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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CAXIFOBJV1A. The paper mill at SanU Cr tug sold at auction for lX). A diamond expedition of thirty persons per-sons left San Francisco last Sunday. Large numbers of Mexican exiles are reported to be arriving in San 1'ran-cUco. 1'ran-cUco. The Commercial bank of San Diego has been organised, and a line brick bank building is to be erected immediately. immedi-ately. An effort is being made to induce the owners of ''Goldsmith Maid" and "Lucy" to have a trial of speed on the Napa and Solano fair grounds. Donovan, who was twice tried for murder, was on Tuesday sentenced by judge Dwindle, of San Francisco, to be hanged on tbe 13th of December. The little girl, Lixsue Eby, who suddenly disappeared a few days ago in San Francisco, has been found. She had only gone on a visit to the house of a friend. As evidence that the diamond mines are rich, it is notioed that all the returned re-turned diamond hunters Bport fine apparel, ap-parel, costly watohes and elegant jewelry. jew-elry. A surveying party of the San Francisco Fran-cisco and Northern Pacific- Railroad company (Stanford's road) have been engaged duriDg tbe last week finishing up their line on the Heed ranch. There seems to be a fixed dete: ruination rui-nation on the part of the Apachee to kill oil everybody in the Sonoita and upper Santa Orus valleys, and the omoers at Camp Crittenden believe the government-fed Apaohes at Camp Grant are the ones doing the work of death and destruction. All are armed with the best of guns and have fixed ammunition. OREGON, Ao. The "strangles" has broken out amoDg the horses at Victoria, and is killing many of them. The Senate of Oregon has refused to accept the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. An Kastern company has recently purchased the copper mine and works of Crane & Co., of Baker county. A correspondent at Baker City tells ub that the principal amusements of that place are horse racing, monte and litigation. Dan Moore, a Baker county miner, recently discovered some very rich gravel deposits on Shanghai gulch, Eagle Creek District. There is not a vacant habitation now existing in Castroviile. People are constantly enquiring for dwelling houses bat cannot fiod them The flouring mill at Turn water, Washington Wash-ington Territory, is now turning out 50 barrels of flour per day, and has 4,000 bushels of new wheat on hand. "Wapriato Dave," an Indian, has been held to answer before the grand jury of Marion, on the charge of murder mur-der in the first degree, for killing his sister-in-law. The gold quartz mines of Hog'em, belonging to Kockfellow, Reed, Pratt, and others, are yielding handsomely the shipments thence being from $4,000 to $6,000. Jonathan Briggs, of Marion county, takes the premium for old hand saws and whetstones. He has a saw which has been used eighty years, and a whetstone whet-stone aged 6fty-three years. A team being driven by judge Locke, of Benton county, ran away on Wednesday Wed-nesday last and threw tbe judge out of the wagon. He was badly hurt, being paralyzed for several hours. j The father of the girl who eloped with Jerry Dodge from CorvaliU, on Friday of last week, pursued the fugitives fugi-tives to Eugene, where he found his daughter and brought her home. An old man who bad never seen a : railroad nor a locomotive went to Al-1 baoy the other day, and as he saw thorn for the first time the sight overpowered over-powered him, and be actually fainted away. A little daughter of G. H. Benson, of Union county, accidentally got hold of a bottle containing some kind of peison, last week, and drank some of its contents, from the effects of which she died. vjne nunarea tnousana Dusneis ot grain have already been received at Tangent station, and it is believed that there will be 50,000 bushels more delivered de-livered at that place beforejthe winter sets in. Tho Piute IndianB have commenced hostilities in Idaho, having driven several sev-eral settlers from their ranches about the Crow Creek lakes, barned their houses, and stolen their stock. The oitizens of Silver city have organized and started in pursuit of the maraudj ing Indians, HKVADA. Austin Liberals and.Demoorats are reported apathetic The comer stone of tho new Odd Fellows hall, at Virginia city, was laid with imposing ceremonies, on Wednesday. Wednes-day. The laying of the corner stone of the Reno Masonic hall, on Tuesday, was participated in by the Odd Fellows, Masons, and Bed Men. A malignant type of Boarlot fever is prevalent among the children of Virginia Vir-ginia airy.- |