The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Total coal shipments from Seattle in Oct.
was 40, 946 tons.
Mr. Henry sherman of Oak Point, Wash
ington Territory, sailed for Europe last
week.
M. Samuel Wilkinson and family, OF New
Tacoma, have gone to New York to spend
the coming winter.
Freights are high and ships scarce, over
on the Sound and business materially i'll
jured thereby.
a large lot of ties are being cut near Oak
Point, Washington Territory, for the North
ern Pacific railroad company above Snake
river.
A Sumass (B. c. farmer. named Neddcr
claims to have taken 5000 bushels of grain
from 81 acres and Oft a acre field he got
300 bushels of wheat
Northern Pacific land sales are helping out
construction this year. In September they
sold east Of the Missouri river $50, 600
worth. They have sold last month in Wash
ington Territory about $3.50, 600 worth.
a large number OF emigrant wagons passed
through Boise City the past season The
toll-keeper ut the bridge at that place crossed
about l15 wagons and Il like number crossed
the bridge ten miles above. Many trains
have also passed down the south side Of
Snake river.
w. II. Overholt, William Mays aud Mar
ion Hicks, convicts who escaped from the
Idaho ponitentiary, and who, shortly after
their escape, robbed John Wilson and party
near Canyon creek, have been recaptured af
ter an exciting chase, by j. 5. White,
warden of the penitentiary, assisted by
Mcssrs. Pierce, McGinnis, Houston and
Mendego.
At the Cascades landing George Weidlcr
is building two large tiat-boats for the pur
pose of shipping ties and cord wood to The
Dales for the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton Co lie has contracted for 100, 900
cords and the company is to furnish the tow
age from Little White Salmon to the nalles
These scows will be of equal capacity, say 200
cords at a load.
Judge Gilmore Hays, well known in early
days ON Puget Sound, and prominently con
nected with the Indian war in 1850, died at
Olympia on the Goth of October, at the age
of 20 years. He was appointed to the COM
mand of the first company of volunteers
raised in Thurston county in the year
named, and was afterward major OF all the
volunteer forces in the Territory.
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Gen George Crook Capt James II. Lord,
Quartermaster's Department, Messrs. j. 5.
Collins and Webb Hayes, and Mr.. Austin,
of Cleveland, returned to Omaha. Oct. 10,
from successful hunt in the Medicine Bow
mountains, Wyoming. Grizzley bears, ante
lopes, etc. and not Indians, were their OBJ
ject, and they had large success. The
Omaha HerdH states that during the hunt
Cen Crook had an encounter with grizzly.
He had trailed him into thicllet in a deep
canyon in the mountains and as he ''was
about to enter the thicket the grizzly raised
up ON his launches, about twenty feet away
on the opposite side OF the thicl>et, with a
growl. and gathered himself for spring. 1t
was a critical moment, and had the hunter
weapon failed him the bear would have been
upon him, and the Department OF the Platte
without a commander. But the General
drew a bead and killed the grizzly at tn,
first shot the ball taking the bear in the
mouth and coming ont at the neck