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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tho Buttra arc full of fat dcrr. The Stiite Uaivcrsily opens January 9th. IlolJifiter is overrun with counterfeit half dollars. Yolo people are praying for "just two or three more good rains." All San Jose crorvded to the theatre thea-tre to see t tic "Geneva Cross" on Chri3tnift.-i. Snow in the Yoaemito Valley is five feet deep. The K'tirxarte will leave Mnre Island Is-land immediately after New Year's. Hn probable destination is Honolulu. Hono-lulu. The people of Rivcraidc, San Bernardino Ber-nardino county, are about to encase in the raising of oranges and raisin grapen. The va'ueofwhcatand flour shipped from San Francisco to Oakland during dur-ing the present season amounts to $25,000,000. The people of Santa Barbara have just raised, by subscription, 810.00U to pay ofl the debt on the college located lo-cated in that place. McCullough has purchased "Led Astray" for the California theatre. He returns from New Y'ork on the 4th of January, and omits his Salt Lake engagement. Humboldt county farmers are holding hold-ing their potatoes for a rise. The motto of the Santa Cruz Grange is, "Go slnw and keep in the middle of the road." For people to keep a keg of lager beer in the house is termed "hell in the closet" by the Oakland IVan-s-cript. ORGO. Now that the snow has disap neared the farmers are industriously plowing again, . F. Sutherlin, of Douglas county, was last week offered $12,000 for a bit of sheep ranch which he owns on the Uupqua. The ranch contains 4,000 acres. Col. E. C. Kcmble, United States Indian Agency Inspector, took a look at things on the sub-agencies at Siletz and Alsea Inst week, and we presume i fonnri Pvcarvt.h.rift- .n ovwl olmno Since the snow fall in the Coast Range the wolves have come down on the "sheep in the folds" in Yamhill Yam-hill and Polk counties, and many sheep and a few wolves have been killed. James Brown, bettor known asOne-armed asOne-armed Brown, for many years an energetic en-ergetic messenger in the Indian service, ser-vice, and whoso home has been in Salem Sa-lem most of that time, is about to start on an expedition among the Malheur Indians, In case of hiB death while absent he leavesvby will, the sum of $1,000 to be given to the Children's Aid Society. A letter in the Statesman from Independence In-dependence says: We came very near having a conflagration lately. A little child about ten years of age accidently and playfully Bet some straw under a carpet on fire, but a lady happened to nee it in time to put it out. Ten minutes more and who can tell but the hotel and the four warehouses adjoining, containing 80,-000 80,-000 bushels of wheat, would have been swept away. |