The San Juan islander. [volume], July 21, 1898, Image 3

About The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914

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.THE:
SAN JUAN GOUNTY BANK
—:of:—
FRIDAY HABBOB, WASHIHGTOIf,
a vnnev Order* on all parts of tin
o£lnd^•rdsKceirw! and interest paid on
*£**&?to LOAN on Improved Farms foi
*oJfXith option of paying at the end o
o«years. intereit and principal payable at
__ /tr ark • • ■•• President
AN"D rE^KY .. '■■'■ vice-president
- CMM»
Canadian Pacific
Railway
. -AND
SOO-PACIFIC LINE.
fie Fastest and Best Route to
THE EAST
Through Tickets to all Points
In the
United States and Canada.
THROUGH SLEEPERS
From the coast to Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Boston, Montreal, Toronto and .
Winnipeg.
Take This Route To The
f ooteiuiyand Cariboo Gold
FIELDS.
JEWS? WyWo'uKlan:
don, Setaon. Slocan City and Rowland.
«•• \tlantio Steamship Tickets
*to and from All Poiuts in
Europe.
For full information call on or write to
* F.R.JOHNSON,
Freight and Passer A]? ent, whatcom>
or to E. J. COYLE,
Dist. Passenger Agent,
Vancouver, B. C.
The NEW MAILStr.
LYDIA THOMPSON
BejiUr, tellable and Safe
Elegant Passenger Accommodations
guns Between Seattle and Ihatom
Til. PORT TOWNSEND, And the
San Juan Island
NORTH BOUND. SOUTH BOUND.
LEAVES LEAVES
Seattle Ia m Wiatc0in........4 a m
Tuwu»end....,..O am Kast 50und....7 *. in.
Friday Har.. 10: oin Roche Harbor 10 » m
Roche Har.11:45 am Friday Harborll »
Kant Sound 5 p iv Townteud 4 p m
Arrive WHATCOM Arrive SEATTLE
At..6:30 in. At..7:45 p. m.
J. S. THOMPSON Man?. Owner.
THE U. S. MAIL
Steamer Buckeye
luilif Between Friday Harbor,
Anacortes and Whatcom.
This elegant steamer runs through
the Archipelago De Haro, Daily, Leav
ing Whatcom at 6 a. m. on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, calling at Cot
tonwood, Olga, Newhall, East Sound,
Orcaa, West Sound, and arrives at Fri
day Harbor at 12:45 p. m. Leaves Fri
day Harbor with the mail at 1 p. m.
for Anacortes, stopping at Pt. Stanley,
Thatcher, Decatur, Nedro and Guemes
and arrives at Anacortes at 630 p. m.
Leaves Anacortes at 7 a. m. on Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday, for the
above named points arriving at Friday
Harbor at 12:20 p. in. Leaves Friday
Harbor at 1 p. m. and arrives at What
oomat7p. m. ',
For Freight and Passenger rates, ap
ply on board. ' ' :
A. NEWHALL, - Owner.
fPtrtwe comfort for present
I Kerning economy, feat bvf the ]
]**** machine with anotab-; ;
pad rep<it*tioo, thai fu*r-
CUftKayou long and satisfac-
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ITS PINCH TENSION
i TENSION INDICATOR,
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! x Wm* exact tcwioa) are
Soaphuize the high grade
ia*ncter of the wftt£*Kl
> tttluW for oof elegtat liT*
i White Sewing Maowc Co,
a "aciobtkb. Wash.
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LOCAL AMD PEKSOIUL
County Treasurer Wold was at Den
Harbor Wednesday on official business.
■■; P. A. Jensen went to Seattle Tue*
day. He expects to be absent about
a week. ..■••■/. .... .■ /.;.•."•..;; „"*■».'
Sheriff Jones went to West Sound
Monday on oflicial business, returning
Tuesdary. - ■
The steamer Rainier, of Port Towns
end, discharged cargo at our wharves
last Saturday. - -;
-.. If you have headache your eyes are
defective. Call at the Bay View hotel
on the 25th. Nelson A Robinson. " •
.Heavy 9-ounce Riveted Overall, for
Men. all cotton and a yard wide, for 60
cents, at the Blue Front Store.
