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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS CA IJIOKMI, jIrs. A. Y Torrey, of Maiysvillc, lost by denth a few days ago an old and favorite canary, aged 15 years. This was probably the oldest canary in the State. The Truck ee lumber couipanv have 4,000,000 feet of logs on the banks of the river, five miles above town, ready to be rafted down when the water is high enough. The Crown Point Mining Company are having tho foundations laid for ome new and powerful hoisting machinery ma-chinery for their incline. Gilroy is the latest place lo claim the presence of Tiburcio Vasquez. Placcrvillc has held a meeting which denounced the persons who hung Assemblyman Gilniore in clligy at Shingle Springs. Every able-bodied man in Sonora, Tuolumne County, between 21 and (30, must pay a street tax of $3. The Cosumnes Copper mine, Amador Ama-dor County, has Bulicient ore excavated exca-vated to keep the furnaces running three. months. A rocker, a pan, case knives, two shovels, and an old tin can for a dipper, dip-per, and two (,'liinamen, constitute the entire force and machinery of many a mining enterprise in Nevada County. April 11th tho body of a man was found drowned on the beach, close to the South Vallcjo railroad car-shop. It was recognized to bo tha of Daniel Burns, late of the United States marines, a native of Xew York, where his son now resides. The orchard of William Meek of San Lorenzo covers 260 acres, lie has 27,000 almond trees, 225,000 currant bushes, 4,200 cherry trees, 3,000 plums and prunes, besides large numbers num-bers of the best varieties of apples, pears, peaches, apricots, ttc. He is also experimenting with oranges and lemons. At Sucker Flat, April 11th, two hundred and twenty-five kei2s of powder pow-der were exploded in the Blue Point mine, which broke a largo amount of ground. The linterpriso Company are preparing to fire a blast of three hundred kegs. NEVADA. The freight movements at Battle Mountain for the month of March were one million six hundred and thirty-seven thousand pounds; consisting con-sisting of ore, lumber, coal, and general gen-eral merchandise. A gentleman at Gold Hill had 'his gold watch and chain, valued at $250 taken from his pocket as ho stood on the sidewalk. The thief was caught. Tho Klko Independent of the Utl) says: Jolm convicted of mur der in the second degree was sentenced sen-tenced to twelve years in the State prison. Charles Wilder convicted of grand larceny was sent for two years to the same institution. Three murder cases are booked fpr lip next term of the District Court at t White pine county. A correspondent of the Piocho liecord nominates Geo. W. Hopkins, of Virginia City for Governor. t is proposed to hold the State Conventions at Virginia City this year. An insane man named Johnson was placed in confinement in Eureka County recently. When it was atT tempted tp secqrc him he was found in i cabin with a Henry rifle and three revolvers, and it was only by strategy and a simultaneous rush of the Sheriff and his assistants that he was captured before injuring any ono. The rivers in eastern Oregon aro rising rapidly. A 400-fathom net is being made at a Columbia river fishery. The Dallea, with 1,000 inhabitants, has seventeen places where liquor is sold. It is estimated that forty per cent, of the cattle in Klamath Basiii wil die of starvation and epojjure. A Yquiig Men's Christian Association Associa-tion "has' "been organized at the Dalles. Eig culture has proved a success ip , Oregon. Coos Bay exported 'J00 tons of coal last week. The rivers in eastern Oregon are rapidly rising. ( There arc forty bridges and nine- j teen gates on the canal between Air j bany and Lcbano. I Tho Salem fire department has secured a fox's tail, to be carried by the company foremost in the race, peach trees are in ful bloom, and gardening of al kinds has commenced commenc-ed at the Dalles. As W. AViggennan was coming to tho Dalles one day last week in a two-horse two-horse wagon, ho wivs attacked by six or eight drunken Indians when within with-in a lew miles of town, and only got away from them by running his horses. |