The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-01

teen are ana 80 sncandeScent Tampa and
Is IN close touca, with the farmers or that
fleg.sshsng locality. He has been there
five years Mr.. WlnEren Is row In the city
On business. He said last night that the
cat crop Of his neighhorhood would be
thres11ed IA the near future There was a
heavy rain there Monday. hGt IL did no
damage. and "a soon as the grain Is thor
oaghiy dried out harvesting viii be conn
menced-
I'VE are going TO have Is bushels of oats
TO the acre he said to Post-Inteingen-
Ger reporter land Il viii ne ne biggest
crop ever known in our nsighnorhced. The
farmers are all we'll OF ana putting up
new buildings ana otherwise improving
their places He named the following a.
some OF the largest farmers of the La Con-
ner country: John Bah. who has 90 acres
Of oats this year: Isaac Jennings. so acres:
Olaf Poison and Peter Downe. 40 acres
Zach; Isaac Dunlap. Peter Olson. aud Will
lam Armstrong, I'D each. and Andrew Os-
berg. 500. I'VE must not forget the man
We named our town after" said Mr.. Win
gren. III s. Conner. He has eight or ten
farms. but has rented them out. OF all
the land for twenty miles around La Con-
ner, three-fourths Is in oats"
Alexander Birss a rancher near Prairie.
Skagit county. was In the city yesterday
and stopped at tie Dsller. He has under
cultivation a cranberry farm. and al
though operating it on small scale at
present. expects 10 have a good industry
In a few years. Mr. Rirss has lived In the
Sound country for nearly ten years and IS
a staunch Republican. He said 10 Post
Inteliigencer reporter yesterday: al
though l am not prominent. figure In
Skagit county politics. can say candIdiy
ho hsra WI ho ~, In, t6>s
ment of that county at the next election.
At the last election the Populhsts carried
everything except wreckmaster. The Re-
publicans are winning new converts every
day. The crops are all right
Or. Stryker. OF Snohomish, PASSED
through the city yesterday on his way
home. He has been visiting relatives in
Portland. Or, and attending the meeting
Of the Pacific Coas; Dental Congress. DIR.
Stryker's paper on "Bacterioiogy'' was one
OF the most interesting and instructive
OF the session and showed mnch study
and original research, for which ne was
highly compiinentei by the various dem
lists present from all parts Of the Pacific
states.
j. W. Gillespie. a prominent rancher Of
San de Fuca, Island county. arrived in the
city last night and registered at the Dfller.
To Post-In,elligencer reporter tie said:
The ranchers are now in the midst OF har-
vesting. I have been at work for the past
two weeks and II Will take four weeks more
to complete threshing. The wheat crop In
an abundant one and Is Of excellent QUAIL
ity."
Among the Shriners who went over 70
Tacoma last night to attend the annual
prpe IF ha
Parker. Sigmund sAronaon, l.. II. Gray, S.
G. Yerkes. c. II. Carothers G. b. Smith,
W. G. Potts, A. n. Gray, Mai. Hayden,
w. L. Renham II. Frederick and DR..
Bragdou.
Mrs. c. S. jackson, wife Of the editor Of
the East Oregonian, and Mrs r. w. Vim
cent, whose husband is DIR. Vincent, a
prominent physician and general manager
OF the Pendleton Electric Light and Power
Company. both leading club women Of PEN
dleton, Or, are at the Stevens.
Miss Helen Thayer, Of Portland. arrived
yesterday to join her father. f. T. Thayer.
of the New York Life Insurance Company,
who came from the kiondike on the Roam
oke. She was accompanied by Miss Mary
Durham also OF Portland, and all are at
the Rainier-5rand.
John T. Blackburn. one Of the prosper
Gus ranchers OF Vashon island, was in the
city yesterday.
d. NJ. Donnelly, merchant OF wooiley.
Is in the city on business and ia stopping
at the Diller.
d. d. McMaster, a logger Of Arlington.
was at the Diller yesterday.
Personal.
Capt. f. Biondi. OF Port Townsend, Is In
Seattle.
DIR. G. A. Crockett. OF Boulder, Col, ~
in the city.
G.. ". Reed Mount Vernon merchant.
Is at the Seattle.
Ex-SherT A. Il. Van de Vanter 10 a
guest at the Stevens from Kent
Mrs. T. G. Nicklin wife of a former
newspaper man OF Whateom. is a guest ut
the Stevens.