The Virginia City New Chronicle says
George P. McConkey's death is now shown
to have been case of suicide. He was a
defaulter, having made way with Sll, COO
of White Pine county funds. McConksy
was found dead with bullet hole in his
head, lying beside an open safe in his office
at Hamilton, New, recently. He was the
County Treasurer, and also agent for Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Express.
Tom Dsvine, the bad man from Truckee,
who was sent by Judge Blakey last week
for four months because he exhibited
deadly weapon in a rude ard threatening
manner, escaped from the County Jail at
Nevada City, last Thursday morning and
cannot be found. Janitor McCauley had
him in the jail-yard at work, as is permit
ted by recent order of the Board of Su-
pervisors. McCauley stepped into the
Courthouse for a moment when Devine
quietly slipped out of the back gate and
left for parts unknown.
German Brock, who was shot in Oak.
land on Monday last, has revived little
from his former condition, though still
unconscious. The bullet passed directly
through the right and left hemispheres Of
the brain. His right side is entirely par
alyzed. His left arm and hand tyitch
constantly from nervous movement. There
has been partial reaction and restoration of
the vital forces since midnight of Monday.
Mr.. Brook is tended constantly by his wife
and other members OF the family At 10
o'clock Wednesday night Arthur Brook,
the SOD, who is wounded in the arm, was
taken from his cell in the City Prison, and,
escorted by Captain Pumyea and Detective
Fuller, visited his father in the Receiving
Hospital. He leaned over the unconscious
form of his father and tenderly kissed the
parted lips. He held his fathers hand for
some minutes and asked his mother many
questions concerning the condition of his
father, the chances of his recovery, if any,
and other queries. The boy was watched
closely during the interview, but exhibited
nothing more than the consideration that
might be expected of son. The boy
knows that he is suspected of having com.
mitted the crime, but stoutly reasserts his
first story that the shooting was done by
one OF two masked men who entered the
house by the kitchen door. Those who
live near the house occupied by Mr.. Brook
aud his son, did not see any strangers en-
ter or leave the house on the afternoon of
the shooting. Two ladies who were in the
house adjoining on the south, saw through
wide cracks in the fence a middle
aged man, supposed to be young Brook,
pass from the kitchen door into the var
and thence by the side of the house to the
street, after the shooting occurred.