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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. FOtST DISPATCH. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 11. C. B. Lewis, foreman of the masons on Marc island, publishes in the Alia, an open letter, two columns in length, addressed to John M.lCoghlan, Al. C. from the third district, denouncing him for all sorts of alleged abuses in the matter of appointments to positions at tho yard and political tergiversations generally. He charges that he has boasted that ho meant to make tho navy yard a Coglilau yard, and haslmade war in every manner upon those who were favorable to other candidates before the recent election. Joel Clayton, who discovered the Mount Diablo coal deposits, in spite of the advico of geologists who insisted that the formation of the district precluded pre-cluded the possibility of such discoveries, discov-eries, died yesterday. Stocks appear rather quiet this morning, though tho market is moderately moder-ately strong. For Ely 133 was bid on the street before the board; for Eureka consolidated 2S, Meadow Valley 20. The light for a controlling interest in the Eureka consolidated isnownarrow-I isnownarrow-I ed between two companies, and the i struggle between them promises to be 1 a sharp one. ! Stockton, Cal., 11. Yesterday as : the San Andreas stage was on the way .between North America and Jenny Lind, the driver saw a man in the brush who from the appearance and the locality he thought he was a highwayman high-wayman who had stopped the stage on a previous occasion. He immediately turned and went back to North America, Amer-ica, raised a party of armed men, and overhauled and surrounded him. He would not surrender and fought desperately. des-perately. The party fired on him, wounded him in the head, arm and leg, when he was secured and brought to Jenny Lind where he now lies probably proba-bly fatally wounded. He acknowledged the other robberies, and confesses having hav-ing robbed the stage on other occasions. occa-sions. OREGO.V. Portiand, 10. A man named A. Mason was found last nicht lying in bed with his throat out, and under the ! influence of a powerful drug. Ho is still alive, but has no knowledgo as to how he came in that condition. SECOND DISPATCH. CAL.I1TUUMA. San Francisco, 11. A Brownsville dispatch says 2o,000 cattie have been stolen by organized gangs of Mexicans since the middle of February. Retaliation Retali-ation is probable. Lt is reported in the stock board today to-day that the vain in the Fieclu mine has pinched down to six inches, with the prospect of "petering" out entirely, whioh account for the decline in the stock. A private dispatch says major Goza Harozthy, late of California, cow in Nicaragua, wis attacked by highwaymen, highway-men, one of whom struck him two blows with a sword. He shot the man who cut him. and escaped to a haei-endo, haei-endo, where his wounds were dressed. . EVA DA. Lii"U. II. Between the hours of one and rive this morning nine prisoners prison-ers es-aped from the county jail. They : raised o:;c of the heavy stones in the ! tioor and dug their way out. All had shackles, and ail were of the party who escaped t'roai the Carson State's prison in September last, and were to have had their trial on that charge to-day. There U 20 doubt they received help from outside paraes. The governer has onered fii1 rewrd eah, tor iheir recapture and return. Yuxinia, i i . At Silver city yesterday, yester-day, William Kilmania, bborer, went into a saieoa, sat down and died in three minutes from congestion oi" the lungs. He waa biriiid fo-day. |