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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CALLFORSIA. dpt. Charlea II. Avery, a native of New London, Ct., aged 43 years, wua found dead in his bed at the OrifiUitl hotel, Sim Francisco, on Friday, with a Colt's revolver lying near him, and a bullet found through his k'ft bre:iat. The cuuse of his death is not known. He had long been a navigator on the Pacific coat. Two married women, widows of soldiers, have Wen delrauding the government by drawing pensions at the ri;in Fraueiseo ngoticy, which is specially forbidden in cases of married mar-ried women. Ol S4.000 volumes taken from the 8;in fmnciflco Mercantile library during 167i, 59,074 were novels. Tne dan Francisco Post says that the reason for the discharge of apprentices ap-prentices from the Mare Island .Navy yard id to husband the resources of the yard so as to employ political strikers to carry ttie Solano county republican primaries. in the case of Houdan tj. De Young lor libel, in which a verdict of $3,000 wua awarded the plaintiff, a new trial has been ordered on the ground that the jury came to an agreement on tha verdict by drawing ot ballo'a. The judge stated that ft chance verdict ver-dict bad never to his knowledge been upheld by any court. A motion has been made in Sau Francisco for a new trial in tho mur- ,1 u nf Win AliTWin llriiwi. pally on the ground that the jurors played card and drank whisky pending pend-ing the verdict. Two lady teachers of the San Francisco Fran-cisco public Bchoola pnid $125 each to a broker for $60 and $70 a month positions. po-sitions. A gentleman was ollered a position for 3400, but refused to pay it. The underwriters of San Francisco have organized a lire patrol. They propose a force of eight or ten men. Five hundred Chinamen, recently employed on the Southern Pacific in Tehachepi canon, are on a strike. ; They want a raise from -2d to $30 a month. The Panamiut fever has ceased iU ravages, and it now Beems as if the Wahapai country, in Arizona, is to be the next point of attraction for despondent de-spondent Piochera. NEVADA. At Pioche, the case of the Magnet mining company vs. the Page & Panaca silver mining company, was continued for the term. It involves the title now held by the Raymond it Ely mining company, as the grantee of the Magnet company, to 1,1200 feet of the Panaca ledge. The Ophir mining company line almost completed the excavation of a site for the foundation of a powerful incline engine and reel. These incline in-cline hoisting works will stand a short distance west of the present works. They will be capable of sinking the incline to a depth of 4,000 or 5,000 feet. Fifty thousand cords of railroad wood will be cut in the vicinity of Truckee during the summer. "Chinese "Chi-nese cheap labor" will cut, split, and pile up this wood at $1.75 and $1.85 per cord. |