The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-07-12
NORTHWEST BREVITIES.
Washington.


Burglars and thieves. says the Seattle
Telegraph, are tearing the town to pieces.
The First Congregational Church o.:
Tacoma has just celebrated its twentieth
anniversary.
Ellensburg city bonds, $33. 900 sold in
Spokane, brought par less 5 per cent
commissioned the broker.
The impoverished condition of Che
halls county finances prevents the
teachers from holding their annual i'm
stltute, and it has been indefinitely
postponed.
A long line of prairie schooners passed
through Spokane recently, containing q
Nebraska colony bound for somewhere
on the Sound.
The curfew ordinance is to be enforced
in Walla Walla, and hereafter when the
fire bell rings at O'Clock all BOYS under
Is must be off the street.
The outcome of the Roy Hurlbnrt-
Mary Busby seduction case at Colfax
was that the young man goes to the PEN
iten'iary for year and the girl to the
Chehalis reform school.
Adams county will produce an enor-
nous wheat crop this year. The rains
made their appearance at the proper
time, and the outlook is the most en-
conraging one for many years.
School Clerk w. G. Clark of Garfield,
Whitman county, has completed the CEN
sns of the school children within that
district, and has found total of 227.
This is twenty-five short of what it was
last season for some reason.
The young women of Whatcom are
toying with vows of perpetual virgnity
by pledging themselves not to accept
the matrimonial proposals of men who
are not ''intelligent. honest, industrious,
good-natured, cleanly in person and
apparel, healthy, sober. church mem
bers and total abstainers from liquor,
tobacco and profanity"
A sad state of affairs is that reported
from the Newskat river settlement, Che
halls county. The Johnson claim has
two conflicting owners, while an admin
istrator is trying to dispossess both. No
case known to history offers SO MANY
beautiful law points as this one is said
to, and vet unfortunately none of the
interested persons is able to carry it up
to higher court.
Samuel Crump, proprietor OF the Spo-
kane soap works, has made close study
of vegetable oils, and is now experiment.
ing with sunfowers, peanuts and castor
beans at the ranch of S. Conway at Ken
newick. Mr.. Crump thinks that raising
sunf1owers can be made profitable in
dustry in the State, and an immense
market can he obtained for the oil from
the seeds, which can be largely used in
the manufacture of soap.
Captain Symons, United States engin-
GERS, has received orders to make sur
yey and estimate for fresh water har-
Dor, of the greatest practicable depth at
Everett. This is job that would cost a
very large amount if it were ever carried
ont. Seattle also wants fresh water
harbor, to cost $4,000, 900 or 80, 600, 900.
The advantages of fresh water harbor
where the teredo will not destroy all the
wharves every two or three years are
understood bv Sound people, and are
appreciated by ship owners.
Oregon.
About 20o. 900 dozen of eggs are shipped
from Albany each year.
YamhilI county's Sheriff will turn
over to his successor $7.1S9. Some $780,
GOO taxes are yet unpaid.
There is talk of forming a company
and starting pulp mill on the upper
Necannicum. There is plenty of suitable
timber and an abundance of water.
There are 1867 persons in the peniten-
tiary now, 100 being employed in the
stove foundry. There is only one wom-
an, Emma Rice from Multnomah county.
The reform school agitation is still a
live topic in the Salem papers. Some
members of the grand jury are out in
severe criticisms, to which Superlntend-
ent Hendricks replies with some spirit.
The whistling buoy off the Coos Bay
bar is logged, having been run into
bv some vessel. The Manzanita exam
ined the buoy, and will bring appliances
from Portland to raise it and make the
necessary repairs.
Some unknown individual has been
circulating counterfeit fve-dollar pieces
throughout Southern Oregon during the
past few weeks. They are very poor inn
itations, being much lighter in weight.
and would deceive no person should
their attention be drawn to the matter.
The date on them is 1881.
A contract has been made for 6,OOO
tons of the Yaquina stone to he used IN
another San Francisco building. The
steam schooner Scotia is at Yaqulna
after load of stone, and will be kept
busy in this trade the greater part OF the
summer. A steam derrick is to he
erected at Yaquina to expedite the
transfer of the stone from the cars to the
vessel, The new channel machine for
use at the quarry and the first to be used
| in the State has arrived and is now in
operation, and will vastly increase the
rapidItv with which stone can be turned
out. One of the contracts for supplying
a San Francisco firm calls for 63 ,OO0 GU
bic feet of the stone.
Reports from the hop yards in oregon
indicate bright prospects OF large yield.
Lice are appearing in few yards, and are
not 40 numerous in those as to cause APP
prehonsion for the safety of the crop.
But another formidable and unexpected
pest has begun operations, the tent cat
erpillar. which has been so numerous
and destructive in the orchards. In some
parts these have attacked the hop yards,
making rapid havoc among the plants.
Owners of wards are making every effort
to exterminate the pests by making a
good strong spray solution. Only few
small wards have as vet been attacked,
and if successfully resisted in those, the
Oregon output will not be materially at
fected.
Major Post, United States engineers,
is preparing to have a complete survey
of the mouth of the Columbia and Its
channel made as soon as practicable, TO
ascertain what effect has been produced
bv the flood. He has already had the
iettv examined, and finds that it has
sustained no damage except the loss OF
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