The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-31
NEWS ITElfS


Sheridan is in need OF dwellings.
An iron foundry is in operation at
Roseburg.
A glove factory las been started at
Cornelius.
The harvest iu Washington county
will be large.
Rust has appeared 10 grain fields near
Oakland, Oregon.
A new saw-mill is being erected two
miles south of Hi.,sOoro.
A new JriIss has been built across
Palmer Greek a- Dayton.
A good wagon road is being made
from Port Oxford TO Coos Bay.
The thermometer reached 9i' iu the
shade at The Dalles last week.
The Odd Fellows Of Ashland have de-
cided TO build a new brick ball.
DIley, in Washington county, has
been established as post office
The Comstock House at Albany will
probably re rebuilt in sixty days.
A peution is in circulation for daily
mail between Corvallis and Newport.
The black spots on the Walia WalIa
.peaches make them bitter to the taste
A lodge of the Ancient Order United
Workmen has been instituted az Cor
wallis.
Three men at Spokau Falls have been
Imprisoned for selling whisky to lu-
diaus.
Harvesting has commenced i'm south
ern Oregon. The yield will fall below
average.
John Perry, q placer miner, was killed
near Canyon City on tue 22i by a cav
ing bank.
Douglas county has g. 3.720 school chill
dren; Jackson, 1898; josephine 40
Lake, COL.
The Methodist Church at Jackson
vile has been thoroughly oyerhauled
and repaired.
There san uncommonly large amount
of rust in the wheat fields Of the Cali
pOoia Valley.
Tire house OF William IT. Davenport,
near Coiiax,. w. T., was blown down Dy
/ d recent storm.
The Walla Union says the crops in an
the country around there are heavy be-
| yOud precedent.
Farmers say there viii be 100000
/ bushels of wheat lhreshei in Jackson
county this year.
Coaledo. in Coos county, has been dis
continued as q post office; also, Wing
/ Vile, Baker county.
Richard Gogau, the herier who acci-
| deutaHy shot himself last week, died on
| the 25th at Pendletou.
| Crops on Applegste Creek never
/ looked better The mines are about
closed down for the Summer.
A fierce wind at Lewiston, idaho, last
Friday, shook or vast quantities Of ap-
! piles aud prOstrated many trees.
A special agent OF the Government
seized 400 900 feet of saw-logs at Pa
louise City, W. t., Gst week, for viola
tiou of L. S. laws.
Foster the hlwdv-house keeper at
Seattle, arrested for kidnapping "a littie
/. girl from the Orphan Home iu Port
land, jumped his bail
over - 600 worth Of opium is anuu-
2 ally sm0kri iu the Chinese deus of
Boise City, aud white men aud boys are
the principal consumers.
j. II. Foster and M0utieth G Son, of
Albany, offer 90 pay premium of four
cents "a bBshei boo mill feed for all grain
sold 20 or stored with them.
a Walia WaIla dispatch to the orc
? lDtlHt says Tue Olo IT 4lu tA press VI tt7
robbed on tine 26th by three men, who
D got about 81 200 iu gold dust.
Haudley * S.uuolt are rebuilding the
- UmBtilla House at Tue DIlIes to be tile
third building ON the site. Mr.. Thomas
Smith is also building hotel there.
The youngest son of Mr.. L. l.. James,
aged sixteen years, living near Cham
poeg, was drowned iI the Willamette
last Monday afternoon while bathing.
The fire in Ealama last Friday de-
stroyed about $40 O0D worth of property
: on which there was $500 insurance.
70 The ire started in buildIng used as "a
hotel aud saloon.
= fire broke out next door 60 the In
teruatioual Hotel at Wala Walla yes
terday evening and destroyed property
. to the value OF S3O00i partially In
S surgd. The note. was saved.
The C1lax, W. T., Council is COM
o posed of the following gentlemen: h.. n.
p Sweet, ID. Woiari, G. Cooper II. =.
Hollugsworth, Julius Lippitt, i. N.
3 B ach and W. ". Beach.
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