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Show PACIFIt' COAST XEM S. CALIFORNIA. BurglaTB are annoying the people of San Jose. "apa county is rapidly increasing in wealth and popal&tion. Beans are in blossom at Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, and corn is knee bath. The apricot crop .in lie vicinity of Marygviile will be a general failure. A iiilroy company are going into the raising of tobaooo od a large scale. The Sacramento Calilornia pioneers have filed articles of incorporation. Lower California keeps on reporting ditooTeries of rich ores of silver and copper. in Inyo man has invented a hay press which is said to be ahead of anything any-thing in that line. , The Central Pacific Railroad company com-pany will immediately commence work in Contra Costa county. The governor has offered $1,000 reward re-ward for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of J. P. D. Wiikins, city collector of Stockton. The epiiootic in Los Angeles is passing pass-ing away alowly. It is rumored that cattle in that vicinity are afflicted with a mild type of the disease. The recent earthquake at Oakland shook the bottom oat of a well, so that it has been dry ever since, although it bad twenty feet of water befora the shock. Some Half-Moon Bay men recently went out fishing, but the sight of a grizzly induced them to conclude that they didn't care much about fishing, after all, and they sauntered homeward so fast that their hats blew off. The pariy of engineers of the N. P. C- railroad at work op Dutch Bill oreek, have run two preliminary lines to Russian river. The find a good route. They have not yet commenced the location. lo-cation. A Spaniard who got into a fight recently re-cently at Doty's ravine, Placer county, and was fatally atabbed, confessed before he died that he was one of the parties who murdered Mrs. Hannah Johnson near Lincoln, October 26, 1872, and fired the premise?. A desperate attempt was recently made to throw the Western Pacific train off the track at Altamoot, a station sta-tion in Livermore pass, and about sixty miles from Sao Francisco. In the morning a similar attempt had been made, and a guard being set to effect the cap tore of the ruffian, he succeeded succeed-ed in capturing him in the third attempt to accomplish hia purpose. Examination proved him to be insane. The necessary steps to prevent the recurrence re-currence of the lunatic's dangerous tricks have been taken. If aC VADA. At Elko a Chinaman has been sent to jail for thirty days for selling liquor to the Indians. The editor of the Virginia Chronicle has had the epizootio, and now sympathizes sym-pathizes deeply with the unfortunate horses. '.We very muoh doubt," Eays the Carson Appeal, "if there is a railway of like length iu the United States that does an equal amount of business to that which is transacted over the twenty-one miles of line between here and Virginia city." No; nor one that dare charge such extortionate freight rates. Captain Joe Son, the young ohief of the Humboldt Piutes, saya that twoi or three bad IndiaDS-of bie tribo have1 gone to the lava beds to join the Wo-1 docf. They left three weeks ago, and have not been heard from sinoe. Son thinks it probable that other. lodiaos from the Black Kook band joined them on the way to captain Jack'B camp. Says the Union ville Silver State ; We understand that a dozen Indian hunters over iu Central district would like to take a contraot from the government gov-ernment to clean out the Modocs. They will agree to deliver captain Jack and bhack Nasty Jim, with their six dozen followers, or their scalps, to the government agents in sixty days for $50,000, cash on delivery. They are all experienced fighters, and have reckoned the cost and responsibility of the undertaking. ORKGOX. A temperance billiard hall at Alba-nv Alba-nv has been opened. Carl Bosco, the illusionist, is performing per-forming to crowded houses in Portland. Port-land. It is expected that through navigation naviga-tion to Lewis to d, on tho Oolumbia river, will be resumed next week. An Oregon man who oame in with a fine deer said he hadn't violated the game law, for tBe-deer name up raod bit him and he Bhot it in self defence. Among the Indian embassy- who came from the lava beds to treat with the Peace Commission, it is said I that j Louis Land, a partner of Henry Miller, who wan one of the viotims of the tnassaore, and whese house was rifled of its oontents, recognized one of the murderers, as he rode up and proudly dismounted from a fine animal Btolen from him at the time. The scoundrel also sported a new suit of clothes which Mr. Land identified as his own. |