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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ! CALIFORNIA. j The senatorial commnwbu appuiot-' appuiot-' eJ by tl.o lust California 6CU'.ito to in- vt'aie tiie Cliiiiese question has prt- ared a lengthy rt'pon, tli tonn ti : which is decidedly hostile to further C:i:rese emigration. i j Political movements arc prorcssiuj; ' very acci7f ly in the utatc, preparatory (0 the Sep amber election. ' Jttlxz Chadbourue, who rusid-.s t t e corner of Filbert and Leavcuwt.rth Bireets, Han Francii'co.the other niht Invoke suddenly and diai-overel a limn standing by his bedsidn imil huidiuy a revolver at his bend. He tnriifd his head and flaw ou the onuo site Bide ol the bed another mnn holding hold-ing a revolver at hid wife's he i.i. The man anked (or moimy auj thrfiiteiie.l Mr. and Mra. Onailhonrne with infant in-fant death if either of lhm made a noise. While therubbera wereeearch-injr wereeearch-injr the room the woman manured to open the window and scream tnr help when the burglars fled, and w-re lin.d ! at ub they left by a neighboring wo-iiiiin, wo-iiiiin, hut not hit. Th? Alu Bftya that there 5b no productive pro-ductive cofl'ee plantation in the stale, though a forty acre field has been set out with cotleeia Lou Angeles county. It is estimated tht there are 12, 500 Chinamen who are out of employment em-ployment iu LheaiMe, 10,000 ot whom are in San Francitjco, dependent upon the cbixrity of their countrymen. That in, one third of the total number in Sun Francisco are out of ; employment. Salinas valley is nutking the experiment experi-ment of irrigation by steam. Tho farmers in the Sacramento ' valley have recently held a public . meeting to consider the sublet of j Chinese against white labor. Now most ol these lurmers employ Chiuese under lone contracts. The general opinion seemed to be that they were driven to accept Chinese laborers on account of the unreliability of the white workmen; the farmers would be glad to employ white men, if thoy I could be lined economically. One I furmer said: If patents trained their I children to industry and labor there : would be no hoodlums or Chinese White children have been taught that labor ia not nonoraoie. luey uespiow it and want to follow proleBBions, and Chinamen are called in to do the work they ought to do. Educate them to their trades and they would upplant the coolies. NEVADA. Harry Thompson, alias Buff, will be executed ut Winnemucca on Thursday, September ltttb. for the murder of William McRavy at Gol-conda Gol-conda Borne months ago. The supreme court has ordered a stay of proceedings in the case of Sam Mills, tho negro convicted of the , murder of Jimmy Finnerty at Hal-, leek station, and who was sentenced by Judge Flack to be hanged on the 31etof the present month. Governor Bradley is again a candidate candi-date for the governorship. |