The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-08-24
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Portland has bearing fix tree.
Boise city IL without . public school.
Counterfeit half dollars are circulating In
Suoshern Oregon.
The crops in Utah are unusually good,
with no grasshoppers.
The bank of British Columbia, Portland,
10 erecting @6o, 900 building.
It 10 estimated that there are now over
10000 sheep In Lasseu county Cal
Phoebe citizens ore petitioning tor the re.
tention Of Maj. Powell ~ Indian agent
A. g. Smith of La Gssnds, Oregon, lately
killed bear which weighed 900 pounds.
Harvest hands are scarce in the Oregon
valleys. farmers paying - per day and
hoard.
There are xix hundred acres of cotton In
Herced valley, Cal, which is nearly ready
for picking.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has purchased the larger portion OF the
town of Wallula.
The State ASSOCIATION of Spiritualists pro.
pose to erect college in the vicinity Of
Portland, Oregon.
The Colusa, CAL, Sun incideutly mentions
watermelon weighing sixty.ive pounds,
from near that place.
james Crotty, alias ''shorthaired Jimmy" :"
shot by Russell In San Francisco Friday
August I'd died Sunday night.
J. T. Hanks, superintendent of the
Buttes quartz mine, died in Downieville,
CAL, Thursday August 9Th.
Judge Boring, hold over Senator from
Esmeraeds county, Cal, died on Wcdnes.
day morning 7th In Aurora
Extensive fires are reported In the noun {.
tains near Walla Walh, destroying largo
quantities Of rails and cordwood.
John Deery. the veteran billiardlst, visits
Omaha next month, to lead 70 the altar .
lady Of wealth and beauty in that city.
The smoke from the burning forsst Is %
dense at Tacoma, Oregon, that vessels ready
to put to sea are waiting for it to clear
away.
The material Of the old Elko C7rosicle
Office having been shipped to Pioche, Gree.
ley and Brown paper will he issued in that
place.
Con's,ock & Cos warehouse, store, wharf
and Office, Springfield, Oregon, was burned
on Thursday night. Loss go, 600. Insur-
ance $4,000.
Receipts of ore from the Little Cotton.
wood has greatly diminished. The cave in
the Emma has put . stop to the yield of
ore from that mine for the present
The Arizona Niner declares that with
1000 men mounted on good horses, we'll
armed and equipped, within . year every
Apache would be reserved or 90 on reser-
walton.
David Matthews, IN cmploye in the
OREGON Inn W":h.. -..s..~s, ~s"'uss 'ne
honor Of having been the ensinee, Of the
first railway train ever operated in the
United States.
Arizona diamonds" of three pounds
weight and about the size of = mules head,
are the latest specimens received and exhib-
tied in 6sn Francisco. They are Of the
grade adapted for sleeve buttons
Joseph Lee, of Watsonville, Cal, while
hunting In the redwoods lately, was badly
bitten by rattlesnake. Five pints Of whis.
key were administered ~ an antidote, and
at last accounts he still lived.
There are surprisingly large numbers of
stock being driven over the mountains to
Eastern Oregon. It Is estimated that No..
900 head of cattle have been driven over
the Lebanon and Ochoco road this season
already.
A party of diamond hunters from San
Diego have outfitted for the Arizona dla.
mond fields They propose going to the
locality Of the Burro mines. Many old Ar.
izonians seem to think that diamonds can
be found in that neighb0rhood.
There is great stampede Of miners from
Utah to Montana, in consequences of tho
reported discovery of gold and silver loile
thirty.two feet wide, asssying 600 per ton.
Location near Granite Rock and Dugway
Dissrict-Srs Fraseisos Cal. Augsss Is.
The San Francisco Chronicle has ordered
. new Hoe rotaty, four cylinder, double
quarto" press. 81 feet 8 In long, Is feet 8
10. wide, 10 feet high, weighing Is tons and
= capacity Of 10000 copies per hour. It
costs 90. .0oo The C4ronie's says its incscas.
ing business dcsnands this heavy expense.
The Utah Southern Railroad 10 running
to Point Mountain, = distance of twenty.
five miles
The Tuscon, Arizona, Cisisss says: The
Apaches continue to murder our people just
- II they had not promised TO keep the
peace. They shot J. II. Flores 70 death
near the Soprs Ranch, on July 18th, and
als0 killed his horse and that of his com
ranion. the latter escaping. Yesterday,
within 800 yards of Kitchen's ranch they
shot and killed L. Martinez, On old and 70.
spectcd citizen.
The Central Paci6c Railroad project 10
build . sosd :flun Tos0sto - Tistic, 4 IL
expected will be sonsuulnesed within twelve
months. The Union Paciic viii proceed at
oncs 70 -batld'a rosd' from their line 70
Coalvills. grsasly fseiliiAaisg ~ hssnssburces
Of that rich coal section and the vast silver
deposits Of Parleys Park. Both the Union
and Central are thoroughly alive to the
necessity Of feeders for their main trunks
The legal fight oyer The Caruthes ssts.e
in Portland, Oregon, has at length tesmin'
sied in verdict OF Joseph Thomas, other
wise known a ''WTaslin' Joe." The Oregon
BsAsfis says that the esiaas involved In ths
contIDveny embraces some Ave hundred
acres Of land within The city limits Of
Portland, and many vslaabls farms mp ~
Wlllaaetis Vallsy. I'll Of which b sstlaDa-
ted 70 b worth from hsn 1 millioa y one
mi1)1oo delDag1 The caee win Be- taken 10