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

The central racine railroad was 0Os
miles east of Sacramento, Feb. 22.
F1axseed is being cultivated in Ore
gon.
IL is now believed the L. p. 4 C. r. r.
X. will connect in May.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, is the lion
of White Pine.
Milwaukee (Oregon) had a Spiritual
istic meeting recently Ii fizzled.
The highest altitude attained on the
Central Pacific Railroad is 7,042 feet.
1t is reported that some Germans have
bought Santa Cruz Island and intend 10
stock it with sheep.
One thousand dollars OF the State tax
due from Multaomah county, Oregon,
was paid recently in half-dollar pieces.
An Oregon paper acknowledges
present from a subscriber, consisting of
a apsckage ot-pop-corn-
Two tons of rock from the Mazeppa
mine, crushed in the White Pine mill,
yielded 1,7S0 per ton.
l.. l.. Flint committed suicide at
Downieville. Cal, by shooting himself
through the head.
Fruit trees are in blossom in Sacra-
mento, and other trees are beginning to
put forth leaves.
Thomas Butler has been sent TO the
Insane Asylum FROM Placer county, Cali
ifornia.
a combination OF teamsters at Gold
Hill have a private smallpox hospital
to themselves.
On the completion of the railroad, the
time from Philadelphia to San Francis
CO will be Z days-3,300 miles.
w. G.. Child, formerly of Walla Walla
is now agent Cor Wells. Fargo x Co., at
the White Pine mines.
The Grass Valley National says: Geo.
Stewart accidentally shot at Sugar Pine
Mill, died of his wounds.
Capt. James Shields, who was so Sc
verely burned at the San Jose hotel
some time since, died in San Jose, Cal,
Feb. 16.
A Land Association have bought the
old Willows" property in San Francis
| co, and the grounds are ID be filled in
and ieyelled with tn the streets.
Donner Lake has been sounded 1,600
feet and no bottom found. The Enter
prise believes it to be the crater of an
extinct volcano.
Charles V. Howard was sho. through
the heart in an encounter with ID. II.
Nichols, in the Lafayette Hotel Office,
Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. Ia.
The Salt Lake city papers give des-
cription of beggars in that place. That's
compensation: Matters there have here
tofore beggared description.
Eli Cashin Belt, son of Thomas ID.
Belt, of Bourbon Hill. Nevada County,
is mising-supposed to have been lost in
a mining shaft.
A man in Oregon advertised for a wife
short time ago. About 100 young
women answered the advertisement in
person.
The total amount of property assessed
in Washington Territory, for 1868, is
81, ,029, $50. Montana is over a million
ahead.
Eight White Pine Companies with an
aggregate capital of $l1 100000 were
organized in San Francisco, Feb. 10.
So far that city had $62 100000 in
White Pine companies
From San Francisco to New York,
around the Horn, is 10000 miles by sail
ing vessels. By way of the Darien Ca
nal il will scarcely exceed seven thou~
sand.
Hariz and Heller are both entertain
ing the Californians with their deceps
tions. The latter advertizes
"Anderson's well, but am weller;
Hartz Is hell, but am Heller"
San Francisco wants free letter deliv>
cry, and good carriers will not work for
the amount allowed by Congress-less
than $47 gold per month. The Special
Postal Agent is endeavoring to procure
greater remuneration.
A San Francisco dispatch of Feb. 22d
says: The Herald Printing Company
will be Incorporated tomorrow with a
capital of 100000. Trustees-S. F.
Butterworth. Lafayette Maynard and
Eugene Sullivan.
On the night of the 14th FIRE Oc>
Cured at the Dalles, Oregon. The stores
of p. Peck and Max Vogt were destroyed.
&15,000; Vogt's loss is $4,000. insured
for $500.
"Cassius NJ. Clay, jr," the celebrated
California Stallion, valued at so 900 disd
at the stables of Mr.. Bagley, near San
Leandro, Feb Is. He was owned by
Capt. p. W. Dickey
Not a single daily paper is published
in either of the Mexican States of Sin
aloa, Durango, Coah uila, Chin uahua and
Sonora, containing over 100000 inhabi-
tants. Durango, with a population of
10000. has only a semi-weekly.
Acting Governor Higgins and Mayor
Hampstead, of Salt Lake, were at Echo
City one night recently. A man was
garroted the same night. The Repor-
ter says there is no connection between
the facts
The Nevada Enterprise says: ". A.
Gull, county surveyor of Churchill
county. and a gentleman we'll known to
many of our citizens, died of smallpox
at Wadsworth, Feb. 16.
The San Jose (Cal) Patriot of Feb
18th says: There were 144 Cinnamon
at the Union Sunday School on Sunday