Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-18
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

A Commandery of knights Templar was
organized in Woodland on Saturday even.
ing last.
Cock fighting every evening in the week
is one of the attractions of saloon at Vir.
ginia City.
The smallpox at Red Bluff has driven
all the dead beats, petty thieves, bummers
and sidewalk DRINKS out of town.
At Grass Valley the price of gas has been
reduced from S7sto Sc per 900 cubic feet.
The Nevada City company charges &c.
1t has been whispered in the ear of the
Bieber Tribune, by one who is not partial
to card playing, that it requires two packs
to play game pack of cards and a
pack of fools.
Two young ladies of Chico, Misses Nora
Peck and Addie Allen, have .empted
each one hundred and sixty acres of land
in section 2S, township "a, in the foothills
of Tehama county on Pine creek.
Woodland is erecting hotel, says the
Democrat, that for style of architecture,
excellence CT construction and amount of
capital invested, will be in advance of any,
thing heretofore attempted in Yolo county"
The Olympia wv. IT, Courier says /:
Building and repairing are going on to such
an extent in Olympia that carpenters can
scarcely meet their engagements, and it is
even more difficult to obtain the needed
lumber.
The Petaluma Courier of Wednesday,
says: Mrs. Aaron Bradley, of Marin
county, brought to this office yesterday a
hens egg that measured eggsactly 81
inches around the middle by II inches
lengthwise.
The boss turnip is now to be seen at the
Seattle, w. T., Herald office. Its weight
is forty.seven pounds and was raised on
dyked land, being portion of Mr.. Oser's
land, Marysville, at the mouth of the Sno.
homish river. 1t is q rutabaga.
Several old and supposed. to.be worked.
out mining camps in Nevada have lately
come to the front. Conspicuous among
them are Tuscarora, Austin, Como, Jeffer.
son and Ophir Canyon, which are now ex-
ceeding their palmiest days in bullion pro-
ductien.
A serious accident befell Wilson & Co. g
sawmill machinery. seven miles south of
Prescott, A. T., on Monday. Some gentle.
men were telling tree near the mill site.
when it slanted around and fell upon parts
of the mill, damaging the same to the
amount of $1,000.
An Epglish company, of which Joseph
Perrault, of Boise City, I. T., is .he bust.
ness manager, has bought the principal
business portion Of Weiser City, paying
therefor 81, 200, and in the spring the com
pany will build seven or eight brick build.
ings for business purposes.
Captain Meyer, of the steamship Will.
annette, shot white seal the other day
from the deck of his vessel, while lying at
the coal wharf at Seattle, w. 7. The seal
was asleep upon the surface of the water,
and after being shot foated around for o
time and then sunk out of sight.
Mrs. Selena Wilder, wife of S. R. Wild.
err, of Grass Valley, died on last Sunday
night. after being in failing health nearly
two yesrs. Mrs. Wilder, whose maiden
name was Bice, had the distinction OF be.
ing the first white child born in Grass VAL
ley, her birth taking place on the 18th of
August, 1858.
Farming must pay in Douglas county,
W. T. A short time ago James Cheno-
weth sold his place near Oakland to James
r. Dodge for the sum of SIC, 0OO Mr..
Dodge has since rented him the same
place, together with his Green Valley
farm, for the term of FIVE years, for the
sum of $4,000.
Down in Salinas, the young ladies have
organized themselves into an order, the
avowed purpose of which is to break up
the pernicious habits of cigarette smoking
and tobacco chewing among the young
men. The society is purely feminine, and
none of the sterner sex are allowed 20 at.
tend any of it's meetings, which are held
in secret.