The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

State printing will begin about the
middle of next week.
Fourteen bridges will be constructed
on the Astoria Nehalem road.
The Adventists are still speaking in
Salem, their large tent being crowded
nightly.
The "Cal:fornia," on her last trip from
Wrangel, brought down $4,000 in gold
dust aud 80 passengers.
The Democratic Territorial Conven-
tion will be called to meet at Vancouver
about the first of September.
The Spirituslists of the State will
hold a camp-meeting at Rock Island
New Era beginning September lst.
Seven boys were fined s. each in the
Salem police court last Saturday for a
wanton assault on an inOifensive China
man.
A number of deaths from smallpox
have recently occurred on board H. NJ.
S. "Repulse" lying in the harbor at Es-
quimalt.
The proprietors of the toll road over
the SiskiyOu mountains have raised the
Oregon and California stage company's
! toll considerably.
Two Indians who are encamped near
Scottsburg last week killed five fine elk
| in one day. The squaws were busy for
several days drying the meat.
ID. G.. Ireland, editor of the Historian,
enjoys the additional honor of being
Mayor of that city. The municipal
election took place on the 9TH inst.
Petitions to the Legislature of Oregon,
praying for a law regulating fares and
! freights over the railways of this State,
are in circulation in Benton county.
The freight on the down trip of the
dakota" from Olympia consisted in
part of ten tons of ship knees and eighty
cords or two hundred and fifty tons of
water pipe.
Walla Walla farmers will nearly fin
/ ish harvesting this week. Their uni
versal verdict is that the wheat, both in
quality and quantity, was never as good
and large before.
Work was commenced on the new
bridge across the Santiam last Monday.
The bridge will be built by Miller & Son
for the sum 70 S1l, $50. Jacob COnser
superintends the construction.
A man named Mccormick, a long
shoreman, was murdered on Sunday
wife, in drunken brawl. The woman
has been held to await the action of the
grand jury.
We understand that Prof. Powell has
sent in his resignation as a member of
the faculty of Willamette University.
Prof. Henry Hewitt, of Yamhill county,
is mentioned as his successor, although
definite arrangements will not be con-
cluded until the board of trustees meets.
Crickets along the Yellow Hawk and
toward the Walla Walla River are get
ting to be quite destructive. At first
people thought they were estrays or
travelling for their health, but finally
they became so thick that they are
looked upon as old settlers, hard to eX-
pei.
Mr. J. McCarty has force of men
employed taking out sand from the
gravel pit near Roseburg. The sand is
to be used in the large new bridge being
built over the Clackamas River, beyond
Oregon City, by the Oregon & Califor-
mia Railroad Company at a cost of $40,
600.
The ROseburg Independent saysI:
"The discovery of a vein of quartz
within u miles of Myrtle Creek, by a
man named Sweeney, aud the subse-
quent offer of $4,000 by a California
company for all his right, title, and in
terest to the same, has set any number
of men to prospecting in the neighbor-
hood of Sweeney's discovery"
The Salem Statesman says: "On re-
turning from the mountain excursion
on Wednesday night, a little four-year-
old son of A. n. Gilbert met with a Sc
we're accident. Near the camp for the
night the child climbed on a pile Ui
lumber, which fell upon him, almost
killing him. The child is slowly i'm
proving, but the lower limbs are still
: helpless"
A fisherman named Mattison shot anC
slightly wounded in the shoulder 6
young lady of Astoria, Miss Mary Rodg'
ers, on Sunday evening, as she, in com.
pany with a gentleman, was walking tC
church. 1t seems that the fellow haC
for some time been following and at
tempting to attract the attention of the
, young lady, but to no purpose, and be-
coming furious thereat, shot her al
above stated. He Immediately thereaf
= ter shot himself, inflicting a painful bu
not dangerous wound in the chest. Ht
r will probably change the occupation o
fisherman to that of brick maker before
! another season.