The Montana post., 1868-12-25
THE WEST.


The California Pacific Railroad is
completed.
San Francisco has 2S,227 school chil>
dren.
The damages by the earthquake at
San Francisco are appraised at $2Il,-
600. q
1t is stated that one million sacks of
wheat are stored in the warehouses of
San Francisco, California.
There are thirty million bearing vines
/ in California. representing a yearly
value of $S,000.000
The common codncil of Kansas City
has passed an ordinance abolishing
goats in that city.
The Salt Lake Netos Is advocating the
growth of olive trees in the southern
settlements of Utah.
St. Paul, Mimi. has expended a mil
lion of dollars in new buildings this
year.
Six hundred men will be employed in
building the bridge across the Missouri
at Omaha this winter.
Salinas county, Cal, contains over
100000 acres of land, and can raise 116
bushels OF wheat per acre.
Treasure City, White Pine, is 9,262
feet high, 400 feet lower than the noun
tain top. .F'~.H .I I-r...."
Mrs. Hubbard, of Polk county. Ore
gon. who was shockiDgly burned a few
weeks ago, died a few days since.
Louis Foote. a highly esteemed citi-
zen. formerly of Forest City, Cal, died
of small pox in Virginia, Nevada.
At Argenta, says the Reno, Crescent
of December D, a rough, named Jerry
Emerson, was shot and killed Nov. 30.
Miss Mollie Lowe and Mr.. Bamford,
of the Pipers Opera House Company,
| Virginia. Nevada, were married Dec. Z.
BILL Long, who drives east from
Salt Lake. tell from his seat Dec. 13, in
| Parley's Canyon, and was severely in~
jured.
A little daughter of Asa Pearsons. of
| Washoe, Nevada, was accidentally killed
by her elder brother shooting her with
shot gun he supposed not loaded.
The latest estimates place California
crops as follows: Wool, 10000, 900
pounds; wheat, 10000 900 bushels; wine
10000 gallons.
John S. Hager and w. e. Ralston
have been commissioned by the Govern
or as Regents OF the University of Cali
| fornia.
/ Coal is $50 per ton, wood SIS per
cord, flour 50 per hundred, and pork 30
cents per pound in Salt Lake City, the
Reporter says.
Captain Jim, Chief of the Washoe In
dians in Carson and Washo. valleys,
has gone to "the happy hunting
grounds" of tue red man.
| we learn from the Oregon City Enter
| prise that Mrs. Annie +. Laswell, wife
of our Prosecuting Attorney for that
judicial District, died in that city on the
25th ult.. at the age OF 22d years.
Manager Langrishe will leave this
city this evening, or tomorrow morn
ing, for Denver. to y hich point his
troupe are now journeying.-Satt Lake
Telegraph, 10Th.
"Tho Tidal Wave" is the overwhelm-
ing title of the new paper TO be started,
with the material of the Winnemucca
argent. at Silver City, Idaho, by I. j.
& j. s. Butler.
! The Omaha Herald denounces the
hanging of Dugan in Denver as "a bru~
tai crime against humanity. We new
er knew AN issueyet in whichthe Herald
did not get on the wrong side.
Oregon has exported this year 4,919
quarter-sacks OF flour, S7491 centals OF
wheat, 80, 1884 sacks of oats, 36,S1S boxes
of apples, 179 barrels and 5,054 half bar
rels of dried apples.
John Hanley. who killed Walter Lane
at Nevada. November Goth, has been ex-
amined and discharged, the evidence
showing that he acted in self~defense.
Right Reverend j. p Machebmuf
Catholic Bishop of Utah and Colorado
has arrived and will spend several days
in our city. We heartily welcome the
Bishop, and wish him all possible suc-
cess.-iSaH Lake Reporter. ..
Freeman of the Frontier Inder, writes
the Mormon papers that he will have a
new outfit at Ogden shortly, and start
his paper again as the "Ph0enir." The
Ogdenites had better get the small pox
| from the west and have twin plaques.
All that is required in the lodging
house business in White Pine is a iot OF
stout iron hooks and few gunny sacks.
The hooks are driven into convenient
trees and the dodgers hung up in the
sacks. after which the landlord has
moth .ng to do till morning but loaf about
and keep up fires under such trees as he
has located.
The Oakland Ne,os and Transcript are
both printed on the same press, and bv
the same pressman. The readers of the
Transcript were considerably astonished
few mornings since, on finding the
outside of the NeSos and the inside of the
Transcript printed on the same sheet.
AS they are both radical papers, we pre-
sumo their readers did not make any
fuss about the matter.
The Commissioner Of the General
Land Office is in receipt of FIVE lists of
lands selected for patenting by the
Union Pacific Railroad, under the act of
July 2, 1862, within ten miles OF their
line of road. The lands lie within the
Omaha CNebraska) land district, along
the first two hundred miles of the road
and ou,onrs nOn