The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-03-28
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES


get of News For Easy Digestion From
Different Parts of the States of WASH
ington, Oregon and Idaho-Items Of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Cigars are being made in Walla Walla
out of tobacco grown in that locality.
Work has been stopped again on Sa-
lem's city hall. Funds have run out.
Crook county, Or, is putting in
81 200 vault for the safe-keeping OF its
records.
Hundred of tons of potatoes are being
shipped from WILDLY island to British
Columbia for seed.
The cost of running the city govern
ment of Port Townsend, WASH, has
been reduced 81 900 annually.
There is rumor that the Great
Northern will build to Ellensburg,
WASH, branching off at Rock Island.
Thirteen men are employed at Aber-
deem making plats and calculating areas
of tide lands for the local board of ap-
praisers.
Sheepmen about Wallula, Wash, are
moving their sheep and preparing for
the lambing season, which promises to
be unexcelled.
One of the moneyed men of California
is expected at Pataha, WASH, soon in
the interest of a projected plant to con-
dense milk at that point.
The Franklin county, WASH, treas
ury is looking expectantly for $6,934 in
taxes which the Northern Pacific will
pay in some time this month.
Farmers about Walla Walla are rails
ing another $4,000 to prosecute their
freight rate reduction claim before the
interstate commerce commission.
1t is said that the w. G. T. U. at Gold
Hill, Or, is the largest in the state,
with the exception of the one in Port
land, having forty members after being
organized only month.
The bobwhite quails ordered at Walla
Walla from Kansas have arrived, and
have been turned loose on Mill, Spring
and Cottonwood creeks. Although eight
dozen were ordered, owing to the care
less way they were packed only twenty
eight arrived alive.
Frank Seders, brother of John M.
Seders, a well-known horse trainer of
the Middle states, has arrived from the
East to make Spokane his home and to
pursue his vocation. His father will ar
rive from Illinois April l with string
of seven trotting horses.
horsethief, Hugh Medlock by name,
who appears for food or something every
once in a while, and is given chase by
- Ia
a faithful horse which he has trained so
it clears barbed wire fences like deer.
Notwithstanding the low price of
wheat, larger acreage is being sown III
the north part of Benton county than
ever before. 1t is usual to summer fall
low a part of the ground, but the entire
area is being sown to grain this season.
The farmers are nearly through sowing.
A strong effort will be made to have
Mrs. Grier, the Garden Springs, WASH,
murderess, pardoned. The principal
points urged in her favor will be the
circumstantial character of the evidence
and the woman's state of health, which
it is claimed will result in insanity If
she be kept in confinement.
The track on the Great Northern be-
tween Everett and Lowell, Wash, is
being raised eighteen inches, which will
bring it above high water mark. 1t is
understood that the force at work on the
tunnel in Everett will shortly be in
creased, and that gangs of men will be-
gin work on each end of the tunnel.
Controller Weed says last year the
running expenses of Spokane averaged
$13, $50 month, viz: Salaries, $4,000,
and electric lights, 1,75O. Now the SAL
airy list is about So, 500 each month, and
the bill for lighting, ETC., $3.50 month,
or $1O,O5O in all. This would make a
saving of So, 700 month this year over
last.
A telegram from Monte Cristo, WASH,
announces that the main vein in the
Mystery mine has widened out so that
the output of that mine alone will be in
creased 100 tons day, and will be suf-
capacity, 200 tons of ore per day, with
ont taking into account the Williams
and the Pride of the Mountain mines.
The government has increased the
mail service between Baker City and
Carson, Union county, Or, and COM
mencing April the stage line of Beggs
Bros. will make daily trips between
Baker City and the point named, via
Sparta. Carson is within seven miles
of Cornucopia, to which place branch
line will be run. Baker City people are
very much elated over this increased
service.
The directors of the Owyhee ditch
have decided to issue bonds and take up
their notes, The holders of the majority
of the notes have signiied their willing
ness to make the exchange. While the
notes are not negotiable very readily at
face value, the bonds will be as good as
gold, for they are first morte age on the
property and will float at par. This
will also place the ditch on sure foot
ing, as it will give the company ten
years in which to raise the money for
payment of its debts.
There has been considerable fuctua-
ton in the amount of ore shipped from
West Kootenai, Idaho, this winter,
mostly caused by the uncertainty of the
weather and the frequent breaking up
of the roads, says the Nelson Tribune.
The ore shipped in November was val
ued at $104, 500, in December at $lOl,-
1926, in January at 1856, OPS, and in Feb
ruary at $121 ,462. The January ship
ments even do not represent the full
productive capacity of the country, but
they represent more nearly than the
others the productive capacity OF the
district with the present means OF com.
munication, provided these means of
communication are kept at maximum
of efficiency. In forming an idea of the
present production of the country, the
ore shipped from the Blue Bell mine
and from Ainsworth for reduction at
Pilot bay should also be taken into &C.