The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-09-16
THE WEST.

seven mills are running at White Pine.
Sweet clover grows six feet high in Utah.
The population Of San Jose (Cal is fixed
At 10000.
East Portland, Oregon, wants municipal
charter.
Brigham Young has left for tour Of
| Southern Utah.
Mrs. Adela McKeons announces herse,,
as Congressional candidate in Californ ia
Laura Keens recently Joined the Catholic
church at St. Paul, MINI.
The Battle Mountain Company, NcYada,
are shipping ores TO Liverpool.
Sixty persons embraced religion At the
Woodland, CAL, camp meeting.
School of Mines" has been establish.
cd at Central City, Nevada.
Col. A. Curry hos resigned the supcrin
tendency of the Carson Mint.
Brett Harte is said to have been offered
the editorship of Putnam's Magazine.
AT Shasta, Aug. aoth, two small shocks,
from west to east, were felt little after 8
p. m.
Bishop Tuttle held religious services in
the Idaho Pcntitentiary, Idaho City, Aug.
28th.
Two Chinese have been received into a
Congregational church in Oakland, Cali
fornia.
Wilson, the Oregon highwayman, has
been sentenced to eight years in tl,e peni-
tentiary.
A newspaper. to he known as the Record,
will be started at Ely, New, by w. J.
Forbes.
THE Washington Territorial Fair will be
held at Walla Walla, on the 21st, 22nd, 23d
and Path of this month.
Rich gold mines have been discovered
south of Prescott, Arizona. The ore yields
one dollar to the pound.
Enoch Barnes was shot and killed by
Silas Lundford, near San Ramon, Los An
gclcs county, CAL, on the Sd.
Texas has new game of cards-onc
holds IS:Qlvcr, the other holds the cards.
A coroner holds the ;i;;S1-cst.
Bishop Tuttle thanks the Idaho City peo.
pie for missing the amount required to build
church, and announces services twice a
month hereafter.
J. D. Crippcn, who has been Sheriff of
Mariposa county, California, for the last
twelve years, died at his residence In MARI
posa few days ago.
An imprisoned theft at Virginia City
New, was discovered; some time since, while
in the act of drinking blood drawn from
his own body.
tiary over at Idaho % Mckinney has here.
The lower tier of cells were only four feet
high few days ago.
Maj. Jack stratman, the San Francisco
news dealer, has been convicted of libel and
sentenced to six months imprisonment, but
was afterwards released on ha6eas corpus.
Complaint is made that dispatches from
various points in Colorado are delayed by
an inconvenient habit the settlers have of
hanging horse thieves to the telegraph poles
An amateur hunter in Santa Barbara.
CAL. recently returned to camp with the
information that "A bear is twice q big
when his hair is turned to the front than
otherwise"
James Garnett and William Russell, con-
victed of robbing Pom Finch's saloon, at
Lower Gold Hill, were, Aug. 31st, sentenced
to six years hard labor in the State prison,
by Judge Rising.
The Corinne Reporter Of Sept. Sd says:
Last evening one hundred and twenty
soldiers reached this place on their way to
Fort Ellis, Montana. They left tho barracks
1t Carlyle, Penn, ten days ago.
Governor Grover is looming up promi.
nently as . candidate for United States
Senator from Oregon. At present the
choice seems to be between Kelly and Gro.
yer. with the chances in favor of the for
mer.
The city officials of Salt Lake, concerned
in the breaking up of EngclbrecLts & Cos
liquor establishment, have again been ar.
rested on civil suit instituted by that firm.
and held in bonds for the sum of little
over ~, 900! .t.a
Superintendent Mcbride has awarded the
contract for stone for the Assay Onlco at
Boise, Idaho, to ChaA Himrod; for sand,
to W. A.. West; for lumbes, 70 :Messr.
Robie B Rossi No awards for contracts
have yst been made for either brick or
lime.
The st. Paul Chamber Of Commerce il
discussing the propriety Of building extern
sive elevators for the purpose Of storing
grain, it being claimed that the atmosphere
of St Paul admits Of grain being stored
with much less risk Of depreciation in val.
no than at Chicago.
A correspondent writing from the Snake
River mines TO the Idaho World, reports
that claims now being worked are paying
% per day to the man, has caught trout
weighing 10 pounds each, thinks Shoshons
Falls far superior to Niagara, and advises
his friends to stay at home.