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Show iDyW. U.Tolesrraph.J PACIFIC COAST NEWS. San Francisco, 28. Johnny Devine alias "The Chiokeu" was today examined ex-amined on the charge of murdering August Kauip, whom he assassinated fur twenty dollars, aud waa held for trial, no bail being allowed. The experiment of tiring 16 inch guns from wooden platforms instead of stone ones, was made to-day at Aloatras, and the result wa pronounced by military engineers aud othero completely satisfactory. satisfac-tory. The expense of constructing the new defences will be materially lessened by the substitution of wood for stone, in mount ine the heav guns. The La Grange Ditch and Hydraulic Hydrau-lic mining company, capital five millions, mil-lions, to take water from Indian bar. Tuolumne river, for miuing and irrigating irriga-ting in Stanislaus county, was incorporated incor-porated to-duy. Affidavits of citizens of Arizona, engaged en-gaged in the so-called Camp Grant Apache massacre, and of the Iudian scout who trailed the Apaches after their last raid on the settlements directly di-rectly into the eump of Camp Grant, published in the Arizona Citizen of June 10th, appear very conclusive as to the guilt of the Indians. The Magdalena Bay victims say, that before leaving they were all required re-quired to sign a certificate that they came out from New York as colonist-), this certificate being wanted by the Lower California couip my to back up their claim aguiust the Mexican government. gov-ernment. As soon as the certificate was obtained the company's agents repudiated re-pudiated all connection with tho person per-son who contracted for bringing them out, and they were allowed to leave the country on signing another agreement, agree-ment, releasing the company from all : responsibility for wages or damages. The stock market broke badly at the ; afternoon board, and after the board the feeling in the street was something approaching a panic. News that Booth was nominated D5 ' acclimation, Selby withdrawing, haf just been received, creating some ex citement among politicians. |