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tYreka Journal, August llthI
We are reliably informed by different
parties who have conversed with Chief
Engineer Hood and Superintendent of
Construction Strowbridge, that it is the in
tention to run the railroad through Yreka
believing a shorter route can be obtained
than by the way of Willow Creek. A
survey is to be again made through here,
and the surveyors are expected in
this vicinity in a few days. Prob
ably this determination may depend on
the result of the survey to be made,
whether the road will be so built or
not, Hood made survey through town
many years ago, before the road was COM
menced north of Marysville, and it has
been generally stated that it was too ex-
pensive to build the road through Yreka,
towards the klamath, in the direction of
Anderson's ferry, and to make bend from
the route via Willow Creek, would require
six or seven miles extra road building, if
not more. Many of our citizens have
firmly believed that the route through town
is the most direct, but had no knowledge
whether it would be the cheapest, which
a survey only can determine We ear
nestly hope the report of the road
building through town is fixed fact,
as we believe Yreka would then be-
come one of the numerous large cities
to be built up on this coast by reason of the
building Of the railroad, which will connect
with some six overland roads, between San
Diego and Victoria. There will be large
cities at Puget Sound, Portland will in
crease immensely, and Yreka, as the half
way and principal end station of the Cali
fornia road, cannot fail to be large place,
with a prospect of a railroad extending
from here to eastern Oregon, and eventually
down the Klamath river to Humboldt Bay,
as railroad building around mountains is
considered easier work than over I'M
even ground, with numerous streams to
cross by bridges and expensive trestle-
work. When this road is completed, it
will connect with the Canadian Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Cen
trail Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific and South
ern Pacific.
From every indication, and the assur-
ance of several men who have examined
all the work on the railroad above Bailey's,
there can be no doubt of the grade being
finished to Berryvale by the LIST of Novem-
Der. The grading is already well advanced
up and down the Big canyon of the Sacra-
mento river, and the masonry, bridge and
trestle work is also crowded with the great
est energy to complete the track laying to
the above point, which is only 80 miles
south of Yreka. and IS miles from Ashland,
the terminus of the o. and c. r. Z.
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More Railroads,

Articles of incorporation were filed Tues
day by the Marin and Napa Railroad Com
pany, who propose to build line of road
beginning at point on the San Francisco
and North Pacific Railroad, between Pa
checo and NoYato, in Marin county, thence
to a point on the California Pacific road
between AdeleEte and Suscol, in Napa
county, distance of % miles. The capital
stock is $500, 900, and the incorporates are
J. Mervyn Donahoe, Mary E. Van Schroeder,
Henry c. Whiting, Peter J. McGlynn and
Il. II. Lloyd.
The Sonoma Iader- Tribune also has the
following: SAT meeting of the Fruit and
Grape-grovers' Association, held at Santa
Rosa on Saturday last. the project was ex-
tensively discussed of building broad
gauge road from Santa Rosa to connect
with the Central Pacific system near Napa
to give the fruit and grape-growers of
Sonoma and adjoining counties direct COM
munication by rail with the markets of the
world misunderstanding across the bay and
then again at San Francisco. Many fruit and
grape-growers of Sonom valley favor the
project. saying that a broad-gauge road
connecting with the great railroad system
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A Live Otter.

A teanster came down to Chico last Mon
day from the mountains, bringing with him
a live otter which attracted q great deal of
attention in town. The man said he got
the animal some time ago from some In
dams who caught it in the Columbia river,
Oregon, when it was very young and only
as big as a rat. 1t is now about thirty
inches in length from its nose to the tip of
its tail, and weighs fully fifty pounds. In
color it is dark brown. The otter is very
tame, and would follow its master about
town like dog, never offering to run away.
Yesterday he and a few friends went
down to the river with the animal after fish
1t had been trained by its former owners,
the Indians, to catch fish, and its perform
ances is said by those who witnessed it yes
terday to be truly remarkable When
thrown into the river the otter would make
a sudden dive into the water After mo-
ment it would appear on the surface with q
fish in lis mouth which it would bring to
the bank to its master Then ii would re-
peat the operation. never failing to bring
up fish when it Owed In this way the
party got over hundred fish in two hours
time. The teamster values his pet very
highly, but wanted to sell il, as he has to
be travelling around the country all the
time. He considers it worth 800 He re-
GREETED not being able to stay here until the
circus came next Saturday as he thought
they would give him his price for the ami
NAL. But he had business to call him away,
and left Chico again this morning for his
home in Plumas.-Chic0 Enterprise.
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A CENT A POUND.
what the Farmers Must Lose by Cling
ing to Wheat.


