The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-08-12
LOCAL AND Personal

LOCAL AND Personal
capt. r. E. Davis, of Richardson
was IN town short time the first q
mr.. J; 81. Nichols, of East Sound
was In the city the first of the weel
on business. VICE.
MISS Belle Gregg, of East Sound !.
IN Inc Harbor attending the Quarterly
teachers examination. - VI y
Mr.. &. ]. GilIingham. represent;po
the Northwestern Shoe Co. Of Saattio
Is In the city rustling business for his
Mr.. and Mrs. Carruthers, of Port.
iand, Oregon. have been at Roche Har.
Dor 1or several days past as guests at
the Hotel DeBaro. 0'' ~
Hon. John s. McMillin. Of Rocbo
Haroor, was passenger on the Thomp-
son, tuesday, enroute to up-Sound
points on a business trip.
Miss Louise Culver, of Point Law
renee, is in the city attending the
teachers examination, and is tine guest
OF her brother F. N. Culver and family
re, A social dance will be given by the
"SOckeye Club" of this place. on Fri
day evening, August Is. in Odd Eel
vited.
Mrs. Mary F. Hiett, of Danville.
Indiana, mother of Mrs. John S. Nc.
Millin, has been at Roche Harbor for
the past two weeks visiting her daugb-
ter and family.
Messrs. Sutton and Morehead, who
have been fishing with purse seine
IN the vicinity of Stewards island,
nave now ceased operations and re-
turned to their home here.
In note received from Rev. Patrick
Fay, of Port Angeles, he requests us to
announce that no services will be held
In the Catholic church, in the San
Juan valley, during the month of
August.
About thirty piles were swept out of
the lead to the Island Packing Co.'S.
big outside trap on the salmon banks
during the storm on Saturday night
last, which left gap of about 800 feet.
The break was repaired on Sunday
and on Monday the trap was again
doing good fishing.
DR.. Geo. w. Hiett and wife, of Pitts
burg, Penn, have been at Roche Har-
Dor for the past two weeks the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. John S. McMillin.
DR.. Hiett is physician of we'll known
throughout the east and is
surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway
Co. He is brother of Mrs. John S.
McMillin.
The steamer Mexico, which left
Seattle on July 26, for Alaska, with
225 passengers arrived all o K, but on
her return trip run on a rock near
Sitka and sank in two hours in 500 feet
of water. She had OH board large
of freight and 14O people, ill.,
passengers and crew. Most of
the small baggage was saved and all
the passengers, who were transferred
to the City of Topeka and brought to
Victoria and Seattle, Tuesday night.
During the thunder storm which
swept over the county last Saturday
evening, the lightning, which was un-
usually sharp, struck eight times with
in radius Of four miles from Orcas P.
O. Five times near Deer Harbor, two
times OH Shaw island, and once on the
Gibbs place, opposite the home of Mr..
Geo. Movers. It started fire in three
places but showers which followed eX-
;cl, Cd fx.-n of hn
started on Shaw is still burning quite
Washin gtOn, a similar occurrence hav-
ing never been recorded before.
Hon. James Crawford, of Vancouver,
WASH, fish commissioner for the State
of Washington, and Senators G. w.
Dorr, of Whatcom, John L. Yand, of
WaIla Walla, John McReavy, of Union
City, J. A. Davis, of Everett, w. %.
Runner, of Spokane, and S. Wash
burton, of Tacoma, arrived here on the
Anacortcs Packing Co.'S. steamer Che
halls, Tuesday evening about Z O'Clock
and left yesterday morning for Point
Roberts and the Fraser river. These
gentlemen were appointed at the last
session of the state legislature as SEN
ate committee to investigate the fish
traps owned and operated in the State
of Washington. They seem to be well
pleased thus far with their trip, and
we are told express it as their opinion
that without the traps the canneries
could not be operated. The fishing
business is fast becoming of great inn
portance to the State of Washington
and will in a short time, with possibly
one exception, that Of numbering, be the
principal industry of the state.
The writer of this item wishes to
heartily thank Mr.. F. G. Troxel, OF
Port Stanley, for five pound box OF
the finest cherries we have ever seen
i'm this or any other section. They are
of very rich color; of unusually fine
flavor, and very large. The following
note was received the same day by
mail. and we take the liberty to pub
lish it, as we think it will be read with
interest by all horticulturalists:
PORT STANLEY, Wash, Aug. z, '97
Mr.. F. N. Culver,
Friday Harbor, Wash.
Dear Sir:-I have this day sent you
by steamer Buckeye, one box of cher
ries which were grown in my orchard,
and which / desire you to sample. You
will find few which have tied In
bunch, that will measure three inches
i'm circumference. They are all OF good
size and are of a late variety. This tree
is twenty years old and measures nj
-. :,.oSoc ~, 1;onntor of the butt.