The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-01
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King county, w. T., has $4,000 Jail.
The Tumwater pipe factory is tempo
rarily closed.
Typhoid fever is raging in some To-
calities in Polk county.
Yaquina settlers are planting extern
sive orchards this fall.
There is one Chinese pupil in the
Hillsboro public school.
The Seattleites are making an effort
to organize literary society.
There are s5 pupils in attendance at
the public school at McMinnville.
Port Townsend district paid S1,675
teachers salaries in one school during
the last year.
Seven thousand six hundred sacks of
wheat were shipped from Dayton in one
day last week.
Six thousand shares of the Esther
Mining Company were sold in ROseburg
on Wednesday last.
The late heavy rains have raised the
rivers emptying into the Sound out of
their banks in many places.
The Oregon City Brewery manufac-
tured !, l35 barrels of malt liquor for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1876.
Mr.. James Power, editor OF the Bel
lingham Bay Mail, has received the
appointment of Inspector of Customs at
WhatcOm.
The Courier says that "more substan-
tial Improvements have been made in
Lafayette this year than in any other
since its foundation"
The Columbia River at Umatilla is five
feet above the government low water
gauge, and higher than recollected by
the oldest settler during the month of
November.
The "Fannie Patton" the first boat
of the season, to the great delight of the
! people of Lafayette woke the echoes
about that village with her shrill and
welcome whistle on Tuesday of last
week.
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Arizona and
New Mexico together, are turning out
each day $4,000 in gold, $1,000 in sill
yer, and 81 800 in base metal, giving a
total of S3S,50O each day, or Sll,5O0, 900
annually.
The Salem City Council have instruct
ed the committee on ordinances to report
an ordinance making certain city offices
salaTied ones, fixing the compensation of
the marshal, $1,000; recorder, $500; and
treasurer, $500.
From the Christian Messenger we learn
that the meeting announced to take
place at Monmouth not long since was
a decided success, and that great enthu-
siasm prevailed, and enough money was
subscribed TO pay off the indebtedness
of Christian College.
Seven Chinese prostitutes were bonded
over in the sum of $500 each by Justice
Smith, at Seattle last week, to answer
for their crime at the next term of the
District court. Warrants were issued
against as many others, but they could
not be found.
Drains Station is making rapid
growth, and Roseburg may we'll begin
TO look with Jealous eye at its fast in
creasing proportions. The new mill is
an ornament to the place and a good in
vestment for the owners, besides a con-
venience to the country around.
Mrs. James Higgins, of Spring Valley.
was brought before Judge Truett, of Polk
county, last week, and adjudged insane
by the Court after due examination of
the case. Mrs. Higgins was Just mar
ried last spring, and is only twenty
years of age. But few months ago she
was to all appearances as bright aud in
telligent as anybody. About two months
ago it was noticed that her memory was
failing her, and she soon became list
less. She has attempted several times
to commit suicide, but always was pre-
vented.