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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The barley crop of Los Ange'.es county, coun-ty, in many cases, is a failure. An extensive beet sugar factory is to bo erected soon near the Mission San Francisco. Grapevine Springs, near Visalia, havo recently dried up. It is ascertained that Alexis will visit San Francisco on his return from ilong Kong. A woman has been arrested for incendiarism in-cendiarism at Vallcio. An agricultural society is to be formed in Monterey county. A lino of steamers is to bo put on the route from San Francisco to Ivalama. lion. John G. Downey, of Los Angeles, An-geles, goes his "alsy" on Horace Grcc- llust is said to bo making sad havoc in the wheat orop of portions of Los Angeles county. A young man named McClure was shot and dangerously wounded by a Spanish boy near Lincoln last week.- The property known as the What Cheer House, Sacramento, sold a few days ago tor d.uuu, NEVADA, Gilmer fc Salisbury's stage was upset up-set near Shingle Springs the other day. Several of the passengers sustained injuries. A child of Henry Fulstone, of Carson Car-son city, was choked to death with an orange peel a short time since. The "heathen Chinee" is turning the tables on "Melican man" by playing play-ing the role of highwayman on Treasure Treas-ure Hill. Tho foundry of John McCone, near Silver city, was destroyed by fire on Friday night. Chicken thieves are vigilant and active ac-tive in Truckee. Tho weather has been very warm at Reno of late. Governor Bradley and his daughter are now sojourning in Tennessee. Delightful weather has deigned a visit to Eureka at last. Fred. Zimmerman, Zim-merman, an old resident of Austin, died recently at Lida Valley. The body of a woman wag found at Twin Springs on the Austin and Virginia Vir-ginia road, a few days since. Letters were found on her person addressed to Mrs. Fifield, Pioche a supposed suicide. sui-cide. B. T. Hagadorn died recently in Gold Hill of a oongestive chill. MONTANA. The first mule train of the season arrived ar-rived at Deer Lodge last week. The prisoners confined in the Helena jail made an ineffectual attempt to escape es-cape a few days ago. Orders have been received in Helena to continue the surveys on the different routes for the Nortbern Pacific railroad. A new court house is about to be erected at lladersburg, at a oost of $17,3S4. Tho successful competitor for the West Point cadetship from Montana, was master John F. Forbes, a son of J. P. Forbes, of Helena. A fight took place between some fur-traders fur-traders and Piegan Indians at Sweet Grass Hill, between Benton and the Whoop Up country, about the first of April, in which four Piegans were killed kil-led and several wounded. IDAHO. A pack train of snow-shoed mules arrived at Beaver creek on the 10th inst. Kitty King, one of the demi-monde, suicided at Quartzburgh a few days ago. Al. Priest, tho escaped convict, was killed by a shot from a Henry rifle, near Hock Creek station, by a man named Kynearson, whose horses Priest had stolen and was making off with. Hon. F. L Ensign is the Democratic Democrat-ic candidate for district attorney for the third judicial district. The mining prospect in Owyhee is reported lovely. Major Joe. Huston is the Republican Republi-can nominee for delegate to congress. Times in Alturas county are reported gloomy. OREGON. Portland is preparing for the hugest Fourth of July ever seen in Oregon. Grading on the West Side railroad is still going ahead rapidly. The crops in Linn county never looked better than they do at the present pres-ent time. A salmon weighing fifty-seven pound was caught at Oregon city a few days ago. There are 2,224 persons in Polk county between the ages of four and twenty years. The late frosts have killed the plums and peaches on Tualatin Plains and cut down the corn and potatoes which were just coming up. One Hut too, of Marion county, has invented a portable tin cellar for keeping keep-ing butter solid and fresh. James Huntington, an old resident of Monticello, was killed by a train on the Northern Pacific railroad last week. Tho corner stone of the Sisters' academy aca-demy at Salem was laid May 14th. A boy named Jbleischman, living near Gervais, was dangerously wounded on Monday, by the discharge of a gun which children were playing with. |