The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-06-29
THE WEST.
Los Angeles has 100 cases of measles per

over 200 acres each.
The burnt district of Corvallis, Or, 10 he
ing rebuilt with wood.
San Francisco's importation Of raw fur
last year was $4,000, 900.
John Baker Of Gold Hill has challenge,
Jcm Mace to prize fight.
VIM. r. Mcdonald suicided at Buel
Utah, Jan. 6th.-G L. Herald.
A. B. Gregory, = leading citizen Of Ne
vada city. died on the 18th inst.
Edward g. Marsh, pioneer of -, diet
In San Jose, CAL, on the 9th inst.
The lElko Lndepsndsns calls the frog.
aboundinx there "Parisian Larks."
Thos. B. Roberts, a pioneer of CaIifor,
mia, died in suisun on the 18th inst.
Virginia city, New, Is abont to introduce
steam fire engine, at cost Of $1,000
A fash of lightning exploded loaded
gun in Wilmington, N. e., the other day.
E. w. Keys, the well.known undertake,
and an old citizen Of Virginia, New, died
recently.
Robinson 4 Co., of Stockton. Cal., con.
'racted to build the court. house at Modesto
for e44,sO0.
DR.. King, one Of the first settlers Of Car.
son City, New, died In the State Of vir.
ginia recently.
The South Chariot mill, Owyhee, idaho,
is now crushing about eighteen tons of
Mahogany ore per day.
Were it not for catsrrh, bronchial influ.
cnza, and a few other slight ailments,
White Pine would be happy.
A fire at Walla Walla, on Tuesday, de-.
stroyed the warehouses of Paine Northen,
and number of other buildings. Loss,
$4,000.
The Central Pacific Railroad now re-
ceives and discharges oil freight At its de.
pots on King and Townsend streets, in San
Francisco.
The new Directors of the Texas Pacific
road announce that they expect to have the
track completed to Fort Worth, Texas, by
New Years.
In the trial Of Wash Patterson and WIN.
R"rig, at Elko, for robbing Wells, Fargo
& Co.'s stage At Mineral Hill, both parties
were acquitted.
Mrs. Sarah Winnemucca Bartlett whip>
ped another squaw, at the Piute fandango
near Winnemucca the other day, for talk.
ing about her."
The new Trinity Church, Portland, Is to
have n $4,000 organ aud $500 chnncel
window, the latter being memorial to the
late Bishop Scott -..-.
A pail of butter which was scciden tally
dropped in q well in Marion county, Or,
l8 years ago, was taken out last week, ~
sweet rs 1t went in.
The overflow of the Humboldt river upon
the meadows and adjacent lands averages
half mile wide for distance Of not less
than two hundred miles.
J. f. Horton telegraphs to San Diego
that Thomas Scott, the presiding genius of
the Texas Pacific railroad, with the engi>
neering force, will he in San Diego July
12th.
Ore worth $500 per ton was struck last
week in the Pool mine, Mariposa county,
Cal The property was bonded To L. L.
Robinson for $25, 600, just previous to the
strike.
The Walla Walla papers say the Spring
wheat is looking parched and withered,
and that short crop is probable. The
same 10 reported from some sections of
Oregon.
The Carson Re0ister says that the Vir.
gina aud Truckee Railroad will be com.
pleted between Steamboat and Wssho
city, and the cars running regularly, about
The 6rst day of July. .a. .-.... ....
w. F. McCreary. postmaster Of Baker
City, has received patent for an improve
nent in register package envelopes. He
he's been offered thousand dollars . year
Tor the privilege Of manufacturing them.
The Swamp Land Commissioner In Lane
county, Oregon, has selected lot Of land
high into the mountains as
,wamp land. His bill for services will
amount to more than the land viii bring.
The bondsmen of Kyger, Treasurer of
Wa!la Walla, who was arrested for tho
robbery of $4,000, have been cleared,
y their bond was not filed up or the
mount of the penalty put in till nearly
PEAR after the signing, and without their
....... ..
Chandler Reticker, the ''California boy"
who msde the recent ride against time
wO hundred miles in ten hours-over the
Dexter Park Course, Chicago, was former.
y Of Downieville-son of Jacob Reticker,
Who some years ago kept the St. Charles
Hotel, Carson. a-| sHs55t
Miss Edith Richardson, aged seventeen
,ears, was killed on the 18th inst. In her
.,bcr's mine, In Eldorado county, Cal.
The went 70 visit the mine with some
riends, and in going into the tunnel went