The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-24
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.


The Knappton mills are crowded with
orders for lumber.
A building erected in Victoria in 1858,
at a cost of 3d. 200, was sold last week for
S14.
The diphtheria is still raging and
proving fatal in the neighborhOod of
the Luckiamute.
Three hundred and fifty tons per day
is about the quantity of coal brought in
from the Seattle mines.
Large quantities of wheat are being
shipped to the Lincoln Mills, at Tum-
water, from down the Sound.
The 'fVanity Fair" man was arrested
for opening a lottery at Olympia, and
had to pay a fine of 81 and $40 costs.
The young peoples prayer meeting
in McMinville numbered only six active
members last winter, and now numbers
forty.
The residence of DIR. Belt, of Salem,
was partially consumed by fire on the
morning of the 10Th. Loss covered by
insurance.
Hon. D. P. Thompson, of Oregon
City, has been nominated as Governor
of Idaho Territory, and no doubt will be
confirmed.
The Odd Fellows of Vancouver will
hold public installation of officers and
give party on the evening of the 5th of
January next.
The Astorian will discard forever its
"patent outsiden on Christmas, and on
New Years. day will come out in hand
some new dress.
Typhoid fever prevails to considera-
BILE extent in and about Bethel. Five
persons in one family are Frustrated
with the disease.
Vancouver is about to have another
paper. The initial number of the AnaG-
telir Press will make its appearance on
or about January 1st.
B. H. Allen organized a lodge of I. o.
G. T. at Charlottesville on the 18th,
with twenty-eight members; P. R.
Crawford w. c. t., and Robert Glass
Lodge Deputy.
W. R. Dunbar, G.. w. G. T., orgaized
lodge of Good Templars at Sodaville
on the 10Th inst, with thirty-seven
charter applicants; H. NJ. Perry w. G.
T., e. G. Burge Lodge Deputy.
The Walla Walla County Teachers
! Institute will be held at Waitsburg,
commencing Monday evening, Dscem-
| ber 27, 1875. The teachers will be pro-
vided with homes by the citizens.
Work has been suspended on the
sunken steamer yakima" on account
of the high stage of water in the Colum-
bia. The cabin and machinery will be
removed, and the hull abandoned.
At a recent meeting Of the Executive
Board of the Baptist Convention of Or
egon and Washington Territory, held in
Salem, it was resolved to raise the sum
of $4,000 to make additional improve
ments to the college at McMinnville.
The Henlizer says there is not single
licensed rum-shOp in Polk county. Only
one man has been before the city
recorder of Dallas for drunkenness since
the organization of the city government
with a temperance clause in its charter.
The steamship "Los Angeles" left
| Victoria last week for San Francisco
with but two cabin and eight steerage
passengers, and almost no freight. PeO-
pie are learning at last not to trust their
lives and property to the tender mercies
of the sea in rotten hulks.
There are four debating societies con-
nected with Willamette University,
viz: the Aka, Hesperian, Atheneum,
and Concordia. The two first are COM
posed of gentlemen, the two last of la
dies. Their rooms are open to visitors,
and their debates frequently quite in
teresting.
The area of Idaho comprises 1924
square miles. The smallest Of the Ter
ritories is that of Utah, which contains
S4,4T6 square miles. The largest is Da-
kotah, which has 150,O32 square miles.
The entire area of all the Territories is
81, ,O73 square miles, being a greater
space than which is occupied by the q
states east of the Mississippi.
The school superintendent Of Wash
ington Territory reports the number of
school districts, 267; number of schools
taught, 2I9; number attending school,
: $500; number of children of school age,
lO,6S0; amount paid to teachers, $54, ,720.
AS compared with 1871, the returns for
1875 show an increase of As school dis
tricts, rs school-houses, 2,871 school
children, 1890 persons of school age, and
4 S25, ,4O1 in the amount paid to teachers.
At the close of Professor Garrison's
writing school at William cite Univer-
sity, the hest lady writer will be pre-
sented with a silver cup, upon which
her name will be engraved. The best
gentleman writer will receive copy OF
HHilps Manual of Business Forms"
large and splendidly bound volume, and
be highly priced by the young gent so
fortunate as to merit it. A gold pen
will be awarded to the one making the
greatest improvement, and 81 so coin to
the best writer uuder the age of fourteen.