The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-28
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.

Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
From All the Cities and Towns OF the
Pacific States and Territories
I -washington.
Steps have been taken for the forma.
ton OF mining stock exchange in
Spokane.
An ordinance prohibiting gambling
was defeated by the Olympia council
last week.
The Blankenship mill at New What.
DOM has been ordered sold to satisfy
claims amounting to $4,000.
A six-pound howitzer has been sent
over from Olympia by Governor Nc.
Graw to the militia at Iwaco.
Cashier Taylor, of the Puget Sound
National bank, of Everett, has prac.
tically arranged with Controller Eckels
to take the bank out of the hands of
Receiver Church in the course of few
months.
A recent decision of the superior
court in Clallam county was to the
effect that school directors could employ
! teachers beyond the term of Office of
the directors with whom the contract
was made.
The Walla Walla fremen are making
great preparations to attend the annual
meeting and tournament of the Eastern
Oregon and Washington Firemen's As.
ISOLATION, which will be held in PEN
dleton June 2, and 4.
Hal Dickson, of Pomeroy, Wash is
packing large number of eggs accord
ing to directions given him by Rev.
Sproat, who says they will keep two
years if desired, and then no one can de-
tect them from fresh egg.
The May term of the United States
district court convened in Walla Walla
last week, Judge Bellinger. of Port
land, presiding in place of Judge Han
ford. There were four criminal cases
on the docket and several civil suits.
j. G. Wallace, of Che]an Falls, will
experiment with sorghum this season.
He will plant seven or eight acres,
and several of his neighbors will plant
from one to four acres each. A full
manufacturing plant has been ordered.
The Whitman county commissioners
recently offered $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties guilty
of administering poison to horses in the
CrestOn neighborhood, which seems to
have had the effect of stopping the
deadly work.
About 800 trout were sold on the
streets of Ellensburg last week by two
Indians, for 40 cents for the lot. They
averaged about three and half inches
in length and the vendors claimed to
have caught them with hook and line,
but an investigation would probably re-
veal some carefully concealed traps in
the waters about town, says the Capital.
Dayton is proud of her water works.
For ordinary use the supply we'll at the
springs three miles above the city fur
nishes all the water needed by city
twice the size. In case of fire, the
reservoir holding 100000 gallons is
made use of. The water has a fall. of
more than 100 feet, and the force is SO
great that three men are necessary to
hold the nozzle of the fire hose.
Senator Squire telegraphed to N. 81.
Bloomfield, of Portland, that the appro.
priations for all river and harbor i'm
provements in the state of Washington,
as reported from the committee on COM
MERGE, had passed the senate. includ-
ing the full amount. $4,000 for the
Columbia river at Vancouver. A
small amendment was adopted extend
ing the survey of the north fork OF the
Lewis river to the head of navigation,
or Etna.
Treasurer Mish, of Snohomish coun-
ty, says that he will soon be able to
turn over to the county all but about
S., 900 of the money which was tied up
in the failure of the Puget Sound Ma
tional bank. This will have a good
effect on the county g credit. The COM
missioners had entered an order remov-
ing the treasurer from Office on May l,
but this showing is SO good that they
have concluded that it is to the coun-
tvs interest that Mr.. Mish remain.
E. w. Purdy, treasurer of What
com. has begun suit against the per-
sons on the guarantee bond for the coun-
ty money deposited in the Bellingham
Bay National bank. The amount
locked up in the bank is 1888. IL.
The parties who stood good for this
amount and bonded themselves for its
repayment to the amount Of $685.
are ]. ]. Donovan and wife, j. j.
Eden and wife, M. McMicken and
wife, J. w. Morgan and wife and G.
p. Wheeler. Each of these is held for
S., 900.
United States Sealskin Inspector
Fowler has been busy at Port Town
send, inspecting the catches OF six In
dian sealing schooners that have just
returned from the cape. The catches
are not large. but the weather has been
so rough that it has been impossible
for the sealers to get more than 25
miles off shore at any time, and the
best hunting grounds have therefore
not been visited by them. The skins
are all prime ones, and the sealers ar
satisfied with their work, considerin
the unfavorable weather.
Oregon.