The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-05-19
LOCAL AND Personal

LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Ice for sale at Fowle's Green Front.
Assessor Loos has completed his per.
SOnal tax canvass.
The steamer Beaver was In port a
short time Sunday.
Jos. Sweeney returned Tuesday from
visit to the Bay Cities.
Mrs. Fred Anderson has been quite
sick for several days past.
Mr.. A. Granger, of Blakely, was In
town on business Tuesday.
Mr.. F. w. Keen went to Seattle on
business the last of the week.
Diamond Dyes of every shade and
color at Fowle's Green Front.
The steamer Brick, Capt. Anderson,
was in port part of Saturday and Sum
day.
Mr.. J. A. Gould returned Tuesday,
on the Buckeye, from business trip to
Seattle.
Miss Pearl Simpson has been visiting
friends at Roche Harbor during the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis King went to
Seattle the last of the week for a few
days visit.
Mr.. Hans Lee. of Griswold, Shaw
island, was in the Harbor last Friday
on business.
Less than two weeks remain in
which to pay the first half of 1897 taxes
without penalty.
This county received 81 ,61O.28 of the
recent apportionment of $24S, O6O of
state scOol funds.
Mr.. Berger, of Tacoma, representing
the Johnston Music house, is guest at
the Bay View Hotel.
Oscar Viereck, of Doe Bay, has &C.
cepted position in McDonald's gro
Gerry, New Whatcom.
Heavy 9-ounce Riveted Overalls for
Men. all cotton and a yard wide, for SO
cents, at the Blue Front Store.
Send to Sutcliffe & Hill, Whatcom,
COR samples of Wall Paper and Paints.
They will be sent you free of charge.
Judge John III. Bowman returned
the last of the week from an extended
visit to the Mt. Baker mining district.
Fred ]. Geoghegan, dentist, of East
is in the city on professional
visit and is stopping at the Tourists
hotel.
Mr.. Arthur Lord, jeweler, went to
East Sound, Tuesday, on a business
trip and expects to be absent until Sat-
urday.
The Seattle Daily Journal, born in
Seattle, May l, 1898, has died for want
of breath, after short and unsatisfac-
tory career.
Mr.. J. E. Dobbs, of Port Townsend,
has been making tour of the country
for some of the first of the
crop.
Mr.. George Mullis, who went from
here to Alaska last fall, has left there
and is now working at his trade in
B. &.
The Sweeney Mercantile Company is
building large addi-
ton to its harf here, putting out be-
yond the bar and into deeper water.
Mr.. J. J. Cannon, of the merchant
firm of Irving & Cannon, Sc
attic, is doing business in the HarbOr,
and is guest at the Bay View hotel.
Mr.. P. E. Peterson is now erecting a
large, fine residence on his place in
the Valley. and, when completed, will
be one of the best in San Juan county.
The big tramp steamer Amarapoora
which took 1900 barrels OF lime from
Roche Harbor for Honolulu in April,
1897. is reported wrecked on the Chinese
coast.
Three weeks more i'm which to pay
your taxes before they become delin-
quent; Is per cent attaches after June
1st. Pay up promptly and save your
self lots of expense.
Mrs. A. III. Sitter returned to the
HarbOr, Tuesday, after an absence of
about three weeks. Her father, Mr..
Gurnette, came with her and will re-
main here for some time.
On Monday night someone stole
rowboat belonging to Mr.. John Doug
las and no trace of it has been found.
Certain parties are suspected of the
theft and tracer has been sent after
them.
Mr.. w. E. Parsons, of Seattle, repre-
senting the Northwestern Life Insur-
ance Company, of Milwaukee, Wis. is
in the Harbor rustling business for his
company. and is a guest at the Bay
View Hotel.
The Island Packing Company's
steamer Michigan left Monday morn
ing for Port Williams, after boom OF
fish-trap piles, to be used in driving
the company's traps on the salmon
banks.
The Roche Harbor Lime Company's
steamer, Roche Harbor, was IN port
Tuesday. When steaming out of Eli
oft Bay one day last week, and while
vet in sight of Seattle, her propeller
shaft broke and she had to be lowed
back to the city and be repaired.