The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-16
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Want of lumber has caused empOrary
suspension Of work Oh the bridge at Eu-
gene.
There is some prospect that an oil
mill will soon be erected in Douglas
county.
Port Madison mills aud the old mill
at Gamble are running on full tune,
night and day.
Eighty thousand hoop poles were
shipped by Macleay & Co, of Olympia,
on the "DakOtah" last week.
Rev. ]. Ellis, of Forest Grove, Oregon,
has accepted the pastOrate of the Con-
gregational Church in Seattle.
Sylvester ScovilIe, of Walla WalIa,
crazed on Spiritualism, has been sent to
the insane asylum at SteilacoOm.
The grasshOpper plague is feared in
Montana this season. Crickets are al
ready troublesome in some parts of
Idaho.
A marble mine has been found at
North Saanich, British Columbia. Iron
stone of rich quality has also been dis
covered.
The teachers meeting for the Fifth
Judicial District took place at The
Dalles on the 9th inst, and was inter-
esting and well attended.
The academic year of the Umpqua
Academy closed on Friday of last week.
The graduating class consisted of two
young men and one young lady.
The meadows in Douglas county show
an unusual heavy growth of grass this
year, and as consequence, the amount
of hay put up will be very large.
a logger, residing in Olympia, states
that during the summer of 1875 he spent
over 81 500 for oil alone, with which to
grease skids on which logs were drawn.
The great annual camp-meeting of
the Christian denomination is to COM
mence at the camp-g ground on the La
Creole in the suburbs OF Dallas, about
the 18th inst.
The COlOniSt says at the recent camp
meeting at New Westminster two
Cinnamon sang hymns in the Chinese
tongue, and one of them is being edu-
Gated as missionary.
Edward Akin, of jefferson, exhibits
sample of flax known as the Russian
variety, which measures twenty-six
inches in height, and is but fair aver
age of fifty acre field.
The essay read by Miss Clara Huma-
son at the teachers meeting at The
Dalles last week is pronounced by all
who heard it to be literary effort of
more than ordinary merit.
The pioneer reunion is in full blast at
the State Fair grounds. A large and
enthusiastic number of pioneers and
their families and their friends partici-
pate in the pleasures of the occasion.
A little six-year-old daughter of
Thomas Smith, proprietor of the Che
meketa Hotel, Salem, fell down stairs, a
distance of about fifteen feet, on Satur-
day, injuring herself severely, if not fa-
tally.
The Semi Weekly H'dtcIman, enlarged
and improved from the WalIa WalIa
Spirit Of the West, is at hand. When
its proprietor drops the ''patent outside"
we will give his journal a notice worth
while.
The exports from the Puget Sound
customs district for the last month
amounted to SCI ,371; number of vessels
entered, Al; tonnage, %, 347 36-1OO; num-
Der of vessels cleared, 40; tonnage, 2O,-
9S6 2l-1OO.
Diptheria is making sad ravages
among the juvenile population of Seat
tie. a number of deaths have already
taken place, and there are now some
twenty-five or thirty patients suffering
from the terrible disease.
Official reports place the Indian pop
ulation of Washington Territory at A.
1872 persons. Their reservations embrace
$3.50 45-lOO square miles, or 4, 4,l64,-
695 3S-lOO acres-abOut One-tenth of the
entire area of the Territory
The 9th inst. was good day for pio-
neers in Washington county, six of
whom met near Hillsboro whose united
ages are 4I3 years. All of them have
been missionaries on this coast, and all
save one cametO this country previous
to 1910.
The white miners at the Seattle coal
mines have driven off the Cinnamon,
numbering about thirty, who have been
working at those mines. AT last ac-
counts it was understood to be the in
tention to take the same course at the
RentOn and Talbot mines.
The Canyon City avalanche draws
this parallel: "This Black Hills busi-
ness reminds US of the italian throat
cutting bee. The Wyoming papers play
the harp while the Sioux gather the
scalps. We are afraid there is going to
be trouble when these Wyoming editors
are called TO judgment"
Petitions praying for the pardon of S.
l.. Watkins, who was convicted of as
sault- upon Whiteman in the County
Court room at Salem last fall, and sent
to the penitentiary therefor, are being
circulated by his friends. A large ma
jority of leading citizens have signed
them.
Whatcom county, w. T., will this
year produce 10000 bushels of grain,
most of which will find its way into the
San Francisco market. The vessels of
the Bellingham Bay Coal Company
have entered themselves for the move
ment of this grain, and they will prob
ably divide it at Sehome with the Pa
citic Mail Company's steamers at Seattle.