Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-18
PACIFIC COAST 1rEMs.

An effort is being made to open new
banking house in Stockton.
Watt Park, near Grass Valley, was ded-
icated this week by grand ball by night.
Work upon the Yaquina, Or, Railroad
was suspended on Saturday, the 4th inst.
Parties go from The Dalles, Or, to visit
the celebrated ice cave near Mt. Adams, in
Washington Territory.
The Concow valley is fast filing up with
campers, most of them being rsnchersfrom
Colusa and the Sacramento river.
a well ninety feet deep hss been sunk in
the Court house square, on the north SIDE
striking vein of pure, soft water, at
Stockton.
Los Angeles has now three regular daily
newspapers, one daily advertising sheet,
nine weekly papers, and two monthly; to-
tai, fifteen.
The track of the Carson and Colorado
Railroad is now finished and regular trains
are running to Hawthorne, says the Web
Der Lake Bulletin.
A young lady of Grass Valley has just
completed piece Of patchwork. 1t is a
silk bedquilt containing 800 separate
pieces, in elegant designs,
a large delegation of children from the
San Juan Orphan Asylum visited Camp
Goodall one day last week, and spent the
day there very pleasantly.
The Navajo Indians will have a wool
clip this year of SOC, 600 pounds. The.
hides and pelts that they will handle will
amount to about GOO, 600 pounds.
Grain in Sonoma is turning out much
better than expected, some fields yielding
forty bushels to the acre, come thirty
seven, and none less than fifteen.
The Boys and Girls Aid Society Of San
Frsucisco will furnish children for adoption,
or for indenture or wage service, TO persons
applying with satisfactory Endorsement.
They have adopted q new plan at Eureka,
New, to rid themselves of corrupt officials
they pay them something TO leave the
country, in order to supply their places
with better men.
Fruit enough to fill about ssventy-fve
Messrs. Bishop, Floyd and Presho near
Lexington, by some enterprising thief dur
ing one night this week.
Several fearful accidents TO men working
on thrashing machines are reported from
different parts of the State this season,
generally caused by csrelessness on the
part of the persons injured.
Railroad carpenters are at work on a
passenger station-house at San Lorenzo. II
will contain ticket and telegraph office,
waiting-room aud other necessary apart
ments, and be separate from the freight
house.
On Sunday last Chinaman was de-
tected stealing amalgam from the sluices of
the Eureka Lake Company, at Columbia
Hill. He was armed with an English bull
dog pistol, and attempted to use it when
arrested.
The great need of California fruit coun-
ties ia more continuous labor for married
men, so that families will settle in them
on whom orchard and vineyard men can
call when the crop has to be gathered, ssys
the lone Echo.
Fred Kuhnle. of Petaluma, will be one
of the team in the inter State rifle match
between California and Nevada to come
off at Carson City, Nsv., on the 18th of
September. Mr.. Kuhnle will be home the
latter part Of this month.
Says the Suffer Farmer Another har-
vest is almost over, and our farmers should
feel thankful, as they are blest with crop
which is at least sufficient to give them en-
couragement, and secure reasonable de-
gree Of happiness and comfort.
The Lodi Regulators held meeting on
Tuesday for the avowed purpose Of making
2 raid on the keepers of disorderly houses,
and on the bad characters who infest that
town, and forcing them to leave. The
vigilantes dispersed without reaching de-
fined plan OF action.
Lovelcck, New, has been settled for at
least twelve yesrs, but no clergyman has
ever held religious services there until two
weeks ago, when Rev. c. 3. Hatch, Bap-
tist minister Of Reno, went there on invi-
tation and held service, which was attended
by settlers for many miles around.
Officials and others In the confidence Of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
state that the company propose building a
passenger depot of brick at Seattle, w. T.,
1000 feet long and costing rot less than
1000, 900, just as soon as a suitable place
can be secured on favorable terms.
The Farmers United Warehouse Com
pany has formed for the purpose of erect
ing warehouses for the storage OF grain and
for carrying on general business in buy
ing and selling grain and dealing in all
kinds of agricultural implements. The
place of business is to be at Clements. San
Joaquin county.
DR.. W. H. King came upon large rat
tlesnake, near the junction of Yerba Buena
and Alum Rock rocks, Santa Clara
county, and descending from his buggy
killed it with his whip. The reptile
measured in length three feet four inches.
and has ten rattles, indicating that its age
is about twelve years.
a ma from the country sold horse in
Stockton recently to Euinger. the express.
man, which was found TO have the plan
ders. The nostrils Of the horse hsd been
plugged by pieces of sponge, and deceived
the purchaser as to the animals health
The man from the country was made to
disgorge, and the horse was hurried out Of
Stockton.
The Portland OR Standard warns peo-
pie that 1t would be foolish to come there
in search of work. It says there are scores
of men there seeking in vain for employ.
ment. Ii a man is prepared to hire out as
a laborer on farm or railroad he runs no
great risk, but the man who leaves home
with just money enough to take him to
Oregon, makes serious mistake.
Speaking of the recent tragedy in Chico.
the Colusa Sun says "The sympathy of
the community at Chico is with the girl.
and rightly perhaps. It is hard enough.
God knows, for poor girl to retrieve a
false step, and when one is about to do II
one who deceiyes her at that time deserves
nothing but death. And che was willing
to go, too Murder cannot be condoued.
but there is an unwritten law by which a
woman, at times, may become the aveneer
OF her own wrongs"
a Bodie saloon keeper has applied to the
Superior Judge of that county for an in
junction restraining the tax collector from
collecting licenses for the sale of liquors in
that county. The petition AYERS that the
order Of the Board of Supervisors, levving
liquor license, is in violation of article s
OF the Constitution, which tsys that all
laws of the United States shall be supreme
laws OF the land, and must be so recognized
BY every State Judge; that the petitioner
has paid to the United States Government
the sum of $25 for q license to sell malt
and spurious liquors in Mono countv for
one year from the first of May last and
that the county has no legal right 10 tai
them for the same business.