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Show PACIFIC COAST NEAVS. NEVADA. On Tuesday night two servant j girls were sut located in Gold Hill so badly thai their lives are despaired of. i They had neglected to turn off the gas on retiring. There are at present five military j companies in Storey county, with a , muster roll ot 750 names. Thomas Harris has clvtllcnged Michael Whalen to a wrestling con- j test for $500 to $1,000 aside. I John Hoyle, superintendent of the Dardanelles mine, Virginia city, was robbed by two highwaymen last Friday evening. The Virginia Chronicle records with satisfaction the election of the Hon. John R. Kittrell to the office of attorney-general. Modoc war, scrip is worth seventy-cents seventy-cents in coin on the dollar. Jacksonville Jackson-ville .merchants allow seventy - five cents in trade. The Portland, Dalles aud Salt Lake railroad bill which passed the Oregon legislature is not a direct subsidy; that was refused. It grants the road the righto: way, requires it to be constructed in Oregon within three years from Nov. 1, 1S74, and exempts it ironi taxation for twenty years. The principal hope of securing se-curing its early construction appears to be anticipated subsidy from con gress ol $8,000 per mile. Tho state trensurer of Oregon is only allowed $.S00 a year by the late legislature, and the people are wondering won-dering whether he is going to steal or live on the honor of his position. The total amount of wheat shipped from this state up to October 15th, was 251. 7S4 bushels, representing a total value of"$227.G26. COLORADO. 1 William Queen, in Russell gulch with a small torce of Chinamen, sluiced out, in six weeks time, upward up-ward of $ti,000 in nuggetd and dust. Tho yield of bullion at Caribou during October is reported to have been about $50,000, of which amount the Caribou silver mill turned out $24,000, coin valuation. Twelve Navajoe chiefs, under the charge of Governor Amy, are en route to Washington on a business and pleasure trip. The directors of tho Pueblo and Salt Lake railway have ratified a contract con-tract made on behalf of the company by Henry C. Thatcher and Wilbur F. Stone while in the E ist for securing the iron for the whole line from Pueblo Pue-blo to Las Animas. The work of construction will be pushed with vigor. The Pueblo People says that the completion of the Utah Southern railroad south to Nephi is the same as one hundred miha of the Pueblo and Salt Lake road at the western end which will be finished by next spring- We have the utmost confidence confid-ence that if the Atchison and Topeka Railroad company join with the Pueblo Pue-blo and Salt Lake Company in pushing push-ing this enterprise hereatter, in five years from this time we will see a complete line of road from Pueblo west to Salt Lake City. Returns from all the counties in 1 this territory show the assessed valua-1 tion of property in the territory to be $44,393,30S. This is an increase over 1S73 of 8,811,368. The Kansas Pacific train due at Denver last Thursday night got stuck in the Bnow at Ellis. Snow fell to the depth of five inches at Kansas City last week. The stage coach extension from Georgetown to the Middle Park over the new wagon road, was a success. TUo trip, 20 miles, was mudo in eix hours each way. |