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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Sao Dieo is to have another baok. The Straight-out Democrats will poll a heavy vote id Sonoma county. Lizzie Hudson thinks that $20 is a very light fioe for sticking a knife into a man. The late severe gale blew off a large part of the apple crop of Los Angeles. The oranges suffered but little. The Pacific railroad company are making an active oanvass of Los Angeles An-geles couuly in the interest of subsidy. Hallidie & Co., of San Francisco, have just completed the first submarine telegraph cable ever constructed on this coast. Under the new law it is an offense for voters to disclose the complexion of their ballots or intimate how they intend to vote, within one hundied feet of the polls. ' The officers of the Santa Clara valley val-ley agricultural society propose to make up a purse of $4,000, for a race between "tbo Queens" over the San Jose turf. The ftlarysville "Appeal" says: It is reported that tbe Chinese are digging dig-ging the bulbs of tho tule quite extensively, exten-sively, and will adopt them as a vegetable vege-table substitute for potatoes. Jacobs & Sareent are rigging up tbeir claims at Quaker Hill for extensive exten-sive workings the coming winter. The claims are opened at several places in bolter shape than ever before. They are putting in new flumes and will run five monitors. An amateur artist and ex-journalist, who visited Saucelito last week on a sketching and general observation tour, collected some fine, highly-oolored leaves with which to decorate ruatio picture frames belonging to lady Iricnds, and now wo notice an increased demand for poison oak remedies. Mr. Hickok, the driver of "Lucy," said in the judge's stand, after the race with "Occident," that biB mare ; would undertake to beat any trotting time now on record "Goldsmith Maid's" 2:16i being the incentive to make the remark if tho bnokor of Time would utako $5,000 against $2,-500. $2,-500. Tbe trial to oomo off in ten days, over tho Oakland Trotting Park. SK VADA Greon, of Hamilton, has accepted the challenge of Foss, of San Krancisoo, for a race on the Sierra Nevada Summit. Sum-mit. i A week from to day Austin is lo have a horse mce for 8200. Distance, 500 yards. Horses, "Pinole" and "Boloher." Robinson district reports new strikes of mixrd go'd aud silver. The Yellow Pine Copper and Galena Mining Company also filed its certificate certifi-cate of incorporation. Object; Mining in Yellow Pine district, Lincoln county, Nevada. Capital stock, $5,000,000. OK EGO N, .c. John Pyne was dangerously wounded woun-ded by tbe accidental discbarge of a pistol, in Helena, on Tuesday. Mrs. Stone, of Bozemao city, Oregon, Ore-gon, is tbo first white woman who ever visited the hot spring on tho Yellowstone. A scheme js on foot in Walla Walla (o annex that county to Oregon, and petitions arc beini; circulated asking ihat portion of Washington Territory lyiug south ol Snake river ,to be annexed an-nexed to Ort gon. Oregon no'- only claims to have found a new poet, but is proad of him as the workman poet. His name is Stephen May belt, and be is described in tbe local papers to which his effusions effu-sions have been confined as bciog as modest as he is poelioal. |