Send to Sutcliffe * Hill. Whatoom,
ml ■"»«??• of WaU Paper »nd Paints.
They will be sent you free of oharge. ■•
The tug Laurel, Capt. John Eden
and Jesse Bird engineer, is engaged In
towing fish scows for the Packing Co.
Don't forget the date, 25th of July
your eyes tested free by a scientific
optician. Bay View hotel. Nelson &
Robinson. - i ," * •
Rev. Arthur B. Cort and family re
turned Monday from Lopez, when
they have been \ visiting for the past
two weeks.
Call and have your eyes tested by a
scientific optician. Will be here only a
few days. Nelson 6 Robinson, at Bay
View hotel. „ *
C. E. Cantine, of Lopez, was in the
county seat Tuesday. He reports every
body busy and everything quiet in
that locality. : ; .^* ,:
Judge Bowman is putting in shelves
and counters and is painting and other
wise improving his store building on
Spring street. .-'
A hair pin, horse shoe shaped, tor
torse shell, lost in Friday Harbor.
Finder please return same to this office
and oblige the loser. *
Will Dightman returned from the
Mt. Rainier mining district Monday.
He says that that locality is showing
up some fine quartz prospects.
Miss Florence Lee accompanied . her
sister, Mrs. Holmes, as far as Seattle,
where she will visit with her sister,
Mrs. Bryant, for a few weeks.
There will be a Rebekah lodge insti
tuted in Friday Harbor on Friday
evening, July 29, 1896. All who an
ticipate joining this lodge are requested
to be present. ' ' - :
Judge Bowman has replanked the
side walk in front of his property on
Spring street. We : understand his
store building will shortly I be occupied
by a new firm of merchants.
Dr. Wright is the happy possessor of
a new wheel. For fear the doctor may
forget his usual caution we warn g him
that too much scorching may induce
bicycle eye, bicycle lung or bicycle
heart. ,-. ~;v ' V'^ , •.
Our townsman C. L. Carter is spend
ing a two weeks' vacation iv the Mt.
Slicker mining district, about ninety
miles north of Victoria on Vancouver
island, B. C. We hope he will strike
it rich.
Last Saturday evening Mt. Dallas
Lodge No. 95, I. O. O. F., installed
the following officers for the ensuing;
term: :** Newton Jones, N. G.; M. W.
Martin, V. G. Aug. Wold, Sec., and J.
A. Gould, Treas. 7-. , .
President John 8. McMillin of the
Taooma and Roche Harbor Lime com
pany, was a county seat visitor Satur
ay. Mr. McMillin reports everything
generally prosperous - and % everybody
happy and well at our neigboring burg.
The former member of the Republi
can State Central committee for this
county having resigned on account of
absence, Sheriff Newton Jones has
been appointed in his stead. The com
mittee has been called to meet in Seat
tle July 30. ,_ ". .:;-;. ;' -
Mrs. R. W. - Holmes, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
M. Lee, left Thursday for her home in
Detroit, Michigan. She will visit her
sister, Mrs. Bryant, in Seattle, and her
uncle in North Dakota a short time
before returning home. ;
Our patriotic fellow citizen P. A.
Jensen, has rendered the public a great
service in furnishing \ the i needed ma
terial and repairing * the side :: walk on
Argyle street If j Pete don't recieve
his reward in this world for this worthy
act, he certainly will in the next. *
James Buchanan, of Lopez island,
passed through town bound for Roche
Harbor early in the week.; j Mr. Bu
chanan says that t haying is being
pushed to i completion ias fast possible
n his section. The '}. threatened catchy
weather is hurrying the fanners up a
little in this particular.
