The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-07
BRIEF MENTION.

The Mechanics Fair opens in Portland
to-day.
Jack Eddings will be home from Camp
Chelan next week.
Miss Kate Steward has gone to Yamhill,
to remain for the winter.
A deserter was arrested in Portland on
Saturday, and another on Monday.
Work on the bridge across the Willamette
at Portland was commenced on Tuesday.
In Clarke county there are many fields of
corn, which arc maturing and ripening finely.
The new lodge of knights of Pythias is
fourishing, and taking many new members.
w. H. McIrvine came over from Ne
waukum this week, and went out to his
farm.
No business of special Importance was
transacted by the City Council on Monday
night.
Box rent is due at the post-oiiice, and
don't you forget it-only four bits in adj
vance.
Fred Dehm is now leader of a new band at
the Dalles, and his son Charles is a member
of the band.
P. J. Whitman has been sent by the O.
~ ~ ~ W.. w iN0itAist " y &c tllC d1Clt
at that place,
The Odd Fellows are to nave another of
their pleasant social entertainment on Tues
day evening next.
Farrow's scouts nave been ordered home
from the field, having achieved only hard
travel and plenty Of it.
Thomas Burke, democratic candidate for
delegate to congress, will deliver a speech in
this city on Monday evening next.
Our Methodist friends have just COM
pleted a new fence around their church
property, which adds much to its appear
ance.
The 2lst Infantry band is announced as
engaged to play at the Portland Mechanics
Fair every evening during during its contin-
uance.
The Gold Dust made several trips over
here during the week, but is not running
regularly on the route as some persons re-
ported.
John mccarthy and others killed a bear
over north of Vancouver two or three miles
last Friday, and Joe Burke rctailed it at his
market.
A fresh gang of professional burglars are
operating around Portland, and our citizens
"OtiAt Wv = w w - " u lJ11lgiN
visit from them.
Capt. Love has been down to Gray's har-
Dor and the Chehalis river to look up the
prospect for putting one Of his steamboats,
on those waters.
Farmers now making hay on the bottom
lands are wishing for good weather, and
two more weeks Of sunshine will help them
out to an amazing extent.
The Harvest md threshing in Clark,
county are now finished, and the machine,
laid up. The average yield OF wheat in the
county is about % bushels per acre.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. ha.
purchased the o. Il. & n. Co.'S line t
Walla Walla, and dispatches may now be
sent direct from the Vancouver office.
The three last ocean steamers bound fol
Portland have stuck in the Willamette be
fore reaching port. Send them over here t.
unload, and all such vexatious delays Will be
avoided.
Mr.. Jake Thompson attempted to stor
the falLof a lot of commissary boxes one
day last week with his head, and Mr.
Thompson has been the worse for wear for Z
few days.
The OregoHidn gave the following glowing
account of the reception of the President
party at Vancouver: ''They reached here
at ) o'clock, and Immediately left for Van.
-couvei on the LHriins.'
II. L.. Caples declines to be a candidate
on the democratic ticket for member OF the
Territorial Board of Equalization for the LIST
Judicial District. He gives as a reason foi
declining his inability to attend to the du-
ties of the office, if elected, on account of hi.
private business. .