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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS, CALIFORNIA. Alameda town is going to have a calaboose. Progressing. Tho track-layers have commcnoed laying tho rails on the permanent track at the break on tho road near Davis-villo. Davis-villo. There is a proposition beforo the Alameda town trustees to tax butohers from neighboring towns who sell meat from wagons in that town. A San Francisco paper asserts that McLaughlin, tho convicted Saorameoto murderer, left that port by tho last China steamer, disguised as a Mongol. Competent persons estimate that it will cost $20,000 to set the wooden pavemonts of San Francisco in proper repair. Tho members of the street committee are at their wits' ends for a remedy. A party of twenty mon under engineer engi-neer Watson went to work lately and i commenced the survoy of tho Benicia narrow gauge railroad. One-half the party started on the Benicia end, the other half are at work on the other end of the proposed road or some of its branches. NEVADA. Two men seriously injured, by a cave of ore in the Eureka Consolidated mine. Work suspended in the Richmond mines, on Ruby Hill. Law suit with Eureka Consolidated. Lena De Shields and Lizzie Green, "women of tho town," committed I suicide at Eureka last Sunday night. . Tho Virginia and Truckee railroad company are building a fine passenger J depot at Virginia oity. A six foot coal vein struck, twenty-five twenty-five miles from Virginia city. Three weeks more required to com- plete tho American Flat tuqnel. , OKKUON. j Coos Bay ooal mines sent 2G.2G8 j tons of ooal to Sao Francisco during the first ten months of this year, Tho Eugene "Journal" says it is currently reported that the Oregon Central Military road company have Bold their land grant for $484,000. The namo of tho purchaser is not 1 given. The "Statesman" is informed that Robert Mays, of Tygh Valley, Wasoo county, has twelve hundred head of cattle scattered over a couotry of twenty-five miles in extent, aod has not food enough to last them through two weeks of bad weather. A correspondent of the. "Farmer," writing from Canyon oity, Bays mining, although partially suspended for tho season in Olive and Burnt River districts, dis-tricts, is still prosecuted in the John Day Valley with fair prospects of plenty of water up to the coming of the usual freeze up. It is reported that snow has fallen to a considerable depth in Ochooo Valley, Val-ley, and that some of the farmers there aro poorly provided with food for their 6tock if the winter should prove a long and sovcre one. A Chinaman convict in the penitentiary peniten-tiary has gono crazy on the subject of vocal music. He sings constantly and is able to run the gamut from above to "ly" below, and his singing is described as a cross between the Scotch bacpipe aod the grating of a rat-tail file sharpening a hand-saw. The other convicts are getting tired of the Celestial's noise, and talk of quit-tine quit-tine tho premises. Beautiful snow covereth the mountains moun-tains round about Jacksonville, and the stately elk sceketh food and shelter in tho valleys, where tho fleet footed hounds and the deadly rifle-ball layeth him low. |