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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

For keeping butter for winter use,
where cold storage cannot be had, no
plan Is as sure to result favorably as
the pound prints in strong
brine, and if a trifle of saltpetre is added
to the brine the plan will appear to be
safer. Butter will not absorb salt from
the brine; hence the plan of the little
muslin wrappers, or DIETER yeti the
little paper box which incases the pat
of butter like close-fitting envelope
and prevents the butter from getting
bruised in the bath. We think we
have before recommended the sterilized
brine, simply strong brine boiled, and
after cooling, placing these pats of
butter in it and keeping in cool place,
and taking up the butter only as
wanted.
Where one has very cold room OF
uniform temperature butter can be
packed in close-fitting packages, and
closely covered after placing on the top
of the butter either closely fitting lay
ers of butter paper or paste made OF
very wet salt spread evenly over the
surface before putting on the cover
closely. The facts are that nothing
very new has been discovered about
the keeping of butter not known to
our mothers, and while cold storage is
the best, it is only at the command of
comparatively few, so the old standby
receipts have to be brought out and
again presented to public VIEW
Country Gentleman.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
Time to Plant Strawberries

The best time to plant straw berries is
beyond all questions fall, for several rea-
sons: First, that the strawberries
planted in the fall have longer time
to establish themselves than those
planted in the spring; second, that
strawberries planted in August or
September do not get weedy, and the
planter gets advantage of two or three
months growth without having the
weeds to fight (that is where the ground
is reasonably free from weed seed
third, that the planter gets partial
crop of berries the next spring, which
he would not get if he planted in the
spring, thus being one partial crop
ahead, and the next crop following the
first spring seems also to show differ
ence in favor of fall planting; fourth,
that strawberries that have been plant
ed in the fall may be replanted early
in the spring wherever there is miss
ing one; but if they are planted in the
spring there are less chances for an
even stand, besides getting no fruit
that spring. These are few advan-
tages to be had from fall planting.-H.
F. Koners, Manager Bohemian MUIR
series, in Nebraska Farmer.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
BUILD cANNERIEs AND DR1ERs.
And Preserve Fruit for Human Insteas
Of Porcuine Consumption.

And Preserve Fruit for Human Instead
of Porcuine Consumption.
A Whatcom dispatch to the Post
Intelligencer says: Immense quanti-
ties of fruit are going to waste in this
county and San Juan. Hundreds OF
acres of young orchards are bearing
this year for the first time in any con-
siderable quantity and the production
is vastly in excess of the demands of
the home market. Canneries and driers
are very greatly needed to handle the
surplus. Tons upon tons of the finest
plums and prunes raised on the Pacific
coast will not be picked this year.
One grower from Orcas island told
the Post-Intelligencer correspondent
today that he had shaken the plums
from his trees and turned his hogs into
the orchard to eat them. In the vi
entity of East Sound and West Sound
alone many car loads of fruit could be
bought now at very low prices.
One or two driers are being built
near West Sound and a fine new drier
is in operation on the Big Peters place,
at East Sound, but the prune crop
there is SO great and is ripening so fast
that the drier will not be able to handle
it all. There seems to be an entire lack
of organization among the fruit grow
ers, or of any systematic effort to mar
ket our luscious fruits in the East.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

Every farmers family is deprived of
one of natures great blessings if the
garden is lacking and has no asparagus
bed. 1t can be had with very little
trouble after it is once started. AS
soon as the ground can be worked in
the spring the bed is spaded up and the
manure turned under. I use for this
work a six-tine spading fork, generally
called a potato-fork. If the bed has
been properly started, this spading can
be done eight or nine inches deep; but
we have to be careful not to injure the
asparagus roots, with which the bed is
interviewer at that depth. Especial
care must be taken when spading right
over the crowns of the plants. They
are somewhat near the surface of the
soil, and easily reached with the fork
and ruptured. But these places can
be plainly noticed by the dead stubs
of last seasons growth. Every time
mess of asparagus is cut and signs of
vegetation are noticed, the garden rake
is drawn over the bed the whole length
and touching every spot. This stirs
the ground, and ends all vegetable life
for the time being. After we stop cut
ting, this raking process is kept up
more or less all summer, and would
say right here that the better care we
take of our bed this summer, the easier
work it will be to keep 1t in proper
shape next season.
In the fall, or when the bed is to be
covered again with the usual fertilizer,
all growth of stocks is cleaned off; but
the seed-stocks should be removed be-
fore the seeds drop, as they are as bad
as any weeds if suffered to grOw.-G.
G.. Greiner, in Farm and Fireside.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
WEST SOUND NEWS NOTES.

