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The Islander yil ii , A y. - - MARCH «. I*ol. jit, IMPORTS AM) EXPATS. _< Foreign receipts at Friday Harbor du ring the week ending March 7, I8U1: San Juan Trading Co. —1 tons groceries « tons furniture, and 1 ton agricultural machinery. Werner »fc Nichols — i tons general mer chandise. W. F. Ayera—l ton hardware. Jas. Cooper Wheeler—The Islander plant, about 2 tons. .Jus. Ross—3 tons freight, beer and mer chandise. freight shipments from Friday Harlnir during the week ending March 7, 1(91: Werner & Nichols—7s dozen eggs and 2 !(.hn hay. San J nan Trading r 'o.—2 tons produce. HARBOR HAPPEMXfJS. Tom (Jleawon thinks the sun rises in jMnnd and sets on his six acre tract in Hoche Harlnir. Jim King is supplying the San Juan Trading Co. with about $ot) worth of cord u<M>d^pei'week. The many friunds of Andrew John-I **>n will be glad to learn that lie is rap idly recovering from will be around again in a few days. F. P. Bailer is busy as a bee this week pressing his large crop of hay. He has cut fifty tons or more this season. As soon as the weather settles Er nest Cowle will start up his kiln again. He has returned from San Francisco and is anxious to get to work. The Islander is greatly indebted to; that good fellow and clever artisan,; i-'n■<:. Anderson, the well known black- I trthff hard and skillful work he i put in in our office this week. Mr. McAfee says there must be something in the air down here that ! makes him eat. Those who saw him ■towing away fresh cod fish Tuesday; night thought he had a tape worm. Skookum Tom, the Indian, brought 1 hi a magnificent mess of ling cod, caught oil'the point of Brown's island, oil Tuesday. About everybody in town bought a fish, wasn't fast day. The handsome sign that adorns the front of The Islander building is at- ; traeting general attention. It is said; to compare very favorably with the circus sign over the office of the little paper up the street. Tom QlchooM mad*- a visit to Roche Harbor l.*<st week and while there bought six acres of very valuable prop arty. Tom is a shrewd man and gen erally manages to get there with both feet, and they are large ones, too. The condition of the roads is simply appalling. L. Mackin, of the Eureka j Lime Works, drove over here on Tues day to try his new buggy. He is satis- : fied with it, but says that rides "don't i go"' any more until the roads have dried up. The East Sound, Orcas Island, non snloon-itirhiencc pajier up the street «|R'lls the name of the steamer Evangel hi this way: "Uvangle."' He expects to go to heaven one of these days; we wonder how lie sjk'Hs angel—''angle?" Steve Doyle had a clever article about the recent masquerade in the] last edition of the little paper opposite the town pump. This young man shows indications of ability as a writer and we congratulate our friend, [the enemy, on ' that part of the paper which Doyle wrote. Ja.s. Fleming is building one of the finest residences in the county on his ranch. This site is splendid and the view from it is described as simply magnificent. Our old friend Jim Earns worth is doing the work and we hope he'll get through as soon as pos sible so he can come in town and see us. Jim Ross, the popular hotel man, had a new combination billiard and pool table set up last week, and the con- I sequence is that all the Inns are rap idly becoming exports. There is a good deal of latent talent in this di-, rection in Friday Harbor, ami if prae-; tice has anything to do with the matter it will soon be developed to a high state of efficiency. Miss Eva Cary is learning to set type ! in the Graphic office. If she turns out ' as good a printer as her cousin who fixed up The Islander sign, is a painter, there will lie no question of her success as a typo, And, by the way, this office is willing to put its young lady compositor against the Graphic's in a type-setting contest, for points or to a finish, with either hard or soft gloves, Marquis of Queensbury rules, or London prize ring. Mrs. Geo. A. Lee is paying a few weeks' visit to her mother. - -♦ NOTICE. AH parties Subscribing for the Seattle Weekly Telegraph, failing to receive their l>aper regularly or their premium map, and those who wish