The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-11-23
WESTERN ITEMS.

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Ill. WESTERN ITEMS.
Kansas has typhoid fever.
San Francisco hes 5000 liquor saloons.
Cold weather has shrunk the White Pine
Nses. .-.t Iu.-
Mrs. Margaret Mott, Of Carson. Nevada,
is insane. ..'.. @'s' i.. ...-
California cannot get oak casks enough
for the wine crop.
Council Bluffs used to have four papers.
Now 1t has only one.
Leavcnworth claims wholesale trade of
$as, 0p0, 600 Tor 1872. ... ...
Kansas City proposes to put half million
dollars in palatiai union depot.
Mr. P. r. Barnum has stock breeding
farm of $4,000 acres in Colorado.
General Crooks, troops have killed nine
more Apache Aohayes IN Arizona. ...
Ono of the greetings of the DAY in San
Francisco is-''How ere you, sutsidys'
The Su,ro Tunnel Company has contract.
ed for z, 500, 600 feet of lumber at Truckee
Two hundred Cinnamon sailed for their
native land from Portland, Oregon, recently.
st. Joe, Mo-. has starch fnctory that
turns out 20, 600 pounds of starch per day.
A heavy snow storm has been prevailing
in Utah since Friday. The snow is deep in
the cau0ns.
Blotting paper is made from soap weed in
Colorado, which is in great profus,on on
the Western prairies n. .,....t
The school lands in an average Kansas
county, sold At an average price, brings
Sl00, 600 per county. 1
The Northern Pacific Company is prepar
ing to get out 100000 ties along the line
of the road this winter.
The trial of Harry McAuslaud for tho
killing Of Mullcndore, Of the Aorning Cal,
has commenced in San Francisco.
1t is estimated that $50 white men have
been scalped by the Arizona Indians in the
last ten years-an average of one week.
Utah is reported as raising 1000, 900 bush
els of wheat, surplus, the past season, which
has been sold in st. Louis at remunerstive
prices. '.H
Nevada Legislature stands in the Senate
II Republicans, Z Democrats, in the Assem-
bly, 81 Republicans. II Democrats. Demi.
Reps, nix.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is negotis>
ting for the purchase Of the Delay claim,
adjoining Hollsday's addition, for depot
grounds in Portland.
I Out in the western counties Of Kansas,
squashcs arc of such an enormous sizc that
after tax ing the ''meai" out of them they
arc considered very serviceabls for coal bins.
Squashes Of 100 pounds In weight are
among the products Of Western Kansas
After the meat is taken out they are consid.
cred very serviceable for calf pens.
The Salt Lake City ordinance affecting
butchers and market men, has been declared
invalid BY Judge Mexican. The object Is to
relieve the Gentle dealers from Mormon op.
preston. 2f o'1
Among the gues,sof the Townsend House,
Salt Lake, Nov. 11th, were Anthony Troll
lope, the celebrated English novelist, and
wife. Mr.. Trollopc is en- route home from
Australia.
On Sunday, Nov. ID, Captain Horn, chief
clerk in the Quartermaster's Department in
Arizons City, was shot dead in bar room
in that city. The murderer, ono Pickcns, is
In custody. ..... .......
Sheep arc said to thrive finely, during six
months of the year, in the more elevated
portions Of the Sierra Neyadas, At IN elevs-
tion of 1000 feet, much better than they do !
In the lower valleys. .s aag
Thomas, Bramlette, White and Hanson
convicted of robbing the mail near Canon
City. Oregon. last Summer. have been de.
MED new trial and wore sentenced to hard
labor in the penitentiary for life - u,
The rcdoutable Buffalo Bilr' I. now .sthe
Hon. W. F. Cody" member Of the Ncbras.
ka Legislature from Lincoln county. He
will naturally he made chairman Of the Com.
in,t,ec of Codytica:ion of the Laws relating
to Indians.
., When an animal is killed or hurt by the
cars OH the Kansas Pacific, the section boss
ills out blank form describing the locality
of the accident, etc. One of the questions
in the form 10, "What disposition was made
of the animal:" The answer returned to
the query in the case of Texas steer run
oyer the other day was, Disposition mild
and gentle"
1t ID proposed 10 tap the waiers Of Tulare
Lake a its lowest level by . navigable canal,
drawing ten feet in depth Of water, with =
width of 60 feet on the bottom and 100 feet
on the top, and 10 run this canal to tide
water, on a grade Of three inches to the
mile; and as Tularc Lake is about $50 feet
above the level Of the sea, it would leave An
elevation st Antioch of 800 feet to be utiliz.
ed as means OF discharging grain into The
holds Of ships. IL is English. capital seek.
ing investment In this enterprise.
a M 8AoA1A q 1ssss. a..e
The Us,dasvs' 'Caysstek Of London, pub.
fishes these two simple methods Of ascer.
eaining the heights of tres or other objects:
l. Place rod pespendiculasiy In the
ground, 20 thst there shan be ~ i've feet
above ground, and measure the lsngth Of
its shadow; then measure the shsdowiof The
tree whose height 3 required to be known, |
and II carrcadily b arrived a. By . ruls Of
three sum. Thss. supposjng the shadow
from the 5.foos rod 10 measure 2 fees, aud
the shad0& of The iree 70 measure 10 fses, I,
Il viii stird thus: 7oiiiihi e"' I iuH lf,
!, !, A.7tt:sh:; 10 n :ss S-7f.sa
he Laxhs 81 tho tres. 3,' si7A 'a4
8. II the absenceof . Gantes's quadrsst, ,
ges plccN of sofs wood quarter Of a inch [