The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-04
NEWS ITEMS.
AND TERRironIAL.

STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
There are 200 prisoners iu the Peui-
/ teutiary.
The academy at lafayette was opened
/ last Monday.
/ Crops about Vancouver were not in
/ jured by the rain.
| The public schools at Salem will be
I opened next Monday.
Much IF the grain from rl>t,d stalks
will he ouly 6t for feed.
Track-laying on the Sesi-siLe exte..-
sion is progressing slowly.
There are several new houses in
course Of erection at Forest Grove.
Mr.. Pattersou's hotel, az Kalama, is
being rapidly pushed To completion.
Eighty-one newspapers are published
in Oregon aud Washington Territory.
Wheat is coming in rapidly Lo the
various ware-houses in Yamhill county.
Preliminary work has been com
menced on the hreak water at Coos Bay
bar
A large number of Polk comfy farm
ers will hold their grain fnr 81 per
bushel.
SuohOmish, w r., has a ladies' base
bail club, Of which Miss Fannie Lowe Is
captain.
The damage to the grain crop i'm the
vicinity of Seattle will be great from
the recent rains.
\ public sehool-house will soon be
built at Ashland. II will cost between
/ 81 400 and 81 500.
Mr.. b. Catching, Of Forest Grove, has
Q srNr~ a.
cut 500 slaves day.
The body of an unknown man has
been found near Castor. IL was evident
that he had been murdered.
The demand for real estate in Seattle,
both for town and outside property, is
better than for two years past.
Willie Hoxter, the lad who was
hooked by COW at Forest Grove, q
short time since, is able to be up.
The chap arrested at Lewiston, Idaho,
who claimed 10 be Tom LawtOu, the
Sacramento murderer, has been released.
The first Kiln of brick at the Seatco
penitentiary, containing about 100000,
has been burned, and the b,sSk is fine.
The surveyors under Colonel Talcott
have commenced locating the route for
the Astoria and Winnemueea Railroad.
Prairies in the vicinity of Hood River
were fired by malicious parties few
days since, and considerable property
destroyed.
The Indian prisoners at Vancouver
have been put to some use-clearing the
military cemetery Of brush and trim
ming the trees.
Miss May Thornton, Of Seattle, has
been appointed by Governor Ferry to
fill Professor MitchelPs place in the Ter
ritorial University.
Owing to the loss, by the wreck Of the
Great Republic, Of the machinery for
the grist mill at Amity, il will not be
built until next year.
Colonel Laratee has sent twenty
seven specimens of the native woods Of
/ Washington Territory to the Mechanics
/ Fair at San Francisco.
| The men at Independence whom Ward
swindled hope to get q part of their dues
I from the railroad company. The con-
tractor has not paid them a cent.
/ The Y. NJ. c. a. chapel on the Fair
| Grounds near Salem is being repaired
and fitted up in style much more COM
Portable than its previous condition.
The shiPCity Of Dublin, sudk at the
mouth of the COlumb bia, has been aban-
cost more TO repair her than she is worth.
J The lands Withdrawn by the North
eru Pacific Railroad Company from the
| public domain Of Washington Territory
were restored for settlement aud entry
last Monday.
The residence Of Mr.. Gould. at Forest
Grove, was destroyed by fire last week
Everything except some wearing ap-
parei and a few articles OF furniture was
destroyed. Loss, not stated; insurance,
81 900.
Reports from every part Of the Sound
indicate that the hop crop will be un-
usually heavy this season. Twenty onL
and a half cents are now offered, aud
the farmers are jubiiant at the prospect
Of I big profit.
The Albany Democrat says, speaking
/ Of the grain crop: "The facts in the case
are these, and there is no use in trying
to conceal them: our county will do well
/ il she turns out a Oue-third crop, and &c
is our opinion that it will not be OUer q
/ fourth"