ing to Wheat.
The low price of wheat, taken with the
poor crop this year, ought 10 awaken the
land owners to the fact that an immediate
change is necessary in the growing OF
crops.
The days of high prices of grain have
gone by and farmers must be willing to
grow wheat at a cent pound or change to
other crops. What those crops shall be
we are not prepared TO say, nor do VIC be-
lieve they can be told by any one without
a series of experiments.
A small piece of land ought to be set
aside by farmers and experiments made
with variety of crops. We can do better
than grow wheat at q cent pound, but
what crops shall take the place of wheat
remains to be proved by trial.
We believe q variety Of crops must be
grown, for no one plant IS equally adapted
10 the heavy black adobe lands, the rich
loany river bottoms and the grayelly soil
Of the foothills.
Our advice is 10 plant and experiment.
Try fax, hemp, castor beans, corn, alfalfa,
rye, as veil as others. Keep careful rec
ord Of The area sown, the cost of tillage
and the return from the crops.
Study the question carefully and thor
oughly. Don give up the lind and say
yod can't make it pay, but search diligent-
iy Tor such q crop as your particular piece
of land will produce best and give you the
largest returns. Wheat growing to export
should cease, aud the sooner the better for
every farmer in the State, IS long as that
cereal remains at its present price.
Wheat at one cent pound means the
old house, tumble-down fences. poor
clothes and endless debt. It means a
lower value on land hard work, no vaca-
ton and a mortgage on the farm at 10 per
cent. interest
Desperate diseases require desperate rem
edies, aud wheat at q cent pound is as
bad as an incurable cancer or a bad case Of
consumption.
Don't wait a single week, but subscribe
for good agricultural paper, ana see what
las been done elsewhere, and then make
some trials Of your own. Try something,
try anything, try everything, but don't
continue to grow poorer and poorer by
growing wheat at a cent pound.-0rovaie
pe1se4,~
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A JOKE WITH BACK AcTIoS.-The Chico
Register has the following Samuel West
the forger. and another man were sent
down from Chico some days ago, BY Finni-
cum, the Stage-driyer The Deputy Sheriff
at Chico did not think TO say which was
West and which was not to Finnicum, and
the shrewd rascals noticing this, put up
job on the county officials. They changed
names and offenses for the time being, and
tie "yag' answered TO the name of West
when he was spoken to. At the end of
fifteen days the yag." was turned loose,
as he had served out his time, and yester-
day, when West was called up to plead he
stated that he was not West, but that he
had skipped the country under his-the
"vags" names of Hines Deputy Sheriff
Guidery at once telephoned to Chico ask
ing for description of the two men, and
when the reply came sure enough West
was gone and the vag.n was there in his
place. He thought it rich joke on the
officers, but District Attorney Gray turned
the joke on him by having him indicted
for assisting a prisoner to escape, and for
the offense he is liable to be sent to State
Prison for the next five years.
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Dakota Associate Justice.