to subscribe for same, please notify Geo. A. Eli.spermax, Authorized agent, Seattle Telegraph, for San Juan County. PERSONAL POINTS ALL OVER. I J. (r. Vierick, of Doe Bay, dropped in on am last week, and made a pleasant call. James Doyle, of East Sound, passed i through Monday, on Ins way to San | Francisco. P. J. MeGloin, of Roche Harbor, hasi i gone back to Taconia to engage in busi new. He started last Monday. Ed. Delaney went to Port Town \ send to-<lay to attend the funeral of his ; sister-in-law, Mrs. Tlios. I)e Laney. W. H. Higgins is clearing '1\ acres, \ which lie intends to set out in straw berries this season. Walter Sutherland, the well known boniface of East Sound, and Jonn Xieh olls, took a trip up Sound last Monday. Mrs. Jas. Buchanan, of Lopez, has i l)een ailing, hut her many friends will.; he glad to learn that she is rapidly re covering and will soon enjoy her usual health. Mr. John Sweeney paid The , Lsi,axi>ek a pleasant call to-day. He ; Was on his way to ship ten tons of oats and two tons of wheat to Fairhaven. I The produce was raised on his ranche. The Rev. Dr. <J. Le Soerd, from Whatcom, arrived In Friday Harbor Saturday. He and the Rev. Mr. Me-; Namee expect to go to Lopez to-mor- j row to look up the church work there. Walter Sutherland, of East Sound, is making preparations to build an addi tion to Ids hotel to meet the require ments of his growing trade. He lias! already purchased the lumber and will I begin work immediately. Mr. James Doyle made his parents a , thing visit Sunday, en route to Roche Harbor to take the position of mate on the company's steamer, Harry Lynn. Mr. P. E. Peterson has a force of men ' at work slashing and clearing and in a short time will have one of the finest 1 improved farms on the island. J no. Doyle lias gone to work at the Eureka lime works. Judge Sherer, of Lopez, visited Fri- ' day Harbor Monday and paid The Isi.anjiek a pleasant call. J. S. McMillan, of Roche Harbor, took the boat for up Sound last Monday after noon. I, Miss Katie Cary, who lists been visiting Miss Libbie Brad.diaw, returned home last Tuesday. Frank Baum, the attorney, won two ■ases before Justice Sherer of Lopes dur ng the past week. Emmet Ron gar, of the Evangel, has ; ■one and done it, and he and his blushing jride are very happy. The Misses Evans and Pieiee, of Vie- ] oria, who have been visiting at Orr'm j (Joyce's, have returned home. P. V. Davis, one of Port Townsend's leading attorneys, was in Friday Harbor Monday last on a business trip. John Cozzens, of Lope/., who cut his hand so badly two months ago, is out ■gain not much the worse for wear. John Foley, after a four months' ab sence in Blame, lias returned and will i>nce more become a resident of San Juan. The©. H. Spencer, the V. S. customs officer at Roche Harbor, has returned from Salem, Ore., where he has been on i visit. Jas. 11. Fosnot, the well known black ■ninth of Lopez, went to Port Townsend Tuesday last for the purpose of stocking lip his shop. Thos. I'pston's wife is ill, and on Tues lay last Mr. ITpstoa took her to Port rownsend to consult Dr. Willison. This ', ihows the need of a local physician, and ; ,ye may congratulate ourselves on having ■seared so competent a one as Dr. Hun-1 hock. (ieorge Weber and Billy Richards, who save been visiting and hunting among he islands, returned to their homes in ; Port Townsend last Thursday. Miss Maggie Keeler, of Port Townsend, who is down here on a visit, is holding; down a case on The Islander, "the, leading paper of San Juan County." (ieorge Ellsperman and Mr. Harnett* of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New j York, took a walking trip through Lopez and San Juan islands last week. Wiry (ieorge about did up the genial insurance man and sent him back to Port Townsend entirely fagged out, after which (ieorge turned up here fresh as a daisy and got beaten three games of pin pool, on which he took his usual libation of hot lem onade. J. Allan Smith, who has been chief en gineer of the Roche Harbor Lime works for the past eighteen months, left for Hillsboro, Oregon, on Wednesday last, ac companied by his wife and family. John Werner, of the firm of Werner A Nichols, went up to Port Townsend on Wednesday on business. He