The Montana post., 1869-04-23
THE WEST.


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Miners are in urgent demand at Grass
Valley, So says the URiaH.
y j. Riley. well known printer OF
Oregon, died at Salem, March 10.
The Puget sound country is being
rapidly settled mp.
Samul Headrick, ex~sheriff of PellSs
Co, Oregon, died March Goth.
Ex-Governor &eo. l.. Curry returned
to Oregon recently after an absence of
ten years.
ITO Let" is becoming prominent
sign on the houses in the Virginia City,
Nevada, since tie White Pine exodus.
Large numbers are leaving the CO.
lumbia river towns for the Moose Creek
mines.
The steamers charge fifteen cents per
bushel, for transportation of wheat from
Nebraska to st. Louis.
The eth Infantry will relieve the
18th regiment now at Cheyenne. The
latter goes to Atlanta. Georgia
Rev. A. l.. Stone Of San Francisco has
refused a call to Chicago, emphasized by
an offer of $1,000 per annum.
Governor Haight pardoned Samuel J.
Hall. convicted OF grand larceny IN 1856
and sentenced TO twenty-one years i'm
prisonment
The Nevada Legislature has memoirs
alIzed California TO stop running saw
dust down the Truckee, thereby killing
off the fish.
Col. c. l.. Weller has retired from the
San Fraacisco Examiner He says he
can do better and the Examiner can do
no worse"
At the velocipede tournament, in San
Franciso, Albert Gendar made his mile
in 47s, winning the Golden Anchor"
prize.
Four OF five lines of daily stages are
now running from Elko, the nearest c.
p. Il. r. station to White Pine. The
time is 20 hours.
The Young Mems Christian Associa>
ton of Omaha has commenced the pub
lication of a newspaper entitled the
Western World.
The Upper Columbia could not until
March 25th be navigated on account OF
low water-the lowest known for many
years.
Rev. DIR. Scudder. of San Francisco.
who is a great velocipedist, made his
trip TO the house of parishoner on a
velocipede, married couple and de-
parted on his bicycle.
The editors of China call California
the Golden Mountain. Editorials fre-
quently appear in :heir newspapers on
the subject of Chinese emigration and
colonization.
Brigham Young has a resident agent
in Paris. He was formerly a portrait
painter in that city. He emigrated to
New York. went West, found his way
to Salt Lake City. and was finally app
pointed Foreign Emissary by Brigham
Young. He has but one wife. who lives
with him in Par g.
The Carson Appeal says +. w. Con-
wright, the water-cart man at Virginia,
who recently became raving crazy from
the effect of an overflow of religion, as a
devout member of the Methodist Church
in that city, left for the Asylum al
stockton, California, in charge of a suit
able officer.
Recently a little son of J. II. Dewey,
aged four years fell into a tiume at Me-
vada, Cal. and was carried along under
the street some 800 yards and washed
into Wolf Creek. He was taken up in
sensible, but after rolling him a while he
recovered consciousness, and is doing
well.
T.
ton, a Norwegian gentleman who came
To Colorado few years ago. and now
lives on Rals,on creek, bought of Mr..
Dodge three or four days ago. fourteen
through tickets from Christiana TO Den
yer, for as many young women of his ma
tive country. Their cost was about 81,
SOO"
Two judicial terms expire in the Su>
preme Court of California this year,
and two vacancies are to be filled in the
elections of October next The two
Judges TO be elected. will hold their
offices for the term of ten years from
the first day of January next.
The Humboldt Indians are said to be-
on the war~path The Humboldt Times
says that a party of Indians, consisting
of ten bucks and one squaw, had lately
been seen in the vicinity where Emory
was killed, and that number of cattle
had been wantonly slaughtered by them.
The IImes says they are evidently on
the war-path, and calls on the authori-
ties at Fort Gaston TO take immediate
action tor the protection of families
from them.
A Mr.. Gilpin. of Colorado, has written
and argued that under the Rocky
Mountains are solid masses of gold of
incalculable magnitude and weight.
The celebrated Western scholar, Mr..
Catlin, has just communicated to the
world his belief that great river. big
ger than the Mississippi. flows under the
Rocky Mountains. and he is about to sub
init the evidence which he has collected
in favor OF this startling hypothesis
Wouldn't it be funny if Gilpin's gold
should get sluiced out in Catlin's river.
The Appeal gives the following list of
commissions recently issued by Govern
or Blasdel: On the Sth inst. e. n. Notes
ware, G. C. Battermau. and A. N. Fish
er, as members of the Board of Regents
of the State of Nevada, 10 hold their of
fees as provided by law and until their
successors are chosen and qualified; on
the 9th instant. w. *. Spencer, Com
missioner os Deeds for the State of Me-