The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-15
Washington State
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Local option is being agitated at
South Bend.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of halibut were received at Sc
attic one day last week.
r. E. Campbell OF Seattle appointed
as assistant attorney general to sue
coed w. F. Magill, has assumed his
duties.
The logging camps in the Grays Har-
Dor district have resumed operations,
after 81 days shutdown. furnishing
work for 5000 men.
Thirty-three Quinault Indians have
been paid $4,000 for more than $4,000
fish delivered at Hoquiam during the
months of May and June.
The North Yakima city council has
ordered 13 more blocks of brick and
asphalt paving. This years paving
now totals more than two miles.
Following an extended investigation,
the state railway commission ordered
reductions of about IS per cent in rail-
road switching charges at Tacoma.
The treasury department has issued
a call for bids for the sale or donation
of a corner lot, approximately 14Ox140
feet, for site for federal building
in Ellensburg.
The work of making a permanent
survey for the Mount Adams electric
railroad, connecting White Salmon
valley towns with White Salmon on
the south and Glenwood on the north,
has begun.
DR.. J. Clinton McFadden, secretary
of the board of medical examiners of
Washington, announces that seventy
six of the 107 applicants to practice
medicine had passed the examinations
recently held.
North Yakima banks have on de-
post, according to recent statements,
nearly $5,000,00O, which is an increase
of almost 20 per cent over the deposits
of one year ago. The total in the six
banks of the city is $4,735,017.1S.
Stockholders of the Washington
Trust Company of Seattle have voted
to consolidate with the Dexter Hor-
ton National Bank. This is the sec
ond consolidation of large Seattle
banking institutions in Seattle within
the past year.
According to the calendar just an
nounced by the Washington state uni
versity registrar. registration will be-
gin Monday, September 10. Classes
will begin September 81. Registration
for second semester will begin Febru-
airy Z. Glasses will begin February 8.
The Grays Harbor line of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound and
the Oregon E Washington. on which
the last OF the steel was laid some
weeks ago, will be turned over to the
operating department about August 1,
according to A. M. Ingersoll, vice pres
ident of the Milwaukee.
Civil service examinations to fill va
cancies in the departmental service in
Washington, D. c., will be held at Spo-
kane September IA, Is and October IL;
Tacoma September IA, October 8 and
IL; Seattle September IA, October II,
IL, 25; Vancouver and Walla. Walla
September IA and October II.
A petition is being circulated ask
ing the Chehalis county commission
ers to authorize the building of road
on the North beach over the hill to al
low autoists to evade the soft sands at
Copalis rocks, the place where practi-
cally all the Seattle autoists became
stuck July 8.
Canadian currency will hereafter be
accepted as par by Seattle banks.
The clearing house association at a
meeting Wednesday afternoon passed
resolution repeating the discounts
that have prevailed on Canadian cur
rency. The Portland clearing house
association some time ago took similar