The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-02-23
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valley.
A locomotive, weighing thirty tons,
has arrived at Kalama.
The State Temperance Convention
met at Salem yesterday.
A final survey for railroad from Ka-
lama TO Vancouver is to be made.
a line of vessels is to be put on be-
tween San Francisco and Seattle.
"Joaquin" Miller has been lecturing in
san Francisco with moderate success.
The roll Of Oregon Pioneers at Asto-
ria now contains over one hundred
names.
Mr.. J. c. Mendenhall, Of Albany, has
been appointed mail agent on the o. &
G. r. r.
The Oregon and California Railroad
Company will build seventy miles Of
road this year.
Some Of the Oregon papers want an
extra Legislative session called to amend
the election law.
Buildings for business purposes are in
demandat Olympia Every store in the
place is now rented.
The recent storm extended over
Washington Territory. The water has
been very high there.
All the difficulties between the rail
road and Campbell Chrisman, of Lane
county, have been adjusted and settled
The Corvallis debating Society has de-
cided that the mind of woman is not in
ferior to that of man. Sensible Society.
The Union Pacific Railroad is reported
clear of snow. 1t is feared, however
that strong winds will make the drift as
bad as ever.
The local editors of Portland are
afflicting their readers with discussion
as to which of them is the prettiest. o
what farce
Ex-Governor Curry will deliver the
next lecture before the Washington De
batting Society, on the 9th inst. Sub
ject, "The Pioneers"
The Olympia Transcript says there hai
been land slide at Tumwater. Tree
may be seen standing upright in th'
water below the falls.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany now has SO miles of finished track.
Contracts are let for the construction OF
635 more, to be finished by the close OF
1872.
The claims of Walter Bros, of Port
land, against the Commercial Hotel As
sociation for furniture furnished to the
Chemeketa Hotel, have been settled by
compromise.
The winter has been quite severe in
Yakima valley, w. T. One hundred
dollars per ton is offered for hay, and
scarce at that. The coldest weather wa;
nineteent degrees below zero.
The Treasury Department has giveI
notice that a revenue vessel will be con
structed for Puget Sound at an earl.
day. Bids are asked for, and will be re
ceived up to Monday, April sth.
A concert was given at the Baptis
church in this city last Tuesday evening
for the benefit of Prof Geo. p. Newell
The church was well filled, and tn
concert was in every sense of the word
success.
VIM. Pickett, Esq, well known il
Oregon as a journalist, and understood
at present to be connected with tn
Beacon, has been elected Recorder G
Kalama. No doubt he will wear hi
hOnors meekly.
The Bulletin man is determined t
have it that no one was hurt by the lat
railroad collision. Perhaps it is pre-
sumption on the part of passengers t
presume to know more about it than tn
Bulletin man, who was in Portland a
the time.
The Oregolidn Office has been move
TO theS E. corner Stark and Front SITS
and is now snugly escOnced in a wOodel
building on the river bank. The pro
prietor, Mr.. PittOek, intends erecting
substantial brick building the coming
summer.
The Albany Register says a cOmpro
mise has been effected with the prisoner
in the new ten thousand dollar count!
Jail whereby, in consideration of being
fed on chickens and cranberry pie, they
agree not to dig through the walls unit
after the election.
The Bellingham Bay coal mine, il
Washington Territory, was recently
opened for the purpose of ascertainin.
the extent to which it had been flooded
when it was found filled up to the heigh
of about four hundred feet from the bot
tom of the lowest level.
The Register Of the Land Office a
Olympia has been notified from Wash
ington of the withdrawal from marke
Of the alternate sections of land nortl
of those previously withdrawn, to tn
vicinity of Bellingham Bay, i'm the in
terest of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
The citizens of Washington county ar
taking a lively interest in the propose
plank road from Portland to HillsborC
At a meeting at the latter place las
Saturday five thousand dollars weT
subscribed, and much more promised
1t is now the intention TO extend I'll
road to Forest Grove. Success to til
enterprise.
The Olympia Tribune says the assess
ment of Washington Territory the eul
rent year cannot by any possibility IA
below sl4,0O0,OOO, and four mills on tha
amount (the increased ratio of the LAT
Assembly, will ,,i-o SO ooo go !,