The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-28
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

A portable steam grist mill is to be
built at Sheridan soon.
Marion county has let the contract for
building poor-hOuse for $2,975.
The remains of Captain E. A. Starr
were taken TO Victoria for interment.
Five hundred head of sheep were sold
in Polk county last week for 81 per
head.
The Christian Messenger has been en-
larged and changed to an eight-page
journal.
Late rains have wonderfully deveI-
oped late crops, and an abundant har-
vest is promised.
The Granger store is in foil blast at
Eugene, and is well stocked and liber-
ally patronized.
Diptheria is fast disappearing from
Seattle, there having been but few, if
any new cases, of late.
The first grain header that has ever
been brought to Wasco county arrived
at The Dalles Saturday.
The citizens of Salem are daily de-
parting seaward and mOuntainward,
and the city is fearfully dull.
The hop culture in the interior has
been abandoned by many; the fields are
again sown to wheat, oats, and barley.
Some emigrants have recently arrived
in Cornelius. One family has eighteen
children, all alive, fourteen of whom
are at home.
The Wooden Mills at Brownsville are
turning out superior and very heavy
blankets and flannels, and fine article
of dOe-skins, kerseys, etc.
Sheriff Dale of Yamhill was presented
with handsome cane, silver mounted
and appropriately engraved, by some OF
his Salem friends last week.
Street improvement is going forward
rapidly and substantially in Astoria.
About five miles of new planking will
be completed by the first of September.
The town of Newcastle, near Seattle,
now has some so houses, so families,
and coal bunkeTs to hold l,200 tons.
The working capacity of the mines is
at least 400 tons per day.
Drs. Helmekin and Davy, after a post
mortem examination of the late Capt.
Z. A. Starr, pronounced the cause OF
his death to be congestion of the brain
and enlargement of the heart.
The executive committee appointed
to make arrangements for tue State
Teachers Institute, to be held in Salem
on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of August
consists of six ladies and one gentleman
A correspondent writing from Link
vile under date of July 18th, says ;
heavy frost visited Lake county tht
night before, destroying everything
in the shape of vegetables and corn
The south-bound train was ditcheC
near Drains Station one day last week
and Conductor Stroud, a brakesman
and one lady passenger, were severel,
injured. The breaking of an axle of th
tender caused the accident.
At University meeting at Eugen
one day last week, ]. E. Holt donate
$1,000 to pay off the Indebtedness of tn
State University building, and J. J
Scott took the lien of some S4,0O
against the building, assuming the in
debtedness.
There are now 50 saw mills in Wash
ington Territory, that cost 1921, 800, an
cut about 100000 feet of lumber pc
day. The 25 Touring mills In the Tel
ritOry include 36 run of stone, with a ca
pacity of S34 barrels per day, with
not specified, and the cost of l9 of ther
is given at S225, 100.
The superintendent of the Golde
Chariot Mine in Idaho is held in dul
ance vile at Silver City by irate and do
termined miners until their back paw
forthcoming. Their wages are in man
instances ten months in arrears, viii
superintendents and presidents haN
lived luxuriOusly. So says the AUC
ldhche.
A four-year-old son of Samuel Gilpil
who resides at CASTOR, fell into a pon
at that place on the 18th, and was
badly stTangled with impure water thi
he died from the effects about Is houl
afterward. His mother was the first
reach him after he fell in, and 81
came near being drowned in gettir
him out, the water being about six fe
deep.
John n. Young, of Port Townsen
was, on the 14th day of September, IS6
convicted of murder in the second d
gree, and sentenced to the Penitential
of Washington Territory for a term
ten years. Having served seven yea
and four months of said term in an e
emplary manner, the Governor recent
granted him a full pardon and a !
mission of said sentence, and all Il
forfeitures and disabilities arising theI
from.
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