The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
BRIEF MENTION.

OF room.
Owen Mulligan has gone home from the
hospital.
Fine weather again after Saturdays
showers.
Sam. Marsh is getting out two hay
presses this month.
Mr.. Chas. Muckle of st. Helens, was up
again on Saturday.
10. Burke's new butcher shop is nearly
ready for occupation.
The salmon season is drawing to a close,
but the catch is still fair.
Pete Oils of the Dalles, inspected familiar
faces in Vancouver this week.
The Pacific hotel is for rent. Inquire of
Mrs. p. Rogers, at j. Welch's. Wv
A son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
made a visit to Vancouver last week.
Young Crawford and Hendrickson took a
salmon this week which weighed 80 pounds.
Mr.. A. L. Rounds of Pioneer, made one
of his semi occasional visits to Vancouver on
Tuesday.
Mccormick, the cobbler, has gone down
to Astoria to enjoy the sea breezes during
the heated term.
On Sunday next a German society Of Port
land will have an excursion to, and picnic at
Parker's landing.
The river is now falling more rapidly, be-
ing over two feet below the highest point
reached this year.
Al. Geek is building a new house nearly
opposite Browns mill, which he will occupy
as soon as finished.
The steamship State Of Cdlitoraia steamed
from Portland to Astoria on Tuesday in 3
hours and ) minutes.
The county school superintendent is busy
on his summers work connected with county
educational interests.
The hay crop is reported short over on
the Sound. 1t is about as usual on the up
lands in Clarke county.
David Shepherd and wife, II. c. Black
wood and l.. Van Nleet OF the Washougal,
were in town yesterday.
Steamboat competition still continues, but
as it seems to be a regular thing there is less
excitement concerning it.
The o. II. & y. CO. s boats resumed their
regular river traffic on Monday, the waters
having subsidized sufficiently.
Hay and potatoes promise to be a Shorter
crop than usual this season, by reason OF the
protracted overflow Of the bottoms.
Farmers on the bottoms are beginning to
go back and inspect their houses, scrubbiug
out and preparing to occupy them again.
MIR. Geo. W. Weidlcr, of lumber milling
fame, was ia Nancouver on Tuesday on bus
mess connected with o.. Il. 4 y. Co. con
tracts.
There is mourning III the land because the
strawberry short-cake hath gone to seed,
uhtsb - NOT .nptnapgnta1 for nv fha plan.
teous raspberry crop.
a. W. Hidden, of Vancouver, can now
show the finest three year Old prune and
peach orchard anywhere to be found in
Washington or Oregon.
Mr.. j. II. O'Donnell. of Battle Ground,
stuck his head through our Office deer long
enough one day this week to let us know he
WAS alive and Ilourishing.
Cameron Groat took a salmon grilse in his
net Sunday night which WAS only II inches
long and less than a pound and a halt weight.
1t had become tangled in the net.
a Spokan 'cmigrant passed through town
~ Monday with two teams, going towards
The Sound in search OF some place where it
rains occasionally. He looked dry.
The brick work on NJ. Winters new res
idence is about completed, the walls being
finished some time ago. The carpenters and
timers are busy putting on the roof.
jackson Davis had a good harness stolen
from his barn on Mill Pain on the night of
July 4th. The thief was a bold one, but is
in a fair way to be caught all the same.
5. W. Browns Vancouver lumber mill is
doing straight and steady work, which will
sum up well at the end Of the season, con-
sidering that it is a new mill and NOT a large
one.
Mr.. L. L. Dole has found on his farm ii
miles from Vancouver a deposit OF calcarc-
Gus phosphates, a natural lime fertilizer
equalled only by gypsum. 1t is now being
investigated.
l.. NJ. Hidden commenced last week the
burning OF los, 900 brick, the first kiln Of the
season, which Will be ready to open in a few
days. lie has commenced work on making
another larger kiln.
The Walla Walla Watehmdn says ''all the
young lads which attended the college at
Vancouver have fsturned home, and look
much improved both physically and men,
tally. We feel proud Of our boys; and why
not!'
Lavergne Lyons departed for Clatsop
county, Ogn., on Monday with his wood
cutting outfit, taking Bluehe Ginder and
Charlie Arnet along They will be gone
three months, getting out wood for Fort
Stevens, which contract Lyons has.
In many places in the city we have seen
garden and yard fences broken down by the
unruly stock which infests the city. The
average citizen prays for a law that may
compel stock owners to acknowledge that
the city has some rights they are bound to
respect.