The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-03
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS
Happenings of Interest in the
Progressive Northwest.
BRIEF REPORTS OF LATE EVENTS
Budget OF Items Gathered From
ALI Parts of Oregon, WASH
ingt0n and Idaho.


ington and Idaho.
County Treasurer Kern, of Umatilla
county, Or, redeemed 81, 900 of county
warrants last week.
The business men of Port Townsend,
WASH, are endeavoring to secure the
Fort Townsend reservation for their
school district.
The population of Grants Pass, Or.
consists of 1857 males and 1,l26 fe.
males, total of 2,3S3. Of the males,
65S are legal voters.
Nearly every farmer in Union coun-
ty, Or. has lot of hogs numbering all
the way from ten to several hunderd,
and to these will be fed part of the
crop of grain.
The Tacoma school district is up to
the limit in Indebtedness, and no
funds will be available for two months
with which to pay teachers salaries
and other current expenses.
Philip Isensee, the defaulting treas
urer of New Whatcom, Wash, has
been taken to the penitentiary at Walla
Walla to serve out the term recently
imposed on him by the superior court
and approved by the supreme court.
A novel attraction is arranged for in
the Indian department at the fair at
New Whatcom, Wash. An old Lum-
uni Indian will finish up canoe dur
ing the fair with the primitive imple-
ments used by the tribe in early times.
The warehouses in The Dalles are
paying 81 cents for wheat aud the
Touring mills 40 cents. There is no
diminution in the receipts, and the
ferryboat is kept busy all day carrying
teams across the river, while the roads
leading to town from the east are lined
with wagons.
Captain Mclean, of the Chilean ship
Atocama, and Captain Jensen, who
were recently arrested in connection
with alleged outrageous treatment of a
negro sailor, Balding, and released on
$40, 200 bonds, have been surrendered
by their bondsmen to the United States
authorities at Seattle.
A bunch of wheat secured by Com
mitteeman ]. S. Morris, of Albany,
Or, for the Linn county exhibit, is
curiosity. 1t contains AZ stalks, with
924 meshes, each mesh having three to
five kernels, probably averaging four,
total of over 3, 500 grains from one
kernel of wheat. Mr.. Watts has COL
lected a large and attractive assortment
of cereals in stalks that will compare
with anything to be found anywhere
in the world.
Litigants in Morrow county, Or,
have been greatly Inconvenience by
the loss of their last springs term of
court in that county. Judge Fee holds
that all legal publications, such as
summons, orders for publication, etc.,
that were published for the March term
of court which should have been held
last spring, must again be published
before legal action can be taken. Con-
sequently all business of this nature
that would have come up last spring
goes over to the next term of court.
The trustees of the TillamOok, Or,
academy, have made donation of that
institution to the Presbytery Of Port
land, on condition that the contracts of
subscription shall be fully complied
with, and the academy made perma-
nent institution. The change is not
expected to materially affect the school.
A committee of the Presby terry of Port
land will visit Tillamook at an early
date to complete the transfer Of the
property and make the plans known.
William Hodges, young man, was
shot through the back by rifle ball
at Blue Canyon last Sunday. He was
one of crowd who were out hunting.
He was standing on a hillside above
the rest of the group. One Of them
commenced shooting at some pheasants
and in the hurry failed to see that
Hodges was directly in line. The re-
suit was that ball went crashing
through his shoulder, going in below
the collar-bone and SCATTERING the
shoulder blade The wound is an ugly
one, but the young man will recover in
ime.
G.. W. Richie, manager of the SOlic-
itors' Loan & Trust Company, OF Ia
coma, which is interested In large
number of wheat firms in Eastern
Washington, has been examining the
condition of the crops in the Palouse
and Big Bend countries during the past
two weeks From Spokane he writes
that the price of grain has fallen ten
cents a bushel in the past month, and
that in consequence much of the crop
will be held till January l for better
prices. He says 40 per cent OF the
crop in the Taiouse is ruined.
An interesting document was re-
corded in the county clerks office of
Lincoln county, Or, last week. 1t is
transfer of the old government land
grant in Oregon from the Oregon Gen.
trail Railroad Company to the Oregon
& California Railroad Company. 1t
is a written instrument and covers for
ty-two pages Of closely written legal
cap. The instrument was dated i'll
1870, and its margin holds forty $40
internal revenue stamps, all convey
ances at that time being compelled to
bear a revenue stamp to insure their
validity. The deed has been recorded
in the several counties Of the state in
which any of the land grant lies, and
the formation of a new county caused
it's recording in Lincoln county.
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