has now re turned and his large and genial smile makes one think the sun is shining even ! in a snow storm. Got any tickets, John? Ed Werner's leg is rapidly getting all right and he soon will be brought over here from Roche Harbor. +. , _ St. Patrick's Day. On the 17th of March there are to be great doings in Friday Harbor, and St. Patrick's memory will be celebrated in a liberal way. Tom Gleason will keep open house all day, and in the evening there will l>e a masquerade ball at the hall, at which all the pretty girls and stalwart lads of the vicinity will "chpse the glowing hours with flying feet until the daylight dawns" The Islander will be around, and those dancing in his set will have to be care ful or they will be stepped upon. A DIDACTIC LETTER. Fkiday HARBOR, March 7, 1891. To THE Islander: — The thought ofnmLy men is, 'Ms there a God, and how did he create himself?" They will say, "I can't believe that any being can create himself is the thought of many. Now, observe by history and by personal knowledge that man's jiower is very limited and that they can't control themselves. Now think, is it anymore unreasonable to believe that God created himself than it would be to believe that the tirst man and the first woman created themselves. Think of this and you will sec that the history of the creation of man is true as re corded in the Biblical history, but some will say, "I don't believe the Bible, nor will I believe anything that I can't see or understand." My dear friend, don't deceive yourself, as I will prove to you that you believe in a thing that you have never seen or ever shall see. You may say, 1 can't do it. Now, ask your self the question, "Have you got any brains in your head?" You will say I have. How do you know it? Yon never saw them, nor never will aS them. You believe so on the say of others. Why should you doubt the mk of others that wrote the Bible and its truths, and that they were inspired by God to do it? You gmay say that the Bible tells of a place called heaven, but we never saw anybody coming from there. Christ came from heaven to this earth, and lived thirty years on the earth with men. Now, he says that this Bible is true; that there is a place called heaven; that all who believe in the teaching of this Bible, and do un,to j others as you would like others to do unto you, will live forever when they • leave this earth and be happy, aud tl*»t i the wicked who do bad deeds to thlhr fellow man on this earth will lie pijn-< ished. All men should read tills bf»i»k called the Bible and live according to the teaching of it. They would live a happy life in this world and also be happy in the next. Some will say. "I \ don't believe that Christ was more than man." Let us examine and see if his j history looks that way. WeJ find in history that he was teaching learned men in |the temple when only twelve; years old. The nextjlre hear of him is healing the lame, raising the dead to life, and causing the jblind to see. He ! did alfthis without pay; he reprimand ed the rich for oppressing the poor, he made desciples of the poor and unedu cated, and he gave to them power, so they could preach in any language, i His teaching was to love one another and do unto others as you would like others to do unto you, and he did all i this teaching for S3 years without pay". ; He did not gofto the rich to get money and get into [their favor, but he rppri- J manded them for robbing the poor of their labor; he reprimanded the priests I for their and not living ac cording to God's j;laws. Do you think j that there is a man on the earth at this time that [could do miracles like those Christ did? and without pay he worked, teaching for 33 years, to raise man from a fallen, degraded condition to a glo-j rious elevated one of freedom. He was j crucified that we might live. When j Adam disobeyed God's law, God said to Adam, "You can eat of all the fruit in this garden but one, and the day j thou eatest of this fruit you shall surely die." He did eat. The penalty was death. Now, the only way that man could live again is, that Christ offerrd his own life, so man could live. AAd to prove to man that his death redeem ed man, he resurrected on the third day, proving two things: