Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-11-14
THE EST.
IDAHO.

ing Town, Is now almost deserted.
The railroad has been discriminate
against the Ilaho merchants and no,
they threaten TO ship By the way {
the Columbia liz.er.
It is believed flat there are som
good mining claims on Lost Greek, an,
its value as q minisg camp will b
thoroughly tested next Spring.
An Idaho man, who has been Edo
ing" Texas, returned last week wit
1850 head of Texas cattle, which h
will range in the vicinity Of SuclSe
creek, Owyllce.
Tho death Al. Ripson, a pro,ninen
citizen Of Idaho, is announced. Mr.
Ripson was one of the pioneers of tn,
Territory, and resided at Warrens fo,
q period covering ten years.
| The residence of L. II. Ditto, know,
as the Junction House, Oh the Over
land road, about SO miles from Boise
City, was burned to the ground on tht
1ith ult. with all its contents.
The Loon Greek Mines, about which
there was so much stir q year or two
ago, Have sspetercd out.n There are
now about twenty white men and one
hundred Chilamen in the camp.
The Idaho World says that very
rich quartz mine has been discovered
about fifteen miles from Salmon City.
The same paper also says that the
placer mines at Salmon have paid well
the present season. McNutt s Tuttle
took out $4,000 above all expenses.
| m OREGON.
Baker county is to have an agricul-
turaI society.
The Democrats at Cornelius cele-
brated the election of Col. Nesmith.
| The Weston Granger is the name of
a paper soon to be issued at Weston,
| Umatilla county.
It is estimated that Eugene would
receive yearly S550,oe0 trade from
Fort Klamath il good road were
made across the Mountains.
The Oregon State Fair was failure.
Persons who were awarded premiums
were paid only fifty per eent-the re-
ceipts of tho Feir being too short to
admit of more.
Judge Mosher, Of the Second Dis
triet, requires all divorce eases coming
before him to be tried in public. This
will materially lessen the frequency OF
these nuisances.
Fifteen Mile precinct, Wasco county,
gave majority of four votes for Mr..
Nesmith. This being the first time
since the organization of the county
that the precinct has gone Democratic.
Plans for the. erection Of a frst-class
Touring mill at Umatilla have been
prepared, and workmen are now ell
gagged in getting out the timbers.
The vote by which Col. Nesmith was
elected to Congress was so large, and
the one by which Mr.. Smith was de-
feated so small that the Oregon papers
have not yet been able to figure up the
exact vote, or let us know just what
Nesmith's majority is.
And now comes the Willamette Far
mer with a patent inside, which ac-
cording to the Albany Democrat, is a
fraud OH the agricultural classes who
support that paper. What do the news
paper makers Of Chicago, who print
these patent m'ards know about the
soil, climate, productions, or distin-
gushing features, of Oregon9 And
what can a Chicago editor tell an Or
egon farmer about the kind of stock |
and cereals which should be produced
here? The Farmer is indeed a nice
to give Oregonians advice
upon the matter of patronizing home
institutions, while one half OF its every |
issue is manufactured in Chicago, or
Boston, or San Francisco.
WASHINGTON.
The Modocs left Fort klamath, on
The 18th ult., under an escort Of two
companies, for their future home In
Territory. They will be car
ried from Redding by railroad.
The Tribune reports that Judge Me-
Fadden, delegate, was to start East on
asst Monday.
. The Echo says a shock Of earth
quake was felt IN Olympia last week.
The editor Of the Echo is q temperance
nan, and could not have been mis-
,aken.a 81
The receipts at the Western Wash
ngton Industrial Fair amounted to
lbont $3.50, viz: Contributions S229, /
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