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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS J l'IKST DISPATCH. (Al.lt'OUSl.V. San Franci-co. 1. The 2"iJ baleof Australian wool, received by the City nf.UleaoJe, from Sydney, will be sent overland. The Ai.icrifi id day carried the heavir-t cji'lu which ever left this port by steauier. It included 7,01)0 barrels uf flour i'r China. One of the iii-t nets of the new Fijian Fi-jian government was to advertise for proposals for laborers. The defeated t Lavoni nibe was transported bodily to: fievuka and .onteiued to hard labor for life. The Tolulah luiuiiiL' coin pa uy has levied an assessment of one dollar a share. The announcement that the. Lady Kyan is free from debt, has a line body of ore, and may be expected ex-pected to pay dividends, does not send up the loek, which closed at $o to-duy. j Jackson. Cat.. 1. The followiug nominations were made by the Democratic Demo-cratic county convention to-day: For : tiie Assembly, 11. L. Waldo; county judge, F. M. Pawling; sheriff, John Logan; clerk, 1). B. Spagnoli; treasurer, treas-urer, J. Meehau; assessor, J, W. Scott; district attorney, Turner; administrator, A. Goak; superintendent superinten-dent of schools, S. G. Briggs. San Jose, 1. An important arieat has been made. About five years ago a Mr. Walker was murdered at Mountain Moun-tain View, by a man named Ilaun. The murderer escaped, aud tliore was, no eluo to his whereabouts until two 1 weeks ago, when Sheriff Harris heard he was at Loue Pine, Owens Kivcr, I Inyo county. Harris started on his ! journey and arrived at Independence, where he learned that Ilaun was working work-ing iu a blacksmith shop at Owens river, under the name of Wilson. Fn-: tering tho shop Harris seized him by; i the hand with a cordial greeting,, '"Hallo! how are you, Wilson? " eu-, eu-, tirely disarming suspicion, aud leading him away from the bench, on which! lay a six-shooter. Whilst engaging his attention, Harris slipped (he handcuffs on one wrist. Haun drew back the1 other to strike, at the same time ask-i ing what was wanted. Harris pre-, tended he had a warrant for his arrest' for burglary, at Sacramento, two years' ago, upon which Haun submitted to be j handcuffed, saying he could prove he J had been in that placo four years, i When, however, he was lodged in jail , at Independence, and was told the true ' cause of his arrest, he vowed he would ! never have been taken alive if ho had been told so at the first. Harris arrived ar-rived in town this morning with Ins ' man. Walsonvillo, 1. The Democrats of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties held a joint Senatorial Convention here today, to-day, and nominated Thomas Beck, of Watsonvilic, as candidate for Senator for the district, comprising the above counties. The Republicans of this place have formed a Booth and Pa-checo Pa-checo club. SKCON'D DISPATCH. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 2. California Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of White . Men, was incorporated to-day. ' The Democrats have nominated Tyler Curtis for Mayor, and have rcnomin-! rcnomin-! ated Hon. Jno. W. Dwinello for Judge jof the 10th District Court. The Ke-; Ke-; publican County Committee has ap-i ap-i pointed as a delegation to the Legisla-! Legisla-! tive Nominating Convention the entire j list of delegates who represented this city in the Sacramento State Conven-! Conven-! tion, and ordered that no proxies be j allowed in the convention, but in ease of absentees or vacancies tho remaining remain-ing delegates from the ward may cast the vote or may appoint other dele-; dele-; gates to fill the vacancies. The con-I con-I vention is to meet to-morrow evening ! at S p.m. Capt, Parker, superintendent of the j Pacific coast wrecking company, who went down to Ecuador to investigate the condition of the wreck of the Span-i Span-i ish frigate Secadia, sunk in 1S02 with four millions of treasure on board, returned re-turned by the last steamer and reported re-ported the prospect for saving the bulk of treasure excellent. He thinks not more than one million has been raised, ; and the remaining three millions oan ! be got at with comparatively little difficulty. I Two Chinamen were arrested last 'night in the act of attempting to kidnap kid-nap a Chinawoman and carry her off in a hack. They are both booked for kidnapping, and one of them for assault as-sault to murder, he having struck a Chinawoman on the head with a hatchet. |