OCR Text |
Show THE TERRITORIES. The dogs in Olympia have the epizootic, epi-zootic, caused by eating poisooed meat. H. G. Struve has resumed editorial control of the Puget Sound "Courier" after an absence of four weeks from his post. The old oil house at the lighthouse at Cape Disappointment, in Washington Washing-ton Territory, is to be torn away and a new and larger ono erected at once. The grand jury at Olympia has indicted in-dicted William Kirkiand for the crime of murder, committed in the killing of a man named Campbell last summer. A gentleman from the Dalles informs in-forms us that the snow on the road from that place to Tygh Valley is ten inches deep, and cattle are faring badly. One Chambers, who has just returned re-turned to Olympia from Yakima, reports stock in that section as being very fat, and the grass so high that it will hide a man on horseback. It is now intimated that Arnold, the original diamond discoverer, is a descendant de-scendant of the celebrated B. Arnold, mentioned in the early records of the country. The Arnold family is afflicted afflict-ed with the taint of unreliability. Arapahoe county, Colorado, voted $W,ijOO in bouds to aid in the building build-ing of a railroad from Denver to Georgetown, vi't Bear Creek, ihenca over Floyd's Hill reaching Clear Creek valley a few miles below Idaho, and then following tho creek to this placo. All the San Juanors are delighted with the district and proposo to mako it their permanent homo. They regard re-gard it as tho richest and most wonderful won-derful portion of the Colorado, and say that the tenth part of it is not yet known. Clear Creek county, Colorado, voted $2uO,WJ0 in bonds to the Colorado Central railroad company, provided that corporation continuo their road and havo the cars running to the foot of Floyd's Hill by March 1st, 1873, and also cod struct a railroad and have the cars running to Georgetown within fifteen months from the votiog of the bonds. "Old Jake," writcn the Montana "Gazette," from Pbtllipsburg : "Rumor "Ru-mor has it that the Hopo mining company com-pany will take the place of tho St. Louis and Montana company on the 1st of January, and that new works are to bo added and constructed which will work pro Li tab ly low grade ores, but wo think old rumor don't know anything about it" Colonel George II, WoIIcott, chief of the Texas and Pacific engineering party, U working bis way from Pima village, Arizona, up Santa Crux valley, and will proceed eastward to tho north and oast of here, to Uicnaga, thence aloDg tho Whetstone range to San ' Pedro river. Another lino south of Tuoftoo, from Wavapa and the Gilla route, is now being run, and tho road will bo certainly established. There will bo no grado to exceed eighty feet to the milo. |