The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-07-20
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Gold discoveries are reported at Pulsp'
Peak, Utah. .a... :,
A Spanish bull dght comes Of at Los An
geles on Sunday.
A new Episcopal church 10 to be erecte,
at Vancouver, forthwith.
The. Oregon State Fair will commence o.
September, 3Oth and continue six day.
An Oakland lady has been summoned Il
- q juror In the county. court of Alameda
Mrs. Dunniway lectured in Salt Lake
few evenings since. Nesmith was not there
T. B. shannon has entered upon hi,
duties a. collector Of the port of San Fran
cisco. ..1 t.'''9' 81 -. 80 :'..&5-r' 5s-
The railroad property in Sacramento
county is assessed at $l,G76, ,245, or ia, ,06(
per mile. .'-..........,
A Miss Riley, dressmakcr at the Dalles,
has been pronounced insane aud sent to the
asylum.
A party is organizing at Eureka, Nevada.
to 60 and prospect on the middle fork of
the Colorado river.
Potter's clay of fine quality has been dis.
covered near Ksneas City, and 500, 900
company will mine it.
Belchcr, Crown Point, Raymond & Ely,
and Phoebe declared dividends on Friday,
to the ammunt Of 4, ,00O a",
The value of direct importation of dry
goods to the Pacific Coast is estimated at
more than 800, ZOO, 900 annually.
A single raft Of logs vas received recently
at the Por: Blakely mills on Puget Sound,
which contained 1.1OO, 900 feet.
An extensive ledge of cinnabar has been
discovered fifty miles from Salem, Oregon,
on the headwaters of the Mollate.
The bonded Indebtedness of the counties,
IN the State of Kansas for railroads, already
amounts to the sum of over $6O, ,OOO, 900.
At Hamilton, Nevada, there was a snow.
storm on the Goth of June and standing
water was covered with a thin coating of
ice.
On the 3O,h of June, near Ploche, the stage
was robbed Of Wells Fargo and Co.'S treas
ure-box by three men, who made their es
cape. T.'
A man named Davidson was killed By
sunstroke, in Salt Lake on the 2Gth nit. the
first visitation Of the kind ever known in
that city.
The carpenters on the n p Railroad
bridge at Pumphrey's, have struck for
higher wages. They got IS 80 per day,
and want more.
The Walla Walla County Agriculture,
Society will hold the annual Fair next
scptcmber-c"mmenclng on the 18th and
continuing four days.
The c. p. X. r. propose to sell the South.
ern Pacific railway to San Francisco, for
less than cost. This is considered plan to
block the 35th parallel scheme.
Gen. Robert H. Milroy, recently appoin.
led Super intendent of Indian affairs for
Washington Territory, is expected to arrive
1t Olympia about the middle of July.
The Walla Walla 1taseaman thinks that
he county will lose only ,$19, 900 of the
judgement for $o0, 900 which it recently
obtained against the Treasurer, A. Kyger.
John 8. Jenison, Of Kansas City, died re-
emily from tho effects of wound received
n the hip, caused by the explosion of .
hell at the battle of Buena Vista, in 1e47.
The Grass Valley linton says that from
he 90th of June, 1871. to the 1st OF |
(uly 1872, the total rain fall was 6864 in.
nchcs against 3l.s1 for the same period in
81. .",.' .@|.
Two convicts, named Goody and Shepard,
ttempted to escape from the Oregon Peni-
cptiary, on Saturday, July 9Th. when the |
ormer was shot dead. Sheppard was re.
aptured. - y.t.4# ..5 ..t .t... a !
A man named Page has commenced SUIT
n Salt Lake to recover $4,000 from the
'entral Pacific Railroad, for ejecting him
: Corinne, while holding On absolute pas.
enger ticket. s'' .'..@-9 .s.4
Tnins on the Northern Pacific Rrailroad
ave commenced running on regular time
rom Kalsms to within four miles of PUN.
hrcys. A large force is 1t work between
&c latter point and Olympia. .a.'... |
tits said that during the month of May
pwards of 81, 900 buffaloes were killed on
10 western plains, south of the Kansas
aclflc Railroad, for the sake Of their hides
one, which are worth but 81 each. ata..
The Denver and Rio Crande narrow
suge, now completed to Pueblo, will
we carried during the season &c, 900, 600
'unds government freight, and its exten.
on, thus far, rcdoces the staging to
lnta Fe one hundred miles s'1
Following are the school statistics of {
'ashington Territory. for 1871: School !
'uses, 100; school districts, ESQ; schools s
ught, 18& number Of scholars attending, /
., pessons Of school age, $500 amount
I'd teachers, 81, ,775 o1. sJas4s !
Sam HcNab. long known - desperate,
a who had been shot, stabbed. and other. 9
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