The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-12-09
WASHINGTON eREvlTlEs.
what Our Neighboring Cities and
Counties Are Doing.

what Our Neighboring Cities and
Counties Are Doing.
Apples have been selling in Yakima
for 80 cents box.
A colony from Crossville, Tenn, is
expected to arrive in Yakima county
next spring.
The Rosyln mines are running full
time, shipping from 30 to 100 tons OF
coal per day.
The Coweeman river, in Cowlitz
county, is full of logs and shingles from
Kelso to the Dillon farm.
A lot of California quail have been
turned loose near Ilwaco, and hunters
are expected to give the birds chance
to increase and multiply.
The two Willapa harbor canneries
made small packs this fall. The Nc
Gowan cannery ON North river packed
only 1900 cases in all, and the Barnes
cannery, at South Bend, 5000 cases.
A Garfield man has this year market
ed $1,36. 81 worth of apples, and has
left all he can use. He thinks Wash
ington apples will one day be shipped
regularly to Liverpool.
The state board of land commission
ers met in the capital Tuesday. A Pc
tition from the citizens of Blaine. ask
ing for a change in the inner harbor
line in front of that city was rejected
for want of jurisdiction.
The Palouse Irrigation Company has
the big reservoir and six miles OF canal
completed within Franklin county.
This brings it to within four miles OF
Washtucna, which part of the county
will be watered next season.
A North Yakima man has shipped
to Chicago 2,20O head of sheep, 10 car
loads in all. These are the sheep he
has been feeding in the Mckee. He
expects to bring about $500 head more
from Mabton to be fed this winter.
A great many of the apples shipped
from Coos county are being sold as
Northern California apples, and the
choice potatoes sent from Coos are also
put on the market as California prod
uct, and are called Salinas burbanks.
The treasurer of Coos county has is
sued call for all county orders Endorsed
prior to January IA, 1892. This call
will cancel indebtedness amounting in
all to 1000. A few weeks ago call
was issued for warrants amounting to
So, 500.
Adjutant- General Ballaine is now
prepared to furnish the several militia
com panies of the state with the new in
fantry drill regu lations, prepared by
Lieutenant Arthur Murray. of the First
United States artillery, and approved
by the secretary of war.
1t is reported that in the recent flood
hundreds of head of stock persisted in
the country above Hamilton. Reports
indicate that very little livestock is
left in that region. The rise of water
was so rapid that there was little
chance to get stock to the higher lands.
A representative of the fish and game
commission Of California has been in
Sskiyou county and Southern Oregon
to look into the wholesale killing of
ducks, which have been shipped to the
San Francisco markets in great quaint
ties. AS high as 1900 pounds have
been shipped from Ager in one day.
Parties arriving in Everett from the
Skykomish valley state that the damage
to the Great Northern is greater than
was at first reported. The chinook
which melted the snow to the top of
the lower mountain ranges, to which
was added heavy rainfall, sent all
the smaller streams over their banks.
The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal
has secured list showing that at least
90 per cent Of the shingle mills in the
state of Washington either have or will
within the next 60 days close down for
the winter. The information came in
the shape Of answers to inquiries sent
out by the Journal, which recommend
ed the closing of mills so as to have a
price for the product in the spring.
There appears to be almost unanimity
of feeling on the part of the cutters in
favor of maintaining prices, which can
only be done by reducing the cut of the
winter to prevent Eastern yardmen and
brokers from overstocking, thus holding
the price down during the season of de-
mand in the East
Word has been received at the local
land Office in Spokane that the secre-
tary of the interior has approved the
appraisement of the abandoned mill
tary post at Coiville, and ordered the
sale of the same February 9. The
property consists of 10 lots and IS 40
acre tracts, lying about three miles
north of the present town of Colville.
The appraised value of the tracts ranges
from So. 40 to $3.50 apiece. The total
acreage is ,O45.41. The appraisement
was made in August by Fred Harring-
ton, S. F. Sherwood and Jacob Stetzel.
By this sale one of the pioneer military
posts of the Northwest is wiped out.
For years the fort and surrounding set
Element contained the largest popula-
ton Of any town in the Inland Empire.
District courtawas held there, and the
town was the Quitting point for many
miners and trappers.s In 1884 the
troops at the old post were transferred
to the new barracks at Fort Spokane,
on the Columbia river. Since that
time the town has fast been passing
away, and few yeas ago the last
house was destroyed by fire. Where