First, that he \ was the son of God; second, that all j who believed in Christ and lived ac cording to his teaching should never j die, but live forever; hut some men will say, Adam did not die the day he eat the forbidden fruit, but lived many years, and I will prove to you that Adam did die before the day was gone. You will find in the Bible that one day j is m a thousand years and a thousand years as one day with the Lord, so you will see the Lord's day is a thousand years. Now, Adam lived 930 years, so you will see that Adam died before the day was gone. No man lived a thou sand years. To prove that there is & hereafter, I submit the philosophical proposition, to-wit: the human mind is so constituted that it cannot desire a thing which does not exist. Consider this at your leisure. Charles McKay, Friday Harbor, Wash. ♦ Horses on Lopez. Lopez Island is rapidly gaining the reputation of possessing and breeding mighty good horse flesh. Among ; others, James Buchanan has a splenuid ! stock farm and some first-rate animals. j He has three Clydesdale beauties which | are destined to materially improve the j work-horse strain of the Sound, and a I barn full of other breeds equally good jin their way. Jim Davis, of Richard ! son, also has a fine lot of horses. i I — A New Lighthouse. Congress recently appropriated fif teen thousand dollars for the purpose of building a lighthouse fog signal sta tion on Turn Point, Stuart Island. DEATH STALKS ABROAD. Mr. A. 11. Rader, who was recently appointed Overseer of the County Poor, has been in a peck of trouble last week. i vhving to the inadequacy of the facili j ties for caring for the sick and indigent, ' who, owing to lack of means, were |hrown upon the county, he wasjforced ;0 turn his private residence into a county hospital. The tirst patient was Mr. Maile, whose unfortunate accident ; has excited the sympathy of the county for the last two weeks. He was brought here from the scene of the accident on ' the 23d of last month and put under the care of Mrs. Jas. Ross, in the San Juan Hotel. On the 6th of the present 'month, after Mr. Rader had received his appointment, the sick man was transferred to his (Mr. Rader's) house j and formally placed under the care of j Dr. E. It. Hunlock, the resident physi \ ciail of Friday Harbor and coroner of | San Juan county. The case was a very complicated and delicate one owing to the fact that the ' patient had enervated his constitution Me an exceeding degree by former ex | cesses. It was found that the injury caused by the burn was so great that it i would be necessary to amputate the; limb in order to give Maile a chance for his life. Dr. Hunlock accordingly undertook the operation and with the assistance of Dr. Emery, of Roche Har bor, it was successfully performed last Friday afternoon. His arteries were! found to be so attenuated and burnt' out that a hemorrhage was deemed by the. physician extremely probable and he had to exercise extreme care on that account Up to the present time Mr. ! Maile has been doing very well and it is hoped that he will pull through if no ! change for the worse occurs. On the fourth instant Isidor Es-1 eabedo, a native of the Manilla Islands, ; who has been a resident of this county | ten or fifteen years, was brought in to Mr. Rader's house. He was suffering i from chronic Bright's disease,and was I in the last stages. He was in a state of j dementia and has required constant care and watching to prevent him from injuring himself. He died this morning at 2 a. m. A PLUCKY PREACHER. The average man is very a P* to con- J sider those who are professedly relig-' ious, such as ministers, for instance, as j weaklings or softies. Occasionally this may be so, but those who take it to be a cardinal rule will get very much j fooled. A case in point occurred lately in Friday Harbor which goes to em phasize this statement. It seems that j the Rev. A. J. McXamoe of this place! needed some tire wood some time ago, I so he went up to Driggs' ranche to buy i some. There were several large butts i lying near and Mr. Driggs said: "why j don't you saw off a couple of these and j take "them?" "All right," said the reverend gentleman, "I'll saw a couple off tonight." Driggs looked