The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-17
NEWS ITEMS.


STATE AND rEEEIToRtAL
Nesqually plains report an abundance
Of wild strawberries.
/ a new post Office has been established
at Big Butte, Jackson county.
/ Mrs. +. f. Victor is in Benton county
canvassing for her latest production.
! Ripe Strawberries made their appear
ance in the Salem market last week.
/ Olympia is preparing to celebrate the
Fourth of July in ''rousing' manner.
/ The population Of Seattle has increased
i92 during the past year. II now reaches
$3.50.
sixty tons OF Oregon hops will he
shipped on the next steamer Tor New
/ York.
A salmon weighing eight pounds
was brought into Hawthorne's caunery
a few days since.
Captain C.. P. Crandall has gone to
Eastern Oregon, where he intends to
locate a stock ranch.
Albany has been recently reinforced
[ in population by six families from
/ Knoxville, Tennessee.
/ A bridge l75 feet long will be built
[ by Linn county across the Muddy, near
] Muddy Station, this summer.
Four prisoners reached the peniten-
/ tiary from Umatilla county last week,
three of whom were sentenced for horse
stealing.
/ DR.. Tower, Of Coos, is about to build
steamboat, thirty feet keel, six feet
/ beam, and three feet Deep for his own
use in his professional business on the
/ bay and tributaries.
I A large number Of farmers in Marion
county are still sowing grain. In any
country except Oregon no grain sowed
so late could mature. The area Of grain
exceeds by one-third that of any former
year in the history Of our State.
Harvey Pope, Of Oregon City, charged
with the crime of rape on a child four
teen years of age, was found, on trial.
gully, as charged In the Indictment
He was sentenced 10y Judge Shattuck to
ten years hard labor iu the peuiteutiary.
Saddler, the murderer of Captain
Goodwin, was, on trial, which took place
at Oregon City last week, found guilty
of murder i'm the second degree and was
on Saturday sentenced by Judge shat
tuck TO Imprisonment In the penlten-
tiary for life.
A man named Thomas Juikins, aged
seventy-five years, and his vile were
recently thrown from their wagon, near
+ Springfield, Lane county, by the team
running away. The old gentleman was
almost instantly killed, and his wife
seriously, if not fatally, injured.
Dr. McAfee, George futile and A. p.
DeLiu are each under bonds OF oJUJ 10
await the action of the grand jury aJ
the next term of the Circuit Court, the
OfIeuse being the unlawful removal oil a
fort lar
and conveyance of the same 10 Salem
! II, instead Of hanging about cities and
towns, Illuminating against the Chinese,
and attending 'labor" caucuses, men
out Of employment would go into the
. country, they could find work at good
J wages. The demand for farm labOrers'
will be steady for the next four months.
Mrs. Churchill, mother of young
q Churchill, who is implicated in the
= More murder, in California, passed
< through Salem recently, en- route TO
where her son is. Mr.. Churchill was
there, but has since returnedi he found
the feeling there against his son not so
e bad as he had heard.
e The chauuel and spis in front of Fort
s Stephens have changed 50 much during
- the past winter that it is thought that
the work is now out of danger; small
wing dams were constructed OF oIusu
D and sand bags during the month, which
n have entirely changed the direction OF
the outlet of the swash channel.
The run Of salmon in the Columbia
b River has been less this year than ever
e before, and it seems as though this de-
;, crease is likely to continue unless Wig
/ Orous and intelligent efforts be made
under authority Of Oregon and Wash
IL ington Territory to prevent wasteful
II destruction and carry out plans Of arti-
fetal propagation.
The canning establishment at Cla-
wauk, Alaska, it is said, is turning out
about 5000 cans per day. Salmon at
that point commence running about the
d first of next month. The weather at
Wrangel has been so fine that planting
commenced in gardens on the 9Th OF
D" March, and April l2th they had radlshes,
turuips, and other vegetables.