A man eating shark was caught in
one of the Island Packing company's
traps Sunday. It was nine feet %in
length, and \ seven gallons of oil was
extracted from its liver. This 1 species
of shark is rare in northern waters and
this is the first one, so far as known,
ever seen in the Sound or Straits.
One of the Alaska boats came into
Seattle Sunday night with a passenger
list of about eigety returning and dis
trusted Alaska miners. Half of these
mssengera remained aboard ■ ship < over
uight, not having sufficient means to
pay for a night's lodging 3at the hotels.
Alaska is all right, of course, for steam
boat companies.
John C. Werner, of Seattle, was here
durings the week examining the old
Eureka lime plant in the interest of
some Portland capitalists. There is a
possibility that |work 1 may commence
at this old camp in the near future,
and if so we understand the capacity
of the plant will be greatly enlarged
and otherwise improved.
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Legislation compelling I th use oj
wide tires would be a atop in the right
directton^looWngJtowaiJbls^ro^
A law pi^ding>»t IthaVMUi of toe
ttwlab^d^proporttonataSto^e
wehtht carried, would prevent a fairly
good road'frombeingcutup^by a.heavy
Kdfcor »lpoorlro^|beliig|madeito.
passable. It would seem that con
certed action isthe only way in which
good roads may be buUt and main
tained, as a road, nomatter «*>*£*»»
once out by a .ingle set of wheels,
rapidly goes from bad to worse.
■isistT~ ■■ ■ sis WKa O—t«i«>a.
UtmiyMM.
With five German warship* fcdni
Admiral Dairey'. fleet at Manila and
the tetentJoos of the German *»*»
still a matter of some doobt, the lead
£J? a^Sepn-ented in theOoamopmi
tan for July will be read with interest
The forty-six portraits and penes of the
Kmperor William whichj illustrate th«
article are in themselves an extraordi
nary exhibit. They might be described
m *«Tne Evolution of an Emperor
shown by forty-six human documents."
Undoubtedly so large a number of por
traits were never before gathered to
gether of any royal or Imperial person-
B*««tr Is Bl«e< D**».
Clean blood means a clean akin. No
beauty without it. Cucareta, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keen it dean, by
•taring up the lazy liver and driving alf im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish ; pimples, boiU, blotchea, blackheads,
ana that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,— for ten cents. All drug?
gats, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c7
BOCH« HARBOR MJEWS BRISK.
The steamer Ranier was in Port last
Sunday. : •• j. ■ ■.. •■ ... •
Miss Lucy Rlabell, of Seattle, Is visit-
Ing her sister, Mrs. Herman Phipps.
The father of Assistant Lighthouse
teener Brooks, of Turn Point, arrived
Friday to visit his son and family.
Paul McMiiltn is able to be out again
and is recoving | nicely from the effects
of his encounter with a giant powder
explosion July 4.
The voters of Stuart and neighboring
islands are delighted with the action of
the county commissioners in granting
their petition for the establishment of
a voting precinct.
The little tug Delta arrived from
Ladner's Landing Sunday and left for
that point Monday, towing a pile
driver and three scows belonging to the
Oceanic Canning company.
Another party in the vicinity of Eng
lish Camp, Saturday evening,; was re
; sponsible for the absence of one young
mail' from here one night and another
two : nights. The hitter is supposed to
be learning to milk—with his hands.
Carl Johnson's sloop was overturned
by a brisk breeze In Speiden channel
Sunday and was only prevented from
sinking by throwing the ballast over
board. $ Carl managed \ to keep her
afloat and himself too until the steamer
Delta came along very opportunely and
took him aboard and towed the sloop
to the Roche Harbor wharf.
Three little boys here a few days ago,
having made up their minds to see
something of the world, loaded a little
red wagon belonging to one of them with
various articles appropriated from their
respective homes—including a loaf or
two of bread and a half dollar's worth
of sugar—and started off on the Friday
Harbor road. They were found in the
evening about half a mile from their
homes, where they had gone into camp,
and owing to circumstances over which
they had no control their contemplated
tour has been indefinitely postponed.
v * Roche.
