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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ! CAUFOKSIA, The tire iu the red woods of San Mateo county, owing to the drynewa of tbe trees and the parched under-brush, under-brush, hrts BBsumed rtJoruiiDj; propor-tioiia. propor-tioiia. It iB eiuil to huve spread -over six fc.q;iare milts ol' the terntory ond to be sweepting ove:ything- befcje.it. Ah Moy, n Uhiuoae 'Womamwai arrested in S -u J-'r.ii.iiiaco on mebarg of cruelty to li t hilii and- unother ol ni'iyhnm. Tho utMrga of cruolty-' in Ortmd upon tii 'ut thut the-uccuaed hiitt a girl oleifcht .y-nni wlw ins ucck-r-gjiug the birbaroiiB --pructiice of oiu tiling the mwitr ot-thrfrt. The uiorctiry riiKtenfilyif iji-the fihsidn.Bi Hah Fruiioieca Mundiy.. "' The i Yale lime lock on the mile of tbe Merchauts' Exchange bAnk.-Ain Fr&powco, Rot out or order on Sunday nighi and stopped.;, TJieouly reaource for getting at tho cootcnls ol the sate wub to cut through the iron and steel door, which f'-nt t.ofc ull dny and niwht tn arliiijvn 1 ' ' ' ;n.e'.ada... uAt Virgiuiii city on tho 17tlt. Major Ford,, tho ,-deprwed - aeoreUiry. -of the Uphir niineniuju -an assault with a cowhide ou yolouel Waller, the iresi-dfint. iresi-dfint. - John (.uimby aided iu the assault aad. bom lfurd aad-.Quitnby ;Wte Uirwu dyu ,iitard by Chta. :iai,ephepeP,puct3ijaiUa.iner, in, tbe , San fraucitjoo , n.A.uutic vclub.,, .Major Duncan,: the -prtaeot. aeoretary, was aluo; mixed up in ,tbo. fray. ..VVelleri has two-weUti m ma hit face from the' cowhide. , Both Jford . and Quimby were . arrested, and put under ; S2.5UO bonds each, i A man nanied Morocco waa abot at, Daylou on the 1th by a rancher, who caught him. with bid wile getting .ready to elope. . Morocco was aeverely wounded in the hip. Vircinia. Enterprise: -Mr. Sutro may. i be: right in building hia bulk-l head, but, tue Oomatock is here yet, j uud we liave gut 'along 80 far without 1 tbA tunnel and can continue to ' do ao jutit as long ast he- can shut up .hie 1 ..tunnel.; ,, . Total taxable property of AustiD, $1,42791; population 2,702, an in-crpnae in-crpnae ut ovtr lattyear. Tlie Indians gather and perserve the tiiea which swarm ou the waters of . Mono lake, in myriads. ; When scooped ofl the water they seem to be utterly helpless and dry in the-ann; They, are then 'rubbed between- the handalOi break ofl the lega and wings, which lighter par,ls are winnowed out and the bodis packed io sacks and baskets for winter ute. When boiled "thefliea turn rud, lookingand tasting like bashed, ealmou. - : -t: . , ARIZONA. , : The Tucson Star. Bays that transportation transpor-tation by rail -and team from San Francisco to Tucson costs about 10 cents a pouud. The - same' 'freight could be laid down, im Tucson in lesa ('una and for about one third tbe present pres-ent freight rates via F.oit Lobos, on the1 Gulf 6( California, which is 140 miles from Tacsodj-overa level road. .-i; TbeBtar siiye tdKiLjnany oaaigranU are coaling iulo the -country , around tbe new .military . Camp Huacahuoca. & party of Munnoua from Maricopa county, composed1 of Beven families are en route- fur : thai new. settlements. Thry propose locating permanently somewhere uii.tlje.Upper Ban Pedro, and say lu.t,.a huge number ot pther familiea 'will MtiodyioJlow. them, themj Tbe surrounding 'inountamB' are--full of minoral :6e-aL very riob:dracoyt eriea have .inat.-.been madej .both, in the . Huacaliuoca and , ilale mounj-tains. mounj-tains. One lead shows, over Beventy per cent copper1 tint! is very ricVJn silver. 1 ' '- . One of the pledges Lhe-demoaEajic party gave to the south during the tuat campaign was . that the Pacific railway sboti d have all the aid- necessary neces-sary from gov. rnment to complete the , rond through. Texas,. New Mexico and Arizona to tbe .ocean without delay; and we hspo the Bputh will enforce the fulfillment of the promise. Pres-cott Pres-cott Enterfme. . There are live -Mormon settlements on the Little Colorado. They.-have large crops this .year. ;of; small; grain, wheat, barley, iGorn. and ivenetables. These Mormon B'.ttlemejuhi'are on the Lower, ColoradOf.aod , the- Mormons are good', itarnuTd.. and .hard -.working and industrious people, :aud the arrangement ar-rangement ol their farms shows , good civil engineering and'.irrigating: (acili-ties: (acili-ties: ' : .' .." ' ' The' Little Colorado is one Df the largest. and bedt farming and grazing regions of Arizana-.- ind-BOt -bavini;1 suflered from the droutlv which i-has, so teverely injureci'llie weoterff part-of the - country, - will1 raise a good'-ornp thic year. Enterprise. - ' - A letter of condolehce prepared by the French residents and other friends ol French republicanism in Prescott, to. .be sent, to Madame Thiers,, has been numteuualy signed... COLORADO. -- --. --. i P. T. Baroum talked temperance at the Denver labernacle .on Monday. He-said be bad been ah advocate of temperance for forly Beven years, and in.. all that i time bad. preached,, as imuch as was in hie power, what he had practiced. Previous to that time be :had been addicted to strong drink not in an intemperate manner, .but us a moderate drinker. He never failed to lake hia regular "night-cap," and never rose in the morning without with-out recourse to the bottle. When he was sick he prescribed his own medicine, medi-cine, and r tiiia medicine would invariably ' take the form ol booso strong drink. Then he resolved re-solved to quit, and he wag confident that if he had Dot come to that determination, deter-mination, and had not manfully carried car-ried itout, he wou'd not be alive to day. Tbe renegade bands of Ute Indiana that frequent Middle Prk, Colo., have become so troublesome that' tbe citizen ol that section have petitioned General Pope for troops. ; Unless the policy ot the government in relation to -ita management ol A-fTairs with the Ute Indians is changed tbe- Denver News says, there it grave danger that- Colorado will before be-fore very long sutler from a war with some of thfr 'bands -ol that nation similar to the conflict now being waged in Idaho with -Joseph-.-' Tbe Indians are nnt kept on their reservations, reserva-tions, and at doing much injury - to the wbitet. In' Yampah valley Irl diana are burning a great portion of the country in ordtsr to destroy its value for white settlers. .-, |