The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-08-05
THE WEST.

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Stockton has ripe gr,pes.
The population of Reno, Nevada, isl 300.
Walla Wallis is to have a steam fire engine.
The crops of Oregon ore better than usual
this year
Red Cloud will send his son East to he
educated.
The cars will reach Salem, Oregon, in
few days.
Virgil Wheaton suicidcd near San Jose,
CAL, recently.
Jack Murphy, q pioneer, died at Stockton,
CAL, July 22d.
Horizons Grand Hotel in San Diego is
nearly completed.
Goldrick wants theatrical company in
Denver. Hop soonl
Jack Boyle was crushed in Elliott's mill,
Nevada, and will die. --
Tho present census shows tho population
of Denver to bc 4,731. "'"
: A Methodist church, the first in Utah, IS
about to be built in Corinnc.
The Sacramento Union gets out q Ave
cent evening edition now.
The silk interest of Los Angeles county is
in very prosperous condition.
Heavy rains have fallen lately in Arizona,
and the corn crop will be good.
Col. James Mari, Revenue supcrintend-
cnt, was in Denver few days ago.
The olive crop of Southern California this
year will be the best ever known.
First Lieut.. John E. Hosmcr, of the 18th
infantry, died at Salt Lake, July IL
The average attendance of pupils in the
Willamette University, at Salem, Oregon,
is 200.
J.F. Mccoy has been appointed Consul
at Portland. Oregon. by the Emperor OF
China.
The houses of J. w. Hammenway and
John Altman, Virginia, Nevada, were burn
cd July ED.
The yield Of the Arizona mines this yer
is estimated at g, 600, 900, or about double
that of 1860.
The 5000 trotter Rainbow" ," owned by
Chas. Welch, Golden City,l Col, died q
few days since.
The surveying party of the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad left Portland, Oregon, July
81, for Olympia.
Rich specimens have been brought into
Los Angeles from thsold Jesuit silver mine,
lately rc.discovered.
Good placer diggings are reported tohave
been struck on the borders of Lower Cali
fornia, below San Diego.
Antonio Archambo, well known at Down.
ieville, CAL, died suddenly in his cabin the
other day, of heart disease. .,
It Is said Omaha will not be able to show
the census takers population Of II, 600, A.
though she claims 20, 900. ...-.-.----.---.--,
At Albany, Oregon, wheat is selling at
Is cents. Oats IS and 40 cents, with very
limited stock on the market
An enthusiastic German at Corinne, Utah,
sent $500 to the Prussiau Minister at Wash
ington, to help the Father:and.
The body of man named johnson was
found recently in Coleman's District. San
Diego mines. He was probably murdered.
Many new locations of placer mines arc
being made in Nevada county, Cal, with q
view to their purchase under the new law.
A new wine house is being erected At
Yountville, sonoma county, CAL, capable
manufacturing so0, 900 gallons of wine this
year. ssaz>F ~ 3 -, .' . ~s
Forty thousand sheep have been driven
this season from San Joaquin valley across
to the Eastern slope Of the Sierras for pas
turage. a'oFs ..E... -" ..a"'- ,5i
John Leach and James Costello, both old
citizens Of Auburn, Placer county, CAL, got
into quarrel recently, in which Costello
was killed.
Col. Amos Travis, . prominent and well
known citizen of Los Angeles, was severely
injured the other day, being thrown from
his carriage.
A California paper says box Of cherries
has been shipped to New York, the majcri-
ty Of which measure three and ahalf inches
in circumference. ~'..
The Dubuque and Sioux City Railway,
which was completed on the 9Th inst makes
the fourth railway across lows, between the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers. saa aU
Travel on tho route from Monticello, on
the Columbia, below Portland, to Olympia,
on Puget Sound, has increased % rapidly
that three stages are required daily. I. :.
Col. E. B. Gaylor he's retired from the
editorial chair Of the Omaha RepsSaiess.
He Il succeeded By John Teesdale, formerly
Of tho Columbus Jessnal and Dcs 1oines
L H1aaciak1s -aa..sI sa~sa1rsa t&bga#Nsf @J$
There Il . ledge at 0wyhee called the
''Chipmunk." Its only four inches wide,
but yields astonishingly in gold. The rock
il easily worked and the owner Of the ledge
is getting It out BY hand.
The Plumas, CAL, Natioaa. mentions .
rumoe Of . rich strike having recently been