The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-11
NEWS ITEM


/ Port Ludlow.
/ lent at Seattle.
a ulVlsion Of Ancient Order of 4iber-
nlaEs Is 10 be organized in Astoria.
There are twenty-six pupils at the In
dian reservation school near Tacoma
r. II. Cardwell has been annointad
auditor aud clerk for the city Of kstoria
The SnohOmish Star has onooo.,l
out" 1t never WAS much Of a success
c. L. Walker, though young, has
been elected superintendent of the Lucky
| Queen Mine.
Over 5000 dispatches were received at
and sent from the Salem telegraph Of
ice during l577.
The city Of Astoria has debt of SlO,-
05O 80. Receipts at the city treasury
! for the year were $50, $50 49.
The aspirants for chief of police Of
Astoria are working buttOn-hOles larger
in the coats Of their aequaintances.
The Lewiston Teller says the voting
population of Thorn Creek has increased
since the last election from 10 to $50.
In Polk county certain citizens are
advocating the claims of Independence
for the county seat as against Dallas.
The building for the Pacific Threshing
Machine Company and new fire en-
gine-hOus ars being put up in Salem.
:. NJ. Wait and J. y. Day have bought
the Dayton wooden mill They intend
TO run il to its fullest capacity next
spring.
The late cold snap has not injured the
fall wheat planted on dry ground Pos
sibly some damage may have been done
I to the wheat in low places.
In Lane county l16 persons and cor
/ pOrations pay above 500 taxes eaehi
/ 80 pay between S75 and 500 each, and
| 100 pay between $50 and SO each.
The Corvallis Gazette has begun its
I fifteenth year. 1t is an established IN
stitutiOn in Benton county, and seems
I to be receiving tue support its merits
/ deserve.
People are settling in and about Day
ton, Washington Territory, every day.
The Nelys says that in two days re-
Gently it counted in the streets seventy
or eighty wagons each day.
There is considerable excitement in St
Joe, Dayton, and Lafayette in Yamhill
over Il supposed case of smallpox. A
man named Fletcher, a recent arrival,
died of the disease, aud man nameit
Olds has caught the cOntagiOn.
-Four pigs were killed last week on
John Wiltschen's place, seven miles
south of Salem, weighing 1875 pounds.
They were nine months and ten days
old. An average of 344 pounds for lot
of nine months pigs is good enough.
A letter from Kittitass Valley says
"Thus far the winter has been UneXeep-
tiOnably mild; up to this writing nc
snow has fallen in the valley. Immi-
grants are still coming into the valley
and are generally very desirable neigh
bors-principally men from the West
ern States.h
The Academy Of Sciences at Olympia
which is composed Of some of the lead
ing literary and scientific minds of tn,
capital city, meets every two weeks, OF
, each of which occasions a paper is reaC
! by one of the members, and then tn
subject brought forward is discussed ant
criticised by the members of the acad
emy.
a letter from Stevens county, Wash
5 ington Territory, to the PalOuse Gdzett
2 contains this: 1.-The greatest draw bacI
10 this country is the unsettled IndiaI
lquestion, and can see no end to it yet
The Indians, as a mass, are dissatisfie
with the way things now stand, and ar
{ opposed to removing to any reserve.
have been able to talk with many, AM
they all, with few exceptions, are sulk,
and indispOsed to say much. How
will end ! am unable to say ; aud, afte
: a residence OF twenty years among them
. cannot say that / feel safe.n