The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-07
NEWS ITEMS.
srArE ANp rERRIToRIAL.

The Methodists at Forest Grove are
building parsonage.
Very high winds prevailed on Puget
Sound during last week.
Five attempts have been made to have
Utah admitted as State.
The office of the Umpqua Call has
been removed to Roseburg.
1t is expected that 1000. 600 hoop poles
will be shipped from TenihO next year.
The population of Baker county is
1899. Uf these, 692 are reckoned illegal
voters"
The CoLonist claims that the gold
Weld of British Columbia for 1875
amounts to S2,4OO,OOO.
There is considerable talk of opening
the Umatilla Reservation for settlement,
by removing the Indians.
Semi-weekly mail service between
Oakland and Gardiner will begin on the
18th of the present month.
There is plenty of good sleighing in
Northern Idaho. A good deal of ore
hauling is now done on sleds.
There was no stage at Roseburg from
the south during last week. The roads
in that region are in a horrible condi-
ton.
W. R. Dunbar, G. w. C. T., on the
29th ult., organized q lodge of Good
Templars at Brownsville, with go char
ter members.
Mr.. VIM. Patterson, bartender on the
steamer "North Pacific" fell into the
bay at Olympia on New Years morn
ing and was drowned.
The steamer "Gussie Telfair" has been
pumped out, and as soon as the dam
aged freight is removed, careful in
spection will be made of the hull.
Mrs. Maria Beach, wife of the late
Demas Beach, died at her residence in
Albany on Wednesday of last week, just
eight days after her husbands death.
The Pacific Tribune says that two gen.
tlemen in Seattle have contracted each
for thousand tickets in the great Yes
Ter lottery, and will take them as soon
! as printed.
The miners of Southern Oregon have
plenty of water and they are very busy.
There is a chance for money to be lit
tie more plenty there next spring than
, for two years past.
The Pioneer and Historical Society
will hold their fifth annual meeting at
Astoria on the 22d of February, at which
time an address will be delivered by
E Rev. G. H. Atkinson.
e A pack train of two hundred mules,
laden with 100000 pounds of army sup
plies for men and beasts, left Camp
Carlin last month, their destination be-
ing, it is surmised, the Black Hills.
= Among the additional mail facilities
f recently Established in Eastern Oregon, ,
is new route from Antelope Valley to
Heppner, a new office at John Days,
: called Butte Creek, and one at Lone
:, Rock.
Upon application of Senator Mitchell
. the Postmaster-G General has directed the
{ mails to be carried on the aecommoda-
q tion trains of the Oregon and California
l. Railroad Company between Portland
Il and Albany.
n Two soldiers at the garrison at Walls
l, Walla got into row on Christmas Eve
" and one fired four shots from a revolver
into the body of the other, killing him
% instantly. The assailant was arrested
= and held to answer the charge of muir
y der.
u Samuel Hardness, of Leland, Jose
e phine county, lost his hotel residence
er at that place last Tuesday by fire. The
e telegraph and post offices were all de
stroyed. There was but little of th'
household goods and wearing appare
r saved.
p Capt. J. A. Sladen, of General How
,e ards personal staff, who recently haC
=. the misfortune to lose his foot, has beeI
= presented with one of Palmer's paten
y limbs, by the several officers connected
r with the military headquarters. Tn
n cost of the limb was $40.