~ Tw» MlllioHs a Year.
When people buy, try, and buy again, it
means they're satisfied. The people of the
United States are now buying Cascaretß
Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million
boxes a rear and it will be three million be
fore New Year's. It means merit proved,
that Cascarets are the most delightful bowel
regulator for everybody the ycarvovnd. All
druggists 10c, 25c, 50c a box, cure guaranteed.
L.OPKZ HEWS NOTES.
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Yacht Pilgrim was launched last
week.*."-'- ■ --'"".''■*-,- -v-
Rev. Mr. Warren spent a day or two
in Friday Harbor hist week.
Miss Delia Wamsholdt, or Seattld,
has been visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Wamsholdt. for the past two weeks.
Crops all over the island are looking
fine. The recent unsettled weather
has Interferred somewhat with hayiug.
; C. A. Kent and daughter returned
from Seattle last week. Mr. Kent has
been serving on the federal jury for
the past six weeks, but hi now excused.
[ Mr. Jas. Buchanon \ has commenced
I to finish his barn which nas been stand
i ing uncompleted for the past three
years. When finished, it will be one of
the finest on the islaud. r
Wheels are beginning to make their
appearance on the island. Mrs. H. G.
Wamsholdt is the possessor of a "De
fiance," while two or three other parties
are contemplating buying one. ,
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Although the piles have been driven
our dock remains 5 unfinished, much to
the annoyance of the general public.
We hope Mr. Wicks will not delay in
putting it in shape as soon as possible.
Judge J. T. McDonald, ex-deputy
collector of customs at Saattle, was a
passenger on the Thompson > last week
on his way to East Sound, where he
spends a month annually in recrea
tion. : "''.
Miss Tena Sampson has returned
from a visit with Miss Edith f Blowers,
daughter of our ex-road supervisor.
Miss Sampson reports Mr. Blowers do
ing well on his ranch a few miles from
Thorp. - t - \
- Chas. Johnson and family have re
turned to the island after an absence of
nearly » six > years. Mr. Johnson has
spent most of this in Philadelphia, but
now is contented to remain "on Lopes
for some time to come. It is reported
that he will locate a cannery here. |
Guy Kent, our adventurer, goes to
Seattle this week where he expects to
enlist with Uncle Sam. We hope if
Guy does enlist, he will return home
safe and sound, and above 5 all with ex
pt iences more startling than those he
encountered while at sea on the ; bark
Hesper. ' V... - " . ■
Mr. J. C. Paine has Just completed
the plans for a house to be located at
the city at Pt. Stanley for Mr.
Wlllett. ThelMMise will cover a space
of 24x34 will contain, when com
pleted, eight rooms, Including a bath
room, 3d all modern conveniences.
Work will commence immediately.
During the past week Lope* was
visited by two ywh*Jng parties. The
yacht Comfort of Port Townsend, with
Mr. Collins and family and Mr Jacobs
aboard, spent four days here the goeats
ofMr. and Mrs. C. T. Butler. The
Comfort Is a 85-foot boat, yawl rigged
and is very approplately named. She
ha. plenty of jroom.ihavinglfaUshead
cabin, thus making those : aboard en
joy solid "comfort." The other party
Va. from Seattle aboard the yacht
Hypatia, of the Elliott Bay Yacht
dubV Those with thisyacht were H.
Thuriow, Edward Himbling, John
Sprague and Chas. Amer. Mr. Thur
gwlxpscted to meet the Comfort here
batt through f some I misunderstanding,
things^ not •libe.^oonsMueotfy
they failed to meet The : Hypatia's
crew were guests of Ben Llctenberg,
whotea* Elliott Bay Ctab^member
After spendin*Jwo days i on the Island
they toft for Hood. CanaL I. X. L.
COaUUaaiOMaOtV PBOcnooras.
. : (Continued from last week.) -
>v' ■- "■'■ -: :;■■-..■■*;"V- ■'"''-'■■■ FRIDAY, July 8, 1898.
