The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-13
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Stock in Southern Oregon is faring
badly.
Or. Dean Clarke is still lecturing at
Olympia.
Ten elk were killed near La Grande
not long since.
Three new reservoirs will shortly be
built at Vancouver.
About 45, 600 bushels of wheat remain
in the Albany warehouses.
The Port Madison mills are cutting
90. eco ieet of lumber per day.
Weather iu Eastern Oregon has
greatly moderated within the past week.
Ten teachers in charge Of four schools,
train the youthful idea az Olympia at
present.
james Burke, of Vancouver, has been
adjudged insane and com mitted TO the
asylum at SteilacoOm.
The State taxes Of Linn county,
amounting TO S33 900, have been paid
into the State treasury.
The winter i'm the PaIouse country
has been unusually severe, and especially
hard OH stock and EN- grants.
Netting is a lively business in AstO-
ria just now, the fisheries being each
preparing for the salmon run.
Twenty thousand bushels Of potatoes
on one dock at Seattle, on Friday,
awaited shipment to San Francisco.
The public schoo! building at Albany
will soon have to be enlarged to accom-
modate the pupils Of that thriving city.
John ID. Whitney, convicted Of the
murder of Oliver Hilbert, in Marion
county, has been granted a new trial by
the Supreme Court.
Revival meetings in the " +. Church
at Albany will be continued throughout
the present month. Upward of twenty
conversions have already been reported.
/ Mr.. A. J. Dufur returned to his home
/ in this State last week, having been alb
sent in the East on business connected
with the final winding up of the Cen
tenuial commission.
a petition asking the governor to
commute the death penalty passed upon
Cook TO imprisonment for life, was cir
culated at The Dalles, and received one
bundled and twenty five signatures.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
IClackamas county will be held at Ore
gOu City on Saturday Of this week, TO
take final action concerning the pro-
pOsed uaTrOw-gaug railroad betw cen
that place and Mulalla.
Mr.. c. ; Higgins has raised two tur-
nips on Coos River, tender and sweet,
the united weight of which is between
forty and nifty pounds. Another one of
these roots weighing twenty-five pounds
is on exhibition at "a Coos Bay saloon.
a family reunion was held at the res
ideuce of Joseph &. Geer, Sr., near
Buttevilie, on the 5th inst, the occasion
being the old gentleman's S4th birth
day. His children and grandchildren
to the number Of thirty persons were
present.
The Tacoma saw-mill cut in 1878, a
little over - O00 900 feet of lumber, or
more by far than any preceding year.
During the latter part Of the year the
mill was only run on eight-hOur time,
and for only few weeks more than p
The best weeks work was done in Janu-
AIRY, when $40 600 were cut, los, 900 one
day, ll2iOlO another, aud the other four
DAYS each between 5000 and 100000
feet.
/ The Gazette thus jubilates: "Since it
has become a fixed fact that the Oregon
/ Central Railroad will be extended to
/ Corvallis next summer, real estate has
materially enhanced in value, and is
iugs will 90 up early i'm the spring, and
various improvements will be made
With railroad connection, Corvallis is
destined 10 be one of the liveliest and
most desirable business places, as it is
the haudsomest in Oregon"
The Oregon Pioneer Association, at the
meeting of TIE Board of Managers at
Salem last week, by resolution invited
the tfrtuEeTs of the Slate To uarfici pa 2.
In the animal reunion in June, 1873
Willard II. Reese, Of Butteville, was
elected TO deliver the address upon that
occasion. The reunion will be held as
heretofore at the fair grounds near Sa-
lem. The Oregon Pioneer Historical
Association was invited to attend the re-
union, also the Southern Oregon
/ Pioneer Society.
a girl sixteen years Of age, named
Cody, near Muddy station, 10 Linn
county, attempted suicide a few days
J ago. She obtained a revolver and shot
herself through the body. The girl be-
came euamored OF a man whose atten-
tiOus her father had forbidden. Having
. been treated by her father with great se-
verify, she resolved on suicide. At last
r reports 10 was not known whether the
shot would prove fatal or not. But re-
cOyery was not expected. That a girl
of such age so lameutably involved has
either been badly born or badly brought
up, or both, il a natural conclusion, and
one strengthened IN this case by the re-
port Ofthe fathers part IN the affair Uu-
der such circumstances, she is au object
ui pity rather than ceusure. The latter
should fall upon causes rather than re-
suits.