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Show PACIFIC COAST REWS. CALIFORNIA. Joseph II. Brooks, an old resident of San Francisco, was found dead in an outhouse on Sacramento street, of that city, one day last week. 0. A. Kidder, county clerk of Solano county, is still missing. Nine feet of snow yet remains on tho summit of the Sierras. Another quicksilver mine has been discovered in Fresno county. The wife of Charles Kidder, the missing clerk of Solano county, is an applicant for the position held by her husband. The trip by rail and stage from San Francisco to Portland is made in four days and a half. The subject of constructing a canal from Colusa to Suisun bay is still agitated. agi-tated. The first ripe cherries of tho season has been produced in general Bid well' garden at Chico. The agents for tho society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, are making it lively for the cock-fighters in San Francisco. Lorenzo Elminger.who slabbed himself him-self and jumped into the bay from Pacific street wharf, two weeks ago, has since died. Leonard F. Fowler, a notorious western counterfeiter, was arrested it San Francisco on Wednesday, i L. K. Turner, whose recent bread of promise suit against a wealthy olc 1 Mexican gave her some notoriety, ha; ' been arrested in San Francisoo for per jury. The Jones-Sharon controversy hai caused a falling off in stocks. It ii the all-absorbing topic in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. General Colton and judge Hagcr hac a bit of a discussion "wid fists" in Sao Francisco,the other day, and in the progress pro-gress of the controversy F. McCrellish, of the Alfa, came in for a stray punch. NEVADA. The Jones and Sharon difficulty is eliciting a great deal of comment. The charge of firing the mine is not generally gen-erally oreditcd. Judge Hupp fired a pistol at Horace Jones, in Austin, the other day, and Jones reciprocated by knocking down the luminary of the law, and kicking him severely. The troubl"- grew out of a mining suit. The snow laid on the ground six inches in depth, at Eureka, on Wednesday Wed-nesday last. The mint s and business prospects of Belmont are locking up. List week, Manuel Francisco, a Portugese Por-tugese brakesman on the Virginia and Truckee railroad, was thrown from a car, which pas-ed over both his feet, crushing them in a terrible manner. ORKGON. The Indians of the Grand Ronde reservation havo established justices' courts. A large immigration is flowing into eastern Oregon. W. B. Carter is now solo proprietor of the Corvailis Gazelle. Isaac Maybcw, a wealthy farmer of Polk county, has disappeared, and it is fi-ared he has been murdered. Mrs. K F. ictor, authoress, has left Oregon for New York, to make arrangements lor the publication of a large edition of "All about Oregon and Washington. " The steamer Shoshone, launched at tho P.illes, on Saturday, had a hole knocked in her bottom. She has been rep lired. Rev. Thos. O. Condon had his collar bono broken by the upsetting of a stage on the Deschutes hill, n:ar Canyon Can-yon city. |