The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Grand Lodge, ]. o. o. F., has been in
session at Albany this week.
One hundred and four houses were
built in The Dalles last season.
Seattle shows unmistakable signs of
business enterprise aud permanent im-
provement.
Hon. Lee Laughlin intends to build
an elegant dwelling house at North
Yamhill this Summer.
There has been 49 $50 tons Of coal
shipped from Seattle To san Francisco
since the first of January.
The Aucon, outward bound on the
18th, took out 4 800 cases Of salmon and
43S hides aud pelts IRON Astoria.
Sweepstake entrances for trOtting and
running races at the Oregon State Fair
for 1879 will close on the first day Of
June.
The Queens birthday will be cele-
brated at Victoria on the 23d inst. bv
Her Majesty's loyal subjects in a beeom-
ing manner.
Beriah Brown has purchased a valua-
bile farm about twelve miles from Seat
tie, near the junction Of the White aud
B aek rivers.
The trade upon the Upper Columbia
and Snake Rivers is at present sufficient
to employ two Of the o. 5. y. Com
pany's large boats.
Farmers Of Puyallup Valley will raise
a large crop of potatoes this year. They
expect the yield TO be ten times as large
as that Of last year.
Hop vines in some places in Puyallup
Valley are already ten feet high. Many
of the hop yards in that region are either
plowed up or neglected.
Hon. Willard H. Rees, of Butteville
will deliver the annual address before
the Oregon Pioneer Society at the reun-
ion on the State Fair grounds in June
The lime deposit at Five Mile Creek,
| Wasco County, is of superior quality,
aud can be furnished at The Dalles as ,
cheaply as San Juan lime can be fur
/ nished at Seattle.
] The AUdLdnche says : There are nearly.
1000 tons of quartz at the mines in the
vicinity of Silver City ready for crush
ing, which it is safe to say will yield
/ fifty dollars a ton.
A Blue Ribbon Club, numbering 800
members, was recently formed at Philo-
math, Benton county. OF the number
reported, 2l7 have taken the pledge 20
abstain from the use of tobacco.
The sixth annual session Of the Ore
gOn State Universalist Convention will
be held as Halsey OD the 5th of June
The usual half-fare travelling rates will
be granted to those who attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. p. Isaacs and family,
who spent the last Winter and early
Spring in San Francisco, returned re-
Gently to their elegant Walla Walla
home, in renewed health and spirits
The postmaster at COlfax, W. T., is
sued in one day recently thirty-one
money orders, amounting to nearly
$1,000, from his office. Since July of
last year be has issued ,321 money or
ders.
A fire broke out in the warehouse Of
Trenchard d Upshur, Astoria, on Mon
day, and entirely consumed the building
aud its contents The loss is estimated
at So, 600, but is mainly covered by in
surance.
A machine for cleaning and separat-
ing grain for milling and seeding pur-
poses and cbopping feed will be put in
operation and run by steam at North
Hamhill Station the coming Summer
by Thomas Perry.
Lafayette, though not brisk business
place, boasts many beautiful and we'll
kept homes. The residence Of Hon. A.
H. DuIUdukg Win us surrounding
grounds, is one of the most handsome
and picturesque in the country.
A joint stock company for the purpose
of stock and wool raising has been
formed at Rockville, WascO county.
Their President, J. r. Pool, Of Boston,
owns large stock rancho in Nevada.
Their wool will be shipped to him direct
Bartlett Whitlow, long a resident Of
Gamhill County, died at his home i'm
lafayette on Sunday evening Of heart
disease. He Was seventy four wears of
age, and, together with his wife, who
is seventy-seven, celebrated their golden
wedding on the 18th Of June, 1873.
The Nehalemites have refused to a.
low landowner among them to bring
a Chinaman into their valley to grub
his land, asserting that there were
plenty Of honest young men who could
be hired TO do the required work, and
that Asiatic cheap labor need not apply.
A disastrous fire occurred at The
Dalles on the night Of the DIST inst The
O. \. Co.'S office and eugiue-house,
the Umatilla House, and a number of
business houses, were totally destroyed
Full particulars have not yet been u.
ceived, but the dispatch states that o.
town Is almost burned down.