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Show PACIFIC COiST EWS. CALlFUltMA. J. M. 'I rowundL'ti liad his foot crirhed oil" in a dituliiL'g machine, near Wel.b'i l-aiidi(jg, on thr San Joaquin, on Friday. Mr. li tiiL-':"'., tho Mrcoud small-pox M-e at Scati.in, U d-ad, and Mr. C'n.ij.-Ii, ul iLo a:i4C p'.zca, L, ulil-ring ; r J i ih- .-miu di:-; a!., two children chil-dren in the l.uijry of Mr. Parmer, the first victim. .Wir Ca-.-h.v.il, U-t week. Wtu. IJu'ih g-t in frotit of a mowing ma-id.iiie ma-id.iiie io i-it a Uiu'c, the mule jumped, ai.d the eat'ing knives caUL'ht one of Hij.jb'd id", ju-t above the iuot, nearly severing tho foot from the leg. The h.)ti''.- v .!: entirely severed, the lout haiiL'in the kin in Iront. In the San Ju;nuiu vai.ey. l.-etween Awi ioeh aiid Bautas, ru.-t has made appearance in i'uine wheat lipids. ( ri tlr Merced bnttotu lands the .itand of hotii whi'at and bjriey U good, and on in any ranches very heavy. iNe.irly ii jl part- of the Stato reports repiv-unt a great iuiprovemcnt in the grain crop tibcv the middie of May. .luhu Bogifs ot Colu-a county, has I, Sou acres of grain, which will yield fifty bushels to the acre, or Vo.uuu bushels. The San Joaquin canal company are irrikfjitint; over 3,000 acres of laud this year, 2,000 of which beloDg to Miller 6c Lux. Some of tho stock raisers at Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Moutcrey design de-sign forming a protective association, for tho purpose of detecting and punching pun-ching stock thieves. The wheat on the ranch of Mr. Isaacs, on the south hank of the Pa-jaro, Pa-jaro, near Gilroy, measures six and n linlfCfnt. wirh well rilled heads: the barley fivo and a half feet. A Greeley ratification meeting is to be held in San Diego about the middlo of Juno. The men recently suspended in tho Mare Island construction department resumed work on the 1st insL Several robberies havo been committed commit-ted recntly in Nevada county. Cattlo havo been dying in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Porest Springs, under circumstances cir-cumstances whioh mdicato that they wero poisoned by Chinamen. A man committed Buicido by drowning drown-ing himself in the Sacramento river on Saturday. The Buicido ie supposed to bo Andrew Gref, of Sacramento. Strawborrics are fifty cents a quart in Tulare county. Blackberries are cheap. New buildings aro going up quite fast io San Lcandro, Alameda county. The Tulo river Boda spring? have greatly increased in flow since tho earthquake. At Point Reyes, on Tuesday, Thomas B. Crandall fell dead whilo milking a cow. iu Viealia the mercury Etood at ninety-sis degrees in the fliado on Thursday week. TCdwnrd llieklin. formerly under- sheriff of Mendocino county, has be-como be-como entirely deaf recently. Polsom boasts a fiftcen-year old boy who has already attained tho altitudo of six feet two inches. William Kdministcr had his left leg caught in the sickle of a mower at Bloomfield, Sonoma county, Wcdnes-v Wcdnes-v week, and all its tendons severed. Tho dwelling of C Knox in Collins-ville, Collins-ville, Snlono county, was burned dowa last Wednesday night week. NEVADA. Jus. S. Parker, of Gold Hill, has invented in-vented a huge pan for working tailings. It is capable of working twenty tons of tailings at a charge, and the bottom portion alono weighs 7,500 pounds. On Friday afternoon Virginia city wad visited by a severe hail storm, accompanied ac-companied by thunder and lightning. A rock store, 25 by SO feet, is being erected by Buren, at the new town of Schellbourno. Owing to the rain, May 31st, the Carson river rose one foot. A flood is looked for should the weather clear up warm. William Edwards, of Keltoo, was killed by lightning at Toano last Friday. Fri-day. The horse on which he was riding rid-ing at the time the bolt descended was also killed. Tho Virginia city Enterprise gays a survey has been made for tho extension exten-sion of the Virginia and Truckee railroad rail-road northward from the depot toward the Sierra Nevada works. A committee commit-tee from the board of aldermen was with the engineers in order to see what streets would be crossed and whether or not tho right of way for tho road could bo granted. The road will pass under Taylor street through a tunnel 300 feet in length. The tunnel will be about thirty feet below the surface of the street. f Henry Hiokman, a negro, was ar-j ar-j rested, m Virginia oity,for an attempt- ed rape upon the person of a little girl about four years of age. ffhere was strong talk of lynching him. Some unknown disease is effecting great mortality among the ewine of Virginia oity. OREGON. The wool crop bids fair to bo large. Business generally is dull in the The Ensign says forty miles of railroad rail-road will bo built south of Roseburg this summer. Tho Statesman says the Salem mills continue to do a rushing business. Thirty tons of flour was shipped on Monday, by rail. The VUlamete valley is sending cattlo, sheep and horses to the grazing fields of bunch grass,in eastern Oregon, by every boat. Goorge M. Prior, of Camas valley, says the past winter in that valley has been unusually severe; the price of grain and feed has generally ruled high; A large amount of grain has been sown, and the fanners are hopeful hope-ful of a good yield, and anticipate good prices for grain. The Albany Democrat says: "John Falkncr, living a few miles southeast of this city, was recently married. Having an older brother, still single, that worthy bachelor was brought in, and, in obedience to an old and amusing amus-ing custom, was compelled to danco in ; a hog-trough, for the delectation of the : happy couple." I Wheat is selling at the Salem mills i for eighty-five cents per bushel. A Mrs. Oliver was killed at tho , meadows, Umatilla county, a few days ago, by getting cutangled in the halter rope while leading a horse to water, i The animal ran, dragging her three-I three-I fourths of a mile, breaking hor arms ! and neck. j The Indians have all been driven ' away from Albany, to prevent them I from communicating the smnll-pos to , the inhabitants. Sluice-robbers havo been plying their vocation in the vicinity of Baker city. MOSTASA. L Caro was drowned at MeWhirk's ferry oa the llellgatc river a couple of weeks ago; ! The immigration to the Territory is very large this season. Crops are good in the vicinity of Bozeman. and farmers aro jubilant in anticipation of a bountiful harvest. A man named Banks was killed by Indians a few miles south of the Crow agency on the i'-d u't. |