The Montana post., 1869-04-16
THE WEST.

The Sacramento Union was eighteen
years old on the 18th Of March.
Samuel Fairfield killed Frank Zermer
at South Pass City few DAYS since.
Omaha is to have a nice new opera
house next summer.
The emigration to Kansas the coming
spring will be unprecedented.
The survey for the Idaho branch rail-
road is progressing rapidly.
The Cheyenne Argus says there is
Sweetwater gold fever on the railroad.
Marion county, Oregon, is going to
build a new bridge across Lake Labish.
Mrs. Thompson, of Lake county. Cal.
died recently at the advanced ago of Ill
years.
Hon. ID. X. Ashley. Congressman of
Nevada. passed through Salt Lake City
March 81. en- route for home.
A Chinaman in California has taken
advantage of the American habits of
bankruptcy.
A Denver punister thinks the Rocky
Mountains piQue themselves on their all
titude.
Mrs. Jane Purkins, of Gilpin county;
Colorado, sues for a divorce from her
Isaac, according to law.
j. Y Chaves is the unanimous nom-
inee of the Republicans of New Mexico
for Delegate to Congress.
The citizens of Council Bluffs have
subscribed $17 900 toward the construc-
tion of a suitable hotel.
Omaha recently discovered a mine of
pure chalk. They are now prospecting
for blackboards.
ness, of California, contemplates matri>
mony.
Chinese Sunday Schools have been es-
tablished in all the Methodist churches
of San Francisco
The San Diego (Cal) Union says the
whalers have captured five or more
whales, making total of twenty-sev-
en- whales this season.
Navigation on the Columbia river as
far as Umasilla is again resumed. The
Nez Perees CHEZ made the first trip
last week.-Iddh0 Statesman, March 21.
Current report says rich gold discov>
cries have been made on Green River,
Wyoming Territory, 200 miles below
where the railroad crosses the stream.
There are twenty nine business houses
in San Francisco that have each sold
over a million of dollars worth of goods
during the past year. OF these, the
largest sold $13.13l,21
4 ditch is being dug from Boise liver
through Boise City TO supply the town
and the valley below with water. IL is
constructed by a tax upon the citizens.
The NoapareH announces the death
of Colonel James ID. Test, prominent
citizen of Council Bluffs, in Chicago on
the 18th ult. Colonel Test was formers
ly a resident of Colorado.
The Salt Lake Reportcr says the inn
migration TO Utah last year was only
about 5000 What Utah gets it keeps.
That is the secret of it's growth.
Jim Kiskadden. now of Salt Lake, is
going TO marry Miss Adams, a sprightly
young actress of the Mormon persua-
sion. Jim is n gallan: and always was
married or single.-G0Ldrtck's Herald.
The Senate of the Nevada Legislature
didn't want any portion of Idaho an
nexed To that State, and refused to pass
the resolution asking Congress TO give
them that portion of Idaho west of
Snake river
The name OF Sopris has so many rep
resentatiyes in Denver that the Tribune
SAYS a fellow calls everybody Sopris that
he dsn't know, and hits il two-thirds of
the time.
The Tribune says .he attendance at
Langrishe's Denver Theatre was large
on the opening night, but since then it
has dwindled down fearfully, not owing
To an unappreciation of the company,
but because of hard times.
At Salem, Oregon. Robert Campbell.
who plead guilty to stealing a Henry
rifle, was sentenced 10 two years ha:d
labor in the State penitentiiry. George
Hilber, convicted of horse stealing, was
sentenced to serve FIVE years in the
State prison.
A telegraphic dispatch to William
O'Neil of Virginia. Nevada. announces
the death of DIR. Wade Bryarly, well
and favorably known to- all old resi~
dents of that city, which took place in
Baltimore. Md, March 10, from pneu>
monia.
When the last rail on the Pacific
railroad shall have been laid the world
will no longer have a frontier" says
the New York Herald. "If that be so
the frontier is pretty near gone. tor the
last rail let Sacramento on Sunday
morning on it's winding way" says the
Sacramento Bee of the 10Th ult.
The Indians are committing numer-
Gus atrocities in Arizona. They at
tackled the stage recently. and
wounded Tingley, the driver. and two
passengers named Joseph Todd aud
George jackson. 1t is supposed that
William Barnett was murdered by them
the same day, and it is known that
John Howell was killed by the sava
ges.
The editor of the New York COmmeT
ciat Adcertiser, who saw John G.. Breck-
inridge during his briet tarry in that
citV last week Ne could NOT