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Show PACiriC COAST XEWS CALiFOKIA. Tlio assessment of Inyo County reaches f 1, 1 17,-1-3. The assessments of the town of Woodland foot up SI ,.100,000. The Ui.fiihlo property of S;tn Ber-nartlino Ber-nartlino County reaches i?l ,10G,:"91. Monthly niyht tho ontiro Chinese qnarler of La Porte, Sierra County, was destroyed by fire, and one Cliina-ra:in Cliina-ra:in burned. The Western I'nion Tolcrayh Company lmve apreal to construct a telegraph line to Jamison and Eureka via Downicvillo. The San Jojc Society for the Prevention Pre-vention of Cruelly to Animals has appointed ap-pointed ninety agents, who will bo vested with the arresting power, etc. The Los Angeles journals arc sorely troubled because there is no standard 'of time for lhrt place, and suggest the purchase of a good, reliable town- clock. In the Assessor's returns for fcian Bernardino County there arc enumerated enumer-ated l3ty,lx acres of Jourth-class land, worth, according to the returns. ODly fifty cents per acre. Six schooners arc employed in shipping ship-ping chrome iron ore from Petaluma to !?au Francidco, wboro it is put on the ship GeitC:al XcCUltan, preparatory prepara-tory to shipment to New York. Deer arc said to be very plentiful in tho mountains, and young fawns are frequently captured by hunters. Two fawns were brought to Truckee and sold to H. XV. Koberls. They aro beautiful spotted creatures, and will not weigh as much as good-sized hare. The Stockton Independent of Friday said: "A strange mirage- appeared in the western horizon about sunset last evoning. Llount Diablo appeared but a short distance away, and riuLsim Bay appeared to be mirrored in the sky. A Jong, narrow and unbroken cloud stretched along for miles iit length a little above tho horizon. The lower edge of tho cloud appeared perfectly straight, while the upper varied, resembling re-sembling the uueveness along the bay shore, even the semblance of trees appeared to the vision. Western olouds in the sun's course were brilliantly brill-iantly tinted, and altogether it was a scene of splendor seldom witnessed' - SEVADA.' A man named James Lynch, who had been on a prolonged drunk, was found dead in a cabin near Austin. A healthy dose of strychnine administered ad-ministered to the numerous tomcats who have a triok of serenading their lady-loves under the windows of sleep? ily disposed individuals woull do more to reconcile people to the cares and .annoyances ol this troublous earth than seventeen bottles of Mrs.. Svinslow's soothing svrirp. K. K. iteccUL. The epizootic h;is?again "broke'u out among the horses of Virginia gitv. ". Eight hundred tms of ore daily au-e shipped from the Comstock miaiesiu. the Larson mills. J' The Carson postoflico has betS , raised, byorder of the Departfntnt, lroni a tliaii-cuujs to n socond-rhiss oliice. Two thousand four hundred gallons gal-lons of Fredericksburg beer were sold in Virginia City during eix days ond iug tha Fourth. The Belcher Mining Company employ em-ploy in their mine and on the surface, sur-face, including those engaged in sinking sink-ing the new air shaft, 1,(HX) workmen. George Pryal, a member of the sporting fraternity, made an unsuccessful-attempt to commit suicide at Carson City on Tuesday last. OREGON. A vein of eoal, seven feet wide, was struck on the old Bond farm, Iut week. Charles Logsdon killed three cougars coug-ars in B.'odgctt's Valley, Benton Co.. on Sunday, June 2tth, one of which measured nine feet in length. A shooting allray occurred last week in Josephmo County, about five miles from Kcrbyville, which resulted re-sulted in the death of John JJelmat-ter. JJelmat-ter. Farmers complain and say that there will not be much over half a crop of hay cut in Powder Kiver Valley Val-ley this season. Crain of all kinds looks well. Fall wheat is begiuuing to fill. Thousands of acres of it stands six and seven feet high. H is too high too much straw iu proportion to tho length of the heads. Nevertheless, there will be a good yield. It is reported tb:.t valuable gold mines have been discovered on the head-waters oi Brigcs Creek, in J030-phine J030-phine County. Some miners who went in there hist Fall have found several nuggets v.iiucd at ninety dollars dol-lars each. George Moiri:;, of tho Klamath country, ives the &ut:iai'in the following fol-lowing iioms of interest from that vicinity: lie says that large numbers , of immigrants have come iu there this season, and many are still arriving arriv-ing almost daily. They arc of a class to permanently increase ttie population. popula-tion. There is a larger acreage of land being tanned in that section Ibis year than ever before, and farmers anticipate a heavy yield of all kinds of grain raised there, as the crop prospects never were belter. Immense Im-mense quantities of grass will also be raised the present season. The settlers set-tlers in that portion of the Slate found, upon getting their cattle together toge-ther in Lhc Spring, that not so many had been lo!t as they had thought, and the herds were generally iu better bet-ter condition than was anticipated. Government is going to build up and otherwise improve Fort Klamaili this Summer, and quite a number of carpenters, car-penters, briekmasous. and laborers will be employed. |