The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-03-14
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

are deSlrOuS OF eStaOllsnlng creamery.
The school census in Corvallis, Or,
shows 352 females and 316 males; total
66S.
An effort is being made to start up the
Ocosta, WASH, mill plant that has been
idle for year.
The city council of Seattle has donated
5000 to the Salvation army to be used in
it's labor relief work.
1t is proposed to hold an encampment
of G. A. r. veterans of Eastern Oregon
at Elgin, July % and "a.
There are 1900 sacks of grain in the
Monkland district of Sherman county,
Or, yet in the farmers hands.
Four regulars and eight specials are
to be dropped from the Spokane police
force in the interest of economy.
As soon as the weather is suitable the
prisoners in Spokane county, WASH,
Jail will be set to work on the roads.
The wooden mills at Bandon, Or, are
running overtime with orders enough to
keep at it all summer. A shortage OF
wool is threatened.
Many owners of hopysrds are putting
mp the wire system this spring. 1t costs
but little more than poles and lasts for
a number of years.
A public wool warehouse and market
will be established at Baker City, Or. It
will be 60xl00 feet, of corrugated iron,
on stone foundation.
1t is said there is to be boom in the
Althouse mining district this year, and
that $50 stamps will be at work in the
vicinity of Browntown.
The Heppner, Or, board of trade has
appointed committee to see what can
be done to open a road between that
city and Paris creek.
A subscription is being taken among
the sportsmen of Walla Walla, WASH,
for the importation of 400 pairs of bob
white quail to stock that section.
A Tacoma, Wash, firm is making large
shipments of eggs to Montana. This is
q result of the Eastern billiards cutting
off the supply from that direction.
The business men and farmers of La
Center, Amboy, Chelatchie and Yacolt,
WASH, are talking of jointly building a
good road in that region eighteen miles
long.
There is a project on foot to open up
trail and postal route between Grants
Pass and Gold Beach, Or, by way of the
junction of Rogue and Illinois rivers.
Illahee, Reuben and Leland.
The Salem, Or, postmaster has been
directed by the postal department to
discharge one carrier from bis force. A
petition is being signed to
be forwarded to the postmaster-general.
The telephone system from Spokane
to Occur d'Alene is to be extended to
Helena and other Montana points,
twenty five miles of wire being put
under ground in crossing the Occur
d'Alenes.
Captain Maltby has sent the What
com, WASH, board of trade some SAM
piles of Wilson hybrid tobacco raised on
his farm at Lynden. This year he and
G. l.. Ramsdel will raise about ten acres
OF the Havana variety.
H. B. Williams, Frank Cook ct al,
have filed articles of incorporation Tor
the American Patriotic Memorial AS
ISOLATION of Whatcom, Wash. The OBJ
ject of the association is to furnish
gratuitous instruction to the children oil
soldiers and sailors who served In the
war.
The Tacoma, Wash, committee in
charge of the army post matter has de-
cided to report in favor of a half-dozen
sites as follows: East Side of American
Lake, west side of American Lake. Span
away Lake, Steilacom site, near Albert
Whyte's place, Edison site, near Edison,
and Point Defiance.
Olympia people are determined to re.
sent to the utmost the action OF Ia
coma's newspapers and chamber of COM
merce in regard to the continuance oil
work on the capitol, and business men
are correspondingly grateful for Seattle's
friendliness on what is to Olympia the
all-important question.
A compromise has been effected in the
affairs of the Aberdeen, WASH, bank,
and Joint receivers have been appointed
by the superior court. In consequence
the appeal has been withdrawn, and the
receivers are now hard at work endeavor-
ing to straighten out the tangle. The
receivers are: ]. P. Carson, of Monte.
sano, and Eugene France, of Aberdeen.
Both are well-known business men, and
depositors can rest satisfied that their
interests will be protected in every way
possible.
Senator Campbell's bill, which is prac-
tically for the relief of the city of Ia
coma, WASH, in permitting an extension
of the water system, passed the senate,
and was Immediately transmitted to the
house and passed there. Two years ago
the city of Tacoma at special election
$500, 900 for the extension
Of its water system to Pattison springs.
These did not have the capacity sup
posed, and as the money was voted for
q special purpose it was impossible to
extend the system in any other direction
without another vote of the people. The
bill is for the purpose of again submit
ting the matter.
Senator Ide's bill for the relief of the
big charter ridden cities of Spokane,
Seattle and Tacoma provides for the
of section 10, article IL OF
The constitution of the state OF Wash
ngton, relating to county, city and
township organization so as to read a.
ollows: Corporations for municipal
purposes shall not be created by special
avs; but the legislature by general
avs shall provide for Incorporation, or
.anization and classification, in proper
ion to population of cities and towns,
which laws may be altered, amended or
epealed; and cities and towns hereto
ore or hereafter organized, and all
harters thereof framed or adopted by
of this constitution, shall be
ubject to and controlled by general
avs"