The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14
NEWS ITEMS.

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aArion eounty's debt is SIS. .6ss 80.
no GIsoPs Io, IN Yakima Valley, w. T., will
some 100000. 1''S VI i'oseOurg Is
Buena Vista is the head Of navio,t;o,
on the Willamette. nav sa'ion
/ Government engineers will s,-,.o,. 81.
bar aud bay at Alsea. ''s
| The potato crop in Eastern Washing
ton will be large this year
The Ashland Academy property has
been decided 10 Tie NJ. f. Church
A Salem Chinaman has been con-
vieted Of selling liquor to Indians.
Spring wheat in Linn and Lane coun-
ties is mostly all damaged by rust.
The Albany Collegiate Institute will
open on Wednesday, September 80.
The city marshal Of Weston has or
dered the saloons closed on Sundays.
Work on the new pavilion at the State
Fair Grounds is progressing rapidly.
The wheat IN the vicinity Of Walla
Wslla is of superior quality this year.
About 3, 900 has been subscribed for
Presbyterian Church at Jacksonville.
Mr.. Abrahams laid the corner stone Of
fine brick store at ROseburg last week.
The grain warehouses at Indepeud-
ence are being prepared for the coming
season.
Immigrants from Sonoma county,
Cal, are pouring into the Spokane
country.
There are I,S4I school children in Sc
attle. The total population is estimated
at over 1000.
A bridge is TO be built at Turner's
crossing on the CalipOOia, six miles
from Albany.
A man near Pendleton has a small
field that yielded seventy niue bushels
of wheat to the acre.
The military telegraph line between
Dayton, w. T., aud Lewiston, /. T., is
much used by citizens.
The ship Iron Duke sailed for Liver
pool from AstOris last Friday with "A
cargo valued at S97, 900.
Seattle dispatches say steps are being
taken to connect Lakes Union and
Washington by canal.
The railroad track on the Weston ex-
tension has been laid TO Dry Greek,
within five miles Of Weston.
At Heppner, Umatilla county, the
temperature on several successive days
has reached 1862 in the shade.
r. B. Kline, Of the General Land
Office at Washington, is in Roseburg
settling donation claim affairs.
Red fish from Wallowa Lake. the
| greatest finny delicacy in the world, are
at present 10 be had in the Walla Walla
market.
The Douglas county Grangers have
shipped their wool to San Francisco,
the price offered them by the home deal
ers being thought too low.
Mrs. Stinson, of Salem, has received
$1,000 from the A. o. L. W, the
amount due her as insurance by virtue
OF the membership Of her deceased hus-
band.
The Board Of Trustees Of the William
ette University have elected Mrs. Jennie
Dawne preceptress, aud Miss Mary
Robinson teacher in the academy de-
partment.
William HobsOn, a resident of Clatsop
county since the 25th of December, 1913,
died at Astoria on Sunday afternoon,
aged eighty-three years. He was a ma
tive of England.
The fireman's annual election at As
tOria was held on Monday. L. d. Cotf-
man was elected Chief Engineer, f. r.
Haines First Assistant, and J. W. Gear
hart Second Assistant.
At Grsy's Harbor, W. T., last Sunday,
Matthew McGee shot A. o. Damon,
badly wOunding him in the head, and
then killed himself. Damon had dis
pleased McGee by purchasing a mort
gage on the latter's property.
Walla Walla Watchman: 1t costs
eight dollars per ton for shipping grain
from Lewiston, I. T., to Portland, while
We pay from Walla Walla to Portland
eleven dollars; hence wheat is worth
nine cents per bushel more anywhere
along Snake River than here.
Two brothers, John aud Thomas Rob
inson, living at WILDLY Island, w. T.,
had a row on Tuesday, in which the
former shot the latter in the right breast.
John is the Sheriff of Island county, and
arrested Thomas and took him before
Justice. On hearing the evidence, he
was released.
Rev. Charles +. Lambert, for a num-
Der Of years a professor in the State Ag-
ricultural College of Indiana, has ac-
cepted a chair in the faculty Of the
Willamette University at Salem, and
will probably aco as President until
permanent arrangements can be ef-
fected. The school will open on the 18th
Of September.
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