The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-06-20
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Happenings of Interest in the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, WashintOn
and Idaho.

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working hard for road from that city
to Fossil.
DR.. Bryant is after the coal in the
vicinity of Yaquina bay Or, with 6
diamond drill.
The State Bar Association will meet
in Spokane July II, and the session
will last three days.
An appeal has been taken to the su.
perior court from the appraisal of the
tide lands in Seattle.
Only about $4,000 remains delin.
quent on taxes in Lane county, Or,
$109,014 having been collected.
Burns, Or, has promised to raise
50, 500 as bonus for the extension of
the telephone line from Canyon City,
Or, to that place.
The new mill company at Spokane
has already contracted for 1000, 900
feet of logs that are now cut and wait
ing to be foated down.
An ordinance has been passed by the
Spokane city council awarding the is
sue of water-works warrants to Theis
& Barroll, of that city.
Port Towsend, Wash, voted 467 to
%, to legalize it's outstanding indebted
ness, and the towns credit is thought
to be greatly strengthened.
Mayor Belt, of Spokane, will sign
the ordinance for the issuance of war
rants for water works, but there has
been no capitulation in his church
fight.
The Centennial Mill Company, of
Spokane, has $50 carloads of wheat
in the Northern Pacific yards for which
it paid % cents a bushel. The COM
pany has been offered Al cents for the
same wheat.
Brigadier James M. Ashton has re-
signed from the command of the First
brigade of the National Guard of
Washington, his private business be-
ing too exacting to prevent his attend
ing to the duties of the Office.
J. ]. Boon has taken the trouble to
put quantity of Yaquina bay Oysters
on floats and is feeding them for the
summer trade. These oysters are taken
from their artificial beds and placed ON
the floats to keep them from spawning.
The administration building of the
agricultural college at Pullman, Wash,
is to be dedicated June 26. Governor
McGraw will preside, and James Ham
ilton Lewis, of Seattle, will deliver the
grafton. Excursions will be run from
neighboring towns.
Floyd L. Moore, student at the
Pullman agricultural college, has been
arrested, charged with adultery with
the wife of John Saddler, prominent
citizen. Mrs. Saddler, who is the
mother of three children, is with her
parents in Puyallup, Wash.
They are holding mass meetings in
Arlington, Or, to discuss ways and
means for holding the trade which
Dalles City promises to get away by
means of a new road which is project
ed. One measure thought favorably of
is bonus for telephone connection
with Fossil.
E. T. Wade, is hauling in his wool
from Alba, Or. Shearing has just been
completed and $4,000 pounds of wool
is the result of the clip. He drove his
sheep into the mountains during March
and they are in fine condition. In the
vicinity of Alba the shearing season is
just finished.
The water is so high at the Cascades,
Or, that little work can be done until
the river recedes to the normal stage.
One section of the second gate is placed
in position, and as soon as the water
goes down the other gates will be erect
ed, the remaining walls built and the
upper bulkhead taken out.
The Valley Transcript and its pub
Usher, A. V. R. Snyder, after six years
of newspaper life in Dallas, where the
publisher made living (which failed
to satisfy the cravings of human ma
ture,'' said goodbye to Dallas last
week and will move to McMinnville,
where Mr.. Snyder led happy and
prosperous newspaper life for fourteen
years.
The people of Juniper Flat, Or, and
the country between Wamic and Wa
pinitia, will be glad to know that the
contract for renewing the work on the
big irrigation ditch has been relet, and
work will begin at once. E. Owens,
of North Yakima, WASH, is to COM
plete the job in seventy-six days from
May 81 last.
Colfax, Wash, dealers received an
other supply of strychnine for squirrel
poison, but their orders were only
partly filled, and the supply is not a
large one. One druggist who ordered
500 ounces received only 200, with the
information that the factories were un-
able to supply the unprecedented de-
mand. The price of it has gone up to
90 cents and 81 per ounce, as against
rs and 80 cents earlier in the season.
The penitentiary' directors at Walla
Walla, Wash, have awarded the con-
tracts for supplies to the following
named bidders: 81. P. Isaacs, -four
and feed; ]. P. Kent, tallow; drugs
and medicines, James Galloway; hard
ware, w. g. Cullen; paints and oils,
Schwabacher Company; groceries, the
Gus A. Winckler Company; leather,
Patrick Masterson q Co., Portland;
dry goods, Kyzer 81 Foster and the
Sterling.