The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-10-27
ROCHE HARBoK NEWS BRIEFS.

President McMillin, of the Lime com
pany, is making one of his frequent bust
ness trips to San Francisco.
The steamer Roche Harbor carried
considerable number Of stalwart Repub
licans to Friday Harbor, Monday even
ing, to hear Frank Cushman speak.
Morris Phipps, who returned last weel
from visit to his parents and old home
In Maine, leaves this week for LaConner
where he will engage in the livery bust
ness with his brother Edison.
Carl johnson, who had for a consider
able time been one ofthe company's most
faithful and reliable employees here, left
Tuesday for Oakland, California, to en-
gage in Salvation Army work. He was q
most jealous and consistent worker here
in the cause which he has espoused and
he carries with him to his new field the
good wishes of many friends and acquain-
tances.
Saturday evening there was . rousing
little political meeting here at which the
principal address was delivered by DIR.
Curtis, of Anacortes, q life long Democrat
until two years ago, when the old party
forsoOk the principles which had made it
3 O00 csAO cA1k0O 4US011 w 1tl1 tI0 1IlOSt u6u-
gerOus elements which have menaced the
cOuntry's welfare. There could be no
question about his absolute sincerity or
his honest belief in the wisdom of the
economic principles to which the Repub-
ican party stands committed in the state
and nation. 1t was convincing talk, free
from vituperation of any sort and suffici-
emily enlivened by anecdotes to keep the
attentive audience good humored. DR..
Curtis was accompanied by Emerson
Hammer, of WOoley, candidate for joint
senator, who made most excellent i'm
preston among the voters here, and also
by Hon. w, H. Thacker, candidate for
reelection as representative, John w.
Firth, candidate for sheriff, and G.. B,
Buxton, candidate for assessor.
The schooner "Wanderer'', which left
here February 25th, with Capt. M. North
man, of this place, III. B. Vidalin, of As
toria, and Chas. Crawford, formerly fire.
man on the Roche Harbor, upon pros
pecting expedition along the coast of
southeastern Alaska, returned Sunday
hearty and good humored, despite the
fact that none of them had succeeded in
striking it rich" in the new land of gold.
They spent most of the summer on or
near the Cleveland peninsula, sixty miles
south of Wrangel and twenty mile north
VI h1VcukdH. LII Is OH CulS p0I1lISul0 CQ6G
that the seventeen claims known as the
'Gold Standard Group" whose princi-
pal owner has succeeded in getting them
pretty we'll advertised, are located.
Quite glowing article concerning them
appears in last Sundays p i. The men
of the "Wanderer' party do not speak
SO glowingly of them, and i'll fact they
express the opinion that there are few, if
any, claims on the entire peninsula that
it will pay to work. They say there is
any quantity of quartz but nothing in
it." and they do not appear to have much
confidence in the mineral wealth of any
part of southeastern Alaska, which has
been swarming with prospectors all sum-
mer. On their way down the coast they
saw the sloop "Mayfiower," of East
Sound, with Mr.. Smith and son, near
Seymour narrows, and Joseph Hilton
and his partner were in the same locali-
ty on their way home. A. Stahl, of Orcas,
who left here Dec. 2Oth, in the sloop
''Crab," was at Bella Bella, an Indian
settlement, where there was but one
other white man and one white boy.
Stahl had built wharf there and worked
some for cannery company and done
quite well. He intends to remain in that
region this winter and engage in hunting
and trapping and proposes to push on
into the interior to Dawson. The ''Wan-
derer' cleared from the Mary Island
custom house Sept. IL and met head
winds nearly all the way home.
ROCHE.