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Show PACIFIC (.'OAST ITEilS. C AL1FO KN IA , A few days before his execution, the convict Va-squez made a bet of half a dollar thut the govsrnor would refuse to commute hid sentence or grant a reprieve, and that he would be hanged on tho 1'Jth. When he learned ot tho governor's decision he coolly demanded the stake.-?, saying that he wanted to use the money in hii buiine-d. Chief Coi.-k.rilI has UsueJ a proclamation procla-mation concerning the protection tint Is to b accorded to religious i gatherings in San Francisco. Such gatherings are entitled to all the po- liecdelerence oti)L-r bodies gathered in the streets demand. A smart lad, aged H years, has been arrcstfd m San Francisco for highway robbery. Tiuis'iar about $"0,000 has been collected and sent forward from California Cali-fornia for the Kansas and Nebraska sullerers. 450,000 pounds of barley have been purchased and will be sent forward immediately in thirty care. Tho governor ha reprieved Win. Dona, the murderer at Modesto, who was to have been huug last Friday, until April 2d. It transpires that Alterations in the indictment against Granice were made by Seward, acting district attorney, attor-ney, who suddenly dec amped on realizing re-alizing ho bad become liable to a charge of felony. When a Lew Angeles man deliberately deliber-ately slices oil another's noso with a razor, they only send him to prison for one year. An announcement ii' made that a new gas company is to be started in S.m Francisco to rurmsh cheap and good gas. . A man named James A. Earle coniiuiiLtju buiciuu uy uniting a is throat at IJanamint, March -lib. A wine cask of the capacity of 1,000 gallons was recently received in Stockton lrom Milwaukee, Wis., where it was manufactured to the order of George J. Leiller, a wine maker. NEVADA. The Virginia Chronicle says that an anti-treat society is about to be established es-tablished in that city. The members pledge themselves not to treat any person and to allow nobody to treat them. The construction of ft toll road from Battle Mountain to Silver City, Idaho, via Bull Run, Cornucopia and South Mountain has been commenced. com-menced. Since the report ha? reached this coast that the Salt Lnke and Dalles railroad company have sucetoded in obtaining English capital to construct the road from Snlt Lake through Idaho to Oregon, the Oregon Central Pacific 'company have announced their determination to push their road from Winnemucea, Nevada, to Portland, Port-land, Oregon, through with all possible pos-sible speed, and work will be commenced com-menced on it this spring. The law compelling the payment of a license for ali banking games has had the eficct of closing mp all the tan gaises in Chinatown, Vir-, Vir-, ginia city. At Gold Hill, on Wednesday last, a machinist, named Charles Perkins, shot himself through the roof of his mouth. Cause, marriage troubles and whisky. The law prohibiting persons without with-out diplomas practising as physicians in Nevada, goes into effect on the 23th mat. The EzvcilU denies the assertion that there is but little prospect ot the commencement on the work of the Battle Mountain and Austin railroad. On the contrary, arrangements are progressing lor carrying out me work. The Gilbert family, two brothers and two sisters, who reside at Union-ville, Union-ville, Humboldt county, have fallen heirs to 33,000,000 in England. The lievcills suggests the feasibility ; of forming a reservoir somewhere in ! that valley, in which the waters of the river could be collected during the winter, and so husbanded durlus the summer that the number of acres under the plough could be largely increased. in-creased. There are in circulation in Virginia Vir-ginia $20 pieces that are from $5 to $0 short. These pieces have been split and a quantity of gold gouged out of the centre. |