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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS IIMIOKMA. Tlie local option petition h;a enough signers in Round Valley to authorize an election. Whooping-cough and chicken-pox are both prevailing in Ukfah. Quong Kee Kee, a heathen Cliinee, wauta to take $400 in the Xevada City Xanow Gauge railroad. In tho ten days provious to Tuesday, Tues-day, 400 old people, Bays the Los Angeles An-geles aar, arrived at that city by e team or or stage. S.il ida Grange, Puirons of Husbandry, Husban-dry, haa decided to celebrate tho first anniversary of the establishment of that Grange, May the 0th. Tho .w Diego World tells of a sheaf of wild cats cut onj the Ranch de la Xacion, which was seven feet high, and fairly burdened with the cereal. The Los Angeles Express, in noticing notic-ing Vasquez' chances of capture, now taut Morse is in the field aller him, says that, "he will surely be caught unlets he escapes as usual." The Albion mill in Mendocino County shut down on the 14th, and the bands were transferred to the Novo. The latter mill is now sawing saw-ing about 40,000 feet of lumber per day. '4 he town of Millerton, Fresno County, had quite a smart shock of an earthquake on Monday night. It was of but a few moments1 duration, aud was accompanied by a rumbling sound. The sharpness of government detectives de-tectives in hunting out infraoltorja of the law lor cutting timber on government govern-ment lauds in Los Angeles County, has materially ini'-i'oasetl the cot of luel in that section, owing to its scarcity. scar-city. Tho Yolo Mail says the conviction and sentence of one of our saloonkeepers, saloon-keepers, and the confession and sentence sen-tence of another, for keeping open and selling liquor on -Sunday in violation viola-tion of the Sunday law, had the cflect to close up all places of business on last Sunday. - 1VKVA DA. The Elko fmkpoifknt oi the L'otb aays: "At an early hour yesterday' morning, our citizens were horrified by Lhe Bight of the body of an Indian squaw hanging by the neck from tho llagstafl'in front of the Chamberlain Hotel. The alarm was instantly civet).' and thosi; who happened to,h'--, abroad rushed to the t-cuiie. The bodyVas immediately cut down by willing hands, but all tho appliances ' for restoring suspended animation wore without avail. No clue as to tho perpetrators of the outrage haa been obtained,' n . The Odd Fellows of Gold Hill and Virginia City had a huge demonstration demonstra-tion on the 6th anniversary. Silver Lodge of Perfection, Ancient 1 and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, No. 1,'was instituted at Virginia City on Thursday last, The California Minstrels "flzz'id out" at Gold Hill on Saturday: A duel, or a challenge to mortal combat, is on tho tapis in Virginia City, the casus belli being a threatened threaten-ed injection of boot leather. : : - y R. J. Ladd, Clerk oE the ' Board of Education, Portland, is reported to , have defaulted to the tune ol $ia,Q00. , The Forest Grove Independent says that Miss Ella tiabin, a young lady of fine educational attainments and 1 good moral character, has been nominated nom-inated by the Itepublioan- party in Lane County for County School Superintendent, Sup-erintendent, but she is not eligible bo-cause bo-cause she is not an elector. : ' - There are 20S inmates, in be ;Ure-gon ;Ure-gon Insane Asylum Cayotet are destroying large numbers num-bers of sheep in Yamhill County. Green apples ' are very scarce at Albany. Green pairs arc abundant. The name of the JJaily Statesman, at Salem, has-been changed to the Daily Record - Tbo late rains have considerably retarded re-tarded grain sowing and garden making. mak-ing. , --- . . Chinamen and Indians engaged in a riot at the Capital a few days sin'cO. No funerals. One hundred and seventeen acre of laud, lying six miles southeast of Albany, Hold at auction last Saturday, brought $31 per acre. Hon. Henry Warren, at the Land1 Office at Oregon City,dccides that the withdrawal of land for the Dalles Military Mil-itary Road Company, extends ten miles on each side of their road. They are only entitled to tho odd numbered sections, or those are withdrawn until they have their complement of land m.der that grant. |