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Show jPACIFIU COAST NEWS. CAL1PUB.MA. Kx-cDgressinan Coghlan has returc-ed returc-ed bomc. Trout are reported as abundatit thi spring. The lib law ot" tbe season has expired expir-ed by limits' ion, f banta Liarb-ra ciaims to be the jlive.rcst iowd cd the southern coast j tftocktou farmer? are mad because ! cricket. are cn'.icg up tueir wheat. I ts. York, of 6ierra county, this 'spring maDu!'actured a quanmy of tx-ceLent tx-ceLent ruaple sugar. Tbe new hotel at the Geysers will be i ready for occupatcy by April 10. h. j Qiickstlver chiumeys are the latest I discoveries reported m the vicinity of GL'rov. The "auta Cruz Sentinel wants San Francisco to take one half of tbe stock necessary to construct a coast railway. A new qaanz mill is beiog built at the mouth of Canyon creek, Nevada county, by Messrf. tunn A; Blaikie; of San Francisco. I; ib stated that John B. Felton is to be the president of the narrow-gauge railway to unite Oakland with Walnut creek. At Red Bluff lately a sheep herder named Thomas Eagarj, was garroted by Samuel Ciauson and John Wilson and relieved of ill. Important improvements are under way in Alameda, and real estate, so long inactive, is reviving. Business prospects are rapidly improving. Wm. Muldrow, a pioneer Oaltforni-an Oaltforni-an and a well-known resident of Sacramento, Sacra-mento, and proprietor of the ''.Muldrow ''.Mul-drow title" to much of the city property, prop-erty, died recently in Missouri. A. Booth, tho Chicago oyster man, is negotiating for the purchase of the old hotel and store at the old wharf in Antioch, to be used in the preparation prepara-tion of salmon for the east. Coover and Woodruff have opened a first-class whetstone mine a mile above Downieville. The grit is very fine, and lor putting a hoo edge upon a razor or tool is equal to tbe finest Turk ie b. stone. The Calaveras Chronicle cannot recollect a time tor several years when business in that scotion was so lively as it is at present. The revival of quariz and gravel mining has a beneficial effect on all industiief. KKVADA. Valuable striken are reported from Secret canyon. The Buiwhackcr company contemplate contem-plate erecting a new furnace at Eureka. Eu-reka. iViutc bucks, fquaws, and pappooses are sunning them.-elvcs on all the dirt dumps of Gold Hill. The Crown Point hoisting works has received three large wlrj cables manufactured in England. The Elko Independent, under the: head of "Lost, strayed or stolen," ad-1 venises for information of one Collin i Anderson, a iMeihodist preacher. j The Humboldt, .Register of March 29th, says that the bottom lands along i the Little Humboldt, io Paradise val-1 ley, are all under water, in consequenoe j of which the farmers expect aa abun- dant orop of hay. i UUEGOX. Tbe Jacksonville school girlB have quit playing ball and gone to marble?. 1 A whale, forty feet in length, was captured near Cape Eoulweather last week. j Another street railroad will soon bo! built in Portland, one and a half ml'cs io length. The students of the Agricultural College, Corvailis, are being taught military tactics. A large oougar was killed on Sauvies Island, within three miles of Portland, a few days ago. Citizens ot Jacksonville are petitioning petition-ing the common council to remove the Chinese from tho corporate limits. Near Uniontown, Jackson county, a few days ago, John K. Harrison, a miner, was killed by the caving of a bank. Unless the Indian troubles are settled soon, thero will be little, if any, surveying done in south-eastern Oregon Ore-gon this season. The contract has been let for building build-ing five new storerooms, seventy -five feet deep and two stories high, on the burnt district of Portland. Thi BeDton Democrat suggests that the ladies buy some hose for tho fire department tho city "dads" having refused to purchase any more. |