Show IETTER LETTER letter enoa enoy EVADA NEVADA N 11 1 PROGRESS OF RAILROADS INDIAN expeditions PED ELECTIONS CHISE ETC special correspondence RENO BENO NEV way luay 13 1868 the central pacific railroad company sold boid some forty lots lota here the other lay klay at from lo 10 1000 each lin tin eoin eoln coin the natural advantages Ud vantages of this thia lo 10 location cation catlon will wiil make this place 0 to the central what whal laramie will be t to 0 the U P rl B R the water power of the truckee river will attract machinery and mills of every description timber and minerals mineral to 10 support a manufacturing town ar are not to be bo found at any point east of her hex here on te the lindof line of this thib road the mammoth shops both of this road and the branch I 1 southeast will be built here work is i about being commenced on the road 1 southeast south eMt through washoe virginia virgnia carson aurora belmont st joe st thomas Th oinas pinas freemansburg Freem ansburg and ana Wal lapal valley to tap the southern pacific railroad rall Bail road at prescott arizona the grade on the branch from here twenty miles to to virginia averages ft to the mile daily freight and passenger trains are now running each side of the summit of the sierras Sl erras and in two or three weeks the twenty feet of snow on the mountains will have been cleared away and the cars will run directly from sacramento the company calculate to reach the humboldt wells at the western base of the humboldt mountains next fall and the winter of seventy will meet the U P E R E R at ogden the military sent out against the indians who lately stole several hundred head of stock and scalped scalded a number of men women and children in adjacent valleys have just returned to fort churchill and as usual without accomplishing anything the whole democratic ticket was elected in virginia the other day except one alderman and he is like a one eyed dog in a smoke house this state will be bp very apt to go with california against chinese and negro suffrage i next Fall i it seems to be the purpose of the clique who procured pro the appointment bf anson burlingame as minister from china to over stock america with mongolians Mongo lians the C P R R are now paying 30 per month for laborers and they board themselves and of this new hands bands are required to pay 3 for fare to the end of the track the other day a white man started to walk miles to austin on two loaves of bread saying ayin g that he could not board himself when the company would not pay him money enough to keep him from becoming so weak that he would not be able to get away awaya at t all if he staid longer HORATIO BOUNTIFUL may 21 1868 editor deseret news it was only a week ago last monday since bountiful was called to mourn the loss of one of her faithful sons who died it is supposed of consumption and now this afternoon ter noon we are called to mourn the loss of one of her noblest bravest and best citizens elder jeremiah willey who met his death today to day about two p m A few minu mint minutes ites before this hour he was sitting in the house with the partner of his youth engaged in cheerful conversation when to leave remarking 91 1 I will go and see where the calves are his wife bid him norgo not go and offered to go herself but he said wo no alwill go he went and only a few moments had bad elapsed when a cr cry y was heardt beardt there is some one in the creek the creek runs across the main maln road near the schoolhouse school house below brother P G sessions house and passes on by the north end of the late A V V calls lot and across the road running east and west on which brother james duncan lives and thence at the back of brother willeys Wil leys house A search was instantly made and his body found restoratives Restora tives were administered but life was extinct it is supposed that he must soon after leaving the house and on reaching the creeke creek have fallen fallon into a fit to which he has been for a long time subject and then while struggling got into the water his death has spread a gloom over the th ward eWard and filled the hearts of many with sorrow further particulars will undoubtedly be forwarded in a few days yours truly WM |