There are many interesting scenes daily
occurring in Judge Francis Court, at Valley
City, which deserve being rescued from OBJ
livion, if the reports floating down from
Dakota can be relied upon. The Judge be-
Iieves in dignity in the Courtroom, and
woe to the spectator or attorney who re-
moves his coat in the Courtroom or has his
neektie awry. A few days ago an immense
bulldog eluded the vigilance of the bailiff.
walked into the Courtroom and took seat
on the platform alongside of the Judge.
One of the attorneys said that the statutes
of Dakota only provided for one Judge.
The presiding officer stated that the new
conner was there because of the distin-
guished array of counsel; while another
attorney, who was opposed to the first one
who spoke, retorted that the recent arrival
was there to prevent the counsel from bull
doing the Court.
Judge Francis is a hard worker. and
makes his Court sessions long, as rule, so
as to dispatch all business possible. The
other day, however, he adjourned Court at
4 o'clock. While case was being tried he
called halt rose and asked the steno-
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Down Docs THBoAT.-A citizen of this
county was riding along, when his dog ran
small squirrel up sapling. The dog was
well developed as to mouth and soon his
furious barking so frightened the squirrel
that it leaped from the sapling and shot
headforemost into his mouth Just as he
opened it to bark. The squirrel disap-
peared like flash into the interior depart
ments of the dog. The dog seemed stupe-
fed by the sudden shock and began turn
ing round and round as if crazy. 1t was
evident that the free lunch did not set well
on the dogs interior economy. In a short
time the squirrel was cast up. The little
animal, without moments pause, darted
up the sapling and was soon seated on the
topmost branch. Since then the dog can
not be induced to bark at a squirrel up a
tree.-Grass VaHey Union.
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A LUCKY ACCIDENT. Willis 4. Parks,
blind yiolinist, who hss been stopping at
tire New River mines for some tine past
eking out au existence by playing in sa-
looms met with the luckiest accident few
days ago that ever befel man. Parks lost
his sight when n boy from an aggravated
attack of the measles, and for twenty-three
years he has been unable TO distinguish
day from night. On the 18th Of July he
strolled from his tent and lost his bearing
In wandering around be fell down the shaft
of the Mary Blame mine, striking the bot
tom eighteen feet below The most seri-
Gus of his Injuries was "a cut extending
across the forehead, the skin beng torn
loose from the skull until It hung down be-
low his eyes. The skin was placed n posi-
ton and stitched by q miner b. the name
of Rourke ami after the injured man was
washed he astonlsbed heininers by stat
ing that be could see, and IN proof told
how many men were around him, and
gave the exact color Of 4 dog which sat ten
feet from the cot be was lying on. On the
18th Parks was able 10 be around, although
feeling cutie sore. His sight was stronger.
and lie was able to detect fire gold in a
piece Of rock This S one Of the queerest
cases Oh record. and is vouched for by the
best men in camp ireta Union.
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Of the continent is necessary to enable them

OF the continent is necessary to enable them
to market their products profitably, com
pairing the prices obtained here for fruits
with those obtained for similar articles in
Vaca valley, and insisting that such rail
road connection must be had 10 enable the
people of Sonoma county to keep pace with
their neighbors in improvement and pros
perity They claim that many kinds of
fruit produced in this valley for shipment
East are superior in quality and bear ship
ping better than similar products raised in
Sacramento valley: but that the delay and
extra expense of shipping by way of San
Francisco curtail their receipts materially,
reducing their profits so low as to almost
shut them out from the Eastern markets,
and insist that competition with their
neighbors Of Napa and the Sacramento
valleys IS impossible without such railroad
connections
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OUrlIvEp THE FAMors DR1yER- Tb,

OUTLINED THE FAMOUS DRIVER The
Lassen 1dr0cdte is credited with the follow
ing One of the teams on the Susanville
and Oroville stage line ran away at Inskip
last week with the coach, breaking up the
vehicle and killing one Of the horses. Monk
was one of the notorious horses which was
driven ON the lead of a six-horse team
when Hank Monk made his famous drive
with Horace Greeley into Placerville. This
horses mate, Tony, which was driven with
him at the same time, is still on the road,
and is said to be at least SO years of age.
but to see him on the lead of four-horse
team person would judge him to be colt
of years. He is as full of life as ever.
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DIED,

Sacramento, August 12-James Sweeney ma
tive of Ireland, 50 years.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully in
vited TO attend the funeral, which Will take
place from st. Rose Church. corner of Seventh
aad streets, tomorrow Sunday, at 9 a. NJ.
sharp.l
Sacramento, August 1l-Thomas G. Robinson, q
native OF New York, 4S years, 10 months and
Is days.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral which will take
place from his late residence, No. 17l2 Il street,
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth, to-mor-
row Sunday afternoon at o'clock
Ismert's Ranch, Nevada county, August s.
Francisco Delluchi, 50 years.
Willows August 6-Ralph, infant son of ". B.
Mattoon.
Red Bluff, August 5-Infart child Of J B. Taylor.
Browns Valley August 9-Mrs. Caroline CHM,
60 years. months and 25 days.
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A LITTLE SUFFERER
Cleansed, Purified and Beautiiled b.
the Cutieura Remedies.

