western news papers

I read two stories from the new north west news paper in deer lodge Montana in 1871. I read a story about a race horse who had been sold many times for under 50 dollars and now the horse can not even be bought for 30,000 because he is doing so well now. The man who owned the horse now bought it for 44 dollars. I also read a story about a man who went insane and killed his wife while she was pregnant and then he killed him self using a revolver. I don't read the news paper much but this news paper seemed to be pretty similar to news papers now when it comes to the layout and the type of stories that are in it.