The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-08-31


Price $50 with calf, or $25 without calf
Address this Office.
Mrs. McDaniels, Of Whatcom, and
her little son, Ray, came over from
there on the Buckeye, Monday, ia
make her father, Mr.. ]. r. Walker, and
friends few days visit.
We are receiving almost daily new
lines Of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Groceries, ETC., which keeps our stock
always new and attractive. Yours re.
spectfully, Martin & Jensen.
G. N. s. Tucker, who has been en-
gagged as principal of the Coupville
schools for the ensuing year, arrived
here yesterday with his household
goods.-Island County Times.
The claim known as the Wheeler
lime claim, on Orcas island lots l and
z, section 36, township 81 north, range
west), has been filed on as q placer
claim by Byers & Anger, Of Seattle.
Mark A. Carleton, grain expert, in
charge Of the United States grain ex-
hibit at the Paris Exposition, has been
in the Palouse country securing sam
pies of Washington grain for the Ex-
position.
Mr.. Ben Lichtenberg, of Lopez, met
with an accident Tuesday morning
while working in his grain field, break
ing his right fore arm. He came over
here yesterday morning and had DR..
Wright set the fracture.
The Alsop trap, Waldron island
which was not completed until after
the sOckeye run began, is reported to he
making big catches of bumpbacks and
to have caught enough sockeyes to pay
all the cost of putting in the trap.
The lumber is on the school house
grounds here for the purpose of ceiling
the rooms, and the work will be done
i'm short time. The plastering on the
ceilings has been falling off badly, and
the directors have deemed it advisable
to cell it with lumber.
Mrs. Pearl Bullene, formerly of this
place and daughter of Mrs. M. A.
Woodruff, died recently i'm Salt Lake
City. No further particulars as to her
death were contained in the business
letter received the last of the week by
Judge w. III. Thacker.
Do you want an agency for the Louis
Tappan line of fine perfumes? You can
sell to the retail trade, also to the cOn-
sumers, from a beautiful sample dis
play. For particulars and samples ad-
Manufacturer Perfumes, Kansas City,
Missouri.
The treasury department has advised
the American customs officials on
Puget Sound that fishermen who find
themselves in over five fathoms of
water at high tide for a distance of
seven miles from the eastern shore of
Point Roberts toward Blaine are al
most certain to be fishing in American
waters.
On the 26th inst. an Injunction was
served OH Wesley Steel, of the Fair
haven Canning Company, by the Ma
tiOnal Packing Company, of Port An
geles, eiijOining him from fishing GER
tain trap location claimed by the plain
tiff and situated at Kanaka bay. The
case will be heard in few days by
Judge Houser, at Mt. Vernon.
Laurence Tucker has his fine new
house OH the Tucker farm, near Sports
man lake, enclosed and ne>:rly ready
for the window frames and outside
finish. 1t stands OH high ground sew
eral hundred yards from the old house
and the county road, and, when COM
pleted, will be one of the most attractive
aud comfortable homes in the county.
The West Coast Trade says there are
50 vessels in Puget Sound and British
Columbian waters, of which SO are
American register, IL British, 2 Ha-
waiian, German, CHILEAN. Twenty
Ave of these are loading lumber for
eign, including for Hawaii, IL do
nestle, 4 government supplies, gen.
eraI, 4 coal, 2 wheat, and under con-
struction.
The many friends of Lieut.. and Mrs.
Perry in this county will be glad to
learn that they are the parents of q fine
baby boy, born at the home of Mrs.
Perry's parents in Vermont, where she
is spending the summer. Lieut.. Perry
is on the cutter "WenOna," but expects
to have a vacation next month. He
has we'll earned it, having had no
''leave" for three years.
The steamer Evangel was III port
yesterday morning on her way to
Mitchell bay with forty tons Of salt and
100 empty barrels for the Great North.
ern Fish Company. From their she
will take two loads of salt salmon to
Richardson, where they will be again
loaded on the Thompson and taken
to Seattle, after which she will again
take a cargo at Mitchell bay and 60 di-
rect to Seattle with them.
Delinquent taxpayers who expect to
take advantage of the law enacted by
the last legislature, RENTING penalty
and interest OH taxes for 1896 and pre-
vious years, must, in order to do so,
pay the same before November 1. 1t
has heretofore been widely published,
and is the general impression. that such
taxes could be paid any time before
December 1. This is an error. All de-
iinuuent taxes included in the act of
1899 must be paid before November /,
or the penalties and interest will again
attach.-Islond County Times.
The names of the party from Seattle
now camping on Mr.. J. NJ. Coleman's
place at Agate beach are: Mr.. and Mrs.
u. M. Coiman, Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.
Colman, President F. Pierrepont
Graves, of the University of Washing.
ton, and Mrs. Graves; Mr.. and Mrs.
A. s. Burwell, Mr.. and Mrs. A. p,
Burwell, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Lewis
Mr.. and Mrs. e. e. Simpson, Miss
Carrie Subway, Miss Margaret Nc
Carney, Miss Mary Mcdonald, Miss
Mary Button, Miss Bertha Hill, Miss
Lilias Maitland, Miss Kuth Bailey,
Miss Edith Bailey, Miss Ida Carlson