The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-07-29
THE VEST.

There were 5000 violent deaths in Eng.
land last year:
Eight stages have. the town Of Santa
Cruz, CAL, every day.
The corner stone of the Idaho peniteu.
tiasy was laid July 4th.
California produces three million pounds
of quicksilver annually.
Judge David Dudley Field started for
| New York July 21st
Council Bluffs 10 to be lighted with gas
on and after September:
The Omahs Ale Brewery was burned on
the 10th. Loss, $4,000.
The Emperor of China has appointed
Consul At Portland, Oregon.
The Donner Lake Methodists began .
camp.meeting last Wednesday.
An anti. Chinese convention 10 called In
San Francisco for August 9th.
It Is said the census will show the popu.
lation of Kansas to be fully 500, 900.
The tea plant Is being successfully cult.
waited At Auburn, Placer county, Cal
Thieves and highway robbers arc unoom.
fortably numerous about Portland. Oregon.
The Corinne reporter estimates the Gen.
tile population Of Utah Territory At s,sl2:
Track laying IL to be resumed immediate.
ly on the Oregon and Cs:ifornis Railroad
in Oregon.
The coal taken out Of the mines at Lsav.
cnworth IL said 10 be equal to Pennsylva.
mia coal.
Forty. -four marriage licenses have been
Issued in White Pine county, New, siuoe
its organization.
A grizzly bear killed by Seth Kinman in
Humboldt county, CAL, weighed LOO
pounds.
The Marysville (Cal) appeal says Gen.
StonemaD 10 to be Democratic candidate
for Governor
The population Of Marysville (Cal) city
proper is 4. .460-of which 1,049 are Chinese
and 224 colorcd.
Gen. De Trobriand's command from Fort
Shaw arrived in Corinne July 18th, thirty
one days from Fort Shaw.
Jerome B. Chaffce was nominated by tho
Republican Convention of Colorado q dele.
gate to Congress. July 14th.
The Nip and Tuck Mining Company, 1t
Gitscavillc, Cal, has washed out dust
worth 100000 in the last eight months.
The woolen mills at Salem. Oregon. have
three hundred and thirty thousand pounds
Of wool on hand and have stopped buying.
The trial of Francis Ncuval, in FAN Fnan.
cisco, on the charge Of killing Carrie Dia-
mond, resulted in the scquittal Of the de-
fcndant.
The Grand Jury At Hamilton, white
Pinc,) has found true bill against U. w.
Hutchinson, for killing John F. 0linnon,
SANDY.
The best crops In California, this season,
are generally in the courties to the north OF
Sacramento, where the greatest quantity OF
rain has fallen.
Thos. Beehan, a former resident of Idaho
City (bctter known as Little Tommy').
was shot and killed st Hamilton, Nevada,
July 9Th. by John U. Tollcs.
The California and Oregon Railroad
Company are having great deal Of trouble
with the Cclcstlals, who refuse to work the
long hours required OF them.
A company Of fifty persons ID being
formed 1t Olsthe. Kan, to sink . coal
shaft. The best geologists think coal will
be reached At no great depth.
John Tcssdsle, of Mount Pleasant, for
merly State Printer Of Iowa, and editor of
the State Register, has accepted the editor
in.chiefship Of the Omaha Republican,.
The Idaho Legislature stands = follows:
Council-Democrats 10, Radical 8; House.
Democrats 81, Radicals 8. Merrill's ma
jority over Butler for Governor was eol.
Ben. Holiday has bought the little steam
propeller yacht stager, built originally for
the Russian Expedition, and sent 1t up to
Lake Tahoe, for the use Of excursion par
ties.
A Portland (Ore.) despatch Of July 18th,
says, apartyof Surveyors arrived this morn
ing with instructions to commence the
survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad
from the Columbia terminus Eastward.
The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania has
broughta = suit against the new Alpaden
Quicksilver Mining Company for tho sum
of 31O0, 900. The case II Get for tIialon the
61t Monday IL December.
James O'Ncil was hung July 1csh, On
Browns bridge, nine miles from Dsnvsr
City, BY unknown partiea A piacard was
attached 70 his body with To inscription q
Cattle Thief" upon Il.
The lGceu,oos of Utah have tuYnsd their