The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-11-04
NORTHWEST BREVI7IES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns Of
the Thriving Sister States
-Washington.
The Lincoln county tax levy has been
6xed at 16 mills.
Thurston county will build q steel
bridge with 200-foot sran across the
Chehalis river, near Grand Mound.
The shingle mill in Kelso, Cowlits
county, 10 cutting Ito, 900 shingles in
II hours. This is at the rate Of over
$50, 900 in 10 hours.
By vote OF 10 to 4, the Tacoma CITY
council passed an ordinance making It
imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
Tea Inspector Palmer has rejected
400 cases of Japanese tea, recently
brought to Seattle on the Nippon W.
sen liner, Kinshui Maru. The inspso-
tor says the tea has apparently once
been used.
Fir blocks laid on Pacific avenue in
Tacoma two years ago have been taken
up during the paving of the street rail-
way company. They are in excellent
state Of preservation, and show no seri-
GUS wear.
A farmer Of Yakima will this fall
SOW lot of the ch-talked-Of Ber-
muda grass, which is said to thrive on
dry hilly ground without irrigation. II
the test proves successful the grass will
be largely sown for sheep fodder.
Reports are current in Seattle that
there are agents of the Japanese and
British governments on Puget Sound
seeking information regarding coast
defense preparations which the United
States government is now making at
Marrowstone point and other Sound
points.
The action of Great Britain in dis
eliminating against convict-made sacks
will, it lie said, mean that the farmers
of Washington will have to pay 10
cents for sacks. They have been pay
ing 81 cents sack this year for the
penitentiary-made sack and last year
the price was S-5 cents.
Tests made at the Washington state
agricultural college Of beets grown on
irrigated lands in Yakima county un-
der the system of experiments inaugur-
ated by the Northern Pacific, show a
range of from IA to 20H per cent of
sugar, with an average above Is per
cent. These results are said to be very
satisfactory.
During the past week grain has been
pouring in from the fields to the ware
houses and mills in Dayton, and they
are now nearly filed to OVERLOOKING.
Very little grain is being sold or ship
ped, the farmers desiring to hold for
! higher price. Most of them want to
hold for rs cents, but If that price 10
reached again and the market has .
tendency to 60 still higher, they would
no doubt still continue to hold.
The bonus for the establishment of
steel plant at Port Angeles has been
finally raised. Various meetings have
been he'd during the past two weeks to
discuss plans for raising the remaining
s23, 900 of the necessary $75, 900, $751;
600 having been previously subscribed.
At final meeting held last week, adj
ditional subscriptions amounting to
$25, 900 we're announced, leaving a sur
plus to 81, O5O. This renders the erec-
ton of the plant practical assurance.
Oregon.
A fishing crew caught between 500
and 1000 herring in one night last
week, in Yaquina bay.
A farmer of Malheur county, this
year sold $4,000 pounds of wool and 81
head of choice beef cattle.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
bullion was the output of the Bonanza
mine in Baker county last month.
The Ashland iron works are working
on 81, 500 order for pulleys, shafting,
etc., from the Sissons Lumber & Mer-
camille Company.
Contractor jacobson. WHO is work
ing on the jetties on Coos bay and on
the Siuslaw, has about 40 men en-
ployed. He says his contracts will be
finished in two or three months.
There are no empty houses in Vale,
Malheur county. Several farmers have
been compelled to give up the idea OF
living in town in order to send their
children to school, because Of the lack
of houses.
The run of chinooks in Coos bay was
light last week, and silversides were
scarce also. There has been great i'm
provement, however, in the last few
DAYS, and boats on the lower bay are
making good catches.
One day last week Hume's fishing
rev at the mouth of Rogue river made
regular old-time catch of salmon,
rakinp in 8, $50 at one haul Of thAseine.
There lie large run OF salmon coming
| into Skies river, in Curry county.
A fish eight or nine inches long and
somewhat resembling the Sound mack
erel is being caught along the water
front in Astoria. No one seems 70
know inst Of what specie it is. but such
! fish was seen in these waters about
Eve years ago.
Movement Of the hop crop has nos
yet started, except on sales contracted
before harvest, and neither buyers nor
growers are able to say when It Will.
q few sales are reported from POLK
county ct Is cents, and il il stated On
good authority that 161 cents nas
been offered in Salem fer choice hops
The price, generally offered, however,
il from 10 to l8K cents. This, grow
err are unwilling to take, and in some
instances. agents having failed to buy