Ordered that the county treasurer cancel the
taxes on the various tax rolls as follows: -
. Tax roll 189*— r-4 of se 1-4, sec si, t» 37 a, r
1 w, $1.96, and lot a, sac as, tp 37 a, r 1 w, 1*6.38,
total £8 34. (Mot proved us, see page 356, toI
i-6,mlse).
■: Tax roll 1893—Nw 1-4 of sw 1-4, sec 10, tp 36 a,
raw, 53.99. Double assessment, as shown oa
pace is of Register of unpaid taxes.) -■ . •
Tax roll 1894—Lot I,^*ss67aad lot $44>. sec a,
tp 36 a, r4 w, (not proved up, as shown by ab
stract from land office 1898); ac 1-4 of 1-4, see
18, tp 96 a, r1 w, fa.9o. lot», fun. sad lot 3, £.90,
•ec 7, tp 34 a, r 1 w: aw 1-4 of ac 1-4. sec 11, tp 14
a > r 3 w, 14.34; total, |M.7t; (double assessment,
see page 5* roll 1894.) : ■■;-.- v r ,«:.;^v. =,
Tax roll 1895— 1-4 of sw 1-4, sec it. rp 37 n, r
aw, $4.65 (error la copying, as said land belongs
to Mr. Peterson, who has not proved up); lot 1,
U. 11, sad lot«, fe.l3, sees, tp 36 a, r4 w: total, I
113.89; (not proved up as shown by abstract from I
UnTo&ce iftk)
Tax roll ll9&—Lot 1, $4.06. lot a, fs-08, all ia
sec a, tp 36 n. r 4 w (not proved up, as shown by
abstract from land office 1898); - lot 1, .03c, lot a,
b.05. lot 3, $1.05, all in sec 31, tp 35 n, r 1 w;
total, fta.l9; (sssessed :to road district 1 Lopes,
should be a Lopes.) -, ;
Tax roll 1897— 1, a, $8.88, in sect, tp 36 n,
raw (not proved up, as shown by abstract from
land office 1898); sw 1-4 of se 1-4. 94-63, see 3, tp 35
a, r 3 w (assessed to school district 9, should be
sa);se 1-4 of se 1-4, |a.B», sec aB, tp 35 n, r a w, and
part of lot a, fa.l 3, sec 24, tp 36 n, raw; total,
18.80 (value oa roll 100.00 in excess of detail
In the matter of the petition of J. 8. Munro et
al. fir the establishment of a county road, filed
on the oth day of April, 1896, at a hearing held
by the board la August, 189—, it was found that
the proposed road was .accessary and should be
opened according to report of the viewers there
of, and the [ex-officio] road commissioner in
whose district said road line is located is au
thorised to cause to be removed any and all ob
structions from said roadway and to cause it to
•c opened and improved forthwith according to
aw. :-:,■-"■• -. ■■>";■.••■ •..-'• ■■•■' ; .■.■-■-•;■■-';■■.■.■■■-.. ■■--■••• J ■ -;■.,.
n Whereas, Thomas Watton and Charlotte Wat
ton, husband and wife, made, executed and
filed their waivers of damages, on the nth day
June, 1898, to a certain strip of land for county
road purposes. ■ Now, therefore, the Board ac
cepts said waiver for the uses sad purposes for
which it was given. , , -.;
The county surveyor is hereby authorised and
directed to survey and plat the strip of road as
per waivers filed by .Thomas and Charlotte Wat*
ton on June 11,1895. .
The Board petitioned the State Land Com
missioners of the state of Washington as fol
lows: -:: ■ ■ "•> -■: ■ ■■ 1 --.^ ■■ ' ■■■ jii -
By virtue of the session laws of 1897 this Board
has caused to be prepared copies of a portion of
the official road plats of San' Juan county and
that you grant to said county the tide lands as
in said plats described snd that you reserve said
tide lands from sale or lease.
In the matter of the roadway deeded to San
Juan county by Wm. Miller on August a, 189 a,
the Board accepts said deed.
