The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-17
TERRITORIAL ITEMS,

A town will soon be started ut the new
mines in Yakima county.
An s. pound halibut was caught in Decep-
ton Pass, near LaConner, last week.
The Columbia river turns out this year,
over two and a. half million dollars worth of
salmon.
Miners on Puget Sound are preparing to
prospect San Juan and Orcas Islands for gold
and silver.
The ferry boat lately built to ply between
the Dalles and Rockland has been banned the
Western Queen.
Mr.. I. V. Mossman sent specimen clam to
eX-Gov. Gibbs, of Portland, this week, weigh
ing l0l pounds.
George Schwartz, an old time sport on the
Sound, died recently in reduced circumstances
at the Seattle hospital.
The prisoners, whose escape from the Seatco
pcnitentiary was mentioned last week, were
recaptured by Mr.. Shead.
Quicksilver in considerable quantity was
found in ledge of decomposed rock at Pa
taha City on the oath June.
The Gazette says that from all quarters
comes news that the grain crops of the Pa
louise country will be immense
There are now 10 inmates in the Washing.
ton Territory insane asylum at Steilacoom,
some II or II of whom are women.
Ragazzoni, the italian Count" who bilked
Washington Territory hotels and livery stable
men few weeks ago, has come to grief.
The Olympia Oyster Company continue to
make shipments of oysters to San Francisco,
but, of course, not in us large quantities as in
winter.
A town has been laid out at the mouth of
Snake river, j. c. Ainsworth proprietor. The
machinery for a saw mill is already on the
ground
There are large quantities of railroad iron
being shipped to Walula for the Weston
branch of the Walla Walla and Columbia river
| railroad.
The referees appointed by the third judicial
district court in the case of Downcy, eX-treas-
urer Of Pierce county, have found Downey a
defauter in the sum of $1,000.
The other day l,500,OOO feet of logs were
turned adrift from the booms at Port Gamble
| they being deemed worthless by reason Of
! being rotten and worm eaten.
Col. Bernard's outfit with the gallant Rube
Robbins as chief of scouts, is struggling
| through the snow banks of the Salmon River
Mountains. No Indians found as yet.
| Mr.. Lewis, who has farm on the noun
! tain opposite the Dalles in Washington Ter
| ritory, has magnificent wheat, and thinks the
| hill lands will beat the bottom for raising
| wheat
| Some clans weighing as high as nine
| pounds apiece, and looking not unlike long
| necked ducks, oucked for the oven, and sad
| died by two big shells, have been sent from
| Puget Sound.
John Muir, well known writer in Scrib-
| ner's magazine and for other Journals, made
| the tour of the Sound on the Dakota last trip,
and has now gone up into British Columbia,
Sightseeing
Danskin Il Banton sheared 36,75O lbs. of
wool from $3.50 head Of sheep. This is over
| L
| clip for so large herd. These sheep are kept
| in Columbia county.
A fire broke out in the house of John Me-
Bane, in Walla Walla valley, on Sunday morn
| ing The house was falling in before discov-
cred All escaped except one young man,
| aged 25, who was burned to death.
1t has been definitely ascertained that the
| large wharf now being constructed at Seattle
| by J. NJ. Coleman, Esq, has been leased by a
California company for the establishment of
a heavy manufacturing enterprise.
A fishery net has been picked up in Fuca
| Strait entanglcd. In its meshes were two
porpoises and twenty or thirty salmon all
dead 1t is supposed to have been lost from
a fishing boat off the Columbia river bar.
The remains of Theodore Newman, who
was local editor of the California Democrat
were found by Seattle boy near Lake Union
on the 18th, in an advanced state of decompo-
| sition. Newman had become tired of life and
| killed himself.
Pendleton Independent Of the 10th instant:
Lieut.. Farrow received orders and on We'd
nesday last left with his scouts for Salmon
river, where there is said to be a few Bannack
Indians pillaging and report says some citi-
| zens have been killed
| The salmon run has commenced in the
lower Sound, and will set in good earnest.
| it is expected, about the last Of the present
month The run will probably be large hut
with salmon at their present price, this will
| avail out little to our fishermen.