Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-17
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

ufacturer Of Wickersham, is in town.
Mayor Mckenzie departed yesterday
morning for Montana, TO be absent a
week or ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. l.. Hopkins re-
turned yesterday after All absence of
several weeks in Kansas.
The bark Theobald, which is loading
at the Blue Canyon bunkers, will be
ready for sea tomorrow noon.
+. A. Parker, of Jarman Prairie,
proprietor OF the Parker shingle mill,
arrived in town yesterday on business.
DIR. Macpherson, OF New Whatcom,
took the Knight Templar degree In
Hesperus cOmmandery last evening.
George w. Lysle will 20 TO Seattle
on Monday TO meet Mrs. Lysle, who Is
to return from California on the UNA
tilla.
;. W. Means goes TO Portland TO.
morrow 10 meet Mrs. Means on her
return from California. They will
reach home Monday.
Axel ;, Jostedt, who has conducted
very successful Restaurants in this city,
has now opened new one on Eleventh
street, between Harris and Mill.
The Remboldt boom of logs, 300, 900
feet, has been purchased by the st.
Paul and Tacoma mill and was towed
up the Sound by the }. Il. Boyden
The council Of the Swedish Lutheran
church held meeting last night and
decided 10 ask admittance into the
Swedish Lutheran Augustana synod.
One thousand tons of coal from the
Blue Canyon mine were brought In
during the first four days of the week
400 tons Monday and 100 tons each day
since.
The steamer Success, sold to New
hall, of the Newhaii mill, was turned
over 10 her owner yesterday, by whom
she was taken To Cascade, Orcas island,
which will De her home port.
Rev. 5. ii. Newman, from Seattle,
who came up Wednesday morning TO
assist the Swedish Evangelical Luth-
eran congregation in their work, left
for Seattle on the City Of Seattle this
morning.
No train arrived yesterday from
north or south. Both passenger trains
and one freight train are at the Seattle
end Of the line A passenger train
started out from Seattle, but encoun-
tered "A 5O0-yard slide near Edmunds
and tad not reached Everett at 10
O'Clock last night
The joint session of the New What
com and fairhaven city councils for
the purpose of discussing the cOnsolida-
ton Of the two cities Will be held at
the Fairhayen city ball tomorrow at
3 o'clock. The New WhatcOm council
will meet at the office of Mayor 6iade
and come over in IA body.
The Boston operate Concert COM
paBy, a iirst-class musical organization,
will give an entertainment at Light
house theater, under the auspices of
the y. NJ. &. A., this evening. IL IL
composed Of artists Of reputation and
talent, and the performance will be a
musical treat Of high character.
Street cars will run after the perform
ance.
The ice on Lake Whatcom broke up
Wednesday and was driven by the
wind To the lower end Of the lake,
piling into the slip at the railway
wharf To- a depth of six feet. All the
ice on the lake Is now packed In the
space between the railway wharf and
the Silver Beach hotel. Although il Is
broken up in small pieces, they are
wedged iH 80 thick and solid that one
could walk over it without difficulty.
The steamer Dispatch, which has
been lying at the old wharf for a month
or more undergoing repairs, was fired
up yesterday for the first time for the
purpose Of making test Of her boiler,
and will this morning start on her first
trip on her regular route 20 the islands.
Five new plates have been placed in
her boiler and about half the pipes re-
newed while she has been tied up and
her machinery is now in first-class
order.
The meeting Of the stockholders of
the Blue Canyon Coal Mining Com
pany, for the purpose Of increasing the
capital stock Of the company from
100000 to $1,000, 600, was In progress
all day yesterday and will be continued
today. Besides the local stockholders
there were present John +. Murphy,
Of Helena, and +. +. Wittler, Of Sc
attic. representing the Mcknight in
terests. Today the stockholders will
visit the mine and inspect the improve
ments that have been made.