The Montana post., 1868-10-02
THE WEST.


cisco to Japan.
The manufacture of bogus gold dust
still continues in Boise basin.
The shock of an earthquake was felt
at Silver Mountain, Cal, on Sept. 18th.
A new Democratic paperis to be start
ed at Silver City. Idaho, in November.
The Monnt Diablo coal mines yield
eleven thousand tons per month.
Coal sells for twenty dollars per ton
in Salt Lake City.
A force OF fifty-six men are at work
upon u new road from Owyhee to the
railroad.
Two hundred and fifty Mormons,
mostly English and Scotch, arrived in
Salt Lake on Sept. 24th.
"Jeems Pipes is to lecture in Salt
Lake some time during the month of
October.
A new market, containing seventy-fve
stalls, is to be erected in San Francisco
and will run through from Clay to Mer~
chant street.
One hundred and twenty-five Piute
Indians were recently vaccinated in one
day, in Virginia City, Nevada.
Sandwich Island Gamers now leave
San Francisco every twenty days, in
stead of monthly as heretofore.
On the 18th inst, a shock OF an earth-
quake was experienced at Silver Nouns
tain and Sonora, in California
The City of Mexico will soon be con-
nected, by wires uow being put up, with
the American network OF telegraphs.
A fire at Hong Kong. August 18th, de.
stroyed property valued at thirty thous-
and dollars
A tidal wave occurred in the harbor
of Yokohama. August 18th. the day al
ter the earthquake in South America.
Sleeping cars on the T. P r. r. now
run through from the end of the track
instead of from Laramie as heretofore.
Men are making So Per day washing
gold from the black sand on the sea
shore at Chehalis Point, Washington
Territory.
The mines of Reese River and Virginia
City, Nevada, are 20 be connected with
the main continental railway by short
branches.
l.. H Grinnel, late acting Lieutenant
of the United States navy, has been ap-
pointed overseer of the Japanese navy
under the southern government.
If the Frontier IRder is really the
! '
cy, that Democracy has verify most
| foul outlet-it had better put the LHdeE
at the other end as speedily as possible.
| S. h. Reporter.
1t is asserted that the Democrats are
making an attempt 10 throw out the
election returns from portion of COlo~
RADIO, for the purpose of sending the
| Democratic nominee TO Congress.
a fire has been raging in the woods
near San Rafael, Cal, tor six weeks.
! The burnt district is five or six miles
/ wide, and the smoke was, Tor several
! days, so dense as to entirely obscure
/ the sun.
Barkcrville in British Columbia. was
destroyed by fire on September 10th.
/ Loss estimated at million dollars The
safes in the banks of British North
Aneric and British Colunbi, were saved.
The Salt Lake Reporter claims tha'
they have struck it rich" in Bingham
/ Canyon. One claim has yielded SJuOin
one weeks run. y prospect of SO 10
| the pan is reported. A nugget weigh
ing so las been found.
The annexation feeling in Sonora and
| Sinaloa is strong among the better class
| of people. The more intelligent anX-
/ iously await the time when they Gill
have equal advantages with Califor>
mans.
A veil of smoke, caused by the burn
| ing of thousands of square miles of tim
/ ber, hangs over Oregon and California.
| This smoke can be seen hundreds OF
miles out at Sea. and is sometimes SC
dense as TO prevent the navigation Of
! the rivers. The people of the coast are
having their eternal fire experiences De-
fore death.
A young married man of Omaha lost
his wife two weeks ago, and with her his
| furniture Both sets of baggage were
traced to Cheyenne and found in charge
of a nice young man" The recreant
/ female protested sorrow and innocence,
and took her husbands revolver and
pocket look Containing $3.50 from him,
went down stairs to get some coffee and
/ forgot to come back.
There are now four teleg wires
! along the Union Pacific Railroad. on
| two set sof poles. The railroad wire and
Western Union wire are on one set oil
\ poles, and two Western Union wires
have lately been put up by Messrs. Hib-
bard and Conway on another set of poles:
\ These last constructed lines are reported
TO be of n superior character. The old
overland lines will all be taken down.
The telegraph line extending from
Denver, Colorado, TO Santa Fe, New
Mexico, a distance of 430 miles, which
| it was generally supposed must prove
failure pecuniarly, has so far paid all ex-
penses, and the business is steadily Ia
creasing. 1t is of great service TO the
4 people of that country, where mail com
munication is unfrequent and travelling
slow, difficult and uncertain, and 1t VIII