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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS, CAUFUKNIA. About four years ago the commissioners com-missioners began stocking the Sacra-montu Sacra-montu river, and the canneries are now running to their full capacity, paying but twenty-five cents per h, while the Columbia river cauuers are paying fifty cents. The tauners of San Francisco complain com-plain ol an ordinance excluding them from the city. Tliuy say thia business is now carried on by sixiy firms, and givei employment to over 1,800 men and $3,O0J,CO0 of capi'ul. Dead dos are sold in Sau Fran cisco lur forty cents apiece. The skins are made into cloves, the hair is used in plaster, the bones are ground for clarifying eugnr, and the tat is maunfactured into oil. San Francisco boys have Sftnt the following petition to the board of supervisors: It is now nearing the time for the celebration cf the anni-I anni-I versary of the Bigning of the declaration declara-tion of independence, viz, the "Fourth ol July." To celebrate that day in a fitting manner is the problem for the time beiug. Seeing that some money-grabbing money-grabbing men known as the "Underwriters" "Under-writers" are opposed to the celebration celebra-tion of that great day in the manner prescribed by r.ur forefathers, with fireworks, we, as American youths, ask this question: Do the people think for a moment that thpse men care for their (the people's) interests? No, they are frightened for fear they might have to spend their beloved gola if a fire might possibly occur therefrom, lor insurance insur-ance money, tor they are nothing more than insurance men. Now, what we want to know is, cannot wo help the cause ol freedom by having that day celebrated patriotically, patri-otically, or in other words, with fireworks? fire-works? And hoping to hear satisfactorily from your honorable body, your petitioners will ever pray, as oung America. The Bulletin sayB that the leaks in the t-au Francisco city treasury amount now to well nigh a million dollars a year. The city hall is the I greatest bonanza on thia side of the Comstock lode. NEVADA. Two Chinamen were killed outright out-right at the Vulcan powder works near Reno on the 25th by the accidental acci-dental explosion ol some glycerne. Virginia Chronicle: "Things look pretty lively here to day everybody on the rush," remarked a Caraon man this morning, who had just got ofl the train. 'Y lb," waB the reply, "half the town rushing around to collect bills and the other halt's rush-ine rush-ine 'round to avoid 'em!" A large number of Eureka capitalists capital-ists are said to be in embarrassed cir cumstances, owing to thti circus which recently visited that town. A whirlwind in Battle Mountain a few days ago raised one dwelling from the ground and carried it two feet, while not a breath of wind I touched another house in the place. |