The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-12-20
WASHINGTON h[W5
Items Of Interest From All Parts
OF the State.
AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve
ments Of the Many Industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.

A mattress factory will be established
at Centralia.
Aberdeen hopes soon to secure free
mail delivery.
Lillian Lewis. 10 years of age, was
committed to the reform school from
Port Townsend.
The steamer Charles D. Love loaded
$500, 900 feet of lumebr at Fairhaven
for South America.
North Yakima will increase the eff
cency of Its police force to cope with
the tramp element.
The Dayton Electric Light & Power
Company is installing new 200-horse
power engine and boilers.
The town election in Hamilton re-
suited in the election Of the nominees
of the Citizens ticket from top to bot
tom.
Nearly thousand sacks of oysters
were shipped from Oyster Bay last
week, which means about $500 net
to the bay oystermen.
The total value of Seattle real estate
transferred during Novem Der, 1900, ac-
cording to the records of the county
auditor, was 81, All, 956
Palouse is making strenuous efforts
to secure the straw board factory which
,Qeo ;oIc oe <bo Nov<ho~v poo;f N 30; !.
road will locate in one of the towns
along its line.
Leonard Howarth, of Tacoma. has
sold to the Weyerhauser Timber Com
pany 100 acres in section IL. township
Is north, range 4 west, Thurston
county, for So. 100.
]. B. Mackay, sheriff-elect of Whit
man county. has announced the APP
pointment of James Green, of Thorn
ton, as office and chief deputy in the
sheriff's Office.
The schooner F. NJ. Slade was
launched from Cousins ship yard, at
Everett. She was built for the Slade
& West Company and will be used in
the lumber trade. The vessel is 200
feet over all. 80 feet beam and IA feet
depth. She will cost. when completed
$45, 900.
The body of an unknown suicide was
found hanged by q clothes line from
the transom of q half FURNISHED house
at Everett. The superstition is that
the deed was the result of protracted
spree. The most vigilant search of the
authorities has, as yet, disclosed no
clew as to the mans identity.
Rosalia, in the extreme northern
part of Whitman county. is visibly ex
cited over the prospects of becoming q
mining town Citizens of Rosalia are
heavily Interested in many prospec is on
the reservation and the discovery OF
gas near there has added to the excite
ment and boom is threatened.
John ]. Miller, q stockman of the
Snake river district. has just sold to E.
H. King, of Spokane, GIT sheep for
$4.7O per head. The sheep are all
two-year-old wethers. and are an ex.
ceptionally fine lot. They will be
shipped to market in Seattle and
Spokane. This is one of the best sales
of the season.
One of the important cases decided
by Judge John B. Davidson, of the
superior court at North Yakima, was
the granting of q divorce to Mary
Grindrod from her husband. Edward
Grindrod. The plaintiff is in the last
stages of consumption and cannot re.
cover. She asked for divorce and
alimony temporary. The court granted
her money with which to prosecute the
case and an allowance of $25 per
! month to be paid by her husband
A dispatch from Bolster says that
the assay establishment of E. r. Rob-
inson was entirely destroyed by fire.
The building was large wooden affair
and was in the center of the business
part of the town. and it was only by
the most perseverlng work that the
town was saved. The loss is heavy and
no insurance. The people will rebuild
Immediately. There il no fire protec-
ton in the town and the fire was sub.
dued by hastily organized bucket
brigade.
Walla Walla county officers want
moro salary. II the fact that the coun.
ty has at the present time a population
Of 1880 entities them to advance
ment into higher class they mean to
derive the benefits accruing thereform
and to have their salaries advanced &C.
oordinglv. To this end County Asses.
sor Walter L. Cadman has began &C.
ton before the board of county CON-
missioners for increased salary since
tho completion of the census. which,
If received, will amount to about $500.
While the other officers are remaining
silent in regard to the mat .er, it is nm
derstood they are behind Mr.. Cadman
and that his is being made test case
from which all will profit.
The Pacific States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has begun the
construction OF q telephone line from
Medical Lake to Edwall.
James Dolittle. son OF ex-C Congress.
a. 49,