The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-27
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

The debt of Douglas county is S4 ,2S6.
The wheat harvest has begun on
French prairie.
There are now confined in the State
Penitentiary l04 convicts.
The Dallas Henlizer has suspended
publication for few weeks.
New wheat, grown in Jackson county,
was in the mill by July 11th.
Linn county farmers have commenced
hauling their oats to market.
Fifty men are wanted at Port Gamble
to do rough work in u saw-miIl
The citizens of Junction CITY have
subscribed $500 toward building an
academy in that city.
A lady in Polk county, who has lost
five children by diphtheria, calls it the
"King Herod" of all diseases.
o. c. Yocum bought 5000 bushels of
wheat in Yamhill county last week,
paying 81 90 per bushel therefor.
The express office has been removed
from Cornelius, to the disgust Of citi-
zens of that place and Forest Grove.
Professor George P. Newell, the vet
eran music teacher, has concluded to
locate at PhilOmath, Benton county.
It is supposed that Linn county will
furnish one and half millions of BUSH
els of grain for the market this season.
Mrs. John Sylvester, who was badly
hurt by the falling of bridge in Linn
county a short time ago, has since died
of her injuries.
There was a heavy rain-storm In
Jackson county last week, which in
fiicted considerable damage on freshly
cut grain-fields.
The United States Hotel, and the lot
upon which it stands, at Seattle, was
sold at sheriff's sale on the 18th for ST.
600. 1t cost $4,000.
The steamer "Zephyr' struck snag
on the Skagit River on the 18th, and
sank in shallow water. 1t is thought
she can be raised again.
The people living in Grand Ronde aud
Powder River Valleys are agitating the
question of building a narrow gauge
railroad to the Columbia River.
The residence of Mr.. Sinnott, Indian
agent at Grand ROnde agency, was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday, the 18th inst.
1t was owned by the government.
Two youths of Brownsville, aged IL
and II years, have been sentenced to 80
| udyS III Lue CDuuLy jail
for stealing coat containing 81 so.
A project is on foot for stocking the
Sound streams with Columbia River
salmon. An appropriation for that pur-
pose will be asked from the legislature.
Albany wheat buyers are contracting
with farmers at 81 per bushel, and
many of those who sell will have as
high as five and ten thousand bushels.
The NJ. e. camp-meeting at Webfoot
grounds, Yamhill county, closed last
Sunday, after an interesting season of
ten days. There were fifteen accessions
to the church.
Mr.. ]. l. Thompson, of Eola, lost five
children from diphtheria last spring,
and on Friday of last week his only re-
manning child, lad of about fourteen
years, was accidentally shot through
the leg.
A special train containing about 500
troops and "a officers, under command
/ of General Wheaton, passed through
Elko on the Goth on their way to Idaho
by way of steamer from San Francisco
to Lewiston.
Mrs. Captain Randall, whose husband
? was killed a few days ago in the Indian
, country, came down on Friday with
, u6T IdLH6T1 OdpJdlu AuhGuJg duu W6ub
Immediately to her brothers farm in
Marion county.
w. B. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette,
e has buried two bright little daughters,
! who fell victims to the dread scourge,
diphtheria, within the past two weeks.
l We tender to the afflicted parents our
heartfelt sympathy.
r A survey of the falls of the Yamhill
River at Lafayette has been made, and
the fact disclosed that locks costing
$4,000 will raise the water so that boats
can go to McMinnville during the sum-
mer as in the winter season. 1t Is
thought that by the middle of October
the work will be completed.
There are three warehouses in process
of erection at Forest Grove Station in
anticipation of the needs of the coming
q harvest. One of these is being built by
w. D. Hoxter, one by A. Hinman, aud
the third by Hines & Buxton. The
= depot at this place is a great accommo-
dation to farmers and shippers in the
vicinity