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Show PACIFIC COAST AEWS. CALII?U11K1A. A company has been incorporated to supply Scariviile acd vicinity with water. About 10 o'clock on Friday eTemog, all the frasiiehts in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, an Francisco, went oat. The Scbastopoi qtiarti mill at Boa-ton Boa-ton Ravine, Nevada county, was burn-' burn-' ed down last Monday night. Senator Edward Tompkins of Alameda Ala-meda died at Oakland on Thursday after an illness of about a week. During tbo past nine months one hundred and sixteen persons have been sent to the Gtate prison from San Francisco. Fran-cisco. ' Information comes by telegraph from ' Yifaia, that a man convicted of a cold blooded murder. Is to be hanged the 1 supreme court having refused to grant a new trial. The Btage from Maryeville to Dow-nieville Dow-nieville was upset on the Brown's Valley grade on the 12th instant, and ' Mrs. Hayes, one of the passengers, ' was severely injured. A controlling interest in the Epperson Epper-son quicksilver mine on Squaw Creek, Sonoma county, has been purchased by San Francisco capitalists for $3U,00u. Fifty or more Apache Yuma Indians recently escaped from the Camp Dale Creek reservation, and have taken re-fntc re-fntc with friendly Indians on the Colorado river. The tribe of Arivipsis-Apache Indians In-dians living along the San Pedro and Arivipal bottoms, Carup Grant reservation, reser-vation, are dying fromfevor, consump-, consump-, tion, and scrofula . A little paper called the "Torchlight" "Torch-light" has made its appearance in Oakland, Oak-land, and although it has been published publish-ed but a week, offers to furnish affidavits that it "has the largest circulation," cir-culation," etc. The steamer "Cornelia" which has been plying in California waters siuce 1856, and more recently between Stockton aud San Francisco via Vallc-jo, Vallc-jo, has been withdrawn and honorably retired from further service on the raging main. Tie Arizon:ans protest against the ', changing of Arizona to the department of New Mexico, and the assignment of general Howard to the command io place of general Crook. The sailing of the China steamer has been indefinitely postponed on account J of the non arrival of the steamer ' "Arizona" from Panama, now fourteen ! days overdue, and which was advertised I t pail for Yokohama and Iloog-Kong. ! 11. H. Gilman, superintendent of Southern Semi-tropical fruit oompany, i has gone to Los Angeles with funds of the company, with which to purchase lands. The company expect to put 1 out next spring 5,000 tropical fruit trees. It is established beyond ill question that at least thirty-tour Iodians were ergiged in the Loriog - massacre. Thirteen of them are known to have 1 drawn rations at Camp Dale Creek reservation on the 1st November, 1871, and ou tho 5th the massacre was committed. com-mitted. Of these thirteen a-x were known to have been on Dale Creek reservation before September, 1872. Tho Valltjo "Chronicle" of November Novem-ber 14th has the following: ",About quarter past 6 last evening a most beautiful meteor fell in the western sky. It was of a bluish color and appeared ap-peared in 5ize a foot in diameter. In falling it left ba Iliad a long white train of smoke. When near the earth it burst into fragments, sending off two balls of lire and giving the appearance of the final explosion of a huge lire-rocket." lire-rocket." NEVADA. The Virginia City ghost sensation has been (raced to the spirits of whisky. whis-ky. Kattlcsuuke Dick and Bill Chamberlain Chamber-lain have beeu sentenced at Dayton, Nevada, for highway robbery. W. II. Saulsbcrry, a brakcnian on the Virginia and Truckco railroad had his left arm crushed in a fearful manner man-ner last Friday. The Carsonitcs complain of a scarcity scarci-ty of oarpenters and other mechanics. W 51. Thomes, tho proprietor aud driver of (he Susaovillo stage at the time of tho late robbery, who was taken sick shortly after is fast recovering. The banks of Virginia City refuse to accept gold notes in quantities except ex-cept at a discount of three-fourths, of one per cent. The Schcll Creek "Prospect" names 0. H. (irey for speaker of the assembly. assem-bly. Mr. Grey was a member of that body from Storey oouoty, so mo years ago. The borax mine, situated cast of Wadsworth, and owned by Andy Russell, Rus-sell, Joe Moran and others, has been sold to an English company for the ! snup little sum of $80 fM), No penoils were used lor scratching tickets in Pioche on election day. Whenever a voter found an objectionable objectiona-ble name on his ballot ho held it up and shot at it. I One of tho most prosperous farmore in Steamboat valley has cut three crops of buy from his land tbia season. The three outs average him eight tons to i the acre. How high is that ? i It is thought by ranchmen on the Humboldt, that the late snow storm i will tradicato tho disease with which ' cattle and horses have been dying so rapidly for the last thrco months. There is a man in Unionvilie who I has voted lor President ten times, and i has never yet cast his vote for the suc-! suc-! ccssful candidate. He says ho never t could guess the winner at any game. OKE0', e. McFaddcn, the Democratio delegate dele-gate from Washington Territory, will receive nearly 900 majority. : Says a Victoria dispatch of Novetn-- Novetn-- ber 15th: Information has been re- ocived in this city of tho loss of the sloop "Phinney," at Deception Pass, I in a heavy south-west gale last week. The following are the treasuro ship- ,- ments per "Prince Alfred '; Wells, Fargo ii Co., $4,122; Bank B. N. America, $15,155; Bank of British Columbia, J5,323; total, $45,600. The Panther has almost finished loading load-ing at Nanaimo. Parties in Eugene City have commenced com-menced in good earnest tho construction construc-tion of good road to a mineral hot spring which has been found about wxty miles east of that town on a tributary of the McK.enzic fork of the Willamette. The "Guard" says. "The work of opening a road to it from the McKenzie bridge was begun some time since, and two weeks ago a mechanic, with tools and supplies lor the winter, left here to erect a bath house and a other buildings necessary at the spring N thorough chemical analysis of the water, hats we beuevc, been made, bat fimp.e tcu show it to contain at hast eleven ot the most essential eieiuents of the famoui mineral waters of Europe and America, prominent among which may be mentioned soda, chionne, p j arsenic mamesium. sulphur and iron. i.i There seems but iittic doubt that ihe McKtniie region wnl soon become, t. j iue the White Sulphur region of the M State of Virginia, the sanitarium of i "j iarge ex; cut oi ouUDtry." |