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Show (11,11 OHMA. ( J. V. Dunbar, of Sun Fruiu-i-ico, i formerly an omployO in tho UmLetl t SLatca Mint, was recently rolibeU and nssiissinnlPtl after visiting a rlriuhiny ( and giimhling saloon. " JIarry Moigga is expected by bin i frienda to arrive in Sau P'rancifiio in I about six weeks. i Kiglitecn cars, with 120,000 feet of i lumber have been shipped from Truckoe within the last four dnya. Thockmorton,. one of tho" Fish Commiafiioners, declares thnt the experiment ol transphtnting iwtorn oysters on thia eouat lnw proven a a failure. The oysters become very tat and die in about a year. On Monday of lust week, at. Carbon's ranch, near Geycrsvillc, Lorenzo Hna went up to Frank Bone and demanded payment of an 'alleged debt. Bone denied owing tho money and Pina opened tire on him with a pistol, discharging one load and snapping several eapq. Bone hatt a rifle in his hand which he soon brought to bear, and Pina ran awiiy with a bullet lodged in his arm. Xo arrests have been made. Tho subjoined item id from the Stockton Iwlcpemlciit: Farmers every where are actively preparing harvest. Immense quantities . of harvesting machinery have been purchased pur-chased this season and shipped lo different points in the valley. On Wednesday, the lMh instant, Louis Lacruis, a native of France, was poisoned at Fort Jones thiough eating a toadstool. The Kan Barbara l'rr.sj will make a now deparluro in July, by coming out aa a pictorial weekly. The artesian well at the salt works near Yroka is down lo a depth of GSO feet. Tho first 11S f'oet was through a stratum of volcanic ! origin; the remaining 562 feet havo been through sands tone. 1 Tho Haywood Advocate tells of au English sportsman who w.is up that way tho other day with the inevitable ! game - bag, eye -glasses and cloth shoes, who, after assassinating an helpless buzzard which he found asloep on a fence, returned to town and reported that he had shot a "hcaglo" and had been pursued by wolve?. The wolves were harmless coyotes, which, after their habit, had been trotting after the terrified hunter, hunt-er, in the hope that he wouid drop something for them to eat. NEVADA, A party of renegade Bhoshones, Piute and Bannock Indians aro raiding raid-ing the Indians in the vicinity of . Eureka, with tho intention cf stealing the horses and squaws of tho latter. Eureka rejoices bu cause it has ft sprinkling cart. A pick fell down a shaft in the Cilqbc consolidated mine, Gold Hill, list week and seriously injured two miners. The ho sting works in the rjuecor mine, Virginia city, burned Saturday morning. Four miners were iu the shaft, and it is believed they havo perished. Virginia eily is U) havo ;t new morning daily paper on the first of June. Au?lin i; displaying the fattest beef seen there for vcars. The Eurelv-T 'irwoliil-.t.-l (V. cl,iP about "0,000 pounds of bullion daily. The locomotives of Virginia and Truckcc railroad wero draped in mourning on .Saturday out of respect to the wife of superintendent Yer-iegton, Yer-iegton, who died on Friday. They havo a hairless horse in Nevada, and since Wool hull octured in Virginia city they call him tho ' 'naked trut h !" OREGON, A voting man named Leonard Fagadly was dxowne.l in Crooked Creek, near Gray's Bay, oppos.to Astoria, on tho territory sido of tho Columbia on Saturday. Ho was en- ( gaged with some others in rafting logs, K and lell between two raftj. About 300 acres of the Rico donation dona-tion claim, located in Spring Valley, Polk County, was sold last week to Sir. Sear, of Lincoln. Seven dollars ; per aero was tho pri-je paid. Tuesday morning a gang of men, under the superintendeney ol Mr. : Crouch, commenced :work at Kose-hurg Kose-hurg to reconstruct the telegraph lino . from that vlwo to Yreba, a distance of 106 miles. The Maismuu says: "Two companies com-panies arc at present prospecting in the Coast Mountains for gold, silver, cinnabar, etc. Thuy have been in the mountains lor somo time, but as yet have not succeeded in discovering any indications of the precious metals, though largo quantities of iron and coal have bee;1, found," At the last meeting oi tho Bock Point, ilr.Vion County, Farmers' Club, Mr. Hunt offered the following resolution: resolu-tion: ".Resolved, That a committee bo appointed by the etiair to take under un-der advisement the subject of a larm-i larm-i implement factory, iu this vicinity, and report at our next meeting,' which was adopted. The Aslonan says: "Jointly, if the fish can bo obtained, the Columbia cane aries could this year put up (as ' they have the preparations tor doing m) 300,000 casks, containing 14,400,: 000 cans, of one pound each, valued at :V.G0,G00. To produce which they p.iy $1,000,000 for tin and manufacturing man-ufacturing cans, boxes, etc, and distribute dis-tribute ifu'Jo, 000 among the fishermen lor lish, $'J5,000 for incidental expensed, ex-pensed, leaving a balance of $18,231 to each, net profits for the season. We say this might bo done, could they got the fish, but what will be none i-an toll," |