, 1875-06-24
NEWS ITEMS.

9 Strawberries are selling at 1917
cents per pound in Walla Walla.
~ The President and directors of
the .. S. N. Co., are on visit to Walla
Walla.
T Fred. A. Lawson has returned
from the lower coast. He has been
assigned to coast survey service on the
| Sound
w Mr.. w. Lord. one day last week,
made purchase of land and sheep in
the Antelope Valley amounting to about
SIS, 200.
V Portland papers state that Gen.
eral Michler left that city on Monday
for the purpose Of making an examina-
tion-of the Upper Columbia.
q The crickeis ara making sad hav-
oc among the grain fields on Dry Creek,
east Walla Walla. We have heard OF
several instances of their devastation.
W Mr.. Mitchell, a sewing-machine
agent. while travelling in Benton county
last week had his buggy upset and his
leg broken.
"a Hon. Henry Klippel, Charman of
the Democratic State Central Committee.
of Oregon has called meeting of that
body in Portland on the Gath inst.
T The fences of the United States
are said to be valued at upwards of ST.
500, 600, 600, and it costs every year more
than $90, 900, 900 to keep them in re
pair.
- The Sentinel has been shown
several large pices of gold recently -one
weighing six ounces, and some smaller
ones-which were taken from claim in
the vicinity OF Jacksonville.
U Telegraphic reports from Nebras-
ka state that heavy rains in that State
have prevailed and proved very benefi-
cial to the crops and destructive to the
grasshoppers.
II An offer of fine mill site, with
twenty-five acres Of land adjoining the
same, and $4,000 in U. S. coin, is made
to any one who will improve the same,
at Port Townsend.
e Bcb May of Olympia, WAS, on
Tuesday last, convicted on eight counts
for selling liquor to Indians. and fined
forty dollars in each case, aggregaling,
in the whole, to 1920 besides costs.
~ About eleven hundred dollars
have been subscribed for the academy
at Marshfeld. Coos county, exclusive
of the lot which was donated by Messrs.
Dean & Co.
EY7 There is streak Of timber run
ming from Mill Creek to the Coppei.
Walla Walla county distance of some
miles, half mile in width, that is en-.
tirely killed by the last Winters cold.
~ Donald Mckay, the famous leader
of The Warm Spring Scouts. who did
so much in the subduing of the Modocs
in the Lava Beds, has become a public
charge in New England town, and has
found his way into the poor house.
w Considerable space is being occu.
pied in the two Portland morning pc
pers and in Salem's two dalies in re-
gard to alleged misdemeanors on the
part of Hon. S. T. Chadwick, Secretary
of State.
~ Ellis Bigelow of Olympia had his
hand shot. by IL gun, few days since.
| While he ana another boy were hand
ling the gun carelessly, one barrel was
accidentljy discharged. One finger has
been amputated, il having been shot
nearly off.
- Col NJ. C. Nye, OF Five Nils
Creek, sheared band of 1920 sheep
that averaged SIX and a half ponnds per
head. Nineteen merino bucks sheared
twenty-five pounds to the head. Five
of the nineteen averaged twenty y-fye
pounds,
~ Mr.. S. H. Hackleman. assistant
State Treasurer has made a computation
of the number of school children in our
State from the official returns of the
population between ages of and &c
years, or whom the apportionmert TO-
disvision of school money is made, and
he figures up the sum total at 43. 272.
~ Money is thing of the past. II
Yakima valley, but some money will bt
distributed in the valley this spring, a.
Mr. Jack Splawn is buying cattle for thu
Sound market. Prices paid are 81 fo
two year olds and dry cows: SIT fo
three year old steers. and $50 for four
year olds.
~ Mr.. Thomas, of WILDLY Island
who as our reader will recolleet, fey
weeks since suffered the amputation o
one of his legs, by DR.. Calhoun of thi
city, has SO far recovered as to be abou
the house. This must be very graf
4 flying to friends in view Of the precar-
iousness of his condition both previous
and subsequent to tie operation.
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