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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ' CALIFORNIA. The question of building a narrow-pauge narrow-pauge railroad to Visalia is meeting with considerable success at Stockton. The Bcoicia is begiDning to look like herself again. Her topmasts, yards aod ripitiDg are fast beine put in place. The lirass Valley "UoioD" of November No-vember 2d says: A. A. Sargent visited Grass Valley yesterday. His health eecms to bo re established aod he is very cheerful. Judge W. W. Porter, who, in "ye olden time," resided in this State, and well known aa county judjje of Calaveras Calave-ras county, has returned from the east to make California his permanent home. Samuel Stewart, encaged in driving a oi-r-hnra. tonrn fVir Mrs Fit U nf Bid well Bar, was thrown from his wagon lately near Peavine, on the American Valley road, and severely injured. in-jured. Iu a dispute about some firewood, November 2d, near Sierra city, Alexander Alex-ander Black was killed by Winchester Doyall. Doyail struck him in the neck with an axe, killing him instantly. At latt accounts Doyall had not been apprehended. ap-prehended. lo San Francisco, November 2d, at a meeting of the rrembers of the press, it was resolved to wait tor further advices ad-vices in regard to Col. Evans' death before expressing their sorrow on the event. The Brotherton brothers, convicted of forgery and scnteoocd to fouiteen years in the State prison, overpowered the sheriff on Sunday night and escaped. es-caped. Yesterday one of them was reported arrested at San Rafael, but the rumor proved untrue. JuJgo Blake, in San Francisco, on November 2nd, sentenced Thoa. Ans- I bro, convioted of libeling Edith O'Gor ! man, 'he escaped nun, to pay a fine of & 1,000. Ho paid the fine and was jdirchurged from cuslody. I Near San Ralael furthor develop-. develop-. mcnts are being made in the coal mine. Lumps weighing a hundred pounds are being blasted out, and the vein increases in-creases in size. Other leads have been struck, and every one is excited about the coal. The San Francisco "Real Estate Cir cular" says: Wo have the best authority au-thority for stating that N icholas Luning intends to opeL a new bank soon, in which the industrious of all d a lions can secure loans at such low rates that too world will declare philanthropy has here her chosen dwelling place. A dispatch dated Elko, November 2nd, states that Mrs. Siorpson, of San Francisco, while en route with her hus band to tho east, suidenly died on the cast bound passenger train that afternoon. after-noon. A coffin was procured, in which Simppoo purposes to take the remains of hid wif'u to the east. The opening of tho new route for tho trade of Owen's river and Cerro Gordo mining districts was inaugurated to-day by tho arrival of three large mule teams with 335 bars of bullion, weighing 30,000 pounds. On December Decem-ber 1st the entiro bullion product of Inyo county will take this route via Tehachcpc Pass and Bikersfield, to the railroad terminus at Tipton. OULtiOS, Aa. A noticeable revival of the roal estate trade is reported in the Salem market. Tho ltoscburg depot grounds are located in the upper part of the town, where Aaron Rose donated (en acres for that purpose. Last spring Bowker of 8alem contracted con-tracted to erect six buildings inEugene City. Last week he returned horns having completed all his contraots. Rev. N. A. Starr and others have accepted the invitation of John Wilson, aod will hold divine service in his mammoth pavilion, at Jacksonville, on Sunday evening. November the 3rd. The Dalles "Mountaineer" reports thot a slight fall of rain occurred in that vicinity on Wednesday night last. The farmers complain of the want of sufficient rnin to allow them to commence com-mence plowing. They teach somoourious branches at the Willamette university, according to the "Statesm&D." Speaking of a visit to the institution that paper says: ' The caloistbetic exercises at the close excited general comment as well as parie." Calnisthetic is good. Turner and Howard, who have recently re-cently bctin on a surveying tour in southeastern Oregon, report the stock in Klamath basin in admirable condition condi-tion and the country rapidly setting up, a large number of claims bauing been taken within the old meander lines while the resurvey of the BWamp lands was being made. The "Statosman" says; "Tho governor's go-vernor's veto has interposed now to defeat a measure which was oalculhtcd to greatly benefit the whole Statc the bill to create and sustain a board of immigration. Wc learn that he bases his objections upon constitutional grounds, but we have not yet learned what particular provision of the constitution con-stitution was outraged, smashed, and knocked into pi by tho bill. Perhaps it was that section from which the governor go-vernor derive his appointing power as it is known the bill itself assumed to settle the questioa as to who should constitute the board." |