- In the matter of a certain roadway deeded to
San Juan county by Clarence M. Tucker, filled
April, 1898, this Board accepts said deed for the
uses and purposes therein mentioned.
In the matter of the petition or O. H. Culver et
al. tor a county road, dated December 30,1893,
it was found that the original field notes of the
survey of said road are defective, it was ordered
that the surveyor correct said field notes, and
that he report the corrected field notes at the
regular July, 1898, meeting: and it is hereby or
dered that said corrected field notes be ac
cepted. ?•>„• "^■•■w-; > >• .. . .-.■■..,.,■■,-■,.-.^:.. .;:.-■■;
In the matter of the petition of F. M. Merrill
et al for a county road, filed' April ao, 1895, it ap
pearing that the surveyor's field notes are de
fective, and that an order was made at the reg
ular April, 1898, session of the Board that the
surveyor should correct said notes, and that he
has made such correction, it is ordered that said
corrected aotea be adopted as the official field
notes of the survey of said road, and it is fur
ther ordered that the road be opened in accord
ance with these corrected field notes and plat.
In the matter of the road known as the "Bast
Sound to North Beach road," it appearing to the
Board that the official field notes of the origins!
survey of said road had been lost or misplaced,
and the Board at its April, 1898, session having
ordered a re-survey of said road and that the
order has been complied with. Now, the Board
being satisfied that the field notes of the re
survey are correct, hereby adopts said notes as
the official field notes of said road.
In the matter of the road locally known as the
Kanaka Bay road, otherwise known as the H. C.
Smith road, it appearing to the Board that the
field notes of the original survey are defective,
the Board ordered said notes corrected, which
the surveyor has done, this Board being satis
fied that said order has been complied with,
hereby adopt the re-survey notes as the official
field notes of said road.
In the matter of the county road running from
West Sound, via Bast Sound, to Doe Bay, peti
tioned for by L. R. S. Gray et al. at the Novem
ber, 18S8, term of this Board, it having appeared
to the Board that the field notes of the original
survey are defective, this Board st its April.
1898, meeting, ordered said road re-surveyed;
said order having been complied with, it is or
dered that corrected notes be adopted as the
official field notes of said road.
Ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Inci
dental fund in favor of A. H. Slitcr, county and*
itor, for fas for stamps for the county officers for
the quarter ending September 30,1898.
The expense account of the County Commis
sioners for the July term was audited sad si
lowed as follows: :
John Buckley, 4 days and mileage ....... $17 *>
J. H. Nichols, 4 days and mi1eage.......... 13 00
Wm. Graham, 4 days, and mileage iB6O
v It is hereby ordered that the July, (898. session
of the Board adjourn to meet on the ad of Au
gust, 1898. at 9 o'clock a. m., for lhe purpose of
considering the advisability of combining the
various county officers for the ensuing term of
two years according to law and under and by
virtue of section 5973, Ist Hill's Code, and for
the purpose of acting on j the Tucker, Penshaw,
Culver and Wattou road matters and for the
transaction of such other business as may law
fully come before this Board.
7 JOHN BUCKLEY, - *
V '."';•;'-' Chairman Board of Commissioners.
Attest.-—A. H. SLITBR, Perk. r
A Bare TMag «•» To*.
A transaction in which you cannot lose is a
•are thing. Biliousness, sick headache, fur
red tongue, fever, piles and a thousand other
ilia are caused by constipation and sluggish
liver. Cssearets Candy, Cathartic, the won
derful new liver stimulant and intestinal
tonic are by all druggist* guaranteed to cure
or money refunded. C C. C are a sure
thing. Try a box to-day; 10c., 95c.. 60a
Sample and booklet free. : Bee our big ad.
BAST SOUND LOCAL KOTKS.
Little Jessie Sutherland, who has
been quite ill, is now better, fi
Master Roy Fagan. son of D. vD.
Fagan of Whatcom, is spending his
vacation in our village.
