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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFOIINIA. Binjthaiu, of Vokohl valley, killed a black beir weighing pounds recently. re-cently. Chief Crowley, in San Francisco, has pretty much suppressed gambling in his bailiwick. A large barn in Stockton belonging to Mrs. Coburn was burned on tho night of August 25th. A land turtlo, weighing 250 pounds, from Ecuador, is the latest notable arrival ar-rival at Woodward's gardens. Mokclumno Hill ia becoming a fashionable summer resort, and is styled, "The Gem of tho Sierras," The dead body of a man, supposed to bo Juse Varro, a Mexican, was found in a cornfield near Lcs Angeles, on Thursday, murdered. The apple crop of Santa Cruz is very good this year, and plums, peaches, pears, etc.. abundant. Apricots were generally a failure. Tho Southern Pacific- railroad has been granted tho right of way free from the Castro rancho to the boundary lino of tho ranchos Sausal and Santa Rita, including a donation of land on the latter rancho for depot purposes. NEVADA. Winncmucca expects to bo tho hub of Nevada. Virginia city is full of prize ring experts. ex-perts. Tho Austin "Reville" has a regular "diamond field" correspondent. Wild gesse aro abundant along tho Humboldt. Thermometor seventy-six in the shade at Eureka. OREGON .C. Tacoma is now affected with terminus termi-nus fever, and the people arc mucb excited. ex-cited. The Butte inlet survoy party of the Canadian Pacific railway report tho routo practicable, except the Fifteen milo canyon, which is tho worst they ever saw. During tho last four months merchants mer-chants of Lewiston have paid $52,000, gold, for freight on goods carried up the Columbia river. Tho captain and mato of tho bark "Sampson," at Seattle settled a tine of $500, for beating a sailor. An award of $2,500 was also mado to the sailor in a civil suit. An insane man named Lazarus Zo-phyr Zo-phyr made his escape from tho asvlum at StciUcoom, V. T., a few days ago. There ac now tbirty-thrcu inmates in tho asylum. In the Wciser river valley, Idaho, there are bands of Indians numbering 1,000 to 1,500, all armed with rifles and revolvers. They belong on differ-I differ-I ent reservations and are a terror to the whites. |