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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CAUFOltNIA. The government purchased 100,000 ounces fine silver on Monday from the Anglo-California bank and 100,-000 100,-000 ounces from the Nevada bank, for account of the San Francisco mint. The price paid 54d. All San Francisco ladies now look under their beds before they retire. Some Btrange men have a familiar habit of secreting themselves in such positions. On Friday evening tle Frenchman who owns the vineyard near Lick's mills, Santa Clara county, undertook to examine the condition of one of bis wine vats. The vat was nearly full of wine and was covered over the top through which covering a square hole had been cut. The Frenchman put a ladder through the hole and entered tte tank. By eome accident the ladder lad-der slipped aud pitched the Frenchman French-man into the wine, where he was drowned. There are in this Biale 101,G19,6S0 acres, distributed about as follows: Permanently covered with wa'er, 4,000,000 acres; Bwamp and overflowed, over-flowed, which may be reclaimed, 5,000,000 acres; arid plains and dca erts, 10,000,000 acre; mountainous and timbered, 25,000,000 acres; fit lor grazing, but not good agricultural lands, 24,000,000 acres; adapted to agriculture, 35,000,000. More than one-half of tbe arid and much of the mountainous, timbered and grazing lands may be converted into agricultural agricul-tural fields' probably as much as 20,000,000 acres may be reclaimed from thoBe sources and brought under un-der cultivation. The latest election returns increase the democratic majority in tbe legislature legis-lature on joint ballot to 50. The San Francisco papers now think the question of the constitutional constitu-tional convention has been carried. Two suicideB in San Francisco on Tuesday and one attempt at self- destruction. The railroad from Benicia to Suiaun, the projected extension of the Northern railroad, will not be built this year. ' Intoxication is the direct or remote cause of a large part of tbe San Francisco deaths. NEVADA. The total shipments in August for both bonanza mines is $2,844,016. Carrie A. Rice, daughter of P. SI. Rice, of Carson, fell from Shakespear Rock Tuesday, and was injured so severely that she died in halt an hour. The county assessor has filed his report of the taxable property in Storey county. The amount is $7,-245,695. $7,-245,695. The number of tons of ore crushed in Stoiey county during the past year was 504,490; assessed value, $33,960,-56S. $33,960,-56S. The number of tons of tailings was 51,295, valued at $324,146. Old Winnemncca has agreed to return re-turn to the Malheur agency in Oregon in October. William Rogers, generally known as "Uncle Billy Rogers," diecl at Elko last Wednesday, aged 84 years. He came to California in 1S19, and ten years later was appointed agent for the Shoshone Indians, became a resident of Ruby valley, then iu Utah terrilory, now in Elko county, Nevada, Recently when Bishop Whitaker ol Nevada visited Tybo the services were held in a hall which adjoins a place where the growls ol a tiger are constantly con-stantly heard. Just as the reverend gentleman bad finished an impressive prayer, and in the Bilence which always al-ways follows an orison in pious congregations, con-gregations, and before "amen" could be said, a loud voice from the adjoin ing apartment shouted, solemnly, "Keno." A smile came over tbe faces of tbe pious, and the worthy bishop did hia best to preserve his equilibrium. Surveyors are at work surveying the starting point for the direct railroad from Reno to Virginia. The managers ol the Reno fair announce that only ladies of undoubted un-doubted respectability shall be allowed to compete for tho prize given for female equestrianism. Why do they not draw the same line for males and only allow men ol the highest moral standing in the community to bring blocded slock into the contests and insist that none but virtuous and respectable jockeys be allowed to ride? If a woman goes od the track and shows that she knows how to handle a horse, the crowd will not stop to bother their heads about her moral character. In the case of the state vs. Gibson tried for violating the gambling law' by carrying on a gambling game in the first story, Judge Knox rendered! a decision to the effect that a platform enclosed on the sides and raised above ' the first fijor constituted a second itory, and the case was dismissed. MONTANA. Mr. Oldham, of Helena, who was with the Radersburg party, and who was known to have been shot in the head and left by his comai des lor dead, is with Howard. Heia wounded inthejaw not seriously, and is doing' well. The body of Charles Kenck, of the , Helena party, was found with three bullet holes through it, one through the leg, one through tbe centre ot tho body, and another through tile head, His skull hid alsn been mashed in by the Indians. Mr. Ciwan was found alive, near where he was fi'st -jpp'ured, to which uoint he had w-tl'cud and crawkd after he was left tor dead by the Indians and hin wife dragged away. Lie bad been four dnya without food. He bad been ihot in the right thigh and loft hip, and was shot in the forehead with n pistol, the ball lUttened on the skull. He was also wounded in the back of the head with a blow from a r-ck or something else. The Indians, with his wife and other captives, had left He is now iu a fair way to recover. General Sherman, while at Der Lodge, visited tbe hospital, shook bauds with nil the wounded, and carefully enquired as to their condition condi-tion and welfare. The boys, who are all doing well, wtre greatly pleased with tbe general's call. . When an Indiu agent see that tho money and bl mkets provided by the government are dissipated iu gambling or are barli red for whisky and gewgaws and trinkets, he is worse than an infidel il he does not see to it , that this money and property goes J where it will do the most good in his own pocket. Misnoulian. Coal from the Dog creek coal mine selis in Deer Lodge at 8 50 per ton. It is now stated that Lieut. Col. Gilbert has ordera to relieve Howard ; and tske command of hia column. Mr. William Walker, of Deer Lodge valley, recently found a daughter whom he had not heard of for 20 years, by an advertisement in a Richmond par er. When separated sepa-rated she was seven years old, lost her protectors by cholera, earned a living with her needle, married, and never kuew the whureabouts of any her relatives until August, 1377. Alt I ZONA. Tho Tueson Star of the 26th says: The raiu last Monday was delightful, reducing the temperature from 113 to 91. Tho McMillan & Harris mine, near Florence, has been sold to San Francisco Fran-cisco capitalists for 120,000. A Los Angeles paper says: One ol the disastrous effects of tbe increase in the price of freight upon the Southern Pacific is to turn to the profit pro-fit of the east the whole commerce of Arizona, whicji should naturally centre cen-tre in San Francisco. Milton A. Vance, convicted of robbing rob-bing tbe United States mail and putting put-ting the life of the carrier thereof in jeopardy by tbe use of deadly weapons, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life, at hard labor. WYOMING. Cbeyeuue proposes to give up its city government as an expensive luxury and reassume ita town incorporation, incor-poration, which change will save from $30,000 to $40,000 a year. It ia also proposed to consolidate tbe offices of Laramie county and reduce re-duce the fees, thereby savinc 25,000 per annum. 1 his economy is for the purpose of meeting Cheyenne's debt of $400, 0U0 for railroad subsidies. Willie Oaci s, of Laramie, passed his examination and was admitted as a cadet at We-t Point on the 2Sth ult. The vote ot Uinta county for the council titood; Pease (dem.) 728; Mertsheimer, (rep.) 701, |