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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Id Sao Francisco last week fifty-two deaths ocourred. The farmers in the vicinity of Pleas-antoo Pleas-antoo are about half through thrash- Two hand red heifers were purchased in Cioverdale last week for .Nevada. The railroad track is now laid pome three or four miles to the south of Cas-troville. Cas-troville. The railroad candidate for congrega was in Oakland September 2 1st, endeavoring en-deavoring to secure some votes. There ia a larger quantity of quail around the vicinity of San Rafael this EeasoD than has been knovn for years. A mountain lion was recently killed in San Jacinto valley, by a shepherd with his staff which he thrust down the animal s throat killing him in a few minutes. Last week Joel Martin, of Placer, killed a -monster rattlesnake after a hard fight, i ! . Nichol's claim, near Trinity, eshtb-Its eshtb-Its one hundred and. forty ounces of fine gold dust, the largest specimen weighing six ounces. REVADAs 'Ah Ye committed suicide at Carson Tuesday. Report eays he lost, in fighting fight-ing tho "China tiger." 'MJrown :Point mine, shipped From ld Hill, last Tuesday, seven bars or told and silver, worth $18,804. -fee first regular passenger train on the Virginia and Truckee road, will cTi.cnco running October 1st, Mttle daughter of Frank Rohan, ot (jciiv Hill, broke her arm on Monday. Mon-day. Larson . to have a railroad depot one huodrq and teen feet long cd tlnrty-oi, feet wide. t' H m- B?dlt0 of the Belcher mine, lost three inch,, of hia BcaIpi on Tue8. day, by BtrikiDkthe corner of a oap timber. Clara Woodruff, f Ansli WM sev. erely but not dangeiU3ly i)jured last Sunday, by falling doQ a ten-feet em-bankmeBL em-bankmeBL . Samuel Powers, jue 0f the peace, at Murray Creek, uearlineral Cit was found burned to ieith with a bnllet-hole in hia head,Sauday morn inc. The Bowery mill and m.iDf, pany will immediately ereot a,ew mju on tho side of their old one .cently destroyed by fire, Tho new mi wjfi in every way be euperior to th 0d . one. .-. OBEUON AC. Some of the people of Union oorjy Oregon, are seeking a removal of ec county seat, . , A house at PortTownsend, ocou by Borne Italian fishermen, was bund down recently. Apples are said to be scarcer in th "Willamette valley than in any forme season for several years. ( The lumber mills of Tacoma; Washington Wash-ington Territory, cover a space of 8U0 by 150 feet of ground. - It is estimated that the total wheat crop of Oregon the present season will fall but little Bhort of 4,000,000 bushels. bush-els. ' Tho military post at Port Townsend is being put in order for tho oompany of tTOops soon to -be permanently ata-tioncd ata-tioncd at that place. A man by the name of Butler vas found dead recently in his cabin at tte forks of Salmon, lie was of iutett J perate habits and had been on aprei I The "Statesman" urges the offioia of Walla Walla to hunt up and trao out the parties committing the lat raid oo tho county treasury at tha' place. Campbell, of La Grande, has just started lor Keltoo, for the purpose of meeting five families enroute to Union eounty from Tennessee. They will settle in tVailowa Valley. Mr a. Haskell, wife of oap tain Has-kail, Has-kail, late of fciao Juan island, reported killed in Arizona, baa quite recovered from injuries received through beiog thrown from a horse. A Victoria paper pronounces on authority that the Emperor of Germany Ger-many will surely decide in favor of the United States having San Juan Island and that England will then oede the whole group to America. The last number of the Albanj "Register" eon tains two engravings o: Oregon scenery, ooo representing Tooth Ridge and the other the bead of Bradford's Island, both on the Columbia Col-umbia rlvor, naar the Cafcadea. la lieu of the goods usually bestowed be-stowed on the Indians at Puyallup by the superintendent, that official was requited by a ohiof the other day to give bim two horses and a buggy, that he might drive around among the In dians like a white gentleman and trade with the natives. A few dayB ago Daniel Chapman, . United States land officer, and a competent com-petent engineer, left La Grande, with the proper assistants, to make a preliminary pre-liminary survey in the Blue Mountains with tha intention, if possible, of finding find-ing a better route from the summit of the mountains north than that known as the Hudoutt route for the Portland, pa lies ard Salt Lake railroad. |