The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-03
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
There is Helena IN Naps county, Cali
fornia
ssbsstopol, (Cal) has been taken By ,
photographer.
julius Meyer has been declared insane .,
Virginia, Nev.
Twelve divorces wae granted at Portland
Oregon, last year.
Cattle are perishing In Douglas county
Oregon, for want of feed.
March s5th will be the second snniver,erv
of the settlement of Corinne.
The Idaho Legislature has gone exten
sive)y into the divorce business.
Parties ore killing fish in the Truckee bv
exploding Giant powder over the water.
Mayor selby has dousted his salary to the
charitable institutions of San Francisco.
An affcctionate Nevada wife has given
her husband the pet ,aams OF Tearing
Grizzly"
A boiler explosion at ssw.mill near Car.
tboo, Col, Jan. 1S killed L. T. Norsemond,
engineer.
Robert Wilson, charged with killing VIM.
Curtin uear San Jose, Cal, has been tried
and acquitted.
The Morn,ons intenAto build q railroad
connecting Great Salt Lake City with Pay.
son, IS miles south.
The Arizona Company, Humboldt, New,
declared = dividend Of >30,00o for the
month Of December.
| CoaifOrnia.tanned leather commands the
highest rates in the Eastern States, and H.
ways has . ready sale.
Gen. Woods dairy In Humbue v.)lev.
Plumas county. Csl., produced 2, liz pounds
OF butter during last year.
The Athletic Hall, in virginis City, Ne.
vada, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday,
Jan. 1s. Loss, near $4,000,
There are 200 wagons engaged in supply.
ing San Francisco with milk. They deliv-
er IL 600 gallons every day.
J. A. johnson, the Congressman, Is said
to have the inside for the Democratic nom.
ination for Governor of California.
The Central Pacific Directors say they
will complete the California and Oregon
bisnch to the Oregon line before the end of
this year.
Hon. Chas. W. Kendall's certificate of
election, - representative of the State of
Nevada in Congress, was issued and for.
warded to him.
A Colorado paper remarks that Tim
Browne sage hen pegged cut with Bill
Weeks last Monday, leaving Tim three
children to care for"
The first child born in Greeley, Colorado,
ley" and presented : copy Of "What /
Know About Farming"
J. G. Lewis, of the Reno Creseens. has
contracted to do the official printing Of
Washoe county. Nevada, one year for the
sum Of Is cents in scrip
James Marble, who was shot by John
Wood in Capay Valley, Yolo county, Cal,
three weeks ago, died in the county hospi.
tai. Wood 10 out on bail of 5000!
Thomas Fitch tclegrsphs to b F. Rice,
Superintendent of the Carson Branch Mint,
that an appropriation Of $4,000 for the
Mint has passed the House of Representa-.
tivesI -
James Hall, who attends the rock breaker
at the Eureka mine, Nevada county, Cali.
fornia, had his right eye destroyed Jan. 10,
BY piece Of rock flying from the breaker
ard striking his eye
The wife Of Sam. Brannan, Of California.
has obtained divorce, ON the ground of |
hahitusl intcm2erance, and Mrs. Brannan
has been awarded real and personal prop
erty to the value Of nearly >5oo.oOo!
A Aproject 10 broached for tunnel to tap
Washoe lake two feet from the surface with
, ditch. which It il thought will double the
volume of water in the Carson river-thus
enabling mills to run which are now idle.
California records for 1870 win sinclode
three memorable industrial eveuts-she
Shipment Of the first bale of home.raisec
'ilk; the raising Of the frst successful crop
II cotton; and the 6nt success In the man
nfacture Of beet sugar. aa. a.r.. .a-
About 800 yards Of the Great Mexican
aume on Carson river was destroyed on
Wednesday night, Jan. 11th, BY . break
below the dam. In consequence, both the
Mexican and Morgan mills have been COM
pelled to shut down until Il can b repaired.
They have had such bod luck with their
'facers In Boise cousey, Idaho, that bin
,as been introduced 10 the Legislature re-
lutring the sbssses Of I'll county officers Of
'has county for not ~ thar - months In
.acA ysar In n and ~ Il b hoped the
psople y this sxpsdisas en- ave so0s Of
lheir revenusa
AA ysas s,loo psopls IT whna over
1850 wsss Chinsss) arrived in California,
md - ,S3S (of whoa Leo 0an I, 80 weze ,
chineoe) departed Net gaia Of population
little over II, 900, sf whom over 1000 are
chinesa A comfortable Showing thisl
Tho Chimes incrennin1 almOe tWice - fnaf