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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CAUF0RNL4.. Jacob R. Blunienburp, of Sun Frun-Cisco, Frun-Cisco, is contesting tlie will of the lute Jat ob II. Lilunienburg, of which his widow is executrix, on the ground ol forgery, and that she ia unchaste. The estate is valued at half a million dollars. dol-lars. Chu Ah Willi, ofS.in Francisco, on trial for murder, has pleaded guilty of manslaughter and has been sentenced to ten years in the state priBon. In tlio Berry parricide case in San Francisco, the jury disagreed. At the recent Chinese riot in Bakerrifield, a white man and a Ohinmnen were killed mid others wounded. There is not the slightest disposition on the part of the Teniecula Indians to make any hostile demonstrations. They are completely onwed. The Consolidated Virginia mine yielded for tho month of September SI ,800,000, tlio largest returns ever received from the mine. Death booked five traveler yesterday, yester-day, in this city, for a journey through his grim dominions. The particulars make a hotch-potch of violence, murder, mur-der, and Buddcn death, social crime, jealously, female frailty and man's infatuation, suicide, orphanage, morphine, mor-phine, autopsy, coroner, public administrator, undertaker and tho grave-digger. Alta, Sth. The San Francisco journals express ; their surprise that a conductor of one ' of their street cars had to convince u lady tlie other day that she had made a mistake in giving him a golden eagle instead of a half dollar coin ii: payment of her fire. The fruit growers of California ar about establishing a fruit exchange ir San Francuco for tlie purpose of plao . ing their goods on the market am a-rtnnrlincr t.hp'ir a-.Ap tn i.Vifi PiW. Trams on the Southern Pacific now'j run several mites beyond Dr. Edgar's !r place, near the San Gorgonia pa.s. Nine companies have entered team of six riflemen to compete for the r elegant silver challenge trophy offered , by the California Rifle association, to i be shot for at the Presidio on the 23d. i Seventeen crates, containing about 150,000 salmon eggs, arrived at Sac- , ramento on Friday, from the govern- . ment fishery on the McCloud river. , Two crates were shipped south to 1 Kern river, and th rest to the Truckce to be hatched. The loss of a child and financial cmbarrasmeuts led the ex-llev. Wright, of Santa Clara, to drink, and drink led to suicide. One hundred and fifty tons of wheat changed bauds at Stockton on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, at from $1.85 to $1,921 per cental. The Sacramento beet sugar manufactory manu-factory is in full operation, employing 120 men, and produces 50 barrels or 10,000 pounds of sugar per day. The beets arc raised near by, and pur-chastd pur-chastd at the rale of $5 per ton. The S.in Francisco market is abundantly abun-dantly supplied with strawberries, and a few second crop raspberries have been received recently. It is announced that at San Antonio still lives an indian, Juan Capristrano, ' who was twenty years of age when Padre Junipero Serra landed in 1770. NEVADA. The present popvlation of Nevada, as established at the recent census, has been placed at 50,200, less than half of that of Utah. A branch of the Bank of Nevada is to be established in Virginia city. The richest strike yet made on Lander Hill 13 announced. The ore is principally chloride and horn-silver, and the ledge from which it was taken is said-to be eight inches in width. |