The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-18
CITY AND COUNTY.
BRIEF MENTION.

Ihere are now TOUR prisoners In the county
Jail.
A lot of ship knees are being sent from
this place to Portland
Moss Minstrels will visit Vancouver
again about the 22nd inst.
The excavation of the new fire cistern
near the court house has commenced.
According to all signs the present legisla.
tive session Is destined to be stormy one.
M. A. Battersby has opened cigar store
In the old stand adjoining Healey's saloon.
G. W. Miller has come home from the
Sound country, and brings wife with him.
Capt. H. Cooke of Portland was in the
city on Tuesday, and met several old friends.
The San Francisco steamers arrive at and
depart from Portland every three days now.
Mr.sRandolph Harrison was over on Sat-
urday to see the folks and get fresh country
air.
Samuel Buchanan of Fern Prairie has
bought the Crawford store at Fishers Land
ing.
The river is so low that several sand bars
seldom seen are now showing above the sur
face.
The enterprising counterfeiter has already
produced good imitation of the new postal
note.
The U. S. District Court will convene in
Vancouver on Monday, Nov 9Th, for the
fall term.
VIM. Burnell, of Portland, made one of
his semi-occasional visits to Vancouver on
Thursday.
A lot of cottonwood bolts are being piled
up on the island, the first cut there for a
number of years.
There was partial eclipse of the moon
on Monday night, but no one Vancouver
stayed up to see it.
A goodly number of Vancouver people
went over to Portland ON Saturday, to visit
the Mechanics Fair.
The night for the regular monthly meet
ing of the Board of Trade is Friday, Oct
18th, tomorrow night.
Phil. Thornton was acquitted on the
charge of having taken money belonging to
the steamer Mdnzdnaio.
Claude Troup has been at home this week
on short vacation. He still runs the
steam launch at Portland.
Mr. James WEIGH of Cowlitz county, one
of the pioneers, was in the city on Tuesday,
for the first time in II years.
Mrs. Minnie Brown of Portland has been
in the city this week, visiting her parents,
DIR. Fred W. Sparkling and wife.
j. d. Harris and Thos. Beatty are going
over into the Nehalem valley in a shor;
time to take look at the country.
Gridley Whitney are getting up new
furniture delivery wagon, which is to be the
finest thing OF the kind in the city.
A petition praying for allowance of female
suffrage has been well circulated in Vancou.
yer, and received many signatures.
Mr.. c. N. Briggs has bought out C. w
Mattson's interest in the livery business.
Mattson takes the Fifth Plain farm.
The Sunday Mercury of Portland is after
another Vancouver man. 1t has to 90 out
side of Portland to raise sensation.
H. c. Blackwood, county commissioner,
was in town on Thursday, on official bust.
ness connected with the court house.
j. r. Whittier is having new stone gut.
ter put down in front of the store and ada.
cent property, and it is the best on the
street.
Mrs. ]. P. o. Lownsdale and daughter,
OF Portland, have been in the city this
week, visiting the daughters of Mr.. Eugene
Sempls.
Under the new classification the Vancou.
yer postmaster's salary advances from Sll0O
to $1,000 per year, almost enough to pay the
clerk hire and rent.
The Vancouver post-ofiice is fully sup
piled with stamps, envelopes, ETC., which
will be retailed to customers at the reduced
rates prevailing since Oct. l.
There is said to be talk OF bridging the
Columbia at Kalama, and should that be
done it will end all prospect Of bridge at
this point by the Northern Pacific.
Lost-in Vancouver, during the early
part Of last week, small, plaid black and
white shawl. The finder will be suitably
rewarded OH leaving it at this office.
The completion of the Northern Pacific
railroad has no effect on the adamantine
phiz Of the San Francisco drummer, for he
10 ~ numerous in town as ever this week.
Mr.. Carlos w. Shane is at his desk once
more, and can now accommodates all who
want notarial or or other work done in his
line. Many friends welcome his recovery.
Last Thursday morning an accidental ex-
plosion Of two boxes Of powder occurred
south Of Portland, the effects Of which were
plainly felt in this city by the report and
the rafting Of windows.