The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-11
BRIEF MENTION.

Theatre in town tonight.
Salmon and sturgeon in the market
Next Sunday is the last before Easter
The saloons were all closed on election
day.
The Idaho brought three sacks of Eastern
mail for Vancouver
Ginder has half mile of ditch dug on the
water works improvement.
Don't fail to read Cochran's Olympia cor
respondence i'll to-day's paper.
Plenty of ''drummers' in town this week,
reaching out after spring trade.
Several Lewis River families departed last
week for the Palouse country.
The pile of lumber for Gridley new build
ing is growing in size this week.
The Eastern mails have again commenced
to come overland from California.
Stegert is becoming extravagant actually
lining his cellar with two inch plank.
Strawberry vines are covered with bios
SONS. Prospects for good crop encourag-
ing.
Mrs. Smallden's daughter still lies in st.
Nincent's hospital in very precarious con-
dition.
Gov. Ferry is to be invited to come to
Vancouver and deliver his lecture on
finances.
"The Innocents Abroad" Vancouver
crowd at the Odd Fellows celebration Mon
day night.
A slight frost whitened the ground in par
ticularly favored localities Tuesday morning.
Nothing touched.
Marsh is very busy these days putting in
repair some of the Water Companys log
boring machinery.
The contract for carrying the mail from
Vancouver to Kalama has been awarded to
J. a. Woodin, for Si94.
The o. 5. n. Co. boat has commenced tax
ing wood at the Vancouver dock, the first
hauling being done yesterday.
Stray bridge timbers have been plenty in
the Columbia for a week past mementoes
of the high waters i'll the upper country.
The new steamer Wide West will soon be
a daily visitor to Vancouver, taking the
place OF the Emma Hayward on the Cascades
route.
That trouting expedition of last Saturday
did not result IN such unbounded success as
to become a matter of public curiosity or re-
joicing.
Joseph Burke & Co. last week bought 81
acres of the PreuX estate, and commenced
the erection OF slaughter house upon it,
near the river.
Thomas O'Neal, late Sergeant in Company
|, DIST Infantry, has bought out Dodd cigar
stand, and IN a short time will open with a
new stool, of goods
James Reed, of Lewis River, has a colt of
the Rounds Percheron horse, foaled last
week, that was IS inches high and heavy
bodysat blrth-an unusual occurrence.
Every evening some fishermen from below
the Willamette come up the river and drop
their nets opposite Vancouver, drifting down
to their own location during the night.
Twenty-Five degrees below zorro in Wis
consin on the oath of March sad to thinl,
blooming fruit trees of Washington Territory
at that date.
The pigs running at large i'll the streets
and commons of Vancouver are having a
hard time of it-getting poor Ill their vigor-
Gus efforts to keep the grass down, which
grows fast in the warm sunshine.
Hazard & Co. are now showing to their
customers very fine stock of ladies' hats,
plain or trimmed, rusches, and other milli
merry goods, and going full length into cloth
ing, mems and boys suits, NESTING every
body to call and see their stocks.
Mr. c. X. Hamilton has just published a
piece of music composed by Hialmar Ross,
entitled 1.-The Nez Perez Galop." 1t is ded-
icated to the Military staff, Headquarters
Department OF Columbia, We are informed
that the Twenty-trst Infantry Band is
practicing it.
The Portland Standard says James Sutton
telegraph operator at Pekin, Clarke county
was accidentally shot few days ago. It's
all a mistake at least so far as firearms are
concerned He might have been seriously
wounded by dart from some pretty girls
eye, but that's all.