The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

The diphtheria continues its ravages
in Salem.
Dayton, w. t., is improving rapidly.
1t contains 103 families.
A vein of coal eight feet thick has
been found near Lebanon.
Albany claims to have entertained
fully 10000 people on the 4th.
The new bridge across the Tualatin at
Bridgeport has been completed.
1t is thought that fully 5000 people
participated in the celebration at Eu-
gene.
Work of dredging will be resumed on
the Willamette River about the goth Of
July.
The contract for building the new
school-house at Eugene has been let for
S1O,35O.
Snow fell at Boise on the oath of June,
and it proved one of the coldest days Of
the season.
Hon. D. M. C. Gault has been en-
gagged as local editor on the Salem
Statesman.
A large number of lots were sold by
the Tacoma land company during the
past month.
Prospecting on Applegate, Jackson
county, has been suspended on account
of lack of water.
The total Indebtedness of Clackamas
county, after deducting available assets,
amounts to $3.50 S4.
The Common Council Of Astoria has
made an appropriation of $1,000 for the
purchase of fire material.
The State Dental Society passed res
olution disappearing the use of chloro-
form in dental operations.
During the month of June the snag-
pulIer removed 27l snags from the river
in the vicinity of Corvallis.
Injury to the wheat crops by the late
rains has been tritiing, although it was
feared they would prove disastrous.
The Dalles Tribune has suspended
publication for the present. The last
number completed the third volume.
The "City of Chester' carried away,
at her last trip, 5000 cases of salmon
from Astoria, valued at about S1S,6OO.
According to the Hillsboro I1depend-
ent, Washington county received $1,000
less school money in 1876 than in 1875.
The third Monday in September has
been designated as the beginning of the
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The agricultural department of the
State Agricultural College at Corvallis
last year contained 49 students; the col
legiate, 132.
The Jury in the case of Mrs. Philbrook
vs. the o. & G. r. R. Co. failed to agree,
and was discharged. The case was con-
tinued till the next term of court.
From fifty-six tons of ore from Last
Chance mine at Atlanta, Idaho, nearly
! ST, 900 has been cleared up. The owners
think they have an immense thing.
Immigrants are arriving at Astoria at
the rate of about 1000 monthly. A very
large proportion of this immigration
has been going east Of the Cascade range.
The Mountain Sentinel censures Gen
eral Howard very severely for the with
drawal of troops from the Wallowa, and
brands him with "glaring incompe-
| tency."
Captain Lawrence s. Babbitt, chief
ordnance officer, is authorized to make
such issue of surplus arms and ammu-
milton as the existing Indian outbreak
demands.
Gordon A. Henry, who bas been agent
at the Quinalt Indian reservation for
more than ten years, recently sent in his
/ TeSlS0aGlODJ anu Will sOOu A0GuIu "
Olympia, his former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Russell, of Seattle,
celebrated their golden wedding on the
5th inst. They celebrated their 25th
anniversary on the plains on their over
land journey to Oregon, and have re-
sided in Seattle for nearly 25 years.
State Superintendent Rowland has
designated st. Helens, Columbia county,
as the place for holding the Teachers
Institute for the fourth judicial district.
The time of the meeting is fixed for
July 18th, 1877. The fourth district
comprises the counties of Washington,
Clackamas, Multnomah, Columbia, and
/ Clatsop.
An old man named Stevenson, with
his wife, was crossing the old Turner
bridge across the Calapooia several
miles from Albany few days since,
driving a two-horse team, when the
bridge gave way, and precipitated them
down the bank some fifteen feet. The
old lady sustained injuries that will
probably cause her death. The bridge
had been for some time condemned.