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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS CALIFORNIA, An unusual amount of building is going on in Xapa. In Stockton, September "Oth, ninety tons of wheat arrived at the yatcr truiit by rail, The railroad is now in running order or-der from Los Angeles for eleven miles ! in the direction of San Fernando. The late Hear-Admiinl vVinsIowj leaves many warm friends at Yalleio ' and Mare Island, who served with him and now deeply mourn his loss. The Chinamen who weren't work on the Benicia railroad have quit work because, as they allege, their Chinese boss cheated them in regard to their wages, Oregon "Wilson, a. painter, quite young in years to have attained to the ! celebrity which had become his on ! the Pacific Coast, is dead of typhoid fever. The wild man of Tulare county ,' has been captured in the mounUini and brought to Yisalia. It proves to ' bo a deformed bear, wanting in fore legs, and walks upright like a human being. A detachment of recruits from the East, were landed at the Government wharf, Benicia, on Monday night, and another Wednesday night, nt ' ihe Bcnie a Arsenal. A new otlieers' quarters is being erected atau expense of nearly 00,1X10; also an artesian , well is being bored; it is already sunk some hundreds of feet. NEVADA. The Crystal Peak coal mines, near Verdi, are now being worked on an extensive scale. Peter Artis, a drayman of Virginia City, had his foot crushed on Thursday. Thurs-day. : Austin is arranging a 510,000 chess match between Dick Pearce and Gallagher, Gal-lagher, to come otf early in November. Novem-ber. &o,000 forfeit money is to be put up on each side. The Reese Riyer ILvalb; of Sept. !37th, says; The mined o( this and the immediately imme-diately adjacent districts wore never in so prosperous A conuition as at present, and more and richer ore is being extracted than at any previous period in the history of Lander county. coun-ty. In addition, the recent develop-incuts develop-incuts on Lander Hill give renewed assurances of the permanency of our mines; and, although our ledges are " razor-blades," they contain ore of a higher average grade than those of any district in the State. |