The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-07
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
Brief SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
happenings Of Interest In the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, Washington
} and Idaho.
The tax levy in Spokane county,
WASH, for state and county purposes
is 10 mills.
A mass meeting was held in Seattle
recently to work up popular sentiment
to demand strict observance Of Sun
day.
The tax levy of Whatcom county,
WASH, for state and county purposes
for the year 1895 has been fixed at ii
mills.
Company 1, of Walla Walla. is re-
joicing because of the order issued for
the reorganization of that disbanded
militia company.
1t is claimed that the Wallowa coun-
try has produced and shipped more beef
this year than any other like territory
in the state of Oregon.
The bridge across the Wenatchee
river near its mouth, connecting Kitti-
tas river and Oanogan counties, in
Washington, has been completed.
There is movement on foot in
Pendleton, Or, to start up the foundry
plant. In case the plans are carried
out, the water power from the UNA
tilla will be used.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of Straub, the Blakeley island,
Wash. murderer, will be argued No
vember 80. Straub is now in Jail at
Whatcom, for safe keeping.
The statement of the financial condi-
ton of Marion county, Or, on Septem-
Der 80 last showed the amount of war
rants outstanding and unpaid to be
$40, 1873, and funds applicable to the
payment Of warrants. SIT, 569.
The depositors of the Baker City Ma
tional bank will receive from Receiver
Beard their third dividend, about No
vember /. The dividend will be 10
per cent, which will make so per cent
paid out since the institution closed.
A crew of eight men is working on
the telephone line between Grants
Pass and Crescent City, Or, and ex-
poets to finish this season. Heavy
twenty five foot poles are being put in.
A branch Office will be located at Smith
river.
There was strike the other day at
the Beaver Hill, Or. coal mines, few
of the negroes leaving. Those of the
negroes remaining have signed a con-
tract. good until June ! 1895, at prices
made by the superintendent Twenty
white miners have also been brought
in from Washington.
Pupils of the Ocosta, Wash. public
school complained of the water given
them to drink. The directors had the
well from which the water was drawn
opened, and we're shocked to find the
remains of about fifty rats and mice of
all sorts and conditions. One of the
rats was found in the pump valve itself.
The contract for finishing the Astoria
water works tunnel has been let to H.
G. Campbell, representing the Pacific
Bridge Company, of Portland. The
contractors propose to drive the rest Of
the tunnel through the rock by the aid
Of electricity, and have begun putting
in the apparatus.
Three bridges across Wilson river,
| Or, built chiefly by private enterprise,
have just been completed at an expense
of $500. These structures make win
ter road between Forest Grove and
Tillamook. An effort is being made
to have the Wilson river road designat-
ed as mail route.
There is proposition before the La
Grande, Or, Athletic Club to change
the name to the Commercial Club and
make it business organization. The
promoters of the new movement do not
and social features of the present or
ganization, but rather to enlarge and
extend them.
| C. D. McFarlin harvested his cram
berry crop, near Coos bay, last week,
and was rather disappointed in the
yield of berries, the crop amounting to
only 500 bushels. North slough, where
his cranberry bog is situated, is close
to the ocean, and the weather was un-
usually cold there this summer, which
accounts for the shortage.
Fish Commissioner Crawford states
that the prevailing opinion that the
Nooksack river is not included in the
provisions of the law for close season
is erroneous. That the closed season
on the Nooksack is from October Is to
November Is. and that it is his duty to
rigidly enforce the law. Fishermen
are therefore requested to govern them
selves accordingly.
Suit has been begun in Seattle
against w. H. Heaton, commissioner
of King county; Fred Anthony and
John W. Maple, as treasurer of King
county, in which the complainant
charges that at some time since January
/, 1895, Heaton and Anthony unlaw-
fully entered into conspiracy to de.
fraud the county ont of money in the
hands of the county treasurer by falsely
claiming to have performed work on
the county roads.
The General Electric Company has
begun suit in Tacoma against Receiv-
ers Mitchell, of the Tacoma Railway
& Motor Company, to restrain them
from paying five interest coupons on
the ten first-mortgage bonds Of the
company, issued April 1, 1890. The
Farmers Loan & Trust Company,
4 ~ naE No