The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-06-16

icellent work in our village and should
be attended by all, old - we'll ..
young.
The P.-I. of last Sunday contained In
large type special dispatch from Hon,
John 8. McMillin, from San Francisco.
speaking Of the Washington troops a
the best drilled Of the volunteers there
and urging that every possible effort be
made in this state to get them ordered
to the Philippines instead Of to coast
garrison duty.
Jos. Hurd, Of Long Pine, Neb.,
writes to The ISLANDER that he de-
sires to trade well improved farm Of
20 acres there for small tract of we'll
improved and we'll situated land in
this county. He desires to make the
change for physical reasons and re-
quests that any one having any offers
to make write to J. s. Dawson, Long
Pine, Neb.
A Port Townsend dispatch of the
18th inst. says: "Mrs. A. Hummer,
wife of Chief Engineer Hummer of the
steamer Wildwood, committed suicide
today by jumping off Tyler street
wharf, The deceased came from Port
Angeles few days ago, where she had
resided a number of years. She leaves
two children, aged four and two years.
The body was recovered three hours
later. No cause is assigned for the
act" Mrs. Hummer was quite we'll
known here, having resided here with
her husband one summer when he was
engineer of the steamer Michigan.
THE ISLANDER most sincerely 10
grets that it is called upon again this
week to chronicle another death in the
family of Mr.. and Mrs. e. c. Coghlan.
Last Thursday they buried their little
son Cornelius, who was ten years old,
instead Of six as were informed and
reported, and this week their little
daughter Katie, aged six was laid to
rest beside her brother. She COM
planned little of sore throat on the
day OF her brothers. funeral. Medical
aid was promptly summoned and all
that it was possible for her loving
parent to do was done for her, but
without avail. She died Monday
morning at o'clock from what the
attending physician called diphtheretic
Group. The burial took piece Tuesday
at the Valley cemetery. The grief
stricken parents have the sincere sym
pathy of all who know of their bereave-
ment. Two older sons aud one little
daughter are still.spared to them.
In view of the fact that disease ap-
pearing to be diphtheria has broken
out on the island, we would urge
all having children under their con-
troll to exercise all the care possible in
keeping their children at home until
such time as danger of contagion is
passed. Parents by exercising little
caution in this way, can keep their
children from running into danger,
and ii they show symptoms of sick
ness, especially of throat difficulty, it
10 their duty to inform their neighbors
at once SO that others need not be
needlessly exposed. We do not think
there is any necessity for undue alarm.
The natural healthfulness Of the locality
has much to do in warding off what
might under other conditions prove to
be serious epidemic. We would,
however, recommend that all our peO-
pie use reasonable caution at this time,
and in ali cases of threatened throat
difficulty put the afflicted ones under
immediate medical treatment and en-
force such quarantine measures as
shall effiectually prevent others from
from becoming exposed. The burning
of sulphur in houses or rooms where
patients suffering from diseases of this
nature have been located, and the
thorough disinfecting and fumigating
OF clothing worn by persons nursing
those sick with diphtheria, with sui
phur smoke would be an excellent
preventive measure.