The Montana post., 1869-03-19
THE WEST.

Coopeville, w. T., Feb. %.
Col. Larabee is raising bamboo at Los
Angeles.
The smallpox taboo at Jacksonville.
Oregon, has been discontinued.
Amy Stone and husband returned to
California from China few days since.
A telegraph line is being built from
Portland to Boise City.
Yreka has a velocipede. The Union
speaks of it as Minerva from the brain
of Jove."
woodland, Yolo county, Cal, has a
neutral calf" being neither male nor
female.
Silas Parker, teamster, was run over
and killed near the Log Cabin on Carson
river, Nevada, recently.
James Jackson was drowned February
"a, while on his way from Utsalady TO
Cooperville, In Washington Territory.
The Roman Catholics of Oakland, Cal,
proposes to erect, shortly. the grandest
cathedral in the State.
The Oregon State Fair commences on
the 29th of September, 1869, and will
continue six days.
The Grand Ronde Sentinel comes on
paper as near a dead" color as its poli-
tics.
In California everything from a church
to peanut stand is run by n stock COM
pany.
California requires annually fifteen
million yards of sacking for grain, and
three million for other purposes.
A fatal disease, ike the spotted fever,
has broken out at Brownsville, Oregon,
ood ia Eillipcr of the children
The Sacramento Union says that wild
flowers are already making their appear
ance in the field.
At Stockton California, Feb. 2S, John
]. Murphy was convicted of murder in
the first degree.
At White Pine, recently, there was
| $4,000 game of poker" lasting three
days.
d. B. Nichols, who was so severely
wounded in the late shooting scrape
with Charles V. Howard, in Los Angeles
Cal, is rapidly recovering.
Judge Pratt of San Francisco, has an
nounced from the bench that he will not
be a candidate for reelection to the
Judgeship of the Twelfth District court.
| Thomas Callahan of Klamath county,
California, has been sent TO the San
Quentin State Prison for seven years,
tor attempting to murder his wife.
Charles Davis, who kept stage sta~
ton between San Juan and the New
Idria mines, was killed by the kick OF a
horse, Feb. 10.
On Friday evening, Feb. 26, assistant
Surgeon William a. Bradley, brevet
Major United States Army, died at Point
San Jose, Cal. of apoplexy.
The Garden Tract Homestead Associ-
alton of San Francisco, Incorporated
Feb. %. The intention is TO purchase
15 acres of the Paul Tract of Bay View
for $59,S00 and divide it into home
steads.
Green Clay Smith, says the Tidal
WdUe prefers the inglorious obscurity
of farm in Scott county, Kentucky, to
the chance of being scalped into immor-
tality as the Governor OF Montana.
The Nevada (Cal) Transcript says:
Those who have travelled through the
State say that the growing crops of
grain promise to be the largest raised in
the State for many years.
The Co irier dc San Francisco is now
to be printed on a new press received
from France, aud called the railroad
|
gas and electricity.
The population of Portland, Oregon,
is 1880, being an increase of over 200
in year. There are 3,762 males, and
3, 156 females-a very evenly divided
population for this coast.
Mrs. Susan A. Petty, of Piety Hill,
Shasta County, Cal, has commenced an
action in the Ninth District Court for a
TaI, =
Petty.
Several thousand acres of mulberry
trees will be planted in Los Angeles
county this year, and the Nens antici-
pates larger crop than has ever been
produced in the United States before.
J The weekly paper started at San Fran
cisco is devoted to tie females of the
Pacific coast" The company is incor-
, porated under the style of the "Eldoradc
Publishing Company" with capital oi
J $150,000, in shares of one dollar each.
A gentle, for ogliDg the girls land
they ogled to, was taken by the ear and
that appendage pretty well stretched, in
Bishop Wooley's meeting house, Salt
Lake city few days ago.
A mail route has been established be.
tween Umatilla, Oregon, and Seattle
w. T., via the county seat of Yakima
county and the Snoqualmie psss. Dis
tance 225 miles; mails to be carried
once a week each way.
OF the four hundred thousand seals
destroyed in Alaska last year, not a gal
Ion of oil was saved. 1t is safe to cal,
culate that they would have yielded or
an average two gallons of oil per head
making 100000 gallons.
The Mariposa Mail says il is currently
, reported that the work will soon be
commenced on the Mariposa estate
under the management of j. G. Rice, 9
practical miner.
The Grass Valley Union says: "a cal
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