The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-30
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
From All the Cities and Towns Of the
Pacific States and Territories
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Seattle's health officer reports tn,
public schools of the town in a bat
sanitary condition.
j. 81. Koran, of Wenatchee, has or
dered creamery plant, which will b.
in operation this spring.
Two guns and three revolyers were
stolen by burglars from the hardware
store of Frank Mckay in Port Town
send.
Spokane jobbers are talking of rails
ing $4,000 to carry up a railway
tariff fight to the interstate commerce
commission.
The regular annual meeting of the
Washington State Press Association
will be held in North Yakima this year
on July 9 and 10.
Two Paulist fathers from San Fran.
cisco have been holding mission serv.
ices at the Church of the Assumption
at New Whatcom.
Hoquiam postoffice receipts for the
fiscal year ending March 80. 1895, were
So, 1866 This is sufficient to in.
crease the salary to $1,000.
Rachael Duncan, a 6-year.old child,
drowned in the tide flats in Seattle,
while playing at hide and seek with a
number of companions. Her body was
recovered.
The correct thing in Colfax church
circles is to present the pastor with a
new bicycle. This is certainly a step
in advance of the old.f fashioned dona.
ton party.
A Palouse correspondent of the
Spokesman-Review estimates that 80
per cent. of the wheat in that vicinity
was destroyed by the cold weather dur
ing March.
The county commissioners of Skagit
county have decided to appropriate
S., 900 for the Blanchard road, connect
ing the Bellingham bay cities with the
Samish country.
William Hume, the veteran cannery-
man and hunter, of Eagle Cliff, in
Wahkiakum county, killed 400. pound
black bear last week, in the woods
back of the cannery.
Some uneasiness is felt concerning
Mr.. Cradlebaugh and the party who
went with him on a prospecting tour
into the Cascades north of Mount
Adams a month ago.
George I Cook, a man apparently
So or 70 years of age, was found dead
in tent in the woods near Tacoma.
Heart disease is believed to have been
the cause of his death.
At 10 o'clock at night a prisoner
named Webb, who was night engineer
in the electric light plant at the peni-
Tertiary at Wslla Walla, scaled the
wall and made his escape.
The 18th annual association of Con-
gregstional churches and ministers of
Eastern Washington and Northern
Idaho has ended at Walla Walla. The
next meeting will be held at Medical
Lake.
The Waitsburg fire department has
ordered racing cart for the tourna-
ment of the Eastern Oregon and
Washington Firemen's Association, to
be held in Pendleton It is ball. bear
ing and cushion tired.
Engineer E. G.. Tanning, of the
Walla Walla paid fire department,
has perfected q most useful invention
for system of fire alarm, and has
made proposition to the city council
for the adoption of the system. 1t has
peculiar merit of it's own, and is high
ly spoken of.
1t is estimated that there are be-
tween $4,000 and 100, 10000 bushels of
wheat in the warehouses at Waitsburg
yet unsold, the owners of which feel
themselves able to hold for better
prices. The price now is AZ cents,
which is about 10 cents higher than it
was year ago.
The financial exhibit of the auditor
of Pierce county shows that the county
has bonded Indebtedness of $69S, 900;
general fund warrant Indebtedness of
1896, 1928. 10; road district and other
Indebtedness. $223 46; total, $780,
046. Sc. There is now cash in the
general fund subject to check, ST.,
215.88.
Robert Scott has made a close ex-
animation of fruit trees with view
to ascertaining if the buds have been
injured by the late freeze, says the
Yakima Times. He says that they are
practically uninjured. Here and there
few apricot blossoms are killed, but
the trees will have all the fruit they
should bear, and be better for the thin
ming out.
The certificate of the treasurer of
Walla Walla county shows total ON
hand of $3,878.65. Under the opera
lions of the barefoot schoolboy" law,
So, 100 of the money collected for
school purposes must be first turned in
to the state treasury and reapportioned.
1t is not available until the next state
apportionment, while in the meantime
many districts in the county are pay
ing interest on their warrants at the
rate of per cent and teachers are
compelled in many instances to dis
count their salary warrants. There
are 4.298 children of school age in the
county.
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