The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-12-02
NORTHWEST REVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

From All the Cities and Towns Of
the Thriving Slater States
-washington.
A carload Of apples grown on Orcas
Island was shipped from Seattle to
Omaha last week.
The state road commission has An.
ished its work for the winter, and the
working crew has been discharged.
The Hon D. p. Thompson. ex-min-
lister to Turkey, delivered lecture on
Turkey in Walla Walla, last week.
The mills of Gray's harbor are cut
ting $4,000 feet of lumber per day,
with more orders than they can fill.
M. L. Weston has $500 head Of
sheep in Prosser, Yakima county, and
he expects to winter them on Snipe's
creek.
The six salmon canneries of What
com county will all be more or less ex-
tensively improved and enlarged dur
ing the next five months.
The clerical force in the land COM
missioner's Office, in Olympia, has 900
leases of school lands to be made out
OH returns from county auditors.
At meeting of the Whatcom County
Horticultural Society at Whatcom, res
olutions were adopted urging the county
commissioners to appoint fruit in
spector, in accordance with the laws Of
1897.
Richard Brown, logger of jefferson
county, has just finished cutting a
cargo of spars, valued at $l3, 900, which
will be shipped to New York on the
bark Olympic.
Government surveyors say that with
q little work the Snake river will be
navigable from Pasco to Riparia, to
which latter point boats are now rum
ming on the Upper Snake.
Suit has been commenced in the
superior court of Chehalis county by
the Northern Pacific Railway Company
against Chehalis county for the purpose
of having the taxes against the lands
of the company in that county declared
not valid lien.
The single shipments from Castle
Rock for the month of October aggre-
gated 81 cars, one car short Of the ship
ments for September. More shingles
were cut by the mills during October
than in September, but the demands
for the product has fallen off to some
extent the past month.
Three cars of stock cattle and one Of
beef cattle were shipped from Chehalis
last week. The stock cattle went to
Yakima. Another carload was driven
in from the Salkum country. Dealers
say that stock cattle are becoming
scarce. The hog market has slipped
down little, 1915 being offered now,
and farmers are holding.
Rev. William Duncan, the father Of
the Metlakahtla Indian village, on
Anette island, Alaska, is in Seattle.
He denounces the rumors of trouble be-
tween miners and the Metlakahtla In
dams as all lies. He says there is no
mineral on the island worth speaking
of, and that there were 827 Indians ON
the island in 1890, but they have not
been counted since.
Higher prices prevail for lumber in
Spokane. The lumber association last
week made an advance Of 10 per cent,
because, for the first time in seven
years, the supply of dry lumber in the
district bounded by Montana on the
east, Oregon on the south, the Cascade
mountains on the west, and the Cana
dian Pacific railway on the north, 10
entirely exhausted. For several weeks
Spokane yards and mills have been inn
porting dry lumber from beyond North
port and from the coast cities, in order
to supply the increased demands east Of
the mountains.