Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-30

Southern California ENTERPRISE,


A gentleman who came up from Los
Angeles few days since relates an Incl
dent which greatly amused the passengers
on the train, to the expense Of one of the
many towns on paper" in the lower
country. In what is known as Antelope
valley, on the Mojave desert, seventy-six
miles by railroad north of the City of the
Angels, is the place or locality known as
Lancaster, where Scotch colony has re-
Gently settled, and dozen small houses,
scattered about in a rather unneighborly
way, constitutes the town. As the cars
stopped boy came to the train, and with
considerable noise and business air cried
for sale the Lancaster Weekly Ne,us
with as much guestO as the New York
papers were sold in war times at the East
on the occasion of some great battle A
portly old gentleman invested in one of
the NelCs copies, anxious to be possessed
of the latest information from the Cabi-
net crisis in England; the condition
of his Russian Bearship the Arizona
Apache, and to know what kind of a gov
eminent was quoted for that afternoon in
Mexico but after giving one glance over
his spectacles at the dimensions and pros
pect of the sheet, he quietly followed to
the door, adjusted his Eyeglasses so as to
take in an extensive amount of city at
single glance, and after moments failure
to find a street or two houses at the same
view, he accosted the boy with, Halo, is
this Lancaster?
" Yes, sir, replied the boy.
Where is the town." asked the portly
traveller, with an air of having lost five
cents that he didn't care to have anybody
inquire about
Cbic &c +ou-,, ro,,l.al
youth, swinging his hand vaguely over the
area of one of those Southern California
cities on paper, but with conspicuous alb
sence of houses, and an immense growth
of yucca trees.
is this all there is of it?" oueried the
gentGaman taking down his glasses, as if
he had pursued the matter to the bitter end.
. es, sir"
And they print q paper here ,"
- Yes, sir
" The derH They are hell on enterprise
dorm here!n he exclaimed conclusively,
and returning to his seat in the car, amid
the audible smiles of the passengers, he de-
clared that he would look for the town
next time before he bought paper
A BATTLE SCARED BEAR. - William
Reasoner, who is herding Birkhead Bros
sheep up in Kaiser Gulch, killed a bear
last Friday night that, from all appear
ances, had already missed several opportu-
mites of crossing over into It's happy
hui ting-ground. 1t had six buckshot in
its head, which had been there for long
time, and a slug of lead in its leg. Mr.
Birkhead thinks it was the same one that
came near killing Ross a few years ago.
Each had a tooth missing in about the
same place This one had two good sized
cubs with her She had been raiding the
sheep camp every night and appeasing her
appetite, circumstance which ReaSoner
did not relish. Last Friday he built him
scaffold in the corral, and that night when
she made her appearance he gave her the
contents OF his rife, with fatal results He
did not go in the pursuit that night, but
following her trail the next morning he
found her some distance from the camp
dead Fresno Democrat.
TIE medicine that can search and root
out every i'll of kidneys or liver, is Hunts
Remedy.