The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-06
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

Empty houses are scarce in Whatcom.
mai.y farmers have moved In from the
country To give their children an oppor-
tunIty 10 attend school.
The Cieeve Canning and Cold Storage
Company shipped 10 Chicago thirteen tons
OF sturgeon caught in the Fraser near the
mouth and tn Canoe pass.
Pacific eountys show cranberry planta-
ton, near the head Of the bay, has TWEEN
ty-flve acres in full bearing and Will en-
ploy 40 pickers. Picking has already
commenced.
Returns from the port OF Rossland for
the mouth Of August 1898; Imports. duu-
abse sa7.sis: free. $3.50; total. $5i,s2s: duty
contested 81. y: other coliections.$5s. to-
tai. a2.iS&ta
As there VIII be no fall fishing IN Bak,
ers bay the traps have been disnaniled
and the web brought ashore cleaned. dried
and put away for next years Use. Now
only gray Torres. OF barren piles remains.
McDowaii Bros. near ;'pangie. one day
last week threshed with a sistesn-horse-
power engine and thirty -six-inch separator
a5.4 bushels of wheat and sat their ma
chine five times. This IS the best We have
heard Of SO far.
Two trains az cattle were loaded at Cou-
lee City Monday night making over 5000
head that have heen shipped from there
already this season. with several large
shipments to follow. No other station in
the state can equal Couiee city on STOCK
shipments.
Application is being made 10 the iegisla-
tive assembly Of British Columbia for a
charter to- construct a railway from Trail
10 Savwara on the Columbia river. thence
70 Sau1o. and from that point following
the Salmon river tn It's Junction with the
Pend d'Creitie river.
The Sweethrier creamery. at Enumclaw
is handling about soco pouLds OF milk per
day aud making from, Is 70 - pounds OF
butter. for which there IA ready demand
a disease supposed 70 be black measles
has broken out among the Indians al
Jane stown. Clallam county.
M Long, represe ating a syndicate Of
PennsytYanians having large timber land
holdings on the Humpfufps. was in Aber-
deem last week. fss believes .h.ie viii
shortly be a big rise in vane IN Western
Washington timber lands, the sam a. took
place some years aga Us Mscagan pine
iands tis Is DESTROYS OF finding suitable
cedar FOR making the 2l-3uch shingles used
In Pennsylvania and introducing he prod
uet there.
T>ha report OF Presiding e.dsr W. ".
/ Van Dusen % The Spokane district made
Ia The conference at Pullman Friday, IS
OF more thae ordinary inlefes. The To-
pert shows that the district = larger than
the island or Cuha ar the state of ohio,'
and gives boundaries ,he products. etc.
of the district. After reviewing th.. growth
OF the district IN wealth and population.
the report predicts great advance meet In
the future
The three victims 90 the accident on the
steamer Princess f@eiiJse at Alert bay.
CT used bv the breaking of a rsN 0u which
tss men we're sitting wese William Ste&-
niaa. John Steele and another ascknant
kncwn oaiy ~ the name az Rlonav. 20
There were five Haen On tie RAJ when i,
broke ana alt .gFe thrown tNte Ghg water
those who host theiF lives bring struck rs
tnA paddle wheel. which VAS az nae. sQn.
&1esinaB Steele aE5 "Rlanjy" had alt }s..,r,
: Ssea rshoa ssrg in british Columbian waters
for a number Of wears. Steele went 70
{ b1%9cn Last winter Ggt sold 2 : ntt- -
immediately up arrival. reEUf0t0E 20 49,
teris lie stated srst1 ~sEIv ie~l S1rlrg
b4t only Went a@ tss "a Lake HruHr-t
Frank ard }4hn Na}Is and George f1rsss
! we're drowned y l.le Bathing lu I2ke Erie