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Show PACIFIC COAST KEWS. CALIFORNIA. There will be only about a half crop of cherries in Napa Valley this season. A seminary is about to be erected at North San Juan. A beautiful and swift bay mare belonging be-longing to Mr. Woodward, of Napa, fell in the harness on Wednesday, while in a funeral procession, and died on Thursday. Sea bathing at Santa Cruz has already al-ready commenced. Dolly Varden dou-chcrs dou-chcrs and other fashionable bathingdrcs-sos, bathingdrcs-sos, have been provided for ladies who do not take their own "rig," Captain E. D. Baker, late of California, Califor-nia, has been appointed district quartermaster quar-termaster for Utah, and reports to general gen-eral Morrow at Camp Douglass. Mr. Iverson, of Salinas city is boring an artesian well f ir the supply of the town. Five hundred freight cars, laden with merchandise for export, are encumbering encumber-ing tho Central Pacific railroad tracks, there not being a sufficient number of locomotives to move them. Sacramento is to celebrate Independence Indepen-dence day in fine style. The new water pipes in Sacramento were tested on Saturday. They stood a pressure of 130 pounds. In San Diego, on Friday, two thousand thous-and six hundred head of stock horses, mules and steers were sold to a San Francisco firm for $15 per head. Two colts belonging to John Lock and one on the Dennison ranch were killed a few days since by a California lion. A short time previous a oow bo-longing bo-longing to A. Guerrero was killed by a bear. The San Mateo hunters aro after af-ter the "varmints." Uncle Billy Force, an old pioneer of Santa Clara, died of apoplexy in that place on Wednesday night week. John Hennic was killed at the Gwinn mine, Calaveras county, on Thursday, by falling from a ladder in the shaft. Gerrilt Welton, familiarly known as "major Welton," a well-known builder died in San Francisco on Sunday morning. mor-ning. The mother of Willie Morgan, the little boy who was killed at the Mission Mis-sion depot, San Francisco, at the sight of her child's mangled body went into convulsions and died soon afterward. Harvesting is being rapidly pushed forward in tho valley of the San Joa quin. A large fire occurred at Napa Junction, Junc-tion, about twelvo miles from Yallejo, j on Friday. I NEVADA. I Railroad mining district is turning out well. An unusually large number of large trout are being captured in lakes Big-ler Big-ler and Donner. Business in Virginia city is reported very quiet. The friends of Jones and Sharon are still wire-pulling for their respective favorites for the United States senate, the Yellow Jacket fire to the oontrary notwithstanding. Tho Savage mine is said to yield 200 tons of ore per day, and the Belcher 3U0. The Carson river coutinucs to rise. OUKGON. Portland is to have city gardens. The Santiam lead and iron mines give rich promises. Caterpillars are doing much damage in Benton county. Swarms of canary birds, wild and freo, are in and about Lafayette. Lite frosts have killed the fruit in the vicinity of East Portland. Twenty five hundred acres of flaxseed flax-seed have been sown in the State this year. The Oregon and California railroad is completed to Estes', forty miles south of Eugene. A town has been laid out ou the Martin place at the point where the Oregon Central strikes the Yamhill river. J. M. McConnell, a Lyon oounty, Oregon, farmer, expects to harvest this season, should crops prove reasonably fair, fifteen or sixteen thousand bushels of wheat and fjur thousand bushels of oats. |