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Show WESTERS". ; California; San Francisco, 14 In the case of Crane vs. J. J. Marks, harbor com-missonor, com-missonor, the nineteenth district court i decided, on a demurror to the com- I plaint, that the jurisdiction was in the county court. The case was appealed, I and to-day the supreme court reversed i the judgment, and the case comes back j to the district court for trial on its i merits. j In tbe case of tho people vs. South- i well, an agreed case taken to the : supreme court for tho purpose of testing the validity of the drawing of the last levied jury, the supremo court decided that the jury was illegally drawn, and t reversed the judgment of the municipal ! court, Charles Ualberger and Charles Roff wore sentenced to six years each in state prison for burglary. Hereafter tbe city will pay the Spring Valley water company ono thousand dollars per month fur water for municipal munici-pal purposes. Vallejo, 14. Chas. Holt, contractor for the Mare Island light house, is preparing pre-paring material for its erection. Modoc Indiana Indicted. Jacksonville, Oregon 14 To-day the grand jury of Jackson county indicted Scar Pace, Charley Hocker, Long Jim, Une-eyed Morso, old doctor Humphrey, Little Jim, Boston Charley, and Dave, belonging to captain Jack's band of Modoc Mo-doc Indians, for murder in the first degree. de-gree. Mrs. 13 rot barton and son, survivors survi-vors of the Brotherton family, swore positively to these Indians as the band who massacred tho settlers on Lost river, in December last. |