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Show WESTERN NOTES. All the Western papers sympstha'j-1 cally record the death of Mrs. S. J? I Nuckolls. The democrats are organizing in the Black Hills fur the elections of couuty officers, Chinese check raisers are t'ae latest fraudulent sensalii.n in San Francisco. Six of them have beeu arrested. ' . . Senator Morton's non is still confined con-fined on one of the Aiaeka island by sickness, bis devoted wife Keeping him company. ' ' " 1 1 ' -' - r i Thomas Welch of Mendocino county, CaU has cleared $10,000 this year on a crop of potatoes, aud has twenty acres to dig. . j ; ; i The memberB of t.ie royal Chinese theatre.San Francisco, on Friday niglit performed tho annual ceremony ot driving away the evil One by prayer and barning joss paper. - The recent severe storms in Colorado Colo-rado have interlared with the completion comple-tion of Longmont extention of the Colorado Central somewhat, but the work is being pushed 8 rapidly as possible. The Hidden Treasure owners were gladdened, Friday, by the arrival ot another beautiful five thousand dollar gold button, being the laBt retort from the Hidden Treasure mill at Central oily,; Black Hills. : - in San Iranciaco the other day, sent a , note to a friend, in which he vindi-v cated bie wife from all blame for hia' actions. '1 He did not deserve so good a woman he snid, as she always advised him for the best. r Ahorse jockey at Oakland,. Ch, attempted to commit an outrage on a Mrs. Miller the other day, while driving driv-ing the lady out. Hhe escaped and informed her aon of the fact, who at once procured a gun and shot the raBoal in the side, in flic ling a fatal would. The young man gave himself up. The bullion product of Colorado for 1877, Ims been estimated at $0,500,-000, $0,500,-000, about two-thirds of which will be credited to Gilpin and Clear creek counties, but this Btrikes the Georgetown George-town Courier as an underestimate. The placer gold will amount to more this year thau for a number of years previous. :. - ... At Virginia city Nev., on Saturday Con. Sullivan was shot by J. J. Gas'ey' at the Maple L;af mine. The shoot-int? shoot-int? resulted from a' disouts over the i claim." ""Cisey ordered Sullivan off the ! claim. : 'The latter had held it fortive lyears. Hfiffouefht Casey with rocka. Toe ball1 passed, through his thigh. Caspy fled.-w ( ; ,,- ,'.'''''' .The Boulder JNewa'thas noticed--a number of dead cattle on the, road between Longmont and Boulder, and on inquiry found that they were cattle that .had come down from the . mountains moun-tains on account of the feed getting; short, aud hot being salted' as -they should have been, - were killed by the quantities of alkali they imbibed in the water.-! V ; r-t;i Thomas Crothera;: a lawyer of Dkiah,. who b.is several libel suits againat Mrs. B jlle Lynch of the Dispatch, Dis-patch, and wuo has been frequently mentioned in that paper in an unfavorable un-favorable liht for some time past, attacked her Friday, jumped upon and beat her terribly. Sjme one in the 'crowd' that collected took a pistol from Mrs. Lynch 'a Docket. |