The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-10
NEWS ITElls.


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Lakeview.
Columbia county, W. T, has $500 in
The treasury.
a half-dollar Of - cold 90 Seattle last
week for SO.
Tenement houses are in great demand
at PeudIeton.
Walla Walla post Office accoDmoda-
tions are insufficient.
Seattle thinks Of celebrating the
Fourth in grand style.
New potatoes have appeared in the
McMinuville markets.
The danger that The Dll'es viii be
Hooded this year is past
Spokan Falls has population Of COO
or 200, and is a live town.
Two more bodies from tue SCHOONER
Schultz have been found.
Eilensburg, county seat of Curry
county, has 200 population.
Dallas real estate is rising since the
advent Of the narrow gauge.
DR.. Hill, Of Goldendale, has sold his
drug store to DR.. Thompson.
Work has been commenced on ia
cobsou's new hotel al Pendleton.
Public lands in the Weiser aud other
/ valleys OF Idaho Is being surveyed.
Large hands Of cattle are being driven
/ through La Grande on their way East.
4 substantial bridge is being built
! across French Creek in Doul las county.
/ Miss Louise, daughter OF J. p. Messer,
died at Coquille Cry OF diphiheria last
week.
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I dentally killed at tie peuitentiary last
week.
Dwellings are Ia demand in Silverion.
There is not vacant house in the
town.
The medical association OF the Whit
man lW. IT, district meets TO day at
Colfax.
Five emigraut teams passed through
Colfax, w. T., last Monday, bound for
Pataha.
A vein OF coal three feet thick has
been discovered about Eve miles from
Silverton.
Ashland's college aud normal school
closed the sessions Of The present year
yesterday.
Several thousand acres Of bill land
near Dallas will he brought nader cui-
uvation this year.
Emigranis pass through Pendleton
daily, many Of whom are seeking homes
in the Paiouse country.
The Seventh Day Advcutisis claim
fifty converts as a result Of their recent .
campmeeting at Milton.
Orchardists in some portions of Ma I.
rion county are complaining of the dep .
relations Of cateTpiilHrs.
Hon. J. VI. Armstrong has superseded .
w. ii. James as Registrar OF the Whit .
mau lW. 7 land Office.
The name Of Boone's Ferry, Clacka-
mas county, has been changed 10 VIII .
sauvil.e by The postal authorities.
Tie military road in The southern
part of Douglas county will be very sub
stautial, as the work is well done.
The fruit crop Of Idaho IL now c0usid-
cred entirely ont Of danger from late
fro-is, aud promises 90 be immense.
Shepherd, the Clackamas and Silver
ton maii-caIrier, rides IS miles day
each day ia the week, except Sunday.
Rev. B S. McL3gerty has not ac-
cepted call 10 the pastorateo Of The Bap-
tist church at Eugene City, as stated.
Charley White aud Ad. Chapman are
stocking ranches az Canoe Encamp- .
ment, on Snake River, with 500 head Of
COVE
a rich quartz ledge has been found .
about twenty-five miles from Union. /
The rock contains gold, silver and Gin .
nabar
Moscow, W. T., row supports two
meat markets, but 10 s8looE. 10 used
TO support two saloons aud no meat .
market.
An effort is being made to locate the .
county seat Of Spokau at Marshall. the F.
new town "A few miles southwest OF Spo-
kan Falls.
Mrs. Cargill, living on the hills near
Pendleton, died on the -J.h ult., of
puerperal fever, leaving "a large family
Of small children.
The Sheep Commissioner estimates F.
the value of the wool clip in Wala f.
Waila county, w. T., AZ $50 coo; esti- F.
mated value Of sheep, $50 900.
a man named Oatman was robbed OF
$3.50 at Nokum's Bridge, near Canyon F.
Vile, by two road agents, who COM /
manded him TO "staud aud deliver"
The Grand Lodge Of Good Templars .
for Washington Territory aud British .
Columbia is in session az Olympia. The .
next session will be held at Victoria.
4 new scbool-h0use about three miles /
np the South Palouse, in Washington
Territory, has been completed, and
term Of school commenced there last
Monday.
The Champions Of Honor, new tenn
perauce society, number 50 members ia
Ashland. The Good Templars have
about an equal number enrolled under
their banner.
". ii. Abbott published the Idaho
Democrat twice, aud then abandoned
he "barren field.n This is the eighth
allure 20 establish a Democratic paper
n Boise City.
The principal witnesses sUbpoanael %
estify 10 the Broomfield murder trial
IRE Mr.. Scheiirr, wife and son, HoOdo
Billy, Messrs. Basset, Carrico, Brown
and Hsudren.
ID. W. kaup and J. Montgomery, oil
Naitsburg, w. T., were, with their
horses aud buggy, thrown from bridge
over the Iucauuon iu a hole, and both
are probably fatally wounded.
Last week two little twin daughters
ll W N. Bonham, of Grant county, fell
5NeT precipice forty feet high. One
lied IN Iour hours after beiug found ,
1ut the other will recover, though she
las a broken arm and an ugly cash in
The Congregational Sunday School AZ
lhe Dalles has a membership OF IS2 nm ]
pills aud l6 officers aud teachers. IL