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Show CALIFORNIA. The rainy season, with prospects of good crops, give a new impetus to every kind of business. One firm in Yuma has dispatched to Arizona over 1,540,000 pounds of freight within two months. The owners of Cucamgo vineyard intend setting out several thousand orange trees during the season. The frosta near Santa Cruz have been so unusually light this winter that the most tender plants have in some instances escaped untouched. Tbe creeks along the coast are lively with salmon. One was caught near the Powder Works, Santa Cruz, which was three feet in length. Ai Rogers' Camp, Mongul canon, Alpine county, recently, a woodchop-per woodchop-per named Joseph Martin was killed or the severing of an artery, a splint from a steel wedge having struck him in the thigh. He was a native of Canada and aged 24. Recently H. H. Haydcn and R. Youria killed a panther on Sutter creek. It was not a very large one, bat judging from its skin it would not lead anybody to believe that it would be a very agreeable antagonist in a rough and tumble fight. The waters of the Sacramento are rushing into the low land above Washington through a break a short distance above Mike Bryte's ranch in such a volume that travel by vehicles ve-hicles is impossible over the wagon road "grade." California lions arebrowsingaround Scott's Valley, Santa Cruz county. Two thousand pounds of beans were harvested affau eight acre field in San Bernadino. Twenty miles of the San Bernadino and Los Angeles railroad is completed. complet-ed. ' The Benicia and red bluff narrow gauge railroad will be built and equipped as fur as Vacaville without any further expense to stockholders. Work will be immediately commenced. commen-ced. A street railroad is contemplated in Santa Cruz, and a proposition to build a collegiate educational establishment estab-lishment is assuming definite shape, one citizen having offered $1,000 toward to-ward the project. The Los Angeles Chamber of Coin s merce, in urging Congressional aid for dredging Wilmington bar, state that the total number of tons qf exports nnd imports at the port of San Pedro, is over 100,000 tons annually, the fir- about 10,000 for a like period, and over 7,000,000 feet of lumber is received, re-ceived, Several orchards pf German prunes are now planting in the valleys of Santa Cruz. Sott-shelled almond trees, set cut there two years ago, have yielded nuts of fine quality. English walnut trees will be Ireely planted this season. The Pacific Jockey Club has been yeorganized. They propose to offer a purse of $30,000 for all running horses, hors-es, four miles and repeat, to take place in November next. It is expected that the best bipod cf bpraes qf America Amer-ica and Europe will compete for the prize. NEVADA. Gold Hill had a violent snow storm last Friday. : The Virginia & Truckce railroad em ploy 6a all received New Year's gifts from the company. Kmety car loads of ore are shipped daily from the Oomstock mines. ' ' Virginia city Is proud because one of its belles is cousin to Tom Thumb. She is a six-foot belle too. Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from PJqphe, for tho three days ending Uccembep .catl). 3,217.97 in bullion. bul-lion. Pat Holland has been presenting a gold spike to the Eureka and Pallis-ades Pallis-ades narrow-guage railroad. Where he got the same is not stated. The hard times in Pioche have had a depressing effect upon the local columns col-umns of the Record.- It is said that one pawnbroker there holds over 2,-000 2,-000 revolvers and bowie knives, deposited de-posited with him b' impecunious fighters as collateral security. Tfjere is no longer complaint of scarcity of water in Carson river, The late thaw has sent Hoods of water pouring into that stream from hill, vale and mountain gorge. All the mills are in full blnst and their stamps outroar the combined waters. An Indian mine in Shoshone district, dis-trict, 150 miles from Hamilton, is represented re-presented as exceedingly rich and very extensive. Tho ledge crqps out fpr the distance of a. mile and a ha.f. There fs a canine located in the vicinity vi-cinity of this office, says the Reese River lttvcillr., whjeh seems to have an especial aversion to bnll ringing. Whenever the church bell rings, lie or she, aa the case may he, sets up a dismal wail, which is contiuued A road between I ortland and the Dalles will likely be built next Spring. Three feet of snow recently stopped mail communication between Astoria and Forest Grove. Mr, Jervais, of Pleasant Valley, was recently attacked with pneumonic embolism, a rre thing in the history of surgery. It is a disease which follows fol-lows after pneumonia, and is caused by the fibrous clots of congulated blood lodging in different portions of the body and stopping tho circulation. circula-tion. Amputation was performed, but it is flpubtt'ul if the patient will recover. re-cover. Dogs and wolves arc making sad havoc with the sheep in Polk county. Mr. Barney has lost quite a number, alter giving them the closest attention. Since the snow the wolves have become be-come e$oeeding)y bpltl. coming down almost to the houses. I A man calling himself Jua. F-Exile, F-Exile, was arrested at Oregon city on Friday lust,'-for stealing a horse from N. N. ltobbins. He stole the horse at night, and not being familiar with various eross-roada in that region, ho found himself in the morning confronting con-fronting the very place where he had Stolen the horse from the night before. .Ie was arrested and brought to town, |