The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-03
NEWS ITEMS.
srArE AND rERR1roR1AL.

STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
Work began on the Olympia and
TeninO railroad last week.
a number of fast horses are expected
from California for the State Fair races.
Diphtheria has appeared in Lafayette.
A little son of DR.. PoppletoD died from
it last week.
Soda Springs, thirty miles south of
Jacksonville, Is becoming quite fash
ionable resort.
An Alden fruit-drying establishment
will soon be in working order on the
Coquille River.
Work on the university building at
Eugene is being pushed forward rapidly
by the contractors.
In Jackson county last week the
lightning struck tree and killed ten
sheep that were lying underneath it.
The hop crop of Lane county is estf-
mated at figures ranging between two
and three hundred thousand pounds this
year.
Myriads of grasshoppers have ar
peared in Boise Valley, Idaho. Most of
the harvest was gathered before they
appeared.
The assessment of Walla Walla county
foOts up S2,3S7 1920, gain of $50, $50
over last year. The county has 2S, ,625
acres of wheat.
Six thousand gallons of backberries
will be gathered this year from two
acre patch near Dayton, owned by
Henry Hewett.
Professor Condor, of the State Uni
versity, has gone to Eastern Oregon on
a scientific exploration. He will be alb
sent several weeks.
The government snag boat during the
month of July removed $40 snags and
other distractions from the channel of
the Upper Willamette.
Salmon are running so thickly in
Fraser River that the companies ap-
pliances are insufficient to can them
fast enough. The catch will be enor-
nous.
The Pioneer Society has been pre-
sented with the first almanac ever
printed in Oregon. 1t was printed in
Oregon in 1913, and contains twenty.
four pages.
Captain Cochran's new boat recently
i launched at Canemah is christened "a.
A. McCully," in honor of a prominent
citizen of Salem and former President of
the old Peoples Transportation Com
pany.
The residence, Office, drug store, and
medical library of DR.. Thessing were
destroyed by fire on last Friday; near
Milwaukee. Everything is total loss,
and estimated at between $1,000 and
$4,000.
Captain Bancroft, who was severely
wounded in the engagement with the
Indians on the 18th ult., and afterward
reported dead, is rapidly recovering,
and has returned to his former quarters
at Port Townsend.
Cornelius Westerfeld, a young man
formerly of Yamhill county, but more
J recently of Wasco, is under arrest at
The Dalles for infiicting a dangerous
wound with knife upon a man with
whom he had an alteration.
= The saw-mill of Mr.. Adam Simmons,
= on the North Yamhill, was destroyed
2 by fire on the 10th ult. The loss reached
about $1,000, and was a severe blow to
Mr.. Simmons. His residence was only
j saved by the greatest exertiOns.
d Senators Morton and Mcmillan, in
company with number of citizens of
our State, visited some of the fisheries
, on the Lower Columbia on Saturday,
= observed their capacity and work, aud
q were impressed with the magnitude of
b the industry.
y The Supreme Court of Washington
! Territory has made decree in favor of
Mrs. Phelps, increasing her damages
{ against the steamer "City of Panama"
q to $4,000. 1t will be remembered that
on the first trial of this cause in the
9 court below, the plaintiff got a decree Of
S. 900 in her favor, with which she was
dissatisfied. She was injured some
b months ago by falling through the
: steamers hatchway.