The Montana post., 1868-09-04
THE WEST.


tions near Laramie.
California figs as large as a mans fist
are in market in San Francisco.
J. A. CASTOR, an old Montana man, is
merchandising at Green River City.
The Central Pacific Railroad has
reached point ESQ miles east of Sacra-
mento.
Chinese company proposes raising
rice on the overfowed lands of the
Truckee River. Nevada.
An earthquake shock, lasting about
two seconds, visited Los Angeles on
the Sd inst.
Seven hundred Mormon emigrants ar
rived in Salt Lake on the Goth inst. Six
hundred arrived on the day before.
Bennington is the name of a new town
in Southern Utah. About twenty FAM
lies will be living there this fall.
a mad wolf recently attacked Fort
Larned and badly mutilated four of the
garrison.
The L. p. r. r. is building a brick
blacksmith shop 7jx200 feet, with walls
20 feet in height, and brick iron house
of the same dimensions at Omaha Both
will be completed this. season
On the 14th inst. the municipal Off
GERS of Chicago, accompanied by num-
ber of journalists, artists, ladies, &c,
passed through Cheyenne on their way
TO the end of the track.
Patsy Marley is keeping keg saloon
Green River, and challenges James
Dwyer to fight him for $1,000 or upwards,
within two months. Dwyer accepts, and
g.. Il, L. 81.
a young man named Kid, who has
been drugging and going through" in
dividuals at Cheyenne, was recently
hung by the wigs" to a telegraph pole
near that city.
The Salt Lakers are tickling them,
selves with the thought that the railroad
may. possibly pass through Echo instead
of Weber Canyon, and through their
city instead of forty miles above il and
around the north end of the lake.
1t is rumored that the Cheyenne Leu
der is 10 be removed to Green River
City. 1t is also rumored that the Sweet
water Mines is to be removed there. In
In such an event there would be four
/ papers in that one town.
A man under the assumed name of
BOloOhCO "OIuan ab OEeen
River City on the 14th inst, and robbed
her of 81 600 He has probably been
| hung before this time by the commit
! tee"
A newspaper carrier has sued the city
of San Francisco for $500 damages, for
| loss of his route by reason of the de-
struction of newspaper. Judge Saw
| yer held that no such action can be
maintained, as newspaper route is not
property.
a man was drugged and robbed at
Laramie on the 10Th inst On the 10Th a
person was knocked down and his watch
taken. On the same day n soldier was
robbed and his mule tax en-, all of which
makes things very interesting for local
editors il that section.
On the 18th inst, Mr.. S. Rosenthal
was shot and killed, by Col. johnson, at
Green River City. Rosenthal had
stepped behind a saloon tent to urinate
and was seen by Johnson's wife, who
liveo near by. Hence his murder The
military authorities have the murderer
in charge, but Vigilance committee
threaten to lynch and hang him.
A soap mine has been discovered near
SebastOpol, consisting of a ledge of rock
which, on being used with water, pro-
duces good lather and cleanses the
person and clothes thoroughly. and is
good for shaving purposes. A mill is to
be erected on the premises. IL appears
like a special Providence that this ledge
is located in Sonoma county, the strong
hold of the great unwashed."
A dastardly attempt at assassination
was made at Nebraska City, on the 10Th
inst. The City Marshal Shannon, on
account of some structures made by the
Press" upon his high official acts. ap-
preached Mr.. Price, the junior editor.
while walking on the street with an at.
tachee of the office; and without any
notice struck him on the head with a
slung-shot. Fortunately the blow
failed in its object though serious cash
was made by the murderous instrument.
The Salt Lake Telegraph of July 31st
offers the following unique proposition
as q solution of the Mormon question
" If our fellowScitiZens want TO abolish
polygamy, why don't they act like men
and every one marry a woman and hon.
or her and her children, and leave no
extra women to be taken care of and
made happy by other men2 If polyg-
amy will ever he abolished, that's the
way to do IL, and no honorable polyga~
mist would complain of or offer any OBJ
stacle to such a solution of the Mormon
question. But so long as some men will
fail in their obvious duties TO the women.
other men have sufficient generosity
and right feeling to do all they can to
honorably supply the deficiency Nor
can they be righteously blamed for so
doing. On the contrary, hcnors ought
to be heaped upon them, and they will"
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived in San Francisco
"Washington. Aug. 6th--To tie Col
lector of Customs. San Francisco-In-
struct officers in Alaska to prohibit the
killing of fur bearing animals there un-
til further instructions. The penalties