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Show j PACIFIC COAST XEWS. ! FIRST DESPATCH. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 23. Prof. Jllake, late State geologist, is stopping a few days at Oakland and will return to New York early in September. The Mechanics' Fair is proving so great a success that it may be run a week or ton days longer than advertised. adver-tised. The stockholders in O. 11. T., opposed op-posed to the collection of the last assessment, as-sessment, will meet, to-morrow afternoon after-noon lo make arrangements for contesting con-testing it in the courts. William Simpson, Kdward Stable and Garrett II. Hopper, named as members of the straight-out ttepubli-L ttepubli-L can nominating committee, decline to servo, and a number of others will do so. Los Angeles, '2'.'.. Liaul. Sears, of the U. S. engineer corps, arrived yes terday to superintend the construction of the first section of the Wilmington; breakwater, ,667 feet, in tho direct tion of Dead Man's Island. Tho con-: tract is let for $J,000, to be finished March 1st, 1S72. Two horse thieves were caught and 1 shot last week, between tho Llano j Verdi and Willow Springs, on the: Owen's river road. i Lieut. Wheeler's party, consisting ; of thirty-live men, led by Ilohn, a 1 well-known guide, which left Independence Indepen-dence some two weeks since for Death's : valley, was last hoard from via DeEert Springs, su tiering for want of water on the road. About tho same thimc ano ther officer and party left Indian Wells; for tho Colorado; and Boon after Lieut, j Loekwood left Desert Springs station, between Los Angeles and Owen's val-j Icy, with seventy-seven men. These; parties are all under the command and I comprise Wheeler's exploring expe-i dition. Thoy will rendezvous at Call-! ville, and proceed thence to PreseoU, j Arizona. Stockton, Ho. J. U. P.arlon, school! teacher in (lie Greenwood district, has! been arrested for cruelly chastising one j of his pupils. A large force of carpenters aro engaged en-gaged in erecting a payijljou lor San ' Joaquin agricultural fair, to lie hehl here next month. i Martinez, '2'X lion. K. J. lewis' aud W. C. lirown are discussing the I political issues of the day with lion. A. A. Sargent, at iho court house this! evening. ; Flaeerville, . Governor Raight j is now addros.sing an enthusiastic meet-j ing at this place. j Stockton, '2X A k'oung Men's Re- publican club has been formed in this, city, which already numbers -00 mem- j bers. It is expected that a large Dumber Dum-ber of persons will go on tho Kepubli-. can excursion to Sacramento on I'riday nc-it. t j Vallejo, '2-'. Hon. Mumoa jiooth and James G. Eastman address the citizens of this city this evening. The , largest Republican procession of the campaign, in Vailejo, was formed on Georgia street at 7:30, march jd down 1 Marine street to Virginia, thence to the Capital Hotel, and from there they escorted the speakers to their s-tand at tho corner of Georgia a.nd; 1 Marino. where they aro now addie-sin- mi cutliusia.-iic audience. At ihe c!u-j: the speakers will be escorted es-corted m ihe Cipitol Hotel by tho '- Jitf.'reni Republican dub-, tjuite a : number of pu'."Dtc and public buildings wore illumiDatod. and tbcir j a liberal , display of bliiiUP . f 91 one guns was arcj i-7 !"-' 111 blue,'' wiio feel jubilant ARIZ OX A. San Diego, Ad view from Xuc-son. Xuc-son. dated August 17th, say Governor i iaittord has atarted on a tour of explor-1 ation through the fastnesses of ihei Pinal and Mogallan mouniains. The! pariy arc well arnu-d and provisioned)' !".r fwu iiKiiitli-. A minder of t'.ii't ' tornian muw? aoouipany tin espi-ds lion. j I. i- ir.oilr. lh:.l LI. ill. hum .... , ul t'amp uniut. h-ta received a icle-1 graui from ihe Secretary of War, lo , call in as many Indians poa-it'le with i a viw 10 meet the jH-at- i-om mission -er. Geucitd Crook is uperuiiug north ot the Gila river. SKCOND lHSPA'l'CH. I (1I.IKOKMA. ! San Francisco, 24. The society oi the California pioneers will probably ; take charge of the late Don Abel iStearns, pending the decision as to their final disposition. The points agreed upon between : Col. Von Schmidt and the Central Pa-cilic Pa-cilic R. R. company, for the commencement commence-ment of the Lake Tahoe tunnel, on both sides of the mountain, are precisely pre-cisely those which the Colonel selected four years since, when he was endeavoring endeav-oring to have (lie railroad construct such a tunnel. The remains of Don Abel Stearic, of Los Angeles, who died at the Grand Hotel yesterday, will be sent to Los Angeles for interment. He was a native of Massachusetts, and resided in : California since $2$. He sent gold from San Francisquito canon to the .Philadelphia mint, five years before ; the discovery on Sutler's property at Co loin a. The straight out Republican committee com-mittee elected Prank Pixley chairman, I and will hold a secret session every ievening until the nominations arocom-i arocom-i plotcd. , Daniel Ford committed suicide by i taking strychnine last evening, at 15S I Latomcstreet. He was an industrious mechanic. No cause is known for the ! act. The American Quicksilver company, with a capital of $100,000, to operate in Lake county, California, was incorporated in-corporated to-day. Rumors about the Piiley-Slow imbroglio im-broglio are plentiful on tho street, and whenever either appears in public he is the centre of attraction for the moment. It is sale to predict that there will be neither a duel nor blond-shed. |