The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-28
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL


Yamhill eounty's grain yield is fair.
WaIIa WaIla county script is as good
as gold
Norway rats have made their way to
Roseburg.
/ The Presbyterian church at Ashland
I has a new bell.
A fine mineral spring has been struck
near r Jsehurg.
The dredger is operating at the mouth
OF the Willamette.
There was light fall OF suow at The
Z Datles Oh last Thursday.
a large number Of business houses
are being built at The Dailes-
Work on the lighthouse at TillamoOk
Head will be commenced soon.
The newly discovered silver ledge
near Port Townsend assays unfavorably.
A large amount Of California money is
loaned upon real estate in Jackson
county.
The Union County Fair commences
on Wednesday, Sept. "a, and continues
one week.
The new building of the NJ. Z. Church
South, at Phoenix, will be dedicated
in October.
The furnace being put up at the New
Idriau cinnabar mine will soon COM
menee work.
The lime recently found on the TOu-
ehet, - miles from Walla Walla, is Of
/ first-elass quality.
The Roseburg Star says the damage
/ by rust in that locality is much less
than was anticipated.
/ The average yield Of wheat this year
| throughout Walia Walla and Columbia
counties is IS bushels to the acre.
| Fir blocks, to make slaves, are shipped
/ from Coos Bay to San Francisco. Large
| lots OF wood for matches are also sent.
| The citizens of Yamhill county have
subscribed literally for the erection of
new college building at McMinnville.
Roseburg is rapidly increasing in size,
several costly building- having recently
been erected, and more in process Of
/ erection.
Heretofore the average weight of
| Walla Walla wheat has been from lis
to l25 pounds per sack. This year it Is
| l30 pounds.
Old Kitsap, the Puyallup murderer,
has been acquitted because his mind is
uusound. He is ninety years old aud
nearly blind.
The channel of the Luckiamute River
is being cleaned out. The steamer
Nellie will carry of produce as soon as
the water rises.
w. c. Myers fine Percheron horse
"Prde Of Perche" died on the 18th inst,
from the effects Of poison administered
by some unknown person.
A record kept By Mr.. Ream, of Eu-
gene, shows that only about twenty per
o., a
occurred in Lane county during the year
past.
The Daily EUeaiHg Capital is the
name of an evening paper just started
at Salem. IL is Republican in politics,
but will give particular attention to
local affairs.
A dispatch from Victoria states that
an American vessel has been denied
a permit to take charge Of the wreck Of
the Gem Of the Ocean for the benefit of
its purchasers.
W. r. Macumber, local OF the Seattle
Daily Post, and w. N. Leach, foreman
in the same Office, were capsized i'm a
sail boat on Puget Sound on the 23d.
They were adrift four hours, aud the
former died from the exposure.
a woman with two little children
arri we'd at Walla Walla last week, hav-
ing come from Ohio in search Of her
husband, a fellow named Chas. Cole,
who failed 10 meet her as he promised.
The good people of Walla Walla con-
tributed TO relieve her distress.
Lieutenant Joseph Neuzil, a crazy
Austrian, has started on a three-lOg
raft from Seattle for San Francisco. He
says it is all right If he perishes; but if
he reaches san Francisco, his fortune is
made he will place his craft on ex-
hibitiou on Long Bridge, aud will
clear SiO,OOO in a week.