Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-09
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

day.
See the removal announcement of
The Fair.
John Feigh leaves for Seattle tomor-
row morning on business trip.
w. S. Ellis, shingle manufacturer
of Ferndale, and Mrs. Ellis were in the
city yesterday.
f. G. Baatz and wife, of Seattle, are
visiting A. +. Baatz at the latter's sub
urban residence, Lake Padden.
The Owl club are to hold another of
their enjoyable evening dancing parties
at the X. of p. pavilion on Friday,
April p.
City Treasurer Henderson's cat story
is as good as Jim Wardner's black cat
yarn which has been going the rounds
for the past year.
Mrs S. L. Gurnea and daughter,
Miss +. L. Gurnea, returned from
Southern California yesterday, after an
absence of five months.
John NJ. Plat, the Anacortes banker,
and ex-City Clerk Randall came in on
the Wasco last night from Anacortes
and registered at The Fairhaven.
Mr.. and Mrs. R.:ss Bronson, of Oak
land, Cal, who have been the guests
of Mr.. amp Mrs. J. S. Holland the past
week, departed yesterday for Chicago.
A. Boucher, log buyer for the Ia
coma Mill company, yesterday bought
one million feet of logs from Rae &
Isensee, L. l.. Gaudette and Rice q
McGOrrisk, who are operating logging
camps on Lake Whatcom.
J. +. Gander, locomotive engineer
on the Great Northern, has been TAX
ing a 'lay.off7' for few days at West
minister. He will resume his run be-
tween Fairhaven and Westminster
next week.
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment in the case of the state of
Washington VS. Frank +. Biles, appel
liant, who was convicted Of arson in the
superior court some months since.
Biles was sentenced to eighteen months
in the penitentiary.
The action of the supreme court in
sustaining the decision of the court of
this county in the Biles matter is very
complimentary to Prosecuting At
torney Newman, who worked very
hard to obtain such a decision, with
heavy odds against him,
L. E. Rice, a mining expert of San
Francisco, who was in the city last
week, took with him on his departure
for home, several samples of graphite,
asbestos and glass sand, which he will
have tested, with view to opening up
the mines, should the tests warrant.
The Blue Canyon Coal company are
sinking shaft to the new vein, and
they have out in a boiler, pump and
hosting machinery, and are making
excellent progress in the work of de-
velopment When the new vein is
opened up the cost of production of coal
will be very much lessened.
A raft of logs brought in from British
Columbia were sold to w. A. Woodin
yesterday for 81 500. There is a con-
siderable quantity oflogs being brought
in from time to time from across the
line, some of which find purchasers on
the Bay, while some are towed up the
Sound for the mills at various points.
o. B. Reid, an evangelist of consid-
cradle note, arrived here yesterday
morning from Los Angeles, CAL, and
will hold a series of revival meetings i'm
the Baptist hall, commencing today at
II a. m. and 7:30 p. M, and every day
this week at and 7:30 p. m. Every
body cordially invited to attend those
meetings.
The Germania is the name of a Ger
man club which held a party in the
empty store building on Tenth street
last evening. The club is a newly or
ga nized association with headquarters
at the corner of Mckenzie avenue and
street, where they have re-
Gently added a new library of fifty
German volumes, secured through
Alfred Riedel. of the Bellingham Bay
Post.
Frank Messer, boy of about eleven
years, slipped ON the platform at the
railroad depot yesterday afternoon and
tumbled headlong into the bay, dis
lance of some twenty feet. The water
was about two feet deep, and the boy
quickly recovered himself and his
presence of mind and waded to the
shore, softly whistling down Went
Jas though he had not taken
an involuntary header into the muddy
waters of the tide flats.
William Van Waters, a mining man
of Seattle, accompanied by Louis Far
reli, has been examining various por-
tons of Orcas island for gold indica-
lions. Mr.. Van Waters is still on the
island, and in some of the gulches and
valleys there has not only found good
indications of gold but of iron as well.
Mount Diamond, he thinks, contains
lots of iron of an excellent quality. On
his return from the islands Mr.. Van
Waters will go to Seattl,, and will
shortly return and make an exhaustive
examination of the meteorological re-