The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-10
BRIEF

MT. dllt III IODO tlITINCu nome from
Hood river on Monday.
Trout fishing is among the ~favorite en-
joyments of the season.
Mayor Sohns and daughter arrived home
from Seattle on Saturday.
The high water has caused the Vancouver
FIGURING Mills to stop running.
The post-ofice at Sprague, Skamania
county, is announced as discontinued
U. S. G. will now have plenty of time
to 60 and attend to his Arabian horses.
w. c. Stevens is supplying this market
with plenty of new California vegetables.
Cultivated Strawberries are beginning to
ripen, and will come into market next week.
Jas. N. Sutton and wife, and Geo. Brant,
came down from The Dalles on Thursday
last.
The river yesterday morning reached last
years high water mark, and is still rising
slowly.
L. NJ. Hidden has commenced operations
in his brick-yard, and will burn a large kiln
next month.
The agency of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S ex-
press in Vancouver has been transferred to
Thomas O'Neill.
Mr.. Henry Whittier departed for his home
at Walla Walla yesterday after a months
vacation in this country.
T. w. Padden has recently been making
extensive repairs and alterations i'll his
building, and r%eiitting the saloon.
The present spell of damp weather is as
ycribed to the new cork helmets recently I'M
ported by the officers of the 2lst Infantry.
The Portland Oregonian issued all extra
edition of the daily last Sunday, which was
zone of the best issues ever put ont by that
paper.
1t is reported that nails advanced in Port
lane on Monday to So rates, so many OF
them were used on that day mailing
election lies"
One of the returned Masonic delegates
says Vancouver may have been quiet enough
while they were gone, but Olympia was not
by a large majority.
The statement that Governor Newell will
leave New Jersey in two weeks is prenta-
ture. He has not definitely fixed upon the
time of his departure.
Our streets are full of loose stock, horses
land cattle, which do some damage at times,
but there is now no law to prevent them
from running at large.
VIM. Collins, ESQ.,, Probate Judge OF
Skamania county, came down on Monday,
and made us a pleasant call as well as some
,other Vancouver friends.
1t is said that the volcanic crater OF Mt.
Hood is showing Signs OF coming activity,
and that on clear nights flames are some
times seen at the mountain top.
John B.. Allen is looming up as y candi-
date for Delegate to Congress. and there are
n,nx, IN Nan..pyar yvlp ain 4 .,i,laIy
favorable to him as a candidate.
Bishop Younger held service in the Col
fax hall on Tuesday, Jnne Sth, and 4 meet
ing was held to settle the matter of build
ing a Catholic church in that city.
The little steamer coil Dust failed to
come to time on Monday on her advertised
trips between this city and Portland, 5u.
commenced running, on Wednesday.
Sohns / Schuele have commenced the
work of grading Main street in front of their
property, and Mrs. Bakers share OF the
work is to be done at the same time.
Mr.. J. w. King and Mr.. Amos Yoder OF
Bloomington, H., stayed over Sunday in
Vancouver. They expressed themselves as
much pleased with our town and country.
The salmon run is very large now, Sc
large that the canneries at Astoria are
obliged to send some OF their fish fifty miles
up the river where the catch is not SO great.
Gridlcy & Whitney are making a lot of
E6 grain tanning mills fer Frank Bros. 4
Co., of Portland, and may enter into a con
tract for a large number il the mills suit the
trade.
Mrs. j.. L. Aiken of Portland, lost in
Vancouver on Decoration Bay a gold cross
with garnet settings. If the finder will
leave the same at this office he will be duly
rewarded.
The Vcrnell Comedy Company gave a
series of entertainments at Oak Grove
Theatre and Brant's hall during the past
week, to fair audiences, which were very
enjoyable.
The steam yacht Gold Dist on Wednesday
commenced making two daily trips between
Portland and Vancouver, leaving this place
at A. Nj. and l P. NJ, leaving Portland at
10 A. NJ. aud I =. NJ.
The occupants of Bachelors Island are
fearful that they will lose all their crops
this season by high water. They can stand
only two feet more rise. The damages by
overflow would be heavy.
G. w. Durgin brought home with hir, a
q supply Of Puget Sound canned CLANS.
1howder and oysters, which we were de
lighted to sample, and we pronounce them
good to fill a vacancy under the vest.
The fine silver lamp belonging to Engine
No. I is missing, and the ~janitor wants TO
know what has become of it. Any person
knowing where it is will do a favor by lcav-
ing information at the city clerks office.
John Scanlon. of Co. d, 2lst Infantry,
has received his discharge on expiration OF
enlistment, and has returned to Vancouver