Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

A new swamp land district is to be
formed on Grand Island, Colusa county.
Efforts are being made to move the
county seat of Yamhill from Lafayette,
w. T.
The first wild geese of the season have
passed over Kern county. An early winter
is betokened.
w. w. Cole, the circus man, telegraphed
to Virginia, New, for five Piute Indians,
for showing in Australia.
Vigilantes in Eureka, New, are posting
up notes of warning about town, and are
determined to get rid of the incendiaries.
The new town of Dillon, Utah, located
only about fortnight ago, is booming.
About SIG. 600 worth of lots were sold in
week.
A gentleman from Bodie says several
hundred persons have left there during the
past sixty days. Many fear to undertake
to winter there.
Peaches in Utah command from 81 to
81 so in the orchards. the purchasers pick
ing the fruit. There will be no drying or
canning in Utah this season.
Gilroy has been taken with spasm of
virtue. All the disorderly houses have
been closed up, and lectures are delivered
on the evils OF opium-smoking.
Thirty men employed as stone cutters
and derrick-men under foreman Butler at
Mare Island Navy Y ard were suspended last
Saturday night till the end of the month.
There is proposition on foot for the re-
union of the soldiers of the late war who
reside in Plumas county, and the meeting
will take place at Greenville during the
coming fair.
Ice is formed now nearly every night in
the valleys of Nevada. Along the Carson
river and in the bottom of all the little
valleys it is colder of nights than it is on
the tops of the mountains.
Hundreds of acres of rich land, the Port
Townsend CIV. IT, Press says, are found
for settlement over in the Quilente country,
on the ocean south of the Straits of Fuca,
and that will be valuable country in
time.
D. M. Riordan, who was nominated for
the Assembly on the Republican ticket
few days ago in Mono county, has deemed
it necessary to withdraw from the canvass,
and asks the Central Committee to appoint
in his place the Hon. Joseph Wasson.
There is lively race between two COM
panies running railroads into Park City,
Utah. One is being built by the Union
Pacific, and the other known as the Utah
Eastern. The distance from Salt Lake to
Park City is 81 miles. The Union is build
ing theirs from the line of their main road.
In November Park City is to be connected
by rail.
The Nevada State Jomnal says A busi-
ness man found man lying in front of his
store yesterday, and shaking him, asked if
he was drunk. eyes" was the reply.
sThen get away from here" To which
the d. m. retorted Are you drunk ="
No." was the answer. "Then you can
get away from here easier than I can"
The business man gave it up.
Says the Plumas National The skeleton
of man was found On Sunday of last
week on one of the heads of Hopkins
creek, near Pilot Peak. The bones had
been pulled apart by wild beasts, but most
of them were in the vicinity of the first
discovery. Some parts of the clothing were
found, and some papers in the pockets, but
nothing by which he could be identified A
pair of snow-shoes were also found
near the bones. There is absolutely
nothing to tell who the man was. 1t is
rumored that stranger left Gibsonville,
in April, to come this way, and that he
never Was heard of since.