The Vancouver Independent from Vancouver, Washington • Page 4

VANCOUVER INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, JULY 31. The steamer Emma llayward lias been withdrawn from the Astoria route, anil the S. G. liced takes her place for the present.

Pennsylvania has been having a big storm ami floods in the oil and mining regions, the damage of property being very great. Only one life was lost. Another vessel was lost in the straits of Fuca last week, and now we may expect to see in the Puget Sound papers more howling about the dangers of the Columbia river entrance. Two of the murderers of Tullis, near Sacramento, were hanged, Troy Dye, and Anderson. The third one, Tom Lawton, has been captured at Lewiston, Idaho, and in due course of time will be taken to Sacramento for trial, after having escaped justice for more than a year.

It is quite probable that Jackson Grant, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, will not long survive his sentence. When he reached the penitentiary he was so exhausted that he could not walk and had to be carried from the hack to his cell. Unless his condition materially improves he will not live three The Russian minister of the interior reports 3601 fires during June, causing a damage of over 12,000,000 rubles; 508 fires were incendiary. Further particulars of the fire at Nijni-Novgorod, of the 19th of the present month, state that while the fire was raging, 14 expiosionsoccurred, kill in tr and injuring 40 persons. The theatre in the Kremlin, Moscow, lias been burned by Nihilists.

In the last number of the North American Review appears an exhaustive letter from Gen. O. O. Howard to the publishers, in reply to the absurd story recently published in that magazine from the unrestrained and too ambitious pen of Wallowa Joseph. The answer is modest, simple and complete, and as a matter of history well bears persual.

Gen. Howard's plain statement of facts and history standout in bold relief when compared with the crafty Indian's bare assertions and misstatements. The farmers of England are complaining bitterly because the food products of America are transported across the ocean and sold in England at a profit for less money than it costs to raise the same article in that country. The newest development is in cheese. The American article is sold so cheap that cheese making has Stopped in England, and milk and butter have became plenty in consequence, butter being sold at 17 cents per pound, a thing never heard of before in England.

The result of this state of affairs will be the ruin of English agriculture, or else a great reduction of land rents and wages. Oregon's Ocean Fi.eet.— Mr. J. C. Henderson, Chief Engineer of the Oregon, has signed a contract in Philadelphia with the Delaware Iron Ship Building Works for another steamer for the Oregon Steamship and Railroad Company.

It will be larger than the Oregon, measuring 342 feet in length, 3S.J feet beam and 3,000 tons register. She will be handsomely fitted up and built for as well as comfort. con- I tinues to improve steadily. Several i new houses are being huiltand others have been completed that are a credit to any town. Mr.

Clark is changing the position of his saloon and residence transferring the house to the lot on Broadway street where the saloon atood, and placing hia saloon on First street where the house was. French A Maxon, carpenters, an addition to Mr. Gant's livery stable, which wilt make the building 91 feet in Sentinel. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. nt Kent tic ami Knlitma.

dispatch to the Oregon Skatti.k, July 9 o'clock this evening an alarm of tire was given. Flames were discovered issueing from the roof of the American House. The lire spread rapidly and in a few minutes a whole block consisting of wooden buildings was one mass of flames. The fire then extended across the street to Vesler's sawmill, which was also quickly consumed. Schwabachcr Bros.

Co's warehouse next came in the way of the flames and is a total loss. Hall Paulson's furniture warehouse, Crawford Harrington's large warehouse, stored with merchandise, will prove a heavy loss. None of these buildings are very heavily insured. Goods being hastily removed from many stores will be a cause of heavy loss to many. This includes everything on Mill street, as far up as the postoftice building, which was saved.

It is impossible to estimate the loss, but it will be very heavy. Although the American House was well filled and scarcely fifteen minutes elapsed from tiie discovery ot the fire until the whole block was one mass of fire, no loss of life has been as yet reported. At this hour (11 P. the tire is pretty well under control and hopes are entertained of confining it to its pres-1 ent scope. The following lose heavily by removal: Geo.

W. Harris druggists; S. Gross, restaurant; 11. Pumphrey, stationer; Kelly Young, L. Rienig, grocer; Chilberg Bros, grocers; Boyd, Poncin Young, drvgoods; S.

