, 1877-11-09
COMMUNICATED.

EDITOR ARGUs:-Lsst Fridays
ARGUS reached Oak Harbor the
same evening, by the mail steamer
Libby. What treat for us to have
a connection by mail, with the out.
side world. Your editorial CORES,
pondence on Whidhy Island was
very good. The remarks about the
wet places and old straw stacks, hit
the nail on the head. Let any one
try their old staw around fruit trees
as a mulch. 1t protects the roots
from the frost, and the quality iss
well as qnantity of fruit will be
largely increased; at least such has
been my experience. How did you
get that item from.Oak Harbor? we
will have to remember Burn'squota-
tion,
1" If there's hole in A. your coats
i pray you tent IL.
There q ehicl amang We takin noes,
And faith he'll print it,"
At that meeting of the citizens of
this vicinity, ways and means were
devised to buoy and stake out the
chanel which has been done in good
shape. There is a buoy on the west
bank of the channel, opposite Mr..
MAYORS House, well moored with a
chain cable. 1t stands ) feet perpen-
dicular, clear of the water, and is
painted bright red with a white
band around it. Any vessel or
steamer opening out Penn's Cove,
can steer right Tor the buoy, keeping
on the east side of it, steering north
west to a stake on the sand spit, then
sast into the harbor, at all stages Of
the tide with plenty of water in the
channel. That low-water pier will
be built in due time. Our worthy
postmaster, G.. w. Morse, takes f.
NJ. Marsh's place in the store and
will put in stock of goods right
away. He intends to have the wharf
carried out 100 feet more, SO that the
mail steamer will get there at nearly
all the winter tides. Capt. Brannan,
as every one knows on the route,, is
a very competent and accommodate
ing gentleman when he is friendly,
but then he is not kindly disposed to
Oak Harbor, but Re may change his
mind on better acquaintance. There
is scheme on hand to deprive us of
our mail privileges, if legal chicanery
and misrepresentation will do it.
The gentlemen say they can accom-.
plish it in about three weeks longer.
Struve, of Olympia, has been taking
afidavits. He has got VIM. Cush-
mans of Olympia, making oath that
we have dangerous harbor. We'll,
he was in here twice in the sloop
Messenger, and ought to know all
about it. | don't know how many
more he has like it from Olympia that
of course has no mud flats, and com
plains about the steamer Alaska not
coming there on her last trip; still
those gentleman will try aud swear
US out of the first regular mail com
munication in twenty years. Well,
that is from the Capital source, and
last though not least, We have @. II.
Larrabee, who is Capt. Brittain's
lawyer, fixing up statement for
Capt, H. Swift, Of CoveIsnd, one of
the Puget Sound Pilot Commission.
ers, who, ! may safely say, never
piloted n vessel in or out of here in
his life, to make sworn statement
against us. We are not afraid of the
truth but misrepresentation abroad
will injure anything. Well, we
thought the Captain a clever, gentle
manly neghbor heretofore; but then
he has the mail contract from Port
Townsend to CoveIand, and is prom
ised few hundred dollars to carry
ours by land, providing that little
scheme is consummated. 1t matters
not what a community loses so long
as few individuals get the "chika-
mon" We believe here that the
Lord helps those who hel p them
selves; but only in the right, and
we mean to stand up for our rights
and expose those nice legal arrange
ments to the Department.
Oak Harbor, Nov. 5, 1877.