The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-01

A nOtlceaDle EtNlNAA VI ile real estate
trade is reported in the Salem market
There are about sixty-five deaf mutes
in this state, five of whom are Indians
Father Waller is engaged in raising
money to finish the Methodist Church
in Salem.
Horace Dibble, of AIolalla Prairie,
raised on one volunteer stalk of black
Norway oats 500 grains.
A Jackson county farmer has raised
10000 pounds of onions on one-half acre
Of ground the present year
Levi Leland, of Oregon City, is Ices
turing in Southern Oregon on behalf of
the order of Good Templars.
The New Custom House at Astoria is
receiving the finishing touches and will
soon be ready for occupancy.
The stage from Roseburg to Coos City
now makes only one trip a week, leaving
the former point each Friday.
Some French families from Walla
Walla county have lately settled upon
Catherine creek in Union county.
Some fine specimens of gold-bearing
quartz have been taken from ledge in
the western part of Jackson county.
Grains and hay are quite plentiful in
Eastern Oregon, and prices are generally
lower than in the Willamette Valley.
a party which left La Grande last
week to prospect for quartz on Snake
river, has returned and reports favora-
bly,.
The Portland Free Discussion Club |
have their weekly meetings every Sun
day at o'clock z. NJ. at No. 50 First St.,
up stairs.
An effort is being made to establish a
Good Templars Lodge at Roseburg. A
good place for lodge of that kind to
try its metal on.
The Roseburg depot grounds are To-
Gated in the upper part of the town,
where Mr.. Aaron Rose donated ten acres
for that purpose.
Mr.. J. Paquet has completed his con-
tract for constructing wing dams at
Union bar, few miles above the mouth
of the Yamhill river.
The Supreme Court has decided the
case of the Roseburg and Cole Valley
Wagon Road, and the same has been
ordered open for travel
The new Court House at Salem, it is
expected, will be finished by the first of
June next. When completed, it will be
the finest building in Oregon.
Somebody ought to put up Touring |
mill at Yaquina, as the denizens of that |
section eat $4,000 worth of flour per
annum, and there is no mill there.
A Baker City paper says that new
houses are going up all over the town,
and still there is great demand for more. |
Every house that can be occupied at all
is full
Hon. w. w. Bristow has appointed
son of Mr.. Sears, of Coast Fork, to the
Agricultural College at Corvallis. There
is another appointment to be made from
Lane county.
Several families lately from McAIinn-
vile moved to Tillamook. The immI- 1
grafton into that county has been
greatly stimulated by the passage of the
Wagon Road Act.
Says the La Grande paper; 'NIount
Emily, the proudest and highest headed
Of all our magnificent mountains, has of
late presented fiery front to the in
habitants of the valley. No damage is
likely to occur"
The following are the officers of the
Sigma Phi Society of the Albany Col
lege: President, r. K. Warren; Vice
President, r. A. Foster; Secretary, J. L. |
Conner; Corresponding Secretary, J. 7.
Tate; Treasurer, James Foster.
The Legislature allowed the chief
clerks of each house IS per day and gave
them ten days after the session closed to
finish up their work; assistant clerks So
per day; committee and other clerks Sc
per day; Sergeant-at-Arms and door
keepers, Sc per day, and pages 50.
The Astoria correspondent of the
Yamhill Reporter says: ''The grades
through Lllt A4lllS AAolONNA SAAAtsAA 1StAA-'
of coal which have oecasiOned much
desire among the citizens to have shafts
sunk to proper depth to test the proba-
bility of the town being underlaid with
beds Of coal"
The section Of the Coos Bay Wagon
Road from Isthmus Slough to the
twenty-four mile post, has been COM
pleted, and the map of the same has been |
approved and filed in the Executive Of |
nee. A copy has been forwarded to the
Secretary of the Interior, preparatory to
the withdrawal of the swamp lands |
This section completes the Coos Raw
Wagon Road.
Early California has had a success
ful run at Orc Fino theater. This nro-
duetion is from the pen of a pentIahan
in San Francisco, and depicts in a forc;-
BILE manner the early days of Californi.
1t has drawn crowded houses for sevoraI
successive nights, and will be nlavad |
at the matinee Saturday afternoon
new play entitled "Fay," from the men
Of a lady in this city, is in preparation