The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-31
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

baum, postmaster at Stanley
was In town the first of the week.
Robert Wiley transacted business
IN the Bay cities during the past week.
Masks for the mask ball can be pur.
chased at the San Juan Trading Co.'s
store.
). W. Miles has gone to Port Blak-
ley, to work in the saw mill at that
place.
M. :. Cody, the Anacortes architect
and draughtsman, was in town the first
of the week.
%. IL. Culver, of Fairhaven, trans
acted business at the county seat during
the past week.
County Surveyor A. P. Vaughn
and George Parker, of West Sound. are
county seat visitors.
We are in receipt of subscription
from Louis A. Strobe, who is located
now at Payette, Idaho
The schooner Echo is kept on the
go carrying produce from the islands
to Victoria and Nanaimo.
E. ID. Warbass, deputy collector at
Roche Harbor, spent Sunday last with
friends at the county seat.
Don Kneeland is laid up with
sore hand, and Fred Knight has taken
his place on the schooner Echo.
II. j. Kerlin, of Tacoma, visited
with his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. P. Rethlefsen, the past week.
Miss Agnes Doyle returned home,
Monday, from Seattle, where she had
been attending college for some time.
I will sell my house and three lots
cheap, for cash. Address,
HI. S. King, Friday Harbor, Wash.
Let the Eagle scream! Slip in your
Hides, Pelts and Furs. Prices raising.
r. [. MORSE, New Whatcom, Wash.
d. P. Kepler and William Miller,
two of Orcas Islands successful fruit
growers, came over yesterday, on the
Delta.
Tomorrow is the first day OF the
shortest month in the year. Spring Is
nearly here and we have had but little
winter as yet.
L. A. Harrison, of Seattle, made a
canvass of the county, during the past
week, in the interest of the defunct Sc
attic Telegraph.
Hans Lee, of Shaw island, was in
attendance at the cannery meeting. He
says he expects to have at least fifteen
tons of prunes this year.
"A special from East Sound states
that there was born to the wife of j. B.
Fry, on January 28th, a son. Mother
and son doing well.
Judge Winn will open the Superior
Court at Friday Harbor, next Tuesday.
No Jury has been called and there will
be but little business to transact.
Martin Nichols was nine years old on
Tuesday, and a number of his young
schoolmates celebrated the event by
party in his honor in the evening.
Ed. White, formerly mail clerk on
the Thompson, passed through town on
his way to Orcas Island, Monday. Mr..
White is now soliciting agent for the
State Insurance Go.
We are in receipt of a subscription
from J.. A. Mooney, of Spencer, South
Dakota. He is interesting himself in
the Sound country with view to locat-
ing here in the near future.
Miss Lottie Erickson fell in the
stairway, Monday, falling on her hands
and running silver of wood about two
inches long, full length, into her hand,
causing a very painful wound.
DIR. Wright took the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Steen to Seattle
Yesterday morning, to consult with a
phvsician in regard to her ailment,
which is a disease of the hip joint.
Ben LEIGH, of New Whatcom, was
a Friday Harbor visitor the first OF the
week. Mr.. LEIGH was the populist can
didate for state senator from his district
and came near defeating Senator Dorr.
While Christian Jensen, OF Lopez,
was working in the woods, last Satur-
day, a log fell on his right foot fractur-
ing both bones of the leg at the ankle
Joint. DIR. Wright was summoned ana
made the patient as comfortable as pos
sible under the circumstances.
p. E. Dickinson, proprietor OF the
Whatcom County Bank, made gen.
eral assignment of all his property on
Monday morning, to William heiily,
: for the benefit of creditors, and closed
the bank up on the advice OF his a''or.
, new. The obligations are mostly y
aoos;torc and aggregate about S5,OOO