The Montana post., 1869-01-08
rEaE WEST.

O.J. Hollister has retired from the
editorial department OF the Denver
Netrs.
The Denver Times Ia ,s suspended. but
promises TO revive again.
Collier, of the Central City Register
was 10 be married Dec Goth.
The buffaloes on the Plains are NOV
ing north in great numbers.
Camilla Urso is 10 receive $4,000 for
six months violining in California.
The first house in Denver was built
just ten years ago.
A six foot thick bed ot hematite iron
ore has been found near Denver.
Mrs. Van Camp. of Omaha. was nearly
killed recently by "A runaway.
The press of the Oakland Ne,cs will
be run by steam in a few days.
a peculiar berry from which soap
suds can be made grows in Alaska.
Chicago complacently announces Oma
LA as one OF it's suburbs.
Gen. Vessels, who is in command at
Fort Rlssell. near Cheyenne has been
disabled by a stroke of paralysis.
The altitude of Cheyenne is 6,165 feet
above sea level. So feet higher than
Denver.
An anti-State Convention was To be
held in Pueblo, Colorado. on the 1st of
January.
Seven thousand dollars have been np-
propriated by the City Councils of st.
Louis for the benefit of the poor.
The Platte Valley people say they can
raise enough beet~root sugar to half
supply the United States.
The Trustees of Lincoln College, Kan
sas. have. 10y a recent vote, changed its
name to ''Washburne College
At last the Unicn Pacific Railway
Company has got into the courts. and is
having a legal war with sundry Colo
radians.
California makes about six million
gallons of wine and brandy this year.
The Golden State promises to become
the Grape State.
The first car for the Omaha Street
Railroad, arrived a: that city and com-
menced running Dec. 81.
Nebraska editors were to hold a con-
ventiou in Omaha on the 9TH inst. to
throughout the State.
Mr.. Rowell has recovered verdict OF
eight thousand dollars damages against
the city of Council Bluffs. for injuries
sustained by falling into a cellar.
b. p. Wagner was, by unanimous
vote of the assemblage at the Lutheran
Festival at Atchison. Kansas, Dec. 10Th.
presented with a jack knife, as the ug-
liest man in Atchison.
We were yesterday informed by Dep
uty Chief. Hall, says the Territorial
New Enterprise of the 10th, that there
are at the present time about eighty
cases of smallpox in Virginia City.
George West. of the Colorado Trans
cyipt, became the happy father of a nine
pound boy. Dec. 10. Father and child
are doing well-especially the father.
Arizona territory is proportionstely
the least remunerative post office dis
trics in the country. The expense of
carrying the mails last year was $125.-
Coz, while the aggregate receipts only
amounted to $1,96S.
Josiah Jenkings and James White,re-
Gently arrested on suspicion of insanity,
and found by the Board of Physicians
of Sacramento to be insane. have been
taken to Stockton.
William Cameron. who fell from a
balcony some months siuce,in San Fran.
cisco, injuring his head. died suddenly
in that city Dec. 1S,while saving wood.
The old Mantle hotel. on the corner
of SansOme and Clay streets, San Fran>
cisco, is TO be torn down ana market
erected on its site.
James Conkey was killed in Lassen
county. Cal, recently, by falling from
his saddle animal and having his wagon,
loaded with wood, pass over his head.
Oregon has exported this year Ala, ,919
quarter sacks of -four, "a. 7.49l centals of
wheat, 81, ,3S4 sacks of oats, sc, ,S1S boxes
of apples. 119 barrels and 5,054 half
barrels of dried apples.
The carrying business on the Sacra-
mento river having dwindled down TO
Insignificant proportions. many of the
steamers and barges recently engaged in
it, have been or soon will be laid up.
Somebody writes with regard TO White
Pine as follows: Grub is 81 per meal
lodging 81 per night, with mining tools
etc. in sweet proportion. paid So for
a drifting pick, $3.50 for q shovel, and
40 cents a pound for steel. IL costs
about $25 per claim 10 locate and do the
necessary work to hold IL for a year"
The California White Pine Mining
Company was Incorporated in San Fran
cisco, Dec. 10. To mine in White Pine
District. Nevada Capital stock, $1,>
500 900, in $4,000 shares. Trustees. La
fayette Maynard, Isaac Friedlander. l..
L.. Robinson, Charles j BRENNAN, David
w. Connolly, John =. Hsger and Lloyd
Tevis-
ANOTHER "BioGEsT LOAD YET."-
The team of Isaac Case Yesterday morn