The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-03
NEWS ITEMS
STATE AND rEEElroRlA

The Fourth viii be celebrated at Rose
burg.
Many buildings are being erected at
Spokan Falls.
The measles prevail 10 NcMiuuyills
in a mild form.
A wooden mill is 3 proposed enterprise
for Grand Ronde Valley.
a twel7e-year-old girl Of Linn county
has completed quilt Of , $50 pieces.
The citizens Of Sandy have cut n road
through the fallen timber TO Oregon
City.
J. N.Joues, living Stayton, thinks
his strawberry crop Will be ., 900 pounds
this year.
4 first-class grist mill viii soon be
added TO the Industrial interests Of Yak
ina City.
Several handsome residences have
been erected at Yakima City within The
past year.
Marion county is desirous Of having
the insane asylum (or @ branch Of iu
near Salem.
An exceedingly rich quartz ledge has
been discovered nine miles west of
Baker City.
worth Of goods have been received in
Colfax, W. T.
All the members Of the graduating
class Of the State University passed the
examinations.
y ten-mill tax has been levied for the
purpose Of building new schOol-h0uss
in Kings Valley.
DiphtheTia has appeared sgaiu iu Sc
attic. One death from this disease took
place there last week.
Decoration Day was graudly cele-
brated in Seattle under Tie auspices Of
Stevens Post, G.. a. r.
The proposed improvement in the
academy building az R1se5urg will
shortly be commenced.
A ferry across the Willamette at the
mouth Of the Tualatiu is needed for the
convenience of settlers.
The Inland Empire says the wool clip
this season in Eastern Oregon will sur
pass that Of any previous year.
Judge Perham's son, who was aeci-
dentaliy shot some four weeks ago, died
at his home, Hood River, Thursday
last.
The Brownsville Wooleu Mills are
paired. New machinery has been
added
Isaac Grams residence. pear Gienco,
was burned recently, leaving the family
destitute. The ueiglboTs gave them
much assistance.
One hundred and sixty students have
been in attendance at the State Agri-
cultural College at Corvallis during the
year jlst closed.
The DlIles Times contains an account
Of brutal wife murder iu WascO coun-
ty, the husbands name being Nicholas
Bills. He escaped.
Pacific University this year viii grad
uate bot one student, and the junior
class contains but three. However, the
classes are fair-sized.
The people Of Port TOwnsend have is
sued pamphlet, descriptive of the Pu-
get Sound country, setting forth the ad-
vantages Of that section Of the Territory
for settlers.
The Oregon City Enterprise says
many citizens of Damascus have moved
into other ueighbOrhOOds, fearing forest
hres, there being much Timber down in
that vicinity.
The closing exercises OF the Albany
AllltEE tAAE AllsLALALt Will A4ht pace On
June Is. The baccalaureate
sermon will be delivered on the Sunday
evening previous.
John Munich, member Of the firm Of
Kratz & Munich, milIers at Junction,
has sold out all OF his interest in said
firm TO G. W. Washburne, the consider
ton being Sll 600.
The Palouse Gazette will be issued
daily during the next term of the Colfax
court. IL will contain q detailed report
Of the Brumtield murder trial. Colonel
Warner, Of Kansas City, and y. T.
Cation, of Walla Walla, will defend the
Ihomases.
The Hillsboro postofIice has been
made a money order Office. The post
master. II Mary Brown, has given
bonds in SO 600 with r. Imbrie, T. H.
Tongue, DR.. f. y. Bailey, W. r. Jack
son, J. c. Weathered and w. II. Sim
mons as sureties.
It Is said that the farmers Of Wash
iugtOn county have their Spring work
50 tar advanced that they have time 10
talk pOlitics-not with their wives,
whose work cannot be advanced, but
with their fellow farmers, who are gem
orally supposed to have a Ceaseless strug-
gle to Support" their cuusOrts.