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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. ! CALirOitNIi. ; A $1 "0,000 hotel is to bo built at' Santa Monica tiiU year. I1 A passenger and freight express has been started from tho terminua of the , Southern Pacific railroad to tbe principal prin-cipal towns of Arizona. Xhe Loa Anelca Express is "improving" "im-proving" the recent prolonged snow blockade on the Central Pacific rail-j road as an argument to the Union, Pacific people to imry up their con-i nectiona with tho Pacific ocean: through Utah. The S.in JTranciaco board of educi- s tion baa aboliahed tho position of i truant officer. It ia stateil that $7,50, have been expended anuually in that' city for tho salaries of such officers. The value of steamers and sailing vessels built on the Pacific coast during dur-ing the year 1S73 baa been $l,2u0,-000. $l,2u0,-000. Martha Tilson of San Joso, 19 years of aye, having some- trouble about a lovo atlair, shot and killed herself. Pear, cherry find apricot trees in lull bloom are an attractive sight at : Santa Cruz. The city of Los Angeles wants a census to see if she has 15,000 people. A nonsuit has been taken by consent con-sent of parties in the case of Henry Bennett, a conductor, vs. tbe Central Pacific railroad company, who recently re-cently received a verdict of 20.000 damages lor personal injuries, and it will be appealed on tho question whether or not an employe of a railroad rail-road company can recover damages for au alleged injury caused by tbe negligence of a fellow-servant. The supreme court bag just decided that credits are not property within the meaning of the state constitution and are therefore not taxable. This excludes from taxation all mortgages and other evidences of debt. The great long-postponed $30,000 San Francisco race is to come oS on the22dinst., and th entries have been closed with tho following honed in the list: "Rutherford, " "Grin-stead," "Grin-stead," "Katie Pease," "Golden Gate," "Revenue Jr.," "Foster," i "Chance" and "Hockhocking." A proposition is pending before the legislature to have all tiie street railroads rail-roads in San Francisco charge a uui-form uui-form price 5 cents tor fare. The AUa states as a singular fact that not a single member of the California Cali-fornia legislature is married. Baldwin's new theatre on Market street, San Francisco, will havo a I seating capacity of 1 ,700. There are ' 1,027 opera chairs, besides tbe seals in the family circle. What is commonly com-monly known as the "gallery of the gods" in other theatres is omitted iu this, and its placo supplied by the family circle. The upper circle contains con-tains seats, finely upholstered in scar-kt scar-kt plush, for o70 persons. KEVADA. The Nevada State Journal displays the name of Secretary Bristow as its presidential candidate. Tbe Virginia Enterprise thinks the Pacific coast has Chinamen enough for the present, and the immigration of this class of foreigners should bo Btopped by law. The Chronicle says that white labor has shown itself unable un-able to compete with Chinese labor in several fields where the experiment has been fairly tried. Kollin P. Saxe wants to deliver at Reno, from Syracuse, N. Y., a car load of sugar maplo trees, two to three feet high, and choice ones at $2 50 per dozen delivered. Robert M. Fryer, the inventor and patentee of the new process of reducing re-ducing ores, is expected at Reno shortly, to put up some of bis furnaces. fur-naces. All the Chinese section men on the Virginia and Truckee railroad are to be dispensed with, and the white laborers have been cut down to 52.50 per day. Adolph Sutro is now in Washington. Washing-ton. A Piute Indian named Dick committed com-mitted suicide in Winnemucca by shooting himself in the breast with a pistol. The prize fight between Sullivan and Trevillian will Uko plare on March 1st, within iorly miies of Virginia Vir-ginia city, for $250 a side. Reports from tho valleys show that cattle suflered severely during the recent re-cent storms and many died. |