The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-06-17
THE WEST.

.9~ ~-s THE WEST.
California has $50 miles Of railroad.
The Sutro Tunnel wa In 1887 feet, June
Bd. -. . .#as ..a.A. ..a
Omaha 10 building 1000 houses this sum.
mer.
California has nearly 100000 acres Of |
wheat land.
Liquor saloons are taxed @9oo per year at |
Salem, Oregon.
The corinns, (U. T.) Rperssr will soon
be issued daily.
Tho Hale 4 Norcross mine produced >179,.
900 last month.
Stockton (Cal) has 1s, 900 inhabitants and
seventeen churches
A female constable has been appointed at
Hayes City, Kansas. :
A drove Of 10000 Sheep recently passed
through Stockton, Cal.
There are three Chinese photograph
galleries in San Francisco.
A Lodge of Odd Fellows was organised
at Corinns, Utah, May e9th.
An artesian we'll It Iowa City was sunk
40 feet and pure water found.
The schooner Pioneer, Captain Jack
Hanna, il running on Salt Lake.
Cantin Ortega, native Californian, aged
81 years, died at San Jose recently.
Farmers near the Buttes, Yubs county,
(Cal.) have commenced threshing.
There ars one hundred and eighteen pa.
tisnts in the Oregon Insane Asylum.
Anew Republican paper called the Caroni-
els 10 about starting at Elko, Nevada
Samuel Merritt has heen commissioned
a. Regent of tho University Of California.
T. scully was crushed to death near Lex.
ington, Santa Clar. county, (Cal) June Sd.
The Cor,nne Opera House was contracted
to be built in IS days from date Of signing
contract.
A building belonging to tho California
Powder Works, at Santa Cruz, was blown
up June I'd.
The Eureka Mine at Grass Valley clean.
ed up @1e, 900 for ak days run; No sulphu-
rets included.
The Topeka House, tho principal Hotel
at Topeka, Kansas, was destroyed BY fire =
few nights ago.
Rev. J. H. Wilbur has accepted IN ap-
pointment ~ Agent Of the simcoe Indian
Reservation, Oregon.
Spencer Smith, stranger from st. Louis,
dropped dead Of apoplexy At the museum In
Salt Lake, June 4th.
g. W. Gridley, of Butte county, Cal, has
sheared 10, 900 sheep this season, obtaining
e3, 900 pounds Of wool
Brigham Young paid t75 to take his fam.
ily to circus the other day, and only took
part of the children at that
The corner stone of the State Capitol d
Nebraska, at Carson, will be laid with Ma
sonic ceremonies on June 10.
The diamond drill is being expsrimsntsd
with at Hamilton (Nev.) and itmads twelve
feet through solid rock in three hours.
Nrs. Williamson, the poetess, formerly ot
Salt Lake City, 10 suffering from danger.
ous illness, at Shermantown, Nevada,
Gov. Stafford, Of Arizona, who 10 preju
diced against the noble savage, calls on thu
whites to 60 on scalping expedition.
The Big Smoky Mill ct Hamilton, New.
has produced silver bullion valued at @4t0,
81 80 dnripg twelve months prior to jun
Let.
The value of taxable property in Corinne
Utah, is nearly 81, ,00o, 900. A little over
year ago the same property was worth $1,s
per acre. 9~.as @.~.
Edward Kahn has commenced sui
against Lewis Lone, in Portland, Oregon
for &25. 900 damages received BY the falling
Of an awning. .au.
| Samuel L. Pool shot and killed Dallas p
Case, in an Omaha bagnio, Nay a2d. Cas-
was from Three Rivers, Michigan; Poo
was from Quincy, III. "
The Salt Lake authorities have refuses
the uss Of the city Jail for the oonhnemen
of United States prisoners, who will here
after be incarcerated At Camp Douglas.
Denver City is described by recent vic
itor ~ the most substantial city west Of th'
Mississippi. II has population Of sevsl
thousand, two daily and three weekly p
pera
Settlers have commenced locating land
On the Northern Pacific route, near spokan
rver. Parties hsve gone from Wall
Walla for the purpose Of locating larE
tracts in that direction. ...-s .. a
Robert Pritehazd, shot hinsslf through
TIE brain as suttse Greek, Amadoe county
on ateurday, June A. He WAS found Il
his cabin With pistol In enc hand and
boxing glass IN the other. y.s
Brigham Young informed tho Bosts'
/, l 49, q 49, AA- s1vHAnsa sVv1vAa ~.