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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Congress Kelly of Philadelphia is now rusticating at Los Angeles. L. D. Stephens, of Cache creek, had his stables robbed of his. horses last Tuesday. The Mexican anniversary of independence indepen-dence is to bo celebrated on tho Kith with unusual eclat. Tho Sumner Colored Club of Marys-ville Marys-ville has changed its name to the Wilson Wil-son Republican Club. Tho German Greeley and Brown meeting held in San Jose last Tuesday evening was rather mild in its enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. A storm of rain and lightning came upon Los Angeles last Tuesday morninga morn-inga very unusual oocurronco in that section. An Indian desperado named Ramon, who has been stoaling horses in Contra Costa oounty, was arrested last Wednesday. Wed-nesday. A little son of Mr. Wilooi, of Indian In-dian valley, Plumas oounty, was bitten by a rattlesnake one day last week, but is recovering. At San Rafael on Monday, a Spaniard Span-iard named Augustine Valencis, shot Anthony Durkin. Durkin will recover. Cause, a woman. Robbers cleaned up the sluices of Thomas Jolly at Nelson Point, Plumas oounty, on Friday. The Marysville Appeal says the work of rebuilding the Butte Creek levee, destroyed last winter, is to be commenced immediately, W. M. Smith, an old and respected citizen of Grass valley, left home on business some ten or twelve days ago, and has not been heard from. The Los Angeles City oounoil has passed the ordinanoe submitting the question of a subsidy to the Southern Paoifio railroad to a vote of the people of the oounty. A oouple of Petaluma nimrods have just returned from a hunt on the grounds between Gualala river and Dry oreek, with nine fine deer as the result of their sport. C. R. Winslow, son of rear-admiral VVinslow, committed suicide in the Ocoidential Hotel, at SanEranoisoo, on Wednesday, by shooting. Ho was in bed at the lima. It is reported ihit he had been drinking to excess. The San Francisco Board of Equalization Equali-zation have reduced the assessment in that oounty $60,000,000. On $14,000,-XK) $14,000,-XK) more taxes cannot be collected. So ' that tbe sum on whioh taxes will be jollected there is but a little over 9iiUU,UUU,00U. ! Tho assessed valuation of real eitit in Butte county is $3,483,(JG'J ; im provements on the Bame, $1,121,150 personal property, $2,565,567; land enolosed, 171,061 acres; land culti vatcd, 83,606 aores; wheat, 46,03t acres; barley, 16,040 acres. Buckeye and Cottonwood gentlemen are considerably roused upon the narrow nar-row gauge, and a union of tho system with the line proposed from the oan-yon oan-yon to Elk. Horn moots with some lavor, while "Orland" says tho Cacuo slough project will havo to be placed in a nioro satisfactory ligLt to meet with a successful termination. J. H. Reno, chief of the Toxas Paoifio survey party, says the location of the road has been made from Jamul valley to Seventh avenue, National city. The location of the line is rather heavy work, but is as good as was expected. ex-pected. The engines a are oonneotiBg with the government and town surveys sur-veys to got up a map to show tho position po-sition ol the surveys with referenoo to tho bay. NKVADA. Piooha citizens aro petitioning for the retention of ilaj. Powell as Indian agent. Pioohe expeots a drove of 500 horses hor-ses there, within two months, for the Utah trado. A man named Shipley oommittcd suicide in Tjnionville, Nevada, on the oth instant Long valley mining district, sixty miles south of BoJUonville, is attracune much attention. The Manhattan mill, at Austin, whioh has been idle since the first, has started up again. F. V. Drake has been appointed assistant assessor for the fifth division ol the Reese nver district. John Wesley has .escaped from tho Unionville jail, in order to vote for Greeley, as he says in a letter he left behind. Mrs. Pascoe and Mr. Hanaford wcro severely injured, few days sinoe, by S16,'? Tree being overturned near tfulhonville, Tho driver of the Salt Lake and Pioohe stage was, on Monday, severely injured by his team running away. The ooach was badly racked. The material of the old Elko Chronicle Chron-icle offioe having been Bhipped to Pioche, a Greeley and Brown paper will bo issued in that place, OREtiON C. Harvest hands are searoe in the Oregon Ore-gon valleys, farmers paying.$2,per day and board. The smoke of the forest firea in Vv ashingwn Territory is so dense that the vessels are unable ta sec their way to sea. B, Wella, doaler in grain, fell from tho seoond 6tory of a warehouse at Buena Vista, Oregon, a few days ago, and broke three ribs. Mrs. A. B. F. Ormsby, of Syracuse, Kew York, has sent to the Grand Lodge of L 0. G. T., of Washington Territory, a new 6et of regalia thirteen thir-teen pieces. The Arizona Miner declares that with LOuO men, mounted on good horses, well armed and equipped, within a year every Apache would be reserved or go on a reservation. There are surprisingly large numbers of stock being driven over the mountains moun-tains to eastern Oreron. It is estimated estima-ted that 40,000 head of cattle have been driven over the Lebanon and Ochoco road this season already. The Mexican government is about to establish a custom house in Port Gabriel, Ga-briel, at the mouth of the Colorado river, which creates uneasiness among the people of Arizona, as it will embarrass em-barrass their oommercs and work th!n Jijury. |