The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-13
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


veyed.
Lewiston has three dogs to every in
habitant.
Transactions in real estate in Olympia
are improving.
Work in the coal mines near Seattle
has been resumed.
There are $50 voters and Il, 900 head of
cattle in Kittitass Valley.
\ number of settlers have gone into
Cedar Valley, w. T., east of the noun
tains.
The Champions of the Red Cross
failed to organize an encampment at
Tumwater.
The citizens of Olympia are talking
of a plank road to Tumwater, which
will cost $4,000.
Shipley and Brown, the CORY pirates
of Puget Sound, were lately seen in the
Kittitass Valley.
The Gentle element is said to be in
creasing much more rapidly than the
Mormon, at Salt Lake.
y man in Idaho fell two hundred and
sixty feet down to the bottom of the
shaft, lighting on his head.
One day last week white man and a
colored woman, both residents of Olym-
pia, were married in Victoria.
The Olympia Courier says that the
town-site controversy at Steilacoom has
at last received its final quietus.
Within the past two weeks the popu-
latiOn Of Olympia has been increased
by the arrival of five boys and one girl
BY an order of the Town Board the
people of Olympia are under obligation
to destroy caterpillars in their orchard;
and gardens.
The Governor Of Washington Terri
tory has issued proclamation for q
general election, to be held on Tuesday
November 5th.
A Silver City miner, so the papers say,
recently fell nown three hundred foot
shaft, and didn't know he was hurt, but
when they drew him up he was dead.
In summing up affairs to the Bois,
Basin generally, the Idaho World say,
that the mining season may be con
sidered over, although n few companies
in each of the camps will have watel
enough to last them until snow flies.
The greater portion of Helena, Mon
tana, was destroyed by fire. Sever
whole blocks were burnt, the total los,
being $4,000. The Daily Gdzeh off1c,
was among the buildings destroyed
This is the second time the Office ha.
been destroyed.
A large quantity of Washington Ter
ritory productions have been Forwarded
to the Eastern States. The lot will no
be complete without a Washington Ter
ritory politician, considered by som,
one of the rarest productions ever wit
messed by man.
General Milroy, Superintendent of In
dian Affairs for Washington Territory
has returned to Olympia from an ofiicia
visit to the Yakima Reservation. H
expresses himself highly pleased will
the manner in which the Rev. J. II
Wilbur conducts the affairs Of tina
agency.
Gilbert Munger, who enjoys an exten
sf,-o ,o,,utotio,, % n hr;IIfonf Iondcaar
painter, is now at SteiIacoom waiting
for an opportunity to get good view o
Mount Rainier, so he can paint tn
same on canvass. He also intends t,
paint a picture of the Shoshone Falls
in Idaho, before leaving the coast.
Speaking of a work entitled, "Re
sources of Washington Territory" iron
the pen of John Mortimer Murphy
formerly connected with the Herald
of this city, and Olympia paper says
at is by far the most complete work o.
: the Territory yet. written, and will n
doubt, do much good by showing its ad
vantages to those intending to immi
CRATE"
The residents of Yakima county com
, plain about mail matters, and say
takes fifteen days for the mail to reac
them from Walla Walla. a Aeorrespond
ent thinks he could tell the Posta
Agent where the fault is If he coul
only get chance to whisper in his eal
and intimates that certain postmaste
is more punctual in attending to juleT
than to his business.
: The Lewiston Signal says: Joseph
band of outlaws have been maxim
threats to destroy the settlers home
Willowa Valley, and the latter dii
patched n messenger to the India
, Agent at Lapwai last week to see If I'll
Indians could be compelled to come in'
the Reservation. Agent Monteith an
P. b. Whitman have gone to the WI
r Iowa to investigate the trouble, an
have not yet returned.
e Two men named Jackson and MeAl