Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-05
ABOUT TWO CITIES

The baseball season on Bellingham bay
will be opened tomorrow at Silver Beach
when ''Our boys" will try conclusions with
the Seattle nine The home team shQu Id
| be encouraged, and citizens generally
| should come to the support OF the Bel
| lingham bay team. Subscriptions have
not been asked, but Instead, tickets Civ
| Ing transportation to Silver Beach and
admission TO the grand stand have been
issued at 80 cents each, and the business
men aud those who feel like supporting
the national game will be asked TO pur-
chase one OF these tickets. And they
should. In this way the effort OF the
home team to make a creditable showing
for the Bay will be encouraged.
McGorrlsk & Rice, who have a logging
camp at Park. on Lake Whatcom, are
getting out some exceptionally fine tim
Der. They put a log into the lake the
other day thrty-six feet long and six feet
| four Inches In diameter at the small end,
| which contains II ,G64 feet. Another log
36 feet In length scaled 7,O75 feet. And
this Is clear timber and Is Just a sample Of
what Whatcom county can produce.
w. l.. Miller, the shingle manufacturer
| OF New Whatcom, saws that his firm has
orders enough ahead for all the shingles
manufactured on Bellingham bay for the
| htAh Nhi'f ulbliAuhs hb bull
to the business Is the scarcity OF cars.
Prices, since the dissolution OF the shingle
| association, have declined from TO 10
cents thousand, but the demand from
Eastern points continues better than ever.
One Eastern dealer wired Mr.. Miller that
he was willing to pay half the extra cost
for cars over the Northern Pacific, S5, pro-
| Yided the orders could be filled.
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The Ferndale bridge has been accepted
| by the county commissioners, and yester-
day the final estimate, amounting TO
e., ,9Gi, was ordered paid The bridge Is
one Of the finest on the Pacific coast.
Charley Cudworth, the Jolly janitor of
| the court house, has received warning TO
leave town, CndwOrth, like Judge de
Mattos, sometimes INDUCES In little
"iosh on the side" himself, and for the
| past week or so he has found notifications
| for him 70 beware, pinned on the door OF
| his room In the court house. The last II
omlnous. II reads: Third Warning Of
the X. X KS" A neatly executed cross
bones aud skull and a coffin, which or
dinarily call up dire alarms, are beneath
the X. X. X. warning, and then comes
the peremptory command: Leave town
at once" But Charley laughs as heartily
| as usual, and says he Is not "A "hoss thief
In other words the "iosh" doesn't go.
Jack Dowell, who made the murderons
assault upon Charles Magee at Blue Can
yon on Monday last, Is In Vancouver, u.
G. Constable Charlotte who went TO Su-
mas on Wednesday TO inquire after Dow
ell, returned TO New WbatcOm the same
| evening, after wiring Sheriff Requa for
Instructions. The sheriff did not receive
the telegram In time to take action.
Charlotte merely wanted TO know II the
county would stand the expense OF bring
| ing DOwell back. The sheriff at Hunt
ington, Is. c., offered 10 cooperate with
his American brother In every way pos
sible. Up 10 last night Dowell was undis-
turbed by United States officers, and from
present appearances IL Is not at all likely
that he wifi be disturbed, so long as he re-
mains on Canadian soil.
Said a well-known citizen Yesterday:
"How Is II that the Fairhaven city council
are willing to pay reward OF tl.OO for
the apprehension oi w. D Parker, when
| the same council repuciated the tJOO re-
ward offered for the arrest OF lncendiaries.
| IN Parker we're arrested and brought back
/ 10 Fairhaven, would they also repudiate
the reward, after securing the man p
The soop Tyee was robbed on Wednes-
day evening. and everything loose, except
| the sloop itself, was taken. even TO the
sails. The owner Of the Tyee IA Geo. A.
| jenkins, and she was moored between the
g street and Colony docks. Commodore
| Vautler, who was working on his boat
house at q street the same evening saw a
boat plying around the water front about