The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-04-11
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
ington, Oregon and Idaho-Items Of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
The work of beautifying the custom
house grounds in Port Townsend has
begun.
Stevens county, Wash, has completed
the sale of $45, 1000 current expense
bonds at par.
The Columbia mine of Baker county,
Or, has the machinery on the way from
the East for ten-stamp mill.
1t is estimated that the total output
of potatoes from Grand Ronde, Or, this
season will reach 200 carloads.
Spokane is threatened with a meat
famine. Chicago buyers have bought
all the fat cattle and sheep, and shipped
them out of the country.
Mrs. Mary Phinney, OF Seattle, is
suing the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany to recover 500, 444 insurance on
the life of her deceased husband.
Cattle buyers from the East have pur-
chased 1000 head of cattle in the John
Day country. They will be driven to
Huntington for shipment East about
May L.
A colony of Hollanders has bought
$40 acres OF land IN SnohOmish county,
Wash. The colOnists are planning to
go into the butter-making business on
large scale.
The Whatcom county commissioners
have let the contract for the improve
ment of the Lake Samish and Farha-
ven water front road, distance of one
and one-quarter miles, for $500.
Two national banks OF Yakima,
WASH, show an increase in deposits be-
tween January and March of about $l4,-
1888, and hold a total deposit of $780,
088.8 5 or about $62.5 per capita.
Whatcom county, Wash, is now as
sured of wagon road outlet to the
south, and the completion of the new
road to Blanchard will connect the bay
cities with one of the finest farming Sec
tons of the state.
Tacoma merchants have a grievance
upon the action of some OF the steamers
plying between Tacoma and Seattle.
They say that these steamers work en-
tirely to the interest of Seattle ana to
the detriment of Tacoma.
Seattle street car companies contend
that they cannot afford to light the
streets along which their tracks run, al
though their franchises call for it, and
;hev ask to have their franchises amend
i l. ho, of that
John E. Hough, the fruitdealer and
aurseryman, states that there will be on
/ conservative estimate 25O, OOO fruit
rees set out in Grande Ronde valley,
Dr., this season. And all trees that are
being planted are of first-class stock.
The hop acreage in Lewis county,
WASH, this season will approximate
about 1000 acres, of which 300 acres ls
tributary to Chehalis. About fifty acres
of new yards come into bearing this sea-
son, while about fifteen acres are being
put out in new yards.
Everett, Wash, expects soon to see
work begin on a new whaleback. Estl-
mates on the earnings of the whaleback
City of Everett show net profit OF
S., 900 month. This would provide
for 20 per cent yearly dividends and pay
for the boat in five years.
Corvallis, Or, people will be disap-
pointed when the census returns are all
in. Assessor Alexander has practically
completed the enumeration of the city,
with the exception of Jobs addition,
and gives it as his opinion that the total
population will not reach 1000.
The city council of Fairhaven, Wash,
has concluded to connect with the Sa-
mish road at an expense of 81 800. The
work will be let in sections. The Fair
haven Land Company will improve the
road over it's holdings, and the improve
ment at the Skagit end is now assured.
Hon. George Turner, of Spokane,
anticipation attorney, has been en-
ployed by the farmers of Walla Walia
and Columbia counties to conduct their
cases against the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company and +. Mcneil as
receiver, before the interstate commerce
commission, which will take testimony
in the cases, commencing April IL.
J. Fritsch and Coran Watts have pur-
chased site at Ellensburg, Wash, and
are erecting a cheese factory, using one
vat and twelve thirty-inch presses as
starter. They will handle 10000 pounds
of milk, and produce 1000 pounds of
cheese daily. The building will be 2Ox
48 feet in dimensions and two stories
high. The creamery business has multi
piled go rapidly in the Kittilas valley
that the number of cows is insufficient
to supply the various plants.
Two adventurous residents OF Puyal-
lup, WASH, are preparing to go to the
gold fields of the Yukon district in
Alaska. They will not make the trip in
the ordinary manner, but propose to get
out of the beaten track. Instead OF
travelling over the Chilkoot pass to
Lakes Bennett and Lindeman and there
building boat to trasport them down
the streams leading to the Yukon, they
propose taking their boat with them
and transporting it on runners over the
pass.
That the United States is importing
fax seed in large quantities from Ar
pentina is a good indication, says the
West Coast Trade, that there is home
market for a considerably increased pro-
duction, and that the farmers in the
eastern portion of Washington who are
sowing nearly all the seed obtainable
are making no mistake. Argentina inn
ports, after paying duty, are worth $1.28
Der bushel in New York. and dealers
who are furnishing seed to Washington
growers are guaranteeing 80 cents to 81
q bushel, which is said to insure con-
siderably increased profit over wheat
growing. 1t is believed that the manu-
facture of flax-seed oils will soon be-
come an industry of considerable inn
portance in the state, while in Western
Washington, where the flax fiber is
equal if not superior to that produced
anywhere in the world, another profit
able branch of manufacture will b.
opened up, should fax culture assume