The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-09
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

The Cornelius CoTant has suspended.
Diptheria again prevails at Walla
Walla.
A theater is being built at Walla
Walla.
Scarlatina has appeared in the viein-
ity Of Weston.
During September 1882 tons Of coal
were shipped from Seattle.
Rich placer mines are reported on
Ruby and Canyon Creeks w. i.
The Yakima people intend organizing
a pioneer association on the l2th.
The wheat crop of Washington county
is nearly all safe in the graneries.
Four acres of land in Union county
yielded 500 bushels of oats this year.
A sawmill is being constructed at the
upper falls OF the Spokane River, W. L.
Ten thousand shingles are manufaac-
tured daily by a mill at Spokane Falls,
w. T.
Chief Moses recently drew revolver
on a white man 10 a saloon at Camp
Scott.
There are now Ill students in atten-
dance at the Territorial University at
Seattle.
The population Of Washington Terri
tory is nearly 90 600. There has been
gain Of about 1900 in the past year.
Burton NJ. BOnham, aged Il years,
son Of Judge BOnham, died at the fam
lily home near Salem on the 2d inst.
Merchants throughout the Willamette
Valley towns have difficulty in getting
silver enough to make change with.
L. d. Browns hotel, at Washougal,
/ w. T., was totally destroyed by fire on
the lst inst. Loss, S2.5O0i Insurance,
81 500.
Senator Slater declined a public re-
ceptiOn at Corvallis last week, and re-
ceived his friends quietly at the hotel
parlOrs.
! The Vancouver Independent says
| The potato crop is an average one, and
rather more than the usual acreage was
planted.
A very rich gold-bearing quartz vein
has been discovered eighty-twO miles
east Of Spokane Falls, w. T., on the
Mullan trail.
The people Of Puyallup Station, w.
T., are trying TO raise money to COM
plete a church now in process Of eou-
struction at that place.
An ordinance has been passed in Scat
tie giving the right OF way to Irving
Ballard to run cars through the prin-
cipal streets Of the city.
Judge ThOs. Burke and Miss Caroline
McGilvra, both of Seattle, were married
on the 9Th. The bride is the daughter
of prominent lawyer.
The erection of sheds in grainfields to
protect harvested grain from the Fall
rains is being urged in Washington
Territory and this State.
Miss Annie Looney, of Idaho City,
was thrown from q wagon, last week
= while returning from Banner to Idaho,
, and had her neck broken.
Hon. Stephen Maxon, for twenty
years q resident of Walla Walla Valley,
and formerly a member Of the Territorial
Legislature, died at his home last week.
General Grant will probably be in
vited to visit Walla Walla. Special
D boats and trains will be offered by the
;, 10. ;. \. Co. to carry himself aud party.
Mr.. r. Koehler, President Of the west
side road, visited Corvallis last week.
S The City Council has not yet granted
= the company the right to run track
f through the city.
>. Lieutenant Farrow, with his Umatills
Indians, has captured the hOstiles who
ItCculll Cbn nmlLlcu tue uluIutLS Ou
d RAINS ranch, and is bringing them in.
e There are SO Of them.
It The Presbyterian Synod of the CO.
o lumbia, which has been in session al
Seattle for several days, adjourned on
u Tuesday evening TO meet at Corvallis
y Oregon, year hence.
e \ peculiar disease has recently re
n suited in the death of several children
b in Kittitass Valley, w. I. Five babies
were buried recently in single day
II from the town of Yakima City.
+ The Independence Riverside says suffi
,r cient rain has fallen in Polk county q
: enable farmers to begin their Fall pillow
ing. Enough rain has fallen in Port
land TO enable a garden cultivator {
Al pillow up the pavements.
TO Grading was actually commenced a
Y, AinswOrth, the new town at the mOutl
Of of Snake River, for the Northern Pacifi
Railroad, on the 2d, President Billing
turning the first shOvelful of dirt him
a self The work is not to be stopped oil
b, the tracks meet in Montana.