The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-14
BRIEF MENTION,

R. Wolf has nearly finished his street
grading.
Stephens, jeweler, talks of removing to
Goldendale.
One by one the gold hunters come stray
Cling home.
Ducks are now getting ripe, but they are
hard picking.
No rust in Clarke county wheat that we
have heard from.
G. w. Dungin is recovering from his long
continued illness.
Considerable business is done at the U. S.
Land Office these days.
The brickayers are doing good and lively
work on Dr. Wallis building.
The Columbia river is rapidly getting down
to medium low water mark
The smoke of many burning slashings and
clearings is now filing the air.
Not many farmers in town this week, all
being SO busy in the harvest field
Both Smith and Laws are now running
hacks regularly twice day to Portland.
Children are beginning to count the days
that must elapse before school commences.
The supply of commercial men in town
this week has been fully equal to the demand.
John B. Parker of East Portland has become
disguised with Canyon creek mining and quit
for keeps.
Miss Meta Caples. daughter of Hon. John
+. Capels of Portland, is visiting friends in
Vancouver.
Hines Oils departed on Saturday last for
Fort Hail. Idaho, to remain some time with
his brother.
Lawyer Whalley and Judge Dennson came
over from Portland Tuesday, to look after
things II little.
Alfred Holman, of the Oregonian edto-
rial staff, spent Saturday and Sunday in Van
couver with friends.
The parties who went to the seaside re-
turned on Friday, having been considerably
cooled off down there.
Another new house is to be built on Fifth
street, opposite the Hayden residence. 1t
will be occupied by Mrs. llakes.
1t is said there will be close inspection of
grain in Portland this season, and none but
clean grain will find purchasers
A party of hunters who went ont from Van
couvcr last Saturday took in one evening
and mornings fishing over 200 trout.
As all the lawyers in Vancouver are buying
and improving city property it ought to be
perfectly safe for other people to do the same.
We have received from Mrs. c. A. Coburn,
Grand Secretary, copy of the proceedings
of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, |. o. q. T., for
1879.
NJ. H. Abbott, who took the material for
publishing the Dayton News from this place,
has sold out recently to Mr. Palmer, from
New York.
On Sunday Portland printer by the name
of Joyce swan from Ross Island to Swan
Island, in hours, Is minutes, and % seconds,
without resting, mile.
Master Chauncy Howard, son OF General
Howard left by last san Francisco steamer
AN ,.t. h.a.
upon collegiate studies.
The fire engine companies occasionally
bring out the machines for practice and ito
n man up a tree" it looks rs though the com
panies needed considerable practice.
The warbcrs were out on Friday evening,
for the first time in many months, and left
some first class music at sundry and various
places, among whom ours was which"
The junior member of the book binding
firm Of Howe X Son, Portland, started from
Vancouver on Saturday for the mining camp
at Canyon creek. He goes to mine for brook
trout.
Manning and Whitman of the Engineers
Office, headquarters, went up the river Nesfer-
day, and will he gone two months more or
lsss according to The amount Of government
survey 10 be done.
The dense column of smoke observed on
Sunday beyond the mouth OF the willamette
was caused ny tnc WOOD, DclnT on nrc on Tue
west side of the stream at the head of the
Willamette Slough.
The newspapers of the upper country have
given such friendly notices of Capt. j. W.
Troup and his bride that the conclusion is
evident they are the most popular young
couple east of the mountains.
FX Hickman returned few days ago
from prospecting trip in the Cascade noun
tains, extending from the head of Lewis river
nearly to Mount Adams. He didn't tell Of
any gold mines that he found
The reply of W. II. Smalwood to the Kan
sas Chief libel was published in the Oregon
ian of last Friday, and thereby the reply has
the same circulation as the libel, an act of
justice which could not well be refused.
paper the wrapper of which was sealed
with boiled linsccd oil, instead Of paste or
muclage, coming from some Lewis river post
office, was stopped from travelling further in
the Vancouver Post Office the other day. 1t is
against the law to ship oils through the mail
bags.