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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. FIRST DISPATCH. CALIFORNIA. Santa Cruz, 3. Mrs. Van Valken-burgh Valken-burgh of this place, claiming that she has a right to vote under the 14th amendment, has commenced proceedings proceed-ings by mandamus to compel tno county coun-ty clerk to place her nnuie upon the great register. Judge McKec yesterday yester-day granted an alternate writ and ordered or-dered the clerk to show cause, on tho 14th of August, why the writ should not be granted. San Francisco, 3. Tho board of health has passed a resolution requesting request-ing tho supervisors to audit the expenses ex-penses of the quarantine office, and upon refusal to allow sufh claims to test by law tho right of tho health board to fix the salaries of their own employe?. If the result of the suit be adverse to the board of health, the quarantine department will at once be abaudoned. ; The Barlow Mining Company has been incorporated, with $1,000,000 capital, to mine in Amador county. A lew of the Mechanics' Fair exhibitors exhibi-tors have commenced to arrange their goods. State advices from Tucson, Arizona, report that General Crook, with 400 men, is at Camp Bowie, 125 miles from Tucson. Los Angeles, 3. The steamer Orizaba Ori-zaba sailed from San Pedro this eve- nine, with a full freight and passenger ; list. In the freight are SO sacks ofj i rich silver ore, from Ivanpah Clark! ; district, and about fifty tons of base bullion from Cerro Gordo. Robert Morse, a planter from Necks? ', burg, has arrived in this city in the interest in-terest of parties proposing to emigrate : , from Mississippi to settle in this re- ! Parties from the new silver mines Of 'Bradshaw district, Arizona, report the I Tioga leure traceable for miles from north to south. It is from ten to twenty feet wide, with croppings. On the discovery a claim has been located, of one thousand leet, and a shaft has; ' been ouii sixty feet wide, which will , go down one hundred feet before drift-1 iug. At the bottom of the shaft the , ! western wall is well defined. After a 1 , stratum of four feet of quartz-bearing; base metal, and a partition of from two to three feet, and from six to eight ; inches in width, is found a rich silver ore, assaying into the thousands. The western wall has not yet been struck. Stockton, CaJ., 3. Julia Lake, the! victim of the recent tragedy in thUi city, was buried from the coroner's) office this morning. The funeral wh not attended by any friend or acquaintance. acquain-tance. Mrs. Saviers was visited ini jail by a low lady friends to-day, her general health is good. A report that i Mrs. Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony An-thony had visited her in jaU yesterday is entirely a mistake. Saviers is thought to he in Sacramento. I The attorneys in behalf of the ladies' belonging to the French suffrage; organization in this city, intend to take! their application for a writ of manda-1 mus, to eompel the county clerk to register their named, direct to the Su-, Su-, preme Court. . I i The Willamette valley and Cascade! i mountain wagon road, extending from 1 Albany to eastern Oregon, and cover ing a land grant of 800,000 acres, was j to-day purchawd by Mr. T. Egerton ! Hogg, on behalf himself and a company com-pany of San Francisco capitalists Calaveras Big Tree, 3. Among the1 arrivals to-day is J. J- C. Clark, of: the New York Herald, from the seat I of war in Amador. 1 O. L. Pond, of Buffalo, starts for i homo to-day with 300 negatives of the Vosemite Valley, antj ISO of the Big 'Trees in Calavaras county. Ha will ' stop in Salt Lako and take view of lUiah. t I 1 San Francisco, S. This afternoon a ! number of boys were playing near the , bay at foot of 5th street, when one of , them fell into the water and would ; havo been drowned had it not been for ! a Chinaman who was at work near and who jumped in and resoued the boy. Tho Democratic municipal couven-: couven-: tion met again this ovening, When P. , J. White was withdrawn from the con-I con-I test for sheriff. A ballot was theu taken, and George Green receiving I sixty-four votes was declared the nomi-nce nomi-nce for sheriff. -Mr. Green is a pioneer i and a butcher by occupation. Major j Rugles, who was in the war during j the rebellion in a Wisconsin regiment, and who for throe years has been chief i deputy clerk, received tho nomination I for county clerk. Andrew R. Haines i received the nomination for recorder i over D. J. Callahan. F. A. Seiberlich. and R. 0. Sturdivant. The convention conven-tion then adjourned. James Brenner, a German, aged 30, and a baker, hung himself this afternoon, after-noon, at 34 Evert St. No cause. Tho Republican convention this evening nominated Geo. Oulton, formerly for-merly controller, T. G. Garrett, aud Finney of Sau Mateo for Senators, and then adjourned till (Saturday evening. " i N E VAUA, . I Eureka, New, 3. Last night about 2 o'clock a German, named Wm. Eltoany, a miner from the Buckeye miue, while on his way home from town, was knocked down and robbed of $300 and other valuables. Ho was left insensible, until he was recovered at daylight. Tho perpetrators are not discovered. Miss E. h. Henry, keeper of a chop house, was robbed while temporarily tem-porarily absent from the houa of one hundred dollars. OH KG OX. Portland, Oregon, 3. A terrible storm of wind, rain and hail visited Walla Walla on Saturday cveuing. The storm passed directly over the town and iU track was less than a I mile wida, expending its force in half an hour; but in that short time a large amount of property was destroyed. On the farm of Judge Max a field of oats was utterly destroyed. Fruit trees wore stripped and the growing crop was ruined. The crops on soveral I other farms iu the track of the storm iwere entirely mined and orchards were stripped. Two houses were injured by I having their kitohens blown down, and j ten more were moved from their foun- drt0"6i J'frfl "fitter" ."Wjthmj1 mile, or storm until it was all over. A fire on the prairie in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Dalles recently spread ov er a large district, and has done considerable consid-erable damage. Most of tho farmers by hard work saved their crops. SECOND DISPATCH. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 4. The weather is unusually warm. Col. Van Smidt is purchasing mules for his engineering corps, and making arrangements to commence work on both ends of the tunnel through Sierra, and on the Alta Water company's works on the head waters of the American river with I a force of 300 men or more by the middle of this month. The legal difficulties having all been cleared away, the advertised sale of lota, on the Verba Buena Plaza, by the City Hall Commissioners, will positively pos-itively take place on the 14th inat. Senator Stewart's action in State swamp land matters, has called forth an indignant protest by the claimants, who havo telegraphed it to Washington. Washing-ton. H. Kotold, a sailor in a schooner from Humboldt, was washed overboard and drowned yesterday off Cape Mendocino. Men-docino. Two other sailors wero severely se-verely injured. The Meadow Valley Mining ooni-pany ooni-pany has declared a dividend of one dollar a share. It is estimated that fully 2,0u0 persons per-sons will join in the Italian procession on Sunday next, in honor of the occupation occu-pation of Rome aB the capital of the kingdom of ltnly. A large forco is at work at the Pa-villion Pa-villion to prepare for the opening of the fair. The work is badly behind, but enough has been dono to show that the fair will be fully twice as good as the last, the display of nearly overy kind of gooda being superior, and the Japanese and Chinese departments, depart-ments, whioh are unique, adding vastly vast-ly to the interest of the exhibition. |