, 1876-09-15
PACIFIC SLOPE NEWS.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

mast berry season SdInelou ~ gar
, Ions of wild blackberries, which she
sold for 50 cents per gallon.
A man named Brown, while work.
;rg in the harvest field near Waits
hTpg and suffering under the heavy
PRESSURE of the heat, went into cold
water bathing. Fromthat moment
his mind seemed toCbe/impaired, he
wanders about the country the per-
soni6cation of an insane man, walk
inc during the night and hiding in
the woods during the day time.
Seventeen wagon loads of immi-
grants, mostly from Kansas, passed
through Walla Walla last week,
Col. Larrabee has associated with
Mr.. |. NJ. Hall, Of Seattle, in the law
business.
Rev. A. Laubach will hold servi-
ees at East Portland on the 18th inst.
The Puget Sound Baptist Associ-
alton has just held session at Cen
terville, Lewis county.
Delegates to the Kalama conven-
ton get returned free on the rail-
road.
Olympians gave a clam-bake to
Gen Albert Pike last week.
The bark Icomium has been sold
to Mr.. Morris, of San Francisco,
for $3.50.
Wa Chong, a Chinese merchant
of Seattle, contemplates the erection
of brick building in that town for
his residence and trade.
The Renton Coal Co. will attempt
the improvement of navigation in
the Duwamish river.
Mr.. J. B. Montgomery owns I5,-
9l0 acres of land, principally timOer
land, along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
Father F. X. Prefontaine left last
week for a visit of three months to
his old home in Canada.
A plat of the town of Renton has
been fled in King county. The
streets are go feet wide, and the lots
so by 120 in size.
The report of the grand jury at
Seattle was long and contained a Sc
we're rebuke to the city fathers,
county commissioners and police for
negligence and carelessness.
OREGON.
The new steamer Geo. w. Elder,
isthe latest accession to the fleet of
the Oregon Steamship Company.
She was built in 1874, at Chester,
Pa, and is l,561,S2 100 tons meas
urement, with extreme length over
all Of 260 feet, and 3S feet beam.
Her rate at American Lloyds is A
20 years.
The Guard reports the lodge of
Good Templars at Eugene as having
passed in its checks"
Thirty-one acres of wheat were re-
Gently cut in Umatilla county in z
hours by a single 12-foot cut header
The climate of Powder river val
ley is certainly changing. They are
now raising very fine apples, pears,
p'ams and cherries, and, in some in
stances, tolerably fair peaches and
grapes, when they say that ten years
ago they could scarcely grow pota.
toes for the frost.
Two citizens of ChehaIem got into
row last week, in which one of
them lost an ear.
a man named ]. J. Clark has been
arrested at Baker City for living
with his daughter and step-daughter
as husband and wives.
Iilden and Hendricks and HAYES
and Wheeler rallies are enthusing
at Astoria.
a vein of asbestos has been dis
covered near Canyonville.
oSegon Indians predict a severe
winter in the coming one, and are
anxious to obtain work in order to
getgrub enough to last them through.
Mr.. Geo. Downs killed a large
Tlla cat near his house at Utter CITY
Az Is' week, by shooting him through
sue mead: The animal was much
F. surprised as such thing had never
entered his head before.
, =. The Warm Spring Indians, who
hi G gathering crops in Linn county,
Ply, u services every Sunday in the
Presbyterian Church.