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Show PACIFIC COiST SEWS. CAXIFOit.MA. 1 The Cloverdale Be? is the title of a new weekly paper jut published. Lately at Willow ranch in Goose I Lake valley, a man by the name of Colin was shot in the thigh by CharlcB : Snyder, whom he shot at several ' times. The Marion county water company will commence operations shortly. They propose to introduce water from 1 Mount Ta mala pais into San Rafael. ! 1 At San Diego, June 27th, the en- 1 i giocers of the Texas Pacific railroad , commenced their preliminary survey, , the first stake boirjir driven en the ! National ranch at '2 o'clock in the alter-j alter-j noon. At Salinas, June 2'Jth, a young man 1 named C. A. Houston, of Nativdad Raneho, was engaged as engineer to a steam thresher, and whilo at work at j Albilat ranch the boiler exploded, blowing Houston about twenty-five yards. He was badiy scalded and died soon after. A little child of E. Colburn, of Sutter county, was severely scalded by the upsetting up-setting of a vessel of hot water last Monday. Alanson Gardner, on trial at San Bernardino for the murder of tho Bil-derbeck Bil-derbeck brothers, was acquitted last Sa'urday. Bartholomew Finncrtv has been arrested ar-rested and identified in San Francisco as the perpetrator of a highway robbery, rob-bery, for which one James Smith is now suffering in the Stato prison. Tho Mexican benevolent society of San Francisco cleared $4,000 by its benefit on Tuesday evening. Croquet is becoming (juito popular with the young folks of Petaluma. Grass Valley is agitated over a supposed sup-posed case of small-pox. The barn of Ralph Brown was burned in Petaluma on Monday. J. H. McNabb, of tho Petaluma Journal has been appointed deputy collector of the port of San Francisco. Tho display of fireworks for tho Fourth of July commenced in Sao Francisco as early as Tuesday evening. Small-pox is decreasing in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The Vallejo Chicago relief fund has been paid over to the treasurer of tho Solano county agricultural society. N. E. Carr killed bis wife, in his house on 24th street, San Francisco, on Friday, after a fierce struggle. He then stabbed himself in seven places and cut his left arm terribly, yet contrived to wigglo along in life notwithstanding the loss of blood. The C. P. R. K. propose to sell the Southern Pacifio railway to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, for less than cost. This is considered con-sidered a plan to block the 35th parallel paral-lel scheme. Small-pox is disappearing in San Francisco, but typhoid fever is increasing, increas-ing, and is generally fatal. Belcher, Crown Point, Raymond & Ely, and Pioche declared dividends on Friday to the amount of $42,000. j NEVADA. The American flag, which belongs to the town of Eureka, was found to be i in "soak" to a tailor for eight dollars, 1 when the boys wanted to "let her wave" on the Fourth. Hays, of the Hays mine, had his pocket searched in a saloon at Hamil-; Hamil-; ton a few evenings since. The thief : realized $180 and several hundred I dollars in checks. OREGON. Albany miliers are offering eighty cents per bushel for wheat. Tho late spring-sown grain in Washington Wash-ington county is a failure. One Miller, of Baker county, owns ! a yearling colt which weiglis boO pounds. Some rascal attempted to burn the-Dalles the-Dalles last week by setting fire to some shavings in a carpenter shop. The Tualatin manufacturing company com-pany will commence the construction of locks at the Oswego canal next week. The city council of Salem has been requested to pass an ordinance against the use of cowbells on bovincs within the city limit3. At a recent meeting of the Farmers' club at Fruit Farm, Marion county, the question of eradicating the wild gourd was canvassed. E. L. Womack has recently sold his ranch, situated in Tygh valley, for the sum of $5,000 cash. Real cstato seems to be gradually on the rise. Wm. Warren, of Yamhill county, has an ox which has been twice bitten by rattlesnakes this season. The ox is likely to die from the effects of the wounds. The Journal says that Eugene city is making rapid strides in the way of improvement. Many buildiDgs are in course of construction, some of them being of brick. At the late term ot the circuit court at the Dalles, John Weyland was convicted con-victed of attempting to oommit an outrage out-rage on the person of Lizzio A. Hay-den, Hay-den, a child under ten years of age, and was righteously sentenced to eight years imprisonment in the penitentiary, though he could have stretched under the chin with advantage to the community. |