The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-08

| iAiooh hOdAWdy All didTIIl was given
and was promptly responded to by
many OF our citizens who happened to
be near by and the flames were soon
eXtingnished. The fire caught from
an overheated stove pipe in the room
adjoining the postotfice.
A false rumor is being widely circu
lated in this county to the effect that
Judge w. II. Thacker, our Republican
candidate for representative, was the
author and writer of the editorial in
our last issue relating to his PopuliSt
opponent, JOS. Hilton. In Justice to
Judge Thacker THE ISLANDER wishes
to state That he not only did not write
or suggest the same, but that he knew
nothing of it until it appeared in print.
We desire to say here and now and for
once and all, that the management of
TIE ISLANDER is accountable for all
the matter, political and otherwise,
appearing in our editorial columns and
we desire to say further, that no CAN
dldate running Oh the Republican
ticket has ever written any matter of
a political nature that has ever APP
peared III this paper. The fact that
some Populists and their sympathiZers
In Friday Harbor have imputed some
OF the matter appearing in our editorial
columns to some of the Republican
candidates, has called for this state
ment, and We hope that this will settle
the question in that regard.
The Puget Sound Methodist Episco-
pal conference, at their regular annual
meeting held at Vancouver last month.
made some changes in the districts
us well as in some of the circuits.
Whatc0m and Seattle districts were
merged into one and Will be known as
Seattle district. East Sound circuit
which heretofore included Orcas anu
Lopez islands, and was in Whatcom
district, is now confined within the
limits of Orcas island, and is i'm Tacoma
district, under the jurisdiction of Pre-
siding Elder Joslyn. Rev. Mr.. Mills
and family arrived at East Sound last
week and are now comfortably settled
in the Methodist parsonage. Mr.. Mills
occupied the pulpit on Sunday last and
made very favorable impression on
the people. The evening before the de-
parture of the Rev. Mr.. Patterson and
wife for their new field af labor, a fare
we'll reception was given them. The
large number present was sufficient
testimony of the high esteem in which
the reverend gentleman and his esti-
mable wife are held in this community.
After a pleasant evening, good byes
were said, and the hope expressed by
their many friends that the next year,
at their new appointment, might be Il
very pleasant and profitable one.
N,o &c tl,o ,,,or,;,out D>,,,l;H+, of
San Juan county made himself espec
tally busy during the evening Of the
Lewis Rally? circulating the report
that the Straub case had been reversed.
POpulistlike though, when CALLED up
on for the authority of his report, it
turned out that it was some irresopnsi-
BILE gas. that he had imbbed on some
somewhere on Puget Sound.
Now the fact is, the Straub case is on
appeal in the Supreme Court of Wash |
during the October term of this court,
aud the Result of the trial will be that
the decision of the lower court will be
:firmed, and an order will be made |
10y the Supreme Court directing the
lower court to fix the time that Il. *.
Straub shall suffer the penalty OF his |
Vi AoCCiifS tiiC I'ItNti1l7 f'if'
their allies are tryiny to make capital
Of the Straub ease. it is not improper
~ call public attention to the fact, that
Il. IL. Strauu was the temp ,rary chair /
tlsn of the Poptlist county coav"n-
ton of two years ago, ami that after he |
tie crime of murder it was |
Populists that led the mob that made
it necessary to transport Straub to
Whatcom county for safe Keeping, and
it might Not be out of order to SAY right
here, that one of tie parties circulating |
the report mentioned above WAS one |
of the leaders in the mob against
Straub. Now if our Populist friends
think there is any profit in agitating
the Straub case, we invite them all,
their allies, synpathzers and friends
to come right along We will be pleased
to accommodate them further at any
time.