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Show PACIFIC C01ST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Coggswell, the Chicago portrait painter, has established himself temporarily tempo-rarily in San Fraocisco. He is now engaged en-gaged upon a full-length picture of professor Agassiz, which promises to be excellent- The Wasatch Mining Company, on Tuesday, filed a certificate of incorporation. incorpo-ration. Object : Mining in Kane county, Utah Territory. Capital Btock, $3,000,000, divided into 30,000 shares. The trustees are Henry Raymond, J. S. Beach and J. R. Dun. On the 13th of September a band of Apaches attacked, near camp Crittenden, Crit-tenden, a party of men who wero hauling lumber, and killed one Mexican Mexi-can and wounded another. Tbey then stole ten mules and a lot of ammunition, ammuni-tion, A cavalry party has gone in pursuit pur-suit W. B. Hellings and E. W. Grover, two old citizens of Marcopa county, who had been intimate friends for i years, quarreled in Arizona city recently. re-cently. The bullet hit Grover below the right shoulder-blade, passing through the rifiht lung, inflicting a dangerous wound. Dry fruit is being brought in by farmers for shipment below. Tuolumne Tuolum-ne has a full assortment, and can satisfy satis-fy the most fastidious taste. Stock is beginning to leave the mountains. Three thousand four hundred hun-dred sheep arrived in Sonora last week, en route for Dry Creek, Stanislaus county. F. M. Cain has struck rich rock in the mountains on a lead running nearly near-ly parallel with the Star, The rook shows tin, galena and gold. The "Jamestown" launch has been fitted up for service at the navy yard, in addition to the launch "Lively" now in use. The work of driving the sheet piling for the coffer dam on the ground of the proposed dry dock at Mare Island has been oommerend. Judge Curtis has entirely recovered from his recent severe attaok of illness, and is enjoying accustomed good health. Grata Brown cherried Since the completion of the railroad to Oakdale, merchandise arrives in Sonoma from below in from eight to twenty days. When there was no railroad rail-road good-i were brought from Stockton Stock-ton in four and five days. There's a ''screw louce" Bomewhere. Henry Howe, thirty-five years old, a native of Connecticut, was sent to the Insane asylum on Monday from San Frarjoieoo. He has a bad habit of threatening the lives of people and has been in the Insane asylum before. It being rumored that one of the Crittendens threatened to shoot Mrs. Fair if she was acquitted, it was thought best for her to retire to her old quarters in the jail for a time, and she is now there. An old man, between SO and 90 years of age, who sells papers for a livelihood in Sao Francisco at the landing land-ing of the Oakland ferry, was knookod down by some miserable brute September Sep-tember 28th, owing to a difference over five cents. Petitions are being circulated in Vancouver for the pardon of James Jamison, convicted at the fall term, 1S69, of the district court at Olympia, of rape, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in the peaitentiary. If 1CV AD A. The weather at Austin is absolutely, unqualifiedly, supremely delioious. Eureka reports the wind blowing an infantile cyclone from the Orient. At Hamilton the sun smiles sweetly and the air is balmy as in spring. Tuesday night the Humboldt valley was visited with a genuine old fashioned fash-ioned "Jack Frost." The barley orop in Paradise is double that of any previous year. The "colored troops" have been fighting nobly at Eureka. Fourteen piBtol shots fired and not a barber hurt, Oa Tuesday tho first throueh passenger pas-senger train from Keoo to Virginia city passed over the new road-Gold road-Gold Hill has had a "rain storm" of small Hies. The Western Union lino from Hamilton Ham-ilton to Pioohe is in working ordor and business is lively. In the Sunday race at Whito rivor, "Rowdy" beat "Frenohy" in 2:20. OREGON, Ac. There are now 70,000 bushels of wheat stored in the warehouses at Tangent, Tan-gent, Linn county. Twenty families are about leaving Pennsylvania to settle in Douglas and Curry counties. A party of emigrants with a drove of about 1,000 sheep, passed through Salem last Monday. Wheat continues to pour into tho towns along the river and railroads in exhaustless quantities. Wheat ii selling at $1 per bushel at Jacksonville, oats at seventy-live cents, and barley at two cents per pound. Only two or three fields ol grain were yet standing in Lane pounty when the late rains pa me. The loss was inconsiderable. incon-siderable. b). IX. Sullivan, of Summcrville, Union pounty, foil from tho second story to the first siory of a saw-mill a few days since, and was badly hurt. James Cameron, of V am hi 11 county, has at the Fair grounds at Salem forty-two forty-two head of Leicester sheep, lately imported im-ported from New Zealand. An old carriage, first used by the governor of Vancouver's Island, has been purchased by a Sale mite and will be used as a public hack. Tho "Enterprise0 says the fi3hers with giant powder are still at their work, and strongly urges the adoption ' of a law to stop such destruction of the finny tribe. AL Owens said he wanted to go and see his mother, and borrowed a 150 horse from Bartemus of Union eounty, last week, and forgot to return the horse. The Oregon State Fair at Salem is the beat ever held in the State; but the racing is exeorable 1: 551, single dash of a mile, for. the best horses in Oregon, |