The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Harvesting has commenced in South
ern Oregon.
Fifty-three schools are taught in
Douglas county.
Baker county will hold an agricultu-
raj fair beginning September 4th.
Jacob Hoover has been elected mayor
of Steiacoom by the common council.
Puget Sound rivers are now sending
down unprecedented numbers of saw
logs.
Quite a number of horses are in train
ing for the fall races at the State Fair
grounds.
A camp-meeting is in progress this
week on the WebfoOt grounds near La
fayette.
Seattle has fifty-six liquor saloons,
which beats even Astoria in proportion
to population.
David Newsome and wife, of Marion
county, celebrated their golden wedding
one day last week.
The brick work on the foundation of
the new Jail at Lafayette was COM
menced last week.
The Postmaster General is to be petit
toned for a daily mail route between
Salem and Lafayette.
NJ. H. Abbott is about to move the
material of the late Dalles Tribune to
La Grande, Union county.
Altogether 100000 would not cover
the property losses already suffered at
the hands of the Indians in Idaho.
The Tacoma Herald estimates the
yield of hops in the Puyallup Valley
this season at four or five thousand bales.
Emigrants from California and else
where continue to arrive in the Snake
River country, in spite of the Indian
scare.
EIdridge Morse, sof the Suohomish
Star, has been commissioned lieutenant-
colonel of the militia of Washington
Territory.
The house of George Charlesworth,
near Seattle, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. His youngest child perished
in the flames.
Professor J. w. Johnson, of the State
University, has gone with his family to
FOley's Springs, on the Mckenzie, to
spend vacation.
The run of salmon is said to be on the
increase during the past week, and
hopes are entertained that after all the
season will not prove failure.
Mr.. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette
lost a bright little daughter four years
of age with the diphtheria last week
The dread scOurge RACES with unabated
violence in that city.
Captain Oliver G.. Applegate, of Lake
county, has purchased the Ashland lid
mas, and will hereafter conduct thai
sheet. There is a rumOr that it will bt
taken to Lake county.
Only a little more than 100000 cases
of salmon were shipped by the first o.
! July from the river, and the Historian
asks where the balance of 5, 6, or zoe, ,OOC
cases are to come from.
Work on the White Bull of Santian
continues. In that locality several per
sons are at work on placer mines
| bitches are being dug and thorough
preparations made to test the banks ant
bars.
A dispatch from New Tacoma says
"Grading of the Puyallup branch of tht
| Northern Pacific Railroad to the Goa
mines has been completed. Coal fully
equal to the Allegheny coal of Pennsyl
vania is being got out. Track not com
plete; waiting for IRON"
The deficiency in the salmon catch a
compared with former years is thus eX
planned: Between thirty and forty mile
of net is spread by two thousand fisher
men, nightly, near the mouth of the
river, besides numbers of traps aDC
seines are in use; and how effectually
these arrest the passage of fish to uppel
portions of the rivers, and to thell
spawning grounds, is apparent to all.
A correspondent of the Oregonidn
writing from Kittitass Valley, w: t.
says: "AIl kinds of grain, vegetables
and fruit are now grown in the valley
and no irrigation is necessary, although
every part of it can be irrigated frou
the river and side creeks at little or nC
expense. We have frequent showers o
rain and well-defined seasons; no win
ter winds and no extreme cold or op
pressive weather; no doctors; NJ
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