The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-03-22
WESTERN ITEMS,


An Oregon youth has inmortslized him.
self by stealing saw logs.
Nevada City wants horse railroad be.
tween that place and Colfax.
+. K. Mears, Of Merced county CAL, has
sowed sixty acres Of alfalfa.
Oregon fears that the Ncz Perces Indians
intend going upon the war path.
Salinas valley, CAL. raised fifteen thous.
and sacks Of mustard seed last year.
El Dorado county, Cal, is pleasantly excit>
ed over numerous gold discoveries.
Several Virginia City, Nevada, men have
gone to Vienna to attend the exposition.
Any man in Phoebe who IS hsbitual
drinker of water is warned to leave town.
San Diego has two gas compan les. No
reference 20 the two papers--both daily
Improvements are being made at an un.
exampled rate in Naps county, California.
Pioche complains that its streets are
thronged with lazy men who won't work.
1t costs the State of Missouri $4,000 year
to supply the residents of her Prisons with
tobacco.
Wood is six dollars and fifty cents cord
in Leavcnworth. (Kansas), and butter twen<
ty cents.
Colored boys are working their way into
the great machine shops of the Central Pa
cific Railroad
There are now eight woolen mills in oper.
alton in Californis, and all of them doing
fine business
Parties have left Phoebe for the purpose
of locating Truckee lands along the line of
the Phoebe and Bullionville railroad.
Phoebe hogs are fading surely away under
the influence Of ja'ap, administered by hog.
hating citizens Of that bellixerent burg.
The late Ex-Governor Geary was the p,o.
neer of Masonry in California. he having
organized the first lodge in San Francisco.
The Postmaster at Trinity Center, CAL.
is paid the muniticent salary of one cent
.lay. lie is rapidly becoming blosled bond.
holder.
At3o'clock a. m. March 9th. the Grass
Valley House and five others on the divide
near Virginia City Nevada, burned. Loss
$4,000
Tho engine for the Phoebe narrow gauge,
which had been anxiously looked for long
time. was found stuck in the mud and de
serted bv the teanNster
Sarah Winnemucca, the Piute princess,
recently left Winnemncca for Salt Lake On
q visit 10 her husband, Lieutenant Bartlett,
Of the United States army.
A branch 0f the Swiss. American bank Of
Geneva, Switzerland, has been established
in San Francisco, with Francis Dcrton and
Robert Watt . resident directors.
4 A Silver City miner rsnasked, after at
tending prayer meeting few weeks ago,
that it was the first time he had heern the
word ot GOd handled. for close onto forty
year."
Joh, Gilman, an Irishman, was found
drowned in the Carson river on Thursday,
a short distance above the bridge at Dayton,
Nevada He had been missed nearly ten
Gays.
George Davis, who lives on the Nacimibto.
Los Angeles county, CAL. recently had over
1900 sheep starved 10 death. Hc was too
sick to 90 on. of tho house, and the hired
man cosraled the sheep and left for parts
unknown.
San BerDardino claims to raise the best,
sweetest and largest oranges produced in the
United States and to excel those of Cuba.
The reason of this perfection 10 that there is
never any frost in thai county.
One Schneider shot man named KYLE
in Empire City, Nevada, on Wednesday
March 5th who died soon after. FL. County
Commissioner Jones of Ormsby county was
also dangerously wounded in tie affrxy.
John Owen was shot and instantly killed
by his brother>in>law, William Burke, near
Ukiah Mendocino county, on the 25th. The
trouble originated through family dif1cul-
ties. The murderer las fled from justice.
/ The Gold Hin Nsws says the alkali which
abounds in the water in that vicinity Is
ruinous to machinery. brass ~ well a iron.
The replacement Of stop cocks. valves, etc.,
Is necessary about once every three montbe.
Carson City, New, February 20 Hon. G.
| H. Belknap, Judge Of the Supreme Court;
was married to Miss Jennie, daughter Of
Governor Bradley, by Bishop Whitaker.
The ceremony Vas followed BY . reception
at the Governors mansion.
| Everything in Yakima Valley. Washing.
ton Territory, Is progressing finely. The
winter has been quite mild, and live stock
Of al kinds he's passed through Il excsllently.
There are now about 1000 head Of cattle in
Yakima county. Hay issclling .. from $3.50
70 u per ton.
Here is what the Walls Waaa Ustos calls
the latest style. "A few evenings nnce .
young gentleman of this city brought out
the very latest style of dress st m evening
entertainment, consisting Of white cat and
pants, white vest and whils kid gloves. With
ring outside, and his booes blacked with
stove polish. He looked quite 'nasty,' and
the stove polish gave him kind Of silver.
grey.fox appearance. We look for cor
ncr' in stOve polish soon. raH
Pioche. March L. A shooting sflray oc.
CURED last night between Thomas O'Brieu
and Barney Murray. Sevenlshots were fired.
one taking effect In HunSyb ~, bat the
wound was not fatal. The olDcsss aasempe-
cd to arrest O'Brien, when be fred repeas.
cdly q them, and was not arrested until he
had emptied his pistol He h now iu jsil
on the charge Of attempt 70 murder, and Of
resisting o@ces1. 4 ss,
Nor ran KmD SHE WAxrxD.-A blssh.
log maiden Of forty Summers estessd shs
town clerks omee In Wheelisg W. Va,
recently and asked. in voice tsenbliEg with
agitation. for license. The clerk took
down the name and the address Of the Vie.