The Montana post., 1868-09-18
THE WEST.


week.
The steamer Resolute exploded near
OLYMPIA, w. T., on the 10Th ult., and
six lives were lost.
Tbos. C. Durant, Esq. the Vice Presi-
dent of the II. p. X. r., is expected in
Salt Lake during the present month.
The Californian who rode 200 miles in
eight hours employed thirty mustangs
instead of one, as stated.
Allah Isaacs Meuken was at one time
employed as an amanuensis by General
Harvey.
tits thought that the Indians, having
pobbled all the stock they can get. have
/ left the line OF the U. p. X. T. for the
present.
The immense quantity of coal, of the
railroad company, at Cheyenne, which
took fire early in August, still continues
TO burn.
The report that Wells, Fargo & Co,
7 have purchased the stage line between
Boise City and the Dalles, is contra
dicted.
The Sacramento Union thus answers
the question How is California going?
! 1t is going for Grant and Colfax by no:
less than ten thousand majority.
Brigham Young has given orders
TO Bishops, throughout Utah, TO cut of
from the church, all who trade at Gen.
tile stores. So says the Reporter.
A party of Arapahoes and Cheyennes
made a dash on Fort Dodge, on the
morning of the Sd inst, but were driven
off after a severe fight. Four soldiers
were killed and seventeen wounded.
The Indian loss is unknown.
The season just passed has been the
most favorable to the California farmers
OF any they have ever experienced. The
grain market is good, oats and barley
fetching high price.
The Mechanics Fair, which was
opened at San Francisco on the Sth ult.,
was the most perfect in its arrangements
and the most successful of any yet held.
It's receipts were about $4,000.
Seven million dollars of gold have
been shipped TO New York from San
Francisco since January LIST, an excess
of "a million and half over the amount
shipped in the same time last year.
Julesburg. one of the Pacific r. r.
cities, which had five thousand inhabi-
tants six months ago, now consists of
twenty people, three shanties, three
tents, and numerous piles of old whisky
bottles.
An immense bed of Kaolin has recent
ly been discovered in San Joaquin coun-
", California. Ii is said To be very pure,
and to exist in inexhaustible quantity.
The gold excitement which was crea-
ted by the new mines on one of the trib-
utaries of the North Platte, in the Medi- |
cine Bow mountains, has nearly sub |
sided.
4 California editor, IL speaking OF |
notorious ruffian in that State, who is |
supposed to have committed more mur~ !
ders than any other man ever known on |
the Pacific coast, says He has won |
derful talent for 6ere0ctng any family he |
does not happen TO like"
About 800 has been raised among |
literary men in San Francisco toward |
defraying the cost of the monument !
just completed at Guilford, Conn. TO the !
memory of the gifted poet Fitz-Greene |
Halleck. A further sum will be collected |
and the full amount remitted To- the
East.
Late Idaho advices say scouting par
~, from Fort Boise, succeeded in cap
turing Eagle Eye, his entire band of In
dians forty>one in number, and twenty
one horses, alsO large quantity of pro-
visions. This capture ends the Indian
hostilities of that section of country.
The telegraphic dispatch from New
York, announcing the nomination of
General Blair for Vice President, was re-
ceived in San Francisco at 3:30 p. N. al
though the Tammany Convention did
not nominate Frank until p, m. That
beats Puck.
On the 9Th inst, the eighteenth anni-
of the admission OF California
into the Union, was celebrated at San
~ L. Il |
of Pioneers and review of the military
by Gov Haigbt. Bunting was fiying
from public buildings, shipping in the
harbor, and hundreds OF private resi-
dences.
Mark Twain tells OF a mining agent in
NevadS, who made returns of SI5 To the
ton, on rock crushed in the company's
mill, and then cleaned up $50 per ton
from the tailings in a mill of his own,
situated below the former. The com
pany tailed to declare dividend, but
the Superintendent got rich.
They have a case of small pox in |
Portland. Oregon, and they have fenced
the house up where the sufferer is lying
so that pedestrians cannot walk near il.
There is a black smith shop next door.
and the workmen have quit for fear of
being infected.
Robbers are numerous in the vicinity
Of San Jose. As two gentlemen were
that city in a buggy, by the
Almaden road, recently, they were way
aid, ordered To halt and fired upon.
bullet taking effect in the hip of one of
heir horses. On several occasions.
within the past few months, citizens
have been shot at by robbers.
There is another new industry in San :
francisco. party there is making
Sansomes concrete stone any size and
shape, 10 order, ornamented according TO I
he taste of the architect. IL
s composed of sand al a solution of ]