The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-16

fame is that there is within it's borders
couple that waltzed continuously for
two hours and ten minutes at a recent
country dance.
| A Heppner man is in Gillian county
for the purpose Of buying about 10, 600
head of yearling ewes, which he ex-
poets to take to Wyoming this summer.
He is paying 81. 10 head.
Placer mining is starting up in the
various camps surrounding Hunting.
ton, and the indications are favorable
for good mining season. The late
rains will be productive of much good
to the miner.
Shearers are removing the feeces
from the sheep Of q thousand hills,
and as soon as the roads are passable,
Grant county will send about 2 900, 900
pounds of wool out to clothe the world,
says the News.
County Treasurer ]. G. Gray, of
Lane, has sent to State Treasurer
Metschan $4,000, a portion Of the
state taxes due from Lane county for
the year 1895. Lane county is always
among the first counties that settle
with the state.
The Grande Ronde Lumber Com.
pany's mill at Perry started up on the
seasons run last week. The saw mill
will be run to its full capacity, and
will turn out between 80, 900 to 1OO,.
900 feet of lumber daily.
There was q rush to the sheriff
Office in The Dalles the first of last
week to pay taxes, to prevent them
from going delinquent. The receipts
were about $12,O The taxes of the
0. R. & N. Co., amounting to &c.
184.97, were received.
The time for taking county warrants
for taxes has been extended in Douglas
county to April 30. One per cent will
be added to all taxes not paid before
May /; per cent added for all taxes
not paid before June 1, and per cent
for all taxes not paid before July 1.
A meeting of the Marion County
Horticultural Society will be held at
Salem April %. The subject of mar.
keting fruits will be handled by gen.
tleman from the East, who has studied
the marketing problem, and fruit
growers are promised much benefit
from attending the meeting.
M. ]. Kinney will put up a new
cannery at New Astoria that will have
capacity of 1000 cases of salmon a
day, says the Astoria News. Arrange
ments have been made to begin con-
struotion work about the 10Th of next
month, or before that date, and have
the cannery ready to receive fish
June 1.
The case of j. L. Carter VS.. Miss
Nellie Stevens, involving the right of
a woman to hold the Office Of school
superintendent, has been appealed to
the supreme court, this time from Judge
Lowell's action in overruling the de-
murrer to the complaint for no cause
of action. The case will now come up
on its merits.
A 1O-year old daughter of Richard
Brookhouse, who lives on Ten.Mile,
ate bait of poisoned wheat that was
used for discriminating squirrels. Mr..
Brookhouse, as soon as he discovered
what had happened, started for The
Dalles with the child, and the hasty
ride, together with the poison, served
as an emetio, the stomach being thus
relieved of the greater part of the
poison.
Three Pendletonians are busy making
preparations to leave for the Columbia
river on a mining expedition. They
have gold-saving machine. and tests
already made demonstrate that the ma.
chine is practical and will save -four
gold from the sands along the river.
They will adapt the machine to the
placer mining necessary to operations
along the Columbia. Starting in below
the Umatilla landing, the party will
try different localities and operate
where the best results are attained.