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Show PACIFIC COAST XEAVS. CALIFORNIA. Heavy flros are raging in the timber tim-ber of the Gavilan mountains ol Monterey county. cftockton capitalists are about to const met a horse railroad in that city. 'S. .Murphy of Gilroy, while trying to shoot hos with a pistol the other day, blew his K fl thumb oft. ' Los Angeles fancies that five or six first-class cracksmen are, paying hex a visit. - - .. .""Morris Mattui, of Brooklyn, was thrown from his buggy the other day and one of his U-gs was broken. It costs $n,;."G per annum to maintain the California S'tnte militia. Playing soldier is not an inexpensive amusement after all. Mrs. Margaret O'Reilly, a widow owning considerable property in Oakland, Oak-land, has been committed to the asylum asy-lum for the Insane. McKim'a surveying party started on October ISth, from Sutter Creek, for the region above Volcano, to make surveys on the route of the Amador canal. In answer to the San Francisco Post, it is said Governor Booth hag not promised the judgeship to John F. Swift. It is further said that John F. Swift does not wish the judgeship. A writer in Anaheim, Loa Angeles county, claims that their irrigated alfalfa lands yielded twelve tons of hay to the acre, and speaks of 1,000 acres of alfalfa for one year. ; NEVADA. The funeral of Col. Abe Curry, at -arson, was one ot mo gninuesi pageants ever Been in the state. The trial of C. F. Johnson for stabbing stab-bing Wm, H. Virden -for alleged famili.arity with Mrs. Johnson, in April ast is on at Virginia. A Chinese wash house burned at Eureka on Thursday and badly alarmed tha people who feared a general conflagration.. The Raymond ot Ely suit versus the Kentucky began at Pioche on Monday. Mon-day. Virginia City has just unearthed a law ofTStil against gambling on Sunday, Sun-day, and the police have been astonish iug the faro bankers with it. . Humboldt Lake, according to the Winnemucca lleyistcr, is literally alive with game. Ducks, geese, swans, pelicans, cranes, and all such fowls arxmnd in great plenty ; also snipe, curlew aud the like in-abun-dance. Osborn's hotel at Silver city, was burned on Thursday night. Loss, $4,000. Other buddings ' were badly, damaged. Emma Cole alias Emma Harvey, a frail sister of Carson committed suicide sui-cide at Grass Valley, Cal., last week. She died from morphine, while singing sing-ing to a piano accompianmeut. The Virginia Enterprise pied n Thursday. About 200- subscribers besieged the office for " a paper with printm' on the inside," thinking they were victims of a joke. OREGON. Dr. A. G Kinney of Salem was in Astoria lately looking for storage room for 10,000 bushels of wheat. The Oregon City Enterprise says: The polls in Linn city precinct were not opened. One of the judges was in tlie PejmiientiarY.-ancL. no - onn being present to fill his place, the other two adjourned to this city. Colonel Kimball, Inspector of Indian Affairs for California and Oregon, visited the Umatilla reservation reserva-tion last week. While there he held a council with the leading Indians, all of whom were bitter in their complaints com-plaints of the management of tho reservation. So says a YValla Walla paper. Brunk, s young- man living In the Eagle Creek settlement, in Clackamas county, while out hunting last Saturday Satur-day with a .do ubleT barreled shot-gun, 'and having discharged one of the barrels, wan standing on a log re-loading, when the gun slipped, causing the loaded barrel to fire, inflicting a Eeverc wound in the wrist and side of the iace. ' ' . . ' .' |