The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-08-12
THE WEST.


Omaha has base Eall club, the bug
eaters"
"Joe" Lane is candidate for Senator
from Oregon
Robert Fcrral is the new editor of the
Sacramento Reporter.
Dear Valley, Cal, raises 10000 bushels
of wheat this season.
Tehams county, Cal., crops will average
20 bushels to the acre. -
Flour sells in Wal!a Wa!la at seven and
eight dollars per barrel.
Green corn is in market, ut Boise City,
at twenty-five cents per dozen.
Wheat in Oregon has advanced from
seventy-five cents to one dollar.
Van Estes, an old Californian, commit
ted suicide ut Chico, on the 9Th.
Congress has appropriated geo. 900 for
surveys in Washington Territory.
Crops in California will fall considerably
below the average yield this season.
"Klama,h Joe" an Oregon Indian chief
100 years old, is vigorous and sprigbtly.
Col. Van. s. Young, an old resident of
Nevada county, CAL, is dangerously i'll.
The money in the California State Treas
ury on the 28th amounted to $705, ,94S 81.
A severe drought prevails throughout
Western Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado.
Two thousand sheep, for California, have
been purchased in Douglas county, Oregon.
Marshal Blinn, of Washington Territory,
spent geo, 900 and got 155 votes for delegate.
John w. Reed will spend three years at
San Quentin for robbery in Trinity county,
Cal.
On the fourth of July there were fourteen
steamers lying together in the harbor of
Seattle.
Gov. Gilman Marston has assumed the
Executive Office Of Idaho, vice Governor
Bullard.
The number of visitors to the Yosemite
this season, by the Mariposa route, up to
July 9th, was $50.
Dodson, who murdered his brothcr-in.
law in Oregon, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
A large amount of gold has been taken
out of the Moose creek mines, though the
water is now failing.
Col. Fl. u. Bucl, in charge of the arsenal
at Fort Leavenworth, was ass:ssinated by
aon,o y,erson nnE nown
Rich gold mines have been discovered
south Of Prescott, Arizona The orc yields
one dollar t0 the pound.
Wheat and -four have advanced 1t Salem,
Oregon. The average whea: yield of the
State Is about Is bushels.
Thomas Cooking accepts the challenge of
F. F. Obeston to shoot for the champion
cup And purse Of Nevada. e
Coal of excellent quality has recentlv
occn rounu ma. fiunt's ranch, Mark West
creek, Sonoma county, Cal.
Persons are said to be prowling around
Oregon City for the purpose of kidnapping
children and holding them for rewards.
A reward of 81, 900 has been offered for
the apprehension of the men who attempt
ed to assassinate Marshal Duficld of Ari-
zona. 5"' E..- ....i
The first case in America of the marriage
Of Chinese couple by Christian clergy.
man, has just occurred at San Fran.
cisco. .y
Pat Brown, an escaped convict from the
Oregon pcnitentiary, has been seen in the
mountains, but the pursuing party cannot
capture him.
The city of Portland and county Of
Multanomah, Oregon, will probably petition
for consolidation of the municipal and
county governments. as.. -al II E-
Corinne, July e5.-Gcorge Francis Train
deliverd two lectures to the Mormons q
Salt lake City, July cath, he was intro
duced to the audience by Brigham Young
! The product of the Hope Mine, Virginia
New. is now upword of e20, 900 per month
The daily yield Of the Chollar is three
hundred tons per day, and assays $e2 pei
ton. ." '1& "s.+t.. ID" 2-.... -i#
A man named Miller was hung by ,
crowd at Punca, Nebraska, July 29th, sftel
confessing to the murder Of one Dunn
Over . thousand people were witnesses o.
| the execution. a-4a.a. ts ee~.. &. : a
A man named William Franklin was sho
by three officers 1t Portland Oregon, BY
mistake for q highwayman named Schultz
He lies in critical condition. The Officers
were held to bail.
In quarter in San Francisco, within Z
radius Of 100 feet, there ore, either finish
ed or in process of erection, three Jewish
synagogues, twelve Christian churches, anf
Chinese Joss house. - S 75t4245.
Every family in Olathe, Kansas. has sup
piled itself with : Maltese or Cashfhcr'
goat. They are good mixers, giving y gal
lon dsy Of the richest milk, equal to the