The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-10-14
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns -
the Thriving Sister States

A 4S-pOund salmon was landed BY .
Marshfield troller.
A Yamhill county man picked $50
pounds of hops in one day.
Over 900 acres of fax were cultivat-
ed in Lynn county this year.
Seuferts' cannery, at The Dalles, is
putting up 1000 cases Of salmon day.
SOUTHWEST Oregon Reporter is tho
name Of new paper at Langlois, Curry
county.
An Oregon grizzly bear weighing
800 pounds was killed on Gate creek,
in Lane county.
A farm near Pendleton, which was
sold four months ago for $1,000, was
last week resold for $500.
A young man named James Neal, a
sheepherder, accidentally shot and
killed himself near Long Creek.
A peach weighing one and half
pounds, and measuring 13 e inches in
circumference, is Douglass county
production.
The completed assessment roll Of
Clatsop county for 1897 show total
valuation of s., O9S, TAO, as against $4,-
ola, sos last year.
Notices have been posted on the can
merry at Marshfield notifying fishermen
that the prices of salmon had been re-
duced to 25 and 10 cents.
A Lane county fruit grower has can
ned seven carloads of pie fruit at his
farm, placing it in from one to five-gal-
Ion cans, principally the former.
Another shipment of Wallowa coun-
ty beef cattle was made from Elgin last
week, consisting of $50 big steers.
One of the animals tipped the beam at
1,740.
The Oregon Telegraph & Telephone
Company is surveying route for tele-
phone line from Monroe to some point
on the main line between Harrisburg
and Junction.
Mr.. N. Humphrey, of Lane county,
has up to the present time dried 60,0
pounds of prunes from his own orchard
and expects his entire crop to amount
to about 107, 200 pounds.
A contract has been awarded to build
a levee across Lost river slough, in
Klamath county, for $2,490. The en-
croachments of the waters of Tule lake
have made the construction of this
levee necessary.
A colony of immigrants, % in mum.
Der, have just come out from Nebraska
with the intention of locating in this
country. They shipped all their goods
out, including a number of mules.
They are now looking around Gillian
county.
The body Of the tramp who was killed
by train at Huron, was buried by the
coroner. It was not identified. All
that was found on the body was plat
ed spoon and four or five pounds of po-
tatoes in a sack. The coroner describes
the young man as being about 20 years
old, five feet seven inches in height,
having dark brown hair, blue eyes and
as never having been shaved.
The Salem fruit dryers are taking
care of no less than 1850 bushels oil
prunes per day, or 105, 900 pounds ev-
cry "a hours. This gives direct out
put of $4,000 pounds daily, and the
company expects to handle 10000
pounds Of green prunes this season.
Just as soon as the prune crop is saved
the dryers will start on apples and all
that are offered will be bought. This
year 6-year-old prune orchards are max.
ing returns to the owners ranging all
the way from 5000 to $1,000 per acre
Washington.
The city council of Spokane has fixed
the tax levy for that city at 1874 mills.