The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-21
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Items OF General Interest
From All Sections.

Items OF General Interest
From All Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
All the Cities and Towns OF the Pacifi,
States and Territories-
Washington.
Over 100 acres will be devoted t(
water-melOns in the Wenatchee valley
this season.
Howard Wolf, of Yakima, has be-
gun four years term at the peniten.
tiary for robbery.
The Christian church at PuyalluI
expects to worship in new meeting
house before many months.
The fishing year promises to be q
lively one at Bellingham bay. Several
new traps have been located.
| A burglar entered the residence of F.
Page, in Woodland, Clark county, last
week, and secured $2S. so in money.
Pierce county commissioners have
decided that the county must dispense
with the services of deputy surveyor.
A good deal of work is being done at
the Ilwaco cranberry farm in preparing
to properly food and cultivate the
| plants.
When Brigadier. General Boutelle
was in nwaco last week, he gave the
Journal to understand the militia
would remain for some time yet.
Seattle's council is at work drafting
new liquor license ordinance to su-
persede the present voluminous code.
No radical changes are proposed.
A Brotherhood of the Aged has been
organized at Tekoa, in Whitman coun-
ty, by gentlemen over SO years of age.
They will hold meetings twice month.
The Ainslie sawmill. at Winlock has
been sold to syndicate from Essex,
Ont, for $4,000. Preparations are
being made to put the mill in shape
and to start up as soon as possible.
Mrs. c. S. Wilson, of Spokane, has
been chosen by the Sorosis Club, of
Spokane, to represent it at the fedora
ton of women's clubs, which will meet
in Louisville, KY, May 26, 81 and %.
Deep-sea sailors are few on Puget
sound just now. Vessels going foreign
have unusual difficulty in securing full
crews, and the boarding house men are
kept more than busy supplying the de-
mand for able seamen.
The little town of Chinook, opposite
Flavel, is having quite boom. A
large hall building and church are
among the new edifices A temperance
agitation has resulted in the denial of
saloon licenses to all applicants.
The Fidalgo Island Canning Com
pany, Anacortes Packing Company
and P. l. Cook each has a new cannery
plant at Anacortes we'll under way.
The two former have main buildings
8Ox325 feet, and several smaller build
ings.
The Rosalia creamery is doing
good business. 1t receives about 1000
pounds of milk per day. The farmers
are getting lot of good milch COWS,
and are putting up barns and sheds, as
they can sell milk as we'll in winter as
in summer.
Walla Walla is likely to take ad-
vantage of an act of the last legisla-
ture, enabling cities to establish and
maintain by taxation public libraries
A donation of 1000 in cash or books
is required. and the tax must not ex-
coed half a mill.
The 6-year.old son of Mr.. Larson, a
farmer living near Ferndale, in What
com county, mysteriously disappeared
last week, and nothing has since been
learned of his whereabouts. There is
suspicion that he has been stolen by
some Lummi Indians.
Auditor Lyons has received for rec
ord a patent from the United States
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, covering about $4,000 acres OF
land in Cowlitz county. The patent
was dated March 81, 1896. just in time
to make said lands taxable for this
year.
A church building has just been
dedicated in the Mckee valley. with a
seating capacity of 900 and costing
$1,7OO This leads the Yakima Times
to recall the fact that, according to the
Indian legend. an evil spirit ruled in
the Mckee valley and the night never
caught red man encamped there. A
daylight journey was always planned
across the haunted valley.
George Wilson, surveyor, was ar
rested in North Yakima recently,
charged with grand larceny. He had
obtained entrance into the residence OF
Fred r. Reed, and carried of q case OF
table knives, valued at $40, $58
camera, a pair of field glasses, half
dozen spoons, pie knife and other ar
ticles. Wilson confessed to having
taken the plumber, some OF which was
pawned, and the balance sold.
A settlement of the strike Of 9he
electrical workers in Spokane was
effected last week, and all the men at
once went back to work. The men
from the office who had been sent ont
to trim lamps were recalled. and the
regular trimmers took their places and
completed the work. The settlement
is said to be satisfactory all around,
as the men have all they asked for, al
though in slightly different way than
the request was made. The demand
was pay and a half for overtime for