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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFOB5IA. Mrs. Lane'8 dignity has been wounded wound-ed by reportorial interviews. She didn't care anything about the stomach-pump which robbed her of half an ounce of laudanum. Modesto, patterning after San Francisco, Fran-cisco, refuses to allow gamblers to fleece the verdant out of their pocket money. It is said that a wealthy Californiao miner having fallen in love with Laura Fair, intends to marry her. Will he then kiss his wife with im puoity ? The room that Mrs. Fair occupied in the county jail now has Fanny Price indicted for arson and for passing a FDiel mark as its occupant. Mrs. Fair's furniture has not yet been removed. re-moved. While the castor bean fever was at its tenith John Briggs, an enterpriziDg fruit grower, erected on his ranch near Yuba city, a hydraulic mill of considerable consid-erable capacity, and last season manufactured manu-factured thousands of gallons of very fine oil, but the price of the article being low tbe enterprise proved unre-munerative. unre-munerative. Recently a very destructive fire occurred oc-curred in tbe timber on tho upper part of tbe tract Dear the Voss' mill, in Little York township. The fire swept over a large extent of country, and it is estimated that upward of 4,000,000 1'eet of lumber was injured much of it destroyed. The fire burned with such fury that tbo whole force of the mill was kept at work night and day to save tbe property. Tbe conflagration is supposed to have originated from a lire started by some boys who were hunting cattle. A dissipated young man from the ' rural districts called at the San Fran- : cisco Greeley headquarters the other evening, and oskel for a bottle of " that ar hair restorative BtufT." Simple Sim-ple fellow, he bad mistaken the big transparency for an advertising dodge, supposing tbe bald pate of Horace to indicate appearances " before using it," and the ambrosial curls of Gratz Brown " after using it" Eureka stockholders had a severe set-to on Monday in an endeavor to change tbo management, but the old board was re-elected. California Mexican claimants have memorialized the President for energetic ener-getic measures to protect American interests in-terests in Mexico. Haa Francisco policemen will hereafter here-after appear in uniform whether on duty or not. The festival held some time since for the Franciscan friars netted $13,774. Betting on the race at Saoramento to-day is 100 on 11 Goldsmith Maid" to 70 ou " Occident." Crowds of spectators have gone from San Francisco Fran-cisco to attend the race. California watermelons when out open disclose hore-shoei and mules' ears, V;asthe mule seratohing his ear with his hoof, when the swift-growing melons overtook and enclosed him 7 Koonomy is wealth. A well-regulated Sacramento family ate hash for breakfast break-fast in 365 different styles last year, aud the mother is, in coDsequonoe, enabled en-abled to display a $U0 lace handkerchief. handker-chief. NEVADA, The Piooho and Bullionville narrow guage is tbe great looal topio away down there. The Portland mine is working three shifts of men. Gov. Woods speaks at Hamtiion tomorrow to-morrow night. The Elko county Liberals expect to poll a heavy vote. The Liberal and Democratic convention conven-tion at Pioobe nominated P. C. JBy-marj JBy-marj and J. li. Wilson for state senators. sena-tors. A narrow gauge line will bo built from Empire City to Virginia, Nevada, tbe surveys for which are already in progress. E. T. McDonald, of Elko, while lighting a cartridge of giant powder, last week, was seriously injuted in the abdomen and about tho legs, and had bis right arm eo badly shattered that amputation was necessary. The Ella copper mine is now yielding yield-ing ten tons'per dfiy of high grade oro. - Elko saloons were burglarized, on Tuesday. They saw the same show a week ago. A young poet, at Humboldt, accidentally acci-dentally shot himself near tho heart, on Saturday. The wound was not fatal, although dangerous. oukgos. A bill providing an appropriation of $100,000 for State oapitol buildings build-ings at Salem passed. Mr. Mitchell, tho new Uuitcd States senator-elect from Oregon, will bo one of tho youngest men in tbe senate, boing only abot tbirty-sif years of age. J. H. Lappcus, chief of pilico in Portland, James D. Fay, president of senate, and Vic. irevr.t, committed an assault upon Eugene iScmple, tAto Drioter, last Thursday evening. Pistols and canes were used freely, but it resulted in nothing more serious seri-ous than scvero bruises, with the er-ception er-ception of Scrapie's case, whose injuries inju-ries have confined him to his room since. The Northern Pacific railroad party returned to Portland last Thursday, after an absence of ten days, in whioh time they explored all the harbors, bays and channels, in a ran of 4u0 miies around Puget Sonnd, and examined ex-amined the valley of the Columbia river for 300 miles to tho mouth of the Snake river. They express the EtroDgest admiration of the entire route. |