The Montana post., 1869-03-05
THE WEST.
Gov. George l.. Woods and family has
returned TO Oregon.

A circus is already giving outdoor
exhibitions at San Francisco.
The Idaho Statesman highly compli-
ments Hon. J. NJ. Cavanaagh as q Dele-
gate.
Salt Lake City is boastlug of its de,
lightful weather. They must have re-
ceived it per express from Montana.
1t is reported that a wooden factory, to
cost ninety thousand dollars, is to be
erected at Eugene City, Oregon.
Col. Theodore Dodd, formerly of the
Second Colorado, died in New Mexico
recently.
A Portland paper predicts that the
Willamette Valley will soon become the
mile of the world"
G.. Webster has purchased the Rose
burg, Oregon, Ensign and will hereaf>
ter be the proprietor and editor of that
paper.
Mr.. George p. Funck a prominent cit
izen of Jacksonville, Oregon, died on the
22d instant, of smallpox. He was
Past Grand of the Order OF Odd Fellows.
The Yosemite Valley excites the adj
miration of all tourists. You see-Daighty
few valleys TO compare with it.-Cfncin-
natl Times.
Kimbell & CO., carriage makers of San
Francisco. have received an order TO
build buggy for Bonner, the newspa-
per publisher.
ID. Mcintosh, the man shot at Winne-
mucca by Joe Lindsey and Ed. Cage,
was the man who killed Tom Canovau
at Ruby, Idaho, in June, 1866
George G.. Gilbert was shot through
the heart and instantly killed Dy Henry
Benjamin, in the Essex saloon, at Truc-
kee, Feb. >. The trouble arose over
game of faro.
The Third House of the Nevada Leg
islature has brought in bill To quiet
title in Ormsby and Storey counties by
deciding one-half to the Central Pacific
Railroad and the other TO the Bank of
California.
The Tribune advocates the erection of
smelling works in Denver, and says
they have all the fuel necessary. Doubt
less when the r. r. is finished, much
smelling will be done at Golden City
and Denver.
There is no State in the Union where
land is held at such high pIices as in
California, Farming land, fifty to one
hundred miles from San Francisco can
not be had for less than 800 per acre.
The best lands are held at double those
rates.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Oregon,
dated February D, says: Two deaths
from small pox occurred here yesterday.
One of them was District Attorney w.
G.. T'Vault, well known as one of the
pioneers of Oregon, and once Speaker of
the Assembly.
The adoption or rejection of the Wo-
uan suffrage bill by the Dakotah Leg
islature is apparently matter Uf some
doubt. The Cheyenne Star says it did
pass and is to be submitted TO the peo-
pie in October. Chicago dispatches say
it was defeated in the Senate. There
should not be anv secret about it when
there is woman in it.
The name Colorado contains the fol-
lowing Latin words: Lora, colora ad 10
TO; olor, colo ora; rado, do color. Which
being translated, mean, o wine, stain to
the bridles O swan, | cultivate a re-
gion; l scrape up, furnish dyeSstuffs.
: Young Folks Ne1cS
The track of the u p r. X. was in
Round Valley, Weber Kanyon, last
week, about three miles below the tun-
nels, which are now passed. On Friday
night last three locomotives were puff
fing and putting between the upper and
lower tunnel, with train of cars about
balf mile long Everything is clear
to DEVILS Gate; then on for Ogden
-Deseret Neacs 16
The publishers of the Salt Lake Re
porter have commenced the issue of
weekly edition, containing all the matt
ter that appears in the daily. IL is de-
cidedly anti~Mormon and strikes square
from the shoulder at the vices and hum
bugs of the Mormon polygamic Theoc-
racy. Yet, we have noticed with pleas
ure there is an under current of liberal
sentiment even in it's fiercest articles,
and a freedom from personal malice
toward the leaders of the church, while
in no instance has there been assaults
upon the masses. Mr.. Beadle, the ed
itor, Is a gentleman of more than ordis
nary ability. The paper is a specimen
of typographical neatness, and one of
the most welcome of our exchanges as a
fresh, spicy, newsy newspaper The
terms are So yearly: So for six months.
We recommend the investment of green
back in the Reporter by those interested
or acquainted in Utah.
The house in which Or. Wharton
lived while in Georgetown is haunted.
IL is small frame cottage situated in
the lower town, Immediately under the
dark shrdow of the mountain, close To
where Miss Lander met such sad, cru
ell death. There is horrible feeling of
dread steals over the lonely traveller who
chances TO pass this spot after night fall.
The children of the village speak IN
whispers, and matrons find in the very
name of the spot a talisman which never
fails to awe obstreperous youngsters
into obedience. Immediately by the
cottage aforesaid, a stunted, crooked
pine tree stands, which has hang~dog,
shabby air about il, which would be
noticed even by stranger. II has a
miserly, contracted appearance-too
stingy to grow, and too mean to decent
ly die. Ii is the tree upon which Bain>
bridge was hanged. Under that crooked