The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-03-28
WASHINGTON H[WJ
Items Of Interest From All Parts
OF the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve.
ments Of the Many industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.

New Whatcom-A new brickyard Is
to be established at New Whatcom.
seattIe-The Boys & Girls All So
ciety of Seattle will build a new home.
Uniontown-The new creamery at
Uniontown will be in operation by
April Is.
coifax-Whitman college has re-
ceived a gift Of $4,000 from an East
ern philanthropist.
PaIouse-It is reported that Stand
ard Oil Company representative will
INSPECT the Palouse oil fields.
Fort canby-Forty-five sticks of
giant powder exploded at Fort Candy
one day last week. No serious dam
age resulted:
Dayton-Dayton Is considering the
advisability of purchasing the city
electric lighting plant The price
asked is $4,000.
Palouse-There is an increasing de-
mand for heavy draft horses, and
the Palouse country is being secured
by Eastern buyers.
6ellingham Bay-The Bellingham
Bay Gas Company contemplates max
ing Improvements this summer to the
extent of about $4,000 or $4,000.
New Whatcom - Arthur Atkins,
son of c. M. Atkins, formerly a bank
er of New Whatcom, has been admit
ted to the naval academy at Annapo-
lis.
Yakima-W. M. Arthur, a United
States prisoner in the Yakima city
jail, charged with sale of liquor to
Indians, has developed case of
smallpox.
Silzel, of Oakesdale, was destroyed by
fire. It is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin. Loss, $500; insur-
ance, 5000.
AImota-Henry Hickman and a
number of neighbors living between
Colfax and Almota are equipping a
barbed wire telephone line. The line
connects their farms with Almota.
coIfax-David A. Grim, a farmer
whose land adjoins the town of Col
fax, on the north, has received let
ter from the department of agricul-
tnre, at Washington, informing him
that his wheat was among the lot that
captured the grand prize at the Paris
exposition.
Aberdeen-J. G. Lewis and John
Anderson, of Aberdeen, have sold
1,120 acres of timber land. James T.
Barber, the st. Paul capitalist, was
the purchaser The tract Of timber
is located near Elma, most of which
is heavily timbered. The purchase
price was $16,80O.
Skohomish-Several of the old gov
ernment houses at the Skohomfsh
agency are being torn down. The
school will be moved about mile
up the river to a more central part
Of the reservation. 1t has also been
decided to divide the agency farm
into lots and to assign them to va
rious parties.
coifax-Colfax will adopt a system
Of house numbering.
Everett - Saturday evening the
steamer Majestic was launched at the
Everett shipyard.
GotcheiI-An eastern company has
been prospecting for gold near Got
chell, Snohomish county.
lrondaIe-A force Of men is at work
at the smelter of the old Puget Sound
Iron Company, at Irondale, cross the
bay from Port Townsend.
AIma-One of the latest industries
proposed for Okanogan county is a
creamery 10 be located at Alma. Sum-
ner, Wash, dairymen are the pro-
moters.
Yakima-The Yakima Milling Com
pany has stopped operations for week
to put In new machinery and increase
the capacity of the mill. 1t will here
after consume so car loads of wheat
per week.