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Show PACIFIC COAST KEWS. 1 FIRST DISPATCH. i CAMPOKNiA. I Sau Francisco, 21. Mining stocks ! I very weak this week and sales to-day ! ( unusually light. ! 1 The barometer continues (o full, and : j it is growing hnay, giving hopo of the ' j approach of a storm. : The Pacific insurance company will, i j it is understood, meet all losses, and in I any event pro: cot the present poliey-I poliey-I holders, but no more policies' will bo ' 'issued at present. It is understood that tome of the heavy stockholders will ini;t on no policies being issued . i until tho legislature acta upon Iho , ; proposition for limiting the liabify ofj j stockholders in insurance companies. , , They Fay that they aro willing to make J good all liabilities up to dale, but do ' j uot want to incur the risk of utter ! ' ruin in case of a repetition of the '. I Chicago disaster. ; The struggle for tho appointment of j the adjutant generalship of the State, i under governor Booth, is becoming ! lively, several really first class oflicers I being candidates. Col. John P. Sber-j Sber-j burne, late adjutant general of this de-j de-j partment, U. S. A., is reeommonded ! i by nearly all the leading oflicers of the j regular army on this coast, cud by a j largo number of leading citizens and ; ! influential business men. It has been : proposed to appoint a German to' the offieo, but the German clement is hardly represented in the national guard at present. Line, the absconding cashier of the Great Barring ton, Mass., national bank, whose arrest here with over $22,-000 $22,-000 of the plunder on him was telegraphed tele-graphed ten daj'a since, will be taken back to Massachusetts for trial next week. j ' ARIZONA . Los Augeles,. 24. Two inches of snow fell at Prescott, Arizona, on Saturday. Several hundred head of govcrnmct cattle were attacked by Indians in Chino iValley, who captured and wounded about 100. Savages are making cattle raids in and around the valley. A parly are out from Prescott in pursuit. Kcports of Indian outrages out-rages aro received from all parts of the Territory. Tho Arizona Miner, Prescott, Pres-cott, just received of date JSth, gives full account of tho pursuit of the savages sava-ges engaged in the" WLckcnburg stage massacre. Tho Indians wore probably proba-bly about 50 in number, 20 of whom rode hora?s. Tho trail was followed until the party were well satisfied tho Indians wore from Dale Creek Reservation. Reserv-ation. Accounts from Camp Dale show that on tho 4th, Tub and Oth, large numbers of Indians were absent from the reservation. Some sixty men organized and armed at Prescott, with the intention of taking vengeance and killing aU on tho reservation, but they finally decided to leave the matter for Gen. Crook to investigate. |