The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-12-27
WASHINGTON News
Items Of interest From All Parts
OF the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS

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A Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve
ments Of the Many industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.
Whitman college has $50 students.
WaIIa Walla is to have fire alarm
system.
Catholics of Kent will erect new
church.
Bricks for building are scarce at
Everett.
A clam cannery may be established
at Nahcotta.
A new school building will be erect
ed at Ballard.
r. F. WATSON is establishing brick
yard at Everett.
Gray's Harbor bar now has % feet
of water at low tide.
Henry Hewitt, Jr.. of Tacoma, will
build saw mill at Everett.
A camp of sons of Indian war vet
Grams will be instituted at Aberdeen.
The Seattle humane society has p e.
pared bill for Legislative recognition.
Charles Fulton will establish ship
yards at Haddock and will build two
vessels.
The faculty OF Whitman college has
prohibited tobacco smoking on the
campus.
C. P. Hallet has been convicted at
Spokane of assault with gun upon E.
Walters.
Grays harbor towns will unite in An
effort to obtain an appropriation
from congress.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has placed q switch engine at
North Yakima.
Nearly 1850, 900 bushels of wheat
are stored in warehouses at Prescott.
near Walla Walla. o..
The labor unions Of Everett have
boycotted two restaurants for employ
ing Jap cooks and walters.
The Everett Railway 8 Electric
Company has decided to make extern
sive improvements on its ayAtem.
Three hundred residences are in
course of construction at Everett, and
since January l more than 600 homes
have been completed.
r. M. Shaver, of Boisfort, has start.
ed up his saw mill on the Hanaford.
He will cut about 5000 feet Of road
plank.
In order to save an hours time the
chief dispatcher of the Great Northern
Railway at Everett is arranging new
time card.
Frank Morris, laborer, was killed
one mile from Puyallup by the. chain
Of pile driver swapping. one end of
which struck him on the head.
The Walla Walla Electric company
has received water wheel by which
the power Of the plant will pe in.
creased 450 horse power.
The E. ]. McNeeley company, oper-
ating the l0-block shingle mill In Ev-
erett, will build 1000 capacity saw
mill anjoining their single mill.
John Henry Willialns:. who has been
held at North Yakima for some time
on the charge of having murdered w.
W. Scott, at Prosser. has been released
under habeas corpus proceedings.
The bridge over the Nisqually river
near Yelm is in danger by reason of
the recent freshets. It is structure
worth about $1,000, built and main
tanned jointly by Thurston and Pierce
counties.
N. G. Cameron and wife have COM
menced action against the West
Street & North End Electric Railway
Company to recover $1,000 damages
for injuries alleged to have been sus-
tanned by Mrs. Cameron in collision.
DR.. David Lindsay, who has been
practicing at North Yakima for several
months, has been arrested on q charge
of criminal libel, and being unable to
furnish bail is in the county jail. His
case will be heard at tho February
term of court.
The residence of Mr.. keenan,, at
Olga, was totally destroyed by fire.
All of tn, household goods were saved
A store building near the house ignited.
but was prevented from burning by the
efforts of the entire community, which
turned out in force to fight the flames.
Owing to the crowded condition OF
the Centralia schools the board may TT
up another building for school pur-
poses. II is reported that several
claims north OF the Tom Thumb. in
Republic district, which are believed
to carry the same lodges, will be devel.
oped shortly.
The citizens of Colfax are In q furry
because g. H. Hahn, q well known
merchant. is erecting store building
in the very center of one of the princi.
pal streets in the city. A petition has
been circulated asking the city council
to take some steps 20 stop the apparent
blockade to the thoroughfare.
James Wilson was convicted at North
Yakima of having robbed q freight car
near Kiona Of goods valued at $500.
A diver recovered $700 in gold from
the bottom Of Bellingham bay. The
money was in Q small satcnel, and was
lost OF the Sehome wharf by Mrs.
Matthews, Of Samish, about two weeks
ago. Fruitless efforts were made to
recover the money by dragging and