The Montana post., 1869-03-26
THE WEST.

ming to that place August 1st.
Missouri has passed an act against
prize 6ghting-
Yankton, Dakotah has been incorpra>
ted.
J. A. Herne and Lucille Western are
playing in the Salt Lake Theatre.
Four White Pine mining companies
are Incorporated in a day in San Frans
cisco.
! A quarry of beautiful marble has been
discovered % miles east of Visalia,
! (Cal)
The first strawberries of this years
open air growth appeared in San Franz
cisco. March 4th.
! A bed of Pure chalk has been found
near Omaha. Then the State can make
I its mark.
A man named Eb. Dallow, has crea-
\ ted first class sensation in Omaha by
seducing his adopted daughter.
Brigham Young has fixd the legal
length of Mormon ladies' dresses. They
may extend to the top of their shoes.
The OregOnidn is informed that more
\ grain will be sown this winter in Ore-
gon than for ten or twelve years past.
John b. FELTON, was elected Mayor
Oakland recently, by majority of
about two hundred.
]. J. Newell has been convicted of
manslaughter at San Leandro, Cal, for
Killing Morgan Layton in an alteration
about dog fight on the 2lst of last
September.
Seth Weldy, Portland lawyer, has
gone to Washington TO procure the ap-
pointment of Chief Justice tor Wash~
ington Territory.
St.Joe advertised sham battle among
| the Indians recently. Come a little
nearer sun down and You can have the
genuine thing.
Mrs. Rachel E Clark was accidental
ly shot and killed by her husband in
Washington county, Oregon, recently.
She was a native of Clay county, Mo.
w r. Thomas, of the Nelcs, foots up
the total amount of gold and silver
shipped from Gilpin county, Colorado,
during the year 1868, at 81 no. ,477.
Jim, Chief of the Washoe Indians, is
dead. His estate, consisting of two
boots, will be divided among his lncon-
solable widows.
Julius Silversmith, a. NJ, has gone
East to prepare an address To induce
emigration to Wyoming. 10000 copies
will be published. Why should not
Montana do something for herself
Long, who killed VIM Tiffany, near
! Tehama a few weeks ago, was tried at
Red Bluff and found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
Hon. l.. Z. Pratt has been selected for
orator of the day at the grand celebra-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of Odd
I n N n Il. 4 aHs.
Francisco on the 26th of April.
A man named Clark committed sui
eide at Cowichian, British COLUMBIA. on
Friday evening. Feb. %, by tying a bag
of stones around his neck and plunging
into the sea-
A Pittsburg paper states, that ThOs.
Cahoon, who was scalped on the u. p.
r. r. last summer, has so far recovered
as to be about. and expects to resume
work on this road.
1t is stated that one of the seven pro-
prietors of the Eberhardt Mine has pur>
chased Ben Holidays handsome resi-
dence on Third street, San Francisco,
for $35,O00
The Los Angeles (Cal) Star of Feb
ruary Goth says: Barley has already
grown sufficiently to be cut for feed.
Several loads were brought TO town du<
ring the week, and commanded ready
sale.
Rev. Norman Mcleod is to edit the
new paper-the PreSs-in Denver. 1t
it is to be run in the interest of Henry
NJ. Teller, in opposition to the State
movement. unless he stands a show for
Senator.-PiOneer.
Information is wanted of the whereas
bouts of Horace G. Deming, who left
western New York for California in
1852. Was last heard of at Shaw's
Flat, Tuolumne county, in 1861. Any
one knowing of him will greatly oblige
by addressing the Examiner office, San
Francisco.
Hector Benjamin. the man advertised
by the Grass Valley Postmaster as an
heir to So. .000 has been found The
Butte (Cal) Record says: We know
Benjamin. He is a pioneer of Butte;
lived awhile in Nevada county, and is
now, as we learn from Supervisor Tur~
ner, engaged in mining near Turner'S
mill, Mountain House District, Bidwell
Township.
We have No /. Vol. 1, of the Boulder
County Pioneer, published and edited !
by j. r. Wharton, at boulder, Colorado. |
1t is handsome paper, well arranged, de- |
voted primarily to home interests, and is
credit to the county it represents. We |
are not quite sure that this is Doc |
Wharton, formerly of the Nelcs and I
later of the Miner, but if il is, he will |
make a live paper with the material he
now has. A country is judged of stran-
gers by its newspapers. Boulder and I
Boulderites go up fifty per cent on the |
appearance of the Pioneer.
JFM Rockefeller. well known by |
the old residents of Austin under the /
name of "Old Rocky" was shot and in !
instatly killed by Robert Kelly, in hur- |
dy-gurdy saloon at Treasure city, White /
Pine. The shooting was the result of a /
quarrel about town lot. Kelly. we