The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-04-18
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News For Easy Digestion From
Different Parts Of the States of WASH
fngton, Oregon and Idaho-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.

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ington, Oregon and Idaho-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
The Homer carries 400 to 600 tons
of Coos bay coal every trip from Marsh
field to San Francisco.
Robert Hooker, representing the cred
itors of the Townsend gas works, Port
Townsend, Wash, has purchased the
plant for $25, 900.
Whatcom, Wash, is likely to vote
soon on the question of validating $44,-
900 funding bonds. An ordinance has
been ordered drawn.
Spokane county's bonded debt is
$4S3,0 floating debt, $1O9,231. I'm
collected taxes bring the net total
down to 1926, OO6.51.
At Garfield, Wash, they are arrest
ing boys for jumping on trains. They
swarm about the yards to imminent
danger of life and limb.
DR.. Blalock, the Walla Walla,
Wash, pomologist, has $50 acres in
orchard, with $1,000 fruit trees.
Nearly all are in bearing.
Sherman county, Or, has paid up its
state taxes for 1895, and is proud that
it has yet to be found delinquent for
either principal or interest.
The Bonanza mine has just sent
clean up Of So, 500 to Baker City, Or.
The total for March is 81, 500. More
and richer ore than ever is in sight.
The Blewett mines and mill in the
Peshastin district have been leased by
former employees of the mining COM
pany, and will be started up about
May 1.
The youth of Dallas, Or, especially
those at the academy, are crying eagerly
for a gymnasium. There is some pros
pect Of one being built by subscription
among the townspeople.
General Manager Mcbride, of the
Everett & Monte Cristo railway, has
been promoted to the superintendency
of the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern rail-
way by the Rockefeller interests.
Tacoma has reduced the expenses of
her city government by nearly so per
cent in the last two years. The month
ly bills for February, 1898, were $780,,
496.62. For February, 1895, the total
was 81, roo. 70.
The reform wave, though belated,
has struck Port Angeles, Wash. The
last quarters expenses aggregate ST.
SIC, against 1921 last year. A year
ly saving of $1,000 on salaries has
been put into effect
The town of North Harbor in Cheha-
lis county, Wash, has been vacated by
the commissioners. Though lot was
never sold in the town it's assessment
has heretofore required fifty seven pages
of the assessment rolls.
The building record at North Yak
ina, Wash, indicates prosperity.
Four fne-cut sandstone business blocks
are in course of construction, and ar
rangements are completed for the cree
ton of new brick block.
Hitherto Grant county, Wash, woods
have been sold to Eastern consumers,
largely mixed with California short
staple. This year large amount of
them will doubtless be sent to Pendle
ton and secured, and sold as "Grant
county WOOL
An official letter from the office of
the supreme master workman of the A.
o. U. W., to Moro lodge No. "a, Of
that order, requesting assistance for A.
900 destitute brethren in Nebraska,
met with prompt responses from the
brotherhood in Sherman county.
M. J. Clump, the defaulting ex-
treasurer of Clallam county, Wash, has
been recognized ON the streets of Homo
lulu by J. J. Byrnes, of Port Angeles,
Wash. Sheriff Dyke has written to
the authorities there, but it is doubtful
if Clump can be held, as the treaty be-
tween the United States and the Hawa-
iian islands, which would govern the
capture and return of escaped prison
ers from this country, has not yet be-
come operative.
Oliver johnson, Port Townsend,
sleep on the night of November II,
and when he awoke his eyesight was
gone. The case attracted considerable
attention at the time, and the unfortu-
nate man was sent to the asylum at
Steilacoom, Wash. Thursday night,
after entering his room his eyesight
was as suddenly and mysteriously re-
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well as ever.
The Indians on the Umatilla reserve
attribute the heavy windstorm Of Mon
day to the death of old DR.. 10, the
medicineman, who passed away to the
happy hunting grounds. Although
generally thought to have advanced be-
yond the stage of such superstitions,
the Indians still cling to crude ideas,
and may be easily inspired with awe
when observing some phenomenon Of
nature.
A week ago q. Stinson sold 1000
acres of land near SnOhomish, Wash,
to the agent of Holland colony. The
agent said that he intended to purchase
9, 900 10, 900 acres more, if he could find
what suited him. 1t is the intention
to locate colony of Hollanders on this
land. 1t will be sold to them in twenty
| fiye-acre tracts The Hollanders have
money and can afford to wait while
they clear the land They are q thrifty
people, and will add greatly to The
wealth of Snohomish county when they
get to work.