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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. j CALlt'UUNIA. : f The "James Canal," for irrigating nurpoaea, has been cunatrucud fur a 1 distance of fourteen miles through j tiie Kern valley. The landed propn- ( etori along the line of the canal have i concluded to divide up their tracts i and oiler them fur eale in parceli of i from forty acred to a section. Ihe a purchasers to pay nothing the Grat year, with the free use of water. The eecond year for one-fifth j of the crop, the third year for one-. fourth, with the privilege of buying at the current rate. Sixty-five new cases of sma!l-pox wtre verified by the health officer of. San Francisco during the past week. An Alatian, 38 years of age, uamed Peter Paul Stud!, died on , Saturday morning in San Franciaco, from the e fleets of poison, taken for the purpose of ending his life. He lostsume money recently. The fifiy niile race at San Jose on Saturday between "J. P. Smith" and "Nicholas Espinoga," was won by the latter. Ho rode forty miles in one hour and fifty-one minutes, beating Smith two miles, leas 150 yards. The Btake was $'250 a side. . The rain eo far is found to bo insignificant insig-nificant for the wants of the farmera. The indications are favorable for more. . . D. M. Kenfield has filed a petition praying for a writ of mandate cgainBt Governor Irwin, directing him to issue to tho petitioner tho neceaauy commission as btate controller, NEVADA. ! A bill has been introduced in the legislature to stop prize fighting by heaping upon Buch . ofl'ouders very severe penalties. 11 io (JuJd Hill Newa publishes the annexed: A day or two since Rev. Father McGrath was catechising a little fuur-year-old Gold Hill youngnter in regard to what he knew. The little leilow told him that he kuew what a cow, a horse and a mule was. "Well, then," said the reverend gentleman, "can you tell me what a lacknsa bs?" The boy hung hia bead for a moment, and then looking up with a brightening look, answered: "Yes, sir; it ib them fellers that go down town to buy stocks." Judge William Patterson, an old pioneer, a prominent Odd Fellow and much reepected citizen, aged 56, died at Crsou on the 26th mat. The Rono journal Bays: A perBon vieiting Chinatown the other night could have found twenty-two white people smoking opium. Among the number weroBQveral women of loose and lewd proclivities, Toano, once the shipping point on tho railroad for Pioche and other points in Southeastern Nevada, is deserted. Recently the terminus ol the Humboldt division of the railroad was removed to Wells, and the town, which once had a population of 200, is now run by three or four persons, and is one of the most desolate-looking placcB in the state. |