Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-21
ABOUT TWO CITIES

DOcu oh tho buy lor Ihe past ieW days.
In this county, accompanied by his wife
who is also in the government service. he
Inspected the Lumm and the Nooksack
schools, and expressed his satisfaction with
the quality OF the work being done by the
teachers, and the progress made by the
pupils. DIR. and Mrs. Dorchester left YES
terday morning for Puyallup.
And speaking of Puyallup 1t may be in
order to state that young Indian girl of
the Crow tribe, a ward of City Treasurer
Henderson, Of this city, is a teacher In
the Puyallup Indian school, and Dr. Dor
chester IS the authority for the statement
that there is no better teacher In the
schools of the United States than Miss
Kate Henderson, the adopted daughter
Of Fairhaven's esteemed city treasurer
Miss Henderson, whom many OF our ciu-
Zens have had the pleasure of meeting
was educated In Hampton, w. Va. Be
sides being an excellent teacher, she Is an
accomplished musician, and DIR, Dor
chester says that the service in the little
church on the Puyalup reservation, of
which the young teacher is the organist,
was the most delightful he ever attended
Truly intelligence and goodness are not
confined to the Caucasian race.
Anent the education of Indians, many
will remember the last Sioux uprising In
Wounded Knee will also be fresh in the
minds of newspaper readers Three days
after the battle a babe was found at It's
dead mothers breast, where IL was trying
TO obtain nutriment from the fOunt of
life and love. It was rescued and adopted
into worthy family. A short time ago
DIR. Dorchester and his wife saw the little
one and he describes it as being one OF the
finest children he has ever seen. 1t is
bright and anectionate and shows the
fOndest appreciation for its foster parents,
who look upon the little waf Of the battle
field as their own.
Captain Mclean leaves this morning
for Orcas island, where he will superin-
tend the spring planting on the family
ranch at that place. Many citizens OF
Eairhaven haye farms on Orcas island, TO
which they are devOting considerable at
tentioR and are eXpending a good deal Of
money in their Improvement.
Detective lleady returned yesterday
from Seattle, where he has been engaged
in professional business. A client Of his,
a young woman formerly an inmate OF a
house OF il-repute In Vancouver has
recently fallen heiress 10 a fortune Of
$4,000, left by an uncle In the East.
Through Detective Ileady's agency the
young woman was found, and will soon be
put in possession Of her legacy. She has
reformed and Is now living with re-
spectacle family in Seattle.
J. w. Mitchell,.a hop grower of Lynden,
was on the Bay yesterday. Mr. Mitchell
states that the late spring has much re-
tarded farming operations. The outlook
for hops, however is good, and an in
creased acreage is being put out this year,
despite the hop louise aad Clevcand's free
trade policy
In Vernon's meat market, New What
com. may be seen a pair Of young bear
cubs not more than month old. They
were captured on Wednesday on the
Guide Meridian road. They are as play
ful a Kittens, and were. yesterday, a
center Of attraction despite the steady
downpOur Of rain.
"ThiS J., an Oregon mist" said Frank
Curtis the butcher, yesterday Is,
II missed Oregon and struck Washington
And an unOifending citizen who was pass
ing Curtis market had TO be taken In out
of the rain.
Work on the sewer tunnel, New What
com, is progressing slowly. The tunnel Is
now in about $50 feet The estimated
length is some 400 feet and the wOrkmen
have encountered many difficulties which
render the work exceedingly labOrous.
The baseball team. now that a start has
been made will get down TO hard work
and they hope to give good account Of
themselves and to win some honors for
Bellingham bay. The first game PLAYED
viii be under their own fig tree, and II
they are victorious, IL will give the boys
good start in the seasons work
A number OF logs which arrived from
JamesOns logging camp yesterday were
ninety feet long, and the smallest was
thiJty-six inches in diameter al the small
end. And then there were a number Of
spars which were 100 feet In length and
which measured twenty inches n
diameter at the top. This timber was for
the Bellingham Bay Improvement COM
pany's mill. and is TO fil an order lately
received by the company. And competent
Judges say that the best timber districts
In Whatcom county are yet untouched.
A local merchant, travelling in company
with two demijohns, eXhaused his per-
suasive powers on a street car yesterday
trying TO convince the gentlemanly young
man who manipulates the bell punch
that the said demiiohns were on the free
list--that Is TO say they were not subject
to duty, being only in transit.
at must be hard work running a daily
newspaper nowadays" said sYmpa-
thetic citizen to a newspaper reporter
yesterday, as they chanced to meet, and
the whiles stream Of water poured down
the backs Of each. "Yes: lust hard, that
is all" said the quill driver, and as he
spoke an extra gust Of wind or something
broke a gutter pipe on building where
they were standing, and the pent up con-
tents fell upon the defenceless neck of the
sympathetic. citizen. Dang rain-and
newspapers" and the s. c. shot i'm 70
DAVIS fruit store and shook the water
out Of his boots.
New York green goods men" are still
at their old tricks, sending out bogus
newspaper clippings and the like purport-
ing 10 show how the treasury IS robbed
and millions paid out for the redemption
OF duplicate coupons and greenbacks" 4"
A Falrhaven young man received one OF
these yesterday, but not being Of the
sucker variety he will not telegraph TO
Fruit No. 40 this week" or any other