The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-13
LATEST WESTERN NEWS.

City Government at Salem costs at the rata
OF $50 600 per year.
The Walla WalIa Statesman says that Kali
anna is destined to supersede Portland, and
become the trading mart Of the northwest
coast:
The assed valuation Of property ii Eugene
City, Is S445,OO0.
The Albany Democrat notes IN astonishing
amount Of travel through that place by rail.
Disbursements at Eugene City for labor,
ETC.: on the railroad, on last pay day, footed
up $50, 900 in coin.
There is a strong feeling in favor Of having
the Siletz Reservation opened for settlement
by the whites. , s..
Wheat grown on uplands, east of the Dal.
les, is already harvested The yield IL good.
Those who have triedit say that the dry ups
lands will yield good crops, if the grain is
sown in the fall.
The small lighthouse at the entrance Of
Yaqnina Bay Is nearly completed. It is a
model Of neatness and finish.
{ The engine to be used in the water works
at Salem will be one OF 80, horse power and
capable Of throwing 10000 gallons Of water
an hour. The water will be taken from the
current of tile river.
In Marion county there are eight veterans
Of the war of 1912. Their name are Thomas
Davis, B. L. English, James Davidson. Jesse
Ward, b B. Cox, William Shaw, J.. H. Bel
linger and-Pitman.
A new coal mine has been discovered near
Oysterville, on Yaqinla Bay.
The wheat crop in the bay has been par
tial failure.
The opposition between steamboats, on Pu-
get Sound has ended. The STAIRS have
bought Off Wright and Finch for three years.
Fare by the North Pacific, from. Olympia to
Victoria, is S.. Meals IS.
Chinese on the N. P. r. r. have hired a
physician at a stipulated price to attend to all
their maiadies. Having got rid of the re-
sponsbility of looking after their health,
they will probably be able to do much more
work.
The Bedrock Democrat says that the best
business in Union and Baker counties, af-
fording the quickest and largest returns, is
sheep hllsbandry. IG adds: If there is any
| other business anywhere. that will yield as
large profits, we would like to know it.
Merchandising will not do it; raising grain
won't do it; raising cattle and horses will not
do it, nor will mining one time in Il Thousand
A letter from Eugene City says that the
following are the wages paid on the railroad:
sbovelers, 81 per day; scraper holders, 81
team of two horses to scrape. including
driver, 81 %; plow teams of four horses
with driver. SO 90; carpenters and timber
hewers OIL the trestle works, 81; track layers
S. 30; spikers So 90.
| Washington Territory.
Walla Walla Is to have city Jail.
The Town of sWalla WalIa is alive will
teams loaded for Idaho.
Col. Crocker is forminga a company to de
velop the coal mine i'll Puyallup creek, w. T.
E. B. Whitman has been elected Mayor oi
WalIa Wala.
Twenty-Five miles of road-bed from Kalama
north will be ready for track-laying by the Isl
Of September.
Walla Walla proposes to apply to the Leg.
islature for an egtention of her ..city limits
so as to include all the additions
Contractor Montgomer OH the N. r: r.
r.. is paying for common labor % Is day
((greenbacks) out of which $5 week is
charged for board.
The papers at Walla Walla say that cer-
tain hotels there are troubled with wingless
mosquitoes. Rude and growing travellers
call them bed-tugs.
Arran genaents are making for holding an
agricultural fair at Walla Walla. The prill-
cipal premiums are. Of course, for horse-rac-
ing and equestrianship.
There are parties from Portland in Walla
Walia valley who have gone up there for the
purpose of purchasing 100000 bushels OF
wheat. Sixty cents per bushel is the price
now offered.
Considerable interest is being manifested in
the Grand Army of the Republic in this Terri
tory, and applications for several charters
have been made.
Utah Territory
Mrs. Minnie Harrison, arranged on the
chrage Of poisoning her husband at Ogden,
has been discharged there. being no eviderfce
to sustain the charge.
3. Il IA ( - M 5s
An army Of grasshoppers recently visited
the vicinity of Og.len, and still they come.
Corn. beans. cabbages young trees, etc,
have suffered severely in consequence
The Santa Clara Indians are stealing all the
stock In Southern Utah.
A fresh cargo Of Saints arrived in Salt
Lake City recently, from England.
Grizzley bears are becoming so familiar
in some sections Of Utah that they come into
farmers yards, gobb1ing everything in the
fowl and pork line, and knocking children
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