Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-09
ABOUT TWO CITIES

Yesterday was the dullest day wit
messed in the news line on Bellingham
bay in long time.
J. w. Sutherland has returned from
a visit TO the Kootenai country, bring
ing with him several fine samples Of
silver ore, found near LardO. Six
assays Of the ore average S62j TO the
ton. Excitement is rife, according to
Mr.. Sutherland, and hundreds of peO-
pie are going into the Lardo country
daily. New towns are springing up on
all sides, and the mountains are alive
with prOspectOrs, while the sounds of
the pick and hammer are heard every
where. There is little doubt that big
mining boom is on in this new mining
country, but prspectors and others
desirOus Of striking "A fortune are re-
minded that the country is exceedingly
new and that good, honest effort APP
piled nearer home will be far surer Of
certain returns than chasing tickle
fortune in the KoOtenai mountains.
A great deal of fun, says the Ore
gonian, has been pOked at the state of
Georgia since HOke Smith Dink Bolts
and Pod Dlsmuke came into political
prominence, but Washington Is quite
able to hold its own with Bill Dunn
phey and Hugo Hug. The latter, u
Democrat Of WhatcOm, wants to be
deputy collector of customs for the sub
port. If he gets it it will be tight
squeeze.
Not day goes by but what some
Office seeking Democrat finds occasion
TO go up-Sound. Quietly lac ips aboard
one OF the steamers, and If asked
whittier he is going, simply replies, no
where, he is just going aboard TO "see "A
friend" But the "friend" evidently has
"A pull" and he IL not seen about his
accustomed haunts for two or three
days. And then, when seen, he bears
a look of-well, say, Clevelandian Tesg-
nation.
The wayfarers who have journeyed
TO Port Townsend during the past few
days, have but little to say on their re-
turn. Some Of them have met j. g..
Saunders, the newly appointed collec-
tor, but they brought back no promises
Of appointments with them. Therefore,
the hearts Ol many Of the pilgrims are
sad, and there Is no promise OF joy com
ing with the morning.
A New Wharcom real estate man
tells story, good or otherwise-it is
himself A gentleman arrived from
the East last winter during that "cOld
snap" in February, which a few may
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the weather of February was extraOrdi-
nary, unparalleled In fact In Puget
sound history, but the stranger did not
know that. For years he had read Of
the Italian climate, the sunny skies and
the gentle Puget sound zephyrs. which
in very sooth bear healing on their
wings, and he longed for a sight Of this
blessed country. He came; but the
rude breath Of Boreas greeted his nos
trils, and the sweet fields which his
imagination had pictured as being
clothed in perennial green wore an all
too familiar mantle of eyhite. Never
theless he listened to the word paint
ing of his friend, the real estate man,
in praise Of our climate, and uttered no
protest nor did he offer any comment.
The real estate man lett him at the
hotel, apparently happy, ana himself
well content. Betimes next morning
he hastened 10 the hotel; his friend had
gone, but behind him he had left this
memento: "Your Italian climate Is all
right, but d--n your Italian liars"
And now the New York Sun will be
beside itself with joy. For out this
Nazaruth has come the name OF Hugo
Hug, and Hoke and Pod aud Dink will
perchance get rest and the Evergreen
State some free advertising. And down
In Wahkiakum county it is said they
have discovered another Democrat
named Sam Butt. There are a number
already whose name is Mudd, and the
list bids fair 10 increase largely during
the next few weeks.
For school Clerk
In response to the solicitations Of a
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