Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-16
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

The Napa Reporter has appeared as
daily.
Large forest fires are reported east o
Salt Lake City.
Sodaville, Or, is the health.resort O
Lebanon people.
Mining disputes and riots prevail at Par
ley's Park, Utah.
Gate receipts the first day of the Helena
| Montana, fair were $500.
Parties from New Zealand have beer
| purchasing farms in Fresno.
The Indians at Lake Pyramid say thai
Chief Winnemucca is dead, and was muir.
dered.
Wheat is worth 80 to 80 cents per bushe
at Pataha City, w. T.; barley Il cents pei
pound.
Odessa wheat in the Paiaro valley i:
much liked, and will be planted more
largely.
Parties at New Westminster, B. c., have
discovered anthracite coal, fine marble and
fire clay.
Business in all branches is very dull ii
| Tehama county, wheat being too low fol
farmers to SELL
! A human skeleton was recently found
near Hood river, Or, in tree fifteen feet
from the ground.
The construction of the Wasco Or
Academy has begun. 1t will be finished
| by December lst.
Over sixty bushels of oats per acre have
been harvested on the Seanich peninsula,
in British Columbia.
The Oregon Pioneer Society want legis.
lative appropriation of $4,000 for the
Whitman monument.
The surveyors ON the Carson and Colora-
do Railroad preliminary survey have reach.
ed Candelaria, Nevada.
1t is rumored that Camp Howard and
Fort Lapwai, Idaho, are to be abandoned,
and fort established on Craig's mountain.
1t is said that 90 acres of land on Rob-
erts island yielded this year, by measure
msnt, sixty-eight bushels of wheat per
acre.
Between S400 and $500 has been SUBJ
scribed at Newport, Southern Oregon,
toward the construction of Catholic
church.
L. Goliath and George M. Scott, have
been appointed Commissioners for Utah
for the great Worlds Exhibition in New
York, in 1883.
A gentleman and three ladies attempted
to drive across the San Pedro river, Ari-
iona, lately, but got into quicksand, and
were drowned.
On ranch at Phoenix, Arizona, there is
an orchard Of peach trees, two years old
last spring, from the bud, all of which bore
fruit this summer.
A man named Gibson attempted to as.
sault R. L. Fulton, of the Reno New
Gazette last Saturday. Fulton drew PTS.
tol and Gibson departed.
A Humboldt county farmer has invented
an attachment to a well in the field by
which stock pump their own water by
stepping upon platform.
At Pomeroy, w. t., recently the rain
came down in sluices, flooding the streets
and rolling rocks and powders into the
mill race, causing it to overflow nearly the
entire length. Snow fell near the mount
aims, and hail to the depth of nearly two
inches fell on the hills surrounding the
town.
At the Esquimault, British Columbia,
dry docks, while excavation is going on,
stone and brick to be used in the construc-
ton of the seawall will be prepared. Car
penters are at work erecting offices for the
engineers, and when these structures are
completed a boarding house and quarters
for the men will be built.
At Socorro, New Mexico, the other
night, eighty-two covered wagons were
camped on the fiat west of the depot
grounds all waiting to be loaded with
freight for Forts Craig Bliss, Bayard,
Cummings and Apache, and for such from
tier towns as Silver City, Las Cruces, Me-
silla, Ell Paso, Clifton and Hillsboro
Justice Gray left Victoria, B. c., Sep
TENDER 4th for Cassiar to hold the assizes
Says the Colonist "Under the most fav-
orable circumstances, at this season OF the
year winter sets in very early at the
northern gold fieldsl, the Court cannot
reach Laketon before the Goth, and as
neither jurors nor witnesses have been
summoned, nor officers notified, and as
everything will be found in a glorious
state of unreadiness, the chances are that
Stickeen river will be closed by ice." Ac.
cording to later report, the Justice was
forced to return.