The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-17
THE WEST.

Wslla Walla is to have steam fire engine
Orrin Gray, Nevada pioneer, died OF
the 23d inst.
The City of Corinne behaved splendid,
on her trial trip.
Fossil ivory has been found in Alaska il
prodigiOus quantities.
The State Fair at Sacramento will com
mence September 18th.
1t is said that 9O0, 900 head of cattle will
Oe driven from Texas to market this year.
Thirty thousand cords of wood will be
"driven" down the Carson river this season.
Five thousand i'm mproved California horses
are said to he on their way from California
to Colorado.
Mrs. Frank Humiston, of Mineral Hill,
New: drew the $2,500 prize in the Marys.
vile lottery.
Wrestling matches. Cornish style, will
take place et Grass Valley on the 4th, 9Th
| Th'rty-ave houses, belonging to Chinese,
IN the suburbs of Carson, Nevada, were
burned June "a.
The entire family of @. Cumber, ESQ.,,
pershcd from exposure to the frost Of Sat.
urday night-C0rinne Reporter.
| James W. Marshall, the discovercr of gold
IN California. Is going East on a visit il he
can obtain free pass over the Railroad.
A Mr.. Forbes has been shot at for .spcrson.
ally insulting" the people of Cheyenne He
| attempted to deliver . temperance lecture
there.
John Richards, the half breed, murderer.
etc, has started u ranch near Chug Water.
1t IS hoped that John will now be good
lndian.-iSvuM Pdss Nena
The Oregon Central Railroad Companv
have elected the following officers: Presi.
dent, Ben. Holiday; Vice President, w.
l.. AaIsey; Secretary, r. II Towle.
Wild mocking birds and canaries are yerv
abundant at Anshiem, CAL, and 80 tame
that they fy into peoples houses and sing
mclod'onsly from some perch in the room.
The blower in the Alger Reduction
Works, Corinne, makes 1926 revolutions in
minute. and in the same length Of time
sends 81, 900 cubic feet of cir into the Gu.
pola.
In cxcavating the ground for the new
City Hall in San Francisco, the body of
man with four aces and ''kings full" up his
sleeve was dug up. Supposed to be an an.
cestor of Bill Nye.
The "salutatory" of . new paper in st.
Louis opens up with the unqualified asser-
tion that the Romans were the first to
place milestOnes along their highwaya The
other papers decline to 60 into the contro-
versy.
The Vulcan Iron W,rks Company. of
San Francisco, have voluntarily gone into
bankruptcy. Their liabilities are $315, 7GO.
assets, $203. .3S9. Over two hundred men
arc thrown out of employment by their yus.
pension.
The Elizabethtown. New Mexico, Arvus
says, at the head of Grouse gulch Mexican
woman has panned out over two ounces of
gold during the past week, besides attend.
ing to her household duties and washing
In the District Court at Los Angoles,
CAL, John Mohr, who had previously plead
cd guilty Of murder in the second degree, 10 |
an indictment for the murder of Ignacio Fa.
bore, was sentenced. June I'd, to twenty.
one years in the State Prison.
Ihe working model of . quartz mill,
which Is said to crush 100 pounds of rock
in ten minutes, is on exhibition in San
Francisco. Il has five stamps, striking two
thousand blows per minute. Each stamp |
weighs five pounds, and is three inches in
diameter.