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Show PACIFIC COAST NKWS. j c.u. u-!i;:;iA. i Tue Southern Pad tie railroad hs found eight distinct craters in the 1 mountains, about eight miles from j funk's spiing, a Southern Pacinc dtaiion, forty-two miles wettof Yuma. I Xuey were in active cpcration all day ou Monday last, emitting smoke acd bjuiders. The mud TuiLauo-'S in the vicinity Imve nut been in active etaie for some time p.m. 1 he vnicano wes smoking, tteamiug and ejecting rocks in large uun:bii, and there was a continual noise liky the rolling of thunder. j Some oi the fuiioiver ut President Lerdo of Mexico who escaped to Sun Francisco have returned to Acapulco since its capture by the Diaz parly. Tho Western Union telegraph company have rtsbioud the rate trom San Frnnciti o to t ort Yuma to $1, and to all points in Arizona to $1.60. Ou Friday a. crowd of about fifty hoodlums amused themselves by iu-Vudinir iu-Vudinir PAnlru in 11-a iieihhfirhnnd of Miusiuu and Eleventh streets, ' trampling down plants and breaking down the shrubbery. Thuy insulted parsers, and at hut made an attack upon all Chinamen who passed by, stealing their hats. The crowd was at length dispersed by the police. -Tim battle of Bunker Hill was duly celebrated in San Francisco on the 17lu. Diotheria carried uLV eleven victims a Lid phthitds fifteen in Ban Francisco last week. Sinc( January 1, 1S77, the depart-urea depart-urea by steamer from Siiu Francisco to Purtbuid have averaged between fifteen hundred and two thousand a month. Saturday, cvonte in Saii Francisco were; A bold hotel cook stabbed a man delirious with drink. Another cold blooded assassination in Chinatown China-town and an attempted murder and suicide in Waverly place. Tbe latter cuae was this: A man named Frank C. Smith, who had been residing with a "scarlet woman," in a house of ill-fame on Waverly place, attempted at-tempted to murder the woman, whose name is Mary Thompson, and tried to kill himsell. For some Urn past they had not beon on good terms, ana - yesterday, alter exchanging a few words with brr, he drew a revolver re-volver and shot at her, after which he turned tho weapon toward his own head and fired. Neither is likely to die. - Mr. Edwin Adams visited San Francisco a lew days ago. He is very much improved iu appearance. NEVADA. Some one entered the Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker engine bouse on Friday night and lired up tbe furnaces with a full head of steam on and the valves closed, with the intention of blowing up the engine. Parties who discovered dis-covered the fact let cfi" the steam and saved the engine. |