Father Fay stopped off here Monday.
Mr.. John Bergman has built a very
nice apple house.
w. o. Clark's new drier commenced
business Tuesday.
Mr.. John Nichols, of Whatcom, was
at West Sound, Monday.
Apples are so cheap now that the
yellOw-hammer wont touch them.
Mr.. VIM. Hambley's drier COM
menced drying Mr.. Langell's prunes
last Friday.
Mr.. Peter La Plante has rented the
Bull place for year and moved his
family there Friday.
Mr.. Peter Shorts left the island for
Seattle, Tuesday. We wish him sue.
cess wherever he goes.
Miss Maud Shory, who has been very
sick for long time, was at Sunday
school at Deer Harbor, last Sunday.
Quite few of the Deer Harbor folks
attended the funeral of Mr.. Robert
Kittles at his fathers home on Jones'
island. SCRIBE.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
Notice of Application to Purchase Tide
Lands.

Office of Commissioner of Public Lands,
Olympia, Washington.
Notice is hereby given that Groll & Gal
LANCER, of Lopez, Washington. filed an
application in this Office to purchase the
following described Tide Lands, of the
second class, situate in San Juan County,
Washington, tOwit:
All of the Tide Land of the second class
owned by the State of Washington, sit
uate in front of, adjacent to or abutting
upon that portion Of the United States
government meander line described as
follows:
Beginning at point on said meander
line in front of Lot L, Section n, Town
ship IS, North Of Range West, that is
6.98 chains from the meander corner to
fractional sections % and q, measured
along said meander line; thence from said
initial point in front Of said Lot l and
running in a southwesterly direction a
distance Off lineal chains, according to
certified copy of Surveyor Generals field
notes filed with said application July z,
1897.
Any person desiring to protest against
said application may do SO within thirty
DAYS from and after date of first publica-
ton of this notice.
Date of first publication this 9Th day OF
Anpnst. 1897. ROBERT BRIDGES,
Commissioner of Public Lands.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
EAST SOUND LOCAL NOTES.

Mrs. Grace Albert, of Olga, was in
East Sound, Saturday.
East Sound is now proud to state
that she has drug store.
Mr.. u. E. Hicks has returned from
a ten days trip to Tacoma.
Mr.. E. P. Newhall was at East
Sound two days this week.
Mr.. Bertram Buxton made a flying
trip to Fairhaven, Monday.
Mrs. w. Holmes, of Newhall, spent
a day in East Sound this week.
Mr.. Henry Galley, OF Seattle spent q
week outing at East Sound recently.
Mrs. Frank harrison and children
are visiting Mrs. Eb- Harrison OF this
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Estyn M. Chalmers
were in the Bay Cities number OF
days this week.
School at East Sound started last
Monday, Miss Isabel Gregg being en-
gagged as teacher.
Mr.. N. d. Chetham, the N. P. agent
at Whatcom, spent Sunday here with
Mr.. Bertram Buxton.
Miss Alice Hunter spent few days
at Patos island this week, the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. III. Mailer.
Mr.. Willard M. King returned Tues
day to Tacoma after five weeks WISH
with parents and friends.
Mr.. s. III. Showers has completed his
new drier and thus far has been busiiy
engaged i'll drying seeds.
Mrs. HID. Mailer and son Howard.
of Patos island, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Killing, this week.
These are busy times with the people
! of East Sound-harvestlng and work
at the drier. Not man or boy is with
out work.
Mrs. F. G. Harper and daughter,
Miss Mabel, went TO Tacoma, Monday
where Miss Mattel will attend school
at the Puget Sound University.
Mr.. Peters, of Seattle, was on the
island q number of days the past week.
He is much interested in the large
drier which has been built at his 1rult
| farm here.
A large quantity Of grain has been
threshed in the vicinity of East S0uno
within the last two weeks, and most o.
the ranhoers have received large prices
for their product.
Mr.. T.. Lowman, of Seattle, presi-
dent of the Orcas Island Fruit com
many has been in East Sound mum
Der Of days this month. He u inter.
estad in the construction of drier on
their place. hASf oooNA'
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

