The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-11-11
THE WEST.

Nevaaa Ianchmen llso sheep skins Tor
money. g. -. -. 80.
Custar's winter quarters will be at Fort
Leavenworth. e..
The census Of Wyoming shows popu-
lation of 9,l28
Wood in Virginia City (Nev.) is selling
at $14 per cord. ...
Heavy rains have already visited Los An
geles and vicinity. r..sH
A single warehouse in Stockton has 1000
tons Of wheat stored. s4- -. W. ..
The famous cattle pens of Chicago pen
1so, 900 cattle At once. ."'
.Jno. T. Fisher, an old resident Of Vir-
ginia, New, died Oct 2Sth. .~-- ..-.........
A Los Angeles onion attained the size of
thirty inches in circumference.
Virginia City (Nev) water is pronounced
dangerous to life by physicians.
A nephew Of Andrew Jackson has turned
up in Sioux City as Spiritual doctor.
The Lopsr Californian .ays there are coo
men st work in the San Rafael mines.
The Oregon Legislature adjourned sine
de, Oct 26th. An extra session isprcbable.
Mra Henry Clark, of Sucker Flat, Yuba
county, has been seat to the Insane Asylum.
OF $4,000 invested in lottery tickets in
Narysvillc only = coupon in 800 prize
won. |.g "T-' ...
The zone flesh" that an Indiana couple
were recently made, weighed l 900 pounds
avoirdupois. +
Brigham Young, Jr.. proposes to take
the Young Ladies' Seminary, recently
opened At Salt Lake.
A child was born At New York recently
in public carriage while ie mother was on
the way to funeral. - r. =.
The Oregon Senate has passed q bill TO
encourage immigration, and appropriated
go, 900 for that object --.os''
Beatty Fawcett, who recently killed Jno
McCourt in Baker county, Oregon, has sur.
rendered himself to the authorities.
Tie lfasons Of Virginia City, New. have
commenced the erection of new hall, on
the corner of Alder and Third streets.
The assessed value of property in tho
county in which Portland, Oregon, is stu.
atcd. is six and half millions Of dollars.
A. it appears from the papers the entire
| Faclnc coast hau invested neavlly In the
San Francisco lottery. and were duly ex-
cited, .,-..r .a ..,~i.... &c.,. ...
Mr. Sumner has two lectures for delivery
this scason--''The Duel between France
and Germany" and Lafayette, the Faith.
full One" e..
A 81. Johns newsboy ,stonishcd the pub
lie by crying the news of Napoleon's sur
render, Heres all about the great boss
Protestant" ... =
Bartholomew's circus came to grief At
Portland, Oregon, Oct. g. The U. s. Mar
shal took possession Of it in the name of
the creditors. na.
Fred Douglass ence said that you could
NO more silence brawler by answering him
than you could get the ding out Of brass
kettle by beating it. ..
John T. Best, who was executed at Stock
ton, Oct. 81, admitted having killed five
persons, a brother and brother. IN law being
among the number. "a
James Phipps, formerly of San Francis.
co, was sentenced to the State Prison Oct.
22d, from Placervillc, Ell Dorado county,
for six years, for arson. '-".
The great scare about smallpox in Salem,
Oregon, has about subsided. Only one
death has occurred, and the other cases re-
ported are convalescent.
Gen. John B. Winters has resigned hiz
position as Superintendent of the Yellow
Jacket mine, Virginia, New, and Captain
Tailor takes his place.
As indicated by the Northern Pacific T.
r. map, the route passes five miles cast Of
Olympia, fivc miles east of Stcilacoom, and
about two miles east Of Seattle. ... a.,
A California exchange estimates that If
ter deductins tho Chinese from tie aggre
gate population of that State it would III
reduced 10 . representative basis of Az, go
The Buckeye mine, near Silver City, Ne
vada, mas recently changed hands. It !,
now owned by NJ. J. Mcdonald, OF San
Francisco, and work is now actively rcsan-
ed on it.
| We learn from private letter, says th'
White Pine Nsrs, that shooting ARRAY oc
Cured at Pioche, in which ''Dutchy," vel
known heresbouts, was shot in the slloul
der BY Ike Phillips, late Of this city. .,.s
John McCourt, of Ell Dorado, Oregon
was shot by some one secreted in . celia
which he was passing, from tho effects Of
which he died shortly after. A man nance
Fawcett had been arrested on suspicion.
The daily yield Of the prominent mine
on the comstock are - follows: Cholla
Pososi, 800 tons; Yellow jacket, 1G5 tons
Gould s Curry. IS tons; Crown Point, q
tons Hale 4. Norcross, $50 tons: Savage q
tons; Oyesu,sn, s. tonA 0 '. =
II fight at 6even-Milc Canyon, noa
Virginia, Nevada, Oct. 25, r. u. Lindse.
vas shot in the thigh. Dick Patton had hi
shoulder blade broken, . man by the nam'
. Of Prcptiss had his hsed terribly beaten
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