Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Anaheim has l65 pupils IN attendance at
the public schools.
The young men of Colusa are organizing
a militia company.
1t cost Seattle, W. T., $4,000 for the
Willard celebration.
Three bicyclists from Laramie reached
Salt Lake Saturday.
Property valuations at Virginia, New,
show large decrease.
The Times wants the office of the Re-
corder of San Bernardino looked into.
A white squirrel with pink eyes was
killed in Putah canyon, Sonoma, the other
day.
The Navy Yard at Vallejo has larger
number OF men employed now than for
years.
DR.. James Keck, well. known physi-
clan of East Portland, Or, died Saturday
of diphtheria.
Vallejo has a water famine. Lake Chabot
has gone dry, and artesian wells are being
sunk by many inhabitants.
San Bernardino is moving for the col
lection of the dog tax. The peace of the
town is disturbed by worthless ours.
A man from St. Louis arrived at Salt
Lake Tuesday, having pushed handcar
the entire distance. His destination is San
! Francisco.
Colusa county is making new, if not
prodigious, efforts to turn the Sacramento
river upon the foothills, go rs to food 240.
600 acres of land.
There is yet.one mile and half of track
to lay before the standard. gauge railroad is
completed from Puyallup to Black river
bridge, ten miles from Seattle, W.T..
The stockholders of the Stockton Build.
ing and Loan Association met at Stockton,
and decided to make no more loans, but to
realize on the assets and disincorporate.
The half consumed bodies of two China.
men were found in the ruins of hut at
Lytton, B. c.. One body was cut with an
AK. The hut was burned to conceal the
crime.
Picking grapes for raisins was com.
menced Tuesday throughout the Santa
Aua valley. 1t is estimated that there will
be about 80, 600 boxes of raisins made there
| this season.
A young son of J. W. Williams, ex-Mem-
Der of Parliament, was killed at Victoria,
B. c., Thursday, while racing on horseback
with another boy. Williams fell from his
horse and the other boy rode over him.
A man at Sonoma named Ewen has been
placed under bonds for severely horse
whipping his old father, whose team he had
borrowed and was misusiDg. The old
gentleman became one of the sons bonds
men.
c. Holwig, a one. armed German at Ne
vada City, has been putting croton oil on
the grapes in his vineyard, which hang
temptingly near the fence. and several peo
pie have unsuspectingly found themselves
doctored.
Two horses bitten by rsttlesnakes at
Billings, Mont, have been cured by pune
turing the skin around the wound enough
| to make the blood flow, and applying soda
| literally, renewing the application from
time to time, and alternating it with am
monia.
A French sailor died in San Diego some
time ago, and on his breast was an ingeni-
GUS tatooed illustration of the crucifxion.
The skin, about twelve inches square, was
cut from the body, sent to San Francisco,
tanned, and is now on exhibition in San
Diego.
No trace can be found of Peter Cronvil's
wealth, whioh was buried in a place known
only to himself. He died suddenly at Vic.
toria, B. c., without revealing its hiding
place. Thursday night burglars entered
his store to hunt for the hidden wealth,
and were driven away by the watchman on
guard.
Charles Martell, of Vacaville, raised this
year on two acres of ground twenty tons of
Tokay grapes, for which he received on the
ranch SS5 per ten, making the two acres
yield him gross income of $l,700. The
cost of plowing, pruning, suckering, sui
phuring and picking will not exceed Sl5
per acre.
The case OF the Los Alamos land grant,
pending gbefore Surveyor General Robbins at
Tucson, a. T., for some time, has been de-
cided by thst officer favorable to the claim
ant, George Hill Howard, This grant was
made by the Governor of Sonora in 1852,
and comprises ten square leagues of land
in Pima county, lying along the San Pedro
river.
The Auburn Argus says that the Digger
Indians predict severe winter and plenty |
of red breasted robins, because the crop of
manzani.a berries has been unusually large. !
The Wsshoe Indians in this section pre-.
dict light winter on account of the failure |
of the pine,nut crop. The average Lo is
not half as good weather prophet as ne
is a poker sharp.
In long letter to the Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce of Astoria, Or, |
President Willard states that the company
he represents cannot undertake the con-
struction of railroad from Portland to |
Astoria. He therefore announces that |
the project will be abandoned. This an
nouncement will be severe blow to the |
hopes of Astoria.
The REooRD-UN published q special
dispatch some time ago, which stated that
Mrs. Sally Gilpatrick had died and left an
estate worth SIS, 900 in Pittstou, Me-, and |
an only brother, supposed to be dead, who |
had years ago gone to California, was the
chief heir Warren Plummer, of Downie-
vile, is the missing brother, and he has
gone East to administer on the estate.
There is one physician in the town of
Woodland that understands the whole |
theory of the practice of medicine. and |
knows how to properly diagnose 3 case. |
Being applied to by a gentleman. the top
of whose head was getting like some of |
our mountains, ABOVE bne tllDer me, lor q |
prescription to prevent his hair from COM
ing out, he advised him "to handcuff his |
wife,"
A gentleman riding along the beach
picked up fish which is stranger to our
waters. As near as it can be described, it |
was about two feet long, of a reddish hue.
and with fins projecting from the tail. A
sheath.like covering protects its head, and,
instead of mouth or nose, numberless
long strips of flesh with suckers under
meath project therefrom.-[Santa Cruz
Surf.
a serious affray occurred in the prison.
yard at San Quentin Monday morning be-
tween Brutner, an ex-guard, and Sharp, |
a new appointee. 1t seems that while
Sharp was in front of Fulton G. Berrys
house, Brutner came up behind him and
dealt him blow on the head with ham,
mer, which dazed him. Recovering, the
latter wrested the hammer from Brutner
and retsliated by dealing him several
blows, and was only prevented from kill
ing him outright by help arriving. The
affair was the result of Brutner's discharge. |
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