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Show WESIEBX. CTllll, Pioohe, lo Dutch George, one of the horse tn:eve lately captured near Eureka, Eu-reka, hd a preliminary examination yeu-rdy and in default of bail was "comn-.i-.:ed to await tne action of tne grand jurv. Your.g bufler waived preliminary ex-aminati.n. ex-aminati.n. Tne Pioche artesian well company effected a permaceni organisation last nishL To-day this place was visited by a , heavy thunder storm raining and hailing hail-ing a-ternawiy. I UrrEon. Portland. 1-. It is reported J. B. Montgomery has received a contract tc buiid an ex'.ec on of GO miles beyond his j'reset contract of 40 miles on the Northern Pacilic railroad. This will reach Tula. up reservation about w hi iies north of Seattle. Montgomery has 1,iaM men at work on the 40 miles. 5ix miles wiil be ready for ties next week. The iron for miles is new at Kalama. California. San F'rancisco, 13. Mrs. Canby says she is especially desirous ihat no public demonstration of any kind be made over general Canby 's remains at any points along the route between this city and Indianapolis. The funeral procession proces-sion here wiil form at 4:30 p. m.; the entire second brigade acting as escort. The hojly goes eitst in charge of Capt Hawkins, and Lieuts. Cazcare and Anderson. An-derson. Joel H. Mansfield will bo tried tho 4th time for attempt to murder his I betrotned Miss Mary Heiu. I Only a few persons will be admitted to witness theexecution of John Devino in the county jail to-morrow. The doomed man seems wholly penitent and prepared, to meet his fate- About 2,000 persons have applied lo sheriff Adams for permits to see tho execution. Onlv about 160 of that number were granted. California, Sacramento, 13. Mortimer continues demonstrations of insanity. He declines to speak, notwithstanding having been assured by his counsel that nothing more can be done for him. Lientenant Egan, wounded in the leg during the hrst day's assault on captain Jack's stronghold in the Lava Bed, came down to-day en route to San Fruncisco. A deser er from obo of the companies operating against the Mod oca, recently arrested at ohasta, is being Ukeii to San Francisco on this afternoon's train. While the train was moving rapidly between Koseville and Sacramento, this uoon. bojuniped oil' hoping to escape, butthesuock injured him internally to such an extent that he was unable to run aud was recaptured. Later from the Modoci. I Y'reka, 13. Captain G. J. Lydecker, of tho engineer corps, arrived "from the tront this evening, with a six mule team. He left yesterday morning, the same time as the regular courier. He has been sketching and photographing the lava bed country, and pronounces it one of ihe stronguot imaginable in natural formication-. He conlirais the previous reports concerning the engagement engage-ment of tho K'th instant, excepl that there was one soldier aud one Warm tfpring Indian killed, and eight soldiers and one Warm Spnn? Indian wounded, the latter having since died. Some of the eo idiers were seriously wounded; but the Mod ocs were routed and scattered scat-tered into tho mounla ns bordering the lava bed, their trail being followed by tho Warm Spring Indians from blood indications. Some were seriously hurt. Tho cap.ain leaves tins morning for San Francisco, Lieutenant Harris is still in & viry critical condition, though the surgeons think, as he hns lived so long, from the severs nature of his wounds, they havo hopes he may survive. The patty who went up to Klamath to search for Bogus Cnarley have not yet returned, and it is doubtful if they catch him. The last reports from Y iainox reservation ropreieut all quiet, but it is thought the young Klamath warriors would readily go to war were they disturbed and captain Jack holds out much longer. Lava lleds. May 1& The forces acting act-ing are some twenty-live miles from here, and are working this way, probably prob-ably driving the Modocs toward the stronghold they occupied at the time of the Thomas massacre. The troops are moving from tu is eamp this morning, hoping to cut them oil' before they reach iU All is action now, and the Modocs will be allowed no rost. Gen. Davis hopes we have began an action which will end in the extermination of tho tribe. It was a grand mistake of the Modocs, who undoubtedly thought they could stampede this foreo as they had stauipeded others; but they mot tho Warm Springs, 'i hoao warriors started at tliu tirst lire, as fust as they could get their guns, trotting in on the 11 an k of tho Modocs, which surprised them." The cry of "Warm Spring 1 wont through the Modoc ranks, and they wero stampeded stam-peded in place of tho Bjldiers. The Warm Springs drove them steadily all day, wero on their tlank last night, and will renew the light to-day. Batteries Hand K left for the Lava lieds last night. The wound'd in the last engagement en-gagement arrived at Boyle's camp last evistiing. Wo will have particulars of the tight to-nighL The topographical party leave for San Francisco to-day. From tho mail carrier whoarrived at 12 o'clock lasinighL, we learn that the Mo Joes weru heading towards Van Bremen's mountain, closely pursued by tho troops and V arm Spring Indians, lha Modocs a:o either attempting to return to thu Ltva Bed, from this side, or will tike to Van Uremvn's mountain, and there scatter. Thoy are evidently starved out, and their ammunition is nearly all g"iie, making them subjects for ey capture, if good guides are with the soldiers lo hunt ibeiii. |