The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-09
BRIEF MENTION,

Miss Ella Stoughton left for Puget Sound
on Monday.
B. L. Morrison is expected home from San
Francisco this week.
A son was born to the wife Of Capt Jas.
w. Troup at the Dalles on Aug. 18th.
We acknowledge pleasant call from C.
B. Hopkins, editor of the Colfax Gazette.
st. Luke's Parish school opened on Mon
day, and has ten additional new scholars.
In about two weeks the city tax roll will
be delivered to the city treasurer for collec-
ton.
We publish to-day the official notification
of the establishment of the Yakima Land
District.
O'Leary has a gang of men at work on the
river road, below the city, repairing dam
ages done by the high water
r. Wolf has left in this Office his yearly
contribution of Bradshaw plums, and they
are not to be beaten anywhere.
Commissary Sergeant John Lutz has been
transferred from Fort Candy to White Bluffs,
and came up the river on Saturday.
w. II. Peters of Castle Rock has removed
to Centrevile, Lewis county, where he opens
a law office, and will also teach the school.
The good natured smile now worn by Jas.
N. Sutton is accounted for by the arrival of
girl baby last Thursday in his household.
The city treasurer gives notice that he
will now pay certain city orders, and that
interest on said orders will cease Cd the 10Th
inst.
Work at the various tic camps in this Vi
entity is being crowded, all the available
men and teams about being engaged on the
work.
Thos. Burke, who lives out toward Battle
Ground, has bought some blasting powder,
and is going to prospect little in his neigh
borhood for gold ledge.
Some twenty persons came over from East
Portland last Friday on the steam-yacht
Gold DIST, and made the rounds of the city.
All the printers were among then.
A rattlesnake with seven rattles was cap
tured on a sand bar at the mouth of Lewis
river, by a boy named Lafayette Ross. 1t
was bottled and shipped alive to an Aston
ian druggist, as a relic of the high water.
Among the newspaper men in town to at
tend the convention were :. l.. Crawford of
the Seattle iH'edigencer, X. c. Ward of the
Seattle Post. and Mr.. Levison eff the oregon
ian, Portland
Inc Ilttle nfOpcller tne J. FNd, which De
longed in Portland, and has paid several Wis
its this way, has been taken up over the
Cascades and now runs between Hood river
and the Dalles.
The Historian says hospital is to be con-
,structed there under the charge of Sister
James, Superioress, of Vancouver, to be
known as St Mpry's Hospital, and will sup
ply great need IN that place.
Riley Wilson, late engineer on the COLI
Dust and engineer on the Veto last winter,
was fatally injured on Tuesday by the ex-
plosion of the boiler OF the tug Rip Van
Whkie. Many friends here regret his un-
timely death.
John Bartholomew, a locomotive engineer
on the Cascades railroad, who died last week
zen route to Portland, was formerly an engi-
neer ON the c. & n. w. railway at Fond du
Lac, Wis. He was nephew of the noted
Chicago railway ragnate, Mr. Perry IL.
Smith.
Mr. b. NJ. Washburnc returned to Van
couver on Saturday night with Mrs. Wash
burne, who has just been discharged from
the asylum. They went up the river on
Monday. Mrs. Washburne tells some hard
things against the management of the asy-
lum, which if true, should be the means of
a reformation.