The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-07-27

Oregon has IS, 600 Angora goats.
Salem will tender the volunteers a
reception anyway.
The government locks at Lafayette
will be completed yet this summer.
Several mysterious murders have &C.
Cured in Neg Perces county, Idaho.
The Dalles has balance of over
So. 900 in her treasury from last year.
Some districts in Southern Oregon
are sadly in need of rain for the crops.
Canyon City Masons' and Odd Fell
lows temple corner stone has been
laid.
A large quantity of oleomargarine
was seized in a Wala Walla hos
pital.
Spokane is proud of the fact that her
postoffice receipts are gaining on those
of Portland.
Spokane will have swell new club,
with mem bel ship from both Washing
ton and Idaho.
The hop crop of Oregon will proba-
bly, reach $4,000 bales this year. No
shortage is anticipated.
The o. R. & N. took 80 laborers to
Eastern Oregon, and the farmers hired
them all away from the road.
The faculty Of Willamette univers-
ity has been completed by the election
of science and Latin and Greek profess
sors.
Several brick business buildings are
being erected in Oakland to take the
place of the frame structures recently
burned.
Garfield men have an option on
township of Adams county railroad
land at 80 cents an acre, which they
will purchase.
E. D. Holloway has been telegraph
operator at Pasco for 10 years with
out vacation, and has sent an average
of 100 kilograms day during that
time.
Tom Daniels established new record
for Washington at the Whatcom Falls
Mill Company's mill, when he packed
Sc. 900 shingles in IL hours of consecu-
tive labor.
Ed. White, who escaped from the
sheriff Of Coos county, few days ago,
by jumping from a boat, was recap
tured near RiveIton and landed in Jail.
He is wanted to answer to the charge
of burglary.
A good many gardeners have made
money out of early potatoes, says the
Asotin Sentinel. The very first sold
at $500 bushel. The present price
is 81 for 100 pounds, when sold direct
ly to the consumers. and $1.75 when
sold to dealers.
The Coos county court has let con-
tract for building bridge on the mid
die fork of Coquille. It will be combi-
nation bridge of wood and iron; price,
$3.50. The bridges on the Coquille-
Mansfield road will be rebuilt as
quickly as possible.
Superintendent Mayhall, of the
Washington fisheries. has gone to the
Columbia river to arrange for lum Der
to build the Wind river hatchery.
An appropriation of 81, 500 was made
for it. 81, 500 available this year, and
1000 next year. Work will begin
some time this month on the Snoho-
mish river and Willapa river hatcher
les. The former will have cost, when
completed. $4,000. and the latter
81, 900. Three-ffths of the amount
appropriated is to be spent at each
hatchery this year.
Prairie schooners have already begun
to pass through this valley en- route
from California to the Palouse country,
says the Long Greek Eagle while
Southern California is suffering from
drought again this year, the exodus
from that state is not 80 general as it
was last year.
The potato crop of Coos county this
year will be less than an average one.
Apples also will be smaller in yield
than last year. The late rains is no
doubt the cause Of the shortage. Hay
will be light. but green feed is plenti-
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