Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-08
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Chico has not an idle mechanic.
Marvsv;Ila w.nts ha+ta- ao,ro

Marysville wants better sewage,
Newpors's apple crop will be the largest
ever grown there.
Luis E. Ortiz was inaugurated Governor
OF Sonora On Saturday afternoon.
It is stated that another of the ostriches
kicked lts mate to death last week.
Cotton is pleased at the thought that it
may reach distinction as manufacturing
town.
Marshal Batkin has been taking testi.
mony at Helena, NJ. T., to contest Martin
Maginnis' election to Congress.
A Ladies' Fair for the benefit of the new
catholic Church at Spanishtown, will com.
mence on the 18Th and Last three days.
There ia no town in California that has
90 many tina stone walks, IN proportion to
lts sIze, as Woodland, go says the Mail.
An East Los Angeles groceryman, in
trying To control 2 fractions dOrse the
other day, bad a thumb bitten from his
hand.
A Coroner's jury has decided that Che
shooting OF Kieber By Charles Besseker,
editor of the Walla Waila wv. t. Watch-
man, was jusafiable.
A fine deposit of sulphur in almost a
pure state has been recently discovered by
Major Williams upon his ranch at Ortega
Hill, about five miles east of Santa Bar.
bara.
The offer Of Frank Kimball, of San
Diego, to give 1000 acres of land to any
one who would put 500 of them in grape
vines, hsa been accepted by Arpad Ha
raszthy.
One of the prizes offered at the Santa
barbara Fair ID $40 to q couple who will
get married on the fair grounds, the Agri-
cultural Society to furnish the preacher and
pay his fee.
The Kooteusi Indians are said to be pan.
ming out about $500 month in gold duet
at Sand Point, I, T. They refuse to reveal
where they Obtain their liberal supply oi
the wherewith.
Frank Hernandez, young Spaniard,
who, it is said. married rich widow named
Arguello, of Santa Clara, for her money,
bas absconded, taking with MIN some
So, 900 of his wife's money.
Under she direction Of Fish Commits
sioHer Dibbls 5000 young trout were
planted last week in the clear water trib-
utaries Of the South Yuba river. These
little fellows will make good food fish in
two years.
The Elko (Nev.) Reviel0 says During
the last trip bu5 one from Elko mare in
Br. Yates team gave birth to twin colts,
one horse and the otbsr a mule. Last
Saturday when 5he team was here again
the colts were elcng. and both were being
sucked by the mother.
1t is the expressed belief of some citi-
Zsns of Placerville that James Page died
before he was hanged. He was evidently
weakening whsl he called for VIA sky, Of.
ter which he was seen TO lean heavily upon
mis- supporters, uor was the least struggle
or motion noticed when no was suspended.
Modoc county does not need to import
mules from DlisFouri. Lsst Monday John
Wheeler, OF Lookout, drove in and
weighed cne of his mules four-year-old,
which tipped the beam at 1920. The ami
NAL is eolored sorFel, snd is beauty, al
though in coor flesh. Good judges say he
viii weigh over ], 500 in years time
lAdin Argus.
Colonel Ilges' friends in Montana are in,
digns1t over the statement that he de-
serted his wife and family in Prussia. He
came 80 this country a boy, joined the
army, never was married, and is support.
ing in Germany . white child that he res.
cned from the Apaches by very gallant
action in 1867, the child's parents having
been massacred two years before.
The Union Pacific Company are now
making q preliminary survey for branch
narrow. gauge from Bear Canyon, on the
Utah Northern Railway, to the western
boundary of the National Park. The
grade will be easy, and the distance will
be about ssvsnty-fve miles from Bear
Canyon. All surveys will be completed
this fall The work will be finished in
time to secure tourist travel next season.
Undoubtedly the largest tree ever felled
IN the mountains, says the Chico Record.
was Friday cut and hauled to Barney
Cusick's Arcade mill, Chico Meadows. At
least all lunbermen say it was toe largest
they ever ssw in these parts. The tree
measured seventy-two inches at the small
or top end. Il scaled over -, 600 feet.
Four sixteen-fost logs were cut from it.
The mill boys had big picnic over the
event.
One of the bsauties of the telegraph busi-
ness, says the Woodland Mail, was appar-
ent IN the attempt upon the part Of the
authorities here TO arrest the fourth man
in the case of the burglary at the Landing.
Three days from tho time OF the sending
the dispatch from here it was delivered in
San Francisco Two of those days the
man was constantly in sight, and the third
day he had disappeared. In other words,
he had got the news before the officer.
The editor of the Hawthorne (Nev
Bulletin, who seems to be authority on
sach matters, says that Piuses burn old
shoes over the graves of their dead, in
order to give good luck TO the departed
soul as it wings its rapid fight to the pine
nut grounds on the eternal reservation.
This is beautiful custom, and it could be
practiced with profit by the whites, The
demand for burnt offerings would assist in
ridding the average back yard and alley OF
old shoes.
The Shasta Courier is responsible for
the following joke on the Democrats A
'straighs-out Democrat in town this
week gave il as mis- opinion that the Con-
clave in session ST San Francisco was moth.
ing but "a d-n Black Republican Union
League in disguise" why, thar's George
Perkins isooa order against any Knight
goiu' ter a ssrloon an takin' drink with
his unicorn on just as though any Dem.
erkrat would berIong ter sny serciety that
made it neo'sry ter undress before takin'
liker."
Mrs. c. d. Miller, who resides below
French Corral, Nevada county, had mar
row escape from being bit by q rattlesnake
on August 26th. She went 20 tank on
the premises to get drink of water. The
dipper being gone she undertook 90 drink
from the tank, and in doing so put her
head within SIX inches of the mouth of a
vsnomous rastlesnake, which lay ooiled
st the tank. Nothing Gaunted, she soon
obtained q weapon. and With it put an end
TO his rnakeship which, ON being opsnsd,
was found to contain fuli-sizsd rat.
Piute Bob, al Indi9n now in the State
Prison, ssys the Eureka New Sentinel,
illustrates in his person the prscticahility
of scucsang She native American of this
coast. When he went there be had never
looked into book, but upon being given a
chance TO learn mastered the alphabet IN
two days, and week later was able to
read and understand short sentences. a
day or two ago Deputy Warden Coulter
said to him d" Bob, noB that you kaow
how Co read, you must learn to write.