The Montana post., 1869-03-05
THE WEST.
ais abound in owyhee county,

LUdDO-
The English mill on the Truckee is
soon to be run on Humboldt ores.
w. w. Smith. formerly of Sacramento,
has married Laura Cuppy.
Judge Gillespie of Boise City, Idaho,
has emigrated 10 White Pine
The small pox has disappeared at
Puget Sound.
Chinese form a large proportion of the
California emigrants White Pine boune.
Down at Puget Sound men and women
both sign petitions tnr licenses To liquor
saloons.
Gen Geo. :. Evans has been elected
Marshal of the Stockton Association of
California Pioneers.
4 klamath Chief, at Fort Klamath,
recently shot one of his wives, then
blew out his own brains with yager.
The Boise Democrat reports scarcity
of wheat a. that village. Walla Wal
Ia volunteers a supply.
Ii is reported that woolen factory,
10 cost $50, 900. is 10 be erected at Eu>
gene City, Oregon.
Sixty-five marriage licenses were is
sued in Lane county, Oregon, and eighty
in Marion during the year 1863.
Beadle, OF the Reporter, says the folks
about Promontory City comb their hair
by crawling through the sage brush.
The remains of Il large mastodan have
been discovered near Petaluma, Califor-
MIA
The Council Bluffs BHgle says that
within year that city will be the ter
minus OF eight railroads
Dolores Moore was sentenced To be
hung at Tucson, Arizona. Feb IS, for
the murder of her husband.
McGeath & Co. iorwarders. have estab
blished their warehouse at EeEO City,
60 miles from Salt Lake.
A Californian has built an "agricultu-
raj locomotive" that runs thir,y-nine
plows at once.
John Manuel. Jr- was killed at Iowa
Hill, California. February Sth, by the
caving of a bank.
The floods, caused by The heavy rains
os February 9th. swept away one OF the
bridges on the road between Oakland
and San Leandro, Cal.
The Enterprise and Reese River Rec
ellie mention the presence of a dense
fog in Virginia and Austin. Feb. 10th.
as something unusual.
The Salt Lake Telegraph says an egg
''was laid on the table by Rev. Brother
Smith" Broth Smith seems to be
layman as well as a minister.
Mr.. Orlando Robbins, Deputy Marshal
for Idaho, has resigned his position, and
Mr.. Wash. Underwood has been ap-
pointed to succeed him.
Henry A. Benjamin, who killed Geo.
c. Gilbert at Truckee, Feb. q. had an
examination before Justice King of
that place, and was acquitted.
The suit of Mary J. kete against Paul
Valentine for 5000 for seduction and
divorce. is on trial in the Fourth Dis
trict Court in San Francisco.
The University OF Washington Ter
ritory, located at Seattle. will be opened
in April next by Prof. Hall, gentleman
well known as an instructor in Oregon.
The Owyhee Aratanche thinks a mon
key is a monkey and a niger is mig
ger. Rare enlightenment. 'Tis an ava
lanche of knowledge.
To Feb. 10Th, fifty-four companies had
organized in San Francisco for White
Pine operations, with an aggregate min
eral capital of $62, 10000
An exchange gets off the following:
The people of Utah want more mail
facilities. Singular The males have
more facilities there now than in any
other portion of the country"
Charles Wheatleigh is in Sacramento
doing BLOW for Blow p Herne and Luz
cille Western are playing at Carson
City. The Bates Troupe are delighting
the "Portlanders" with the Streets OF
New York"
The u. p. r. II. track is within about
six miles of the mouth of Weber kan>
yon, and is expected to be at the mouth
in about a week. That Is a rather freez-
ing place just now.-Sdh Lake Telegraph
FEB. 22.
The SaL Lake Telegraph says wo-
mans chances for marriage are great
and frequent in this Territory Yes;
Something like the mo blanks" lotter-
les. The women are pretty near as well
off when they draw" as they were be-
fore
The Legislature of Nevada passed a
Constitutional Amendment providing
for biennial session. and limits it's du-
ration TO 80 days; also a resolution ask
ing Congress to annex 10 Nevada the
territory south of Snake river.
We learn by private letters that there
will be a grand rush of adventures
from Montana and Idaho TO White Pine
next spring. Treasure City is doubtless
at the present moment tire exact min
eral centre of the world-Ehterprise.
The Albany (oregon) Register con-
tains the following unique notice: As
we intend going East. TO be absent two
or three months, We wish to form a CO.
partnership with some competent per-
son in the publication of the Register
Sex no objection" ...
A San Francisco dispatch of Feb. 18th
says: THE storm on the 9th and 10th
wac the heaviest that has occurred in
California since 1862. The San Jose
Railroad track was washed away in sew
eral places; the bridge ever the Guada-