The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-13
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE And TERRITORIAL.

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The Blue Ribbon club at Scio is
fOurishing.
DR.. Chas. Herzog. Of Walla Walla,
died on the lst inst.
A churn factory is in operation at
Dexter, Lane county.
The lumber interests Of Klickitat
county continue 10 increase.
The fruit crop Of the Sound country
promises TO he unusually large.
Psntlard & son, of Scio, have received
a 3O-inch Bdrnham water wheel.
Fortv-eight convlcts are now in the
Territorial penitentiary at Seateo.
The iron industry near Port Town
send is reported as improving rapidly.
Robert G.. Stuart has been confirmed
as receiver Of public moneys at Olym-
pia.
Polk county will be canvassed by the
Greenback candidates for the Legisla-
ture.
Mr. Francis A. Fowler, an Oregon
pioneer, died in Columbia county last
week.
A Kentucky colony Of six families and
twenty-five persons has arrived at Van
couver.
A Chinaman at Astoria tried TO kill
Al Donaldson with a cIeaver few
days ago.
At the Tacoma (W. IT, town election,
few days ago, the old trustees were all
reelected.
The telegraph line is completed from
| Cello to Days place, along the o. r. 0
/ y. Co.'S road.
/ D. S. Baker and other capitalists have
/ sent agents into Spokau TO buy great
/ tracts of land.
The residence OF Casper Hinkle, situ-
ated two miles west Of Needy, was
burned last week.
A post Office is established at Helix,
Umatilla county, with Mrs. Mary a.
Simpson as postmaster.
The narrow guage will be extended
from Dallas to Kings Valley II a sub
sidy Of $40, 600 is raised.
Freight on the Upper Willamette
from Independence to Portland has
dropped to 81 50 per ton.
The narrow guoge will reach Browns
willie by the l6th Of October, it 9lO,OJJ IS
= presented to the company.
C. +. Yeatou's store at Spokan Falls
q was recently burglarized TO the extent
2 Of $3.50 in cash and $500 suffers checks.
. Rev. B. 7. Sharp, Of the VI. E Church
, South, has just come out from the
e East, aud is engaged on the Dallas cir
cult
( The Asi0riaH, in footing up the re-
. suits of the storms Of last week, finds
the number Of fishermen drowned to be
thirteen.
In Josephine county the miners are
{ all busy and expect to do well. The
e crops look well aud promise an excel
/ lent yield.
, At Astoria, on Tuesday, VIM. Will
liams shot Charles Mitchell twice, in
hicung wounds from which lie can
, hardly recover.
A steady flow Of population into
Southern and Eastern Idaho is reported.
It exceeds anything which the Terri
z tory has before known.
, The contract for building q court
, house at Walla Walla has been let to j.
r. Addison for S44, ,240. It viii be COM
pleted by November lst.
If the county seat of Polk county is
: moved to Independence, the citizens in
. and near the town mentioned will do
nate Sl0,0 600 to the county.
A disastrous collision occurred of
Cape FIattery on the Sth, between the
barks Rainier and G. J. Taylor. Both
are considerably damaged.
The Democrats of Washington county
{ have nominated W. II. II. Myers, Ira
: Purdiu and J. Q. Wethered for Repre-
+ sentstives in the Legislature.
George Collins, for killing Clark
Hamilton at Moialla, has been con-
! victed Of murder in the second degree
5 and sentenced 90 the peuitentiary for
- life.
An article from q well Informed
source, in speaking Of hops, says the
+ most that can be hoped for on Puget
i Sound will be from 80 to 50 cents per
o pound.
d Mr.. T. D. French, a sheep-raiser Of
Umatilia county, and said 20 be quiet
and peaceabie citizen, was shot on the
e 9TH, by a berder named Murphy, and
e there is no hope for his recovery.
g Three ladies have been appointed in
n this State as census enumeratOTs-Annie
NJ. Merrill, Of Columbia county Annie
. 3. Reed, Of Linn county; and Mrs. o.
e NJ Murray, Of Mnltnotnah county.
e Ex-Governor Newell OF New Jersey,
70 recently appointed Governor Of Wash
Z ingtou Territory, viii not leave his
, home at B0rdeutowu for the Pacific
Coast for several weeks, having import
; ant private business 70 transact.
Ritzyille, the new town on the \. p.
e r. r is named after Philip Ritz, Esq,
a gentleman who has done very much
+ in developing the interests Of the North
, Pacific Coast. The location is 81 miles
] from Ainsworth, and is in the heart of
( one of the finest wheat growing sec
] tiOus Of Washington Territory. Ir.
2 Ritz himself has q farm OF oUJO acres
near the new town. There is strong
% probability that the place will be made
J the county seat Of q new county. A
3 post Office, with store and hotel, will be
. established at once. Mr.. Ritz has the
contract for grading ten miles of the
road, amounting to some S35 600. He
has purchased machinery and COM
. menced work with large force of men
and teams.
TIE OREGON KIDNEY TEA.
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