The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Items OF General Interest
From All Sections.

From All Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
All the Cities and Towns of the Pacific
States and Territories
Washington.
A new schooner for the lumber trade
is being constructed at Acme, on the
Siuslaw river.
The farmers of the Kittitas valley
are increasing their wheat acreage
greatly over last year.
The Spokane Athletic Club expects to
have membership of 500 as soon az
the names before the directors are acted
upon.
La Conner is agitating for bicycle
tournament this spring. It is estimat.
ed that there are 200 wheels in Skagit
county.
Spokane's monthly meteorological
summary for March shows it was one
of the dryest Marches in the history OF
the city.
A number of Hollanders passed
through Ellensburg last week, bound
for WILDLY island, where a colony is
to be established.
During March there were shipped
from Mccoy rs hogs and 1862 sheep,
all the hogs and 924 of the sheep being
sent away by Kelly & Reese.
The city of Olympia has secured a
verdict against the Port Blakely Mill
Company for 1886, due as special as
sessment for street grading.
A roundup of horses was made re-
Gently at Montgomery Ridge, Asotin
county, and owners state that the loss
during the winter is practically moth
ing.
j. B Tabor, lessee of the Snake
River Fruitgrowers' farm at Wawai-
wal, says that the prospect for an enor-
nous fruit crop this year continues ex-
cellent.
The docket for the April term of
court at North Yakima is larger than
it has been for a year and half.
About fifty civil and dozen or more
criminal cases are booked.
Fred w. Butler has been awarded
the contract to deliver on board the
cars at Sultan 1000 cords of cotton
wood and 500 cords of spruce for the
pulp and paper mill at Lowell.
The LIE Roi Mining & Smelling Com
pany decided to declare dividend of
$25, ZOO at the meeting in Spokane
This will make 1926, 900 thus far paid
in dividends within the past few
months.
The subscriptions for the payment of
the claims against the late town of
Hillyard have all been paid, except for
the saloon license. Some subscribers
refused to pay because the courts de-
clared the incorporation illegal.
The commissioners of the Walla
Walla penitentiary have awarded the
contract for furnishing beef for the
next year to the Washington Dressed
Meat Company, whose bid was !:
Steers, 1913 and COWS, $1.65 per cwt.
Preparations are being made at the
Rochester quarry, near Elk City, in
Lincoln county, to begin operations at
an early date. A plant has been or
dered, and the quarry has orders
enough to work on during the next six
months.
The fishermen on Willapa harbor
have been busy taking out pound net
licenses. and the sum paid to the fish
commissioner will run up into the
thousands of dollars, which is supposed
to be used for the artificial propaga-
tion Of salmon.
The Port Angeles chamber of COM
MERGE is plaintiff in an action brought
in the superior court to enjoin Auditor
J. W. Troy and the county commits
sioners from issuing any more general
fund county warrants. This action is
taken on the grounds that the county
has already passed its legal limit of in.
debtedness.
The spring race meetings, which
will be held at LoCmiston on the 18th
of next month, promise to eclipse any.
thing of the kind ever held in the
county heretofore, says the Okanogan
Outlook. It is understood that the
citizens Of Orc are arranging to have a
series of races during the latter part of
April, and from there the meetings
will be adjourned to Conconully, where
first.class program will be prepared,
as a wind-up of the seasons races.
A writer in the American Agricul-
turist says: Whitman county farmers
burned nearly all their straw last fall
and as hay had been poor sale at hardly
the cost of production during the past
few years, very little over the farmers
needs has been put up, resulting now
in straw and hay shortage, compelling
the man in town for once to pay de-
cent price for such articles of feed. 1t
seems to me that farmers should take a
lesson and use more of their own poul-
try and butter product for themselves;
I am satisfied that the other half would
then not glut the market and bring
just as much as the whole of it.
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The receipts Of the county clerk OF
Lane for the year ending March 81, ex.
ceeded the expenditures by $213.92.
The cyclists of Baker City have eff.
fected permanent organization. to be
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