The Montana post., 1869-02-26
THE WEST.


Reno. New, wants the university oi
that State located at shat place.
Land squatting is at present the rage
In Los Angeles county.
ID w. Douthitt of Idaho, is about TO
start newspaper at White Pine.
The smallpox is declining in San
Francisco.
pike" Vasquez, a well known Colo
radiau, died Feb. Sd
The Russian inhabitants of Sitka are
all leaving.
The citizens of Cheyenne have PEI
titioned Congress for the establishment
of a Land District in Wyoming
Sioux CITY has Methodist Mite Sos
cietv. These country people will follow
the example of Helena. We presume
the contributions are limited to'Uh soU.
The Omaha Herald contains letter
calling for one Thousand men To explore
the Black Hills In the Spring.
Brigham Young is said to be anxious
TO reduce his expenses-ot thirty-slx
marriageable daughters.
The annual mean of the rain tall at
Sacramento, from 1S49 TO 1865, has-oeen
little over 114 inches. About inches
have fallen thus far, and the prospect Is
good for the usual amount.
Information wanted-of the proprie~
tor of this paper, who is supposed to be
roaming at White Pine.-Reese Rtuer
Rereiks.
The Colorado Tribune is severe on Mr..
TayIoro The Mineral Resources Com
mission for a continued slight of Color
ado.
Thomas OF the Denver Nelcs, is the
best copy" writer in the mountains.
1t is as neat as boarding school girl 5
letter TO a lover.
The Dalles M0uataileer of Jan. 26th
saws the excitement in that city in relas
ton to the smallpox had entirely aba
ted. The city was never in healthier
condition.
Cheyenne being somewhat in arrear
on its Fire Engine, Mr.. Langrishe gave
benefit on Feb 10th to put the COM
mittee in funds. If"Jack's" cOrporosity
equalled his generosity. he would be
distended Falstaff.
The Sacramento Bee gives the follow
ing distances-From San Francisco 10
Salt Lake, 792 miles From Sacramento
to Salt Lake CO., from Chicago to Salt
Lake .559; from New York TO Salt
Lake 2,519.
Men ought to be chaste and continent
! in California, if pecuniary interest have
any influence upon their moral move
ments. In that State if man commits
adultry, and his wife gets divorce in
consequence, all his real estate becomes
her property.
The San Francisco Herald is not a
takes Special dispatches. The Asso~
ciated Press papers are making a fierce
war upon it, charging it with pad
ding, "doctering, ""appropriating,' etc.
General Coolbaugh, notorious all the
way from Saint Louis TO the Rocky
Mountains as a dead beat, was the
victim of an assaulta nd battery at Chey-
enne the other dav. 1t is his second
experience of the kind there. and the
Star thinks il is likely. that more will
| follow.
We had the pleasure of meeting this
morning. Major J. Scott Anthony, of the
old Colorado First, who has returned TO
resume his residence in Colorado. He
has been for nearly three years in Mon
tana, and the last half dozen months on
the Union Pacific raiIroad.-Denver
| Ne1cs Feb. g.
Mr.. Langrishe writes us that he will
open the Denver Theater Saturday
evening next, with the best company
ever in Denver We hope TO see him
greeted with a crowded house, and that
1t will be followed by prosperous and
profitable season. Ed. Shapter is ale
ready here repairing and renovating the
house. Denver NetcS, Feb. s.
An old miner writing from White
Pine says: am disappointed in res
gard to this place; it looks very lively,
but business is not very good. One
thing strikes me, that mines which were
worked last Summer, are not worked
now, and 1t seems to me, that the mi-
ners don't care to find out what they
have, but every one wants to sell.
The Idaho Statesman gives the follow.
ing as the "slate" of the Republican
Central Committee of Idaho: Thomas
j. Butler, "to be the successor OF the
present Governor; John Gray, for Ter
ritorial Secretary; j. G. Geer, for Col>
lector; Jonas w. Brown, for Assessor;
| Major Alvord, for Marshall; Judge Kel-
! ly, for Chief Justice; H. E. Prickett and
- Earle for Justices Supreme Court.
b. f. Lamkin, tor Postmaster at Boise
City; Mr.. Pinney, for Postmaster at
| Idaho City.
Mrs. Charity Thomson, AN aged widow
residing at Sioux Falls, D. r., takes
great delight in telling that she has had
the pleasure. over seventy yaars ago, OF
shaking hands with General Washing
ton. She saw him when young girl,
at Chesterfield, Mass, as he was retnrn-
ing home in his coach from Saratoga,