The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.
Cove, Oregon, April Il, 1877.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.


The stage time from Walla Walla to
Kelton is now three days.
The hills and valleys of Polk county
are white with strawberry blossoms.
The new water pipe company at Tum-
water are preparing to push business.
Mrs. Julia A. Hayes has been ap-
pointed postmaster at White Hill, Lake
county.
Hon. Lee Laughlin, of North Yam
hill, has purchased the Simmons farm.
Price, $1,000.
Frost has visited Yamhill county al
most every night of the past week, but
no damage reported.
1t is estimated that the population Of
Oregon will be increased 20, 900 this year
by Immigration alone.
Ten thousand head of cattle will be
canned at the Columbia fisheries for the
Eastern and foreign markets this year.
The cost of the Presbyterian Church
recently built at Seattle was $1,000, Of
which amount 500 was raised in Port
land.
The number of school districts in Polk
county is AZ; school children, 1859.
Amount of school fund for last year, &c.
SIG 20.
In Lane county the Grand Jury re-
turned true bill against John Coggs-
well and Harvey Kauoft, for the MUIR
der of Scott Osborn.
The executive committee of the State
Agricultural Society has awarded the
contract for the society's printing to A.
L. Stinson, of Salem.
Hon. D. w. Cheeseman has been ap-
pointed United States Commissioner at
Lake View, Lake county, Oregon, by
the United States Circuit Court.
Almost every available acre of agri-
cultural land in WascO county is being
"hOmesteaded" by the many immi-
grants who are pouring into The Dalles.
The Teachers Institute for Jackson
county will be held at Jacksonville on
the 4th and 5th of May. Discussion of
several branches has been assigned to
different teachers.
Present appearances indicate a large
crop of the smaller fruits, cherries,
peaches, plums and berries this season,
and as for apples and pears-they are
about as certain as wheat.
The Armstrong estate in Yamhill
county was bid in by the Scotch Com
pany who had loaned money on it, for
S19, 400. The company want to sell it
so as to get their money back.
H. w. Lamson, of Sheridan, sold TO-
900 bushels of wheat recently at 81 O2.
There is considerable demand for wheat
these days, and to-day buyers are offer
ing 81 Is per bushel, delivered at st.
Joe.
A little girl eight years of age, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Harris, of Brush Prairie, w.
T., was drowned by falling into well
last week. Her mother descended into
the well by ladder and was herself
nearly drowned in the vain attempt to
rescue the child.
Says the Baker Democrat: "In this sec
ton of the country we have never known
man, either a labOrer or mechanic,
who was honest, industrious and sober,
and wanted to work, to remain long out
of employ About so in every
county in Oregon.
Mrs. S. Il. Mexican, aged seventy
nine years, died on the 18th at Astoria.
The AstOridn says of her: "She was
among the very first white women, be-
ing about the eighth in number, to To-
cate in Astoria, arriving here in 1S47
with her husband, and remained here
until 1868, when they removed to Cali
fornia. She was on visit to her son s.
t. and her daughter Mrs. j. G. Hustler,
in this city, at the time of her death.