1t affords me pleasure to give you this report Of
the cure of our little grandchild by your CUTI-
CURA REMEDIES. When six months old his left
hand began to swell and had every appearance
OF large boil. poulticedit but ali TO no pur-
pose. About five months after il became run
ming sore. Soon other sores formed. He then
had two of them on each hand and as mis- blood
became more and more impure it took less time
for them to break out. A sore came on the chin,
beneath the under lip. which wsS very offensive.
His head wes one solid sca3. discharging great
deal This was his condition at twenty two
months old, when l undertook the care OF hin,
his mother having died when he was little
more than year old, OF consumption (scrofiIle
OF course). he could walk little, but could not
get up If he fell down, and could not move when
in bed, having no use Of his hands l irrmedi-
ately commenced with the CJTlCURA REMEDIES.
using the CUTICURA and CUTICVRA SOAP freely,
and when he had taken one bottle Of TIE CUTI-
CUEA RESoLrESr. has head completely
cured, and he was improved in every way. We
were very much encouraged, and continued the
use OF the Remedies Tor year and half One
sore after another healed. q bony matter forming
in each one of these five deep ones lust before
healing, which would finally grow loose and were
taken out; then they would heal rapidly One
of these ugly bone formations preserved. After
taking dozen and a half bottles he was COM
pletely cured, and is now at the age of six years,
a strong and healthy child. The scars on his
hands must always remain; his hands are strong,
though we once feared he would never be able
to use them. All that physicians did for him did
him no good. All who saw the child before using
the CUT1CcRA REMEDIES and see the child now
consider it wonderful cure. If the above facts
are OF any use to you, you are at liberty to use
them. MRS. (. 5. briggs.
May 9, 1885 6l2 E. Clay ST., Bloomington, III.
The child was really in a worse condition than
he appeared to his grandmother, who, being with
him every day, became accustomed to the dis
ease. MAGGIE HOPPING,
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\ CONFEDERATE PEHsIoNEp.-The Pres
ident has signed q bill restoring TO the pen
sion roll Confederate soldier. tits claimed
that both houses and the President were
hood%iuked BY the reporter on the case,
which did hot state ali the facts. The facts
were. says the Ashland Ohio Times
" That the pensioner, man named Bill
ings, was pensioned for services in the
Mexican war; that he was paid at the
Charleston rs. CD agency for six years, and
that in 1860 he was dropped from the roll
without reason 1t would seem that the
date when Billings was dropped, and the
agency at which ne was paid, ought to
have aroused some suspicion in the mind
of President Cleveland before he signed
the bill, but it is probable the President
was so busily engaged in finding reasons
why he should veto pension bills for
Union soldiers that he overlooked this
matter"
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grapher to take down every word he was
going 10 say And" added the jurist, 81
do not desire that there shall be any levity
in Court during my remarks He said ::
1.-The Associate Justice OF this Court is
dead. Only once has he presided here,
and then with becoming dignity He fell
through poison, administered by some IN
charitable and lawless hand Towser Is
dead, and as he has well filled his station
in life-better, perhaps, than some of those
before melt is the order of this Court
that an adjournment be now had, and all
the officers, bar and spectators attend the
burial in body. Mr. Sheriff adjourn
Court until tomorrow morning at 8
O'Clock n-.St. Pad Pioneer Press.
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SIZE OF HAIRS. Measurements have
shown the thickness of the human hair to
vary from the two hundred and fiftieth to
the six hundredth part of an inch. The
silk-worm's thread is one five-thousandth
of an inch thick, and the spiders web only
one thirty thousandth. Blonde hair is
the finest, and red the coarsest Taking
tent German Psychologist found the red
one to contain about 5000 hairs; the
black, $4,000; the brown, 10000; and
the blonde, 10000.
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MARRIED.

