The Montana post., 1868-09-11

THE WEST.

The Cheyenne Lender SAYS that n :.
action in the Sweetwater country Ia.
set in, and that reports from that 500
tion are now OF the most encouragin,
character.
On the evening of the 25th alt q.
herd of Wells, Fargo * co. was attacl,.
by Indians, twenty miles from CLs.
enne, and all the riding stock We
driven OFT
Mr.. Cahoon, the railroad copir,,-
who was shot and scalped. near Sidne-
two or three months ago, is now in a,
legheny City, getting along first ra-s
and has no idea OF "going IN. lor
headed at present.
! On the 31st ult., Tozer, Roberts
| Co.'S mill. at South Pass City. made a.
other cleanup of one hundred o-t
eight tons of rock from the Miners n.
! light ledge, and realized thirteen tLo--
sand dollars, being over 1920 per Ion
a Californian claims to have 4 n-tf,,.5
[ for freezing fish and game wbis
will keep them perfectly fresh Will
\ going n long journey. say from 81
| Francisco to Helena. Say. mister, car
you fix up something similar tor Erapa.
and peaches?
/ Charges are made that those eutrusr.E
/ with the transportation of English No,
mons to Salt Lake, have converted SO.
/ 600 or more OF the emigration tup4 =,
| their own use.
One J. p. Loveland, who lived sfv
miles from Santa Clara, on the sam
Cruz road, California. August 18Th. a.
tempted 10 kill his wife and daugh,s-
and then shot himself dead. lie wa.
suffering from temporary INSANITY
A wagon road is being built due south
! from Boise City to intersect the Centra'
! Pacific Railroad at the mouth OF MAJ.
/ gle creek, two hundred miles distant
1t is to be completed by next spriny
and will be of great benefit 20 Southerr
/ Idaho.
The Walla Walla Statesman OF An,
gust 21st says plenty Of harvest hands
are to be had in that valley at two DO.
lars per day. This must offer sylen-
| did inducement TO Montana men 70 y1
down 10 the coast"
The grading of the Oregon Contra
Railroad, to run along the valley oi tie
! Willamette and connect Portland witt
Eugene City, has been commenced. I,
is thought that the grading will be cor-
pleted this fall.
The Owyhee -AUaloncae tells OF tue
bursting OF a gigantic waterspOut il
the vicinity of Humboldt Lake. A mile
of the Central Pacific Railroad was
washed away. but particulars are DO.
given Of what other damage was done
The expensesof the Chinese Embass7
while in Washington. some fifty DAYS
are estimated at a thousand dollars
day. IL is satisfactory To know tha,
Uncle Sam does not foot this bill Tie
Embassy pays its own expenses
Wyoming wants its Territorial officer.
but Congress neglected TO make any az
preparation for their payment Chey
enne citizens have therefore telegraphel
to the President that if he VII make
the appointments they will advance a.
the monies that may be necessary. IL
order to enable the officers TO enter a.
once upon a discharge of their duties.
TRIM YOUR WICKs.-The coal o.
fiend is killing its victims by dozen,
weekly. ANYTHING which will avert The
danger should be known. The Burlins
ton Argus says: The explosion :,
caused by n practice of neglecting .
cut off the charred portion of the wics
when the lamp is filed observatioz
will show that, in few DAYS use. il-
wick becomes like charcoal in cOmpos-
ton, for an inch below the top tube eOr.
tanning il. and after the lamp has burned
short time, the heated tube fires all @
the charred portion of the wick inside
that sets the oil on fire below this z i
be prevented by cutting of a suhic.t ;
portion of the charred wick each d.
after using the lamp"
DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE-Tle
Virginia New 7resp0Ss has the pariic
ulars of horrible murder and subs
quent suicide of the murderer. whit
occurred between Gold Hill and Amen
can Flat on the night of The 94th !
The murderer was watchman lak
Hawley, who had been sent to gel,
keys of house that was about
vacated. He asked for the keys fro
Mr.. Hawsley, brother-in-law OF the
whose family was leaving. and upOn
ing informed that the keys would be
livered to the clerk of the Overms
House in the morning he drew SIR
shooter and shot Hawsley dead, the 6a,
taking effect in the head. A man name
Cook exclaimed, Good gracious. 1aY
ley, what did you do that fOrl wAr-
he wheeled around and fired at Coos
anu shot hlm through the breast. haT
ley made for the mountains and whf'
found was dead, having shot himSs
through the brain. Cook may posslO-.
live, with the loss of one lung.
INDIANS EAsT.-The Colorado NY
une of the 27th comes to US with th'
account of Indian outrages in that Iel.
ritOry. 1t seems that the savages, axe.
their recent raids in Western Kansas %
the Solomon and Saline rivers, had CON
tinued their depredations in wesIeI
course at Hays City, at Wallace, al I'la
Station, and at Bijou Basin, the ias
named place being within tortySlt
miles of Denver. On Tuesday, the -J'1 .
eight Indians drove off the stock =
longing TO q Mr.. Wirtz. eight M, MI
south of kiowa Station. The se'
attempted to recover it, and the
fled eastward, abandoning