Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-13
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

u lhAES uAAitDSl VI Ll0SASS4eOo WILL EO
to San Francisco this month to witness the
meeting of the Conclave.
A swimming match at Laguna last week
was Won by Robert Simpson, OF Santa Ana
800 yarus in eleven minutes.
At some places on Lake Tahoe trout
have about stopped biting the mosquitoes,
however, have just fairly commenced.
A lot of juveniles in Colusa have turned
burned cork artists, and have given per.
Torrance. Some Of the boys are quite
small.
Anoticeable feature in the present salmon
season is the large size of the FISH, not alone
during the great run OF July, but through
the season.
a party of Santa Anaians counted fifty
six tarantulss while travelling . distance of
two miles on the San joaquin ranch last
Wednesday.
A chicken was killed the other day at
Nevada City in the craw of which was
found lopg.los5 and frequently. searched
for silver thimble.
A harvest hand known as "German Ed "
committed suicide at Walla Walla, w. T.,
by hanging himself at Adams ranch, in
Eureka Flats. 1t is thought he was in
sane.
A young grouse came to ranch in Scott
| Valley and has attached itself to brood
of young chickens, feeding and roosting
with them, and in every way feeling do
mesticated.
Unknown parties have been exploding
giant powder il Napa river, in the vicinity
of the foot bridge at the foot of Hudson
street, st. Helena, and killing large num-
bers of fish.
a PaDagsfndian averages sixteen inches in
length. The toes are widespread, with
from quarters to an inch and half
space between each toe.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Cotton, widow of the late
General David D. Cotton, has built hand
some schoolhouse at Cotton, San Bernardo
no county, and presented it to the town.
The place was named after the General.
Weather shsrps in Butte county are pre-
dieting an early winter. Wild geese have
already made their appearance from the
north, and several have been killed in the
vicinity of OroYille within the last few
days.
The Yuba county Board of Supervisors
have passed the necessary order making
the Yuba river bridge free after January 9,
1854. There has been considerable local
opposition in various parts of the county to
the proposition.
1t is thought by many that as Willard
owns the North Pacific Railroad, operating
in Sonoma county, and other small systems
in this State, he proposes making connec-
ton with Oregon by railroad of his own
running down the coast.
The grasshopper pest in Sierra valley
seems to have about run its course, no Sc
rious complaint having been heard from
any of the rsnchers in that part of the
State. a few ranches have been devastated,
but generally comparatively little harm has
been done by hoppers this year.
Mr.. Baker, in Los Angeles county. had
fine flowing well of artesian water, but
some rascal put charge of dynamite down
in the tube and exploded it, leaving moth
ing but muddy, stagnsnt pool of water
where column of pure water was fur
nisAed to man, beast and vegetable nature.
81 understand your young friend is 60
ing to get married in short time, re.
marked Bodieite to his companion re.
Gently. eyes, he's going off. :" "What
are his resources ?" added the first speaker.
"Well, he has more facilities for starving
wife to death than any man l know Of, "
was the hard, cold reply.
The Board of Supervisors OF Sonoma are
considering the petition for the removal of
the county seat. It has been an exciting
contest, every motion of the petitioners
having been ruled against. A motion to
withdraw the petition, made by Allen, of
Petaluma, was lost 1t is stated that 296
names out Of the 2, 604 on the petition are
net qualified electors.
A meeting of the Miners Union at Vir.
ginia City, New, was held Tuesday to con-
slider the wholesale discharge of the men
in tie Norcross mine. The miners say
they do not blame any company for dis.
charging men who give or sell information
to spectators, but they strongly object to
furnishing thirty or forty innocent men for
the ofense of perhaps only one guilty per-
son.
Emmett Brannon, the boy who had his
skull crushed some time ago by a kick
from horse, says the Virginia New
Chronicle, is able to be around, and the
wound is rapidly healing. The doctors
consider this one of the most remarkable
cases on record. The boy at first was
thought to be fatally injured, and it was
found necessary to remove about twelve
square inches OF his skull. A curious
feature Of the injury is thas for about ten
days after the accident he was cross-eyed
the result of the injury to his brain-and
cav two objects where in reality there was
only one. His eyes have now resumed
their normal condition, however.
A large sycamore tree has fallen on the
Chico end of the Butte creek bridge, break
ing in the roof considerably, but doing no
serious damage On the other side work
has been begun preparatory to putting on
the extension to the bridge which the
extension to the Stanford levee renders
necessary. From the end of the bridge a
wagon way is being graded out to one side,
so that teams can pass around while the
bridge is being extended. Huge redwood
sills are already on the spot, but the work
Of building has not yet begun. The levee
builders are ct work at the lower end Of
the levee, and will soon be ready to turn
in the water, at point few hundred feet
below the bridge.
The Suffer County Land Company, notice
Of whose incorporation recently appeared In
these columns, is. says the MaIysville Appeal,
an association of San Francisco capitalists.
The company hss purchased 5000 acres OF
overlooked land in Suffer county from Parks
Brothers This lard is contiguous to Lavee
District No. l. and will be Enclosed with a
levee. The company intends to mako its
levee connect with The levees OF private own
ers in that locality, 70 that the whole extent
OF the land iuciossd will lie about 10000
ceres. The soil is OF great richness, and of
the best in Suffer county. The eoInpany's
tract is situated st Suffer Station, on the line
of the old California Pacific Railroad. The
land will be for sale or rent in lots TO suit
purchasers or lesseeE. Work has already
bsen begun on the levee, and it viii be com
pleeed this fsll.
SINGULAR CAsE.-An Auburn placer
eountvl nhvsician ia authority for the fol-