The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-07
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Items OF General Interest
From All Sections.

From All Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
All the Cities and Towns of tho Pacif'
States and Territories
Washington.
| The first number of the Cheney Free
Press has been issued.
A hat mandatory is to be started
up at Spokane, employing 16 men.
Harry F. Rudd, a paper hanger
dropped dead in Seattle last week from
heart disease.
The town of Ritzville is advertising
for bids for it's funding bonds, in the
sum of S., on May 10, 1895. s. ;.,s,,-
Young & Chandler shipped 500 hogs
from Dayton to Nebraska, and five car
loads of cattle to Tacoma last week.
The Sunset Telephone Company il
surveying the right Of way for new
line between Montesano and Tacoma.
A house belonging to Charles Boil,
burned near North Yakima. 1t was
worth about 81 400 and was insured
for $500.
T. g. Williams, of Kelso, has re.
ceived contract from the Northern
Pacific to supply that road with 5000
cedar fence posts.
Troop A, of North Yakima. is can.
wasting the project of purchasing appa.
ratus for gymnasium, to be located in
the armory in that city.
The Meeker hopyard, at Puyallup, on
the west side of Ackerson street, south
of the electric line, is being plowed
up and will be sowed to grain.
The number of Spokane ladies who
remove their hats when attending the
theater is estimated to be three times
as great as it was three years ago.
It is claimed that over 1000 head of
cattle have been bought by Montana
stockmen from Big Bend farmers, for
shipment from Davenport this spring.
The names of Bender and Barnes,
two stations on the line Of the North
ern Pacific, below Prosser, have been
changed respectively to Gibbon and
Chandler.
At meeting of the Spokane Bar AS
ISOLATION, the proposition for holding
two terms of the United States circuit
court of appeals each year at some place
outside of San Francisco was Endorsed.
The city council of Spokane has voted
not to allow the claim of Huber & Rib.
let, for $40, 400, for services as consult
ing engineers on the new water works
and lawsuit will in all probability
follow.
The receipts of the Aberdeen post
Office for the fiscal year ending March
80 were $4,000, an increase of 30 per
cent over last year. This will entitle
Postmaster Clark to an increase in SAL
airy to 81, 400.
Louis Kluckow, a young rancher
accused of assault with intent to kill
ION Alfred Conrad, was found guilty in
the superior court at Tacoma. The
penalty is from two to fourteen years in
the penitentiary.
Three sober citizens are reported to
have seen a reptile, in Silver lake, near
Medical lake, with head and face of
monkey, large eyes that shone like
balls of fire, and with row of fins on
it's back webbed together.
The city physician of New Whatcom
thinks that diphtheria was brought to
that city by dogs. There are several
dogs going back and forth every day
between Whatcom and Lummi, where
there has been diphtheria.
The United States civil service COM
mission has ordered that an examina-
ton be held by its local board in Walla
Walla Saturday, June 6, commencing
at O'Clock a. m for the grades of
clerk and carrier in the postofiee SER
vice.
Robert McRae, of Harrington, has
made record, of which he says: BE
jabers, l defy ony mon in Lincoln
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and, with three horses, aged 25, 20 and
II years, respectively, put in 70 acres
of wheat in ID days, sowing it by
hand.
Klickitat county presents prosper
GUS appearance. A vast acreage OF
grain has been sown this season, and
all bids fair to produce an abundant
yield. One observer estimates that the
wheat crop of Klickitat county will
this year be somewhere near 1 ZOO, 900
bushels.
William Green, an engineer on the
Great Northern, while passing little
way station near Wilson creek, uncon-
sciously put his hand out of the cab
window, when the hand came in vio-
lent contact with the mail catcher on
the depot platform, breaking several
bones. besides tearing the flesh badly.
The Spokane Chronicle says: "1mag-
inc a line of squirrels ranged side by
side as closely as they could be placed,
extending from the corner of Howard
and Riverside to the old Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern tracks a mile beyond
the mouth of Hangman creek-imagine
that kind of an invading army. and
you have a pretty good idea Of the
so, 600 squirrels for which Spokane
county commissioners have already
paid a bounty this spring. And yet
there are plenty left.
J Oregon.
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