The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-17
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL

Farms are in great demand in Yam
hill county.
Another coal vein, seven feet wide,
has been discovered at Port Oxford.
An elegant Catholic Church is to be
built at McMinnville this summer.
Six thousand five hundred people
celebrated at Albany on the Fourth.
Mrs. Addie Ballou addressed the con-
victs at the Penitentiary last Sunday.
Mrs. Addie Ballou has been entertain
ing Oregon City folks with her lectures.
Silverton had :, 100 feet of table room
on the Fourth, and it was all occupied.
Mr.. Frazier, of Umatilla county, sold
his wool clip for the snug sum of $1,000.
The Southern Methodists are building
a fine church in Summerville, Union
county.
It is estimated that Linn county will,
this year produce over a million and a
half bushels Of wheat.
The Odd Fellows and Grangers Of
Summerville, Union county, are max
ing preparations to erect a hall jointly.
The reward for the apprehension and
conviction of the murderer Of Conrad
Werner, at Salem, has been raised to
$500.
The Supreme Court Of Washington
Territory will convene in Olympia on
the 18th inst, Chief Justice o. Jacobs
presiding.
A stove foundry is soon to be estab-
lished at East Portland, and stoves will
J.. r,1 Fr,r,a frnr n nd
with Oregon coal
About 200 head Of beef cattle have
crossed the Cascade Mountains on the
Barlow road, from Eastern Oregon, for
this valley, the present season
Mrs. Werner, the widow of Conrad
Werner, lately murdered near Salem,
will receive about 81 900 Immediately
from the Mutual Relief Association of
Petaluma, California.
Rev. Mr. Condor, after visiting the
Seattle coal mines, for scientific pur-
poses, gave it as his opinion that the
coal formation is from peat, chiefly, and
is some 60 million years old.
Mr.. Johns, Of Forest Grove, has just
received twenty-five South American
birds of beautiful varieties from Wood
wards Gardens, San Francisco, and
Woods Museum, in Portland.
Mr. W. w. Martin, of Salem, who is
making a collection of coins, has ac-
quired one which ante-dates the Chris
tian era, as it was lately dug up in
France, where it was in circulation uu-
der the Roman Empire, and bears the
image and superscriptiOn of the Caesars.
The Hastness of our western Territories
is hardly appreciated by people living
in the little pocket States of the East.
Colorado, for instance, is as large as
New England with Ohio added, and is
larger than all the Middle States, and
nearly as large as Great Britain or Ger
many.
Thfrtv-three new books and a number
of valuable papers and documents have
been added to the State Library at Sa.
lem recently. Accompanying the IRE,
port of the Geological Survey Of Michi.
RaD,u received by State Librarian Nc.
Clane, a day or two ago, was large at
las Of elegant maps and charts showing
the different geological formations o
that State.
Mr.. Joseph Southwell, a wool grower
near The Dalles, raised 5,7S6 pounds o
wool from band of 500 sheep ian aver
age of n little over seven pounds pei
head, which he sold for % cents {
pound, realizing the snug little sum o.
81, ,446 %. He has also an increase o.
800 lambs-which he values at 81 pei
head-this makes 1000 more. Tota
increase from 500 sheep for one year
over 50, 100.
Mr.. NJ. +. Roberts died on Thursday
evening last at the residence Of John
Boston in McMinnville. Mr. Roberts
had suffered long and patiently, and
struggled hopefully against the pulmon-
ary disease which took his life, until the
last He was an active and honored
member OF Occidental Lodge, l. o. o.
F., and also of Union Lodge, +. and A.
NJ His funeral was conducted with
Masonic ceremonies.
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