The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-19
BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.

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ITEMS OF GENERAL INTERES1
News From Our Sister States Epitom
ized-The Leading Topics Dis
cussed-Washin gton.
Waitsburg's city election will be tn
first Monday in April.
Joseph Wiley, who settled in tn,
Ahtanum valley in 1858, Is dead.
The baseball fever has alread,
reached Waitsburg, and preparation
are being made for the sport this sum
mer.
The name of the Sprague Nationa
bank, which is soon to be moved tt
Spokane, will be changed to the Fidel
ity National.
1t is supposed that Fisherman Lar
sen drowned at Kamilchie last week
His hat was found ON the wharf where
his boat was tied.
The receiver of the Citizens Nation
al bank, of Spokane, has announced
that depositors will soon be paid a II
per cent dividend.
The fishermen of Pacific county are
making preparations for the coming
fishing season. The scent of the boil.
ing tar is in the air, and freshly tarred
webs are on the racks drying.
The New Whatcom grocers who
were recently arrested for violating the
revenue law in selling leaf tobacco
grown in the neighborhood, have effect.
ed q settlement of their cases with the
federal authorities.
The Washington Immigrant, a child
of the state immigration convention,
has appeared. Its avowed purpose is
ito help the state carry out the plans
of the immigration movement, and
| otherwise work for the interests of the
people.
G. II. Ross, horticultural commits
sioner for the second district, is arrang.
ing for the appointment Of spraying
committees in various counties, to act
in conjunction with local societies.
The duties of the committees are to
notify persons to spray their trees when
necessary, and to report negligence in
the matter.
The Seattle Times is authority for
the statement that one-half of the hop
acreage Of Yakima will be plowed up
this spring. A Puyallup paper con-
tains list of several yards, amounting
to fifty or sixty acres, near that place
that will also be plowed up. Many
Boisfort farmers have had enough and
are going to quit.
Spokane's offered bounty for squirrel
tails is not exactly munificent. Dur
ing the month of March, bounty of
cent will be given, and in April and
May, y cent. This bounty is for tails
only, the former system of paying upon
the presentation of scalps having proven
an incentive to fraud rather than en-
couragement to exterminate the destruc-
tive varmints.
A son of the late General ]. M.
Buckley, once manager on the coast for
the Northern Pacific road, is on his
way to Chile, to assume his duties as
auditor of the Chilean railways. He
is from Spokane. The salary attached
to the Office is said to be $50, ZOO a
year, Chilean silver money. The road
is about 5000 miles long, and extends
from Iquique to Valparaiso, and the
larger coast towns.
Some lawyers of Spokane have de-
vised a scheme by which they say that
land in the Colville reservation can be
settled without waiting for it's purchase
from the Indians. Here is the plan:
Under the law, any citizen can locate
as many places or lode claims Of not to
exceed twenty acres as he may choose.
Any company of eight citizens may
make as many locations of 100 acres
each as it may see fit to take. The
land will cost $3.50 per acre. how
ever.
Flowing and seeding are now under
full Roadway in many places through
Lincoln county, and have been for
nearly a week. 1t is believed that a
great deal larger acreage will be sown
to crop this year throughout the Big
Bend than was sown last. The i'm
provement in wheat prices has given
the farmers fresh courage, and the
fields of summer-fallowed lands that
last year lay idle will be turned to &C.
count this season.
The assessors of Eastern Washington,
who were in session in Walla Walla
last week, have adjourned. The
question of estimating the value OF
merchandise in stores was considered.
1t was decided that the mere statement
of the proprietor should not be taken
as the basis for the assessment. but
that the invoice should be used, quail.
fed by the careful Judgment of the as.
SCISSOR. AS to bank stock, it was
thoughtsbest to follow strictly the Law
of the state, which requires its assess
ment at full value, less certified in
debtedness against the same.
Oregon.
Malheur has school district named
Fighting Seven"
Sheepmen Of Grant county are tax
ing their sheep to the hills.
Douglas county taxes for 1895 for al
purposes amount to 500, 935. 40.
The late rains have brought another
batch of salmon in the Calapooia, an(