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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. C AL IFOR .VI A. San Diego has two gas companies. ban EernardiEO pays bounties for wildcat Ecalps. It is reported that at the 500-foot level a rich find has been made in the Pocahontas mine at Loetovrn. The Smith claim, near Spanish Dry Diggings, is reported as promising I from present appearances a rich yield. Farmers in the Caton valley are re-ijoicmg re-ijoicmg at the coming of plenteous rains. The crops are crowing finely. An artesian well at Los Angeles has got down about 230 feeL They havn't got any water yet, but they have struck a bcan'.ifdl lot of bone?. j 'J he Oakland railroad ompany has! filed in the office of the secretary oi State a certificate of increase of capital stock fron $50,000 to $JoO,000, Twenty-six fine Brahma chickens be-Icng'cg be-Icng'cg to J. C. Moody, druggist, weie iuilcd a few nights eince in San iratcisco by some animal which entered enter-ed the copp. San Diego has discovered the presence pres-ence of bull-frogs in the vicinity of that burg, and baa worked itselt to the verge of insanity tryiDg to ascertain how they came there. HoldeD, late of Calaveras, has been makir it some sensational cold discov eries in the Julian district, Southern California. Sargent, Coghlao and noughtOD' all voted for an increase of their salaues. "A magnificent edifice" is what San Francisco papers call the new offices building of the Central Pacific railroad company, to bo oompKt:d in Juno next, at a cost of $200,000. The California prison commission has had a quarterly meeting, and reported, as utua), an empty treasury and debt amounting to $350. A San Franoisco paper recently published pub-lished charges against the State Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, The principal prin-cipal and inmates unite in a card oi denial. An investigation will be held It is ssid (hat (he charges were started by a discharged employe. Los Angeles is cheered by the oroak of the bull-frog. There is a costly window shade in the Los Angeles supervisor's room. It ia a map oi' the county, for which the bjard paid $4 0. UK V AD A. Jerry Coughlau, deputy assessor at Hamilton, is seriously ill. New chamber of ore struck in the Eberhart and Aurora. Very rich. Canyon miniDg company, of Kobtn-aon Kobtn-aon district, building a new furnace and mill. Austin says: weather lovely, thermometer ther-mometer fifty, Enow melting and gutters gut-ters running like mill-races. Sixteen faro banks in Virginia and two in Gold Hil'. William A. Cook, caught between a car and bridge bulkhead at Crown Point ravine, Virginia &Truckee road. Killed. S dn?y Blair dreadfully burned by hot sulphuric acid. Dropped a silver bar into the acid. Eureka boasts a live Young America Amer-ica newsboy. Gold Hill morals are becoming quite loose; eo says the New?. John McMartin aod Adam Bay, railroad boys, cut each other's scalps and oontused their brains in a sanguine san-guine affray on Thursday. McMartin McMar-tin dangerou-ly injured. 1 he Belcher mining company declare de-clare a dividend of $4 per share. Join Hainbrodt stabbed severely by Beoj. Mi irao at Schell Creek. Whiskey. Whis-key. Snow so bii;h at Treasure Hill that people can't see across the street. Pioche miners are excited over a four-feet strike, said to assay $1,000 per ton. Thomas Lane, of Pioche, has invented invent-ed a superior patent hoisting works indicator. The Nevada legislature adjourned sine die Tuesday night. Any man in Pioche who is a habitual drinker of warm water is warned to leave town. The Record says it isn't true that a man in Pioche sent a thermometor to Bullionville to show how cold it had been. He didn't send it because when he took it to his biz store it didn't run regularly. One Schneider shot a man named Kyle in Empire ciiy on Wednesday, who died soon after. Ex-:ounty commissioner com-missioner Jcncs was also wounded in the affray. A Virjiiua city mcdioo announces that he lias sold out tho fancy goods portion of his business, and will hereafter here-after give bis solo and undivided attcn-lion attcn-lion lo tho drug business, "which is steadily incrca-iug." The Reese River Reveille correspondent correspon-dent denies (hat Jones bought Nye and at-ks : Why, oh why ; Should ho buy Jim Nye ? I pause for reply. Aud Echo says 'Why ' Should bf buy Jim Nye?" |