Show PACIFIC COAST NOTES CUT VE FROM LATEST IX on the alt at san fernando Fern aado cali cal an indian committed suicide by hanging qa nging lafayette hood leaped to his bis death from a railway train at dixon cal on christmas day bat whether with suicidal intent or otherwise is not net known the board of health has declared smallpox epidemic in san francisco the police have been called out oat to assist the health officers in enforcing quarantine I 1 A dispatch elated dated san francisco dec 28 says advices advises received per oceanic today state that the recent explosion of a magazine at near amoy china caused the death of from to 1000 persons the exact number can never be ascertained about three hundred tons of powder exploded sone sojie houses were also destroyed A dispatch dated portland december 29 says general ralus ingalls yesterday filed a petition in the county court asking that he be appointed special administrator of the estate of the late ben holladay the appointment sip is desired by y lyias holladay hol aday but opposed OPP by joseph holladay brother of the deceased who is named as administrator in the effly will that could be found for probate this will was drawn many years aeo before the decease ds second marriage and before he quarreled with his brother or began litigation against him which still seems as tar away from an ending as ever mrs airs hollaway Holla aay avers to her positive positive knowledge that her husband 1 left eft an tu different will from the one oae admitted to probate but no trace tace of it can be found though a most moat thorough search has been made in every part of the country where the deceased ever lived general ingalls petition is a voluminous one and contains papers to show that his appointment is desired by the various creditors of the estate whose claims amount to over |