The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-08
NEWS ITEMS.


sum ueI Nlut.
There is now mail service three times /
4 week between COlfax and Colville, via /
Spokane Falls.
Thirteen buildings, including a good |
will be erected at Philo- /
math this year.
A magnificent block has just been .
completed by Paine Bros, Walla Walla, /
at cost Of S2S, 500.
A salmon weighing forty-five pounds 1
was caught in the river opposite Van /
couver one night last week.
The summit of Columbia mountain, /
five miles from The Dalles, was covered .
with snow on Friday morning.
A new town, to be called AinswOrth, /
is to be laid out on the Columbia a short /
distance above the mouth of the Snake. I
The construction of the proposed rail- /
road to Coos Bay will be agitated in /
Roseburg during the coming term OF
Court.
Coos Bay claims to send one-third of
the exports Of Oregon to sea. These are
conveyed by three steamers and twenty
schOouers.
Prof c. B. Plummer gives occasional
public entertainments at the Territorial
Il UihEfHALNF E0EhNAlEf III " AAAElA AAAGLAAlAluAl
he is teacher Of elocutiOn.
-Four children of w. d. Buxton, Of
Howell Prairie, died between the 18th
and the 22d Of the past month of diph-
iberia. Their ages ranged from ten to
sixteen years.
An establishment running three looms
is in operation in Albany, engaged in
weaving wire cloth, used in grain sepa-
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will shortly be added.
A new road has been opened from the
head of Suislaw River to Cottage Grove,
called the Crow road. The grade is easy,
and, with a good team, the farmer can
haul fifty bushels to the railroad.
Uncle Davy NewsOme is accompany
ing Calvin B. Mcdonald upon his lee
turing tour up the valley. His health
is feeble and the infirmities Of age press
upon him, yet he still persists in active
duty.
On Monday morning of last week, Mr.
J. Il. Cameron, of Jackson county,
found six OF his ewes the mothers Of fif-
teen lambs. One Of them had four, an
other three, and the remaining four two
lambs each.
Effort was made at Dallas last week
to raise the sum of 81 500 to pay the
freight on the iron aud enable the Day
ton narrOw-gauge company to complete
the road to that place. The larger part
Of the amount was pledged.
According to the Hillsboro TadeDend-
eHt, land, as well as real estate in every
part OF Washington county, is rapidly
growing in value. Neat farm houses
are being built, and improvements in
fencing, etc, are being made every day.
The estimated value Of school houses
and grounds in Marion county is $40
900. During the year, 1877 teachers were
employed in the public schools The
average wages of these per month was
S43 for men and S3l 50 for women
teachers.
The Grand Lodge, I. o. G.. T., will
hold its annual session in Salem, COM
mencing Tuesday, June 18th. Delegates
will be conveyed to their homes free of
charge by the usual lines Of travel upon
presenting certificates from the Grand
Secretary of the Order.
The MoU8tGiHeer: Joseph HuntIev,
father of the young man who killed his
brother in this county two OF three
weeks ago, was in town on Tuesday, and
made US a friendly visit. the old gen.
tleman is almost completely broken
down, and will survive the disgrace
that his son has heaped upon him but a
short time.
Some weeks ago, y. r. Davis, Of
Wyoming, purchased 1900 head of
cattle Of stock raisers Of Grant county.
y band of $50 horses, purchased in Cali
| fornia, is being driven across the cOun-
try TO that county, to be used in driving.
/ The cattle will soon be divided into
three or four drOves and started east to
their destination.
| The Corvallis Gazette: The west-side
road has been permanently located
through Independence, Polk county,
which creates some dissatisfaction at
Monmouth. Some places are certain to
be left "out in the cold" Can't reach
every mans door. All the company
ask, we believe, is right Of way and de-
pot grounds. The citizens Of Corvallis
should grant these readily.
Commissioner Hayt recently tele-
graphed to Major Rinehart, Indian
Agent at the Malheur reserve, to pro-
coed with farming operations. The no.
BILE red men had, by diligent sUpervis-
ion, got in seventy acres Of wheat at
last accounts. Government will have
another large invoice of the latest i'm
proved farming implements to pay for
shortly for these industrious sons oi
toll.
Several horses were killed a short
time ago between Oregon City and Ca.
nemah, by crowdiug in between the
bluff and the railroad during the pas.
sage of the freight train. The owner
brought suit against the railroad com.
pany for damages, and obtained iudg-
ment for $500. The train consisted oil
twenty-eight cars, heavily laden, the
eighteenth of which crushed the horses
and was thrown, with several Others
from the track.
Thomas B. Merry has the following
concerning Walla Walla, from personal
observation, in the Inland FDlDire
Walla Walla is the largest and best
town in the Northwest. It possesses
all the energy of early California, with
out its reckless extravaganza. From
observations derived from a drive to
I Dayton and back, going up by the lower
road and coming back by the way of
COppel, we saw enough to satisfy us
that Walla Walla is as good a town as
any Of its size in America. On all sides
Of US were vast fields Of thicklv-sown
and well-grOwing grain and If 1873
don't show the largest yield in proper
tion to the acreage of any part Of the
Pacific Coast, am badly fooled.
Rev. Joseph Cook says: "a pulpit
silent on temperance discredits itself a.