The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-12-30
Washington Notes.


Burlingame bridge have been washed
out. Dungeness has been flooded.
Superintendent George Simpson, of
the logging camp at Matlock, Mason
county, says his road will have hauled
this year, ending January, l6O, 900, 900
feet of logs.
Over half mile of the st. Paul &
Tacoma Lumber Company's logging
railroad south of Orting was under
mined during the late flood, which
compelled temporary closing Of the
camp near Wilkeson.
The Ministers Union, in Walla
Walla, last Sunday, listened to re-
port made by Mrs. Hoxter, of Portland,
of work done in Portland for fallen
women. The union in Walla Walla is
interesting itself in the subject.
The recent storm has caused consider
able damage to ranches in the low
lands, and especially in the Lower
Humptulips country, In Chehalis coun-
ty, where all logging camps were COM
PEELED to stop work.
Thirteen heads of families have been
brought before the superior court, in
WhatcOm county, to show cause why
they do not send their children, be-
tween and Is years of age, to school
three months of the year.
Squaw island, in Cowlitz river, is
rapidly disappearing. The floods have
washed the bank away until the old
Nelson house will soon be floating
down the Cowlitz. The east end of
the building is now without support,
and it is expected to fall into the river
at any time.
!. Coyotes lately have been annoying
the sheep of William Cook, of Smoothe
Iron prairie, so that he decided to put
out poison. Small bits of bait were
distributed about the feeding ground
of the fiocks, and, from all accounts, it
had decided effect. The next morn
ing Mr.. Cook counted 10 dead coyotes
and three of his best dogs, that were
victims of the poison.
Solomon Marie, who has small but
well-tilled farm in the Chapman cove.
in Mason county, raised this year upon
a piece of ground a little less than one
acre in area $50 bushels Of potatoes,
six tons of carrots, two tons of ruta-
bages, two tons of white turnips, seven
sacks of squashes, two bushels of on
ions. two bushels of beets, besides a
small bed of parsley. Two of the car
rots weighed 18 pounds.
OF the 2O7 single mills in the state
of Washington, no fewer than 185 are
shut down, and will make no output
until after February l. The daily
product of the 2O7 mills when in opera
ton is ~, $50, 900 shingles. The mills
now in operation have only an output
of $50, 900. By reduction OF the
output it Is expected to raise the price
of A shingles from 80 cents to $1.25.
At a meeting held last week the land
commissioners appraised the land APP
piled for by the city OF Seattle at 500
per acre, and Improvements thereon,
consisting of city pesthouse, at So
600. The appraisement of the local
board was increased 100 pert cen on tide
lands. owing to difference in values
in Seattle and other cities. The board
has extended the time for filing appll-
cations to lease harbor areas from jan
nary l. 1898, to February 30, 1898.
Rental must be paid on the date OF the
approval of the application to lease,
and annually thereafter on February
1, beginning in 1899.
The construction forces OF the Seattle
& Northern railway have advanced 70
near Hamilton, and trains will soon
again be running through to that
point. The line was badly wrecked
during the late flood, particularly be-
tween Woolley and Hamilton, and
rumor once gained circulation that the
road beyond Wooley would be aoan-
doned. The construction force mas
been at work ever since the waters sub
sided. with the result that the entire
system will soon be in as good condi-
ton as ever.
Lord Lister has sent to the univer-
sity of Washington series OF type
specimens covering sc genera OF myce-
tozoa. the slime molds, and also copy
Of his treatise on this subject Lord
Lister stated that no work has been
done on the Pacific coast forms OF these
plants. Il is therefore an inviting neid
for original investigation. John
Jackol, B. S., class OF '96, who ls nov
pursuing post graduate work, has taken
No this original work with an energy
that promiaes.a series Of important DIS
coveries.