Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-02-23
Further California News,

Further California News.
The alta California, the Oldest paper in
the State, was sold recently by the sheriff
for Sl3,500. There were attachments for
about $4,000 on the paper.
The Sun, which has the largest daily cir.
culation in the State las itself says), is ad.
vertised for sale by the Sheriff under cxecu-
tons amounting to $4,000.
An attachment was levied some DAYS aro
upon the Herald which has the largest adj
vertising patronage in the State, and il is ru
mored that the debts of the paper are $780,
600 Such is newspaper business in San
/ Francisco. Printers wages alone, on first
class paper here, amount to more than one
I thousand dollars a week
The .ftias has been purchased by the com.
positors, who had large claims upon the Of
\ fee, and it is said that G. A. Waslburn, an
/ Anii-Nebrsska man, viii be the editor.
/ The Branch Mint in this city is now coin
| ing gold at the rate of 5 100000 per month.
/ John Tabor, former editor Of the Stockton
journal, and one of the best newspaper wrl
tiers in the State has been sentenced TO be
hung in Stockton on the 18th of March, for
the murder Of Joseph Mansfield.
On the klamath the Indians and whites
are at open war On the 18th instant par
ty Of Indians killed five Americans, at Or
leans Bar, because their rancheria, or huts,
had been destroyed by patty of miners. -
/ Parties of United States troops and miners
had gone out to attack the Indians, but the
result Of the excursion is not yet known.
/ The previous mail Informed you that var
/ ty Of miners bad killed thirty Indians on
smith River, near Crescent City. These
Indian wars begin nobody knows how they
end with the loss Of few whites, and the
determination of the red skins.
| A letter from Washington Territory re-
ports that nm expedition Il on foot in that
section to be directed against Vancouvcrs
Island and that this 6lhbusteIinr experi-
meni Is the result Of Russian intrigue.
a meeting had been held in Shasta coun
iy, at which the destitute condition of the
Indians was considered Their wants were
declared to be such as to cali for immediate
relief, aud It was recommended that spe-
cinl reservation of land be made for their
benefit
An Indian mummy, enclosed in sm1ll
covered came, inside a larger ono, has been
discovered in Washington Territory. The
fact Il youchcd for by John Evans. Z. S. &c.
ologisi, and three physicians. The speci-
men is IN state of remarkable preservation
Mr.. J. D. Williams OF Saco. Me-, was
drowned while crossing the North Fork, on
the 9th ult
The acting Treasurer Of Sonora county
was murdered IN his sleep, by an English
man named Grifiths, who afterwards robbed
the safe OF $4,000. lie was arrested. CON
tossed The crime, aud was hung by an indig-
nant popllacc.
he following items Of news from Oregon
and Washington Territories, are from the
PoH'aAdtD.) Times;
A Mr.. Burns, who lives near IIillshorourh
killed his wife and four Children ON the morn.
ing of the I'd inst. II is said he was insane.
After committing the hnrrll deed be burned
his house and attempted 10 kill himself by
cutting bis throat with a rnzor.
Gen. Joseph Lane announces himself
candidate TOR denomination as delegate TO
Congress
! ne Portland .Sandtrd of the DIST De
cembcr contains the proceedings Of an in.
dgnauon meeting of the ctizcus of por-
ton of Washington Territory, hrli n, Van
CONVEX IN Clark county, on the l6ih Deem
Der, denouncing Hon. g. lancaster, their
delegate to Congress, and the Hudson Bay
Company. for setting up pretended claims tn
their lands. They assert that Mt the time
they settled on the public lanis they were
unclaimed by the Hudson Bay Company,
and express determination to defend their
rights.
From The Sandwich Islands we have the
following items:
At meeting of the Priyy Council the
funeral services Of the late King have been