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Show ' PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOIOaA. Wong Jim and Fook Jim, two Chi nnso tniiy-. tnvt been arrested iu San Frauciaco for tlirowing popper in the eyes of one ol their countrywomen, the object being to rob her of her jew-1 elry. The wom..n'ti eyea were terribly terri-bly injured, and it ia considered doubtful doubt-ful ihut the sight can be preserved. Mrs. Hud gins, widow of the man who nobly sacrificed his Hie for the drowning boy recently, at CUklauJ wharf, returns thanks to the public for subscriptions received, amounting to $3l'9 cash and a first class ticket lo ludianapolid, costing il2u. About $000 has been subscribed. The aggregate eftlaries paid by the city and county of Sun Francisco amount to $l,6'Jl,2oO. With a population popu-lation of 27o,OOU, this is an annual tax of nearly $7 on every man, wo man and child iu the city for tho salary sal-ary fund alone. The number of actual tax payers is probably not over one-fourth tho abjve number, thus making the actual tax for tho payment pay-ment of official salaries ?'-S per annum. an-num. The auditor in his Uat annual repoit gives the grand total cxpeudt ture of San Francisco for the fiscal year 1875 7 6 at $3,903,910.77. The San Francisco hoodlums are mean enough to steal rolls of buttor out of the farmers' wagons and make way with them. A delegation recently Bent to this stale from New Haven, Ct., to report upon the desirability of settling here has recommended that a colony be formed to nettle in San Bernardino couuly. They have purchased 1,600 acres of land, located one mile north oi me oouuern i acme ranroau uuu aisty miles from Loa Angeles. The following shows tho relativo positions held by diphtheria and small-pox in the record of recent epidemics epi-demics in San Francisco: Diphtheria deaths to date, 88S; emall-pox, 41. Cases diphtheria, 6,000; small-pex, 1,650. An old feud between Royal Barton and John Tannahill, concerning a land diBpute, culminated lo-day in an affray at Valle de Las Viejas, in which Tannahill was killed. Barton came immediately to the city and surrendered himself to the sVierifl. He claims to have acted in self defence. FRONTIER NEWS. The Laramie plains land of the Union 1'aciDc will soon be put iu market. There are now three dailies in Deadwood, with tho same number of weeklies. Tha prospects for a first rate crop of wheat, oats and barley in Kansas are unprecedented. The Pueblo sampling works are to be removed to the end of Ihe Denver & Rio Grande track, near Fort Garland. Gar-land. - There are two quartz mills now on the way between Deadwood and Crook city, drawn by 100 yoke of oxen. The Dead wood Pioneer of June 9th publishes a list of upwards of 1,000 uncalled for letters remaining in the city postotfice. .- The governor of Montana has organized Custer county, and Miles city will be the county seat. Miles city is a trading post near the mouth of the Big Horn. . - Returning visitors to tho' Black Hills are circulating tho opinion so peculiar to all countries , of sudden growth, that the proportion of those returning, compared with those going into tho Hills, is about ton to one. Frank Jackson, who was brutally murdered at Yondes' mill, Meadow creek, Montaua, by James Monroe, a fellow workman, was a new comer in the territory, a native of Minnesota. rig was tor some time m iuo empiuy of Gilmer & Salisbury aa stock tender. The atorra which visited Pueblo a day or two since killed a great many Bheep in that county and elsewhere. Especially wa3 it destructive on- the young latnba and on the ewes that had been (sheared. Not less than 5,000 or 6,000 were killed by the storm on the' Huerfano alone, one man losing as many as 1,000. The Helena Independent says that Montana is unrivalled as a cattle raising country. There are in the neighbor of 200,000 head of catlle of all claeeos ' in the territory, ranging in bands of from 50 to 3,000 head. Stack cattle average about $15 per head, and beef cattle $25. The range is free to all. Thero are about 140,000 head of sheep and lambs now owned in Mcntana. The average price per head for common sheep is 3. Wool, ordinary grades, briny, IS to 20 cents per pound. The nwriage at the Catholic cathedral cathe-dral in Denver on Thursday evening of Beatriz Otero of La Constancia, New Mexico, and Charles H. Armiio of Chihuahua, Mexico, was probably the moat notable social evout which baa transpired in Denver. Both parlies par-lies are descendants of the oldest, most aristocratic and influential CaBr Lillian families in Mexico, their joint possessions being larger than any ten residents of Colorado. The father ol the bride is Manuel A. Otero, a banker; tho father of the groom is Nestor Armijo, a largo land owner, The parties came to Denver to be married out ol consideration for a law extant in New Mexico to tno eflect that third cousins the relation borne by the two cannot marry. The collection col-lection ol bridal presidents was elegant ele-gant and cosily, approproximating in value five thousand dollars. |