The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-01-21
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A snel,ing mania has broken out ut White
MnI Morford, Of Idaho, has gone to San
Francisco to reside. .. .6 49,. !
TIE Ogden House, Council Bluffs, cost
$4,000. and the furniture $es, 900. y : :.
In Nevada the church membership Is less
than one.fiftieth Of the population. - -
Fine porcelain clay has beeu. discovered
near The. California mine, White Pine,
The San Fsancisco Bu1eGa isn,o,wr q, ! printed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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H. c. Street, formerly of the Idaho World,
succeeds Judge Berry In the editor and pro.
prietorship Of the Elko ladepsndesk
The President has as good a. promised
Colorado that he wont veto Z bin admitting
shat Tasritory. Il Congress- shall pass II. W..
John w. Kelly has issued prospectus
for weekly newspaper at Baker City, Ore.
gon, TO be called The Baker Nty Ne,es.
The Kansas Pacific, 4o7 miles from Kan
sas City to Sheridan, is to be completed to
Denver, se5 miles further, by mid summer
of 1870! -... '''a. 80 s-'.
To remedy alleged acoustic defects in the
new State Capitol at Sacramento, California,
a false ceiling of glass like that in the halls
Of Congress, at Washington, 10 suggested.
The owyhee, Idaho, 7sdd Ware of Jan.
g., says Judge E. n. Mcdaniel and Frank
Ganahl, comprising the 6rm of Mcdaniel &
Ganahl, left on Friday morning last intend.
ing to locate permanently in Southern Cali.
roInia.
The Oregonian of the 1st, says Professor
Thomas F. Campbell of Christian College Is
announced to deliver a course Of lectures at
Salem, on Demonology," The Powers Of
the Air." Life and DEATH" and other
equally lively subjects.
Ben. C. Truman, a rather we'll known war
correspondent, and once Private Secretary
of Andrew Johnson, has married the belle
Of Los Angeles, California, with the hcred-
itaments thereunto belonging, including an
orange orchard.
A game Of cards at Lathrop, Kansas, re.
Gently, resulted in murder. There was
dispute, . quarrel, shot, and one of the
gamblers fell dead. One of the party, while
looking at the corpse, remarked with grim
humor: AT any rate, Williams has gone to
h--n with full hand" ....... ....
At Cheyenne. lately, . missionary preach
ed on dry goods box, his choir sitting in a
buggy. The horses got frightened and, ran
away with the choir, which causes church
paper at the East to inquire: Could not
that horse be brought East! He would
command . large price"
! The Colorado Legislature organized Jan.
4th. George r; Hillsdale was Gle ectcd Presi-
dent of the ceuucil, and George w. Miller
Speaker of the House. Governor McCook' s
message recommends female suffrage. the
abandonment of the Indian treaty, referring
the election of Governor and other Terrific
rial officers to a vote of the people of the
Territory, and thorough immigration sys.
tenn. - ,r.f Hr..a~# "st'' goo ..s 20 a r. DID,.
Mrs. A. N. st. Clair arrived at st. Joseph
on the 3Oth ultimo on her travels through
the Territories and across the continent in
her own carriage, having completed Jour.
ney Of twelve thousand miles, four thousand
of which was made in her own carriage, WIS.,
ting all of California. Oregon, Washington
Territory, and British Columbia. Her
daughter, who projected this journey, died
in Salt Lake in January last. ~.
From Prof. Whitney's surveys in Colo
RADIO, it would appear that there is consid.
cradle number of peaks around South Park,
which vary in height from II, 900 to 4,500
feet. The highest peak asccndcd by the
party was named Mt. Harvard, which was
determined to be about 100 feet higher than
Gnyb Peak, the highest point east of the
Arkansas river. Mt Yale and Mt Lincoln
are little lower than Gray's Peak. iron
Tho cultivation of the Chinese bamboo in
California is exciting much attention II
can beput TO many uses Its appearance is
bean,ifai;i its shade most grateful The
Chinanan sits under II and upon it; he eats
in it; he sails in it and by It; he is rocked
in it; his, furniture Is made of It; he il bur-
led in it,. he writes with it and upon ii; he
clothes himself with Il and spank, the
young ones with it In fact, the graceful
bamboon IL as useful as II il ornamental.
San Francisco has population Of 170, :
$50; in July, 1858, It was III, $50; by the
Federal census Of 1850 It was. 90 ,8S5: Of
the henohlbsr estimatsd this year 81, 500 white
males over twenty lone haye. their names re-
corded in the directory; white females over
Fdghteen are estimated at "a, 800; Chinese,
deWY6R0; - ,1s0,l md boAkhk pSpdR- :
Ption, $500. The total number Of buildings
il the city and county is 1850; Of which
$50 have Been built ii the past year. The
tptal cost of the years improvements is nine
Ito ten millions Of dollar, besides 81 1000
bexbendsd on the streets and sewers !. a. =
A special dispatch from Salt Lake Eeports
4intense excitement among the M0rmons over