The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-06

OREGON and Idaho-Items OF
,.tsrest to Pacific Coast People.
cooLaoe has another daily-the Morn
'"- arrncle Toms Cabin" troupe is
An "a;rr down upon the defenseless
s s;t;ss OF Eastern Oregon.
Tho Salem Methodists voted 76 to in
rof giving women seats as delegates
;" tIe General conference.
" ,lorg.djstance telephone is being put
connecting the various scattered
~ mills of Whatcom county.
TLo Warden of the Federal peniten-
Nat \IrNei'g Island has asked for
u",5 g1ards. as the building is getting
oI and unsafe.
Albany. Or, is getting up Dickens
o,rnival. at which some 100 characters
r ,;li he impersonated by the youth and
Iasotv Of Linn county's metropolis.
An ordinance has passed the Spokane
Council reorganizing the police force by
,bo substitution of a chief and fifteen
detectives for the present regular force.
Harry Lartigne of Dayton has been
arrested for completely in the murder of
Ia.ner Mills of Garfield county, Wash.
He was taken to Pomeroy and lodged in
JAIL
The farmers OF Walla Walla Valley
viii make an urgent demand on the
ravt legislature for the enactment Of a
law proyiding for State Wheat In
spector.
Placer mines are still working in
Baker county, Or, but the final clean
mn will soon be made. The run has
been the best since the palmy days of
the sos.
Marshal Hallery proposes to rid Walla
Walla of hobos. Within the past week
he has escorted eleven of the fraternity
to the outskirts of the city and directed
them never to return.
Senator-elect Lesh of Yakima county,
Wash. is preparing a bill prohibiting
county governments from creating or
maintaining Q special cash fund for the
payment OF salaries of officers.
The Finance Committee of the Seattle
Council and the City Controller have
finished their work on the tax levy,
which is for this year fixed at ~ 5-8
mills, as against - mills last year.
The first VI. E. Church of Spokane is
figuring on a magnificent edifice with a
seating capacity of 1000. The pastor is
Dr. McInturtf. once stationed over st.
Pauls VI. f. Church at Sixth and Hall
streets Portland
White river farmers complain that the
filling in the trestles along the Puget
Sound Shore railroad endangers their
property from floods, and they have ap-
pealed to the courts for an injunction
against the railroad company.
most deplorable conflict is on at
Spokane over the body of William Smith
who was recently shot by Adolph Sell
helm. The undertakers want pay for
what they have done. There is re-
pleyin suit over the corpse. and one man
has been arrested for violating city
ordinance.
+. Gillian, Stock Inspector for UNA
tlIIa county, Or, several weeks ago adj
yertlsed reward to any one who would
discover case of scab in any of the nu-
merous tiocks of that county. He has
awaited response, but up to the pres
ent time no one has written him or called
TO claim the reward.
The celebrated Strand case is on trial
again at Whatcom. This has been be-
10 eight tribunals and to the Supreme
Court twice. Judgments for SIS, 900 and
NZuOO have been rendered for Strand
and reversed, and after all these years
and ylclssitudes it comes up smiling. 1t
IS suit for damages for two lots taken
lor the right of way of the B. B. & B. G.
ihe United States War Department. is
WIIIlng to establish an army post in the
outskirts OF Spokane, and has sent Off
tTfS 10 inspect the different sites around
IIe city, and has offered to establish q
,arSe post provided the city will donate
wv acres OF suitable land for the post
ana artillery and rife ranges. A com.
pledges. IA ''
Inc Nardner Miners Union met the
?'uef nlght and discussed the strike. II
= S"" the meeting was a stormy one
~ was announced that, as the strike was
=; G' ana hight would have to be made
:, IlgiI as well include a demand fol
~n increase OF wages. A motion was
80 80" ~ mat all underground men be paiC
,S2V day. President Glass opposed
suIh an action, and, it is said, refused
~ Pul the motion. Some of the mem
,e oecame indignant and threatened
tbd leluoVe the President. He then pu
NC question, and it prevailed. Their,
s %"s some talk that the strikers will in
S?I on the few men now at work in til,
Los iI coming out at once, but no actor
hoau oeel IaNen. About $50 men hav,
.o TTn PAID off, and some are leavin,
gon rm, Inc strikers are quiet, and thu
fro nTIal belief is that there will be M
and Consensus of opinion of the captain
fb; r masters masters of foreign vessels IN por
sb ,lS season, taken by Tacoma shipper
in l9ns them to be unanimous in thei
s ,,Jb'oLsement of the compulsory pilotag
a law Nv Tr6 ior " ashington State ports. /
lar 70 t 1ere IN effect in Washington SINH
most ~ Ii'a Al IN British Columbia and il
of sbi ~ me States which do great dea
wonI5 pPlng, 1t is said, great savin,
toms ulI 10 owners OF foreign bot
Osborno coming to the Sound. The shi]
IN f iran. now in port loading wheat, cam
was , norL can Francisco in ballast, an,
for f fU,n PEELED to wait outside the Strait
loo en- ul uays on account of the heav,
ace looping the entrance. If pilot
pilot to was was IN effect, allowing the frs
nio ~ BOARD boat outside the Straits
an incegt;o OF "a foot draught would b
cruisina re o TO pilots to keep pilot boa
bound $ outside to pick up any vesse
to sail a. H. AT times it would be possible
thus tbo aie 1 up to Port Townsend, an,
IRON IRON the amount Of tow wo.u sa VIC arr Tb
d5oorposltlon meets with the hearty in
hin is emf of pilots, and it is probable
Ia ,I VIII be introducei in the neSt 7 egis
azure With this object in view.