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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The sheriff of San Bernardino lately tosk a walk to his office just in time to scare off two burglars who were tryicc to get into his sale, which contained SIS.OoO. The Stale fish commissioners have made arrangements lor breeding white fish at Keliejviile, in the Tulare Co. When hatched, the fi;h will be put into Clear Late. The pipe of the Santa Rjsa Canyon water works is on the ground, and about one Lu'f of the distance is finished. Within another week, fresh water will be running through it to the shores of the bay. A San Jose man undertook to scrape acquaintance wth a policeman's dog, but the dog remonstrated so vigorou?ly that the San J use man won't be able to fit down comfortably for beveral week?. A large force of workmen have been employed during the past week in constructing con-structing a whale pond at Woodward's gardens. It is the intention of the management to procure a sperm whale to spout .or the beuefit of the many visiters who frequent that delightful resort. The steamer Colorado, which sails for China, on tho first proximo, will carry out a qantiiy of Summit ice, so that the denizens of the Orient may cjoI their punches and cock-tails. KK VADA. Jjhua James and Stephen Woodward, Wood-ward, of Virginia, had a liitle shoot-iii", shoot-iii", last Thursday, ahout a hai-dsome wiaow. Uoodtvrdwas content with a severe wound io his side Cinnabar is reported discovered near Pyramid lake. Delinquent stock sale of the Red Jacket mine postponed until February 21sc. Pioche is endeavoring; to raise a breeze over colored children in her schools. The Pioche theatre has been placed under tho management of iMr. John Maguire lor three months. A Chinawoman committed suicide in Reno a few days since by taking opium, lier excuse was that she was iired of her life of shame and slavery. Her owner says he is out $-400 by this foolishness Since Virginia city has provided herself wiih two steam fire engines .-he has had no firea. D. S-Petersen, an employe in the Empire m .11, has hid his hand horribly horri-bly crushed under a etamp that dropped aceidenily. Airs. Spencer ot Gold Hill was shot in the head by her husband, last Wednesday, Wed-nesday, and is not expected to live. Drunken Indians numerous iu Virginia. Vir-ginia. City officials unable to ascertain where the liquor is procured. OREGON. At the soldiers' quarters in the Modoc section a stray wanderer from camp is liable to be shot at by Indians prowling around, one man near camp only a few days ago having a horse shot from under him. The commissioner of pensions has decided that the Oregon volunree s who served under captain Jessie Walker Walk-er and captain Nathan Olney, in 1854, are entitled to land warrants. Oregon has a militia roc i merit consisting, con-sisting, of thirteen colonels and one private, i he colonels take turns at drilling, and the regiment tzys he'll bo d d if he stands it much longer, and is going to disband. Some trouble seems to have arisen at Salem about land titles, ia a portion of the ci y, among those who hold under titles purchased before the vender (Dr. Wilson) had obtained the fee simple from the United States government. The wolf bunting club at McMinn-ville, McMinn-ville, wbtch was organized last spring, has dissjlv. d. Tho members concluded con-cluded that it was a useless institution, as tho dogs killed tho eheep all the same, while ihoy failed to bring about any grist destruction of the gatvs lupus. Flannigan, of Empire City, is at pre.-ent iu New "i ork, negotiating tor the purchase of two steamers of 500 ncd 3UU tons burthen resnectively. The former to run between Coos Ray and San Francisco, and the latter hfctween CVos Bay and Oakland, California, Cali-fornia, and occasionally to Portland. |