Kenney, merchant tailor; Fred Barker, con- I fectioner. Seattle, July fire Friday night proves to have been one of the most disastrous which ever occurred in the Territory. The burned district is about 350 feet square, extending from the alley on the head of Vesler's wharf to the water tank just. above the old warehouse, and from Dexter, Horton wharf across to the fuither side of the saw mill, reducing the entire block of buildings on the south side of Mill street below the alley to ashes; also Schwabacker Bros. Go's hall, and Paulson's and Crawford Harrington's warehouses, and the old saw mill.

The fire originated in one of the rooinsin the secondstory of the American house, at about 9 o'clock, and spread rapidly until its progress I was checked by the determined efforts of the fire department and citizens. The new steam fire engine became disabled at about 10 o'clock by the suction hose getting out of order, and the old hand engine and bucket brigade for a time were scarcely able to hold the flames in check. For a while the entire business portion of the city was threatened with destruction, and merchants panicstricken began to remove their goods. In a few moments Occidental square was covered with piles of merchandise stacked up in hopeless confusion. Fortunately, however, the threatened danger was averted.

All the principal business portion of the city was left intact. The buildings destroyed were all wooden structures occupied principally as saloons shops, etc. Some leading business houses are heavy losers by removal, goods being greatly damaged and lost. Kai.ama, July fire which broke out here between 12 and 1 o'clock on Friday was first discovered in a building owned by E. Martin Co.

of Portland, used as a hotel and saloon by H. W. Dickey. The wind was blowing from the northwest, and consequently the railroad company's buildings were all saved. Dickey and E.

Martin Co. were fully insured. A. N. Patterson, the efficient and model hotel keeper, lost heavily; insurance, $4000.

Whitehouse Vestal, merchants did not save anything. H. C. Comegys, merchant, lost all of his stock and goods; insured for Several of the buildings which were burned were unoccupied. Mr.

Kimball, the railroad agent, and all of the railroad men, Capt. iiabbidge and Purser Hall ana the crew of the steamer Honita and several of the passengers, also M. T. Ward, rendered valuable services. The total of property is estimated at about insurance, $8500.

PakllnllN. S. Vancouver, W. July BUC Notice it licrelty given that the follow ins; named settler has tiled notice of hit intention to make turn I in Mipport of tils claim, and ire Una! entry thereof at of 111 lAy daya from the date of this notice. Thorns- Moulton.

for the 9F. of the 8 of Sec. 20, Town Range 1 West, and namw following persona aa wituet.et, vis: -Isines W. Choate, of Cowlitz County, W. and Orren W.

Barber, of Cowlitz Countr, W. T. W. H. SMALI.WOOD.

Rfjfister. TERRITORIAL ITKJIS. Several farmers alone the lower Sound say they will be able to cut live tons of hay per acre on many pieces of improved meadow land. There arc now 02 men in the Skagit mines. No considerable amount of gold lias been taken out, and the mines are very dilllcult of access.

The oat and potato crops on Wlildby island afe very heavy year, and in the Swinouiish country I lie former will probably yield 1(H) bushels ncr acre. The hay crop is' extensive, and well saved. Walla Walla Statesman: Harvesting lias commenced in good earnest and everybody is busy, (iood harvest hands arc scarce and arc paid S2 per day. The crops are very large aud grain promises to bring good prices. The Northern Pacific K.

men say they intend to complete and have in full running order over 900 miles of railroad on the main line In this Territory before the close of ISBO, aim from present indications it may be done. White settlers arc pouring rapidly into all that part of eastern Washington which lies north of tlie Piilousc country and east of the Columbia river, and there are yet large tracts of as line land there awaiting "occupation as any east of the mountains. OREUOX. Wool Is selling at 12V and i (i, Dalles. Many children have died in Umatilla county from diphtheria.

Many immigrants arc pushing north from California, hunting homes in Oregon. Rev. W. L. MeEwan will have charge of the Episcopal church at the Dalles during the coming year.

Rev. T. A. Hayland, late of Astoria, has been elected rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, New York. Mr.

11 nine and employes of his cannery have killed lour nears tins season. The lust one killed by Mr. (iatchell weighed 300 pounds. (ieoge A. Reed caught in Mill creek on Sunday, near agricultural works, Salem, a salmon trout 20 inches iu length and weighing six pounds.

