The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-07
TERRITORIAL.

At Wapa walla wheat has declined to sixty
cents bushel.
The Dayton wollen factory will be started
by the middle of April
Dr. D. s. Baker of Walla Walla, has lost four
out of six children by diphtheria.
b NJ Laughlin has been appointed post.
master at Little Falls, Lewis county.
T. F. Levens, of the Cascades, has been
granted patentfor new steering propeller.
The total receipts of coal in San Francisco
from Coos Bay, from Jan. l to Feb. Is, is 5000
tons and from Seattle 2,120.
Sixteen Indians from Port Washin gton,
were made citizens the other day at Seattle,
so that they could get the benefit of the home
stead act.
Mr. Nathan Evans, living eight or nine miles
southwest from Dayton on Whiskey creek,
raised on his ranch one thousand two hun
dred pounds of good tobacco last season.
Though the Democrats have always large
majority in Walla Wala county, their COM
mittee has decided to ignore politics in the
matter of electing delegates to the Constitu-
tional convention
Near Dayton, w. T., recently Reuben Slime
lost two fingers in singular manner. He
was trying to tie a halter in hole, when the
horse, being wild and vicious, suddenly threw
himself on his launches with such force as
to cut two fingers off between the joints.
A letter from C. B. Wright, President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, informs
the editor of the Intelligencer that the COM
pany do not expect to build mile of road
this year, and if they build any next year it
will be 200 miles on their main line, either up
the Columbia river or in Montana or Idaho.
1t is ascertained that the human remains
exumed near Seattle by those who suspected
murder and were greatly excited by it, were
those of an Indian secretly buried, who had
died of smallpox And the consequence is
CONSERVATION among those whose curios-
ity led them to be fooling around there.
Mr. Fem has introduced a bill providing
for the appointment of three commissioners,
by the Secretary of War, to take evidence and
report upon expenses incurred by the people
of Idaho Territory including the Washington
Territory volunteers, in defending against
NeZ Perez hostilities; also damages by troops
either regular or volunteer, to property; also
Indian depredations and spoilations.
The work of dismantling the Seattle Coal
and Transportation Company's road still goes
on, and large pile of rails, bolts, car wheels,
and other irons are now lying near the COM
pany's office. The cars are being broken up,
as they are not suitable for use on the Seattle
and Walla Walla railroad. Soon there will
be only the grade and ties remaining of this
road which has contributed so much to the
prosperity of Seattle. 1t has been discarded
for better route and railroad, and more ele-
giant rolling stock.
A very successful surgical operation was
performed by Richard Corcoran, veterinary
surgeon, LIST cavalry, L. 5. A., upon Il fine
three-year old stallion, the property of Joseph
Carroll, of Toucanon, Columbia county, W.
T. The horse had been suffering for some
time from tumor, or erostosis of the lower
jaw, as large as an egg the outgrowth of
bone preventing the mastication of food and
rendering the animal worthless and would
have caused death in the course of a few
weeks The tumor was removed in a very
fcation of the owner Of the animal. who
showed his appreciation of the doctors skill
by rendering him 500 fee.
A correspondent of the Owyhee Avalanche
in the vicinity of Fort Hail. states that all
movements indicate an early outbreak of the
Bannocks. The savages recently corraled
there by the commanding officers, instead Of
being the best warriors, armed with good
servicable rifles. are only miserable party
of about fifty, composed of bucks, squaws and
papooses, and the guns captured were nearly
useless. The remaining portion of the tribe
are away, and it looks now as though the
freacherous Bannocks were awaiting favor
able opportunity to make Southern Idaho as
desoate as the NeZ Perces did Northern
Idaho. These Bannocks claim that Big Camas
Prairie is theirs. 1t is one of the richest and
most productive regions in the whole world