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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Wild pigeons are very plenty in Napa county. The water at Colusa, last week, was fjur inches higher than it had ever been before. ! There are five Granges in Lake county. About one hall of the voting population belong to the order now. A woman in Yuba City advertises in the local paper forbidding saloon keepers to furnish her husband wilh liquor. Mr. Cutter, of Virginia City, has purchased six acres of land in San which, with other improvements, will ;ot $12-5,000. O. F. Cook, of the Grand Island nills, Colusa.haa patented his process jf preparing wheat for manufacture .nto flour. It consists of taking of an .musually thin flake for bran. A young man, a native of Swollen, employed by Mr. Millett, School House Station,-San Francisco, fooled with a gas pipe, last week, and got worsted. He put a wooden plug in one end, and fclotuled it with gun powder. After having punched a hole to light it.be raised it up with ont hand, and with the other lit it with a match. The plug blew out hitting him in-tho head, and killing him instantly. in-stantly. NEVADA. Virginia City has a confidence woman who has bled" merchants and sewing machine agents to the tune of several hundred dollars. The wife of County Commissioner Torp accidentally shot herself on Monday, and it is feared she cannot live. It is reported, in Reno, that during the Late cold snap a Chinaman and a Chinese woman Iroze to death in the Chinese quarter of the town. The average daily shipment of ores from the Corns lock led go ia 120 car loads. A fire department has been organized organ-ized in Eureka, with R. Ryland as chief engineer. The Catholic church beilringer at Eureka,rung the bell with such energy ener-gy List Sunday that he called out the lire department. Coasting broke a man's leg at Austin Aus-tin on Monday. i The H'xilte wants a crusade organized organ-ized against tho worthless curs of Austin. A Chinaman was fined fifty dollars for stealing a coat in Austin on Tuesday. Tues-day. There is talk of building a railroad from Battle Mountain to Austin. OKKGOX. Lt week several new comers from Iowa went to Washington c.uuty looking for homes. The report from Linn county is: Business quiet; money not over plentiful; plen-tiful; roads muddy; health lair; weather warm enough, "but rather stormy; people happy and contented with prospects of good crops to come. Everything in Polk county wears a bright look. The farmers are plowing plow-ing and sowing Pall grain, and great preparations arc being made Jbr the next harvest. A large amount of ground is bcim,' plowed, and in jiiie places tracts of lifty and a hundred acres. One huv.dml and twenty-nine citizens citi-zens of Euguuc swore oil' drinking ardent ar-dent spirits on New Year's day. One hundred and eighteen have gone back on their cups, and tho other eleven are hanging around ihe saloons. James Pie-Ids, of Myrtlo Creek, it is charged, "Crcdil-MuUlicred" one of his neighbors la;t week, and is now hi jail. |