Tom Smith is building a big hotel at the Dalles. Hundley ifc Sinnott are also rebuilding the Umatilla house, to be the third hotel b. ding on the old site. The wheat crop in Linn county will be per cent, over that of last year, while the crop of the whole State will average at least 20 per cent, over that of the previous year. Papers were drawn up in Astoria for an extensive boot and shoe manufactory which will be established this month at Upper Astoria, and be a permanent thing.

SEWN The crops in Virginia are suffering for the want of rain. Thermometer in the shade at New York on the 15th registered 103 degrees. A missionery sent up to Alaska some time has given up the business and gone to prospecting for gold. A dispatch from Havana reports Oil deaths from yellow fever at that place during the week ending July 19th. News from Mexico is generally meagre.

The interior department reports the population of this republic to be 9,687,000. The Colorado potato bug has made its appearance in Ireland, notwithstanding all the care taken to prevent the calamity. Jesse Shepherd is humbugging the San Franciscans, and Fred Bert is organizing a theatrical troupe to play at San Jose. The secretary of war, upon recommendation of General Schotield, commanding at West Point, has dismissed six cadets for hazing. I The extra session of congress resulted in the passage of tifty-six public acts, twentyfour joint resolutions and eight private acts, Heavy rains and inundations are reported i from various parts of France.

The Scheldt, Meuse and other rivers in Flanders are overflowed. Down at the seashore the little fishes are dying with laughter at the sight of a tfOO pound woman trying to look graceful whena strong breaker lands her on her head. Diphtheria continues its ravages in Bessarabia, where a rescript of the governor is published, ordering universal fumigation of the dwellings and clothing of the peasantry. Some excitement was caused by an old woman supposing to be insane, Hinging a stone at the carriage containing the king I of Spain going to church on Saturdav Commander Beardslec, of the U. S.

war steamer Jamestown, has written from Sitka to the navy department that the condition of affairs there is such that the department has done wisely in sending a vessel to protect the settlement. The Texas cattle drive this season will reach mostly young animals. This is a great falling off from previous years; but while Texas is losing, territories of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are increasing their over a hundred per cent. Lleutraiaut dispatcji tu the Oregonlan. Boise City, July 27.

correspondent of the Idaho SUttuman writes from Salmon Meadows, under date 26th, that Lieut. Farrow with his Umatilla scouts, have struck the "Sheep Eaters," renegade Indians on Crooked river. They had passed over from the south fork of and Farrow struek their trail and followedit upand found them 100 strong. Crooked river empties into the Snake river nearly opposite Grande ltonde river. The Indians have their stock across the Snake, but are on this side.

Farrow says that he will attack them if he can get a favorable position. He does not know where Bernard's or Lieut. Calley's commands are. There is a good deal of excitement in Council Valley, and they are raising a company to go out and help Farrow. Bernard left the middle fork of Salmon by way of Bear valley, for the south fork on the lie should be 100 miles from Crooked river at this time.

Lieut. Calley's whereabouts are not known. Farrow's camp is near the Seven Devils on the Salmon, which overlooks Crooked river on the south. The country is as rough as it can be made. GRIDLEY WHITNEY, Respectfully announce tlmt they have In connection witli tinir FUItNITWMBi UO ItM Opened an UNDERTAKERS I)EPA HTMENT, Where thev will keep a complete stock of everything in tlint line.

A fresh anivul of Flower Pots, Hanging Muskets, and Trellises, of both fancy and plain. DEALERS IN WALL PAPER OF ALL KINDS. BABY CARRIAGES, Brackets, Mouldings, Rustics, Splints, Mottoes and other materials for Fancy Work, Work Baskets, Hand Baskets, Mats, Rugs, and a variety of other Fancy Goods. Agricultural Implements, LABELLE Blackhawk and ttena Plows, Mowers, and nil the standard tools which the market demands. AGENTS TOR THE WORLD RENOWNID WILSON SEWING MACHINES.

