The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-05-05
THE WEST.

800. 900 hotel Is projected In Denver
BY Chicago parties.
In California poplars grow from ten to
fifteen feet in year.
Grass Is six inches high along the Hum.
boldt river, Nevada
Christine Nilsson gives series Of con.
certs in Frisco this month.
c. Derby Is the Republican nominee for
Mayor Of Virginia City, Nevada
Convicts In the Oregon State Prison ars
suffering from the influenza.
The Roseburg (Oregon) Easigs has enter.
ed on the fifth year Of its existence.
&c. Currie is the Democratic candidate
for Mayor of Virginia City, Nevada.
1r.w os,s WORKS nave 0esu ssscssu ~ xsvss
Fork, Idaho, by Presto Burrsll.
The foundation OF the new penitentiary
building at Salem, Oregon, is being laid.
The new Christian College, to be erected
at Monmouth, Oregon, will cost about &c..
600.
Daniel Hayden, employed In the q. s.
Paymaster's department st Omaha, commit.
ted suicide.
When water IL six cents glass in Phoebe
City. Colorado, and whisky four. It isn't
difficult to decide which liquid has the most
customers.
One McMurray, surveyor, was killed At
TEN P'ute, Nevada, In shooting scraps
recently.
An old "hog" in "Walla Waller ID said
to be the champion mean man Of Washing.
ton Territory.
During the month Of March last the mill
at Mineral Hill, Nevada, turned out bullion
of the value Of %l20,79l.
| A man named Peterson, affectiouately
fondled his wife few days since bv setting
her on hot stove.
Five undred men have commenced work
on the Southern Pacific Railroad, below
Gilroy, California
Mr. Caldwell. the new Senator from Kan.
sas, is about thir,y.eight years Of age. and
is reported to be worth $3,0o0,0oo.
| 1t is said that fully one third more grain
has been grown in Southern Oregon this
season than ever before.
Mike Casey shot Tom Gossen at Phoebe,
| Nevada, last week. The wounded man was
not expected to recover.
Surveyors on the Northern Pacific Rail.
road report snow III feet deep at the Sno.
| qualmie Pass, on the lst Of March.
Gen. John B. Winters was married to the
widow Of the late Judge A. w -Ra,d.r;-, So
Virginia City, Nevada, on tho 5th ult.
The state Luna1,c Asylum of Nebraska,
ut Lincoln, was burned April 17th. Loss,
$l50,0o Two inmates supposed burned
to death.
The Bulletin says: Orders have been given
to complete the Oregon and California Rail.
road to the hundredth mile post, fifteen
miles beyond Albany, by the first Ut May,
1871.
The Oregon CAurchman, the organ of the
Episcopal Church, discontinued since 1862,
is to be revived, and will issue its first mum.
Der carly in May.
A trout, codfish and eel farm of twenty
ac,es IL being opened near Salt Lake City
hy . cooperative company. About 5000
has bcen subscribed.
James Funk, Of Eureka. New, is now de.
funct. having been shot dead by his wife
Hattie last week,-cause, foreign whisky
and domestic infclicity.
An Indian jumped off from = railroad
tram going At the rate Of 90 miles per hour,
in California. the other day. He partook Of
his last Indian meal the morning before
starting.
Recent word from Bishop Tuttle. of the
Episcopal Church, reports that his parish in
Salt Lake City Is now self supporting. and
the work clswhere in Utah Territory going
forward hopefully.
Honest Tom Fitch will not settle In New
York. He has concluded To cdify the Saints
aud settle in Salt Lake City. When Utah
is admitted as State. Tom will be candi
date for Congress-surs.
Arizona contains u. .000. 900 acres.
During the month of March tho number
Of through passengers that passed East by
the Union Pacific Railroad was 1,453, and
the number that passed West, 2,006.
The hotel in Chetopa, Kansas, is tempo.
rarily closed on account Of little difficulty
between the cook and the proprietor, which
was settled with pistol. The proprietor
is in the grave and the cook Is in Jail.
A correspondent Of the 81. Louis Demo-
eras, writing from Austin, Texas, says that
it IS estimated there that about COZ, 900 head
of cattle will be drove from that Stats this
season-500. .0l0 to Abiline, and 100, 900 to
other points.
In chihuahua, Mexico, gold deld has
been discovered at place called uormigas,
twenty leagues from the capital. Tho dis
coverer gathered twenty ounces in one day.
People sTe focking there In masses, and Ill.
It II said, are doing we'll
The earnings Of the Central Pacific Rail.
road for March were 9580. $40, or ~ 900 In
exccss Of the earnings for the same uonth
In 1870. For the three months ending Mar.