The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-09-02
THE WESE.

THE WESE.
Missouri has 0S7 miles of railroad
The Loon Greek census foots up 600.
Kansas has onc hundred salt springs.
California brags of forty foot snake.
A Dubuque girl has sued her mother for
slander.
The only church Of Ogden, Utah, is the
Railway station.
Bartholomew's circus was in Villa
Walla Aug. 18th.
Street cars will be in operation in Kan.
sas City next month.
The street railroad cars have com.
menced running in Sacrmcnto.
Cops District, Nevada, is shipping bul.
lion at the rate of over 81 900 per day.
Edwin Booth, Joe jefferson and Chan.
frau are going to California this winter.
The agricultural fair at Walla Walls will
commence on the 2lst Of September and
hold four days.
The Chinese sell blackbcrries at Eureka,
A""'ov'' eo""'J, ."' ~'- ~..- :.
three bits boot full.
The census is so far completed 40 to
show that the population of San Francisco
will not fall short of 160,000
Eldorado is the name of a new city now
being built In Kansas. It has already .
population Of eight hundred.
Gel. Bidwel's a,50o acres of wheat, in
California, 10 all harvested, and averaged
about thirty bushels per acre.
Three thousand one hundred votes were
polled at Salt Lake City at the recent elec.
ton, Of which ono.third were by women.
One hundred and fifty Cinnamon have
been engaged in San Francisco to work in
the quarries of the Adirondacks, New
York.
A paper is to be published at Phoebe
city, Ely District, Nevada, by Pat Holland.
The first number will appear about the
1st of September.
THE Hamilton Freeman, and other pap.
ers in Northwestern Iowa, say there never
before was such "a crop Of prairie chick.
ens," a. this year.
Col. Doumont, Of the Indian Nation, 10
training splendid elk to exhibit ct the
Kansas State Fair in matches Of speed
against the fastest horses.
The great Mormon Tabernacle in Salt
Lake City can seat 1900 persons comfort.
ably, and 900 can get within hearing dis.
tsnce Of Brigham Young's voice.
The Utah Indians play draw poker 70.
each others squaws. To borrow tho phra.
seology of the game, one might say an
elderly squaw would make good "antc."
JOHN GREoa, once . favorito baritone
operatic singer in Australia and California,
is at present engaged in raising poultry.
Johns chicken ranch is near Clear Lake.
I. 10 .sasea snas evuy farm OF 100 acres
in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with 1866.
GOO tons Of coal, or nine times moro fuel
than If the surface were covered with
h ,avy timber.
Mr. Seward will bs Joined At San Ftaa.
cisco by Gov. and Mrs. Randall and Hon.
Geo.. F. Seward, Consul General to China,
and wife, all o.. whom will accompany him
on his trip to China and India =.
The town in Kansas, called New Chicago,
seems to be rivalling the energy Of ito
namesake. One hundred and four houses
were built thero within 4 month. Mr.. T.
G. Jones, formerly Of Montana, ID making
heaps of money spcculating in town lots
there.
Denver is 5000 feet above tho level Of
the sea; 1920 miles from Chicago, 100
from st. Louis, and 2, 200 from New York,
and just the same distance from tho City Of
Mexico. Santa Fe is 40 miles south, and
Cheyenne is 10 miles north Salt Lake 10
coo miles west, and Kansas City 500 miles
cast.
In California several Of the railroad acts
and an act for the erection of City Hall
in San Francisco, provides that Ill con.
tracts for construction shall be upon the
express condition that no Cinnamon shall
he used In tho factory, mill, foundry, work.
shop, or by the firm, company, or perssn
doing any of the work contracted for, and
. failure to comply with said provision
shall work forfeiture Of contract or fran
chise.