The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21
TERRITORIAL.

A terrible gale prevailed on the Sound last
Thursday. There is no damage reported
The Walla Walla Waterman very cleverly
hoists "Dr. Matthew" as travelling humbug.
Capt j. j. Gilbert, of the U. s. coast survey,
who was stationed last summer On the lower
The post office at Carlton, Cowlitz county,
w. T., has been discontinued for want of bus
mess.
Washington Territory has total taxable
property of ST., 5S1, 1872, which is gain of 81
142 104 over 1876
The citizens of Colfax have arranged to buy
an old fire engine, which has been in use at
Walla Walla for many years.
Reports from the Wilkinson coal mines near
Tacoma, are quite encouraging. New veins
are being constantly discovered.
| The two new safes for the use of the Terri
| torial Auditor and Treasurer, arrived ut their
destination by the last trip of the Dakota.
The jamestown Indians near Dungeness, are
| going to build u new church soon, nearly all
the material being on the ground already.
| A Young man at Seattle, was bound over in
the sum of 5000 for disturbing religious con-
gregaton at that place
Charles Newland, died on Monday of last
| week. at Walla Walla, from the effects OF
poison placed in his food during absence from
| his shanty
Z. S. Smith, Superintendent of the Tacoma
| coal mines, says the company has all the coal
they want, and that new veins are constantly
! discovered.
John Moss, who attempted to murder
| Peterson last September near Seattle, mas
| been convicted and sentenced to the peniten-
| tiary for ten years.
| Mr.. Ben. X. Land, practical printer, is
starting paper at Waitsburg, w. T., to be
called the Waitsburg Times, the first number
! of which will appear on the LIST Saturday in
March.
Columbia river has been ordered to Puget
Sound with his party. Next Summer he viii
survey Hoods canal. He will be provided with
a steam yacht, now being fitted up at Mare
Island
The storehouse built at Fort Candy, in 1915,
by w. b. Headsington, of Astoria, at cost OF
nearly $4,000 has been abandoned, the recent
heavy gales at the cape having rendered 1t
unsafe.
Rev. Geo. Edwards, of Seattle, has been APP
pointed bible agent for Washington Territory
east of the Cascades, and will soon remove
his family and enter on his duties us travel
ing agent.
Messrs. Downey and Hoover, who are ac-
cused OF altering some King county warrants,
were arrested at Steilacoom on their own mo-
ton, and waived an examination and were
held for trial.
On Sunday night Feb 10, a fire at Stella
COON, W. T. destroyed the post office and sew
era business houses. The loss will aggre-
gate about Sl2OOO supposed to be the Work
| of an incendiary.
The Hoko Salmon Co are putting up build
| ings for Il canary at Iloko river, and will
soon begin business on Il large scale. Hon.
Edison Is. Ebey, who represented Island
| County in the last legislature, is President of
| the concern.
portion of Seattle is sliding into the sea.
| The tract embraces four or five acres. 1t is
| supposed to be caused by quick sands under
| laying the upper stratum. Tacoma would
not care much if the rest of Seattle would
! slide into the sea-
| The Mountain Sentinel says: Since Henry
Ward Beecher has eloquently denounced
| the eXistance of literal hell collections seem
to come in slowly. 1t does seem that some
| thing must always turn upto mar the pros
| poets of a newspaper man.
| The Tacoma Herald mentions the fact OF
! petition being circulated and generally signed
| by the people of that place, asking the \. p.
| r. X. Co. to take immediate steps toward
building a railroad from Tacoma to the Yak
| ina valley via the Packwood Pass
Capt. Cosgrove of the steamer Blakely, met
| his death in strange manner, at Port Blakely,
last week He stepped on a chair to hang
bunch of bananas on mail, when, he suddenly
| fell and struck his temple against the corner
| of box. He lived but two hours afterward.
| few DAYS since, says the Seattle 1nteli-
| gencer, the body of man was found buried
| in trunk near Belltown. The man had been
! dead about two weeks, and his body had been
| crushed into the trunk face downward. There
! is no clue as to the pcrpetrator of the foul
deed.
The business in the United States Land
| Office in La Grande during the past month
| has been remarkably good. The vast coun-
try between Wild Horse creek and the Col
umbia river in Umatilla county, is being rap
| idly taken up by homestead, presumption, and
| timber culture entry
Quite number of our citizens, says the
| Tacoma Herald, have had coal stoves set up
and are burning Tacoma coal. The coal sells
now at six dollars per ton at the wharf, and
| is thought to be quite as cheap as wood, as,
with proper management, it will produce II
vast amount of heat while burning regularly
| and slowly.
| a bashful young man, while out driving
! with the dearest girl in Walla Walla, had to
get out and buckle the crupper. did the
| martingale become unfastened!' innocently
asked the pretty city miss NO" hesitatingly
| stammered her beauX, but the horses hustle
had come loose" That's all they knew about
a buggy harness.
An. overhauling at Steilacoom of the affairs
| of Pierce county, shows that the treasurer is
| about 5000 behind hand most of which comes
| from altering the figures in orders. II is
| stated by Seattle papers that on complaint
of Downey, the defaulting treasurer Mr..
Jacob Hoover has been arrested; but the In
| telligencer says the evidence goes 10 eXcul-
| pate him.
| effect that he is trying to be friendly with the
whites and in order to conciliate them drove