nearly as many more in the front. No
bones were broken and it is more than
likely his arm can be saved if it receiv-
es the proper attention. On account
of the nervous shock which he received
he was not able to be moved Saturday
but on Tuesday was taken to Provi-
dence hospital, Seattle. It is the great
est wonder In the world that his arm
was not taken off, as the space between
the crank-shaft and the bed-plate is not
much over an inch. This is the first
serious mishap that has ever occurred
on the Thompson, and had Mr.. Stew
art given moments forethought he
would not have had the least trouble.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

arrangement shows what perfect taste
can accomplish with q little money
and the touch of woman's def fin
gers. Homes in every state in the
Union-from Maine to California
were photographed for the Journals
unique and useful series.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
1t Saves the CrOupy Children.

SEAvIEw, Va.-We have splendid
sale on Chamberlain Cough Remedy,
and our customers coming from far
and near, speak of it in the highest
terms. Many have said that their
children would have died of Group if
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy had not
been given.-KELLAM & OURREN.
For sale by drug department San
Juan Trading Co.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
A Cure for Bilious Collie.

RESOURCE, Screven c., CAL have
been subject to attacks of bilious collie
for several years. Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy is the
only sure relief. It acts like a charm.
One dose of it gives relief when all
other remedies fail g. D. SHARP.
For sale by drug department San
Juan Trading Co.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
NOTICE.

We have been appointed agents of
the Svea Insurance Co., of Gothenburg,
Sweden, and the American Fire In
surance Co., of Philadelphia. Your
insurance is solicited. Farm risks a
speciality. We will accept note for
part of the premium. See us before
insuring. NASH & JONES
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
Literary Note.

The interiors of one thousand OF the
most attractive homes in the United
States have been photographed by The
Ladies' Home Journal. One hundred
of the best of these pictures will be re-
nroduced in that magazine. The first
article of the series Inside OF Hun
dred Homesn-will appear in the
October Journal. Bed chambers, re-
ception and dining rooms, bathrooms,
halls and apartments OF every Klna
will be pictured just as they are In
daily use. Each picture contains doz-
ems Of suggestions. Every woman IS
interested in taking q peep into the
most attractive homes In the Land, 70
see how they are furnished ana af,
ranged. She wants to get PRACTICAL
hinfs and new ideas for furnishing her
own. The houses photographed by the
journal are those occupied by persons
Of moderate income. Their interior
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
THE
NEW YORK WORLD,
THRfCE.A-WEEK EDITION.
p.crs A WEEK. I6 PAPERS A YEAR

:. ,.r~.r than any weekly or semi-weekly
Is l,, nghI;.hed and Is the only important Dem
p epti "weekiy published in New Yor1 H1.y
Three times aslsrgs e the lsa %Y be 2especa
wssa,y 9, s Is You during the Presidentisi
cnmpsisn, As Il Published every SInss a snd
except sunoey,d AK Il comDines all the news
III, 4 long list Of interesting dePsIsm as
w;n festssres. cartoons and graphic nlusua-
aons. the latter being speciality. I'm
- e.. a..r ircreaee Il the cost, which remains y
one dollar per year. .,>>~ aud TIE
IsIANDxR together one year ZOE Si.Io.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
A. NEWHALL, : Owner.

letter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting, Incl,
dent to these diseases, isinstantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain Eye ana
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. II
is equally efficient for itching piles ana
favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. % cts. per box.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
No. 1885,
Notice Of Application to Purchase Tide Lands,
Office of Commissioner of Public Lands
Olympia, Washington

Office of Commissioner ofPublic Lands
Olympia, Washington J
Notice is hereby given that Ernest V.
Cowell, of Santa Cruz, California, filed an
application in this office to purchase the
following described Tide Lands, of the
second class, situate in San Juan county,
Washington, to wit:
All tide land of the second class, owned
by the State of Washington, lying in
front of Lot 2, Section %, Township IS,
North Of Range 4, West Of the Willamette
Meridian, having a total frontage Of 1888
lineal chains measured along the United
States government meander line, accord
ing to certified copy ofSurveyor Generals
field notes filed with said application
July 9, 1897.
Any person desiring to protest against
said application may do so within thirty
days from and after date of the first publ
cation of this notice.
Date of first publication this 5th day OF
August, 1897. ROBERT BRIDGES,
Commissioner of Public Lands.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

