The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND rERR1roR1AL.

STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
Corvallis is building aud elegant City
Hall.
The Agricultural College at Corvallis
will open on the 2lst inst.
Legislature convenes at Salem on
Monday morning, September llth.
State Woman Suffrage Association,
special session, at Salem Tuesday, Sep
tember Goth.
A drove of 900 sheep are on the way
to Seattle from Walla Walla, via Sno-
qualmie Pass.
Four thousand bushels of wheat was
purchased at Eugene City last week at
sixty cents per bushel, delivered on the
cars.
E. o. Norton, late of the Albany
Democrat, has returned to Salem and
resumed his former place on the States
man.
A man named J. ]. Clark is under ar
rest at Baker City charged with the
crime of incest with his daughter and
step-daughter.
A man who lives on the Nestucka
River estimates that 1000 gallons of
blackberries were picked in that vicin-
ity this season.
The second annual fair of the Walla
WalIa Agricultural Society will begin
on the 18th of next month, and con-
tinue five days.
A proposition has been made to re-
move the jam in the Nootsack River
| for $500, and it is to do the whole work
or receive no pay.
Hop-picking will commence next
Monday on the Mckenzie. Kanoff,
Tuttle, and Myers offer thirty-seven
cents box for picking.
Mr.. Smithers, on White River, w.
T., has lost twenty acres of potatoes by
rot. The crop in many places is fail
ure from the same cause.
The school at McMinnville College
will be opened on Monday, September
! II, 1876, under the charge and supervis-
ion of Prof. J. E. Magers.
Prof George H. Collier, A. NJ, has
been elected to and accepted the chair
of mathematics and natural science in
the Willamette University.
A saIoon-ke9per in Dallas has Just
been fined S75 and costs of suit for SELL
! ing whisky to a minor. He has taken
an appeal to the Circuit Court.
A greater quantity of lumber than
ever is being shipped by the mills on
Coos Bay. The bar is doing very well,
vessels getting in and out without de-
lay.
A lady of Brush Creek, w. T., over so
years of age, during the past berry sea-
son, gathered 40 gallons of wild black
berries, which she sold for so cents a
gallon.
Captain J. w. Cochran & Co. have let
the contract for building their new
light-draught boat to Mr.. Steffen, OF
Portland, to be completed within &c
days. Length, $50 feet; beam, 35 feet
hold, feet.
Senator Mitchell has secured an in
crease of mail service on the route be-
tween Jacksonville and BrownsborOugh,
Oregon, from a weekly to a semi
weekly service; also, a mail service
from Bridge Creek to Upper Ochoco.
J. B. Brouilette, late of Steilacoom,
who won a $4,000 prize in the Seattle
gold coin lottery and got but half of it,
now wants the other half, and is after
the lottery manager, B. F. Briggs, with
a lawsuit. The case is to be tried al
Seattle.
The switch at Forest Grove station is
nearly completed. 1t is about 600 feet
long. Several parties will build ware
houses there. The land donated by Mr..
Smith is 1900 feet long and IS feet
wide, and is to be used only for railroad
purposes.
The amount of wool sheared in Doug
las county thus far this year is greater
than ever before, and will exceed the
yield of former years by many thous.
and pounds. The wool is also better
being very long and clean and of an un.
usually fine grade.
Mr.. R. Harness, of Oakland, has dis
covered vein of what is thought to bt
antharacite coal, one hundred feet wide
within three miles of the railroad track
} near Wilbur. This vein is easily
worked, and will turn the coal trade O
the Willamette Valley to Douglas
county.