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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CAUFOllXU. Being interviewed by a reporter, Mr. Ci hen denies in general and iu detail all the statement by Charles Crocker in charging hitn with swindling swin-dling the Central Pacific railroad company, etc. Daniel O'Lcary, the wulkist, is at San i rancisco. Los Angeles county ia going extensively exten-sively into the planting of fruit trees. The Southern Pacilic railroad company com-pany has had to py out $100,000 for repairs this season. A San Francisco judge has decided that under tho law of that states mixed jury, composed of Americans and aliens, is not legal. The discount on silver coin in San Francisco brokers' purchasing rates is at 4J to oi percent. The senate railroad committee has reported againtt tho Archer fare and freight bill, and in favor of the appointment ap-pointment of a transportation commission com-mission to collect facts and study the laws, etc., of transportation. One of the immediate results of tho organization of the Panama Transit company in opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship company, and one which promises to be of great importance im-portance and benefit to tho mercantile mercan-tile interests of our coast, is the inauguration in-auguration by the othcers of the Uuiou Pacific railroad company of a fast freight line from New York to San Francisco, the schedule time of which it to be fourteen days, to be divided as follows : New Y'ork to Omaha, five days; Omaha to San 1 Franciico, nine days. A special to the Alia from Wash -; ington states the discovery that 300,-i 300,-i 000 acres of timber lauds have been fraudulently located in CaliTornia. The abundant rainfall of this season sea-son and the regularity of its distribution, distribu-tion, keeping the soil in a continuous soak for four months, has done far moro for the destruction of squirrels than all tho poisonings of the farmers and squirrel exterminators. A Folsom woman who had been much troubled by toothache, afier the offending molar was extracted, found in the cavity a sprouted coriander cori-ander seed, which had probably caused the trouble. Tne number of mining assessments delinquent in March, 1875, was forty, aggregating $1 ,197,000, against twenty five for the same month in 1S74, aggregating $748,600. The only Utah mine in the list is the Iris, $30,000 its first assessment. The trip from Prescotc, Arizoua, to the terminus of tho Southern Pacific railroad is now made in three days. NEVADA. Reno has a new steam lire engine. A good many cattle have perished in the Nev.ida ranges owing to the great depth id snow and the severe storms of the present month. A prisoner was discharged from the county jail of Lincoln county, ;the other day, the citizens who wero feeding feed-ing him having tired of the job, and t he county being unable to put up lor his grub. Tickets from Reno to Cheyenne to the amount of ever $1,400 were sold at Reno, last Saturday to Black Hillere. Tho Mini Hi H'porltr of Silver city is writing up the Atlantic mine of the Q,m3tock ledge, which it claims will b.j only second to the Consolidated Consoli-dated Virginia as a treasure producer. Tho same paper thus addresses its readers: "Beware of frauds in the guise ol so-called new systems of 'puts' and 'calls.' We cannot bring ourselves to believe that the system under which these 'put' and 'call' sharps are endeavoring to make a financial standing iu communities is a tenable one." 'PI""- ; r In,..". a ann..wucion of snow on Mount Davidson, above Virginia city, and some apprehension is felt of a destructive avalanche. The late destruction of snow sheds near Cisco, by a snowslide, was a terrible ter-rible smaBh-iip, and had tiie accident occurred to a passenger instead of a freight train tho loss of life would have been earful. W hen the avalanche ava-lanche descended upon tho snow sheds a freight train of twenty-four cars wns just passing through tl.em. Several of the cars were smashed to atoms, and their contents Bcaltered in all directions. As it happened, the men in charge of tho train were all forward, near the engines, and so escaped injury. |