The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-12-06
CITY AND COUNTY.
BRIEF MENTION.

Christmas is coming.
Dave has opened fresh keg-of nails.
The rainfall during November amounted
to ST inches.
John Crawford returned home from Col
fax last Friday.
Main street mud is still the wonderment
of all beholders.
Several refreshing showers of rain fell
during the week.
Capt Jas. T. Gray has moved into the
late residence of J. G. Blake.
Two more new houses have been CON-
menced in Vancouver recently.
Extensive repairs and painting are going
on inside of the Exchange hotel.
Gen. Allen Engine Co. No. has decided
to give ball during the holidays.
0. H. Stott and wife have returned this
week to their home at Oysterville.
There is only one Vancouver man winter
ing at the Ceur d'Alene gold mines.
Half million feet of logs went out of
Lewis river on the last raise of water.
Mr.. j. Dix, who formerly kept the Alta
House, has moved back to Vancouver.
Annual meeting for the election of officers
for various fire companies next Monday.
Plenty of skating at the Dalles and above,
but we offset it with rain and mild weather.
A good boy DESTROYS to learn the printers
trade can find an opportunity at this Office.
Mr.. Magoon's two children, who had
scarlet rash last week, are now nearly well.
Ernest Hack left for Ainsworth on Mon
day, where he has position on the trans
fer boat
Mr.. d. R. Fales was in the city again last
week, having recovered from another siege
of sickness.
Farmers, sign no notes for strangers for
any purpose whatever, as the swindlers are
abroad in the land.
We don't wish to dun anybody, but it is
surely time some of our delinquent sub
scribers were paying up.
Adam Schwebel last week bought Lady
Island, 500 acres, of o. II. Stott, for
$4,000. 1t is fine farm.
All friendship has ceased between the
Standard and Ne,cs of Portland, and the
first mentioned is still ahead.
The work is progressing ON the excava-
ton for the new fire cistern at the intersec-
ton of Main and 10Th streets.
Jas. Walker has completed at his Salmon
creek mill lumber shed so by 30 feet, to
store lumber away from the wet.
The police picked up three drunk and dis
orderly persons on Saturday, who remained
in the skookum house over Sunday.
"Ten Nights in Bar-room" drew a good
audience at the Garrison theatre last Friday
night. The net proceeds amounted to $50.
Il. j. O'Donnell was married recently in
San Francisco to Miss Nellie Manning.
The boys here wish them a thousand happy
years.
AL. Bateman returned from San Francisco
on Tuesday. He will not tell what brought
him home SO soon, except that it was the
Oregon.
An Olympia paper growls because the
Portland Ne'cs failed to arrive thcre-a case
OF growing that never happened yet in Van
couver.
DIR. Winenberger of Washougal had a fall
recently, and last week was brought to St.
Joseph's hospital in Vancouver, where he
died from his injuries
The editor of the Goldendale Sentinel
loaned his buggy to yoing lady, who re-
turned piece of it the next day, and the
returns are not all in yet.
Sheriff Frank Merton last week bought
out Henry Vanatta's interest in the Ex-
change hotel, and is now installed as a
genial landlord with Proebstel
The Vancouver Mill h Manufacturing Co.
have nearly finished the Dalles contracts.
They haW turned out some very fine work
for the bank building in this city.
Muckle Bros. had a million feet OF logs
get adrift few days since. The trees on
the bank to which the booms were fastened
were pulled out by the heavy current.
Messrs. Shaw aud Harper returned home
from the legislature on Saturday, looking
none the worse for their hard labors at
Olympia in the Interests Of the people
Clarke county farmers are you
thinking OF when lands worth $40 an acre
will not produce enough butter to supply
the home market at 40 cents per pound!
One Of the ducks who thinks he is q Cow
boy" found his way into the city calaboose
on Saturday. The amount it took to get
out on Monday cured him of the disease.
1t is demonstrated that the earth weighs
5.S65, OOO. 600, 600, 900 tons. yet there is one
man in this place who thinks he tits il up
whenever he walks abroad. Now guess.
DR.. Il. McCabe, dentist, Of the firm Of
Freeman L McCabs, dentists, Portland, Or.
will be at Shintatlers hotel, La Center, on
Tuesday. Dec. 18th, and remain one week
Col. Shaw's burlesque on the Territorial
division bill was one Of the best things nut
forth during the legislative session. It trod
hard on the toes Of the Walla Walla Union
man however.
Mr.: 4. Stickler and family arrived here
Tuesday, from Stewart, Iowa, and went
yesterday to Pioneer. They came all the