The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-03-01
WESTERN item 5.

WESTERN ITEMS. .a.a
BelInshsm Bay will ship $1,000 tons Of
coal this year. - M a.Hr
Washington Territory expects much i'm
migration in the spring. y F''. %
Fifteen inches Of snow fell near Nevad.
City on Saturday night last.
The wicked Piochcites crowd the newly
established huriy gurdy houses. .r
There are twenty seven newspapers pub
lshed in Oregon.
Dn Loryea has gone to Germany af.el
German cmiyrants for Oregon.
Somebody has hecn trying to set Hamil
ton, Nevada. on fire, but the town was to,
green to burn.
Five thousand tons Of '..chicory" from
three hundred acres Of land is the estimate
for tba, crop in California this year:
" A thousand Chinese tiles have arrived a,
Salem, Oregon, to Lc used for paving garden
walks by q citizen in thst place. .... ,.
The cpiz~tic is greatly embarrassing
operations ct the Phoebe mines. and many
teams have been taken of. Tlm
There Is . well founded rumor that
Mormon agents are negotiating for large
tracts Of land in Mexico.
A mathematician says that if Kansas wa.
Us dcnsely peoplcd as Massachusetts,, it would
contain population of 100000.
. The Wbi,c'P Pine .Se,es has passed into tho
hands Of Messrs. A. Skilluan & Co., who
succeeded the late proprietor Mr.. Forbes.
New San Diego, Cal, about four years
old. has a population Of 5000 The assessed
valuation Of taxable property 10 81 SOC, 900.
John Lucas. who went to California in
ls47, died OF heart disease ut his residence
near Santa Rosa recently. He was 7s years
Of ayc. j."
Butter and eggs are selling at moderate
prices nowin Walla Walla, the former st
Is cents per pound, and the latter ut 20 cents
per dozen.
A Colorado onion measuring twenty
inches in circumference, and weighing two
pounds and five ounces. is on exhibition at
Lawrence, Kansas. .... ,..rY
Benjamin A. Mardis, . gentleman we'll
kn"wn in political circles. died in Sacra-
mento On the 7th ult., after brief Illness
aged A years. rs.,l
From December 14,h 10 January 18th they
had IN earthquake almost every day q Fort
Colville. A point Of land that ran into
Okanasan Lake has entirely disappeared.
An energetic divorce lawyer of Chicago
has completed an arrangement With the
County Clerk to have his professional card
printed on the backs Ut marriage licenses.
,- Up in Portland Oregon, they now vote
revolvers TO the best local on the daily pa.
pcrs there Heretofore they have only re-
ceived cowhide', cudgels and No. 1s boo.s
Winnemuccs, New. February 1.-THE
bill for the removal of tho county seat of
humboldt from Unionvillc 70 W,nnemucca
passed the Senate to-day, by vote Ut II "a
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1t In stated that John w., one OF the IA
vorite and the most business like Of Brigham
Young's sons, divorced two Of his three
wives, and will hereafter reside in Phils-
delphia.
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Wichita, Kansas, expects that the cattle
trade Of the present year at that point will
greatly exceed last year. A few droves
already heard from are figured up and
amount to 40, 600 head. ''', ',-....,.....,
The danger Of lynch law WAS recently H.
lnstratcd in Caldwell. Kansas. where vigi.
lance committee hung perfectly respect.
able and quiet young man in mistake for .
horse thief. ....,...y. . "a,.., .. y,,..,
A Virginia City, New. policeman has gone
to Portland, Oregon, to institute suit for the
recovery Of about one>hslf the town, which
hc claims under some old title acquired Z
quarter Of y century ago. ,H fi'
Steamboat opposi,ion In all earnestness
has set in on Puget Sound once more.
Rates dhavc come down. till carrying of
freight is no longer business of profit and
passengers trave! for little or nothing. .
According to the Utah Aiaing Journa! It
only taAes seven inches of ssow 10 ehec.u-
ally blockade Utah railroad. While the
fireman sweeps the track with bnop the
passengers smusc themselves snowballing
each other aud hunting jackabbits. "ra.i
A flumc will be built next spring from
Lake Tahoe 70 Truckee, following The
course of the river; length, fifteen miles.
The firme will bc built for the purpose Of
floating lumber railroad ties, mining timbers
wood and shingle blocks and perhaps saw
logs. f'' 49, 5.'7 ~
The editors in Nevada are calling each
other pet names, the Carson Appeal, man
says The outlaw who presides over the ink
pot or the Territorial Eassrpriss is divided
between propensity to cry havoc, and let
slip the mules and asses and swine, of tes.
tructi0n. .M.r... a,
Perry Gossett, . we'll l-knHwn frsighter ;on
The Pioche aud Toano road. Nevada, Inst
twelve mules = few days sgos At Egan
Canon. from epizootic -bsing ssarly sqsar.
ter Of his train. He had refased 1ao0 fot
one span ,pf the auiasls losi. They were
worked m . cold s,orus.,. p raq ps
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