at the unworkmanlike get-up of the preacher, noted his spec- ! taeles and the worn expression of the earnest face that had been planted there by the struggle of conducting a church In a frontier community. Then he glanced at his watch and saw that it was nearly five o'clock arid that it would be a hard job for a hearty labor- j ing man to cut those two butts in four hours, so he said: "If you do, parson, j I'll give you the best hat you can buy for five dollars." "I don't want anything better than ! that," remarked the reverend gentle- I man, as he took off his black coat and hung it on a stump. Then the saw dust began to fly. Mr. Driggs watched j a little time and then went to supper, ! thinking that the pace was so great that the parson would soon break down. When he came back at eight o'clock the butts were sawn in two and Mr. McNamee had disapeared. He sadly murmured, "you never can tell how far a frog can jump until you see him jump." Then he laid a five dollar gold piece on the nearest log and went home. ♦- 1 — A Promising Venture. T. J. Glakeler of Lopez Island is clearing ground with the intention of growing the luscious strawberry, which no where in the world grows to greater | perfection, both in the matter of size ! and flavor, than in San Juan county. I The venture w.ill unquestionably prove | successful and profitable. It was only last year that twenty tons of straw berries were raised off four acres of ground right in this town. A Sad Event ) Tom DeLaney, the well known and efficient chief of police of Port Town send, and who, by the way, comes ilfrom this island, has suffered a sad loss |[n the death of his wife, who died ! Thursday. The lady was a niece of : Judge Bowman and leaves a large circle of mourning friends. Tom hini aelf has the sincere sympathy of every |ue who knows him. The weather has changed and balmy spring is sitting in the lap of winter. jlt will not be long now before the buds jvi ill burst and bock beer will come I slong. } Summoned in the Sachs Case. County Commissioner Joseph Swee ney, Sheriff John Kelly, R. H. Wans borough, clerk of the Superior Court, and the Hon. J. E. Tucker, were sub poenaed by Deputy McGinnis, of Port Townsend, to appear before the Legis lature at Olympia and testify as to what they know about Morris B. Sachs' 'judicial character. According to the , Seattle |Telegraph, our representatives must have cut considerable of a figure i down there. Mr. Sweeney figured, ac , cording to the Telegraph reporter, as a i commissioner from Island county, ! which shows a lamentable lack of , knowledge of San Juan county in the i outside world. Tin? Press-Times reporter, of Seattle, ! also seemed to lie impressed with Mr. Sweeney, as is evidenced by the follow ing excerpt from his report: "Joseph 1 Sweeney, the round-faced, good natured ; Irishman who is chairman of the board of county commissioners of San Juan, had just testified that Judge Sachs' standing was good, and Judge Parsons | for the state [had [endeavored to elicit the opinion that if Sachs was a gambler jhe violatedJhisjobligations to law and , society. i Thompson thought Sweeney could ; give an expert opinion on ministers ' and asked him if it was not a fact that some clergymen have*been known to violate every obligation. j Some smiled, some laughed, some ap , plauded, President Wilson looked cross, ; and Sweeney said he did not know much about ministers." I Our popular sheriff is described by the Telegraph as "a large, pleasant looking man." The graphic reporter ; got in his work on Judge Tucker also, i and described him as "a huge man with ; a strong voice and iron gray beard. ; Their general testimony was that Sachs i had always been a satisfactory judge. , .