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Show PACIFIC COAST 'EVS. AI Il MtM V. .his Ireiinaii who waa jirrewtwl with Ho!) Muiminj: fur tho imtrdcr of All Tuck was to ho examined before the San Francisco com miss ion or of lunacy luna-cy nn Wednesday. Match piunc lillianls between Henry Hen-ry Merrifield and Lance JVrkins at San Francisco was finished atone a. I ni.t Wednesday, l'erkins won by 12(1 points. The pimc was three-ball French cumin, 300 points up, tor one thousand dollars aside. Tho largest run made by Perkins was US in the H-llli inniniis. I (.Jeneral Scholield h;w lelepraphtAl (ienerl Davis submitting to him the .duty of appointing a commission for trying the Modoes. Xo steps yet t;iken for tho apprehension appre-hension of the white men guilty of the atrocious massacre of Modue prisoners lust Saturday. Frank Rosas, alitor of the Italian paper Gazette of the Pacific, isarrested m San Francisco for n horrible outrage out-rage upon the person of a little girl seven years old, who' hud been in the habit of visiting his office. It is assorted as-sorted that, iu consequence of his act, the child has lost the sight of an eve and will probably lose that of the other. Kosas is much excited, ami protests that he is wholly innocent of any crime whatover. The Catholics have a new church nearly completed at the town of Merced. Mer-ced. The colored people of Sacramento refusal to participate in the Republican Republi-can primaries. The Fabbri opera troupe sung four nights in Sacnunento to poor houses. W hite miners are so scarce in Sierra county that mine owners arc compelled com-pelled to employ Chinamen. Keal estate must bo very high in San Diego. The local papers have noted its steady rise for the past two years. Several new locations of quicksilver mines have recently been made on Squaw Creek, in the northeast corner of Sonoma county. KEVADA. The circus elephant escaped at Virginia Vir-ginia city, on Sunday ' night and li used sorrow to come to the hearts of the saw dust crowd. All of the circus men, police and Piutes in town were out looking for him. They found the animal about two miles out of town. Fi (topi, hundred poopio frnni Virginia Vir-ginia city went lo Carson on tho Sth. Pleasure was What they sought and found. A black and tan "purp" has disappeared dis-appeared from Cold Hill and now its lady owner refuses to be comforted. Sonic fellow could make money by buying up all of the sausages in town and give them to the lady for the -0 she oilers for the return of the dog. Murders, suicides, and attempts at suicide are so common in Virginia city as to attract no more than a passing pass-ing notice. The citizens of Reno have appointed appoint-ed a committee to arrange lor u Fourth of Julv celebration. The Jinksville is said to be one of the lincst mines in Eureka district. There is a Iwxly of ore exposed which measures thirty-live feet iu thickness, and the end is not yet. AVc were yesterday shown assays which run nearly Si'OO per ton. it is estimated that there is (00 tons of ore on the dump. The Jinksville is evidently a big tiling. ori:.). .Strawberries arc plentiful up the valley, and with cream arc highly relished and extensively indulged in by "ye webfoot." The Umatilla, Indians pay frequent visits to Baker City, selling horses, luiying whisky, and now and then frightening the weak-minded population. popu-lation. A letter from Baker City savs : " Building is going on here rapktly, but I fear Baker will over-do herself, as our farmers have no market tor their produce, and we have no capital to devolop our mines." Severaf strange Indians have been seen on the L'mpqua river about 2o miles east of Boseburg, and settlers aj-e beginning to feel apprehensive for the welfare of themselves and families, fami-lies, but it is likely they are friendly Indians hunting and fishing. |