The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-08-17
WESTERN ITEMS.
San Francisco is clear Of smallpox.
Willamette farmers are harvesting graf

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Willamette farmers ore harvesting grain.
Flour 10 selling at $ls per barrel, at Va.
kima, w. T.
Long Tom Settlement, Oregon, has
smallpox.
Geo. H. ingalls, has been appointed Ind
ian agent at Phoebe.
The Santa Fe Poat is defunct. having
been sold at auction.
The Portland Nev North West has come
out for Grant and Wilson.
Bets are already being made on Oregon
giving Grant 200 majority.
Sixty>fve cents is the price offered for
wheat at Eugene, Oregon.
White velvet wheat yields forty bushels
to tho acre in Oregon.
The Willamette wooden mills, in Oregon,
are running steadily on full time.
Prof. Gilmore accepts the California
State University Presidency.
The Puget Saunders are expecting col.
ony OF Swedes to arrive shortly.
The receipts of refined silver bullion at
Salt Lake last week were over $500, 600.
There are now nine hundred men EN-.
ploycd in the Navy Yard at Mare Island.
A colony of one hundred families will
soon leave Kansas for Washington Territory.
Aparty of Germans are prospecting around
near the Dalles for location to plant COL
ony.
Geo. B. Waldron is in the East Portland
Park with his gymnastic and acroba,ic
troupe.
VIM. II. Carghill, an old Pioneer Of
White Pine, has just died from the kick of
COW.
Thomas r. Brents, formerly of Oregon,
was recently elected city attorney of Walla
Walla.
The Kansas State fair is to be held this
year at I.eavcnworth, beginning September
10th.
In New Mexico, recent vote on cstab-
fishing free schools stood 81 for and 5.O76
against.
Buffaloes are killed in Cawker city. Kan.
Sos while grazing through the grass.g grown
streets.
Five ships, now loading ut Port Gamble
w. r., for Csllao, will carry away 4,000,.
600 feet Of lumber.
The Williams Callahan prize fight, to
come of within ten miles of Virginia City,
is announced" for the Gath inst.
Mrs. Agnes Miller was throw from q
horse At Mountain city. Cope district, New.
on the % ult and instantly killed,
Two hundred Oiggers from Colfax, and
delegation of Piutes from Nevada, are
holding lovc-feast at Truckee
twenty-five miles of the Utah Southern
Railroad will be finished next week. 1t
will reach American Fork in September
next.
The debris of the Pioche fire of May
last still shoulders. On Sunday last pile
of lumber placed upon the rubbish caught
fire.
The Boise !Vatssman says DR.. Geo. Great.
house has been appointed agent for Wells,
Fargo & Co. fol Oregon. Washington and
Idaho.
The wife Of Capt J. r. Haskell, former.
y Of Vancouver, was recently killed in
Arizona by being thrown out of a st age
coach.
The prospecting party in search of Lost
Gunsight ledge, reported to be nearly pure
silver at the surface, has returned to Los
Angeles unsuccessful.
1t is estimated that not less than 33J, 500
salmon were caught at the Columbia river
fisheries this season. The product is worth
something over $55O,OOO
Jacob Eagle, who killed Jesse V. Boone
in Clacksmas, Oregon, and was sent to
State prison for life, d,e,! in that institution
a few days ago.
Virginia, New, is in deb, eighty five
thousand dollars, and has two million seven
hundred and forty.tive thousand dollars of
taxable property.
The Democrats of Washington Territory
are agitating the question Of holding an.
other Territorial Convention some time in
October. ...8
w. 8. Virgins, who for two or three
years has kept hotel at Stcilacoom. has Ia.
ken passage for Peru. He goes 'hither
on invitation Of Harry Neiggs
Thomas Calvin, who recently lost 4 leg
while at the transfer, Council Bluffs, has
settled with the Union Pacific Railroad for
$3.00p cash, besides his doctors bill
The Pueblo Caietsain says that if the
eastern fellows ''want to form correct idea
Of the real magnitude and resources Of COL
orado, they should skim over the narrow
gauge to the hanks of the Arkansas"
The following mills with number of
stamps are running in Nevada Potter. Is;
Clayton, IS; Whitcomb, ~; Lewis, IL; Har-
desty 10, in all 104 stamps crushing about
ten cOf0S OF ore per Gay.
An English company will erect smelling
works in Denver. Citizens of Denver have
subscribed money enough to pay for al
the ground needed by the company, which
will be donated.
ACofeyville, Kan. woman bel ng refused
drink, proceeded to shy paving stones ii
the bar. The Marshal interfering, she
shot him in the hip; he returned the fire
killing her instantly.
Henry Stil!maa, chief packer Of the
North Pacific Railroad surveying party,
on the Skagit river, has been missing
twenty days. 1t Is supposed he has been
murdered by Indians.
The olive cr0p In Santa Barbara county
the present year IL likely To pove an en-
tire failure. One cultivator says that trees
from which he gathered last season 40 gal
Ions, this year will no. yield more than 4
gallon TO tho tree.
Governor Boo:h hiss paEd0ued Robert
Jones, convicted Of robbery in Alameda
county. in 1854 and sentenced for Is years.