The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-14
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.

IIOSISSS anu Lungs III TIT
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEW!
From All the Cities and Towns of tn,
Pacific States and Territories
Washington.
The energy of tramps in Spokane il
now directed by the authorities to tn,
rock pile.
The Clallam County immigration
Society has published a neat descrip
tive pamphlet.
The revenue cutter Bear is taking
400 tons of Blue Canyon coal from
Lake Whatcom.
The Ellensburg creameIies are all
tgetting plenty of milk now, and theil
product is steadily increasing.
Newton Martin has been sent to the
Medical Lake asylum from Spokane.
He thought his mission was to kill of
all Office. holders.
An electric light plant is being in.
stalled in the Skamokawa sawmill.
The dynamo will have a capacity OF
thirty arc lights of 1900 candle.power
A cougar recently went into Robert
Wallace's barn, near Messy Rock, in
Lewis county, and carried off a pig.
Wallace and two neighbors went after
the beast with dogs, and freed and
killed it.
A. j. Thompson had six rollers at
work on his fields, near Medical lake,
nearly all of last week. Mr.. Thomp-
son has nearly 600 acres of wheat in,
and expects to thresh from 10000 to
1900 bushels next fall.
It is estimatd that the cost of juries
and baliffs for the term of court in
Walla Walla just closed will amount
to more than $4,000. Most of this
was due to the trial of the cases against
Reinhold Harras and Eichler.
The saloon men Of Ellensburg want
their licenses reduced to $500 and an
ordinance passed requiring all saloons
to close at 10 o'clock midnight, of each
weekday and to remain closed till A.
NJ, and to remain closed all day Sun
day.
Only $500 of the 81, ZOO required is
yet to be raised for the Gilmore cream
cry at New .Wbatcom. Bellingham
bay people will hold IS, 900 of the capt.
tai stock, the other 81, 600 to be taken
by the people Of Whatcom county out
side the cities.
The Spokane land Office officials
have rendered a decision in favor of
the settlers in the contest of Marion
F. Muncey against the Northern Pa
clfic Railroad Company. Settlement
prior to the selection as indemnity
land was the basis of the decision.
!. The trustees of the normal school at
Ellensburg have elected teachers and
established salaries for the ensuing year
as follows Professor Getz, So, 100;
Professor Morgan, $780,; Professor
Mahan, $1,000; Miss Marquis, $1,000;
Miss Cartwright, 5000; Miss Ayres,
$500; Miss Turner, $500; Miss Stew
ard, $500.
1t is an odd coincidence that Oregon
and Washington should each have a
vacancy in the Office of pilot commits
sioner to be filled at the same time.
The Washington vacancy was COCA
stoned by the resignation of Captain
John Barenson, who is succeeded on
the Puget Sound board by Captain F.
Al. Bartlett.
The Schlotfeldt packing establish
ment. in Ellensburg, has been rebuilt.
and is now in running order, turning
out hams, bacon, etc. Mr.. Schlotfeldt
proposes to take no further chance on
the plant, which was twice destroyed
by fire, and has a Waterman on the
place all the time. In addition to this
he is importing two dogs to assist in
the work.
The specifications Of the gasoline
launch that is to carry summer travel
between Astoria and Ilwaco, connect
ing with Columbia river boats, have
been enlarged. The boat is to have
two engines of 20-horsepower each, in
stead of Is, and her forward part will
be built for trucking baggage, giving,
! it is thought, first.class service. Cap
| tain q. B. Scott will superintend the
construction.
] The Anderson Woodenware Com.
pany, of Tacoma. has received an or
der from a Kansas City packing house
for 200 carloads of ware, to be manu-
featured from woods native to Wash
ington. Several days ago the COM
pany received orders from Kansas
City, Omaha and other central Eastern
state packing houses for woodenware,
aggregating 200 carloads. The last
order swells the list to 400 carloads.
George Craig and Fred Harris. con.
victed of counterfeiting, were SEN
fenced at Spokane by Judge Hanford
to ten years each, in the United States
penitentiary on McNeill's island, Pu-
get Sound. They were engaged in the
manufacture of half dollars, in small
building near the Spokane depot,
where they had good outfit and made
an excellent imitation. Several accom-
plices in Opposing of the ware were
spotted by the police, but as soon as
the principals were arrested they fed.
Craig and Harris were taken to the
island last week.
| Oregon.
A pair of new rollers were put in at
the Pendleton Touring mills last week.