Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-04
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

NUpa has fifteen social organizations.
Business is improving at Portland, Or.
Spokane Falls, w T., is putting in
wa,er-worlls.
Mountain sheep afford fine sport to hunt
erS near ketchum, !. +.
Nevada is agitating the project of a Con-
stitutional Convention.
Custer county, NJ. T., boasts of creek
named Hanging Woman.
Owners of dogs are giving the Pound
master of San jose trouble
AT Ainsworth, w. T., it is necessary to
guard the town against ncendiaries.
Nine dogs and cat fell victims TO an
unknown dog-poisoner in Gilroy one night
last week.
The Ketchum, /. T., Keystone has changed
ownership, George J. Lewis selling out to
Col G. Clowson.
The annual agricultural exhibition at
Victoria, b. c., is successful i'll exhibits
and attendance.
J. W. Wilson and Warren Mounts have
been arrested az Dayton, w. T., charged
with incendiarsm.
Cotton-picl,ing is now in progress in
Kern county. 1t is said the yield is better
than III former years.
A six weeks old calf killed q predatory
coyote the other day on g ranch in Hermit
alley, Alpine county.
About forty head OF sheep were poisoned
on Big creek, Union county, Or, last week
by some unknown person.
The Gilroy Record says; William Wall
picked from one tree twenty-tour boxes OF
pears, which sold at 81 % box.
| The taxable property in Sonoma county
E. 1 i,a ~ ari -
{ seventh il point of assessed wealth in the
State.
The st. Helena Times says that the value
of the hop crop which has Just been gath
cred in that vicinity is fully $4,000. The
! labor of the several hundred pickers is now
about completed.
| The Tucson Stdr charges that buck in
the San Carlos guard-house was heartlessly
shot by guard the other day, and also says
| there is evidence of u laXityin the manage
ment Of the prison.
| The old Indictment against John w.
Young, son of Brigham, the prophet for
polygamy, has been brought up in the
| District Court at Salt Lake, and next Sat
urday set for arraignment.
| Ten miles more of the Nevada and Ore
gon Railroad are TO be constructed imme-
dately. The contracts have been let to
Knox & Holmes, the section to be COM
pleted by December 1st.
! At the PIumas County Fair is exhibited
a jar of peaches borne this year by the p;o-
| neer peach tree of that county, planted in
! 1854 the seed being taken from u branded
peach brought over the plains.
Reports from Hamilton, New, continue
to give fiattering accoupts of the develop
ments in the Stafford mine. and the people
think the old town will once more be the
center OF mining enterprise and activity.
Nevada sage-hens are large and fat this
season. \ sportsman killed a number the
other day several of which weighed seven
pounds each and others reached five pounds.
which is very large for this species of
game.
Harry Bernard, who Shot and killed John
Euright at Eagle City, in the Cnur d'Alene
District, has been sentenced 10 eight years
Imprisonment. Enright was printer, well
known in Portland, Or and Bernard was
his employer.
Some of the tramps have worked so
faithfully ON the streets in Santa Cruz that
the superintendent intends to hire them
to continue in the good work when their
terms of sentence expire. The question
what shall we do with our tramps?" is
practically answered in Santa Cruz
Thomas Carver prominent merchant of
Riverside, went out with a man named
Russell prospecting i'll the desert near Dos
Paimas. They separated, agreeing to meet
at Q point well known TO both. Russell
arrived safely, but nothing has been heard
of Carver, who is supposed to have per-
ished
Jack Harvey, q pioneer who came to Call
ifornia with Stevenson's regiment, died at
the Calayeras County Hospital a few days
ago of a gunshot wound in the neck, nearly
severing the windpipe. He said he was
shot accidentally by some Indians in the
woods; some persons believe he did it
himself.
Bathe,s at San Bernardino have TO be
careful. A gentleman was going into the
water the other day. when ne stepped on
stingaree, and the fish buried about one
inch of its ugly-iooking sting in his foot,
the point striking the bone and iniiicting
an injury from which he will be some time
III recovering.
In boring an artesian we'll near Windsor,
Sonoma county, at depth of sixty feet
bed OF blue clay was struck One hundred
feet in the clay a stratum of wood ten feet
in depth was encountered, and underneath
this wood pieces of bone of a good-sized
animal were brought up with the auger a
depth Of one hundred and seventy feet from
the surface
Tommy Hynes, a little boy residing on
Third and Linden streets, Oakland, will
probably lose the sight OF his right eye,
owing TO the explosion of a shotgun cart
ridge Il pellet from which struck him there
when it was exploded by some OF the boys
of the neighborhood by being thrown into
a small bonfire, which they had lit for their
own amusement and his.