The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-20
WESTERN FACTS.
Work on the capitol is progressing at
Topeka, Kansas. .-s

Work on the capitol is progressing at
Topeka. Kansas. a--s
A Chinaman at the Oregon State Fair
did the best plowing that was done on
the ground.
Thirty eight miles of the Denver Pa
cifc Railroad were completed on Satnr-
day week. a
Captain Netherwood, owner of the re-
mains of the huge mastodon recently
discovered on the Merceed, in MarIposa
county, California, is exhibiting them
at Stockton.
At late meeting Of the California
State Beard of Examiners, a count was
made of the funds in the State Treas
ury, and there were found S727 ASS 81
1922, ,ls4 in legal.tender notes, and $685.
304 80 in gold and siver coin.
The grape crop in New Mexico this
year Will far exceed that of any former
season, not only in quantity but in
quality. During the last season more
than half million vines were set out,
aud many of them bore crops the hist
year.
A vast amount of grain in sacks was
rensered worthless, OF greatly Injured,
by recent rains in California. The loss
is said to amount TO several hundred
thousand sacks. The grain was lying
op the banks of The rivers awaiting
shipment. Z e
The Commissioner OF Immigration OF
Nebraska is preparing pamphlet iol
circulation in the East and in Europe,
to furnish reliable information upon
those subjects which are of special ln-
terest to Immigrants seeking homes In
the West. 1879
Trains on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
are running to Wallace, thirteen miles
west of Sheridan. The grading is also
completed sixty miles further toward
Denver, and largo additions of laborers,
to the force already employed, are being
made frequently.
1t is reported that a new town is to be
laid out few miles south of Barling-
ame, Kansas, near the centre of Shawnee
county, and that the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad will be complet-
ed TO the new site by Christmas, when
the work of building the town will be at
once commenced anu pushed forward
with vigor.a
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
il is ouite probable that within three
years. the California and Oregon Rail
read, and the Oregon Central (Which, 1t
observes. must he regarded as practical.
ly one road } will meet az the boundary
between the two States. The whole
length of the railroad line from Marys
vile to Portland is not less than six
hundred miles, divided nearly equally,
between the States. Twenty miles OF
the Oregon end will be completed this
year, and thirty or forty miles of the
California end in the same time.
At Evans, Colorado, on the 9th in
slant, hotel keeper named Daniel
Steele, one Of the pioneers OF that Ter
Tritory, and member of the first Legis-
lature, was shot and killed by Joel Carr,
formerly of Maysville, Pennsylvania.
Carr applied for dinner, but because the
first ta BILE was full was dissatisfied, and
and abused Steele, and the latter's wife
and daughters, who waited on the table.
His money was then refunded and be
was requested to leave the house, and
did so, but returning with revolver,
he commenced abusing Steele and
threatened his life. Steele tried to quiet
Carr, hut falling turned to leave him,
when Carr fired and shot Steele dead.
The murderer was captured, and after
trial, by jury of twelve men, impanel-
ed al once, he was taken in charge by
the people and hung.