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

More robberies are reported in Jackson
county.
a Catholic church is being built at
Gervais.
The state officers are busy making
out their reports.
One firm at Corvallis has 10000 BUSH
els of wheat on storage.
Prof. Barrett is to take charge Of the
Academy at Baker City.
Warehouses and mills at Albany now
contain GO,o00 bushels Of wheat
The Weekly Statesman has entered
upon lis twenty-sccnod volume.
The refurnishing Of the Chemeketa
Hotel at salem costs about 100000.
Capt Crandall, of the Statesman, has
gone to southern Oregon on a visit.
Corvallis is Of the opinion that she
ought 60 have the state University.
The fall term Of the Baker City Acad-
emy commences on the 9th of Septem-
Der.
A smart little village is springing up
at Drains Station on the o. K c. Rail-
road.
The potato rot has developed itself in
Clatsop county. 1t was at first thought
to be frost.
The Jacksonville Times has again
changed proprietors. Mr.. T. B. Kent is
now sole owner.
Wild flax which looks like it might
be tanned has been found in the Klam-
ath Lake country.
The Ia Grandites refused at a late
school meeting to vote any tax what
ever to support a school.
Rev. Wm. McFaddea is in Jail in
Linn county charged with the crime OF
incest with his daughter.
The largest water tank on the rail-
road has just been completed at Albany.
It's capacity is 5000 gallons.
Wasco county is receiving quite an
addition to her population from the
Willamette Valley this season.
Six hundred bushels Of potatoes are
expected to be dug out Of one and half
acres Of ground ON Yaquina Bay.
The Temperance people of Linn
county are going to petition for a strin-
gent temperance law. We wish them
success.
The Lafayette Courier says the potato
crop in Namhill promises well, and the
price is coming down towards 25 cents
a bushel.
The Portland Free Discussion Club
have their weekly meetings every sun
day at 8 o'clock p. NJ. at No. 50 First St,
up stairs.
The agricultural works at Salem are
making progress. a large lot Of ma
chinery for these works, costing $4,000,
has arrived.
The Stofes'coa says there will be no
lack of accommodation for those who
may visit Salem during the Legislature
and State Fair.
Baker City is quite lively; there are
no houses to be rented; families are con-
stantly applying and looking for houses
without success.
James Dinwiddie Of Lane county hai
threshed four thousand bushels Of whea
from one hundred acres. It was sprint
sown club wheat.
Roseburg aspires to be city. Arti
cles Of Incorporation have been prepares
and viii be submitted to the Legislator
at the coming session.
The proposed Good Templars' Hall il
this city viii front fifty feet on Thir
street and one hundred on Alder, an
viii be two stories in height.
About two months since an ordinanc
was passed by the Common Council i
relation to lighting the town clock, bu
it still remains dark. Who is to blame
The friends of the Willamette Uni
versity must have made n grand rail-
at Salem, rs a dispatch from that pIac
informs US that $4,000 were raised i
aid Of that institution.
A communication has been receive
from II. r. Leonard, the architect, de:
ignating the western terminus of tn
proposed bridge across the river at I'll
foot Of Columbia street.
Farmers up the valley are very gel
orally storing their wheat, refusing
sell at the prices Offered. It is calcl
lated that not less than 100000 bushe
viii be stored at Junction.
DIR. Belt, the physician to the pen
Tertiary convicts, viii recommend Il
adjustment Of the shaclIle 10 a great d
gree. He says its constant use is brin
ing hip disease on many Of the priso
ers.
The artesian well which was begun
Jacksonville some time ago, has reach
the depth Of 10 feet, but the water wor
come to the surface. Some fine spec
mems Of copper, however, have be-
taken from the hole.
The following officers of Union Lodg
No. 3, I. o. o. F. at la Grande, ha
been chosen and installed, to wit:
D. Hannah, y. G.; y. s. Blank, V.
VIM. Wolf, r. and p. Secretary;
Alexander, Treasurer.
J. r. Neil, Prosecuting Attorne
gives notice through the Jaclzsonvil