The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-21
TERRITORIAL.

| "a ColOliy W SctGlC III uillS ItIl1UOl y
is being organized in Sonoma county
Cal.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany owe upwards of $4,000 in taxes,
principally to the counties Of Thurs
ton, Lewis and Pacific.
A quantity of good coal has been
discovered about seven or eight miles
north of the Quilyhute river or, lit
tie over twenty miles belc Cape Flat
terry. jI5
The Ministerial Association of Walla
Walla District, Columbia River Con
ference, will hold its second session in
Walla hWalla, April II, Is, and 10.
1873.
Capt. Osborne takes the University
cadets out on parade at Seattle occas-
ionally, and they are said to present u
very warlike and blood thirsty ap-
pearance.
1t is claimed at Puget Sound that
the prospect is good for cutting thirty
or forty million feet more lumber this
year than last. Capacity of many
mills is to be increased.
The name of Pataha, Columbia
county, has been changed to Pomeroy,
with b. b. Day as Postmaster. G. G.
Harrcll has likewise been appointed
Postmaster at Stoughton, Clarke county.
The south channel at the mouth of
the Columbia river has shoaled 4 feet
and two-tenths. The north channel
will be used hereafter. This fact
ought to act as a stimulus to Pacific
City and llwaco.
All the Puget Sound fleet are now
heard from, and have experienced no
loss of life. There are some ten or a
dozen of them that ought to be broken
up for frewood, and never allowed to
60 to sea again, however
The Journal Of Commerce reports y
cargoes of lumber shipped from Puget
Sound to foreign ports last year. The
amount was 81, 454, ,465 feet of lumber,
370,SGl pickets, 2,2S5,500 shingles,
l,2l0,G40 laths, and III spars.
The steam saw mill of Messls. Smith
& Hatch, at New Tacoma, was de
stroyed by fire. Its origin is supposed
to have been from the furnace. A
portion of the machinery is hut little
damaged, and the loss will probably
not exceed $4,000.
A girl came to Walla Walla by
stage from the East to get married to a
granger, but there was sixty dollars
charges for freighting her by stage
from Kelton, and the groom-to-ha was
long kept in waiting because he hadn't
money enough to get her out Of soak.
Since the boys have learned that
there is a premium Of > cents a scalp
given for all squirrels killed, the little
BOYS about Waitsburg have gone to
slaughtering the pests, and are making
fair wages If this law is carried into
effect, it will bankrupt the Territory
in less than year.
The inclines at Cello, Dalles, and
Upper and Lower Cascades, are all
being made double, so that two trains
of ears can stand side by side at either
place, and be loaded from the wharf
boat without it being necessary to shift
the cars. This arrangement makes 1t
possible to handle, at either place,
double the amount of freight possible
under the old arrangement.
A Walla Waila exchange which
thinks this immigration business to the
Palouse country is slightly overdone,
saws: 1--WE don't wish to run opposi-
ton to good old Daniel, Jeremiah and
their colleagues, but we venture to
prophesy that in five years from now a
man can buy any land claim, by
merely paying for the fence rails on it.
Such is the power of reaction
On Saturday, February %, large
and enthusiastic meeting was held at
Yakima city for the purpose of discuss
ing the proposition to subscribe $40,-
600 to the Seattle & Walla Walla
Railroad, submitted to the voters of
Yakima county by the last Legisla
ture. After full discussion Of the
subject a resolution opposing the prop