The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-12-23
THE VEST.

THE WEST.
California gets hogs overland.
Aalad city. Idaho, il to have newspaper.
Ukiah, CAL, aspires to . &50,0o0 Court
House.
Recent storms have done great damage in
Oregon.
General Crooks headquarters are now at
Fort Whipple.
A firm in Council Bluffs will pack 5000
hogs this season.
Brigham Young was at St. George, near
Arizona, recently.
One of the moot successful lawyers in
Sacramento ID blind.
Smallpox has made ito appearance in
Carson Valley, Cal.
Carrie Moore, the famous skater, 10 aston
ishing the Oregonians
A Portland German Society 10 going to
build hospital at Portland.
The depthof snow in Alpine county, CAL,
generally is from "a to 30 inches.
The snow on the Sierra Nevada is now
deeper than at any time since 1851.
James Peters was killed in the Empire
Mine, Grass Valley, on the 1st inst
DR.. Paine has been sent to the Salem,
Oregon, Jail for whipping his wife.
It il said that General Schenck lately be.
came interested in the Emma mine, Utah.
Rev. DR.. Marsh has started new weekly
paper-the North Paeife-at Forest Grove.
In one county in Kansas 121 acres of cas-.
tor oil beans were cultivated during the past
season.
Sacramento boys SNOWFALL each other
with snow imported upon the tops of rail
road cars.
The capture Ct Blair and Forest leaves
but nine of the twenty mine Nevada escaped
convicts at large.
Mrs Joaquin Miller recently lectured on
''Behold the Woman" and gave recitations
at Portland. Oregon.
It is rumored that the Flagstaff mine. in
Little Cottonwood, Utah, has been sold in
London for $500, ,o0O!
The snow on the Cascade Mountains. be-
tween Fort klamath and jacksonville, 10 so
deep a. to be impassable.
A company of Cinnamon has commenced
drying and smoking wild geese In Los An
gcles for shipment to China.
A man named Dutch Pete was shot and
badly wounded by James Kohn, at Eureka,
Nevada county, December Sd.
A city in Nevada, rejoicing in the name
of " Bob Tailed Gulch," has seven dwelling
houses and thirty. seven saloons.
The Idaho Penitentiary has but eight
prisoners. But local paper apologies by
saying that many are out who ought to
be in.
A grading force of about 100 Cinnamon
has been put to work on the California and
Oregon Railroad between Red Bluff and
Shasta.
It has been estimated that since the dis
covery of gold in Colorado, California gulch
mining district has produced over $780,
600 in gold dust.
In San Bcrnardino Valley, CAL, the cult
vation of alfalfa is extensively carried on.
The gr IS is cut eight times per year, or on
an average of oncs every six weeks.
A steam saw.mill has been purchased in
Portland for the use of the Walla Walls
Railroad Co. It is to be delivered at the
landing before the close Of navigation.
A great sale of logs and spars, seized by
the land Office at Olympia, took place few
days ago. They brought very little, As log.
gers and mill men decline in theses case to
bid against the persons from whom the logs
are seized.
In the new steam transportation company
organized Ut Puget Sound several N. P. r.
R. men are principals. They are fitting up
the "Cyrus Walker" to run in connection
with the "North Pacific" The steamer
New World" now at San Francisco, will
be brought up to run between Olympia and
Victoria.
The grand jury of Los Angeles have in.
dicted thirty eight persons for completely In
the raid on the Chinese at that place some
weeks ago. The jury was. Of the opinion
that the slaughter might have been averted
had the officers discharged their duties pro.
perly, and with nerve enough to interfere
between the victims and the mob.
In Rich, Cache and other counties Of Utah
Territory the grasshOppers were terrible
scourge during the past season. In Rich
county alone they destroyed over ninety per
cent. of the entire crops A delegation of
citizens from that county have arrived in
Salt Lake, seeking employment to procure
bread for themselves and families.
4 SQd Result q HerolsO.
Il ID perhaps rather late In the day to pub
lish incidents Of the Chicago li,e, but the