The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
NEWS ITEMS
STATE AND TERRITORIAL

Chief Justice Green has removed from
Olympia to Seattle.
The West-side railroad SURVEYS reached
Dixie, Polk county, last week.
Attempts at burglary are reported
from various towns in the interior.
Jacksonville eurolls three hundred
and ninety-seven persons of school age.
The "Great Western" will carry back
to san Francisco 1900 tons Of Seattle
coal.
The farmers ware-h house at Tangent
shipped 5000 tons Of wheat the past
season.
a county farm for the care and keep
ing Of paupers is talked Of in Washing
ton county.
A Seattle youth lost the sight of bis
left eye by the explosion Of a giant pow
der cap recently.
The firm of Ebey d Co, Seattle, were
the first 10 publicly refuse to receive
freight on Sunday.
Solomon Tethrow, a pioneer of 1s45,
died at his residence in Polk county on
the 18th inst, aged 10 years.
General Lane gave a lecture in Rose
burg on Sunday evening, on the battle of
Buena Vista, which was well received
There are now about one hundred and
ten families in the Nehalem Valley, and
some Of the best land yet remains unoc-
cupied.
\ prisoner escaping from the Ashland
iail recently, provided himself against
discomfort by taking his bedding along
with him.
The snow In portions of Umatilla
md afU oh
weeks, from sixteen inches to three and
four feet deep.
An overflow Of Mill creek has inunda-
/ ted portions of Walla Walla. The
/ freshet was the result of heavy rains
melting the SHOWS.
A reward Of $3.50 is offered by the sher-
itf Of Jefferson county, w. T., for the ar
rest Of the murderers of Dennis Height
and wife, Of ScOw bay.
The dreadful vengeance Of the galIows
seems not very potent agency in the
prevention Of murder after all, as the
sickening details in another column tes-
tify.
The lower house of the Dakota legisla-
ture several weeks since passed a Woman
Suffrage bill. The worthy example of
. Wyoming has extended beyond her
4, A company for the manufacture of to-
baccO has been organized at Puyallup.
Such an establishment is only second in
its enervating and immoral tendencies
to a whisky mill.
Officer Thorndyke has exhibited his
zeal and courage in behalf of Seattle's
welfare by promptly breaking up den
Of vile and obscene exhibitions lately
started in the "laYa beds"
Hon. J. II. Slater, Senator elect from
/ Oregon, passed through Boise City on The
9th inst, bound for Washington. II He
goes at this time, il is said, TO look after
the railroad Interests of Eastern Oregon
Petitions and remOnstrances, asking
the clemency Of the governor and pro-
I testing against its exercise in the case of
Johnson and Brown, are being ciTcu-
lated in Polk county, the latter receiving,
/ IL is said, the greatest number Ofsigna-
lures.
| McMinnville school district numbers
/ l36 legal voters. We are curious to
know whether women Taxpayers are
included in the enumeration according
/ to the new law, aud If so, how many
women are reckOned among the legal
voters.
Trapping, il seems, is not entirely a
| thing Of the past in this State, as we are
/ told that two men so engaged in the
| CalipOoia mountains near Brownsville,
show for their winters labor 223 beaver,
/ thirty-eight muskrat, twenty-five mink,
two otter and six deer skins, all valuable
and salable.