Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-06
NEW wHATcoM NOTES

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Is in the city.
G. M. Roberts, druggist of Blaine,
was in town yesterday
Deputy Sheriff Conlin returned from
Blaine yesterday morning.
w. H. Hoffman departed yesterday
for California TO recover his health.
Capt. Myers, who is operating a log
ging camp at Birch Bay, is in town.
The case of Lee VS. Hutchinson will
be heard by Judge Winn without a jury
today.
A meeting of the fire delegates will
be held this evening at the Dock street
fire hall.
| G.. G. Shaler, at Higginson's drug
store, has gone to Seattle for few days
vacation.
The Whatcom Truck q Transfer com.
panyj report business improving in
their line.
Col. Powell thinks that the question
of consolidating the Bay cities is dead
for some time at least.
The jury in the case of Lee VS.. Ell
wood came into court last evening at
$50 with sealed verdict.
Mrs. Susie Allison left for Tacoma on
the train yesterday, where she will
visit for week or ten days.
George Hayes and w. Dickinson,
prominent cattlemen of British Column
bia, were i'm the city yesterday.
Osterman's grocery and hardware
store, at Blaine, has been transferred to
Fischer & Mcdonald, Of Seattle.
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hospital will be given by number of
interested ladies some time next week.
School district No. IS, at Point
Roberts, has just finished its first month
of school and completed its organiza-
ton.
7. 5. Hamilton, of the Bellingham
Bay Furniture Company, is to 90 to
California this week for short va
cation.
Attorney j. &. McFadden returned
from Seattle, where he had been en-
ployed in land contest case, yesterday
morning.
d. f. Rice, of Everson, has rented
his lO-acre hop yard to Charles Wink
Ter, of Lynden, who will cultivate il
this year.
County Superintendent Hit has APP
pointed Henry Squire and Edward
Ulrich school directors for district No.
S-Saxon.
Letters from Mrs. NJ. X. Alexander,
now in Washington, announce her in
tention to return to this city within a
few weeks.
Nancy Palmer of Lynden, has ell
tered suit against II. o. Lindsey ct al
for foreclosure of a mortgage and to
recover so on promissory note.
Work on the county bridge at Ever
son is progressing rapidly. Fourteen
bents are already up, and the contrac-
tors are meeting with no obstacles.
Charles n. Green, local assessor in
township 81, range and 6 east, and
township 80, range east, is in town
for few days preparing to begin on
his work.
T. J. Foley, of Point Roberts, was in
the city yesterday. He reports every
thing booming at that place, and Wad-
hams new cannery is rapidly APP.
preaching completion.
Rev. L. w. Apologize, now ass listing
Bishop Paddock, and Rev. Dixon, of
yesterday, and will go to East Sound I
on the Evangel this morning.
There is a strip of land, half mile in /
width and a mile or more in length, on
the boundary line at Point Roberts,
which has never been surveyed. The
land is occupied 10y squatters, who .
would like the government TO make a
survey.
+. H. Port, a cannery man of New
Westminster, was i'm the city yesterday
on his return from a business trip to .
Seattle. Mr.. Port says that the can
nerymen of the Fraser river contem-
plate a good catch and a big business .
this season.
Warren Burgess, who met with such /
terrible experience in the landslide I
last November, which carried the hab-
liable portion Of his ranch into the {
waters of Lake Whateom, is still suffer I
ing from the terrible experience of that |
night in the lake waters.
A scow loaded with lumber, in tow |
Of tug, for Wadham's cannery at |
Point Roberts, was turned adrift, the /
tug being unable to manage 1t, a few /
days ago, and the lumber is now 4
strewed along the shore. As much of /
1t as possible is being recovered.
X. G. Breckenridge and John Meas !
kill, substantial ranchers of Nooksack !
City, were in town yesterday. Mr.. |
Breckenridge has one of the finest /
ranches in the county, while Mr.. Me- |
Caskill's farm was formerly the old In
dian mission at that place. The latter
gentleman reports large influx of set |
tiers to the Nooksack valley, and that
the prospects for the farming commune |
tiles are excellent.
Business is improving generally, |
money is easier, merchants and bust
ness men are doing a better business
than for some time past, real estate in
quiries and sales are becoming more
frequent, and, altogether, there is
much better feeling among all classes
than for many months past. The out