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Show Warlike Talk. ! Washing-Ion, 2. A Hpccial to- the Sun ullrpcs that on iMomlay last General Sickles was instructed by telegraph tele-graph to notify tho Spanish novcrn-Im-nt that lliu estates belonging to Americans in Cuba which had been Keipiostercd must at once be returned to their owners, and (liunati-H of their seiiucstralion bo paid, or that warlike measures will bo at once act on foot by ihu United States, and the order to General Sickles was to give tho Spanish -'ovcrnment one week in which to make answer. Kan Francisco News. San Francisco, 2. The Republican Central Union Club has united with the ward clubs in asking tho county committee to hold primaries for the election of-dclcgatea to the State convention con-vention in the ward clubs. McCoppen, who is supposed to have a majority in the San Francisco delegation of the Democratic Slate convention, Eays he is w-lling to accede to the demand ol the ward clubs fur rescinding tho appointment ap-pointment of delegates and allow them to bo elected at the primaries, if the same be held under Porter's election elec-tion law. The coroner's jury found, on tho inquest, in-quest, that August Kamp came to his death from a shot fired by Dcvine alias Chicken. Gee. Beck has been sent to the State pri.son for seven months for assault. Winder, in Santa Clara county, suicided sui-cided by strangling himself with strips of blanket on Wednesday. General Caltoo, President of the Amador mine, is now there. The strikers yesterday stopped work on every mine at Sutter Creek and Amador, and announced their determination deter-mination to allow no man to work for less than $2.50 per day, an advance of fifty cents. The owners and officers of the different mines have generally determined to shut down entirely for the present rather than to accede to the demand which the strikeis are attempting attempt-ing to enforce by violence. Eight inches of snow fell on the Yosemite trad on Sunday. It is believed that the Sutter Creek and Amador mine proprietors will persist in their determination not to accede to the demand of the strikers, and in case of violence being resorted to, will call on the State authorities for military protection. Advices from all parts of the State leave no doubt in the minds of the friends of Governor Haight that he will be re-nominated on the first ballot. San Francisco, 2. The prospect of the wheat crop of 1ST! was freely discussed dis-cussed on Cnange to-day. It was conceded con-ceded by everybody that the late cool weather had increased the prospective yield at least 33 per cent. Many think that the surplus for export this year will fall very little, if any, short of last, and it is believed that there will be 150,000 tons more than required for domestic use. The owners of the schooner Nary L. Taylor, which arrived here to-day from Sitka, consigned to the U. S. Marshal, talk very bitterly against Gen. Miller and others interested in Hutchison, Kohl & Co. They say that they were engaged forming a settlement or trading post on the main land north of Sitka, i out of the limits of the Territory, the : trade of which is a monopoly, made so by the government concession to Hutchinson, Kohl it Co., and were engaged in legitimate trade. They complain com-plain that it is impossible to carry on any trade in the Territory of Alaska, lor the government lends its whole power to crush out all opposition to the monopoly. It was the house of the owner of the Taylor, in the southern part of the city, which was entered and ransacked by the custom house officials, of-ficials, " professedly in search of seal ckins, some months since. ' Not much progress has been made in the Fair case to-day, Cook, after two postponements, found a special officer whose testimony is important and his deposition, the purport of which has not transpired, is now being taken. The Eureka, California, gold mine declares a dividend of $1 per share instead in-stead of the usual 2. |