The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-13
NORTHWESTERN EVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns of the
Thriving Sister States
Oregon.

Forest fires are said to be raging
throughout the Nehalem country.
Curry county's delinquent tax
amounts to about Sc, 900 this year.
Seventeen boxes of peach plums, the
first of the season, were shipped from
The Dalles last week.
OF the 361 students graduated from
the state normal school at Monmouth,
289 sre at present teachers.
The Empire cannery, on Coos bay,
will run through this fishing season.
Preparations are being made to start up
next month.
The board of equalization for Coos
county will meet in Empire August 81,
and will continue in session until Sep
TENDER 5, 1896.
The Oregon Central & Eastern Rail.
road Company will probably be bid
der for the government work to be done
on Yaquina bay.
Citizens of Coquille are making great
preparations for the soldiers and pio-
neers' reunion that will be held there
August IS, IA and Is.
The county court of Curry county
has directed the county treasurer to pay
state taxes out of the county funds here
after and to use no school funds for
that purpose.
John Durbin will celebrate his 102d
birthday at the home of his son, Isaac,
on Howell prairie, September 13, and
every immigrant of 1916 in the state is
invited to be present
The postal department has disap-
proved of the proposition to establish a
mail line from Klamath agency to Sill
yer lake, and to increase service on the
route from Silver lake to Prineville.
The grain crop in Lane county has
proven to be much better than was
anticipated few weeks ago. Some
fields of grain are very light, but the
yield in most cases will be very good,
and much better than was expected.
Smoke from fires in the Cascade
mountains has been blown by western
winds acorss the valleys and plains un-
til it is thick and blue in Grant county,
nearly obscuring the sun, and impair
ing the usefulness of the moon, says
the Canoyn City News.
/ Reports from Sherman county are to
the effect that wheat is suffering from
the continued hot weather, and farmers
do not expect the average yield Of the
county will be more than 1919 bushels
to the acre. A month ago they expect
ed the average yield would be twenty.
five buhsels.
Mrs. Mary Henkle, who died recently
in Independence, was born in Green
county, Kentucky, July 80, 1917. She
crossed the plains with her husband in
1866, to California, and they came to
Oregon in 1867, locating two and one
half miles south of Philomath. She
was the mother of fourteen children,
nine of whom survive; thirty nine
grand children, thirty-one of whom
survive, and thirteen great grandchil-
dren, twelve of whom survive.
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The newspaper men of Seattle have
formed press club.
Grasshoppers are eating the potato
plants in the vicinity of Sprague.
A schoolhouse is to be built in the
Pleasant valley district, in Whatcom
county.
Harvest has begun in Whitman
county, several headers having started
in within the week.
The warehouses at Garfield are all
being put in condition to receive this
seasons grain crop.
In the Steilacoom, Wash. insane asy-
lum there are at present 573 patients,
200 of whom are women.
A convention of the various church
societies of Lincoln county will be held
in Davenport, Thursday, August 20.
Tuesday, September 10, has been set
By the state land commission for hear.
ing testimony concerning conflicting
applications to purchase tide lands in
Chehalis county.
The committee of one hundred, whose
task it was to find out who stole the
ballot boxes in Tacoma has asked the
judges Of the superior court to at once
call session of the grand jury to in
vestigate the crime.
Treasurer Lewis, of Chehalis county,
has remittcd to the several towns tai
collections, as follows: Aberdeen
$510.97; Montesano, $10O.O5; Ho
quiam. s246. 81; Cosmopolis, $461. "a
Elma, $9.74; Ocosta, $1271; and te
the state treasurer, $14,131.I4.
More net stealing than ever was
known in the history of the river il
taking place this season, says the Cath
lamet Gazette. Some fishermen claim
there is gasoline boat which is max
ing business Of stealing web. The
men claim that the gasoline boat picks
up the web with hook that reaches tt
the bottom and sewers the lead and corl
line with one slash.
The statement of the treasurer o.
Skagit county for the year ending June
80, 1896, shows that receipts have
amounted to $14S, $50. rs, and disburse
ments to 500, 4S9. O6, leaving a cash
balance of $50, 551.69.
Charles Frank. an Indian from tn,
Lapwai reservation, was tried at Col
fax the other day for the stealing of {
horse, and was acquitted. The evi
dence was plain that he had taken thu
horse and ridden off, but it was proved
to be a custom for the Indians to rid,
one another's horses when they wished
Receiver Burleigh, of the Northern