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Show PACIFIC COAST .NEWS CALIFORNIA. The gntpo crop of Nr. pa bills fair to exceed that of any previous year. There is a demand (or laborers on the Salinas and Monterey K:iilroail. The reports from the Temcscal tin mines, San Bernardino County, are cheering. They have a new clock at the Benicia Arsenal, the striking of which can be heard ail over the city. It is against the law for boys under fifteen years of age to be on tiiestrec.s of Vallejo after U o'clock at night. In San Francisco last week there were 5S deaths, "which is U leca than the average for the corresponding week for five years past 37 were males, 21 females. The clean-up of the Tuolumne Hy-. Hy-. draulic mine, formerly the Kougli and Heady claim, in Table Mountain, ( lately, after fifteen days work, at an expense of $400 for Labor, resulted in $2,000 of the prettiest gold ever caught in a Hume, and it coins over $"20 to the ounce. Kernville will in a few months W one ol tH-a liveliest places in Kern (Jpunty, or even in any of the southern mining counties. The eighty-stamp mill, for the Big Blue and tiuiuner mines, will be built, and the present twenty-stamp mill will be put iu improved im-proved ehape. One hundred stamps, running day and night, will dissolve an immense amount of rock. The Yolp Democrat says that reorganization reor-ganization of the Benicia and Bed - Blufl Narrow Gauge Railroad Company Com-pany has been effected, and that active ac-tive measures will be at once taken Inward misliinir (ho wnrb- mul Unit it is to be finished as far as Vacaville in timp to carry oft' this season's crop. The Solano County Recorder has furnished quite a number of six and twelve month liquor licenses to parties I who have applied lor them, in anticipation antici-pation of the passage of the Local Option law. An attempt is boinji made by thu owners of a piece of land at Vacaville in which the remains ol 100 persons are deposited to have them removed 1 and the land used for cultivation. The pcoplo of Vacaville resent t'lis, and ask the Supervisors to declare the p'ace a public cemetery, Lat week another special Government Govern-ment detective perambulated Sacramento, Sacra-mento, peering into all tho stores, and investigating the boxes, books, kegs, and barrels of every house where cigars or liquors were made or sold at wholesale, NEVADA. Postal changes in Nevada: Names changed: Fanaca, Lincoln County, Nevada, to Builionville, and Julius Sutton appointed Postmaster; South Fork, Elko County, Nevada, to Carrol Car-rol Hill, Postmaster appointed: Henry Williams, Sweetwater, Esmeralda Esmer-alda County, Nevada. Thousands of the rabbits in Sierra Valley last Fall seemed to "nave been endowed with a peculiar instinct. Anticipating a severe W inter they migrated to Round Valley in large numbers. The latter valley is much lower in altitude and has a milder climate than Sierra Valley. The two valleys are about nine -miles apart. But very few rabbits have survived 1 tbe severe Winter in and around Sierra Valley. The wise ones emigrated, ' and the foolish ones remained and perished. Truckee Hqmblimn. A house in Ruby Hill was robb(d , of $300 on the 8th. Pleasant Valley is overflowed, and a general inundation of tbe country is threatened, 1 A man named Gottleib Steinkoop, on the Stli, committed uic.de at Pio.he. Cause, whiskey. An old man, who has been prospecting pros-pecting upon a hill for four year?, recently struck a good mine. The rce-opt report oi the hanging of a squaw in Elko is denied, Tho ciliPiiH nf Trnelifw nrnitn-iR fn liave a grand excursion to Like Tahoe I on the 2uUi, 1 outoox The Willamette River is unusually low for this Benson of the year. Wool is oponing in the Oakland market at 25 cents per Dound. Wheat is worth one" dollar and oatj ' thirty cents at Oakland. There is in Yoncalla Valley, Douglas Doug-las County. 100,000 head ol sheep. The Sitiemitcs have used about 8,000 postal cards during the past three months. The Dtitwcrul claims that Benton County has a mau over a hundred years old, who has fought in all the wars in this country from the revolu-t revolu-t on down. ( , The measles have "played out in Jefferson they have just enough to go around and one over. People of that burg now go to church, Sabbath school and college with impunity. The Dallas paper learns that the recent frosts have damaged the truit prospects in some localities m that county. Al. Graham, on Salt Creek, reports his plums entirely destroyed. The prospect of on abundant lriut yield throughout Willamette Valley is good. This pleases immigrants from the Western Suites, where most of the orchards have beenAVmter-killed. beenAVmter-killed. The Oakland Call learns that a son ) of Rev. Mr. Todd of Douglas County was killed last week. It is supposed the boy had alighted from his horse to put up some fencing, when the animal took fright and ran away with him, a? he was found with tho rope around his wrist, his skull broken in 1 and life extinct. Joseph Venablc, who was noiui-I noiui-I natcd by the fusion convention in I Douglas County, declines the dubious i honor, and says: "I have all my hie 1 been a straight and consistent Demo- crat, and am now opposed to disband-! disband-! ing that organization as was done at Itoscburg by Democratic and Republican Repub-lican delegates. 1 should have voted for a party ticket had there been nne, but now 1 shall favor and vote for tho Independent ticket; believeing it to be the people's choice." |