The Montana post., 1868-12-11
THE WEST.


| A Catholic Church Fair in Austin
Nevada. netted S3135 a5.
Oakland. Cal. has 5000 people. It's
nearly a. large as Helena
Ben. Holiday is rushing around Ore
gon.
81. Joe claims a population of thirty
thousand.
Central City is The bullion centre u!
Colorado.
The ties were laid six miles in Echo
Canyon ten days ago.
| John Matterson ha: been lodged in
the county jaIl at Nevada. Cal. tor steal
ing sheep and selling them 10 butchers.
California farmers are fearing dry
winter Railroad folks are hoping for
one Of that sor:.
1t is .aid the grading on the Denver
Pacific Railroad will be completed Jan
uary LIST. 1868.
John Mccullough, an actor OF some
merit. is playing an engagement at Salt
Lake.
Rev. Benz. Wisrar Morris, of German
town. Pa. has been elected Episcopal
Bishop of Oregon.
Mrs. Geo. W. Hubbard. of Polk county
Oregon was so badly burned recently,
that her life is i'm danger
H. VI. Hoxie. Esq. Assistan: Superin
tendent of the L. p r. Il. is danger
ously sick in Omaha.
Rails are being laid on the Central
Pacific Railroad by moonlight. This
looks like business.
Col. ii. G. Hodges has been appointed
Chief Quart.rrnaster of the department
of California.
Newell, the alleged murderer OF NJ.
Leighton. in Alameda county, Cal, has
been captured.
l.. II. Musgrove was taken from the
Jail in Denver. few days ago, by
large body OF citizens. and hung.
Margaret REYNOLDS was divorced from
Thomas REYNOLDS. in San Francisco. on
the ground of adultery.
Edward Burcke was accidentally
killed by being run over by a wagon
near Silver City. Nevada, recently.
Gov. Durkee, of Utah, did not iss1e a
Thanksgiving proclamation. Governor
Young of the State of Deseret q did.
/ Denver has seven churches. seven
schools, seventeen hotels and about dou-
BILE as many doctors and lawyers.
/ Guy ". IIulett, vi Rock ford, H., com
mitted suicide in Central City. Colorado,
few days ago. His body was sent
home.
The TLgratA says, in an amendatory
way that tie gamblers at Bear River
joined with the citizens to clean out the
mob.
There are 269 patients in the San
Francisco County Hospital. During the
month of October there were 30 deaths
and births in that institution.
The Reese River ReceiHe says: "The
Atchison Quartz Mill, in Battle Noun
tain District, Is run altogether and sue
cess!ully with no other fuel than sage
brush. ...-. H-..H ...#..
Frank Dalton, lately sentenced 10 tive
years Imprisonment in the Oregon pen
itentiary, has been parddoned on petit
ton of the citizens.
Archibald WalIing was robbed in
Salt Lake City, opposite Emigration
Corral on the evening of November 26,
of $50.
The prairie schooners" have got into
good business again transporting freight
interOrward from Sacramento. The
cars can't take tithe Of what is offered
George Chandler, of Montana, en-
route for White Pine. was attacked in
Parleys canyon by Two robbers. and
| tieeced of S3l.
1t is proposed by some OF the San
Francisco Street Railroad Companies to
place smoking cars Oh their roads, 10 ac-
commodate those who have no other
| time To enjoy a cigar.
10
10y circular saw, some weeks since,
died suddenly while awaiting an opera
tion in the physicians otiice.-toiorodo
Register.
Sheriff James l.. Laird returned from
the East last evening His friends will
regret that his recovery and condition
is not so encouraging AZ they would de-
sire.-th.y.Hn. Lealer. Noe. 20.
Last night, about IL O'Clock, John
O"Toole, the young man who was shot
last Saturday night by Dick Moriarty,
breathed his last. The murderer. Mo-
riartv. has not vet been caught or even
heard from = YrrrtfOrioL Enterprise,
Nor. 1871.
woman near Brownsville, Oregon.
lately attempted to shoot man who
er The gun snapped, and the woman,
instead of having cod corpus" on her
hands. will probably soon have a live
son-in law.
The California Pacific Railroad has
completed the connection between Val
lejo and Washington, Iolo county. Cars
arrived ut the latter point on Wednes
day evening, at five minutes past eight
o'clock r. M.-StocittoR Independent.
Noe. 14fh.
Frank sylvester writes to the Monte
rey Cali Gdzettt. under date of Nov. 4.
from San Antonio. as follows: -fester~
day an affray took place between one
Patrick (alias Peter Smith and Arthur
Price. in which Smith was shot and
killed almost Instantly. t....
We understand that Dr. Il. Buei, as
agent of an English Company, has
offered TO purchase one half or the whole
of the Golconda Mine. at the rate OF
500, ,OQ0 for half or $4,000 for the
whole, and there is strong prospect
that the sale will be closed.-Hassboa
Register. ..r..
Gov. Hunt, Sec. Army, of New Mexico,
Major Cakes. and maybe somebody also.
are on trip TO the ttes OF southern
Colorado and northwestern New Mexico,
To try To confederate the several tribes
and coax em to live IN a reservation.
There's big money in the Indian busi-
ness, and big danger IL will be disbursed
20 buy the bullets 20 nurv us-Fe'd>