The Montana post., 1869-03-26
THE WEST.

age yield of $40, 1000 per month.
z. s. Gardner, of Sacramento county,
Cal, is insane.
L. Francis Lawton was murdered near
Treasure City, White Pine, Feb. %.
The smallspox has become severe
again in Sacramento.
The Kansas Legislature has rejected
the bill abolishing capital punishment.
A fatal disease. like the spotted fever,
! has broken out at Brownsville, Oregon,
and is killing off the children.
/ Four hundred Chinese women arrived
at San Francisco recently, on one
steamer.
Frank Kenyon is reported to have
sold his interest in the White Pine
mines for $4,000.
Colorado is having religious revivals.
PROBABLY il can stand good deal OF
| them.
| An agricultural locomotive" has been
built in California that runs thirty-nine
plows at one time.
| Rose Hawthorne, the youngest daugh-
ter of the novelist. is studying painting
in Dresden. She has talent, 1t is said
A quarry of beautiful marble has been
discovered twenty-five miles east of Wis
ala, Cal.
Patrick Kerwin was fatally injured
at Sierra City, Cal, February 20, by
falling tree.
Mollie Kerwin tackled strychnine in
Denver, a short time since-and throwed
) it,
w. B. Walker was killed by falling
tree while at work on the Oregon side,
four or five miles above Oak Point.
Thomas McAlpin, formerly Marshal
of Sacramento, died in San Francisco
|; March 3.
Died of small pox at Gold Hill, New;
s. Van Berger, Thomas Burke, and Will
liam Redding.
Madame Scheller and husband left
Salt Lake City on the 11th to join Lam
grishe.
There has been big rush from Salt
, Lake City to Bear River Crossing-Cor-
inne.
Connolly has sold the White Sulphur
Springs, near Vallejo, for $4,000. The
purchaser will conduct the water into
the town.
Robert Caldwell, Mormon of Salt
Lake City has been held to bail for the
seduction of Anna Lloyd, a servant girl.
Why didn't he marry herr
At Stockton, Cal, Feb. 2Sth, little
, girl, daughter of NJ. Morris, fell into the
: cellar under the house of her father and
was drowned.
Andy johnson pardoned Randall, the
: Portland (Oregon) Postmaster, sentenced
to twelve years in the penitentiary for
! robbing the mails.
Sixty gang plows have been sold at
Los Angeles, Cal, this season-more
than was previously owned in the coun-
try.
Sales of real estate in Portland, 0re>
> gon, the past few weeks, indicate a very
, rapid rise in value, in many instances
: doubling within year.
4 A Joint stock company has been
, formed in San Francico, with a capital
of $150,000, for the purpose of erecting
hotel on kearney street.
The Rocky Mountain Press, we un-
derstand, is to be started in Denver in
: about six weeks. We learn that Frank
Fulton has been engaged as foreman OF
a the office.-DeHrer Gazette, Feb II.
/ The San Francisco Herald says that
, ''it it takes a bridge of gold, spanning
the widest stretch of the Bay, TO make
D San Francisco the grand depot of the
trans~continental railroads.&c. ali OF
them-that bridge will be built
The Walla Walla Statesman says the
e Dalles Branch Mint is fixed fact, work
e men being now engaged in digging the
e foundation preparatory TO putting up
, the building, which is to be entirely
fire proof.
The Methodist Church at San Jose
CAL, was burned to the ground on the
r morning of the 22d of Feb. 1t was also
used as a Sunday school for Chinese, and
s il is thought that was the reason it was
r fired. 1t was insured for $4,000.
The snow shed erected over the track
of the Central Pacific Railroad is %
{ miles in length by 16 feet in width and
3 16 feet high. Forty million feet of lum
ber was used in Its construction, and il
4 covers an area of nearly 43 acres.
), A genius at Haywood. Cal, has beer
experimenting fourteen years to procure
propelling motion by means of station.
ary magnets, and has succeeded in keep
ing clock in motion without other aids
He is about procuring a patent for his
. new power.
f Prot. w. s. Keyes left Salt Lake City
March 11th, for the East. The Gentle
Salt Lakers took quite liking to hin
by the Reporters account 1t speaks
well for their taste. Prof. j. R. Hodgt
also left Salt Lake for the East a few
days since. on his return from Arizona
The Tidal Ware says, "Peter Creager
r German by birth, formerly of Walls
q Walla and Idaho City, aged SO years
; and Familiarity known as Dutch Pete, ,
was frozen to-death about fifty mile,
{ beyond the forks of the Owyhee river
/ on the night of the 21st OF February.
A Teutonlc friend who aban doned {
i good thing in Helena, and went tC
White Pine on a venture, pines thus:
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