The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
NEWS ITEMS

STATE AND TEERiTORfsL.
Daniel Gaby has been elected cy
attorney OF Dallas
| 4 Portlsnder will probably bui
saw mill at Dallas.
! Walla Walla has a balance OF
in her city treasury.
! The State Fair will uuI1ubteC
held in July next year
/ a teachers institute viii be- Or
/ Corvallis during the holidays
/ \ very large acreage ~ Fall
has been soWu ia Polk county.
Portland capitalists have rec
bought l6O town lots az Dallas.
Eugene wants Justice OF the
! having been without one for two m.
A new school-house has heen
in the LatOurette dist ct1 CiaeE
county.
The potato crop OF tne lo su
tributary To Candy will be au1g
bushels.
The streets of Independence
paved with fine glavei taken g.
in the river.
A sporting club has beeu orga iz-I ae
Eugene, Of which Prof !. w tu -n-o1
is President.
Seventy-five thousand tons of wheat
has been shipped from Wall Walls
county, w. T.
Salem now has for the frst time ia
twenty years, a Democratic Mayor,
ThOs. B. Wait.
Immigration continues 90 flow into
Southern Oregon Notwithstanding the
lateuess Of the season.
a majority Of the school districts IN
Clackamas county only have three
months school in a year.
Preliminary surveys on the proposed
railroad between ROseburg and Coos
Bay are being continued.
There are 100000 bushels of potatoes
at Whidly's Island, which are Offered
at 20 to . cents per bushel.
Joe PurdOm has been appointed agent
at Roseburg for the o. & c. r. r. in
place Of Dick Lewis, resigned.
The amount Of wheat ia the ware
houses on the river above Salem is
fully twice as much as it was this time
last year.
Z. B. Fuller has been pardoned out Of
the Washington Territory Peniteutiary,
where he had been serving a sentence
/ for bigamy.
On the 2Sth ultimo there were 2O4
| prisoners in the Oregon penitentiary-
the largest number ever confined there
at one time.
A pool Of lG, 900 bushels Of wheat was
sold by Washington county farmers re-
Gently at 81 l2l per bushel, delivered at
the HillsborO ware house.
A number Of persons have gone to the
Upper COwlitZ in Washington Territory
looking for land. II is stated that 400
claims can he taken in that locality.
Two Cinnamon charged with stealing
pair Of boots and other articles from a
miner near Warrens, Idaho, were taken
from the Jail last week by mob and
banged.
The Independence RiUerside speaks
in plimentary terms of the City
Council OF that place for their admins
tration Of the municipal affairs during
the year past.
The Republicans of Albany secured a
victory at the recent election. They
now have the offices of Mayor, Treas
urer and Marshal, and have the deciding
vote in the City Council.
San Francisco now furnishes Del
Norte county, Cal, with flour at a high
uEulCf Wuitl iudE hEk southern oregon
can supply when the wagon road to
Crescent City is finished, and then have
plenty to spare for expectation.
A game Of chess, played entirely
through the medium of the United
States mail, was recently completed be-
tween John w. Roland of Jefferson and
a. y. Moores of Salem, aud won by
the former gentleman. It took nearly
three months to play the game.
\ late law in Washington Territory
provides that every corporation or agent
thereof, engaged in the business Of life,
fire or marine insurance, or brokerage
corporation or sewing machine manu-
featuring corporations, shall pay a
county license of Sl5 for six months or
$50 for one year II is made a misde-
meanor to transact such business with
out first having paid the license