The Montana post., 1869-01-01
THE WEST.


A race track association is about To bs-
organized at ST. Joe
Seventy miles OF railroad grading is
completed in Oregon.
Another slight earthquake occurred
in San Francisco Dec. Il.
The small pox is decreasing in tssrslity
in San Francisco.
Omaha has put up 1900 buildings this
year
A railroad mania has iairly COM
menced in Oregon.
MultonOmah couE'y il the smallest bus
wealthiest in Oregon.
The Register states that work on the
Ophir mine has been suspended, throw
ing forty>fiye men out OF employment.
During the past ten months 10000
barrels of lime have been shipped from
Santa Cruz.
Composition on morning papers in -.
Joe il 45 cts. in Springfield. Ill. 40 cts,
and on evening papers 3G cts.
London capitalists. il is said. offer ST.
tor the North Star gold mine. in Grass
Valley, California.
The California acorn croI, is prolific
this year, and the heart of the digger is
glad
John Wasson. at the Winnemucca
Urgent, is a candidate tor Secretary Of
the Nevada Senate.
The Sal, Lake R( (g~rter had informa~
tiOn that the rails would probably be
laid 20 Echo city by New Years day
An extensive business is now carried
on in Arizona in buying aud selling
/ ADachts Indians a. slaves
The Omaha Times advocate the estaG-
lishment there for an asylum tor neg
lected children.
Eagle Creek is the richest qHsrrz distriC;
in Oregon.
Columbia Is shipping marble 20 San
Francisco in quantities that bid fair 10
make il a lively trade.
\ dramatic sheet called the CTtg r.
ris5r, makes its appearance at Virginia
City New on the 18th of this month.
The bridge of the Central Pacific Rails
road Company. across the American
river is completed.
Gen J. III. Foster delivered the open
ing lecture Of the season before the Da~
kota Historical Society. Dec. l..
Bets to the amount of two millions of
dollars are said TO have been made on
the Electoral vote in California.
Workmen are engaged bridging the
Mokelumne river. near Woodbridge for
the Western Pacific Railroad Company
The travel over the Central Pacific
Railroad is increasing daily. and now
averages about 100 each way besides
the intermediate way travel
A Stockton California; paper notices
an apple tree near that place which has
yielded three crops OF fru: the present
year. and is again in blossom.
The editor Of the Amador Dispatch at
jackson, Cal. offers an asylum TO lady
printers. If the Union in San Francisco
refIseS them.
Richard Thompson, the man VINO
murdered his wife in Lassen county.
Cal. about "A year ago. was hung on the
18th of December.
\ inan named WeS,rop. violinist.
formerly attached TO the Lafont Troupe.
was drowned Nov. 29jh. in Fraser river.
below the Chiliwack. British Columbia.
Dan W. Gelwicks. State printer. and
proprietor of the Mountain Dcmocrof.
has purchased the Stockton. California.
Gdzetfe from p. l. Shoaff.
James G. Wilcox. Chief OF the Fire
department of Virginia. Nevada. died os
pneumonia, Dec. Is. His remains were
sent to San Francisco for interment.
The Union and Dak0fiGH publishes
Secretary TUFTS Thanksgiving procla-
nation ''fOr old acquaintance sake. and
because IL likes the style"
In Central City. Colorado. the Govern
ment has recently stored / 900 stand of
arms and 10000 rounds of ammunition.
so as to be distributed among the peo
pie for use against the Indians.
California has within its borders 152
Lodges of Free and Accepted Masnns,
with an aggregate membership of : 900.
The Grand Lodge was organized April,
Is. 1850.
Last Saturday evening e. Mcmillan,
agent of ID. W. Earl. of Wadsworth. fell
from the passenger train going east. and
was so badly injured that he died at IL
O'Clock the same night.-TcrritOTid
EBteTpgISe, 9th.
A man named SWEET KILLED a young
maR at a party in Utah recently and
fled. He was followed and captured
near Rush Valley. by Porter Rockwell
and Henry Heath. That SWEET will
likely be wiped out
BY vote OF the people OF the county
seat OF Cmatiila county. Oregon, has
been removed from Umatilla City and
located at Goodwin's. two miles above
Swift's, on the Umatilla river. The
new county seat is called Pendleton.
OF the Snake Indians. once powerful
in Eastern Oregon. Idaho and Nevada,
the Salem paper SAYS: The tribe has
diminished fearfully since 1861. In that
year ia was estimated by competent
Judges at 10000 souls. Now, there are
not more than 800 souls, or. al most,
2,OOO-'
John w. Jones, printer, from Belmont
Nye county. New, formerly of Pleasant
Grove, Iowa, was killed by leaping from
a window az 235, Bush street. San Fran