The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-07-05
NORTHWEST NOTES.
Washington.


year So, 600, 900 feet of lumber.
The Mayor of Snohomish has called a
meeting to organize Chamber of Com
merce.
About fifty Indians of Chief Moses
tribe are doing some artistic war dancing
near Walla Walla.
The First National Bank of Hoquiam
has just declared it's semi-annual divi-
dend of per cent.
John Herman sprained his ankle in a
Spokane sidewalk, inficting injuries he
estimates in his damage suit at $4,000.
A Tacoma firm has shipped 500 tons
of feed, consisting of oats, barley, bran
and shorts, to Honolulu, as a starter for
trade it is hoped to establish perma-
nently.
The mining property reported to be
bought by Jim Wardner is the Imperial
mine, mill site and water right in Ken
nedy district, Humboldt county. Ward
ner must have a mill of at least ten
stamps in operation by September %.
From all parts of Whitman county
comes the report that threshing is in full
blast again. Much of the grain which
remained we'll stacked during the winter
is said to be fair quality and we'll worth
threshing. At Oakesdale there is said
to be some frst-class grain.
Two more complaints have been sworn
out at Walla Walla against Edmiston.
These last are made by the Catholic
Knights of America and the Women s
Relief Corps. This makes six charges
against him. He furnished the $1,000
bonds required at his first arrest, but has
not yet qualified on the third and fourth
j charges.
The Spokane Board of Public Works
has received more than score of letters
from bridge builders all over the United
States who have read in the telegraphic
dispatches the news of the floods there
and are anxious to obtain contracts for
new bridges to replace those swept away.
The board replies to them that the city
is not going extensively into the bridge
business for year or so.
The Commercial Club at North Yak
ina is in correspondence with Mime
sofa firm of starch manufacturers with
view of securing the location of a
plant there. It is estimated that an in
yestment of from $1,000 to $4,000 will
put in a good starch factory, and that a
market will thus be afforded for smaller
potatoes, not only improving the grade
of the famous Yakima "spuds," but Sc
curing promising industry.
The Yakima Hop Growers Association
elected D. E. Lesh President; r. Dunn,
Vice-President; A. d. Eglin, Treasurer;
A. B. Ross, Secretary. The meeting was
very enthusiastic and we'll attended, the
growers showing an evident intention to
strengthen in the organization. Secre-
tary Ross states that there are at least
5000, perhaps $500, acres set to hops
in the county, only 500 of which are new.
He figures that Is 900 pickers will be
required.
Oregon.
The County Court of Baker county has
appropriated $43O to be expended in i'm
proving the Cracker creek road.
The Brunswick shalt near Grass VAL
lev is to ue sunk another 100 feet, which
will make the mine 500 feet in depth.
The Baker City Democrat states that
the ore on the dump at the Emma mine,
as exported by reliable mining men, will
ge from 500 to $500 to the ton.
The lovely flower called the French
pink is becoming nuisance In fields
around Parker, and some have spent
hundreds of dollars trying to check jtt
growth.
A considerable amount of this year
clip of wool is being brought to Salem
and stored in the commission houses ant
taken to the swoolen mills. The pric'
is 10 cent?.
Issasc Banta of Albany is the latest in
yeritor of a machine for mining blacl
sand. One of the machines is in opera
ton between Yaquina and Alsea, and i
is asserted that 80 per cent of the GOLD
is saved.
+ The residents of Ross Slough, Coo
Bay, are putting in tide boxes at tn,
mouth of the slough to keep the water
out. The boxes are forty feet long
twelve feet wide, and will reach to tn,
bottom of the slough.
It is thought at Corvallis that whel
the Circuit Court holds its adjournet
sittings there, July 20, a new sale of tn
Oregon Pacific will be ordered at what
ever price it will bring without regard t.
creditors or court costs.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Baker, who hav
been soliciting small contributions TO
the purpose of starting a hypothetica
home for widows and orphans at Nanai
mo, B. c., were arrested in Boise, Idaho
as confidence people. They were in
good many Oregon towns.
The G.. A. R. men of Washington
county have decided to hold an encamp
ment in Forest Grove some time il
August, to continue two or three days
and to which all old soldiers and sailor
in the State are invited. Steps wer
taken toward having this encampmen
last fall, but early rains prohibited.
The grand jury of Umatilla county, il
its final report, recommended that step
be taken to collect 1892, the amour
of 10 Houser's shortage, and also pro
coed against the County Treasurer ant
his bondsmen to collect the sum of $4S,
943 So which the Treasurer is short. Mr.
Houser was elected Sheriff at the recen
election.
Governor Pennoyer has for some tim'
| held that the separate institutions in ex
istence at Portland, and known as the
Law and, Medical Schools of the Uni
yersitv Of Oregon, were not entitled tx
maintenance from the money appropri
ated for the Eugene institution, and thai
thew must be located and administered
at Eugene if any part of the funds men
toned we're to be legally devoted to theil
nse He conferred with Attorney Gen.
eral Chamberlain recently, and solicited
that officers written opinion. Recently
the Attorney-General handed the Gov.
ernor his opinion on the subject, and il
concnrred fully with the executive con-
clnsions. The following characteristic
!, letter was sent by the Governor to the
Rod If Regents of the university