The Montana post., 1869-01-15
THE WEST.

Senator Cole is California millionaire.
/ The Digger Indians in Plumas coun-
~, Cal, are becoming civilized.
/ The rush to White Pine still contin>
/ ues from all the Nevada towns.
Winnemucca. Chief of the Piutes, is
now in the Humboldt country.
4 Female compositors set up the San
Francisco Ca'Jornian.
San Francisco courts are granting
seven divorces day.
! st. Joe is going to rebuild the Pacific
House ut a cost of Sl3G,OOO.
Folsom will probably supply most of
the granite tor the United States Branch
Mint at San Francisco.
, The old Pat Casey mill in Chase G1lch,
Colorado. is rs busy crushing ore. as il
used 10 be six years ago.
The &. =. r. II between Reno and
Argenta is said to tie very rough and
badly built.
/ The .S,r,etWat,r Mines. born at South
Pass, and now published at Brvan City,
will locate at Echo City in few days.
| The weather has been extremely cold
along the lower Missouri river. Mer-
Guy falling To Is or 20 degrees below
zero.
Anderson Cox. Philip Ritz and DIR. ID. 5.
Baker are Republican aspirants tor Con.
gress in Washington Territory.
The 7TdoL Ware says. Frank keny on 8
name is among the passengers who
sailed from New York on the 9th OF Dec
but no wife mentioned.
ii. Il. Comstock has turned up at
South Pass city. and is writing letters of
inquiry concerning his ground on the
"Comstock.'
A daughter OF the lale Thomas H.
Fremont, il is said. is now engaged as
teacher in one Of the public schools in
San Francisco, California.
\ canary bird. aged fifteen years. re-
Gently died in Walla Walla. (W. T) He
had been in the same family thirteen
years and had been carried all over the
Pacific coast.
A California paper says the Chinese
are getting 50 numerous on the Pacific
coast that they contemplate appointing
Missionaries to go among the Christians
to convert them to the Chinese religion.
At San Juan, South Cal, up to Dec.
10th, there were 2lO cases of smallpox
and Is deaths; in the surrounding couu-
try, in the surrounding country, 100
cases and 81 deaths.
According to the Real Estate Reeiee
twenty individuals and companies in
San Francisco pay over $500 land tax:
fifteen pay over 5000; ten over 81 1000;
five over 5000; while Two pay respec>
lively $16,927 and SCI .O4l.
Rev. Otis Gibson is organizing an ex>
tensive school in San Francisco, with
branches in different parts of the State.
for the purpose of instructing the Chs
nese in our language, laws and Christian
religion
A San Francisco dispatch OF Dec. 81,
says: Ii has trsnspired that the death
of William Cameron. who dropped dead
on Friday. resulted from injuries Infiict-
ed by robbers, who knocked him down,
took his money and left him insensible,
on Market street. nearly year since.
Last Sunday mt rning the freight train
| going east met with an accident above
I the tunnel near Camp No. "a, by the
f, breaking of ad axle Five cars lcade
with iron were thrown from the track
and precipitated almost into the Trnc-
! kee River. A brakeman saved his life
/ by running back ward as fast as the cars
Went oil. The detention was slight and
! the damage much less than would have
} been supposed -Ntrada Enterprise 22d.
IL is said tina, a French Count has sr-
rived in ST Louis with u vslid claim Tor
3 all the property on both eil-s of iIf'n
street, from Olive tC MARKET, valued at