The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-03-15

WESTERN ITEMS.
Boats arc active in the upper Willamette
Three deaths by cp,zootic in Corinne
Feb. 2lst. --
And now they want homely servant girl
IN Kansas. gn
Oregon is going into salmon fishing yer!
extensively this season. .-
Wood Is worth $eO per cord in Gold Hill
and coal is so per ton. ''
The total number of children of schoo
age in kansss is 10000. s..
The Pioche, (Nev.,) postofice is to b.
made money order Office. a.,
The Missouri river is open At Ncbrask'
City and the ferry boats running.
Pneumonia Il raging In Pioche. and ovel
seventy five per cent. Of the cases prove
fatal
The horse disease has made its appcaranc,
In q violent form Ut Battle Mountain, Ne
wade.
Nine-tcnths of the men of San Bernadine
county, CAL, arc affected with the mining
fever. =,
J. H. Balch has been appointed Probate
Judge Of Yakima county, Washington Ter
ritory.
Billy Newsou, who was shot in Virginia,
New, some weeks ago, is now we'll enough
to sit up.
A new paper to bc called Ainiag Life,
will shortly be started in Silver City, New
Mexico.
Coal oil Is short in Boise and the World
is talking about going it candles straighs fol
awhile.
Sacramento has fifteen year old boy who
Is 9 feet 3 inches in hight and won't stop
growing.
Rockland has been declared by tho coun.
ty court Of Klikitat county, W. T., to be the
county seat
George Mexican. who was SO badly in
jurcd by blast in the Peacock Mine, has
lost his syesight entirely.
John d. Dcfrees, tho former Government
Printer, has gone into the banking business
with his brother at San Diego, Cal,
The settlers in the Modoc country are now
very bitter and declare that they will fight
the Indians till every papoose is slain.
The Pioche Record man claims that ri.
0cbe has the biggest hogs in AMerica, and
now the pc ople of that hamlet ere sad.
Over fourteen hundred naughty children
in Nevada won't 90 TO schOol-or else there
src not enougl, of schools for them to go to.
By runaway team, near Idaho CITY,
Colorado, few days since, Miss Ida Dean
was killed and John Cowan severely injured
Samuel Kelley was arrested in sacrsmsn,
to for descrting from the army at Reddiug,
while en- route for the scene of the Modoc
war.
The Phoebe Record doesn't believe tha. q
boy was run over on the narrow gauge rail.
road, becsuseg tAc engine wasn't damaged
any.
Licking wives" has become . popular
Sacramento amusement. but the number of
bald headed men is increasing with fearful
rapidity. TO- ..
Sacramento has failed in the attempt to
find pure water by boring In the river
bed. II was impreguated with iron and wsa
unfit for usc.5 e "?ra 1niiT = .. d. ."
The Umpqua river, In Oregon, is not @
easily accessible - II might be. Recently q
vessel lay outside for for,y>two days before
it could enter the river! 81 u ''''5
The Piute Indians have great tond>
ness for gold, and daily haunt the Bank of
Califoraia q vlrginia to gaze at the piles Of
gold displayed on the trays, ~,.,rT
An indignant woman Of Phoebe threw her
husband out Of doors. She had worked
hard 10 get money for him TO buy rot-gu,
whisky with long enough. ,r qn aus-..l
A man in a Waasonville hotel blew out Che
gas, went to bed, and lay awake oil night
wondering what was the matter with him
that he should smell 20 strong. ..i@H
u In Visalta. Cal, February sed, the Grand
Lodge Of Masons and Odd Fellows laid the
corner stone for Masonic and Odd Eel.
lows Temple to cost about 330, ,000 "'
Piocbe, February a. contract has been
made with the proprietors Of the British
furnace for tie smelling Of 5000 tons Of
ore from the Hercules mine in Bristol Dis
trict ..... .-.....sf.r..I
The horses of Sacramento are rapidly be.
ing laid out BY the epizootic The orthodox
joke there now Is to ask the owner of sick
horse where he is going to drive to, and he
answers, ''Oh. Yuba Daml" .s. ....s
d Vallejo paper publishes Ave columns Of
sermons every Monday morning, ard now
the carriers are melancholy and life b .
burden to them, for people stone them. hit
them with clubs and set cross dogs on them
when they try to deliver that paper f
The Pioche Rscord believes that there viii
be IN unprecedented mining excitement in
that place during the coming summer. 1t
bases its opinion upon the fact that such
immense quantities Of high grade ores have
been taken out and are ready for crushing
fwE | EAi5a H8E ElIti tb4 ~ 9att EE
The mail contractors, who had chartered
the Utah NorlberA - carry the postal mat
ter. have giyeu sp ~ hopes Of tho narrow
gauge coming 70 the surface OF the snow,
and now CARRY the mails regularly On
sleighs FINN DsisAaQ City 70 the Cache
towns. Corisss Rkpsrses. a.t.:.T
Coripne ssys The Heptsna mails are now
running On time. Onr Northers exchanges
don't come through. The mail contr,ciors
have abandoned the attempt . secure ,sass.
por,asion on the Utah NATION. gauge and
carry the mails from Brigham City on
sle,shs, II thsrr Has ever z, ,failuse ia the
,railreea.d lipo i isthsg gtsA Northsrs narrow
g.use. M xlii.ias 5s..Hseeekk| .bassae, ! iaib
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