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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. The Virginia city common council is discussing the question of fire limits and the construction of better water works. Tiie uiliztjus have guaranteed $30,000 for this purpose. The IVmacula Indians refused to receive the $500 worth of blankets, calico, etc., offered them by Indian agent Dryden, fearing some trickery. James McDougal, an engineer, who was the victim of San Francisco garrolers about two mouths ago, died recently and was buried on Sunday by Kxcelsior lodge of Masons. The man who was arrested for tlie crime will be tried for murder. P. H. Kingston, 05 years of ago, lately employed as a clerk in the bank of California, was rescued from drowning drown-ing on Saturday in Sau Francisco. Lie had attempted suicide. From Kansas, Texas and Missouri G,000 wagons, averaging two persons each, have crossed the plains and mountains for thestate of Oregon this season. Undor the management of General Davis, the creditors of tho defunct First Naiioual bank ol Nevada, at Austin, have received eighty cents on tlie dollar, and will probably' receive ten cents more. |