The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-03-24
BRIEF MENTION.

All il quiet again since court adjourned.
The epizootic among Vancouver horses is
rapidly abating.
For the first time this year the streets
showed dust this week.
We hear of a number of new dwellings to
be commenced soon in Vancouver.
There was only one book agent in town on
Saturday, but he was gentleman.
It is said the P. T. Co.'s boat will be
ready for the trial trip about April 10th.
G. B. Wilcox has the contract for laying
up the walls of John Jaggy's new building.
The people should be delighted to know
that post-otiice box rent will DO due next
week.
Now is the beautiful spring time of our
discomfort, for house cleaning time is almost
at hand.
MIR. Cottier, Of San Francisco, the patent
ventilator man, paid Vancouver visit on
Saturday.
A. Cook & Son are shipping large amounts
of fruit trees daily from their Vancouver
Nurseries.
The steamboat shed has been taken down
this week, and is no longer prominent
landmark.
DR.. Watts, of Oregon City, lectured on
temperance in this city on Tuesday evening
to full house.
The nights have been lively down town
since pay day, but no more so than usual on
such occasions.
Mr.. H. D. Hunt, clerk in the land Office,
has been on the sick list for o week, but is
now recovering.
A Portland dealer made = shipment Of
1900 sacks of potatoes to San Francisco on
tho last steamer.
Salmon season is getting close at hand, and
in one week the fishermen will commence
casting their nets.
B. L. Morrison loaded the Vancouver
Tuesday evening with hoop-poles for the San
Francisco market.
The crops planted last fall look finely all
over the country, with prospect OF an ex-
tensive yield this season.
B. L. Morrison returned on Monday from
An inspection of the Oswego iron mines, but
he didn't buy any of them.
At the sale of lands for delinquent taxes
on Monday there were few bidders, and the
county took most of the lands.
Surveyor Weber of East Portland, under
directions Of the city surveyor, has been
finding the east line of Main street this week.
St. Patrcks day passed by without pub
lie demonstration, but every true lrishman
carried a swelling heart for the woes of the
old home land.
Oliver Hendrickson, who lives four miles
below Vancouver, has three year old Nor
man Clydesdale colt which now weighs l404
pounds, and still growing.
Will Noo,orvor ,>oo,Ia ava rnyal,,o IN
warm sunshiny days, trains are blocksded
in the east by snow, and the people there
are burning fence rails to keep from freezing
to death.
Mr.. ]. c. Moreland, city attorney OF
Portland, has been in the city within week,
and had the pleasure OF greeting many of his
old friends, made when he was typo on the
Vancouver Register.
Carpenters and builders arc taking ad.
vantage of the present fair weather to crowd
work in their line. The building season has
opened much earlier than usual, pointing
toward an unusually busy spring aud sum.
mer.
since from Thos. b. Merry, formerly Of the
Dalles Inland Empire. Mr.. Merry retains
his rotundity, but is at present ''fcrninst'
the newspaper business May he have more
success in something else.
Occasionally We hear young men complain
that they cannot get anything to do. There
10 no necessity for this grumbling because
everyone who will work can get all he can
do, but the trouble is they want easy jobs,
where their hands will not be soiled
Miss Mollis Ross, daughter of Mrs. +.
Ross, Of Milwaukee, Ogn., and who once
taught school in this city, died at Portland
ON Wednesday last week from an overdose
Of morphine administered by herself, but
whether taken with suicidal intent il not
known.
The East Oregonian says of an addition to
its town known as Rebel City: "a l..
Coffee has just completed survey Of the
addition to Jacobs addition to the town of
Pendletou. He has named the streets
thereof Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet,
Bsauregard, jeff Davis aud Jim Turner"
A.. al.