The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-06
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AeD TERRITORIAL

Hay is scarce in the Eugene market,
at from SIS TO $50 per ton.
The scarlet fever in malignant form
has appeared in the vicinity OF Le0-
anon.
Large quantities Of potatoes are being
shipped from various Sound ports 10
California.
a large amount Of stock is snowed in
ia the Blue Mountains, most Of which
will surely perish.
Sixty-seven marriage licenses were
issued by the clerk OF Jackson county
during tue year 1878.
a pos: Office has been established at
Nesper, ClatsOp county, Oregon, aud one
at Tulalip, SUOhomish county, w. 1.
David Newsome, Of Marion county,
attends DIR. Waits in the capacity OF
'man Friday" on his temperance tour.
Mrs. Casey, wife Of Ed. Casey, for
merly proprietor of the Dallas HeHli5Cr,
died at that place on Saturday, the 18th
ult.
Remember the eigth annual session Of
the state Temperance Alliance, which
will meet at Albany on the 10Th Of Feb
ruary.
4 movement is on foot among the
Galice Creek miners To expel Chinese
laborers from the diggings in that vi
cinity.
Hon. Thos. III. Brents, delegate-elect
from Washington Territory, and Philip
/ Ritz, Of Walla Walla, are now in Wash
| ington City.
II. ShafIer and wife, Of Seabeck, had
an addition Of three to their family on
the night Of January 26th, two SONS and
one daughter.
! The cold weather has not injured the
wheat as was feared. Lei looking green
and thrifty, and promising, as usual, a
| bOuntiful harvest.
There are tweuty-four organized
school districts in King county, w. T.,
in thirteen of which schools are at
present being taught.
! If present rates for beef hold out until
spring, Southern Oregon will send sew
eral thousand head Of fat cattle to the
Sacramento and san Francisco markets.
At all elections for school officers,
women who pay property tax, are le
gal voters, and are eligible to any Office
under the school system in Washington
Territory.
Cook, the murderer who will be
hanged at The Dalles on Friday, the
9TH inst.i appears perfectly stOlid, hav-
ing expressed neither dread for his ap-
preaching death, nor sorrow for his
crime.
The amount OF grain raised in Coos
county last year was greatly in excess
Of that of any former year, and the
| primitive fail Of our fOrefathers gave
I place to the buzz and whirr of two or
\ three machines in threshing it.
There We're but forty-six marriage IL
| censes issued in King county, w. T.,
/ last year, against sixty-oue in 1877.
| Either the women ia that locality are
getting better able TO take care of them
selves, or the men are getting less com
/ petent to take care Of them.
Mary Ann Bridges, a half breed girl
employed in the family of W. II.
| Learned, Of Port Townsend, committed
suicide by hanging, a few days since.
| she repaired 10 an empty house where
the deed was committed, and where she
was found IS hours afterward.
Hon. L. c. Bradshaw, Of YamhiH
| forgetting the time-hOnored antipathy
Of his party 10 water, walked into the
Willamette at Salem recently, Instead
of boarding the boat that lay at the
wharf, and narrowly escaped drowning.
He j. firmer than ever in the belief that
Democrats display wisdom when they
declare water dangerous element.
An enthusiastic dweIler in Kittitass
Valley, W. T., writes; "The kitti,ass
is the most beautiful, most extensive
and most fertile valley of the Pacific
Coast country, and destined 10 be the
military headquarters Of the depart
ment Of the Columbia, and the capital
city site Of the future State of Washing
tOu-which will be in early time
the wealthiest and worthiest State in
the American union.