EVERDING FARRELL, Wheat, Hay, Oats, Straw, Barley, Ground Feed, Timothy Seed, Flour, Baeon and GROCERIES. CORNER OF FROM AND ALDER STREETS, PORTLAND. DANIELS BROTHERS, DEALERS IX COOK STOVES, RANGES, HEATING STOVES, 1 TINWARE, Japanned and Granite Iron-ware, And a full and complete stock of House-Furnishing Hardware. Our Tinware is manufactured from the best material, and we will warrant it to give satisfaction. Call and see us at the old stand.

Main Street between sth and 6th. June sth, 1879. tf Washington Market. Main street, one door south of Moxon's store. TUOMAS NYE, Proprietor.

BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, VEAL, GAME, I VEGETABLES, Ete. Customers supplied with choice lots at fpom 0 to cents, according to cut. Highest cash price paid for beef cattle, hogand sheep laikl For Sale. Eighty acres near Hounds' mill, described as tin- north half of the south quarter o( Section 84, in Town 4 north of Kauge 1 east. The land is partly open, brush and timber, and considered desirable.

For further infor, matiou apply to 8. BHOBKRT, Union Kidgc. June i 4. IHTfI. srsiM.iXtt.

in the District Court of the Second Judicial District, tiie Territory of Washington, holding terms at Vancouver for the counties of Clarke, Skamania, and Klickitat. LnnlnaX. Mr Lough llu ra. John J. XrLonglilln.

Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Washington, iio'ding terms at Vancouver for the counties of Clarke, Skauianla and Klickitat. Complaint tiled in the County of Clarke, in the of the Clerk of said Court, the twenty-tiftti day of June, a. To John J. McLoughlin, Defendant: In the name of the I'iiiU of America. you are hereby required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Washington, holding at Vancouver, in Clarke County, for counties of Skamania and Klickitat, and to anawer the comnlaint tiled therein within sixty days from the of this summons, or judgment by default will lie taken you according to the prayer of complaint.

The said action is brought to a decree of divorce on the grounds of abandonment and drunkenness, and you are hereby notiticd that if you fail to appear and answer said as above required, the plain tiff will apply to the Court for the relief prayed for in her complaint tiled herein. Witness J. P. Hoyt, Esqu ire. Judge of the said District Court, and the seal.

seal of the said Court, this 85th 1 day of June, A. D. IbTU ft. O'BKI EN. Clerk, by 0.

T. MoCONNEU Deputy. I W. H. ADAMS.

Attorney for Flaiatllf 1 Including the cele' DEALERS IN NALFNItOOMN: Union Square New York, AND 154 State Street, CHICAGO, ILL. Man ufficturers OF SILVER PLATED WARE. Trade Mark for Np ivin, 1847, Rogers Bros. A I. Tlirup Uooiln taken the of ulicrcu'r cxlilbitcil, both lia this mat I the And the Merhleii Hritnniiia Co.

are the LAHGKST ami liest Manufacturers in thin line in the World. SEALED PROPOSALS. Notice is hereby given that sealed Hill he received the lioatd offounty i.iil.i i uuiiiy, iwltiiiifUtii Territory, on Tut-mljij. August oth. I NTH, up to the hour of'J o'clock m.

of said day, lor the eart and maintenance lor the term ot two years, from of all sick, indlgent or needy who may, within the said County of Clarke, he legally deelared to he paupers. such proposals to ftate the rale per week In Clarke County Orders, for which each hick, indigent or needy persou will he furuMu-d with mi'itahie food, lodging, nursing, washing and mending. I'rojiosals to be aeeompanitd a good and sufficient bond in (lit sum of with two sureties, conditional that tht person submitting the same, incase the contract In awarded to him, will jit onee enter into an agreement with the Uoaul of Couuty Commissioners, to suitably board, lodge, nurse, wash and mend for all such sick, indigent or needy persons, for said term of two years, and in ail respects to properly treat and care for such persons; (the contractor, however, to have the benefit of such labor as any of siteh are able to perform without sustaining physical injury,) furnNh a good and sufficient bond, with sufficient surities of the sum of to be approved by the Board. The Itoard reserves the right to reject any and all CiIAS. BROWN, County Auditor and ex.officio Clerk of the Hoard of Couutv Vancouver, W.

July 10, WAGONS, Auk your Jeweler for Ibrw.