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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. There were seventy deaths in San FrarjtiLieo during last week. Sao Joaquin county voted against i selling its $250,000 of stock in the 1 Western Pacific railroad. The authorities of Red Bluff have made a raid on the gambling houses of that place and closed them up. Two Pimo Indian boys whom Gen Howard attempted to take east from ' Arizona, to educate, ran away from 1 him at Maricona Wells, Advices from San Francisco state that tho stones found in Butte oounty, and taken to that city, are pronounced by experts who have tested them to be of rare value. The body of a man was found on Saturday last iu a cabin situated at at what is knownas Murray's old place, about a miie northeast from Murray's Ferry, on the Merced river. Upon examination it was found that the name of deceased was John Bennett, familiarly known as "Uappy Jack." He formerly lived in Hornitos. IIo was a native of England, and only a short time ago received letters from home. He has a father and mother alivo, residing near London. IDAHO. Several large sales have been made recently of mining olairua in Piorenoe to (JbinauieD, and many thousands of dollars have been paid the whites by the Chinese companies. Ah Quing, a Chinaman who was convicted of selling liquor to Indians, was sentenced by judge Wbitaou to six months in the Territorial prison.' ' The line surveyed by oolooef De Laoy, down Salmon river, for the N. P. K. 11., phows the distanoe from Salmon City, in Lemhi oouniy, to Lewiaton to be about three hundred mile?. Tho irrepressible conflict between the two principal Chinese companies in Boise Basin, which for weekn back threatened, to culminate in a pitched battle, has at length been suppressed, and through the mediation of the whites, assisted by the Yen Wahs, a treaty of peace bas been signed aLd ratified by the head men of the hostile forces The citizens of Idaho held several mass meetings, and finally secured se-cured the attendance of the Tyees of the Sco Yups and Yong Waba, when the whole subjeot matter of the trouble between them was explained through the atfeistanoe of interpret era. The settlement appears to be satisfactory to both parties; and Sam Stewart, chairman, chair-man, and the other members of the committee, as wtll as Pou Yam and Leo Pow, aro entitled to the thanks of the oouimuDity lor the succcsjful issue of their diplomatic negotiations between be-tween the two great rival Chinese companies. com-panies. H ad they failed iu their efforts, a pitched battle between tbo S3e Yups and the Yong Wahs was inevitable, in-evitable, as challenges had passed aud been accepted to fight on November lsJtb. . NEVADA. The funora! procession at the burial of the Hon. Edmond Paten, of Gold Hill, on Monday, was ono of the most extensive ever seen there. The Yellow Jacket and Belcher mines will not hereafter bo worked on Sunday. - . tiold Hill gas works have failed several sev-eral times lately and tallow dips have been in active demand. - 1 - An ephemoral town has lately sprang up at the ruins of the American Flat tunnel. Two hundred laborers aro at work there. They are cursed on all sides because they can work no faster. OKEUON, Ao. The total damage by the late lire at Dallas amounted to $4,000. A letter was lately dropped in the post otfico at Gooso Lake, direoted to "Sohiehagough, Illiooysc." Two and a half inches of rain fell at Uoseburg during the month of October. Octo-ber. So says a man who kept a record. re-cord. The Willamette river was rising rapidly rap-idly at Salem on Monday night. Some considerable drift wood had been started start-ed by the flood. - - Owing to the bad state of the roads beyond Ropeburg, the stages often fail to connect with the ears at that place, says the "Piaindoaler." A regular weekly paper will soon be issued at Empire City, Coos county. The "Rustic" has been published at that place occasionally heretofore. Rev. Father J. DeCraene has been appointed to the charge of St. John's church, in Salem, in plaoo of Father Goens, who is in failing health. Rev. Dr. Hill, of Albany, is ean-' ean-' va.oiog the State for aid for the college '. at McMinnville. The institution is a deserving eno, and finely located. 1 Wm. Miller, of Lane county, whose IZlVils wero stampeded by tho Indiana near Klamath Lake wme time ago, has recovered a part of the sick. |