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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOrtNIA. Three true- bills havo been found against abortionists by the Sacramento Sacra-mento grand jury. Much interest is being manifested by the lovers ol horse dtfah in the approaching ap-proaching trial of speed between ilodine find Occident, at Sacramento Counterteit half dollars aro quite numerous They are corupoied of antimony, lead and zinc, which really makes a fine imitation ol a well-made well-made silver coin, but are very light, weighing 142 grains against 192 grains of the geuino. A California counterfeiter has recently re-cently invented a new way for mining min-ing gold that may have proved more prolilable than hunting for nuggets in the mountain streams, although it can hardly be as comfortable a meanB of securing a livelihood. From San Francisco was shown a $20 piece, b3nt and broken, from which projected pro-jected tbo ends of several copper wiros. A hole had been made in the milled edge of tbe coin, and from this centra! opening branched aeveral galleries, reaching almost across tho inside of tho com. The gold had been abstracted, "and its place filled up by copper wire. The weight of the coin was reduced, and by the use ol scales this defect could have been delected at once but the surface of the coin presented a good appearance. Dr. Uohnea .Fiuigau, on Sunday shot a woman named Mary Ford, who was formerly known as his conjugal con-jugal partner, and then at tempted to extinguish bis own light. The doctor was 60 years old when he married Mary, who was about 17, and after a boy was born to him, the j doctor discovered her infidelity and in a drunken spree shot her as above stated. Neither party was much hurl. Jones Humbert, a '49er, well-known well-known on this coast as a newspaper pressman, attempted suicide at Oakland Oak-land by taking laudanum, but was pumped out and saved. Iu San Fruncisco last week dip-theria dip-theria caused G3 deaths and small pox 10. Iu tho eleventh ward 12 deaths were caused by dipthoria, attributable at-tributable almost directly to the malarious Mission Bwamp. The honey of California amounts now to about 1,000 tons annually more than id consumed in the state, and the supply is rapidly increasing on the coast, from Santa Barbara southward, between the summit of the coast range and the ocean. ARIZONA. A party of Mormons with twenty-five twenty-five wagons, are camped at the Willows. Wil-lows. They are en route for the San Pedro near the San Francisco mountains, moun-tains, where they intend to settle and form a colony. Prescott Enterprise, Feb. 19. The Enterprise urges an immediate organization of the democratic party in the territory. It says that the democrats all over tho territory are convinced that they have been used hvthfl rnnMM;.n. .11 ! ,1 be. At the next election, Arizona democrats will have a straight democratic demo-cratic ticket lo vote, and will vote it. The Enterprise criticizes the late message of Governor Safford in reference refer-ence to tbe Indian troubles. It denies his statement that twenty persons have been murdered in southeastern Arizona by Indiang, not one-fourth of that murder having been killed, and there is a doubt as to whether the murders were not committed by Mexicans. The Peck mining company are now circulating near about $30,000 per month among employes. They i nave in their employ about seventy-'five seventy-'five persons, besides many leama. wood contractors, etc. Mr. John Miller from Leeds, Utah his arrived at Prescott. He says that tho capitalists and mining men in Sin Francisco arc all talking Arizona now and that he looks for a great deal to be done in mines in this coun try during the year. Companies B nnd M, Glh cavalry have been ordered to establish a camp in tho vicinity of old camp Crittenden, with a view to the protection protec-tion of the settlers in tbo Sn Pedro and banta Cruz valleys. Farmers' granges arc being organized organ-ized in Arizona. " |