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Show California. Los Angeles, 15. A special meeting ofthe common council on railroad matters mat-ters was held last nignt, with a full board present. A telegram was received from colonel Hyde, agent of the Southern South-ern Pacific, asking the council to perfect the right of way in the city. Measures were adoptrd to complete the survey ot the route through the city forthwith, and a speedy commencement of the railroad rail-road is looked for. San Prancisco, 15. There are seven cases of smail-pox on board the Japan. She goes into quarantine at Saucelito. This evening a man named Edward Percy, recently arrived from Portland, went into Edward Meehan's saloon, corner of Commercial and Kearney streets. He was drunk, and Meehan ordered him outof the place. He refused to go, and Meehan undertook to put him out, when Percy drew a knife, and , stabbed him in the left Bide, below the heart, inflicting a mortal wonnd. He was taken to Dr. Murphy's omce, where a priest and chief Crowley attended him. To the latter he made a dying declaration of the circumstances of the atlair. The surgeon, who attended in the absence &f Dr. Murphy, says that Meehan Mee-han cannot long survive. Percy surrendered sur-rendered himself into custody. Santa Cruz, 15. The dispatch of the 13th instant, in reference to the Scott's Creek shooting difficulty, erroneously stated that Brown and sons attempted the assassination of Zook. It appears it was old Zook who fired the first shot at Brown, who was alone and unarmed, and Zook was wounded on a subsequent occasion by parlies unknown. Brown 1 emphatically denies any knowledge of the attack upon Zook. The Modoc War. Yrejia, 15. --Frem parties who arrived from the front, this ovening, we learn that general Gillem had established his headiuarlers at Dorris ranche. The oompany of artillery from fort Stevens had arrived at headquarters. All was quiet wailing the arrival of tho peace commissioners. It has rained considerable consid-erable during tbe last fnw days, making roads bad, but of vast benefit to both agricultural and mining interests. Winnemucca, 15. Several members ofthe Humboldt legislative delegation arrived this morning from the capital and were cordially received by the citizens. cit-izens. A grand banquet will be given this evening, at which senator Yarian will be present. Work will commence on the county building in the course or a few weeks. Weather cold. Pioche, 15. A largo and enthusiastic meeting was held in the Court house this evening, and resolutions were adopted instructing the representatives in the legislature, trom Lincoln county, to procure the passage of an act authorizing author-izing the commissioner of the county to i-suo bonds to the sum of $350,000, and exchange the same for stock in the Pulisade, Eureka and Pioche railroad. Oregon. 1 Portland, lo. Tbo steamer Telfair arrived from Victoria last evening, but brings no report of the missing steamer Geo. I. Wright, She will eail immediately imme-diately for Suka in search of her. The 'J. S. steamer Lincoln will probably also go in search of the Wright. There aro eighteen passengers on tue Wright, amoug whom are major Walker, paymaster pay-master in the army, aud wife. Weather very rough on the lower Columbia-Arizona. Columbia-Arizona. San Diego, Cal., 15. The Tucson, Arizona, Citizen, of the 8th, has the following private advices, Baying that the railway engineers are makiug fine progress on the preliminary liae now oeing extenaea up mo una irom the Colorado Kiver. The party is nearly ono hundred miles this side of Yuma. About a week ago James Beatly was killed by a man unknown to us, at Whitelaw's station, on Salt River, below be-low McDowel, Tho report is, the trouble began in a wordy dispute. Beatly made the first move to shoot and got the worst of it, the other not getting hurt, aud who afterwards surrendered sur-rendered himself for examination. At Pba'nix, about the same time, one Mexican killed another in a dance house, as is reported in a most cold blooded, cowardly manner. The murderer mur-derer is in jail at Phienix. Tho weaiher this woek has been pretty cool and pleasant. A resident of Cochise's reservation reserva-tion says, from what ho hears and sees. he is hopeful the present poaco will be kept by that band which so long was a terror to everybody whoso business made it necessary for thorn to reside awny from towns or live in this section. Tho Borderer has news that the epizootic epi-zootic has caused the stoppage of mails n Texas eastward from El Paso. |