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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The annual report of the chief of police ol San Francisco shows that for the last twelve montns a larger number num-ber of arrests were made than during any previous year being 26,820. Tue value of prnpt-rty stolen during the year was $156,336 50. Of this there was recovered property valued at $82, 507.50. A milkman was garroted and robbed of about a dollar and a half in San Francisco on Monday night. NEVADA. A very rich strike is reported in the Eli Dorado mine at Belmont. It cunsL-ts of a vein of black sulphureis and antimonial silver against lying the original main ere body, which will assay Irom $300 to $1,000 per ton. Virginia Enterprise: There have been twenty one fires io the city since tbe 1st of May, and Chiet Brown con-uratulates con-uratulates himself that he saved tbe iotg in every instance. ihe Piocne Kepord reports that two Mormons arrived io Piocne on Saturday Satur-day last with a load of barley, which they disposed of for $100, aud then departed for their homes. When about five miles beyond the valley tbey were stupped by an individual, wi o presented a six booter and de manded nnd compelled them to dt-liver up thoir com. On Monday Peter O'Hearn, Gold Hill, committed suicide by shooting! himself through the head with a pis-1 tol. Calling his wile it. to the kitchen, ha applu-d the pistol to his breast iu the region of the heart, and fired, fulling dead imuinmiiately. The I causn ascribed for the act is the con aunt interference of iff mother-in law in his family atl-wrs. A can ol coal oil exuluded on one of Forepa-igh's cars Monday night, Severely burning three men. Patrick Lylt.eton o( Austin, has invented in-vented an ingenious sell registering contrivance fr counting sheep- A short time ago a mn named Duraond most cruelly murdered a woman and two little children iu Merced oouuty, Cl., i-y autting their throats. One ol ihe girls lived long enough to te't who Vw asa-sin was, and he wan Hjlwrqucutly tracked to Surprise valley, where, ud Wednesday j last, he wai killed by the officers in I attempting lo arrest him. His body was t-uUed down nnd brought into Reno li.pt niyh'; from here it was shipped to Merced city, Cal., for identificaiinn, in order to secure tbe reward ot $1,000 ollered (or his cap-ture. |