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Show PACIFIC COAST HEM'S. CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles is to have a Jewish synagogue costing $15,000. The San Francisco Art association opened its hall again last Tuesday evening, and a large number of people visited it. George Fancher, of Merced county, has just finished thresbing tho wheat from 600 acres of volunteer, whicb yielded thirty-five bushels per aero. The grape crop in the vicinity of M.arysville was never larger than the present season, and the new Johnston distillery will havo an abundance of material. t Measures have been taken for the thorough prosecution of those who have been guilty of violating the laws of the United States by selling liquor to the Indians on and near SUetz Indian In-dian reservation. It is stated that Mrs. Mary Ann Kinney, who shot Cummings, her calumniator, near Peialuma, last week, is a niece of tho great prizo fighter, , John Morrist-ey her mother being his suiter. The Sandwich Island sugar oane on the farm of captain J. May hew, on the mesa or high land west of Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, is now two years old, with finely formed cones, and bids fair to prove perfectly adapted to this soil and climate. cli-mate. Gold has been discovered on the headwaters of the Ptro creek, in the northeastern nortion of Santa Barbara county, about1 fifty miles from town. It is of excellent quality, worth $19 per ounce, and is found in coarse Hakes. Work on the Fresno irrigation company's com-pany's canal is being pushed, and they will be running a sunlcient quantity of water on the plains by Fall to irrigate 100,000 acres of land. That amount will probably bo cultivated on the line of the canal next season. The Downieville Messenger says a man named Crawford has struck very rich diggings a few miles above Poker Flat, ip the same channel with the Rattlesnake diggings, which runs directly di-rectly through the hill. Crawford is working alone, and every lew weeks takes $ cood sized sack of gold dust to Poker Flat." NEVADA. At the Eureka mine, lust week, the clean up vfas 675 ounces gold amalgam. amal-gam. The report of Savage mine for last week shows 1,037 tons of ore extracted, assaying $27 51. From the 8;h to the 22& instant, $51,000 was shipped from tho Meadow Valley mine. The authoritiesof Virginia city, Nevada, Ne-vada, have driven all tho vagrants out of that town. The Pioohe Champion oompany aUo filed its certificate of incorporation. Object: Mining in Ely Mining district, Nevada; capital stock, $3,600,000. Trustees Emile Hestres, George Rei-ter, Rei-ter, Alexander R Sabatie, Albert Scharowski, and Theodore Leroy. The Silver Lick consolidated mining company yesterday filed its certificate of incorporation. Object : Mining in the Eureka mining district, Lander county, Nevada; capital stock, $5,000,-000. $5,000,-000. Trustees Alpheus Bull, John 0. Earl, David B. Blair, George W. Clark and L. A. Booth. ' OltEGON At'. A large number of Swedes are expected ex-pected to arrive in Seattle in a few weeks. Extensive fires are making sad havoc in the forests of Washing top Territory. Terri-tory. A raft was towed from Olympia to Port Gamble last week which contained 1,652,178 feet. Wagons now go through the Sno-qu$.luiie Sno-qu$.luiie Pass in Washington Territory Terri-tory without di&culty, the road having been much improved lately. The last buffalo ever seen in Enst ern Oregon was killed in Powder River valley twenty-six years ago by Joseph, a chief of the Nez Perce tribo of Indians. Times are unusually anil in all the Sound towns, with the exception of Seattle. The Olympians are losing heart because they have lost the terminus. ter-minus. Eight vossola were at port Gamble loading with lumber on the loth of this month. Five of them are destined for Callao, Peru, add will carry about 6,000,000 feet in the aggregate. |