DR.. Cady's Condition Powders, are
just what horse needs when IN Da9
condition. Tonic, blood purlner Az
vermifuge. They are not 1000 pus
medicine and the best in use to put g
horse in prime condition. Price -
cents per package.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

"My boy came home from school
one day with his hand badly lacerated
and bleeding, and suffering great PAIN"
says Mr.. E. J. Schall, with Meyer
Bros Drug Co., st. Louis. Mo: Il
dressed the wound, and applied Cham
berlain's Pain Balm freely. All pain
ceased, and in q remarkably snort
time it healed without leaving scar;
For wounds, sprains, swelllngs ana
rheumatism know OF no medicine or
prescription equal to it. L CONSIDER IL
q household necessity"
The d and so cent sizes for sale by
drug department San Juan Trading 20.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
Seattle, WASH, Sept. 2, 1897.

NOTICE ia hereby given that the follow
~ ing named settler has filed notice o.
his intention to make final proof In sup.
port Of his claim, and that said proof Will
Be made before the Clerk Of the Superior
Court, at Friday Harbor, Washingsons on
Thursday, October Zlst, 1877, VIE:
JOHN STEWART MUNRO.
Homestead application number A,H0
knr tho Sc Sc Sec. z: Ne Ne Sec. liz
INV Sec. Twp. 50, ~. j.. W.
He names the following witnesses e
prove his continuous residence upon ana
crnltivation Of said land, viz:
Hiioa Jacobson, John w. Pens0nf
Thurman Scott and VIM. McKissock, all
- = VIZ. %. O'TOoLE. Register
nate frst publication Sept. 9ths 1887.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS FAVORED

Mr., Gary to Recommend Their Eestab-
Hshment in His Annual Report.
A special dispatch from Washington,
D. c., published in the New York
Tribune on Sept. Is, says:-Postmaster-
General Gary has Just received from
the acknowledgement of Canada a
full explanation of the postal savings
bank system in vogue there. He has
also received letters in regard to the
system from prominent men and farm
ers all over the country. Banking
facilities for the latter are extremely
limited. The postmaster general is
gathering all the information possible
regarding postal savings banks, and it
is believed that he will call attention
to the best features of the systems of
the various countries having such
banks in his annual report, and will
recommend that congress authorize
the establishment of postal savings
banks in the United States.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

Ripans Tabules cure constipation.
Ripans Tabules cure dizziness.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
THE u. S. MAIL
Steamer Buckeye
Running Between Friday Harbor,
Anac0rtes and WhatcOm.

This elegant steamer runs through
the Archipelago De Haro, Daily. Leav-
ing Whatcom at 6 a. m. on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, calling at Cot
tOnwood, Olga, Newhall, East Sound,
Orcas. West Sound, and arrives at Fri
day Harbor at 12:45 D. m. Leaves Fri
day Harbor with the mail at / p. m.
Tor Anacortes, stopping at TT; Stanley,
thatcher, Decatur, Nedro and Guemes
and arrives at Anacortes at $40 p. m.
Leaves Anacortes at Z a. M. on tues
day, Thursday and Saturday, Tor the
above named points arriving st Friday
Harbor at 1920 p. III. Leaves Frloay
Harbor at p. 10. and arrives at Wnat-
com att p. M.
For Freight and Passenger rates, ap-
ply on board.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23
-: THE -
SAN JUAN COUNTY BANK
-:OF:-
FRIDAY HARB0R, WASHINGTON.
Donlxinp RuSiueS of all Kinds

Banking BUSHES OF al hiHuS
Solicited.
Drafts and Money Orders on all parts Of the
World furnished upon application. Deposits of
4, 90 and upwards received and interest paid on
MONEY TO LOAN on Improved Farms for
sre Years with option of paying at the end OF
two wears Interest and principal payable at
Friday Harbor
- 0INFY President
a Could Cashier
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

