The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-05
NEWS ITEMS.
srArE Axp rEsRlroRIAL.

\ man in Weston has been fined fol
cruelty TO his horse.
Uncle Dan Waldo, Of Waldo Hills, Il
suffering from cancer.
The question of poor farm for Liru
county is being agitated.
\ neat NJ +. church parsonage ha.
been built at The Dalles.
Miss Mary Lyman is teaching In the
Indian school at Forest Grove.
a minister was recently arrested at
Philomath for assaulting a boy.
Catfish eight inches long have been
caught in Klamath Lake lately.
Apple tree lice are running the apple
crop in portions Of Claekamas county.
Tillamook is the popular resort for
pleasure-seekeTs Of Washington county.
The W o. r r. Co.'S mammoth ware
house at Corvallis Is nearly completed.
Peter Brown, an Idaho rancher, has
taken 26 pounds Of wool from one sheep.
Mr.. Davis has sold his farm near
Parrish's Gap, Marion county, for S26
900.
Whaicom county wv. t. Republicans
will hold their Convention on the 3lst
inst.
4 black bear and two cubs have been
killed near Seattle, w. T, by party Of
boys.
Coos couniy's receipts during the past
\ fiscal year were S26 575; expenditures,
S2l 3O3.
G. w. Goodman, who shot Dick War
| ren at Browusviile, has been admitted
I ca bail in 500.
TIE settlers Of Little Camas Prairie,
] Idaho, have bnilt a fort aud sent to PEN
dleton for arms.
/ Miss Ida Crosby, Of Astoria, died at
her home in that city on Sunday after a
I lingering illness.
The exodus Of grasshoppers from the
vicinity Of Walla Walla during the last
days Of July was immense.
John Imbler and a son six years Of
[ sge we're drowned in the Skagit River
on Wednesday OF last week
A post Office has been established at
Arthur, Multnomah county, aud Miss
Mary Taylor is the postmaster.
Madison Malone, a pioneer Of YamhilI
county, died on his donation claim,
uear McMinnville, on July 18th.
The bridge across the Spokan River,
tAElNNNfAA AnlaEH AAlWNr tue AnllHs has NEEN
swept away by the fall Of large ,ree.
The new school at Colfax will
be 30x46 feet, two stories high. IL will
be sightly, commodious and well yeuti-
lated
Hon. J. c. Drain Of Drains Station
has purchased and shipped so, 900 pounds
Of wool, for which he paid 80 cents per
pound.
Smith, Brasfeld * Co., of Harrisburg,
Linn county, have made favorable
terms with their creditors, and are do
ing business as usual.
Bishop Wiley, d. D., will preside over
the session Of the Columbia River VI T..
Conference, which viii convene at The
Dalles on August 18th.
a correspondent ofthe Daily Nebraska
Press has been lying most outTageou-ly
about Oregon. He ISLANDERS the soil, the
climate ana the people.
On Wednesday evening Of last week,
one wall Of the old Cheadle building at
Albany fell in, damaging Phil C1hen's
stock Of goods considerably.
One hundred and thirteen marriage
licenses were issued from the County
Clerks Office in Douglas county from
May 9Th, 1873, to July IA, 1850.
The body Of a man, supposed 10 be
that Of VIM. Lambert, has been found
about three miles from The Dslles in an
advanced state Of decomposition.
The steamer John Gates is now the
only boat running through to Lewiston,
Idaho. The Spokan will be re- piauked
and fitted for the Snake River trade at
low water.
Roland b. Kinne and T. Harrison of
Pennsylvania and Cbas. NJ. Holten of
Iowa have been appointed Commission
ers to appraise the Fort Dalles military
reservation.
The mines Of Southern Oregon have
generally paid fairly during the past
season, the gold dust taken out being
somewhat more than the amount taken
out during many previous seasons.
Mrs Daniel Gates, lady so years Of
age, living about Is miles from Eugene,
was browning coffee last week, when
her clothing caught fire and she was so
badly burned that she died the next
day.
John Link, a farmer living near Day
ton, was killed last Friday by the pas
sage of a heayily-loaded wagon over his
head aud chest, his team having run
a way and be being thrown under the
wheels.
Seaheck, W. T, is the liveliest mill
ing town on the coast. Besides the ma
terial for a ship, large schooner and
an ocean steamer, which are being built
there, the mill cuts 10000 or $1,000 feet
Of lumber daily.
AT Union, on the night of the DIST,
four work horses were killed by light
ming. They were in pasture just south
Of tnwn-uO tree, shrub or bush near
them. A large hole was made in the
ground by the lightning.
Adarel Chapter No. ,, Order Of the
Eastern Star, was organized at Jackson
vile on last Friday evening. a charter
membership Of p members greeted the
organization. A goodly number Of the
members are young ladies.
TIE Dalles public school will be
taught by Prof. W. l. WOrthington,
Mrs. p. L Price, Miss Mary Wall, Miss
Mollie Snyder, and another lady, not yet
engaged, to take the place Of Mrs. NJ.
G Odell, who goes TO Eugene.
Silverton Appcal, Wanted, some en-
terprising manufacturer to erect
wooden mill at this place. No better
water power can be obtained in the
State, and the wool clip Of Marion
county each year would amply Justify
such au enterprise.
Mrs. Susanna Briggs, widow of Rev.
Samuel Briggs and a pioneer Of Douglas
county, died on the 2sth uit., near Can
vnnville. She went to that county in
1851. aud endured the danger and hard
ships incident to- making a new home
ia a sfraucra and then uueiv{liZpd land