The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-01-15
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
LINDEN is to have q bank.

Lynden is to have bank.
Wenatchee has more than doubled in
population during the past year.
Eastern Washington winter wheat is
said to be in very promising condition.
The towns of Wfewelah and Spring
dale in Northeastern Washington have
petitioned for Incorporation.
The state board of medical examiners
began Tuesday the examination of sixty
applicants for license to practice in
this state.
c. A. Epperson's dwelling house at
Fishre, with entire contents, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss was partly
covered by insurance.
Ritzville police have arrested James
Vantile, charged with number Of store
burglaries. Large quantities of stolen
goods were found in his possession.
Receipts from the sale and lease of
state lands during the last quarter of
1902 were the largest ever recorded.
The amount for the three months was
$175, 79I. S5.
Seattle postoffice receipts for the last
quarter of 1902 reached $SI, 519.69,
compared with 500, 190.14 for 1901.
The average increase for the year was
II per cent.
Representative Cushman has intro
duced bill appropriating $150,O0O to
promote the salmon industry in Alaska
under the direction of the United States
fish commission.
Sc Yerkes, city passenger and tick
ct agent of the Great Northern railroad
at Seattle has resigned his position to
accept that of general advertising agent
of the same road, with headquarters at
st Paul.
The beautiful home of DR.. Hole omb,
just across Lake Washington from Sc
attic was totally destroyed by fire early
Tuesday morning. The family saved
a portion of their clothing and a few
pieces of furniture.
The army appropriation hill, as re-
ported to the house, contains para
graph appropriating $50, 600 in accord
ance with the urgent recommendation
of the secretary of war for a new hos
pital building at Vancouver, Wash.
The Pullman Auditorium, which was
sold for taxes and bought by syndi-
cate of Pullman citizens, is being re-
paired and fitted up in first class con-
dition, with electric lights and other
modern improvem ents. The manage
ment has already booked number of
good attractions.
G.. Whitney, we'll known nursery
man, living near Wal'a Walla has re-
ceived an order from the Lord Aberdeen
ranch, in British Columbia, for 10000
apple trees. Mr.. Whitney sent the
same ranch 5000 trees last year. The
place consists of about 10000 acres,
and is located at Vernon, B. G.
Assistant Attorney General G. G. Dali
ton has rendered an opinion to the
effect that the retail dealer who han
ul0S usu 10 llot CpllpCiiOu W pay wv
state license demanded from fresh fish
dealers by the statutes. The assistant
attorney general holds that the inten-
tion of the law was to compel the firms
who job in fish to pay this fee.
By the end of this week it is thought
construction work on the Port Angeles
Pacific railroad will be under way.
Preparations are being pushed rapidly
and sufficient preliminary work will
have been done during the week to en-
able the construction department to be-
gin work. The lie has beenn definitely
located out Tumwater valley and grade
stakes have been driven.
Mrs. Henry Delepine, native of
Switzerland. aged IS Washington pio-
neer, died Tuesday morning at Walla
Walla of heart disease. She was the
mother of twelve children. OF five sons
four are doctors and one a minister.
One son is president of the Manchester,
England Medical university and a dis
tinguished pathologist, and another is
famous London physician. 6