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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS IIMKOUMA. The 1'cUluma JrutiuU Aid A.o-ciotiou A.o-ciotiou hiw 1,000 members. Snow is disappearing rapidly from the mountftini m Siskiyou County. Samuel Collins, nn old colored pioneer, pio-neer, of Mariposa, cut hia throat ou the 21th ultimo, but did not quite succeed in killm himself. The light over the county scut (question in tho new county of Modoc is liable to result in no place paining the majority, hencn it will continue to remain at Dorris Uridpo until a sre-ond sre-ond elTort can bo made to decide the question. Many Salinas fanners are availing themselves of the opportunity Lo work themselves, with ttieir teams, in grading on the line of tho Mnn terry and Salinas Valley Railroad, receiving therefore freight script, which aseiurcs the carrying of their grain from Salinas City to Monterey at $1 per ton. The fruit crop of Yuba County is several weeks behind time. A vein of coal has been discovered about three miles from I'kiah. One hundred and four men are now stationed at the Marine barracks at Mare Island. Farmers in Penn Valley, Nevada County, are experimenting with nut-bearing nut-bearing trees. The Menlo Park firemen have subscribed sub-scribed jStJOO towards the purchase of a new engine. j Lake Comity boasts of 10,000 visit-1 ors last year, to look at her springs and taste their waters. John D. liobertson says that a mustard mus-tard plaster is a safe, sure and instant cure for poison oak. A man was found dead at the mouth of Littlo Bear River, a day or two since. He was rolled up in blankets, blan-kets, and a jug of whiskey was by his side. i The San Joee Board of Trade has prepared a "black list," containing the naineB. of all persons in the community com-munity who fail, within a reasonable time, to pay thqir bids. The list contains con-tains over nve hundred names, and each member of the Board has a copy thereof in his counting room. . EVAI.. sixty-seven emigrants, principally from England, arrived in Virginia City on April 24th. Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped during the month ending April 30, from Austin, on account of Manhattan S. M. Co., ninety bars of bullion, weighing weigh-ing 8,811 pounds, and valued at 5117,-800,0V 5117,-800,0V . Parties have recently leased the Warm Springs, near Carson, and will make improvements and open to the public SuOn. The amount of ore shipped by rail during the month of April from the Conistock mines was: Number of car-loads, car-loads, 3,772; number of pounds, (,-jSO.OOO. (,-jSO.OOO. The Elko Land Office is to be opened open-ed again, Judge V. M, Stat lord having hav-ing been appointed fieeciver. The troops at Camp ILilleck, near Reno, consisting ol" Co. ,H, 12th infantry, in-fantry, and Co. C, st cavalry, were recently inspected and reviewed. Some of the Eurekans are not living liv-ing up to the compulsory cdueatiunftl law. Eureka is to have a militia cumpany organized. Eureka is lu have a Union Soldiers' ; Association. (rold Hill cast 922 votes at the recent re-cent municipal election. irgmia City polled 2,2N) votes. The Mexican residents of Virginia City celebrated the anniversary of the overthrow of the Maximilian Empire, on the oth. A special tar of $1 2,000 fur the Virginia Schools and $0,010 for Cold Hili, was voted by large majorities at the recent election. A foot race of fifty yards for a purse of 5-200 took place near Keno on Sunday. Sun-day. T. Burner, of Elko, has recently received a patent on a coupling for cars. The Belcher mine paid into the State Treasury more than $100,000 during 1S73. The silver brick that Is being prepared pre-pared for Admiral Lorraine at Virginia Vir-ginia City, will be sent to England in care of the British Admiralty. OKEGOM. The Grangers of Dallas number one hundred. Tl,i hrii-.k-.iii:ikii.L' season has com menced at the penitentiary. An Indian convict died at tho penitentiary peni-tentiary last Saturday of consumption. tsalein has a new enterprise hi the shape of an ink manufactory. (Jooa Bay will soon possess another tugboat. It is being built at San Francisco. Balein chuckles over the arrival of a pawnbroker. He'll last about two weeks. Tho wooden gas mains ol Salem are being removed, and iron ones placed in their stead. . Three larms have been sold during the past week near Dallas, Polk County. Coun-ty. The average price received was per aero, Less than twenty "trade marks" have been filed in tho Secretary of State's oifice from the date of the Territorial Ter-ritorial organization to the present time. , . A Salem young man who spit tobacco to-bacco juice on the ll-or was ordered out by the deacon, but showed f'ght and the deacon subsided. A gentleman who is spending a fe w monujs m ..iiii.-.Hg.i.i, -.LVi ov..' years' residence in Oregon, writes: "Those who complain of the dim ate of the Willamette Valley would do well to spend a Winter here; they would do as r am going to do go back to Weblbot as soon as possible.' A. C. Archbold, candidate for Coun- , ty Judge for Washington County on ; the Independent ticket, has treated ; himself to a new hat ol the Mount , Hood pattern. This mauler stroke of policy is supposed to make his opponent oppo-nent spend tome money in the campaign. cam-paign. Hia friends further say that Archbold oilers to hot John Swick a half-barrel of peanuts that he will beat him for the office, if the other "Independent fusion" trut him (Swick) out lor the same orfico, Harvey Har-vey Scott to hold stakes. |