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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. It is proposed to have an Independent Indepen-dent or People's Ticket at Los Angeles, An-geles, There are '.'ol convicts in the State prison at San Qucnlin. The tola! number of children in Las Angeles is 2,011, of whom 4oS are under five years of age. In Gordon Valley, Yolo county, people are threatening to mob a man who is suspected of having set lire to a grain field five times. "(five us a chicken ranch" is the cry now raised by the fastidious epicureans epi-cureans at Santa Barbara. At the anti-Chinese meeting Monday Mon-day night, at Barra.s Hall, Mr. Kehoe declared himself in favor of arming the hoodlums of the city against the Chinese. He had hoodlum sons himself, him-self, and wouldn't hesitate to place pistols in thier hands to attack and drive out the Chinese. Jas. Lick has donated forty feet of frontage additional to the lot on Market Mar-ket street, San Francisco, given by him to tlie California pioneers. A petition and let t ere asking commutation com-mutation cf sentence ol'Chas. A. Hus-sell Hus-sell were sent to Governor Booth Tuesday. Tues-day. Russell is very much prostrated prostra-ted with sickness, and unnerved. Luke ConiO'e, of Virginia City, whs arreted Monday night at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, for assault with a deadly weapon weap-on on Wm. S. O'Brien. The men were in Lewis' saloon, on Bush street, when Conifl'e made some offensive of-fensive remark about Jas. Fair, of Virginia City, and a?ked O'Brien to strike him! O'Brien declined to do so, when Conine drew a pistol, but the hv-standcrs prevented his using it. NEVADA. The first man ever convicted of murder in the first degree in White Pine county, is W. II. Bethards, for the murder of Bronhy. He was convicted con-victed last week. "Water is becoming so scarce in Virginia City that the proprietors of bathing establishments are obliged to emplov teams to haul a supply from the suburbs of the city. A two-horse waon load amounting to 40 gallons , retails for . "After a storm comes a calm,'' and Austin is now subjected to that verv calm. On and aKmt the Fourth, ! the" town looked lively for r. while and , there was a little shooting and cutting: but now it is insuperably dull, and a cannon loaded with grape or shrapnel might be turned looe down Main street, at ine-t any hour of the day. without hurting a man. The water in the Carson river is becoming quite low. At Virginia City, on Sunday evening. eve-ning. July t'-th. there was a single loud peal of thunder the first that has been heard in that vicinity for many months. There was ali-o a slight sprinkle of rain, but not enough to lav the dust. "Virginia City tinds consolation in the ureal explosion calamity. A circus ha just arrived there. OUEGON. Indian from I'matilla reservation aiv camped in large numbers iu Grande Konde Valley. The average attendance at the public pub-lic schools in Astoria, during the past vear has been about one hundred pu- Linr. county claims to have been visited by a water r-pout a few days since, h'lvat the local political spout-crs spout-crs all hollow. Gold divings, paying SI per day to the hand, nave been discovered on the Middle Fork of the Santiam River, five :r. ilea below Dor.iea's bar. 1 J. M. Walker, who is surveying the 1 NVnalem Valley, say6 that four huu-! huu-! dred sutlers could each rLid cue huu-! huu-! drui a;:d sixty acres of good land, i sv.hkv: to ci;;.;v. in ti:c alky. I , , , |