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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS CAMFOKSU. The San Francisco banks expeel a plethora of silver there this fall. A lady compositor lias been ad-milted ad-milted t) the Typographical Union of San Francisco. Three unknown peddlers two men and ouo woman, who lately attempt--! lo cross the do rl from D.w 1'alni i (it the terminus ' I the Southern i'acilic railroad mirvey) to Yuma perished liom thirst. Of the fourteen tunnels between Los Angeled and Caliente, CaL, tin San Fernando is tho largest, being more- than a niilu and a quarter in length. It wid lie completed by llie end of July al a cost ol $3,000,000. Sacramento shows great signs of business improvement this season. The rich agricultural districts in the vicinity are beinj; very rapidly settled. set-tled. More Chinese ure now departing from San Francisco for home than aro arriving at that post. A well dressed young gentleman left the following message at a .San Francisco telegraph oliice, without the $-'.50 necessary to forward it lo llsdutti nation. ''To Sent LuLi Dde-juiian: Dde-juiian: If vou don't give me the nomiii'ttion you never will have a democratic president, and this world will be destroyed. J. C. F. Faieview." Tuo anti-coolie ciubs have voted that an immense procession shah be held in San Francisco on the evening of July 12. NEVADA. The R:ceil(c in reply to the New York Herald challnges the hitler to point to one foot of desert in Nevada that has ever been reclaimed by a Chinaman or Chinese labor. The building of the l'acific railroad through the wattes ot Nevada was by Chinese labor employed and overseen over-seen by while men, but tho construction construc-tion of this road reclaimed no desert lands. Wherever it will pay lo reclaim re-claim the desert, the work is done by white men, as witness the Mormons in Utah and many instances in Nevada. The Chinese are only camp followers of the white pioneers, and when the white man penetrates the mountains and finds their metallic me-tallic treasures, or builds a town in the sagebrush and alkali, the Chinaman comes along and washes his dirty clothes, makes his bed, cooks his meals and steals his chickens. The bank of California, bank ot ."sevaua, auu a numoer ol leading business men offer $3,Cu0 in gold coin for the arrest and conviction of any person or persona caught setting fire, or attempting lo set fire, to any building build-ing or structure of any kind within the limits of Virginia cily. |