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Show : PACIFIC COAST NEWS. - CALIFORNIA. . Lucky Baldwiu has been sued by Catherine kCeuny to recover the sum ot 2,000 whiih she says he advised her to loan him tor investments in mining Blocks. Baldwin claims that be invested the money at her request and that ehe owes him a balance ot $5,000 on the transaction. In Sacramento last week Ah God killed Ah Sing iu a quarra). Secretary tichurz bat ordered the commissioner of the general land office to suspend all the entries made under the deiert land act in Visaliadi.-trict, Visaliadi.-trict, until the character (of the land in question is investigated, as to its capabilities ol producing agricultural crops without irrigation. It is the intention in-tention ol Secretary Schurz to proceed criminally againBt every person who has laid himself liable to prosecution for prjury i:i swearing that the land wua desert, when iu fact it was notorious no-torious that it did not come within the descripiho of land known, as desert land under the act. A color.tid man in San Francisco kills his landlady as an offset to a board-bill of $15, He then attempted suicide. It cost, about $100,000 to bold an election in San Francisco. Oakland real e.tate ia assessed at $25,849,3-28. On the Carr A Hsggiu ranch, near Oanneld.'in Kern county, an artesian well, 205 feet in depth, has been bored, which discharges at the rate of 4,000 gallons per hour. The water rises four feet above the surface. The price paid by the United States government for the 1600,000 ounces oi fine silver, reported as purchased on the 13th in.tant, was $1 18 2 10 per ounce fine, the sellers to deliver 1,000,000 ounces at the Philadelphia mint free of charge to the government, govern-ment, aud 250,000 ounces each at the Carson and San Franciaco mints. NEVADA. There are between 1,000 and 1,500 people in Tuacarora, and the camp is put forward as the latest' rival of the ComstAck. A resident ol the Lander county portion ol Reese river valley states that the school districtof that territory has funds on hand and a teacher to start the sclionl with, but is short ol childrsn. Are there no philanthropists philanthro-pists in Austin who would be willing to give their time and services to suppy this deficiency? Reveille. Is'evada is paying $90,000 per an nura for salaries of state officer.. Tbirty-two thousand dollars in railroad rail-road bonds were redeemed last week by the treasurer of Storey county. All the railroad bonds ol Storey county will ba taken up by the firt of the year 1878. Several iucendiary fires have been discovered in Virginia city recently. The committee of "601," which bas never been entirely extinct, i-preparing i-preparing for business in Virginia cily. Toia step hoi been rendered necessary by reason of the number ! depredations commuted. One of the Central Pacific railroad company's refrigerator cars left Win-n-uvmcea for Chicago loaied ih 2S.000 pounds of dresd beet of iperior quality. Captain Charley, a Piute brave who ban just returned lrom a trip to th" western part of the state, related the incidents ol bis travels to the editor ol the Reveille: "Mego Battle mountain 'foot, then me catch' -railro and go I Winnemuck,' then buy 'em horuhe-'joack horuhe-'joack go Car.ii, then go 1-Vrginny. Ferginuy heap too big town; I U?Q many peoples; - one whita -mail all, samd other whitii man, one ftijob all same other Injun; nobody savvy Die; nobody say, 'how do Clially?' Me get md, come back Aushitiu; you got 'em old pant? Me heap hungly." The Roo Journal says: There is 600 miles of the Central- Pacific railroad rail-road which thus through an exceedingly exceed-ingly thinly settled country, and under un-der tho wretched policy of exacting the very last ceut they can squeeze lrom their patrons,, pursued by the! railroad company, it is likely to re main so. But this is not the only evidence of their want ol lore-Bight. They employ on the line of the road and about tbe . shops a lartce number of Chinamen. These Chinamen stay, they never live, as they do everywhere else, boarding their. earnings to carry or seud back to their native land. The wages paid them ia $30 per month, and they board themselvea. Ot course white men could not be had at this priofl, but any number can now b hired : for say $50 per month. The discovery ol a large body ol rich ore in the 1650 toot level ol the Consolidated Virginia mine, West of what was supposed to be the west wall, ib announced. MONTANA. Tbe story about the destruction Ol 1 Baker's train and the loss of two men near Fort Benton is exploded by recent advises. There was simply an Indian scare, and two teamsters hid in their blankets. Maj. Walsh, 01 the British mounted police, has arrived iu Bentou to meet Gen. Terry, of the Silting Bull commission. com-mission. During the short time General Sherman remained in Helena he was tbe guest of a well-known federal official at a dinner party. In a vain struggle for ideas to prevent a lapse in conversation the portly host, with customary good taste, astcod tbe Gen eral what be 'sposed tbe grapes (then being served) cost by tbe pound? The general poli ely guessed "about twenty-five cents." "Far trom it," was the triumph ant reply; "They cost nearer a dol larl". Tbe general was so charmed at the honor paid him by so costly a repast, that very humbly posaioly-with a slight touch of irony entreated his hoJl to buy no more grapes for him. Helena Herald. |