The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

A baker and a timer are wanted at
Independence.
The gross value of property assessed
in Wasco county for 1876 is 81, l56,229.
Max. Vogt & Co. are the heaviest in
dividual taxpayers in Wasco county.
Quite successful revival is in prog
ress at the Methodist Church In
Olympia.
A larger acreage of grain than ever
before will be sown in Clackamas county
this season.
Counterfeit half dollars are in circula-
tion in Douglas county. So says the
Plaindedler.
The as. T. Church" brought 172 tons
of wheat from Salem and Corvallis one
day last week.
Baptist Sunday School Convention
has been in progress at Oregon City
during the week.
The alarming prevalence of diphtheria
has caused the suspension of studies IN
the schools of Albany.
The sum of S7S,S17 80 was shipped
from Pendleton through Wells, Fargo
& Co.'s Express during the year 1876.
Ex-Sheriff Coffee and family, of Van
couver, have removed to their new
home on the Washougal.
A series of evening meetings are in
progress in the NJ. E. Church at Albany,
under supervision of the pastor, Rev. J.
F. Devore.
The editor of the Albany Democrat,
who has been Frustrated by severe at
tack of illness for several weeks, is now
slowly improving.
The, Itenizer is authority for the
statement that the West-side Railroad
will be extended as far as the LaCreOle
the coming season.
Geo. Haas, a saloonkeeper in Oregon
City, while attempting to eject an OBJ
nOXious customer q week or more ago,
fell and broke his leg just above the
ankle.
The amount of beef canned at Kin
ney's Astoria cannery since September
1st is 19, 500 cases. The amount of NUT
ton canned is 500 cases. Operations
this season have closed.
The petition for the further commuta-
tion of the sentence of w. K. Neil, who
is to be executed at Albany on the 22d
inst, does not meet with favor among
D citizens of that city and vicinity.
t Mrs. Elizabeth Crabtree, residing neal
Lebanon, in Linn county, is the cham
d. pion carpet weaver of the State, having
woven during the past year T06 yards OF
c good substantial rag carpet.
The man who collects poll tax in
: Owyhee county is an expensive luxury
v to the people. His dOings the past yeal
were as follows: Number of polls taxed
; 130 at 81 each; income $3.50. Number
: of days time charged for, 200, at So {
r day, $1,000, and mileage.
l. New Tacoma is improving steadily
n There is not a vacant dwelling-house il
the place. There are quite a number o
strangers arriving daily. The boarding
'r houses are doing land Office business
l. People coming here can get good boar
, at the New Tacoma hotel at 81 % pc
day, Sc board and lodging, or So 70
{, board per week; everything nice ant
ID clean, cooking done by white woman
l. Diphtheria continues to ravage il
to various portions of the State will
io unremitting fury. Three children
- were buried at Sheridan on Saturda,
N last. Two of them were of the fam
e, lily of Mr.. Jesse Fades, and the othe
was an eight-year-Old son of MI
VIM. Chapman. At McMinnville a.
of Mr.. Vesteg's children, two of Nj
Collard's, and five of Mr.. Braly's chill
dren have the disease. There have ais
been four or five deaths in Washingto
county from diphtheria during the pas
week.