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Show MIjIFOKXRA. S, Coif, of Ciilroy, is constructing n cheese vat with a capacity of 040 gallons. gal-lons. Wool, grain and bullion will make a remarkable heavy showing in the (jxjjorLs of San Diego this year. A regatta will take place on Lake Tahoe as soon as the weather permits. Nine boats have already been entered. en-tered. It U estimated that $1,000,000 will not cover the losne3 in horses, cattle and sheep in this State during the pnst Winter. A fire company h;w been organized at Menlo Park, San Hatco county. Fred. Jloore was injured in the head at the College gymnasium, Santa San-ta Barbara, on Monday afternoon, by one of the large iron rings used for swinging, and Casei us Oliver had his arm broken on Wednesday morning morn-ing by falling from a trapeze. Both young men were students of the College. Col-lege. The discoveiy of quicksilver mines within thirty-live miles of Colusa is creating great excitement. The mines mo said to bo rich and easily worked.j The amount returned into the State Treasury by Senators who declined to allow the State to purebnse postage stamps for them was $84 70. The State Loan Commissioners have 250,000 worth of bonds, which they oiler in suitable lots to buyers at 2o cents on the dollar. The Chineso residents of Nevada City subscribed $400 to the Colfax, Grass Valley and Nevada Railroad fuud. NEVADA. Three-card monte men are doing a thriving business at Winnemucca. They ought to be tarred and feathered and run out of town. The Crown Point mine has just received re-ceived a steel-wire cable weighing 17,-7o0 17,-7o0 pounds. This is on immcnao weight to hoist every lime a car-load of ore is raised, 'Die Indians on tho Pyramid Lake Reservation are busy plowing, seeding, seed-ing, etc., and expect a large harvest. One hundred and ninety-seven i thousand dollars were disbursed for labor in the several mines at Gold ilili on Friday. In Gold Hill they are beginning to complain of duat. OREGON. TheGrangc at Dallas has already a large membership and they lire rapidly rap-idly increasing. Dallas has now three temperance organizations in a prosperous condition, condi-tion, ani per consequence tho saloon Janguishelh, Now cornea Baker City and closes her public schools for lack of funds. This cause is operating too extensively extensive-ly in the State. The M. E. Church, South, of Dallas, Dal-las, has sent earjt for a bell for their church. The bell wilt weigh, about 250 pounds, and cost $150. I At the North Salem Independent precinct meeting, DgIos Jefferson offered of-fered the following, which was adopter!: adopt-er!: "Resolved, That our Bohool law should be so amended as to secure a more liberal education among the masses, as upon the intelligence of the people dependu the perpetuity of our Government." Jackson County is reported good for two hundred miijority lor the Independents Inde-pendents at the present stage of public pub-lic sentiment. The Baker City Democrat learns that a large body of ore has been struck in the south level of tho Summit Sum-mit mine, owned by Messrs. Pack-wood Pack-wood & Stewart, which mills thirty dollars per ton. .Large deposits of plumbago have been discovered in Curry County. Plumbago is an article of very high commercial value, and we believe there are only two mines in tho United States whero the mineral is found. |