, 1888-01-26

Inc Democrat says that The Their
! mOmeter was down to four degrees
below zero once last week, so says
! the Democrat
Arrangements are Icing completed
Efor bringing water 10 Laconner, and
! there i5a prospect that it viii be run
| IN few months.
The Press says the Steamer Wash
| ington arrived in Seattle from What
com . on Wednesday twenty four
hours late.
Goldendale people are counting
on getting the machine shops of
the Vancouver, IAlickitat & Yakima
Railroad, says the Vancouver Regis
ter
Fears are entertained that the re
cent cold weather has injured fall
sOwn grain, owing to the>bare state
of the ground, says the WalIa WalIa
Union.
The Mason County journal re
ports Il rumor to the effect that the
Satsop railroad Company will erect
an Office building al Shelton and do
a Seneral banking business.
Mr., Howell killed large gray ea-
gle a few days since, near Kings
prairie, which measured SIX feet
from tip to tip OF his wings, says the
Chehaiis Nugget.
There is now five feet more water
in the IIw2co channel than at any
time last summer. A vessel drawing
eleven feet can go to IlWaco now
from the head OF Sand Island.
Mr.. G. W. Pritchard, Of Tacoma.
was at one time a schoolmate of
Thomas Mast, at New York military
academy. Young Mast used TO make
caricatures all the time at school.
Maj. Keeno of the firm of Keene &
Hinley started this week five sled
loads of freight, with 5000 pounds of
flour on board for their store in
Ruby city.-EllenS6urg NelU Era.
Tacoma people have sent several
petitions containing hundreds of
signatures to Olympia, asking that
tue militia bill now before the terri
torial legislature become law says
the News.
The Ledger warns the public
against one or two men who are en-
gagged in passing counterfeit silver
dollars IN Tacoma. They are made
OF pure lead The police have been
on the lockout for the rascals.
The siwashes spear thousands of
founders in the icy waters of the
Swinomish at every low tide. They
catch them about as fast as they can
throw them from the spears into the
canoe, says the Laconner Mail.
Spangle Record: A private letter
from Davenport, Lincoln county,
contains the information that the
Northern Pacific surveyors are within
mile of that burg, and that it has
become almost settled fact that the
road will run through the town.
A fire broke out at the Walla
Walla garrison Saturday night in
the adiuncts office, and before the
boys in blue succeeded in subduing
the blaze valuable records from way
back were cremated. Help from the
city was applied for, but when ready
was not needed.
Aberdeen is live business place of
about 600 inhabitants, and with a
constantly increasing business and
growing population. The numbering
interests are the support of the town.
Three large mills are already in ope-
ration, and a fourth will soon be
ready for business.
The thermometer has been down
to ten below zero, but the sun has
been shining and the atmosphere so
still that one did not feel the cold
much. That is one of the beauties
of this country, whenever it gets cold
it is still until there comes Chinook
when the thermometer raises above
freezing.-Goldendale Tribune,
A grizzly bear was killed on the
north fork of the Nooksack, near the
foothills in this county, a few days
ago by Lewis Darrow. So far as we
are able to learn this is the first griz-
zly bear killed by a white man in
Whatcon county, although they are
reported to be quite numerous in the
mountain Businesses of the Baker
Bliine journal.
There has been great shrinkage in
the past three weeks. The sire ans
in.the valleys are shrunken. the dairy
has shrunk, hens have failed to dis
count and scarcity of hen fruit h as
been the result. coal has shrunken tc
an alarming degree, and even the
city bread loaf suffered Il like dimin
! utIon.
/ 4 Tacoma exchange says: Pas
sengers who left this city for Califor
MIA on Mondays train, returned las
night. They were unable to gel
across the river at Kalama They
returned to Tacoma, Monday, Went
out again on Tuesday morning:
train, were unsuccessful a seconC
time, and returned to this city las
night.
A syndicate of eastern capitalist
expects TO start a 5anitarium on Pu-
get Sound sometime next spring
The location has not yet-been full,
decided on, but Laconner will prob
ably be the place This sanitar1un
will be fitted up with the latest medi
cal and surgical appliances and elec
trical baths. 1t VIII be a resort fo
invalid5 from all over the Sound
/ DR.. Williams has been requested 4
take charge OF the salitarium ant
look for a location.-Puget Soun'
| Mail.