The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-24
THE WEST.

Walla Wslla has small .pox.
Susan B. Anthony lecturcd in Omaha
Feb. 5th.
Charles Calls suic,ded at Portland, Ore.
gon, recently.
There were twenty mine deaths in Sacra.
mento during January.
G. E. Clifford committed suicide in San
Francisco on Fell. 9th.
Fruit ''canncries" are being established
throughout California.
The third house Of the Ncvsla Legisla.
ture has been organized.
Oscar Olncy, of Washington Territory,
died suddenly u few days ago.
Twcnty-six men have sown 13.9O0 acres
of wheat in Merced County, CAL, this sea.
son.
Herndon Barrett. City Clerk of Marys.
vile, Cal falls heir to $4,000 by the death
of Z relative in Virginia.
Mr. HOLT, Of Napa, C",ifornia. has inner.
tied fortune Of 5000
Excellent coal has been discovered 80
miles north of San Juan, Cal.
Modesto aspires to become the county
seat Of S,anislaus county, Cal.
The Aaseppa, publsheda. San Francisco,
suspended publication Feb. 10th.
The Salt Lake Tribune is in favor of u
new election for Delegate to Congress.
Portland (Or.) has purchased forty acres
Of ground near the city for public park.
The Yolo (Csl) } Mail hois,s the name Of
Newton Booth As its candidate for Gov
crnOr.
Rcdpatl,. the Boston literary broker, has
offered Cough $500 to lecture ten nights
in California next May.
John Kelly. who attempted suicide at the
Western Hotel, Sacramento. has nearly re.
covered from tue effects Of his attempts.
Thomas Scale and Henry Motz, m,llmen.
of Gold Hill. (Nev.) have been adjidgcd
bankrupt on petition of their creditors.
It is reported that ont of $4,000 Indians
in Nebraska, $1,000 attend religious scr.
vices. and the remaining 6O,C00 are-out
stealing and scalpin1.
St. Joseph has voted to take $500, 900
stock in the proposed permanent bridge
| across the Missouri, and $50, 900 in the St.
Joseph and Iowa Railroad.
Matt Greer, who was wounded in his DIFF.
ficulty with William Dresser, a. Sacra.
mento. has recovered sufficiently to be able
to sit up little every day.
Man millincrs are in vogue with the beau.
| ty and fashion Of San Francisco. which is
measured and fitted hy male hands, whilst
! female tailors ure attracting the custom of
the ruder Sex.
The Memphis Appeal says: 1T now costs
81 900 in gold to get one hundred China
men to an interior town. AID n smaller mum.
her will not migrate from California they
move in colonies"
The subscription Of $10O,0 stipulated
for by Ben Holiday ~ \ condition for tho
huildinc Of the first twenty miles of the
West Side Railroad. was completed at Port.
lan.l. Oregon. Feb. o.
DR.. Scuddcr has preached for seven years
in San Francisco at $4,000 per annum, be.
sides delivering lectures. etc, and now re-
tires to Brooklyn IN. ~ with shattered
health and an empty purse.
There are at the present time over fifteen
hundred miles Of railroad in operation and
in progress Of building in Texas, when al
the close of the war less than four hundred
and fifty miles were in existence.
The printers of Denver arc anticipating
trouble in that city, owing to the reduction
of wages. and have issued a circular tc
printers generally, desiring members of the
craft elsewhere 10 pay no attention to tele'
gra - or published notices for help.
Nevada. the home Of Truthful James and
William Nyc-a'so Of the big Senator pop
ularly known as Jim Nye--cnjoys the Ink
ury If State debt amounting to $3.50, n0O
uron which interest is paid at the rate OF
Is per cent.
Matt Bledsoe formerly we'll known char
acter in Idaho. during the trough times.
hut who is now serving life term in tho
Oregon penitent'ary. recently fell from =.
pile of lnmber in that institu ton, and is re-
ported fatally injured. y l.....t.:
A deed at trust. was recorded by the Conn
ty Recorder 1t San Joaquin county. Cal
February 9th. made by tho Central Pacific
II. r. Company To D. o. Mills and w. C.
Ralston. on the road from In throp to Visa
lia. to- secure the payment Of $6,000.000.
Only one hundred AMI six Chinese arrived
| on the steamer America At San Francisco
a fact which lespraks the continued dimi.
| mutton Of. Asiatic immigration. The mum
,Gerr' of deaths alone arc now much in excess
| Of the arrivals. and the departures by SCI
| and land are even more numerous. n" H.
The first cargo 81 anthracite coal ever re
ceisetlin San Franeisco from an American
port has been landed from tho bark Lulu,
from Qneen Charlot,c's Islsnd. Col. Cool.
of British Columbia. had offered 425C0 pre-
MUM for the first cargo exported. This
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