The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1869-02-05
THE WEST.

! n man, IN marin county, Ndl., WIS
cured of paralysis by smallpox.
a new road has been discovered from
the Colorado River 10 Prescott. Arizona.
Last year $4,000 bushels of castor
beans were raised in Napa county, Cal.
Nevada Cty. California. is to have a
veIocipede.
The lakes in Siskiyou county are ri-
sing from year to year.
San Francisco has forty-eight news>
papers and periodicals..
Cheyenne has received It's fire engine,
and thinks IL big squirt.
Frank p Blair, at one time a candi-
date for the Vice Presidency, was In
Salt Lake Jan. "a.
Langrishe is VI. y'ing the Last Man in
Cheyenne. Bed { one" is playing him
here.
Denver has q velocipede. built there.
1t tipped it's rider. Mr.. Thompson, much.
ly on the first trial.
The Russell Hotel. Gold Hill. New,
was totally destroyed by fire, Jan. IA.
Loss heavy; no insurance.
James Allabaugh, n native of Penn-
sylvania, aged 3S, died suddenly of heart
disease. in Virginia. New, Jan. Is.
Tue official reports show that over
two thousand people have died of small-
pox, in San Francisco.
The Idaho Statesman is out on brown
paper. Send over to Montana for few
tons Of white.
1t is estimated that the wine product
in California, up to the close of the year
1868, is 100000 gallons.
Folsom, Sacramento county, has pre-
tensions of being the Lowell of Calls
fornia."
In Kern county, Cal, the Buena Wis
ta. Petroleum Company are now manu-
featuring excellent oil. both tor burning
and for the purpose OF lubricating.
The mineral soap from the recently
discovered mine in S0noma county,
Cal, is proving great success, meeting
with ready sale.
II was reported in San Francisco, Jan.
Is, that the White Pine Eberhardt mine
had been sold for six millions of dollars,
but is contradicted.
The "dead-brokes" at White Pine are
making good wages by thawing snow
and selling the water at ten cents gals
lon.
The smallpox has ade it's appear.
ance in Jacksonville, Southern Oregon.
Some thirty-eight cases have been re-
ported.
IL is reported that Ives. engineer on
the Central Pacific Railroad, has been
ordered to San Francisco, To procure an
outfit To survey the cOmpsny's route to
Salt Lake, and TO seek practicable pass
to the Smoky Hill route.
Day board is $15 to $1S per week at
White Pine. Weather very cold, many
persons frozen, pneumonia prevalent
and quite number of deaths. Lumber
is $3.50 to S400 per thousand. Laborers
receive $5 per day. Carpenters 81 to
$40. wood $50 per cord.-Letters to En-
terprize.
A destructive fire occurred in Port
land January 9th. II caught in the Ori-
famine Saloon. Loss about $2J, ,OOO
The heaviest losers were j. Levy. the
American Chop House, and the ORR |
famine saloon.
John l.. Cisco and Lewis Voorhees, of
Denver, the victims of n recent Indian !
outrage. were buried in that city Jan. |
II. Post 1, q. A. r., of which Cisco was |
a member, escorted the remains. The
funeral procession was one of the lar. |
gest that has occurred in Denver.
Mr.. Krug was pursued by about one
hundred Indians whilst crossing the di- |
vide between here and Pueblo q few |
days since. The savages are all around |
the border settlements on the plains |
again.-Dencer Nescs. 18Th ui.
A farmer from Missouri drove into
Quincy, Illinois, the other day. with o |
load of hogs, and while waiting for his |
turn to unload. went into tavern near |
by to get drink. Upon returning, soon |
he found that some one had, |
in his absence, sold out his team, hogs |
and all, pocketed the proceeds and dis
appeared.
A dispatch dated Albany, Oregon, |
January 12, says Lewis Churchill met |
with a fatal accident Monday night, |
some twelve miles south of that city. |
He was going home from church in q |
great hurry, when his foot struck .
stump, and he fell with great force, IN
fiicting an injury from which he died.
Governor Haight has commutod TO
for life, the sentence of |
Richard Thompson. convicted in Lassen |
county, June, 1867, of murder in the |
first degree. and sentenced at the Octo- |
ber term, 1868, of the District Court of |
the Second Judicial District, to be exc
cuted December 18, which execution the |
Governor postponed to January %.
The Walla Walla Statesman says the
news from Perry Creek. Kootenia, is
very hattering, and anticipations for
next seasons operations in that vicinity
are that largo quantities of the precious
metal will be taken out of these mines.
The district is supposed to be quite ex-
tensive. Walla Walla seems to be quite |
alive ON the railroad question. The cit
izens have petitioned their Delegate in
Congress to urge prompt action in the
matter.
Hank Jackson was hung at Colorado
City, Col, Jan. 12. The particulars are
~ follows: A short distance this side
of Colorado City. the coach was chal-
lenged, and the driver was about to stop
when a gun was fired and frightened
his team, and he drove on. At Colorado
City, Sheriff Mason and his prisoner laid
over, and at 12 o'clock that night, Jack
son was forcibly taken from him and
hung from butchers platform in town.
-Ners
The perambulating chlorinator, under