The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Immense grain yields from every
field.
The Albany Democrat has entered its
teens.
happy.
A dead whale fifty-six feet long was
recently washed ashore at Yaquina.
d: P: Thompson has $50 Chinese at
work digging ditch near Jacksonville.
The Territorial Teachers Institute
will meet at Olympia on the 10th of
October.
A. S. Miller & Son, contractors. have
! flushed the new bridge across the
Clackamas.
The first half of the iron for the New
castle branch of the Seattle and Walla
Walla Railroad has arrived at Seattle.
The Lewiston Teller asserts that there
still are Struggling hostiles this side of
the Bitter Root Mountains. A messen-
ger Dameh Greer is said to have heen
shot at by two Indians near Elk City
lately.
The common council of Vancouver
has passed an ordinance apprOpriating
$4,000 to fee counsel in future legal con-
tests with the st. James Catholic Mis-
sion. A determined fight is to be made
on the part of the city
w. B. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette.
has been forced to resign another of his
children, victim to diphtheria, maxi
ing three within a month that have
died of this dread scourge. We extend,
as before, coincidence and sympathy.
The inhabitants of Oregon, (exeept
editors and printers), who are not har-
vesting are rusticating. Cities and
towns wear deserted look, while fields
resound with the sharp click of the
header and the whirr of the thresher.
The secretary of the P. r.. Co. at Nc
Minnville states that So, 900 more were
subscribed to the stock of that company
last week. The company is proposing
to buy an additional boat at Portland.
So far the enterprise has been success
full beyond anticipation.
The Dalles Molultdineer thus dis
courses of "hard times:" 1--WE are told
that times are hard and money scarce
in almost all portions of the United
States, while here the merchant, the
butcher, the baker, the mechanic and
even the printer, make a good living,
and something more. Certainly trade
was never better nor money more plen-
tiful than it has been this season."
A new enterprise is to be started up
on the Pnyallup. Wood working ma
chinery is nearly ready, and several
millions of slaves ordered now. They
propose to cut ten cords of cottonwood
day. This will make about e, 900 slaves.
Besides cutting slaves, they are going
to put in machinery to make excelsior
for mattresses; also turning lathe for
turning broom handles, table legs, etc.
They have three teams hauling bolts all
the time, and already have several
hundred cords of stock on the ground
waiting for the steam box.
The Vancouver Independent says:
"Thirty-three Nez Perces Indian pris-
oners-men, women and children-ar-
|, rived at this post Tuesday evening, un-
der guard of nineteen soldiers, COM
manded by Lieutenant Stewart, of the
I'd cavalry. The Indian men are all
stalwart, swarthy-lOoking fellows, and
no doubt know the exact turn of the
: wrist in lifting a scalF. They all have
stOlid, sober appearing faces, and are
dressed after the uncouth fashions of all
, Indians. They constituted a part of
Chief Joseph's forces. They were not
captured, but surrendered of their own
accord. The detachment having them
in charge left Lewiston last Sunday.
The prisoners will be confined in the
r guard d-hOuse until such time as it may
be thought best to send them to a reser-
walton. A large number of people were
at the dock when the boat arrived to
see the dusky sons of the plains. The
soldiers look tired and travel-wOrn, and
are no doubt glad to get to Post quar-
ters."