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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tulare county is goiDg to build a new jaiL, The streets of CloTerdile are to be graded. Spotted fever is worrying the people of Tulare county. Tbe epizootic has put in au appearance appear-ance at Fresno aity. Vallejo complains because eomo scamps are poisoning valuable dogs. Sao Bernardino boasts of strawberries strawber-ries three inches in circumference. Vallejo school children amuse themselves them-selves by scalping each other with tin cans. Two residents of Alameda wore poisoned last week by eating bogus mushroom p. The yield of wool io Tehama couofy this spring is estimated at 1,21)0,000 pounds. There is preat demand for small houses in the towns in the southern part of the State. Col. Gatewood, a Sao Bernardino editor, has been indited for libeling jndee Widney. Healdfiburg rejoices io a two-bit bath house,' bat the people don't hanker after baths. Wm. Holliday was thrown from a horse and severely injured, near "apa, on Friday last. Land is rapidly appreciating in Free-no Free-no county, aod now brings from $12 to $-0 per aoro. The people of Fresno county are insisting in-sisting that it shall rain, because ibe late sown grain is suffering. N. K. V hi: e aides, of ilurysvllle, has reoeived a number of persimmon and bamboo plants frooi Japan. Buselmeicr's gun shop at Healds-burg, Healds-burg, was visited by a burglar, who got away with $75 worth of goods. There is great Bport to be had in Sau Gregorio creek at present in cat chine salmon with hook and line. Largo quantities of bnllion are stopped at Owen's lako owing to the lack ot transportation. Bears promenade the streets of San Bernardino nightly, to the terror and disgust of timid citizens. Dr. Sbeltoo lately cut a bee tree in Devil canyon, San Bernardino county, i which contained ten feet of solid honey, ! The new furnace of tbe Green Mountain copper mine is now completed, com-pleted, and the work of smelting programing pro-graming favorably. The San Jose woolen mill has shut down for repairs. It says it has orders from Chicago whioh it will require months to 611. San Jose now boasts of producing a ohiokenwith four wings, four legs, two necks, one head and one breast bone, ! having two separate bodies. I Whole fields of grain that were in ! promising condition a few weeks agi, i in Tulare county, havo been entirely j destroyed by an army of black crickets which cover the ground, looking like ! strewn blackberries. A Napa bonifaoe recently grated a quantity of mandrako and,served it to his boarders for horseradish. Fortune-ately Fortune-ately for him, those who partook of it I were too weak to put a head on him, but they did a powerful sight of "cussin." NEVADA.. Miss Emma J. Jones of Virginia has been elected State delegate to the Pacific Temperance convention at San Fraocipoo. Last Friday three hundred and seven cars passed over tho road between Carson and Virginia the heaviest day's work yet done by this road. A youngster of Virginia, badly afflicted afflic-ted with the epizootic, drank a bottle of Florida water by mistake and is as gay as a oriaket. During January tbe Comstock mines yielded $1,242,919.33; during February, Febru-ary, $1,684,068.58 an increaso of $141.14955. Effective work is bclog done in the mines of the Newark company. Wilson Duohip, a Gold Hill broker, has absconded. His creditors have i started a detective after him. Jtromo Smith, a Virginia cattle dealer, has been stabbed and danger-ou.-'ly wounded by one Cravco. The capitol building in Carson has bcrn insured for $100,000. Tom Connors died at Robioson district dis-trict on the 24th alt., from delirium tremens. Virginia, according to a local statistician, statis-tician, devours yearly 2,7o7,oOO pounds of becf. A rich strike has been made in the Ward Beecber mine, about 200 feet from the surface. Tbe Whito Pine News states that $50,000 havo been deposited as paid-up paid-up capital for tho new bank. Tho Carson Appeal weloomos the return of the robin, and invokes dire retribution against the hoodlum youths who will shoot at the beautiful bird, i The people of Austin are engaged in setting out locust trees for shade. They are very successful. Gold Hill is attiicted with book peddlers ped-dlers of the won't-takc-no-for-an-ans-wcr" style of architecturo. Tbc Gold Hulitcc arc beginning to talk about picnioc and all because a ray uf sunshine came down upon them one 1 Jay last week. The Eureka Sentinel states that the s work of laying water pipe?1 from New j York canyon to Baby liiil and the 1 j mines further north is about com-, com-, ' pletcd. i Surface dicciDgs axe all the rage around L monviii: now. Miners have i been prospecting Cottonwood canyon, and struck "two bits to the pan and "t the bed nxk pitching.'' On the Hayes mine, owned by the Hayes s:!ver nr. nine compscj, work . ha been pu-hfd lorward urtil over tons of rock, estimated to wark j'cioO per ton, lia accumulated on the , dump. :! Tr.o l'ivhc Ke.v.i. a 'vo.-v.rs grip cu'i'jre in L'nr-.n onin;y, ar.d rcrjvas '- , ibai the sp'cndiJ ; ivy oi the M oddy, ' m the m u'hfa-tora ; art of the coumy, , prrnf an ara ot mrtoy c,y:iro ti-ilt .over wi'.-h v,r... yards can b; p.anicd. i Tri.1 ircir.U Hjt'-ipri-e man ha -:bccn looking at tnc d-vh-Sh, and i-rr i-rr owl to .-ay i hit it hoks no rtorc c like ihe milt "i M'v hhn tlm ti p'.c j ;n the d'ep than docs a sk-.Lncd o i like a bright and go:-c;ui poav?ck.' 1 He is &s kCu as oouid be expected. j OKEUOV. 1'jrtiand is measjy. . Dregon his the cbtcken-pox. Oretron expects a large immigration from isoonio. TLe base ball fever baa broke out wiih renewed vigor at Portland. The arrival of a fresh supply of irjca-les from Portland is announced in Kut:ene. A warehouse which will hold IU0,-ikhj IU0,-ikhj bushels of wheat is being bui't at HarrL-burg. J The oi;posi:i:n on the Willaxotie riv. r is red hot. and the shippers ccm-p37a;ive!y ccm-p37a;ive!y c?ol. I'ortland.'ts have '"onned their linen clothes f r the purpose of enjoying a spring Bhiver. K is era tourists are doing Oregon and going into eastacias over the Co'-nmbia river scenery. The prisoners at the State prison have been relieved of their Gardner shackles. Humane, at all events. Two men qiarrelcd at Forest Grove about a chew of tobaoco, aod the result was that one had his chest punctured by a knife in the hands of the other. A man waating to borrow $1,000 in Portland, was compelled to pay $100 for the use of it ten days, and give real estate security for $3,U0Q Io Baker Ciiy everybody is a spiritual spirit-ual medium, and a stranger cannot go into a Ltou-e without being knocked by flying tables and chairs, and being interviewed in-terviewed by the ghost of his grandmother. |