The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Olympia has no political clubs.
Olympia has 3l9 school children.
There are five papers in Olympia.
Seattle is to have a daily paper in two
weeks.
Olympia will hold an annual fair in
October.
The Sound is entirely enveloped in a
cloud of smoke.
Mason county, W. T., is to have a
new court house.
a new hotel is TO be built soon at
Lewiston, Idaho.
Wheat is selling at Walla Walla for
80 cents per bushel.
The new Baptist church in Seattle
was dedicated on Sunday.
Walla Walla is said to be again as
suming its former life-like activity.
Many of the Idaho people are taking
up their beds and jogging up to Oregon
Passengers from Olympia reach San
Francisco in few hours less than five
days.
Theobald has retired from the edito-
rial control of the Olympia Courier.
Next!
Oneida county, Idaho, in which the
famed Soda Springs are situated, has a
population of 4,775.
Clarke county, w. T., will have an
Agricultural Fair on the 9th, 10th and
I llth Of October next.
/ a considerable trade in walrus tusks
has sprung up with Alaska. These tusks
are used as ivory by cutters.
1t is rumOred that Hon. II. G. Strive,
of Vancouver, will soon assume the edi-
torial control of the Puget Sound Cor
rier.
Col. G. II. I.arrabee, formerly propri-
etor OF the Seattle Dispatch printing OF
flee, has just sold out his interest tC
Beriah Brown and brother.
There is much dissatisfaction ex.
pressed in connection with the reeen
establishment of a mail route between
Lewiston and Spokane Falls.
Several large fires are raging in tn.
woods near Vancouver, which probabl!
accounts for the smoky state Of the at
mosphere in this part of Oregon.
olympia contains twelve saloons an,
only one school house. a local pape
says "the saloons are provided with al
the appliances that modern luxury ca
command, while the school house i
, barely shelter from the sun and rain.
Colorado wheat promises well thi
year, and Colorado farmers say they ca
prove it, 20 be the best wheat i'm the worlC
, In Denver, Colorado flour is Sl4 per 10
pounds, and Eastern flour $40, really
good argument TO prove "what Colorad
I wheat can do.n
e Seattle has a population Of two thous
: and, does business of over n millio
, dollars n year, has several large store.
a six churches, two public schools, an
S contains also the Territorial University
r and claims TO be the commercial ms
s tropolis of Washington Territory.
r The Courier thinks an outlay of sec
! in premiums by the Puget Sound Ayr
r cultural Society, say 500 for horse
f 500 for cattle and 5000 for the be:
b wheat field, would add $4,000 TO tn
o wealth of the Territory by the compel
e ton the offer would excite among stoc
n raisers and grain growers.
The Olympia Tribune tells us ths
j Munger, one of the most gifted youn
5 artists of America, whose celebrate
Il picture of the falls of Minnehaha ha
Il given him a national reputation, ha
, come to this coast with a commissio
from 4 prominent citizen Of New Yor
to paint large picture of Mount Rain
! Ter.
A Walla Walla correspondent Of I'll
!, Willamette FcumcT, under date of Al
gust DIST, says: "As cur harvest is no
l. nearly all in the granary, l see that I'll
farmers are better satisfied with the r,
:, suits of their yield. Prices for whe;
are very low, and many farmers Al
feeding hogs as n means Of eonvertin
y to better profits. The yield, think,
. our wheat crop has been about an ave
, age of p bushels, although we frequen
=, ly hear of from 40 to GO as bein
threshed."