The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
NORTHWESTB REVITIES
Evidence Of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
the Thriving Sister States
-WashfuRton.

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-Washington.
Three inches OF snow fell on the
Wenatchee summit one night last week.
The shingle mill at Ooosta has been
started, giving employment to over 30
men.
There are not enough loggers and mill
hands in the Gray's harbor country to
supply the demand.
A. G. Little, state fish commissioner,
hopes to have the fish hatchery on the
Chehalis river ready for the fall run Of
steelheads.
Improvements now being made at tho
warehouse in Wilbur will raise the
total storage capacity for grain at that
place to $50, 900 bushels.
President Turner, Of the LIE Roi
Mining Company, says that a balance
struck on the books of the company up
to date shows that 81 ass, 900 had been
taken in and paid out by the company
since its organization.
A movement is on foot in Colville
for the purpose of raising funds with
which to build new courthouse. Lib
eral donations of material are offered,
and about all the money that will be
required will be that necessary to pay
for the labor.
The ceremonies attending the dedica-
ting and unwilling of the Whitman
monument in Walla Walla will occur
November 80, as that will be the 5Oth
anniversary of Whitman's death. The
total cost of the monument, including
the Enclosures, will be So, 100.
State Dairy Commissioner Mcdonald
warns owners of COWS to look out for
tuberculosis and lumpy jaw. Several
cases of lumpy jaw have recently been
reported from Pierce and King counties,
and COW suffering from tuberculosis
was killed near Fern hill, not far from
Tacoma, recently, by the commissioner.
The Indians on the Yakima reserva-
ton complain that some of the squaw
men who used to be employed in doing
the threshing on the reservation have
revenged themselves, because of the
employment of steam thresher. by
putting barb wire into the bundles of
grain, thereby wrecking the cylinder of
the thresher.
Professor T. S. Lippy, one of the first
to return from the Klondike, and who
brought back with him more than a
coal-oil can full of gold, made the First
Methodist church of Seattle a present
of 81 900 recently, to get the church
out of debt. He also gave $500 to the
Y. M. C. A. of Seattle. Before leav-
ing Alaska he gave $500 to the Method
list missions up there.
A detachment of Uncle Sans regular
army, from the Vancouver barracks,
consisting of two lieutenants, corporal
and four privates, with q complete
camping equipment, has been to camp
in Clallam county surveying and max
ing maps Of the roads in that vicinity.
While there are six horses and mules
in the outfit, two Of the officers use
bicycles, and say that they are far
superior to horses for such work.
The rural mail-carriers in Yakima
county, made their monthly report
Wednesday, which shows that total
number of 7,496 pieces of mail were
carried during the month of August.
This is the fifth month the service has
been in operation, and during that time
SO, 480 pieces of mail have been handled
by the two carriers. The service was
begun as an experiment on April / of
this year and was at first intended to
last only three months, but it has been
ordered continued to July l, 1898.