The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-08-15
BRIEF MENTION.

Harvest moon.
Delightful weather.
And still the harvest goes on.
Taxes for 1878 are now payable
The river is lower than any period since
1874.
The fishery boys are now nearly all at home
again.
No longer is the new conner an object of
curiosity.
Hop picking will be commenced about the
first of September.
Smoke from mountain fires settling down
throughout the valley.
David Wall came home from San Francisco
on the Elder yesterday.
Hazard ~ Co. shipped huge stock of wool
to Portland on. Tuesday.
The masons are busy now in plasterng
Matt. Browns new house.
Burke Il Co. brought in forty head of Ore
gon fat sheep on Monday.
Clarke county continues quiet-only one
prisoner in the county Jail.
Bolloske gives private dancing soircc at
Orc Elmo Hall this evening.
Lem. Thomlinson returned home from the
fisheries on Monday evening.
Miss Ella Stoughton went to Steilacoom
last week to visit her mother.
Gate swingers and promenadcrs do think
the moon is SO nice these nights.
A new lot of marriage certificates just
printed and for sale at this Office.
Bishop Banchet and Father Louis Schram
paid visit to the Sound II few days ago.
A. j. Chambers of Yakima, took his rations
in Vancouver Monday, at the Pacific hotel.
Immense frcghts are now coming down
the Columbia, principally wheat and wool.
Tramps in Portland-if they come here re-
fuse to feed them-it is the only cure of the
nuisance.
Geo II. Weber, of Vancouver fame, is run
ming II barber shop i'll Albany, Oregon, ana
doing well.
Two barge loads of iron for the new rail
road at the Cascades have been taken up the
river this week.
Mayor Sohns and his entire family departed
on Tuesday morning for Puget Sound, to be
gone for the week.
Kidd stuck cut in his foot with an AK
last week. and now he is not so handy with
his foot rs he was.
The engine which Louis Meyer has been
using for pipe boring was shipped back to
Portland on Iuscday.
Frank Goodhuc and John Gindcr returned
from the fisheries Il few days ago, looking rs
fresh rs new school marin.
Our samples OF hungarian %Tds, tHlS "cVN
measure five feet in height. They were
brought in by W. NJ simmons.
Mr.. NJ. Croker, from Fort scott, Kansas,
paid Vancouver visit this week, while look
ing over the country for location,
The Methodist Conference convcnes at
Portland ON the 18th inst Members get half
fare rates on the raiiroan' and steamboats,.
Simmons has patent milking machine,
which he can put in hi, vest pocket, ana ne
says he can milk a COW IN seven minutes with
it.
The water in the Columbia has gone down
nearly twelve feet below 1873 high water
mark with spcct for the lowest water in
years
The season of the year has arrived when
great caution should be observed about fire
Those who have brush to burn should be very
careful
The corner stone Of the new cathedral at
Portland il to be laid to-day, and several per
sons from Vancouver have gone over to see
about it..
The ladies of the VI. +. Church Of this city,
Will give social entertainment at the city
hail, on next Friday evening, for the benefit
of said church.
Vancouver has SIS children Of school are,
only 81 less than Walla Walla but at The
present rate of births will soon be up with
that cnterprslng city.
d. Ebert Louis Meyer, Gay Hayden, and
one other Vancouver gent Muosc mudcslN
forbids mention of his name, went up To Al
bany on the excursion last Sunday.
John Skaters child that was taken with
diphtheria in Oregon, treated 10y DIR. Bailey,
and supposed to have recovered, died last
week from paralysis induced by the disease.
W. Lee brought in some fine specimens
of Early Crawford peaches Tuesday to this
Office Also some samples of potatoes, the
King Of the Earlys which are this season
Welding 800 bushels to the acre.
Private John Walters, of the 2lSt Infantry,
was arrested at Pcndleton and taken to Port
land Tuesday in charge Of Deputy Marshall
Morse, on n charge of selling or giving wills
KEY to Indians. He belongs TO Burtons com
pany.
The United Brethren parsonage on the
Fourth Plain road, three miles from Nuncou-
yer, was burned to the ground on Monday.
The fire originated from a defective Hue. The
family occupying the house saved all their
household effects except the stove
L. H. Baldwin, Of st. Edwards, Nebraska,
who has been circulating through Clarke
county for some weeks, has determined to
locate here. He this week returned home To
sell out aud bring his family. He will bring
several families here when he comes.
The moonlight excursion from Portland
arrived in Vancouver Tuesday evening a. II
o'clock The stay here was rendered lively
by the strains of the bagpipes and the shouts
OF "A few hoodlums who persist in forcing
themselves upon every excursion that leaves
Portland.