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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CAL1FOK.N1A. Yuba river is reported boomingi Alfred Tewea oi San Pablo, has horn? himself. Wm. Hill of Grass Valley, lately fell down stairs and broko his neck. Benry Smith of Sooora, has cut his throat. Miners jolly in gum boots and all the farmers plowinjr. Nine Russian war vessels from Yokohama Yo-kohama will soon arrive io San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Diamond Mountain, between Indian and Honey lake valleys, has an im-menselsand im-menselsand deposit rich in gold. Late developments show the Chrome districts near Koseburg to be exceedingly exceed-ingly rich , . , . The Fresno canal is being rapidly pushed to Completion. Havilah calls for an iron foundryi W. R. Montgomery, while hunting in Indian valley, found a bear eating his deer and fired at him. The bear seized him and bo terribly lacerated him that recovery is doubtful. The Washoe Indians have bagged 10,000 jack rabbits in Beokworth valley. val-ley. How's that for jaok high? Santa Rosa is to havo a new daily paper. Napa valley is forming a narrow gauie railway company. Yountville is building a saw and grist mill. Jim Washington, of SuisceD, bagged three dozen lat ducks in two days last week. Stockton has organized her first national gold bank. Vallejos now jail is full of water. Martin (Jlasby, wood ohopper, instantly in-stantly killed by a falling tree on the Rusian river. The American river has overflowed its banks and flooded the land outside the levee- Kerahaw's island is doing a rushing business in the herring fishery. San Diego has a mysterious rvhole-sale rvhole-sale poisoning sensation similar to that at tbo National .Hotel at Washington upon the inauguration of Buchanan. Several families violently ill. No ono dead. Liver wurst supplied by a butchor is the supposed cause. NEVADA. Pioohe bullion Bhipuientn for the week ending Decmber 38th, $73,289. The W. U- telegraph Hno is to be extended to Belmont. Six hundred cords of wood burned at Verdi. Inoondiary. A hundred miners of the Lightaer shaft .of tbo Raymond & Ely mine are on a strike. W. A. Clarke of the Hermes mine has been presented a magnificent silk banner and a silver eerviae by the men in his employ. A heavy land-slide occurred on Thursday last on tho Virginia City road near Carson. Obstruction cleared away on Friday. On Friday Jaat the Pioche-Phconix mining company took possession of about one hundred bet of mining grouod lately worked by tho Raymond & Ely and claimed by boh companies. A barricade was erected by the Phoenix on the disputed ground and other preparations pre-parations made to hold it. Monday night while Thomas Ryan, one of the Phoenix workmen, was overlooking the barricade, he was shot in the head and instantly kjlled by one of the Raymond Ray-mond & Kiy men. About forty shots were exchanged by the men of both companies, but without serious results. The ground is still held by tho Phoenix party. It ia feared that more blood will be shed before tho dispute will be settled- OREGON, Rev. Q. Hines, of Salem, is still sinking, and it is feared his illness wid prove fatal. Fifteen bodios of murdered settlers havo been found and buried in Southern South-ern Oiegon. A ladies' fair at Salem, for the benefit ben-efit of the Congregational church, yielded about $300. The schooner Mila Bond has been driven ashore on Tillamook bar, Ore- guii, iu a iiuttvy inn., uuut to a tutui josh. Settlers on Sprague river have collected col-lected all of their families together in a strong position, and go out only in con-fciderable con-fciderable bodies, so as to be protected against Indians. A subscription has been started at Jacksonville lor the relief of Mrs. Brotherton, whoso husband and oldest sons were recently murdered by the Modocs. The farmers of Willamette valloy have been improving the opportunity afforded by tho open weather so far this winter, and have already in the ground a large amount of wheaL The Rose berg Pantagraph Bays: The moro prospecting ia done in the Chrome districts of Douglas county, the richer they prove to bo. Late developments de-velopments prove them richer than any on the coast. Tho roads in Washington oouniy are sloppy, although there has not been rain enough to start the swails to running, run-ning, and the farmers say that at the depth of aix inches the ground is too hard to plow. The new steamboat being built at the Dalles for tho Oregon Steam Navigation Nav-igation company, it is said by those who are well versed in these matters, will, when oompletcd, be the most handsome, best buile, and fastest stern-wheel stern-wheel boat in tbo United States. She is expected to make twenty miles an hour with 300 tons of freight, and even better timo when orowded. Miller, the murderer, was acquitted at Eugene City, Oregon, on the ground of insanity. Yet he has not been committed com-mitted to the asylum. A Lane county correspondent says that Miller now bas perfect license to kill aDy man to whom he imagines his wile is making "handkerchief "hand-kerchief signals." They have compulsory education in Toxas. The law requires that all persons per-sons under the ago of fifteen shall attend at-tend school. A married lady in Houston, Hous-ton, who bas not reached the age that would entitle her to exemption, attends at-tends school regularly and oarries her baby with her. |