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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. Travel ts the Geysers is still on the increase. New hay ia comiDg into market at San Ma :co. "Bob White" quaila have appeared in Sonoma couoly on the ranch of K. Ferguson. Both Santa Barbara and San Diego are better provided with hotels than Los Aogeles with a largo population. The postmaster of Ukiah has undertaken under-taken to dictate to newspaper publishers publish-ers the shape in which the papers must be folded. The epizootic is still master of the situation in Watsonville. Tho freight teams are doiait; a little light work, but several horses have died. Humboldt county, which micht raise hay for export, pays SlO.OUO a year for hay brought to the county 1'rom San Franeisco by sohocner. A petition praying for the removal of the county seat of Solano county to Vallejo, is being circulated and numerously numer-ously signed. We saw a $75 nucet of pure gold, says the Sonora .Democrat of May 10th, thai wr.y picked out of the sluices in the Craig claim this week. "Mandel & Co , cigar manufacturers id Sau Francisco, have discharged all their Chinese employes and employed a number of giris to learn the busi- CCS3, The Flair says there is talk of putting put-ting on a line ot freight teams between Ucaldsbur.it and 1'cioluma, on account of the high cbargeo of the railroad company. com-pany. Tho Monterey Democratic Bays: "The tree upon whioh Tarpoy was hung has been cut -down by a zealous denouncer ef his s'ayeip." So that it mav bear no more such fruit. Up to last io:ountfl $110,000 of Btoek have been subscribed towards making up tho $150,UU0 required, in order to oontruot the narrow gauge railroad from Santa Crui to Watson- ' Tl 12. William Burke, the murderer of his brother in-law O .'en, has been taken 1 from the jail in Mendocino, and dc posited in tho county jail of Sonoma for safe keeping, whereat the Mendo-oi Mendo-oi uo people arc wroth for the reflection cast upon them. The decision of the supremo oourt, asserting that sand baoh is not open th entry, as privato land, is of very much importance to Santa Cruz. It effectually bars out tho claim of Henry Cowell to any portion of the narrow strip of laud surveyed on the water front, Nit V AD A . John Doo and Richard Roe have found their way to Virginia city, whore they are before tho police oourt every day -for disturbing tho peaoe. Rev. Mr. McGrath lectured at Gold Hill, Sunday oveniog, on a train of thought that was started in his mind while listening to Blind Tom. Piocho and Bullionville are having their usual amount of shooting scrapes. The Columbus mill, at Austin, is turning out $1,200 of bullion per day. Five fat grouse are in the markets of Virginia city, Nov. They wero shot in the mountain regions of California. Cali-fornia. It 19 said the new survey of the boundary line between California and Nevada will throw the town of Aurora into tho former State. The miners of Mountain Capo district, dis-trict, Nevada, ask tho governor of Nevada to send them seventy guns, ostensibly for delV-nso against Indians. Virginia audiences have a fashion of showiug their admiration for excellent ! singing, or acting on the stage, by poking their favorites on tho head with boquets. OKLGOX. Tho surveyors of tho road from Rose burg to tho coast have reached l'ort UriorJ. Forest Grove is improving rapidly with the advent of good weather. Ten residences were built there last year. Agents claim that insurance companies compa-nies paid out $1 00,000 more than they received in Oregon last year. On Saturday l&.-t, the house with all its contents, of Jesse Bunvard, who lives about eight miles from town, on Camas Swale, Lane county, was destroyed des-troyed by tire: The only thinf saved wa a wash-tub. Thomas Judkins of Lane county has '-2 acres of land under fence, which ho propo:es to sell at $6 an acre, and donate- the proceeds to a department in the State University for the education of cripple?. A correspondent at Eugene City writes: ''The wrath t is fine; farmers nearly d.ne sowing their crops; firas splendid, aud stock tat; butter, eggs, oats, barley and wheat plenty; money HP'i'".' evejthhtfj est.' all right-' The Mountaineer says: "L'ndcr the f resent circumstances, we believe the ndians should bo all called in to their reservations, aod ail of those who rc-t rc-t u?c to go, and in-i.-t on roaming ovei tba country should be treated as dan geroua, and caught and hung.'' |