The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-15
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

y. W. Randall has been elected Mayor
of Oregon City.
Late rains are a great benefit TO the
mines in Josephine county.
Chinese have left Lewiston, Idaho,
being unable to obtain employment
there.
The state Of the roads leading to the
saw-mills renders lumber very scarce IN
Walla Walla.
Much Of the fruit in the vicinity Of
Ashland aud Phoenix was destroyed By
frost last week.
The Southern Methodists will soon
commence the erection Of church al
Phoenix 24x4O feet.
The wool clip Of Grant county prom
ises TO be large. Much OF it is already
on the way To The Dales
There are now 100 convicts in the
Oregon Peniteutiary, and the number is
augmented almost weekly.
a teachers institute for Umatilla
county will be held at Weston on the
18th, 18th and l4th OF June.
Junction City has taken four hundred
dollars worth Of stock in "a celebration
AtA AAAN NNAAAAAae Il eNAA al " 81 "a
Ex-senator Mitchell was warmly re-
ceived by the citizens Of Roseburg on
his arrival there on the 9th inst.
Seventeen miles Of the grading on the
west-side railroad is completed. The
iron will arrive by the first of June.
Nehalem Valley is fast filing up with
actual settlers, and good land merely for
the taking is getting extremely scarce.
It is estimated by those who have Op-
pOrtunity 10 know that there'is sixty
thousand dollars worth of marketable
beef in Grant county.
The M0UHtdmeer learns that a vast
army OF crickets is moving from the
hills to bottom lands on Three and Five
Mile Creeks, Wasco county.
A reward Of $500 is offered fer the
arrest Of VIM. Hicks and Enoch Baker,
| who escaped on the night Of May 9Th
| from the Oregon Penitentiary.
Long & Birmingham's cheese factory
at Claquato Is turning out 300 pounds Of
/ cheese daily. The same firm has a like
factory in Sumas Valley, b. c.
Initial steps are being taken TO build
a new schoOl-house at Turner, the old
one being too small to meet the require
ments OF the rising generation.
A petition is being circulated auC
very generally signed IN Lake county
asking that the Klamath Indians b,
allowed to remain where they are.
Professor Powell, Superintendent o
Public Instruction, has called a con
ventiOn Of County School SuDerintend
ents, to meet in Salem on the 29th inst
The bridge on the Utah and NortherI
Railroad that is to span Snake River j.
a quarter Of a mile long. Between fifty
and seventy-five men are employed in
its erection.
Another Indian, charged with COM
plicity in the murder of Lorenzo Per
kins and wife, near Priests Rapids, last
July, was arrested in The Dalies by
! Sheriff Crossen on Friday.
a post Office has been established al
/ Mount Scott, Douglas county, with Mrs
Matilda Biakely as Postmaster. There
/ has also been a post office established in
Baker county, called 'HOme."
The case of The State VS.. Bernard,
King and Fairchild, indicted for the
murder Of Mrs. Hager in Clackamas
county, has been passed over until the
next term of the Circuit Court
Judge Macarthur recently delivered
his lecture on Industrial Education"
in Pendleton. The proceeds of the lee
ture will be applied on the purchase of
an organ for the NJ. i. Church of that
place.
Mr.. Carter's whole claim for the State
I printing for the Legislative session of
/ 1873 is less than $1,000, including the
report Of the Investigating Committee
/ that of Mr.. Brown, for less service, was
over S24,OOO.
General Howard, accompanied by
/ Chief Moses and his band, started up
| the Columbia on the 14th inst. They
| go to fix the boundaries of the reserva-
I tiOn recently allotted the chiefs bv the
powers at Washington.
The funeral OF the late E. y. Cooke
was one Of the largest and most impos-
ing that Salem has ever witnessed. The
remains were deposited in the family
vault, recently completed in Odd Eel
[ lows Cemetery near that city.
Mrs. Crump, a resident of Salem since
lS47, died at her home in that city on
the l2th inst. She was seventy years OF
age and was universally respected IN
I life and mOurned in death by the COM
munity in which she had so long re-
sided.
General Sprague, Superintendent OF
/ the Northern Pacific Railroad, with
I Colonel Doane, Chief Engineer, are in
Walla Walla, getting ready for an i'm
mediate start 10 survey aud locate the
I liue of the road from the mouth Of Snake
River.
Every indictment disposed Of at the
I r.f Of - D. 4
Oregon City resulted in conviction.
Criminal trials are no longer a farce in
the Judicial District presided over bv
Judge Bellinger and District Attorney
Caples.
A lacy living in CanyOnville, seventy
two years OF age, il the mother Of six
teen children aud has sseveuty-two grand
children. She was married in 1874. and.
as may be surmised from the foregoing.
her life since that period has been a
busy one.
The lime trade is becoming one Of the
most important interests ON Puget
Sound, there being now three kilns IN
active operation, two on San Juan aud
one on Orcas Island. One Of the former
will probably ship $4,000 barrels the
coming season. The total shipment
will aggregate 5000 barrels.
4 sister of Rev. 5. c. Adams, of Sa-
lem, Mrs. c. +. Stone, died on the 22d
ult., at Helena, Montana, at the age of
| forty-three years. She was the young
est Of eight children and the first Of the
band to pass the mystic river. The
mother, now over eighty years old, re-
sides at McMinnville, having lived in
Oregon since 1852.
A company to construct and equip a
railroad from Astoria through the Ne
haleni coal fields, to a point on the Ore
gOn Central road, near Forest Grove.