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Show PACIFIC COAST JEWS. CALIFORNIA. SamL Box, of Santa Rosa, has five Htde Boxes. Uncle Washington Guthrie, Guth-rie, on Saturday, went to gather the Boxes, but died in the attempt. SamL id under arrest for murder. Mrs. Fair recovered a judgment of $S,600 against Mrs. Lane. Mrs. Lane attempted suicide with laudaDam, aad the San Francisco papers are laughing at her. Parties are stirring up another Arizona Ari-zona diamond fever in San Francisco. Small pox has appeared in Wood-bridge, Wood-bridge, San Joaquin county. Tne hrst shipment of freight from San Diego direct to the ast was forty loos of wool on the 10th instant, by the steamer Constitution. Fires in the forests of Russian river have filled the atmosphere ot Sonomo county with smoke. Stocks weakened in the San Francisco Fran-cisco market on Thursday, and the previous pre-vious anticipations of a rise are not likely to be realized. Up to this time over $6,250,000 have been collected as tariff duties at the port of San Francisco this year. Hon. A. A. Sargent is slowly recovering recov-ering from the prostration attending the recent surgical operation he submitted sub-mitted to, and expects to be abroad again in the course of a week or two. It appears that the whaling fleet in the Arctic seas has had bad iuok again this year both from wrecks in the ice aud a scarcity of whales. The spirit of gambling is raging fearfully among California schoolboys, who are saving up their pocket money to wager it on "Occident." Another large grain storehouse is being erected at VVarm springs landing, land-ing, near Mission San Jose, to accommodate accom-modate the immense crop of grain. Francisco Garcia has been arrested at Los Angeles for a murder committed in Santa Clara county sixteen years ago. The General Association of the Congressional Con-gressional Church is in session at San Francisco. The funeral of J. W. Cofforth took place on Sunday. Lieutenant Max Weisendorf and a troop of the Firat Cavalry overtook a band of hostile Apaches, near Squaw Park, on the 30lh ultimo, and killed twenty-one Indians, when the rest fled. These Indians had drawn government rations at Camp Verde only four days before. Mr. Grovor, shot by W. B. Hellings, at Arizona City, died at Prescott on tho morning of the 2d. HelliDgs is out on $10,000 bail, as it was supposed Grover would recover. Cashmere goats do better in California Califor-nia than India. Laura D. Fair finds it pretty warm in California, and talks of settling in Chicago. San tfranoisoo floated flags at half-mast half-mast in respect to the memory of governor gov-ernor Seward. California has imported 3,000firkins of butter from Omaha and Chicago during the past week. Misa Sing Yee, of San Francisco, "a warm, brown beauty," has abandoned aban-doned the barbarous Chinese 6tyle of head-dress, and permits her wealth ef jet-blaok hair to seek her waist 'Ihe sales of the San FranciBCO stock board for the week ending on Wednesday Wednes-day evening amounted to $2,374,000. Imperial led the list, over 10,000. shares being sold. Ah Pong has lately been running a saloon pantry in San Francisco. During Dur-ing his administration, hams, batter, eggs, bread, cold meats and provender of every kind disappeared in the most mysterious of manners, and to every inquiry Pong said, "Me calohee eat." In the police court, Saturday, Pong said he had taken food to support his aged parents. If he takes any food to them again it will be through the courtesy cour-tesy of his jailor. NEVADA. Mm nil m on an nIH Unnf Vtrn-.n oity had both legs cut off by a railway train, on Friday. She died soon after. The Lone Star mine reports a rich strike of solid ore two and a half feet wide at a depth of thirty seven feet. Mike Holland, of Pioche, is reported recovering. General Banks is cxpaoted to make several political speeches in Nevada. Carson has successfully transhiped a car load of elm, beach, maple, hickory, and chestnut trees from New York. Patrick Donahue, has been arrested at Virginia city, on suspicion of being concerned in the last robbery of the Austin stage. Thomas Manning, a native of Ireland, at work in the Meadow Valley mine, was caved on Friday and received such injuries that he died shortly afterward. A Piute brave, who is now doing a heap of loafing around Carson city, is tho happy owner of a dog which ho has named "Yankee," and thus explains ex-plains his reasons therefore: White man all time talk big; get heap mad; all time run round; want to light; heap d tn fool; him (pointing to the dog) all same Yankee. on eg ox, o, I The Eugeno postofficc has been designated de-signated a money order office. A Chinese organization of Freemasons Freema-sons has been effected at Oregon city. The section of country around Dallas has recently been visited by warm rains, which has Btartcd the grass anew. Grouse, pheasants, and quail abound in great numbers in the neighbourhood neighbour-hood of the grain fields nar Corvallis.1 Stone & Bennett's wharf and warehouse ware-house at Seattle fell into the bay on Thursday week, and are totally ruined. Dr. N. Rounds, superintendent of common schools in Washington Terri-torry, Terri-torry, will hold a Territorial institute at Vancouver on the 23rd of October. James S. Allen, deputy United States marshal, and known as a former police officer of San Francisco, died in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday last. A Walla Walla paper says the Walla Waila and Columbia River railroad will not be completed this fall, but that everything will be pat in readi-ncrs readi-ncrs to finish the road early in the spring. Work on the Albany and Santiam water ditch, of Oregon, commenced on tho 30th ultimo, and will be pushed until the first three miles are completed. com-pleted. This will probably be all that can be done this winter. Three brothers named Obenchain, living in Jackson county, Oregon, got into a foht with a grizzly bear iat week. Bruin came near getting away with one of them, but the other two got away with the bear, which weighed 1,200 pounds. A Saiem despatch of the 11th says: In the Senate, Dolph gave notice of a hill to prevent State and municipal officers from uring deadly weapons on each other, and to detail a sufficient number of Portland polioe to preserve order during the sessions of the legislature. legis-lature. The Northern Pacific railroad is now completed sixty five miles from Kala-ma, Kala-ma, leaving only sixteen miles of staging stag-ing to reach Olympia. Passenger travel to and on the twund has largely increased. The regular stages and extras arc all crowded, and steamcrB have iarce lists of passengers. A statement of the Oregon swamp lands represents that there have been ' applications amounting to nearly 6.-i.MJ.ixn) 6.-i.MJ.ixn) acres, and that the actual amount of swamplands of the State, not di?po?cd of by the United States, will probably not exceed 4,000,0Xt, of which lT4Aaeehvebetii8eioacd. |