-*. There is to be a Grand Ball at Union j Grove on Tuesday evening, March 17, ! for'the benefit of Dist. No. I. Work , [has commenced on.the new school-J \ house of said district. It is the inten ; tion of the directors to finish and fur- f nish it throughout. They have taken | this means to help pay the cost. It is to the interest of every person to help such an enterprise to the best of their I ability. The directors have rented Union I Grove Halijand secured good music! and will do all in their power to make | this a grand success, as should every j person in this vicinity. Religious Services in San Juan County. FRIDAY HARBOR. Presbyterian services every Ist and 3d Sunday of the month, at p. m. Rkv. T. J. Wkkks, Pastor. M. E. church, services every 2d and 4th Sunday of the month at 7:30 p. m. Rkv. A. J. McXamek, Pastor. LOPEZ ISLAND. Rev. T. J. Weeks will hold sorvices on the 2d and 4th Sunday of the month at North End school house at 10:30 a. m. At the Presbyterian church at 3 p. m. Rev. A. J.gMeXamee will hold services at the same place and hour on the Ist and 3d Sundays. roche nannon. M. E. church services at 11 A. M, and 7:30 l*. m., every other Sunday. Rkv. \V. EL Johnston, Pastor. KAST SOUND. Emmanuel church, Fast Sound, divine services every Sunday at 1:30 r. M. and 7:15 r. M. Wednesday evening at 7:15 P. m. Sunday School at 12:30 r. M. M. E. church, services at 11 A. M. and 7:30 r. m., every other Sunday. Rkv. W. H. Johnston, Pastor. J. A. WERNER, M. W. NICHOLS Werner & Nichols ! FRIDAY HARBOR, SAN JUAN COUNTY, ° WASHINGTON. •~|» DEALERS IN gf*- i General Merchandise AND Commission Merchants jo ■ ■■'• ;• ■ ' We Buy and Sell Everything and pay Cash or in Trade. No Shelf-Worn Goods or Old Stock on Hand. Everything Fresh and Merchantable. Our Price* are a* Low as the Lowest and our Qualities a. Good as the Seat COUNTY JOTTINUS. Anton Dener has recently purchased 40 acres of the old Jack M rrwty place on the beach, in fin ol Turn Island. The price he paid fox :.h<- prop | erty was fifteen dollars peracn All Saturday aftern<K>n the I v ander • office was irradiated by the presence of ' young ladies, brought by curiosity or other motives to examine the modus operandi prevailing in newspaper offi ces. Such visitors are always welco se, as indeed, all others. We want to know everybody and have them know The Islander. Jas. J. Atkins, of East Sound, set Ida first galley of type for eight months on the Islander, Saturday. He is a New j Yorker and held a case down on one j paper there for 18 consecutive years. ! He says that on the present occasion ho I would hnve set cleaner were he not per j turbed by the rustle of «kirts and the ! fragrance of femininity that pervaded the office. Capt. J. Edwards, who has one of the I finest ranches on Lopez Island, is so jjourningin Port Townsend for a short J season. His farm is in charge of Mr. I Martin Mervyn. The genial captain can always be found a the Franklin. The Methodist church of East Sound has purchased a new bell, whose tana is said to be very superior. It can be heard | rive miles very distinctly. The steamer Harry Lynn, Capt. Boyce, has been thoroughly refitted at Roche j Harbor and is now in readiness for the I spring trade. -* Last week three men, who are stated to have come from Sehome in a sloop, were caught in the act of killing sheep on Trump Island. The malefactors had four dead sheep in their possession. They were arrested and taken liefore Justice Troxell of Precinct No. 1, Lopez Island, and fined §.50] each. The sloop I was held in security for the fines. Mrs. M. Anderson is going tomorrow to Gilliam county, Eastern Oregon, on business connected with mmie real estate she owns there. Grips and Pass Words. On the afternoon of March 7th there was an informal meeting held in the court house in regard to organizing an 1. O. O. F. Lodge in Friday Harbor. Mr. George A. Ellsperman acted as chairman, with F. P. Baum as secre tary and W, F. Ayers as treasurer. It was the hearty sense of the meet ing that there should be a Lodge start ed as soon as convenient, and a com mittee of five appointed to make ar rangements for instituting will make the second lodge in San Juan county this year. As societies of this kind exert a moral influence in a place and help to make better citizens, we hope to see this order started soon and be a suc cess, as it will be a credit to Friday Harbor and the county in general. NOTICE. From and after this date all wood and bolts prepared for and measured by the undersigned, will be required to be closely piled and to be four feet and four inches high to cover shrinkage. All bolts meas ured with the bark on must be five feet high; without bark, four feet four inches. TACOMA & ROCHE HARBOR LIME COMPxVNY.