The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-01-05
BRIEF MENTION.

Only one prisoner now in the Clarke
county Jail.
Marsh's hall was used for the first time on
Tuesday night.
Monday was duly observed by New Years
callers in Vancouver.
Winter is still lingering in the lap of
spring-last spring.
This is the week of prayer, but it is not a
loud one in Vancouver.
G. Fl. Whitney wants to employ num-
Der Of men to cut cord-wood.
The year 1881 passed away without afford
ing the boys any chance to skate.
Mr.. Louis Sohns came from Seattle to
make his Now Year calls at home.
John Drucks, who is now running a -four
Ing mill at McMinnville, is very sick.
Mike Shannon is still in st. Joseph's hos
pital, afflicted with softening Of the brain.
Matt Browns mules on the farm have
gone the way of all flesh, quite loss to him.
The communication from Lewis river con-
corning the courthouse will appear next
week.
J. G. Clarke returned from Benton county,
Or, this week, and will remain at Brush
Prairie.
About IS persons went over on the Wash
ington to Portland to attend the theatre last
Thursday night.
One is mere bug, the other is beer mug
There's your ready-made answer. Make up
your own conundrum.
The daughters of DR.. Fred w. Sparkling
arrived in Vancouver Saturday, on their
6rst visit to our town.
The Vancouver friends of G.. w. Filloon
will regret to learn that he is sick with
smallpox at Goldendale.
1t is now stated that the new road law
does not abolish the 81 road poll tax, and it
will be collected as usual.
Deer are reported more abundant than
usual ut this season in the foothills and adj
jacsnt to the Cascade range.
The Vancouver city brass band went out
on serenading tour on Monday night, and
~ usual, made excellent music.
County Auditor Charles Brown is ready
- register the names of physicians practis.
ing in this county, according to law.
Slush ice is reported running in Snake
river, an indication that we will soon get
some here if the weather turns cold.
Parents should keep their boys off the
streets nights. The road from the street tc
hoodlumism is q short one, and soon travelled
The river boats are as heavily loaded with
frsights as ever before, and it seems a.
though there would be no let up to the
traffic.
The steamer s. T. Church went up to tn,
Cascades Yesterday, towing two barges on.
loaded with railroad iron and the other will
three locomotives.
Rev. A. Z. Freidrichsen, the venerable
Swedish minister who often visits Vancou
Yer. has bseu very ill at Good Samaritan
hospital, Portland, for ten days.
The average daily mean temperature fo
December was 42.9. The coolest day il
Vancouver the mercury marked go, TIVE
degrees below the freezing point.
II il now strongly limited that riva
company to the Northern Pacific will builc
. railroad down the north bank of the Co
lumbia, thus giving our county railroad ia
cilitiss. -
The new law regulating divorce and ali
moay provides that neither party divorced
shall marry within six months from the is
susnce Of the decree, the time allowed fol
taking an appeal
- The holidays are over, but that dom
mako any difference to Billy Wilson, for HI
continues just the same to furnish the boss
meats Of the season at his market, and
wears his 1882 smile.
Won LANCE, the "Deutscher blonde" who
occasionally visits the city as Portland no
tel runner. distinguished himself at Astori.
on Saturday by accidentally shooting bar
Der through the arm 1t shooting gallery.
Il IL said that the new school, road, reve
nue. and election laws will be in the hands o.
the county auditors for distribution by the
lst Of February. The new code will not bs
ready for distribution before July LIST, 1882
With the new year the partnership of tn.
we'll known Portland firm of Fishel 4 Rob
erts, which has existed for nine years, ended
Mr.. Fishel Withdrawing to become mem
Der Of the firm Of Fechheimer, Goodkind
Co., San Francisco.
L. Rachenberger and G. Brohaska, who
were arrested in Portland few days sincs
BY Sheriff Stores, Of Wasco county, on Z
charge of arson, committed ct Whisky Flat
Upper Cascades, ON the 25th of November
were examined before Justice Darah at thu
Cascades ON Saturday and were held to an
swsr before the grand jury in the sum o.
$500 each.
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