Miss Bertha Mackey, daughter of
Rev. Mr. Mackey of Whatcom, is the
guest of Miss Zoe Stangroom.
Miss Mamie Hambly returned home
Saturday morning I after / a two weeks'
visit in Whatcom city and county.
Mr. D. Daun Egan, of Whatcom,
came over Saturday to spend the Sab
bath with his family, who are here for
the summer.
Little Miss' Nita Carson, who had
been the guest of Miss Zoe Stangroom,
returned to 1 her home - in Whatcom on
Wednesday evening.
The weather has been fine for sailing
this week and Mr. Sutherland has had
his guests out in his I fine boat, the
"Emogeoe," a number of times.
The Island Fish company is erecting!
a temporary wharf, a few rods east of
the East Sound | house, preparatory to
receiving lumber tor the building of a
dryer on the company's premises.
Mr. Charles Woods received a tele
gram from Seattle giving him a posi
tion of Inspector of rails for the railway
now building at Skagway.- He left im
mediately for Seattle and later will go
to Skagway. —
s4 Mr. Stangroom, of Whatcom, is mak
ing a visit to his daughter, Mrs. D.
DaunlEgari. s Mr. S. has ? recently re
turned from California, where, he says,
the times are harder than ever known
before, on account iof the severe
draught.
The Methodist church held thanks-
Money-back ' -
tea . bakmgpewder
'; . • eada" ■ sadness*""** 1 -
are good, of course, if they
are really money-back.
Ask your grocer foTSckil
imgsßest.
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. flwccsyy Merc Co, - : *
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giving- servioM Sunday,,in accordance
with President McKinley'» proclama.
tion.; The sermon?was preached by
Rev. Mr. Dillon, short - talks were
given by ex-Senator Harper. Judge
McDonald ; and Mr. Crary, of Seattle,
and Hon. N. E. Hicks, of this place,
suitable f music was well rendered and
the large audience well entertained by
the entire servioe. : East Sound.
TO CUBS At GOLD IN ONE DAT.
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A good growing shower Saturday.
John Kittles is trying to ride a Victor
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Don't bother the ranchers now; they
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Strawberries will be about closed out
this week. . ■■•• ■:■■ ■:■-.• ;-:
Wheat is and will soon be ready
to Harvest. "'.\ -1 ',j;.. '■;.*:/■ :■ ;
Dewey and* Scully make the Span
iards much tired. -
Mr. John Bergman is entertaining
visitors from' Seattle. : ; ;.;
Capt Basfeard has been with us
again for a short visit. ' ,
Mr. Allan Chase gave us a friendly
call while on the island. " ' -
We hear once in a while from the
Deer Harbor "Ding Bats."
Mr. Van Bogart had a runaway,
which resulted in a broken wheel.
Our army and navy forever! Three
cheers for the red, white and blue!
Tom Foshette shipped quite a num
ber of crates of strawberries this sea
son.
• Mrs. Orin Barker is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Davis in Whatcom,
who is very ill.
Master Fred Hambly has been suffer
ing lately with a bad eye. He is under
the care of Dr. Fitz Matthews.
We hear that Mr. Adkin is going to
make great improvements as quick as
he is settled. Miss Pearl Adkin's piano
arrived Saturday, and there's music in
the air. . , Scribe.
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Dewey still holds the point
We had a, nice Sabbath school last
Sunday. . • ?
Miss Lou Wakefield Is visiting in
Ferndale this week. */%
Mrs. Belille, of Fairhaven, is visiting
at Mr. Strand's this week. .
Miss Anna Wakefield Is back on the
island after a year's absense. ';:
Mrs. Norton and Miss Gregg were
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Mr. W. A. Wakefield is superintend
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Miss Emma Permaine will superin
tend the East Sound hotel this sum
mer. „ -
Mr. W. O. Wakefield went over to
the Bay cities to sell a large scow load
of wood.
Mr. O. W. Barker's trip to St. Paul
last fall in the i interests of the fruit
growers of Orcas island is bearing fruit,
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