The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-10
BRIEF MENTION.
rising slowly.

River rising slowly.
Tomorrow Is Good Friday.
This is ''holy week" among church goers.
Read the new advertisements this week.
Asparagus has made its appearance in this
city.
Teachers Institute at Vancouver May Sth
and 9th.
We hear of nothing but "good crops"
everywhere.
Commercial drummers have beseiged the
town this week.
John O'Keane arrived home last evening
on a business trip.
The landscape is pink and white with the
blossoms of fruit trees.
Everything looks very favorable for
large fruit crop this year.
Prosecuting Attorney n. II. Bloomfield is
attending court i'll Olympia.
White slips remind the people that box
rent is due at the post-oifice.
S. X. Mayer sailed on the Oregon last
Sunday, according to programme.
Joseph Sauer has left the Dalles and gone
to Weston, Umatilla county, Ogn-
The Easter vacation in st. Lukes parish
school will be of ten days duration.
Prof. Robb now has 81 pupils attending
his private school, and more coming.
Jim Cd says he aches all over with the
-'slring fever" Get it pulled, Jim.
Beware of peddars who are selling Peter
Funk jewelry and bogus silver-ware.
Once more the trees are covered with new
foliage, the accomplishment of another sum-
mer.
Mules are being bought in Jackson county.
Oregon, for the government service in Van
cOuver.
The overland mail begins to arrive with
more regularity, but some of it is wet now
and then.
Mechanics are busy in parts of the resi-
dence portion of the city putting up new
dwellings.
The county of Clarke advertises for pro-
posals for keeping the county poor another
two years.
Brewster, hospital steward at Fort Stevens,
last week removed his family to that post
from this city.
There are not SO many persons leaving
Clarke county this year for the upper coun-
try as last year
A wagon load OF floats for fish nets, turned
out on Salmon creek, We're shipped for Eagle
Cliff on Tuesday.
Although the Salmon season has opened,
not enough are received here to supply the
demand for table use.
A large number of passengers who arrived
up on the Idaho last Sunday reached Van
cOuver Monday morning.
The Vancouver fishermen have all gone
below to fish. They growl heavily over the
requirements of the license law.
A letter from J. w. Cochran informs us
that his wife has at last commenced To re-
cover from her long aud serious illness
Next Sunday is Easter, never eggsager-
ated as being eggsactly the day for the con-
plcte endowment Of the lovers of hen fruit.
Mr.. John NJ Swan, Grand Master. |. o.
o. F., is at Ellensburg, kittitass valley
to institute lodge of the order in that place.
The base ball season was opened i'll Van
couver on Sunday the first game being
played by the boys on the green by the river
front.
Let the farmers send us in notes of their
productions for the benefit of our readers
outside the Territory. Show them what we
can do when we take a notion.
Coroner Cook, of Portland, was III town
on Friday, on hi $ way up the river to hold
an inquest on the remains OF a female found
in the drift at Government Island.
Il. p Ruloiison was the chap who was
squeezed by the steamer Vancouver while
trying to get on board at Portland last Fri
day. No serious damage was done to him.
Two piano sellers from Portland edited a
large crowd on the dock Tuesday afternoon
by their assaults on each other with the ia
nous weapon of Sampson By-standers con-
ciuded they both told some truth.
Notwithstanding the strong inducements
Sunday to bask in the sunshine, to ramble
in the shady nook, to visit the ball field, or
sail on the river, or ride in carriages, the
churches had good congregations.
All surveys Of the situation and the i'm
pending struggle forbid the rest of the world
to hope that the struggle when it arises will
be capable of any but sanguinary and, for
. time, . disastrous solution. In fact, we
don't believe there is a man at the post who
can harness that last mule purchased at
Roseburg.