The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-17
'I(IFIC NORTHWEST.
,.osed Geographic Re-
oorts of Late Events.
,,rpr SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

,>o,rs For Easy Digestion from
Bu's,, ,t Parts of the states CT WASH
oregon and Idaho-Items OF
10 to Pacific Coast People.
,onnaI cut of wood at Meacham,
d, !. 5000 cords.
Why n,IIqs Or, boasts of unsurpassed
casting on the hills
", a.. Emma DriscoIl has been elected
IN. WIZ Librarian at Spokane.
"" 20 Or. is collecting a carload OF
h..Hnr, for the Nebraska sufferers.
nv, Tacoma Poultry Associations first
.. Nm, show will be held from January
ID n !" amendments to the Spokane
IIo Eorter would reduce the salary list
~. tctorian predicts great activity in
,d iI( construction by the Clatsop county
i,rmers next spring.
TbaAPA.w will establish State head
an, rtars at Olympia during the session
# tbe legislature.
according to Librarian Gilbert's re-
rr tbp Washington State library has
aver POI 900 volumes.
s,it has been brought at Seattle by
nsytor Horton & Co. for $217, l48. 90
,,ainst william 4. and Anna B. Har-
i nngt0n.
The first Southern Oregon State Board
Il lgr,culture will hold its annual meet
inc and election of officers at Ashland
On the l4th instant.
female deer. driven out of the mount
aims bv the storm, was seen quietly
irorsing in Max Pracht's orchard IN
Ashland few days ago.
Umatilla county, Or, figures out a
moft during the first six months of the
salary system, as compared with the fee
system formerly in vogue.
The Tacoma Rod and Gun Club has
ordered four dozen Monaghan pheasants
70 be distributed in Pierce county. 1t
has also drafted new game law.
The Tacoma Land Company has COM
mppced suit to set aside an assessment
Of $26 4O497 for street improvements
upon technicalities in the Council pro-
ceeiings.
4 fairly well authenticated report
comes from the Nasel country to the eff
feet that Weyerhauser syndicate has
purchased 5000 acres of timber land in
that section of Washington.
J.J. Kaufman has been elected Chief
Of the Walla Walla fire department.
The retiring Chief, Y. G. Blalock, was
presented with a gold match safe by the
members of the department.
A petition to the Oregon Legislature is
being prepared at Eugene, asking for
legislation preventing Indians from
hunting deer off the reservations, as they
are rapidly discriminating the game.
4 hunting party in the Olympic
Mountains report having seen 800 elks
IN single day without attempting to
shoot any OF them, because their pack
animals were already laden with game.
Plling for an extension of the Harris
mil wharf at South Bend, Wash, is be-
ing cut. The wharf will be extended
twenty ieet farther into the Willapa river
and made 500 feet in length. There will
uen be depth of thirty feet alongside.
,, Dell Lashier, representing the A. P.
ho'aIng Company of Portland, was
ID MHen from the State Hotel in Walla
Nalla to the Jail recently, having vio-
i5uI halIuclnatlon that persons were en-
utaVorlng to kill him. 1t was the result
Oh protracted spree.
HE Grand Ronde donation to the Ne
Easka sufferers is ready to be shipped.
II consists of four cars from La Grande,
One ron Island City and one from Ell
Em' Inc value of the subscription can
naiuly De estimated in dollars and cents,
AZ consists except the -four donation
VI produce that has no stated price in
a %e ;;Aarket, but probably worth $1,000
a'a TAR valuation.
p. Inc annual meeting of the Roseburg
tL and Loan Association was held
n ME other night. Secretary Sykes re-
P.II SHOWS that the association has been
s, anI.ilg six years and the gain to the
rr aE, has been $10,856. The
r ,a,ae Oh each share is $103.75. 1t is ex.
aI boJt 'nat they will mature in two and
aIa n%lI years. Miss Carrie Sykes was re-
poa3 meeting of the taxpayers of the
ior n" ~ .Cr.) school district is called
lion 'n as 7ISL Instant to consider the ques-
Iocato5 oul'ding new schoolhouse to be
Tba ns. III The southern part of the city.
date p s0S schoolhouse will accommo-
nDo oT 2Vv pupils, but its capacity has
ma asfu inadequate. The proposition il
mil 4 ta with general favor, and a two
nnrno c~A VIII doubtless be voted for that
cb qne iflaI OF Adolph Selheim, who was
Sm alEed With the murder of William
inv b. al Spokane, was concluded by the
Tbas r y,o1Iglng IN verdict of acquittal
The T o,ulct was a surprise to everybody
djscnsaA layers League is to take up and
hands In: ne question. Selheim shook
and ;",a WIN the jury after the verdict
dna3 ,IDuleqlately invited them out to be
kIjs5 T T19 wined. Selheim shot and
v4mtos Ilam Smith in a saloon No.
He is Il While Smith was unarmed
IT,. Wealthy rancher and old pioneer
xo3snto .e9nia! report of the Superin.
lQm for ' y, 81 Inc Eastern Washington Asy.
LAKE ~ b we Insane, situated at Medical
Semi I, nas been issued. Superintendent
Tate eG dE, reports 2O7 patients. The death
conna rttIg the past three years has been
enca psaa'auvely low, as the climatic influ.
that ar are good. 1t is a noticeable fac,
less ana o'ie :. proportion of melancholics il
IN tbi iif t Ihe number of maniacs greater
stitntionno Spltal than in several other in.
made 'i ~, where comparisons have beer
10 be- a. Ihls state of affairs is believed
No c case 81 70 the clear, dry atmosphere
Or ho T hospital for the year; no suicide
stitution @ SINCE the opening of the in.
Nanyr IN, and but one dangerous attack
been m laai3ProFements and additions have
land bbt a"e' About twenty acres of new
tionaI S 60 been cultivated 1000 add
plants bo Jaw berry and 1000 raspberry
esrne s nave been planted. Mr.. Sempls
persons advocates the examination O
tent pby Suspected of insanity by conn
Judge D t 1tslclans instead of the Superio