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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. FIRST DISPATCH. OIlK(iOi. Albany, li'J. To day, the fourth day of the Linn eoaiity lair, passed oil' quietly. The weather is beautiful and the attendance largo. For draft horses, Clellaud & Wcslfall, of the Albany dray and hack company, received the lirst premium. For the best span of horses for all work, Charles .Barns received re-ceived the lirst premium. The trotting trot-ting at 4 p.m., mile heats, best two in three, for a purse of $-1,0110, created . more interest than :my previous race ! during the present week. Six heats 1 wero trotted, mid the race was won by "Joe Teal:" time, ;i.l2, 3.10, 3 Jl, .3.011, 3.0S, 3.07. Two gamblers were arrested this afternoon fur passing countei lei I money. Mrs. J. Blakeley Frost is lecturing this evening in the court house against women's suffrage, in answer to Miss Susan Ji. Anthony last night at the same place. SKCOND DISPATCH. CALIFORNIA. Sau Francisco, MO. The jury in the municipal court case of F. Uoircrs, indicted for assault to murder Francisco Uerrcra, who went to servo an ejectment eject-ment notice on him, the bullet carrying away a slip of llerrera's scalp, found j a verdict of guilty as charged. Tho board of fire underwriters is considering the propriety of adopting the following general basis for rates , hereafter : Wholesale, store risks, GO to 75 eU. per cent ; first class retail store risks, I per cent; plain dwelling houses, if to 1 percent ; warehouses, : to J per cent. The fire and '.valer committee of supervisors is holding secret sessions, investigating tho matter of the recent firo in Market street. They will publish pub-lish the full " testimony as soon as the investigation is completed. It is understood un-derstood the testimony will show that the greater part of the loss was due to gross incompetency on tlie part of the officers in charge of tho lire department at the time. The Meadow Valley and Raymond & Ely mining companies have effected a compromise, and a division of the : 200 feet of ground intervening between them and heretofore in dispute. The ground was placed in an incorporation under the Meadow Valley extension some weeks since ; by the compromise tho Meadow Valley retains forty-five feet of the gionud, including tho shaft, aud the Ely 155 feet, and pay. tho Valley Val-ley $'28,840 for the difference, oral the rale of 10 per share tor 2,884 shares, the cxteusion stock hold by the latter company. The two miucs with fif'iy stamps are now producing $4,000,000 per year, or oue-third as much as the entire Comstock vein. San Francisco, 3u The Grand Lod.cc of California, I. O. U. T., in session at Oakland this week, have adjmirncd to meet next year nt Val lejo. - -. . . Jlenry Wattin, a collector, whose insanity was evinced by receiving a check for $125 for a bill of $25, and failing to re turntlie odd hundred, and Henrietta Thompson, well known on Barbary Coast, recently in the county jail as a vagrant, were sent to the insane in-sane asylum to-d:.y. The Knickerbocker Mining Company, Com-pany, lo operate in Story county, Nev., with a capital of $2, loo.UUU," was incorporated in-corporated to-day. Trustees, B. F. . Sherwood Jos. Pc La Mnntiiquc, 1' ' St niter and S. 11. Flmrg. The steamer JjtitOic, for China, today, to-day, had 52U passengers, of whom -175 Were Chinese; $2(0,0ui in Measure, and meiehandisc to the value uf $1'J0,-000, $1'J0,-000, including a thousand llks of quicksilver, 2,luu lbs. nf II jur and 2,Si0 sacks ami bexs (' potatoes The city mills lo day advanced Hour : to $ti.55(" 7.00 for mi pcrli tie, and $7.75 t." s.uu lor extra. hw Angeles, :;:. The subscription ; ior the purchase, of an opposition, or : people a, slenuiertliruuiih this and the lower cuuntic, including- this city, reaches about '.'0,000, allejo, 3o. The match game at 1 base ball, between the "Liberties" of: San Francisco, und tlio Vallejo base ball club, was ijLiyed to day at Vallejo, ! the allejo club winnintr. Score:1 ''Vallejos" "o, "Lilitics' 17. Capt. P. t Pope has been detached from the Sxrajiac and ordered to ihe l'acitic fleet a fleet marine otlieer Admiral meow's iUg will nut U transferred from the Xantuac to the ( ahjbrmtr for a week. OREGON. rottl.iud. 30. Small-pox is ragitjg at Walla W a'la; fourteen cases are reported. re-ported. u'1 IaviDi 00 Northern raemc R. K.. coaimcnccd at Kalama yesterday. The track wili be laid 1 across the UarrL-burg bridge lo-mor- row. " 1 Surveyors are enpaeod survevingthe i route of the street railroad, a'long B' streeL Ileal esuto is becoming hrik ! again. Tlie wheat market active. The market range is $2 15(" 2 2r per cent., all with sacks. Very choice wheat commands $2 oO. Fl.ur is firm, at $7 for eitra. ( Corn is very scarce. Many-wheat Many-wheat dealers are awaiting the arrival of the steamer for means to make further purchases. j |
