The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-05-11
THE WEST.

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Schools are scarce In Walla WallA
Pioche 10 In the zenith Of prosperity.
Corn 10 knee high IN some parts Of Tesxs.
Virginia, New, hes ordered steam drc
engine.
Stockton and Vallejo he'd earthquake
April -.
The California wine vintage 10 inja red
ten per cent
There ore reports of gold and silver die.
coveries neor Sitka, Alaska
Small. .pox prevails to On alarming extent
In various portions Of Utah.
The Denver spring opening brings out
the Ute squsws In plug hsts.
oenr BcsdIe Of Dakota positively declines
to Be candidate for Congress.
The Uen,,les Of Salt Lake have organised
league for mutual protection.
Gov. Campbell, Of Wyoming. and wife
have gone 70 Salt Lake and California
The Masons of Dslles, Oregon. ore about
to erect new Masonic Hall in that city.
H. G. Wilkenson of the Gazette wss at
the Russ House. San Francisco, April "a.
Several prominent Mormons have been
appointed to proceed to Europe on missions.
Brigham Young wants public water works
Immediately constructed at Salt Lake City.
Mr.. Rowell. of Lafayette. Oregon. has in.
vented machine for clinching horse shoe
nails.
Two thousand farms were taken up In
Washington Territory last year, by actual
settlers.
The adherents Of Gardelde. At Olympia,
bolted the primaries. and elected . second
delegation.
There are now on Laramie Plains about
1000 brOC,d mares. grazed in herds Of from
100 upward.
Mr.. Andrew Douty. the venerable miller
Of the Big Th"mpecn, Colorado, died at his
home recently, aged 81.
A wonderful discovery of gold bearing
antimo"y 10 reported on the line of the
Central Pacific Railroad.
The years crop Of oranges st Los An.
geles. Cal, Is estimated to be about five
times - large - last years.
General J. w. Sprague he's consented 70
accept the Republican nomination for Con.
gress for Washington Territory.
During 1871 there erected in the towns o"
the tine of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1878
buildings. st = cost Of 81. 79s, $40.
The silver mines recently Uncovered at
the foot of the Cascades, Linn county. Ore.
gon, are extensive and will be worked.
A branch rsilrmd. calculated to lessen the
distance from Oakdsle u Sonora, Cal. some
twenty -four miles. 10 In proccss Of con struc.
ton.
Grading On the Oregon Central Railroad
beyond Cornelius has been commenced
again. Another section will be In running
orler early this summer.
There il lady in Washington Territory
who has killed eight Indians with her little
rife, and yet she has never held m appoint.
ment on the Indian Peace Commission.
The largest grave. probably. in the State
of Kansas, Is near De,phos. 1t is 40 feet
long. 8 feet deep. and wide. and contains
the remains Of several hundred poor Texan
cattle.
The prospects, for abundant crops in Or.
egon IVES never better. and large number
Of acres have been sown. especially of Spring
wheat. but the severe frost for several nights
will undoubtedly inJure the prospects for
fruit.
A dispatch dated Portland. Apri, "a. saws:
the surveyors Of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road have decided upnn Leather Pass as the
hest cut through the Rocky Mountains. and
future survey will he directed toward the
best route to connect that Pass with the
seaboard on the Pacific.
The following named gentlemen have
bsen named In connection with the Senator.
ship Of Oregon: Attorney. General Williams,
H. W. Corbett and J. H. Mitchell, Repub.
licans. and Governor L. L. 0rover, Demo-.
crat. The June election will he greatly In
duenced by the Senatorial contest.
One Of the incidents not men toned by
the San Francisco press on the ED. took
place at the corner Of Montgomery and
Market streets. Az the Masonic order was
fIling pest. Z. little girl called the attention
Of her mother to them by excls,ming, ''Oh.
mother. see bow many waiters there are in
The parade r.
The brother Of Joseph Smith. the found
q OF Nomou,sm. was recently arrested at .
l,tsls village near Elmirs, N. T., on suspi.
cion OF having murdered > neighbor. He y
he man who baptized Brigham Young in
he polygamous faith OF The SANTA siugu.
|ar that boeh baptized end baptiser should
bs suspected Of the dreadful crime Of mur.
der.