The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-10-01
THE VEST.

Peter Duffy was drowned at Sacramento
Sept. 10th.
There are still cases of small pox at Vir.
ginia, Nevada.
The receipts of the late California State
Fair were S22,277.
The Territorial Fur OF Idaho has been
postponed until 1870.
John Leonard killed Johnny McGlade at
White Pine, Sept. 1lth.
All the White Pine dailics but the Inland
Empire have week lied.
There arc thirty school districts in
solano county, California.
San Rafael, CAL, has commenced the erec-
ton of a Catholic church.
J. r. uauskins killed Reuben Cross, near
Hamilton, Nevada, Sept. 1lth.
John Kelly has made sensation in Den
yer with his catgut and horsehair.
A motherly hen is raising litter of kit
tens at Loyal;on, Sierra valley, Cal.
A man named Sam Lewis, died the other
day while sitting in saloon in Monterey.
Hill Beachey has returned to Idaho from
the East, nearly recovered from his late ILL.,
ness.
Thomas Maynor, we'll known druggist
of San Juan, California, died suddenly on
Sept. 9th.
The Oregon State Fair will commence on
the 11th Of October, and close ON the even-
ing of the 10th.
The Inland Empire says the mines on the
southern slope of Treasure Hill never looked
better than now.
The Road Agents in the vicinity Of White
Pine are gobbling the stage passengers val
uables regularly.
Harrison Gray, native of kentucky,
was murdered at Walnut Grove, Arizona,
Aug 18th, by some fifty or sixty Indians.
Logan II Roots, NJ. G. from the 1st Dis.
,rict of Arkansas, was in Boise City, Idaho,
few days since.
The Carson Appeal says a daughter Of
lawyer Thomas +. Hayden was drowned in
a ditch at Reno, Sept. nth.
Ninety thousand dollars worth of real es-
tate was sold in Portland, Oregon, during
the week ending Aug Both.
The Idaho 7ida! Ware says, mahogany
| wood has been sold in town as low as $8;
currency, per cord during the week.
A water-spout burst over American Canon,
Utah Territory, few days ago, and seven
bridges were carried away by the food
The Chinese school in San Francisco num-
bers 12l little pigtails. They learn English
by signs and pictures with great rapidity.
Med Bingham" well known character
on the Pacific coast, died recently in the
County Hospital, San Francisco, y mcndi-
cant.
The California Democrats were 30 anti
| Chinese during the recent canvass that they
| would not use Chinese lanterns in their IL
| luminations.
Miss Anna Dickinson left Sacramento
Sept 18th, for the East. The California
papers say she left with = big disgust for the
Golden State people.
The Idaho Statesman says George Pauncc.
fort took farewell benefit rendered him
by Gov. Ballard and others, at Boise City,
on Wednesday evening, Sept. IA.
John W. Gashwiler, of San Francisco, has
petitioned for decree in bankruptcy His
debts are about $500, ,000-no assets. Ills
liabilities have all been created in mining
stocks.
On the Fifteenth Amendment the Cali
fornia Senate will stand two for and cigh-
teen against. On joint ballot the Legisla-
ture will be 81 Democrats and 81 Repub-
licans.
Denver is soon to be connected by rail
with the Union Pacific Railroad and the
East. Trsck-laying on the Denver and
Cheyenne road has been commenced, and is
to be pushed forward at the rate of two
miles per day.
September 11th man namedP w. Chase
jumped from two story window of Camps
saloon, in Truckee, Nevada, and died next
day, partly from the fall, and partly from
delirium tremens. He was young man,
only about 30 years of age.
The San Diego Union says Miss Jennie l..
Tracy, that was, Mrs. A. p. K. Stafford, that
is, was not from San Francisco, but San
Diego, and that Saff only got her by =
scratch. We suppose Miss Tracy knew the
old provcrb, ''Snall fnvors thankfully re-
ceived, and large ones in proportion"
Oregon will earn good name among the
lovers of salmon. There are twenty five
salmon fisheries. employing over two hun.
dred men, between the mouth Of the vii.
lame,te River and Astoria, in that State
Over million pounds of this favorite fish
have been put up In tin cans, aud also about
two thousand barrels have been packed.
One W. Frank Stewart, Of San Francisco,
predicts heavy earthquake to take place in
the early part Of this fall, basing II ON the
unusual disturbance Of the earth's magnetic
condition by cosmical agencies, and the
spotted phase Of the sun now turned toward