ScAsllsasgs Best means:
tss hel!ag powder
eonee navofse$ extracts
SODA and spee0
as good as anybody wants.
For saleby
w. E. Sutherland, Orcas, Wash.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-23

q good attendance. Further notice
next week.
Mr.. Eugene Stewart, second engin-
eer on the mail steamer, LYDIA
Thompson, met with a most palnfui
accident on Friday last, while the boat
was living at the Sweeney dock. The
engines were being worked slowly to
keep the steamer against the dock, ana
as it was near the end of his watch ne
was taking this opportunity to give the
machinery thorough oiling before the
first engineer should take charge
While doing this he dropped grease
cnn off the cross-heads and it fell onto
the bed-plate and nearly under the
crank-shaft. Without stopping the
engines he undertook to get it out with
his hand, getting down on his hands
and knees and reaching under the
shaft with his right arm. When doing
this the crank-shaft caught him just
below the right elbo and tore the ffesn
in friphtfu1 manner, laying the pone
hare from the elby to the wrist JOINT;
He was at once taken to the once Oh
DR.. Geo. s. Wright, who with the az,
sistance of DR.. III. r. Garner, dressed
the wound and placed their patent 10
as comfortable shape as they couio.
They were Obliged to take fourteen
stitches in the back OF the arm ana
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-20
GOES BACK ON CUBA.
Mckinley Will Advise Rebels to Sub
NIT to Autonomy.


New York, Nov. 19.-The World this
morning makes the following state
ment:
The World is able to say on very
high authority that President McKin-
ley will tacitly approve the programme
for autonomy or home rule for Cuba
which Spain now promises.
Secondhand the president will eX-
press the hope that the Cubans will
not prOlong their war for complete in
dependence, but will accept instead a
form of autonomy.
Third-That if the Cubans do not
heed his advice, Spain will be given
more time without interference from
the United States
Fourth-The president says that he
ardently desires peace both at home
and abroad. War scares'' and
''belIigerency resolutions" disturb bust
ness, retard prosperity and do no good.
A new congress is to be chosen next
fall and everything depends on good
times" A season of peace from Cuban
sensations is therefore now almost
certain.
Fifth-Spain has been informed of
McKinley's hopes and plans, and as
the first evidence of her own fond in
tentions and good will, she pardoned
and released yesterday the American
crew of the filibustering schooner Com
petitor, caught under arms off the coast
of Cuba on April 10, 1896.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-20
THE MISSING BRIDEGROOM.
Why Chicago Man Failed to Show
Up for the Wedding.

Up for the Wedding.
Chicago. Nov. 19.-The police tonight
secured their first clew to the disap-
pearance of George A. Bergman, who
failed to present himself for his we'd
ding to Miss Margaret Perry, of 343
Fifty third street on Tuesday night
S. z. Lee. living on Michigan avenue
near Harrison street informed the
police that late on the night on which
Bergman disappeared. he found d
young man sitting on the sidewalk on
the corner of Harrison street and
Wabash avenue. The man was appar-
emily in a stupOr and when aroused by
Lee said that he had been robbed and
kept repeating What will she think?
What will all the folks say?"
Lee could not get him to report the
robbery to the police. and the last seen
of him the young man was walking to-
ward the lake. Lee thought no more
of the matter until he saw Bergman's
picture in the papers and concluded
that it was the man whom he had seen
The young man went out few min
utes before his marriage was to have
occurred with $500 in his pockets. and
failed to return to the waiting wedding
party
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-20
New Tourist Line

Chicago, Nov. 19.-On Dec. the Erie
road, in connection with the Santa Fe
company, will establish a new through
tourist line to run between New York
and Los Angeles In the making of
this new tourist line it has been ar
ranged that a tourist sleeper shall
leave New York on and after Dec.
every Tuesday on the Erie train No.
Is. This car viii arrive in Chicago on
the following evening at midnight, and
be booked on to the Santa Fe fast
mail, which leaves for the west at 2:45
a. m. 1t win arrive in Kansas City
in time to be attached to the Santa
FEES fast California train. and con-
tinue on it to southern California. Re
turning from California the car will
arrive back in Chicago at 9 o'clock at
night and leave east over the Erie 20
minutes later, reaching New York the
second morning at o'clock.