The Montana post., 1869-03-12
THE WEST.

Thirty miles of mud between Ham,
ilton and Elko, says the Austin Recetltc,
There are in Sitka more bar-rooms
than private houses
Mr. Anderson, one OF the Nevada leg
islators had the small pox, Feb. II.
The Salt Lake City papers boast that
the leader OF their theatre orchestra is
Careless"
A tract of 16O acres near Boise. Idaho.
has been selected for the site o. the Ter
ritorial prison.
The Humboldt Register has been sold
TO the Workingman's Protective Union
of that city.
The Nevada Legislature has appro>
priated 100000 to erect a capitol build
ing at Carson City.
The Tidal .Wdce has Birth notice,
and says the young uTchin weighed a
ton-in its fathers estimation.
Sol Hasbrouck, District Court Clerk
in Idaho, has been succeeded by h {.
Street.
Engineers are preparing the location
of the line OF the Stockton aud Tulare
Railroad in California. -.-
A letter from Father Manogue, of Cal.
from White Pine, dated Feb. Sd, warns
poor people from going to that district.
Calaveras. California, has four huns
cred and ninety-one miles OF mining
bitches.
Ore from the Mcclellan lode. on
Leavenworth Mountain, Colorado, is as
saying fifty dollars per ton.
Fifty hens in Downieville, California,
have laid 1900 eggs during the past
year.
Gov Haight. of California, has par
doned Isaac Tanksley, convicted of rob~
berry in Placer county four years ago.
Twenty thousand acres of wheat have
been sown recently in the Salinas valley
California.
James Gilmore, formerly a student in
J. II. McConnel's law office, Virginia,
Nevada, has become insane.
Smart shocks of earthquake occurred
in San Francisco and San Jose on the
morning of Feb. 13, about 4 o'clock.
Gold Hill, Nevada, is in good condi-
ton inancially-there was balance in
the city treasury a short time since of
SO, 1913.
An orchard of 1000 olive trees has
been planted in Santa Barbara, Calitor-
MIA. The trees bear fruit when seven
years old.
California consumes annually. $4,000
tors of salt, of which more than one
halt is produced on the tide lands of
Almeda county.
The Herald says that contracts have
already been concluded, tor the erection
of thirteen hundred and eighty~three
two-story dwelling houses in San Fran
cisco.
A movement is on foot 70 erect q mon
ument over the remains of the late Hon.
Charles Westmoreland, at the joint ex-
Pense of Sacramento, Marysville, Stock
ton, 1rekA and Shasta.
The Nevada Legislature has passed
bills appropriatiDg $4,000 TO build an
Orphan Asylum, and giving $4,000 for
the orphans of Virginia City.
Rev. T. II. Pearne, now editor of
Brownlow's Knoxville Wig. was for
merly a resident Of Oregon In the opIn-
ion of some il is doubtless change
from cloven>foot TO web>fcot.
Miss Julia Justus, a charming Omaha
belle. has been awarded $4,000 dams~
ges. This amount 10 be collected from
one Champin, who trihed with her
young affections
The Reese River ReCeiNe of the 18th
says no mails had arrived from the west
tor several days, aud from appearances
none were likely TO come through for
many more.
A compositor in the Telegraph office
at Salt Lake, named Brown, attempted
suicide by swallowing a bottle of lauda-
mum Feb. 20. The measure" was lit
tie too large for him, and his matter"
at last accounts was on the live gal
ley"
Information wanted, of Jacob Harris
son, who emigrated from Derby. Eng
land, 70 Utah, in 1866. When last heard
from he had gone from Salt Lake 20
Montana. His sister, Eliza Ann HArri-
son. who arrived from England last
summer, is very anxious TO hear from
him. Address Ogden.-Deseret NeIos.
A couple of country girls came into a
drug store in Eugene City, and having
consented 10 take glass of wine, the
older one watching the clerk grating in
the nutmeg. and at last said: mo love
powders If you please, stranger You
can fool US uns. We are Long Toners,
you beti"-IdaJtO Tidal Ware.
Hussey, Dahler & Co, have bought
tho entire stock and assets of the Miners
National Bank in Salt Lake City, and
assumed its liabilities. They will close
up the business of the Miners National,
and apply for a charter for the First Ma
tional.
The Stocktonians (Cal.) are rejoicing
that among the benefits of the late bIg
food, is the wholesale destruction by
the waters of gophers. mice, squirrels
and rats, which may be counted by thou.
sands-in number almost sufficient to
fertii.ze the land.
The L. p. r. r. is now open as far
east as Carbon. the track having been
cleared of snow. Carbon is 81 miles
west of Laramie City, and at points
along this 81 miles the snow blockade
stilllpi pievails.-iSOh L0ic TcIegraph, Feb