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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALlFOr.NI A. C. C. Mufi clilorofornitti G. GlcJ-(ipet GlcJ-(ipet d ill iiio btil in ?-;t:i FraucisCO, mid i stoic money from liim. j A dentist named IluUurd tomtuit-; tomtuit-; t( d suicide at the What Cheer hoiide, i -i.iti l-'raueiaCM, on Sunday nilit, by tiikiny an uvt'rdoae of morpliine. T he S.m Francisco real l slate aso-ciatt aso-ciatt s built during last year, and sold 'j hotiHts, mi ion tiling in value in round nuinbers to -,000,Oui, and covering a fruntnycof over ft mile and a half ol what w.uj on the 1st day of; January, ibTo, unoccupied territory.! Over fl,uaO,(.KH) has been expended, in the purchase of land, and :n equal amount for labor anil materijl ueed in the construction of buildings. .Measures are being taken for the organization of an opposition line of steamers between San Francisco and Santa Monii-a. .Mr. Mallhewd mid Mrs. Bird, of Los Angeles, were on Sunday run over by a horse car, Uuily crushing their One of the principal shippers in Los Angeles will ship 4,Ck0 boxes of oranged to San Francisco this year. The common council of Santa Barbara has passed a resolution iiiiunimouslv against tlio county subsidy sub-sidy bill of $500,000 ton railroad. Charles il. Hays, an old resident of Oakland, shot himself through tbe bend on Monday morning, and died in two hours, in n temporary nberra-tion nberra-tion of mind. The board of supervisors of San Franeisco have under consideration a bill to supply the city with not less tl ian .3D,U00,000 of water a day, tbe total cost of the works not to exceed $10,000,000, lo be paid for in thirty-year bonJf at G per cent. somewhat below the average yield per tree, on account of trot, but the increased in-creased number of bearing trees insures an aggretiaie yield in excess of any previous year ihe lumon crop is a? large as uMia L A pickpoi'krl has been ane-ted in San Fi'Miiei.v.'O for steal ladieo' handkerchiefs. Bakerclield, Kern county, is to be disiucoi poratul an account of heavy debts. A Los Angeles county woman, who had been deaf and dumb for several year.-, was recently cured by being thrown from a mule. A scandalous story is related in the Sun Francisco papers of an undertaker, under-taker, who failed to meet bis contract to attend n funeral, and prevented another undertaker from putting the body in the grave by bravado in tho burial ground. The law could not touch tbe scamp, because he was not responsible for the grounds. The agents of Wells, Fargo & Co., in nil sections of the state, are addressing ad-dressing letters to the members of the legislature, calling attention to the prevalence of highway robbery. These communications suggest that this crime lias assumed such magnitude magni-tude that legislation is necessary. Wills, Fargo tfc Co. 'a people suggest "addid severity for the first offense, the admission as at present of the testimony tes-timony of accomplices, and an cilicicnt state police, stimulated hy a specific and standing reward from the state lor each conviction." A. C. Xorman has a suit againat the Central Pacific railroad company, who was shot hy a fellow passenger on an overland train April, iS74. He W-inta $11,1" '0, and alleges carelessness ou the part of the conductor. XEVADA. Til err is so much water in the lower levels ot the K. K. mine near Eureka, Eure-ka, that pumping machinery is an absolute necessity, unci about oO.OdO will soon be laid out for that purpose. pur-pose. The Humboldt sulphur mines are turning out a product beyond the highest expectations of the owners, and thousands ol tons are now in jight. Over 100 bottles of California wme were frozen in a Carson city saloon last week. Old Joe Purnell, an Austin colored iKXitblack, was found dead in his Wd at Austin on Tuesday. He was between be-tween 70 and SU years old, and a native na-tive of Pennsylvania. |