The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-22
.2lCIFIC NORTHWEST.
r,o5snsed Geographic Re.
oorts of Late Events.
rgrrF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

To-
..--.r oregon and Idaho-Items OF
,-..-.-- 70 Pacific Coast People.
.p--trrrs..ng is not unknown in
,,azsne pays $1,000 monthly for its
a-.r. gifts.
Tie P.s5 la-Tenino Enterprise is 60
.r--5-sye TO Cosmopolis.
..s-s IS 10 he run from Fort Klam-
..E n. .--.--r Lake next summer.
.r1ss-4's City Council proposes to
-srogr a month for arc lights.
rr- first nile las been driven for a
-.- -srr-rv sam Elmore is going to
l-.3 al Astoria.
-'rz,l-l. hand in Wallowa county,
~ las spent $50 trying to collect $27
5-4 hin for wages.
Representative Belts is shipping 200
.-r.,rl .-ale bucks from Pendleton to a
Montana pun haser.
The Spokane bureau of immigration
ra.fe-Eea 10 repeat the fruit fair next
var. tie date selected being the first
week il October.
4lat O. nursery stock shipped from
Tsr York inf sted with woolly aphis
"a. DESTROYED by State Inspector Ton
rz,7r at Wlnlock recently.
Work las begun at the Cascades on
+f- lob o.. raising the State Portage rail-
rosf TO higher ground, so as to get it out
O. taewav Of the canal work.
:. Toseph's Hospital of Aberdeen has
f,s-43 a neat pamphlet commemorative
at -v0 wears Of very successful work on
-f-parr of the Sisters of st. Dominic.
It's thought now that the county seat
will remain at Snohomish, as a three
fitls vote was required to change it and
this. Il Is believed, Everett failed to Sc
CTe.
The 1uasti0ns of special tax levies for
Light. water. FIRE protection and street
Improvement purposes are to be submit
ted 10 tie voters OF Port Townsend on
Wednesday Of next week.
Marshal Drake saws that four men in
Gu ing the cook are now guarding fifty
eight couvicts in the McNeil's Island
pe1.te1oaIv, and that the walls of the
pe1uer-iaTy are old and crumbling.
Tie attendance at the Cheney Normal
School continues TO increase, and now
the enrolment in the normal depart
Melt l. uiuery-eight, the largest number
ever enrolled at this season of the year.
Klamath and Lake counties, Or, will
Sc. II all this fall about ZOO head of
cattle. VII. some local statistician let
Us know whether the increase in sight
Is sufficient to make up for this drain
upon tie herds?
Many Of the farmers around Spangle
az going into hog-raising quite extern
s-ve-y. There will be large number of
h--s ready Tor market next year. The
farmers are anxious to see large pack
ng-house IN Spokane, so as to have
home market.
John ". Clinton is logging opposite
Cosu..le City on an extensive scale this
season. employing about eighteen men
am t"o teams. He has six acres of low
ground completely covered with logs,
waiting for high water to run them out.
IN the cases of the State against Potts
AMI against Parker, charged with murder
IN the second degree, tried last week in
nancy county, the verdicts were guilty.
l@rher Was sentenced to seven and one
nan years and Potts to twelve years in
NE leM,e1-lary.
Vakes-9.e's water and electric light
projects have finally come to grief.
s1j-e Sullivan has sustained and made
permanent The Injunction against the
proposed bond issue. The bonds exceed
We ,9El legal Indebtedness. and the
E55-,'-c l,-lt plant, the court finds, has
decreased in value.
firm Of Walla Walla horse dealers
nave just shipped four carloads of horses
- 'S57..A'll. In order to have the ami
.-.1.S IL !, good condition it is proposed to
80 mem to rest eve V alternate TWEEN
$,-9.f hours, thus occupying thirteen
~ IN me l1lrney. Though the freight
IA is >a13, the firm expects to real
" handsome profit from the venture.
n ne United States grand iury at Walla
a o returned thirty-seven true bills.
-5 ~ 5-e prisoners when called upon
az t.7-... sad: 1 will plead guilty if !
w. =. more Justice than l got before
-. -'-e VI TO sent me here" Judge
80. I' With the "icv" look that he
- --1aFs Oh the bench, directed the
n; - % enter a plea of not guilty. Most
de- --5 o-+A1ers had sold liquor to In
t5rzs nan ian j. Lewis, who for the past
ST.. ar mas acted as agent for the
Taeo,-r.,.-' ing g Rigging Company of Old
s7o, ----.. -es been arrested on warrant
ha,. ~ lF frank Donaldson and AL
nan. ~ son, stockholders of the COM
sbo--s-,.-,-- ne company is made up of long
I ar.rl-5-', and Lewis is charged with
. 80 '--tcJed sums to the amount OF
No, -, - lot work done, which he did
5er; 40. 10. over to the company. Lewis
nan Jug whole charge, claiming the
-, - nave entered into a conspiracy tn
He. LIN d and break up his business.
Is The money he is accused of em.
Sr4r45S-.11-s paid to the Cooperative
the ser. z, < Rigging Company through
tie - 4 .'7rt Anderson who is one of
u13z, ro = T. pr, .5a5'n1ants. Lewis was placed
F-','9 bonds, which he furnished.
S9-rTj TN2ysmber issue of the Puget
sh;r--- ,-.'l1 .oerman says: 1.-The recent
Qrar--.-.' u 900 red cedar doors and a
b9~r5. s o, window frames to Johannes
lr W. .'3,A africa, per bark Levenbank
msr!s ser eef;: Osgood & Co. of Tacoma
Of ,fs " B.6er epoch in the door trade
Years al I acme Northwest. Only three
11Ero go Inc red cedar door trade was
Tie 5@- i east OF the Cascade Mountains.
vii. Bo..i'lLltn OF the Pacific Northwest
in irrrS.3.,5H'.er' have the same difficulty
sbing,a ing their goods that the cedar
Of custom nae nad' namely, the prejudice
pn l9;a'.y new material in the older com
celIanc.es nut, once introduced. the ex-
jtself. H. 'he material will speak for
Nortbvalne: door trade of the Pacific
bright A. al. IN olr humble opinion has