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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALironsiA. j W. H. Martin, of tho California I Emigrant union, has ninde arrangements arrange-ments with railroad companies in Chicago for the reduction of hrst-clar-s railroad lore from $11G to tfSS, for the benefit ot immigrants from Chicago to San Francisco. A silk-grower's colony, in Pater-son, Pater-son, N.J. , is preparing to emigrate to California. Fifty families are ready, and will start as soon as tho J quota of 100 is tilled up. The site for tho Lick observatory and telescope has been fixed at tho summit of Mount Hamilton, in Santa Clara county, twenty miles east of the city of San Jose, at an altitude ot 4,417 feet, from which a broader scope of vision can be obtained thou from any other peak in the state, i The donation for the observatory is I 5S00.0O0, out of which sum tho observatory ob-servatory will ho maintained with a corps of astronomers and engineers. Mr. Lick makes this location depend de-pend upon the condition that the county will build a first-class road to the summit of the mountain. The practice of the San Francisco police of shooting at prisoners who run away, resulted in the killing of a man on Saturday morning who had been arrested on a charge of larceny. There is a grave question of murder involved in the ca.-.e. The fruit canners have this year obtained very remunerative prices for their products, owing to the destruction destruc-tion of much fruit by the early frosts. I Three women and one man were J sent to the insane asylum in San Francisco on Saturday. The young hoodlums of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, ranging from ten to sixteen years old, make a business of asault-ing asault-ing and abusing Chinamen in several localities. A railroad tie is now to be seen at San Diego which wa3 cut on the shore of the Green river for tho Union Pacific railroad. It escaped during a freshet and floated down the Colorado, following that river to fort Yuma, from whence it was brought by a steamer down to the Gulf of California and up the ocean to San Francisco, and thence to San Diego. There is a fair prospect that from thirty-five to forty thousand boxes of California raisins will be produced this season, against fifteen thousand last year. We find this in the L03 Angeles Herald: A lady fell out of the stage at Anaheim the other day, and the wagon passed over her breast without injuring her. |