The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-06-22
THE VEST.

Denver, COL, claims to have about II 90
population. .
There were 942 prisoners in San Quentin
ON May 3lst.
The measles have become an epidemic i,
San Francisco.
Another attempt to fire Phoebe was frus
trsted the other day.
G. E. Workman is appointe. coiner i.
branch mint at Carson.
Seltzer water springs have been foun.
in Los Angeles county. Cal.
The Oregon State prison now boasts O
ninety involuntary boarders.
Laborers now get $e so per day in Oregon
for the first time in ten years.
Franklin. Kansas, is the only place in
America where velvet is made.
The Elko Independent has deem ENLARGED
and takes the independent ''chute" IN pol.
itics. .an. .. ~~r. .G..a : :.
A man named Courtney was shot and
instantly killed Ly Jerry Sullivan at Pioche
June 8th
william Fitzgerald was killed by falling
u distance of 100 feet in the Phenix mine
Nevada. =.
Benjamin Smith was killed at North
Bend mill, Coos. county, on Wednesday
! June 5th
The average cost OF maintaining the Cal
fornia State Officers Of all degrees, is s2s..
600 per month.
A man named Welch was blown up and
killed ut the Spring Valley mill. New. on
Saturday June 1st
The price of water in Phoebe has been
reduced1from four cents per gallon to two
and a half cents.
There are four cases of conflucnt small
pox at the pest house in San Francisco. all
overland passengers.
1t is reported that Geo. d. Hill has been
appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs
in Washington Territory.
McAllister, who killed a msn at Walla
wall last fall, has been convicted Of mur.
NOA III tuc ScCOuU uckrCo.
The Floral Springs Water comyany arc
On''d'ng. at Pioche, tank capable Of hol.
ding 900 gallons of water. 81,
J. +. Ridgeway, on trial for killing B. r
Andrews on Kings river, Cal, two years ago
has been acquitted at Millerton.
Deacon Walker, of Denver, has thrown
up the paste pot and scissors, and gone in.
to the real estate and notary business.
John B. Louck, one of the oldest citizens
OF Idaho, died at Pierce City few days ago
Al the age Of G6. He came to the coast in
1s40.
. A doctor named D,an has been convicted
at W"Ila Walla Of selling liquor to Indians
and sentenced to the pcnitenitsry for one
year. -: .. -.-.....
The bonded Indebtedness of counties in
the State of Kansas for railroads, ALREADY
amounts to the enormous sum Of over $780,.
100000
Douglas county, Oregon, contains exten.
sive lime beds, coal beds. gold mines, silver
and copper ore, aud many other valuable
minerals. >.T>: 49,
A preliminary survey has been made for |
the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, north.
ward from the depot toward the Sierra |
Nevada works. ..
The Raymond & Ely mine New. is ship
ping shout forty tons more of ore to mill |
daily than can be crunshed by the fifty
stamp mill.
Moses Remington, who shot and woun.
ded his wife about year agoin Virginia
city. has been pardoped out of the Nevada
State prison.
The McMahon mine. situated about three
miles north Of Schellburn, New, is sold to
Williams, Cox & Co., Of San Francisco for
The sum of $4,000. .
The Virginia and Gold Hill Water Com.
pany are taking the necessary steps to sup.
ply Virginia, New, with water from the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. -..t. ......
: A California sheep raiser owning 90, 900
'heep, from which he realizes an income of
e1o0, 900 yearly, commenced twenty years
lgo with flock of 800.
The Robert .Emmet mine, situated in Sc
ret canyon, Eureka district. Nevada, has +.
urned out ore which yielded $237,52 in .
liver and $6s, 70 in gold pc, ton. u't
A man named Trcmble was shot and
illed in dispute about land, by man \
amcd Sherman, at San Miguel Mission,
anta Clara county, Cal, May 2eth. i !
An old Frenchman manned Eutiene Gnic a
cult, attempted to assassinste Edmund =
|reuie, the French consul, with a slung
hot in San Francisco, few days ago. +
VIM. Williams. convicted of murder al >,
'reka, has been sentenced for the second !,
me to be hung, the second sentence fixing ;,
'e 25th Of July As the day Of execution. \
Tom O'Connor, an unassumiog Irishman, b
said to he the largest cattle owner in al
exas He does not know exactly how g
lany he has, but the total will not vary tv
uch from 60, 600. gA aa- 4st ai -@F@I "
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