Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-13
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The Portland Mechanics Fair will open
on the Sth of October
Stanislaus county assessment this year
shows decrease of s., 000,0 600
The death rate of Los Angeles for the past
month was less than one in 1000
Two large cinnamon bears were trapped
and killed near Amador last week.
Rev. ]. G.. Peters, reported lost on.Mount
Hood, Or, has turned up all right.
Homegrown -four sells in the Salt River
valley, A. T., at 8 % per 100 pounds.
In San Diego county last month Is, 500
acres of Government land were taken up.
Santa Cruz was so crowded on the Fourth
that some visitors had to sleep in hay
wagons.
The grasshopper scare in Los Angeles
county has died out. But little damage
was done.
The water in the ttlle region of Solano is
very low, and many fish are found dead on
the banks.
A calf was born last week near Redding,
Shasta county, that had only two legs. 1t
is still living.
There are numerous places in Los Ange-
les county where abundant supplies of nat
ural gas are found.
The Reno Gazette says that the Washoe
County Jail is pestilence- breeding tank
that needs attention.
Ranches in the Buena Vista valley, New,
are ovcrrun by thousands of rabbits, which
eat every green thing.
A painful of dirt taken from under a
sidewalk at Santa Rosa last Monday washed
out $50 worth of gold dust.
On Monday, August 10th, Chico will have
an election to decide the question of raising
$4,000 for sewerage system.
Nearly 5000 head of cattle were recently
collected in the general rodeo in Goose
Lake valley, near Lakeview, Or.
The payrolls of the Comstock mines dur
ing the month of June was $4,000 in ex-
cess of the amount paid in May.
A man claiming to be a cousin of the de-
ceased millionaire Briswalter has turned
up in Los Angeles and talks of contesting
the will.
The total assessment of Kern county,
exclusive of the property owned by the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, is
s., 270,6S4.
During the quarter ending July 9Th 19s
arrests were made in Marysville The sum
of 1911 so was collected for fines and for
feited bail.
have recently been surveyed and cut up
| into town lots and all found ready sale at
good prices.
The charitable citizens of Stockton have
been imposed upon by two Young men,
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tales of distress.
The Chinese who were driven from
Eureka, Humboldt county, some time
since, are gradually returning and resum-
ing their old places.
The Board of Supervisors of Napa county
have ordered all the bridges under their
control to be placarded unsafe" no matter
what their actual condition.
From Shasta to Weaverville and return
Ia trip of forty niles the toll is $21 - for
a siX-horse team for an eight-horse team
$26 10, and for one horse s. %.
The Digger Indians on Rancho Chico
have taken renewed interest in their mu-
steal studies, and are now constantly hay
ing practices with their brass band.
The assessment roll of Humboldt county
shows an increase of nearly $725000 over
last year. There is an increase of 104, 900
acres in the acreage under cultivation.
Commodore Russell has received instruc-
tons from Washington to continue the old
rates of wages paid at Mare Island, not
withstanding the recent order for q reduc-
ton.
Tramps near Grass Valley have threat
ened that there will be many fires there
this summer, as the people do not treat
them well in the matter of giving them
food.
The Anti Chinese and Tailors' Protective
Societies OF Los Angeles have passed reso-
buttons in sympathy with the action of the
striking Union printers of the Ecenii,g En-
press.
Last week a young heifer belonging to A.
Burns, of fremont township, San Diego
county, died of pyemia. The flesh was
devoured by a lot Of fine stock hogs, and all
Of them died.
The workmen of thrasher outfit in
Tulare county struck work the other day
because they were required 10 take break
fast at $3.50 4. NJ. and work throdgh to y NJ.
without another meal.
BY the death of Professor Norton, of the
State Normal School, Myron wager, Super
intendent of Public Schools of Tehama
county, becomes President of the State
Teachers Association.
The Colusa Sun and correspondent of
the Red Bluff Cause ridicule the proposed
plan of sinking an artesion well near Chico
at cost of $500. They say there is too
much lava to bore through.
Santa Barbara county pays bounty OF
81 80 on coyote scalps, and hunters find it
profitable to devote their time to eXtermi-
mating the pests. Their hides are said to
make good quality of leather.
The Chief of Police of Walla Walla has
ordered a man out of that town who had
Just completed a sentence in the Peniten-
tiary, under penalty of putting him in the
chain-gang, although he had done nothing
criminal.
The Portland or Telegram says that in
the neighborhood of Mount Tabor the in
tense heat of the sun has scorched the
black berries and other small fruit until
they are not fit for present use or canning
purposes.
Some of the large Mexican grants in
Santa Barbara county are being resur-
veyed, and it is found that there are many
thousand acres of Government land lille
gaily held, which will be thrown open for
settlement.
An attempt was made to wreck a pas
senger train near Wheatland Wednesday
evening, by putting tie across the rails
and fastening it with ropes The engineer
discovered it Just in time to prevent ser
ious accident
The Miners Union at Austin, Nevada,
disbanded lately. and on the Fourth the
" Horriblesn caricatured the Union in such
a manner that for a while a riot seemed
imminent. The Z" Horribles" were knocked
out on the final round.
The Lake county Orr Examiner says that
il seems as if the Klamath and Yanaix In
dams are not so much on the increase as
they were some years ago there being
siXty-three deaths among them last year
against thirty-one births.
An eight-year-old girl has been arrested
at Salt Lake, who claims to have been
trained with a companion, by q woman
who had charge of them, to make bust
ness of stealing any small articles they
could find in the stores.
Two members of Mormon family at
San Pete L. T.. died last week from copper
poisoning. Although medical aid was ten
dered them in season, they refused to ac-
cept it, contenting themselves with the
laying on of hands of church digni-
tary.
A large gray eagle of the albino order
was shot on Whitby Island. w. r.,
Wednesday evening last by Austral Race.
1t measured seven feet two and a halt
inches across its wings when extended. The
bird appeared quite white when in the
trees.