Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-26


! Mason block In this city, was I'm town
| yc-teday. ! am perfectly satisfied with
! the outlook here said Mr.. Mason, and
although the Mason block is not bringing
in heavy rents just nov am satisfied
/ that 30 viii be worth 81 900 or II 200 per
month To me before long. NOu can say
that ] am not bit discouraged and am
wiling to take good investment here at
any time
Yesterday about noon "a frog who had
| by some means dropped into a sewer man
/ hole at the corner OF Larrabee avenue and
| Twelfth street sat up "A doleful lamenta-
| tion. lie was in earnest, too, and he kept
/ up his tale Of woe for some Time until at
! last tired by his efforts his voice became
silent, but last night he was piping "A lay In
cheerful unison with his batrachian com
patriots out In the world.
well known gentleman Of this city,
who lived for some years in the city
| of Mexico. is inclined 20 poke fun AZ
/ Mayor ROnaid's Mexican transactions, as
reported ia the Seattle Telegraph last
Sunday. And If both Seattle's mayor and
| the Fairhavcn citizen were not Missouri
ians, IL might be urged In excuse that
MissOurian was Mr.. ROnald's native LAM
Rudge, dud he could not be expected 70
/ understand another. However 10 may be,
| says the old Mexican resident, from
present indications Seattle's worthy
| mayor Will have "A "nOchc triste' when
he returns 10 Seattle which, tguratively,
Will be worse than the dismal swamp"
| he encountered In Mexico
f. NJ Smith and g. NOstrand are two
/ gentlemen who recently arrived here
| from Arkansas City. Kansas, TO take up
their residence. Before gOing TO Kansas
| they lived on Long Island sound where
] for many years they were engaged In the
/ oyster fisheries. Both, therefore are
| practical Oystermcu, aud they located
| here because Of what they had heard Of
| the Puget sound oyster fisheries. Since
coming here, some weeks since they have
made careful examinations and they are
convinced that this Is the place for oyster
! farming. Puget sound oysters. says Mr..
Smith, are only the baby oysters,
50 10 speak; "the parent oyster
| not having as yet been discovered.
| The conditions for oyster raising are all
that could be wished, and 10 Is their In
/ tentiOn 10 import Eastern oysters here
aud 20 into the cultivation on a large
| scale. Oysters Will mature in one year on
a sandy bottom and on a mud bottom
| three years are required and the good
! Old-laShiDucd Eastern oyster can. he
/ claims, be raised here Just as successfully
as on Long Island sound. lie has discoy-
cred " sets which are Identical with the
/ Eastern article. All hc asks Is % be pro-
/ tected in his rights after he has begun his
| oyster planting, aud the laws of the state
/ guarantee this. According 10 Mr.. Smith
30 will only be- a snort time when the gem
uins oyster viii Dec raised In large quanti-
ties on Puget sound.
Manager Whitmore, Of the Lighthouse
/ theater. referring tD the complaint, made
as 10 the quality Ol plays produced at the
| thcatcr, says that companies doing Se-
attle desire 20 come 10 Bellingham bay,
/ but ina-much "a the stage facilities are
] Es.s. 1lF
troupes and the necessary scenery which
/ they carry, he j. unable 20 book them.
/ Business has increased 10 such an extent
here that he would be willing 20 offer
fair rent and a long lease TO any one who
| viii erect cOmmOdiOus opera house with
/ stage facilities sufficient 10 handle the
average travelling troupe.
G.. NJ. So Relle, Of Custer. was In the
city yesterday. Mr. So Rellc reports
vegetation In very backward state,
owing 10 the late spring. Fruit trees aud
straw berries withstOOd the cold Of last
winter first rate, aud with a favorable
summer he predicts large yield Of fruit.
! II Is stated on the very best authority
that the Bellingham mill will be started
up about the first Of June. The lumber
business has picked up wonderfully IN the
past few months. Manager Atkinson. Of
the Bellingham Bay Improvement com
pany's mill, says orders are coming ln
rapidly, and the only difficulty he now
meets Is % get a sufficient supply Of logs
20 meet the increasing demands The
starting up OF the Bellingham mill Will
help things out In Fairhaven very ma
terially.
The Bay Odd Eelows have made ex-
tensive preparations for the celebration
Of the seventy fourth anniversary Of the
. prnaF lIgllv and flHlrfggufh
decorated with trees, members Of the
J chain gang being busy all yesterday ln
! supplying trees 10 the business men 70
put up IN front Of their places Of business.
/ There will be d procession at $780, IN
which other societies will participate, and
the exercises will be held IN Lighthouse
theater. Rev ID. l.. V. MofIet will de-
liver the principal address
! Kicking Is as old as the scriptures. for
is II not written that "Jeshurun waxed
gross and kicked?" And there are kick
eTs. acute and chronic, every where, and
some OF them are not very gross either.
One Of them got In his kick the other day
because. Street Commissioner Darnell, Of
New Wbatcom, was keeping the streets
80 clean. He was actually wearing out
the streets said the kicker, but the streets
will be kept clean. just the same, for
added TO his other duties the street com
| missioner has been clothed with authority
10 roundup the city scaYenger, and II he
kicks fire him and report 70 the council
| for another one.
Fred n. Oliver, one OF the state road
! missloners, leaves for his home In
Stevens county this morning. His inter-
views with County Commissioners Gil
lette and Mcdaniel were entirely salts
factory. Stevens and OkanOgan counties
will make their appropriations for the
Ruby Creek trail, which be says will be
Of vast benefit 10 those counties, giving
them a short and direct route 10 the sea-
board. Mr.. Oliver thinks that the appro-
| priatlons should be made at once and no
1 Time lost in building the trail. The min
ing interests OF oStevens and OkanoRan
counties are rich and are being rapidly
developed, and railroad from Belllng-