SACRAMENTO, August ll-By Rev. Father Haupts
c. r. Johnston, Of Alta, to Alice J. Kelly, of
Auburn.
Sacramento August l3--By Rev. Thos Filben.
J. H. Hill 10 Grace T. Neff, both Of 0leta, ANA
dor county.
san Jose, August i-Peter Picetti to Theresa
Rsggio (San Jose papers please copy)
San Francisco, August 2-Colonel Alien T. Bird
10 Mrs. Callie w. Nabb.
Oleta, Amador county, august 81 F. Barry to
tnma NJ. YotGw.
Near Paskenta. August 2-John c. Hamilton to
Mrs. Emma Underhill.
Marysyille, August S-Fannie Bryant to Aaron
Ogle.
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RAISING WHEAT WITHOUT IRRIGATION.
The Virginia Chronicle says: The Central
Pacific Railroad Company are experiment.
ing in raising cereals on the side hills in
Washoe and other counties without irriga-
ton, and have succeeded in raising fifteen
bushels to the acre. The grains of wheat
produced are very perfect, containing all
the elements of good wheat, but are not
large, though very solid. The straw is very
clean, entirely free from all appearance of
rust; in fact, in this regard, its appearance
is remarkable, being bright, golden color,
while the heads are wholly free from rust.
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An Fncourar,ng Report.

The Pacific Bank, of San Francisco has
just completed its forty-sixth semi-annual
statement. II is gratifying to see that there
is bank in our midst which can, from
year TO year, present such an uniformly
favorable report. This bank has evidently
been growing in public favor from the
time of its inception until now, and this
fact can only be attributed TO solid finan-
cial method of conducting business.
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PEARS WITHOUT IERIGATIoS.-Mr. White.
formerly of Oakland, who not long ago
purchased ranch at Buena Vista in this
county, last winter planted there a large
orchard of pear trees. He has not irrigated
them, but they are growing rapidly. Only
nine of them have died since they were put
out.-Netddg Transcript.
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OFFICIAL PROCLAMATIOS

WHERE'S. THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
w State OF California, at its Twenty
Session, beginning on the fifth day of January,
A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two
thirds Of all the members elected TO each OF the
two Houses o; said Legislature voting in favor
thereof, proposed the following amendment Of
Sections One, Eight, Ten and Eleven OF Article
Thirteen, of the Constitution of the State OF
California;
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The highest birth rate in the United
States is in the South. In Louisiana there
are AS children born each year TO every
600 women of child-beariDg age, 1856 in
Georgia and 1877 in Texas. In New England
the rate is 80 in the West about 122
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Tuesday, November z, 1885.

The amendment is designated Amendment
Number One and the BALLOTS used at such
election must contain the words, FOR THE
AMENDMENT Number One" and the words,
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT Number one,"
written or printed thereon.
And do hereby Offer reward of one hundred
dollars for the ares. and conviction OF any and
every person violating any Of the provisions
Title ", Part l. OF the Penal Code; such rewards
to be paid Until the total amount expended
hereafter for Inc purpose reaches the sum of ten
thousand dollars.
Witness NJ haad and the Great Seal OF the
State, me ia! and year drs. written.
[szAL.l GEORGE SLOVENIAN.
Governor.
ATrss- 7. I TEcMesoN, Secretary o. State.
iys--is5m
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HIS FATHER WAS a DECENT MAS.-Judge
treer was holding an examination of a
supposed insane man recently, says the
Oroyille Mercury, and while questioning
the person charged with being insane,
pointed to A. T. Jones who is Past Grand
President of the Native Sons, and asked
the supposed insane man if he knew him,
when the response Immediately came "Of
course Of do. l worked for him and his
father in the north of Ireland years ago
His father was dacent mon, but can't
say as much for this one"
Whatever is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest must always be be-
coming.
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BORN.

Dibble Creek, Tehsma county August 5-Wife of
3. Waldorf. son.
Hueneme.. Ventura county, August 5-Wite of
George c. Clark, son.
san Jose, August 3-Wife of Frank S Langford,
SON