Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-18
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS,
Chico wants water from the foothills.

Chico wants water from the foothills.
San Diego wants United States santa.
rum.
solano county'a floating debt is to be re-
funded.
Pomona, Los Angeles county, is having
a building boom.
Nearly all the Napa ranOhers announce a
better yield of grain than was expected.
The school children in Woodland dis
trict, Yoio county, are 100 in excess of last
year.
Nelson Brooks, pedagogue, has been
fined 800 for brutality whipping scholar
at Klikitat, W. T.
1t is estimated the Santa Clara county
assessment this year will be 81, 500, 900 in
excess of last year.
The wedding out of Mare Island fcremen
continues. Four have been removed and
more removals are to follow.
The Record says narrow. gauge railroad
will be built from Chico to the Big Mead
ows before the close of the year 1884.
In Goodwin Canyon, near Eureka, New,
James Evans beat his wife nearly to death
a few days ago and then broke tumbler
over her head.
The child that lost it's fingers in Sonora.
town, Los Angeles county, the other day
by the bite OF a rat, has since died, proba'
bly, from the poison.
The Kern County Californian says that
j. B. Haggin's experiments have demon
strated that cotton can be grown there
with marked success.
1t is positively known that twelve men
have been murdered by the Apaches in the
neighborhood of Oposura since Crook took
their families from the Sierra Madres.
Owing to scarcity OF harvest hands at
Genoa, New, Indians are being pressed
into service. They are paid 81 TO 81 80 a
day, and some of them are said to be good
workers.
William Weber, County Commissioner,
Virginia City. was seized with hemcrrhage
at 8 o'clock Friday night and died in ten
minutes. He was native of Prussia,
aged 50 years.
Cary Pesbleg, pioneer of lS49, and one
of the best known citizens of Santa Clara
county, died at his residence in Santa
Clara on Friday, aged Is years. He leaves
large property.
The Mussel Slough country, strip of
land about fifteen miles long and eight
wide, it is said will turn out eight hundred
thousand bushels of wheat-about forty
bushels to the acre.
The people of San Bernardino are about
to construct an immense reservoir in Bear
valley, by building monster dam across
Bear valley canyon, 60 be of masonry 100
feet long and As feet high.
1t is reported in Truckee that a squaw
died in childbirth near the town last week,
and the motherof the woman choked the in
FAINT to death, saying that it would be too
much bother to raise the brat.
4 man near La Porte, Plumas county,
the other day set a gun for bears, and
thoughtlessly stepped in front of it, when
it exploded. The man lived long enough
to give an account of the accident.
ga long-legged Junk" is what the
Fresno Republican calls an unsophisticsted
young man who got away with about ST.
600 of the money Of some Of Fresno's
worthy citizens in game Of draw poker.
a peach tree on the farm of William
Overield, in South Auburn, which has
heretofore borne very fine peaches, stands
near several plum trees, and, it is said, this
year hangs full of plums. The peach and
plum trees were in blossom at the same
time.
A few weeks ago Rev. Mr.. Roberts had
fourteen Chinese scholars diligently study
ing the inbricacies of the American Ian
puage. Rut one NIGHT a Chinaman an.
peared at the school and harangued the as.
sembled scholars in their own tongue,
since which time but two or three have ap-
peared at the school. Il Anaheim Gazette.
On Sunday, at his residence in Oroville,
s. S. Boynton, editor of the Register was
stung by some kind of poisonous insect,
to be scorpion. He was sud-
denly taken i'll with intense pains in the
region of the kidneys, and the services of
a doctor were called. All Sunday night he
suffered, but was much improved the next
day.
The Greenvilie Bulletin says The
Washoe and Digger Indians are having
trouble in the mountains, and there may
be bloodshed. The Diggers are trying to
get their old enemies to give up fourteen of
their dead warriors, who were slain in bat.
tie several years since, but the Washoes
will not accept any terms. The Washoes
want the sum of $40 for each body re-
but the Diggers say they will fight
before they will give even 40 cents.