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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The members of tho Alert boat club of Vallejo are building a practice boat for their own use, A temporary reservation for the Apaches has been made of the southeast south-east corner of Arizona. Calvin B. McDonald will soon lecture lec-ture in Oakland on the subject, "Overland "Over-land in October." The Redwood city authorities are digging a number of new wells in that place to increase its supply of water. The 8an Francisco city Normal school is doing its work in a quiet, effective ef-fective manner, and now has 150 pupils. pu-pils. San Quentin contains 913 prisoners, of whom eight are women; 511 natives and 402 foreigners 143 of the foreigners foreign-ers being Chinese. i The Impera trice-Eugenie mining company has increased its capital stock firm $400,000 with 4,000 shares to $4,000,000 with 40,000 shares. On the 11th instant the Apaches lanced and killed a Mexican woman who was riding on horseback between two wagons, on the road near the So-ora So-ora line. - . ' - Police judge Louderback in San Francisco has declared that hereafter he will treat chicken thieves as burglars, bur-glars, especially when they enter in-closures in-closures at night to commit depredations. depreda-tions. Five of the Chinese meat sellers in San Francisco, arrested for violating the Sunday law, vera convioted and five others dismissed. "Lucy" took an airing at the Oakland Oak-land trotting park last Sunday. She made a mile in 2:20, so they say. The proprietors of the Pacific race oourse, Alameda, are making ample arrangement ar-rangement a for the accommodation of the great crowd expected to be in at- 1 tendaance to witness the great trot to-day between "Lucy" and "Occident." "Occi-dent." The Stockton "Herald" says : "The Sacramento "Union" thinks Coggins will beat Page 350 votes in this county. : San Joaquin will at least double that majority lor Coggins. Thia county is like the handle of a jug for Coggins all one-sided." NEVADA. On Tuesday a wagon load of lumber fell upon L. Khodcs, of Carson, killing him instantly. Travel in the direction of Pioche is rapidly increasing. The stages at Hamilton; are engaged threo days ahead- A little son pf S. S. Buckland, Nevada, Ne-vada, was burned to death recently by setting his clothes on lire while playing with matches. - About noon on Monday, at Pioche, a miner mamed Robert M. Hutt fell into a shaft of the Yolo mine, 170 feet in depth, and was instantly killed. The deceased was a native of Canada, aged about 35 years. Canie Carter is doing Luoretia Borgia at Austin. . . RKUON, AC Two Lino county men are trapping for beaver on the Cslapooia, about eifht miles from Albany, with success. L. Ireland of Clackamas county, grand temperance lecturer, is traveling in southern Oregon trying to induce the nativci of that rogion to abstain from the uso of intoxicating liquors. Somebody ought to put up a flour' iDg mill at Yaquina, as the denizens of that Beotion eat $18,000 worth of Sour per annum, and there is no mill there. A Corvallia paper saya: "Owing to the long dry season, the gnus in this vicinity has beoomo very poor, cattle are faring badly, and butter is exceedingly exceed-ingly scarce in tho market." A. B. Brethers, who went to Portland, Port-land, Oregon, two years since, from California, while in jail on a charge of larceny, attempted suicide, and was, upon examination, sent to the insane asylum. The money market in Portland, Oregon, Ore-gon, continues very stringent Loans are not procurable at the banks now. Two per cent, and even as high as four per cent, have been paid, beside commissions of brokers. Graves ofOlympia, W.T., has produced pro-duced three vegetable crops from his ground this year. They were two oropa of cabbages and a erop of potatoes. pota-toes. The application of the Oddfellows' lodges of British Columbia to ihe grand lodge of the United States for a provinoial grand lodge charter has been denied. William. Nixon, of Yaquina, has a half interest in a six months' baby, which weighs ninety-six pounds and has a head as big as the editor of the Bonton "Democrat." The Ottawa "Citizen, " of September Septem-ber 21st, says thatdivision "H" of the Canadian Pacific survey has discovered an excellent route for the railroad at the north end of Lake Nipgoo, Kapid progress is being made with the sur- , vey. i |