The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-27
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The Silverion Appoai is a newsy pa
per.
Horse thieves are abroad at Boise
/ City.
Three criminal cases will be tried at
HillsbOro this week.
The Universalist Convention will
meet at Dallas on June 10Th.
G.. p Foor committed suicide at
Walla Walla on last Sunday.
The A. A. McCully has resumed trips
between Portland aud Corvallis.
a tri-weekly stage line is established
between Junction aud Corvallis.
Large sawmllls on Puget Sound are
still running on twO-thirds time.
Several white deer have recently been
killed on Whidby's Island, W. T.
Three hundred feet Of the breakwater
at Marshfield has been completed.
The late F. Martin, Of California,
owned 100000 acres Of land In Oregon.
A substantial fence is to be built
around the school property at Silverton.
Seattle's baseball club won the inter-
national match at Victoria on the 24th.
The Corvallis Baptist Association will
convene at that city on Thursday, June
Silverton is planning many improve
ments ia anticipation Of railroad iacili-
ties.
The White River wv. t. cheese fac
tory uses tie milk of several hundred
cows.
Milton Harper has been appointed
Sheep Commissioner for Whitman
county.
The Seventh Day Adventists are hold
ing a camp meetiugat Milton, Umatilla
county.
The fiume Of the Blalock Lumber
Co. was finished 10 Milton Station last
Thursday.
Jas. Mccormick has been sent 10 the
penitentiary from Douglas county for
four years.
The people Of Cottage Grove propose
to celebrate the coming 4th Of July in
good shape.
It is said the Indians on the Puyallup
Reservation are becoming more indus
trious each year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ramsden, 81 years Of
age, committed suicide by hanging at
Salem last week.
Lang's cattle drive takes about 500
head from Grant county, in the imme-
diaie vicinity OF Canyon City.
Captain Wilkinson's Indian school at
Forest Grove contains fourteen pupils
from the Puyaliup Reservation.
Coos and Curry counties are the ban
ner divorce counties, legal separations
being easily and eheaply obtained.
Columbia claims to be the most popu-
lous county in Washington Territory,
while Walla Walla leads in capital.
Scio has raised Sll 900 Of the $50
asked as a subsidy by the narrow gauge
company for running the road by that
town.
Several wheat fields in the Willamette
Forks have been injured by cut worms.
These depredatious are not as yet ex-
tensive.
4 proiTacted meeting will be held in
Siiverton next month, beginning on
the 18th, under the auspices Of the NJ. |
Z. church.
Ia Creole Academy, Dallas, has AZ /
pupils-a large attendance Tor this time 4
of year, considering the locality is ag-
ricuitUTal.
The Seattle coal mines are shut down .
on account OF IRE damp, and DRIFT D \
being made to the main tunnel 10 stop
10, when coal will again be taken out. /
The body Of a man, supposed 10 be .
that Of one OF the Cox brothers Of the .
Inflated schooner Schultz, was found on
the beach i've miles south Of the mouth
Of the UmPqua River last week.
The people Of Waldo Hills are anxious
to know whether the narrow gauge
railroad will pass through that region
or not. They represent one of the finest .
wheat growing regions in Oregon.
The total income OF the municipality .
of Corvallis during the last fiscal year |
was S3.7lS; expenditures, s. Ol4 43. /
The balance was applied on the out I
standing debt Of the city, reducing il 10 .
SLIP 81.
The acreage Of grain in northern |
Idaho is immense, aud is looking fine. I
Brearley's Touring mill at Lewiston is /
running night aud day, aud the ma /
chinery for Mulkey's new mill is being
placed IN position.
AlmOta promises TO be one Of the T.
most important shipping points on |
Snake River. There is an excellent I
road on the opposite side OF the river to [
PomerOy, running through a rich agri- /
cultural district. This, with the new
ferry, will make Almota the natural
depot for that section.