The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-07-06
ROCHE HARBoR NEWS BRIEFS.

ROCHE HARBOR NEWS BRIEFS.
Elias Anderson went to Whatcon
monday to spend the Fourth.
Miss Louise Culver is visiting he,
brother, .. II. Culver. and family.
Chas. Arend went to Seattle Satur.
day to celebrate the great national holi.
day and visit friends.
Ihe British steamer John l.. Card
entered and cleared her. SATURDAY..
taxing 6OO barrels of lime to Vancou-
yer.
Scurr Bros. are haying this week
ana are doing their moving with q
new Deering mower bought form Mar
TIN q Jensen, Friday Harbor.
Miss Teeny Debeau left for her home
near Toledo, on the Cowlitz river, Sat
urday after visit of about two months
with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Erickson.
Mrs. VIM. Monroe came over from
James island, B. c., Sunday to spend
the 4th and visit relatives and friends,
a lady and gentleman accompanied
her.
The treasury department has au-
thorlzed the transfer of the customs
boat heretofore used at Seattle to this
port for the use of the deputy collector
here.
Three bids for the Roche Harbor-
Provost mail carrying contract were
sent in to the department, that of Bert
ChavaIeir being the lowest, it is re-
ported.
Daisy Briggs, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs, John Briggs, living about four
miles from town, broke the elbow bone
of her left arm last Friday afternoon
by falling from fence.
The steamer Dispatch, of Anacortes.
of which Saml Barlow, formerly mate
of the Lydia Thompson, is master,
cleared from here Sunday for the Fra.
ser river, going for boom of fish trap
piles.
The Fourth was very quietly Oh
served here, no general celebration
being attempted. On the Fourth last
year Paul McMillin was quite seriously
injured by an accidental discharge of
giant powder.
Five fish traps have been put in about
Stuart and Johns islands this year. A
sixth one, belonging to the Anacortes
Packing company has been partly put
in in what is considered q fine location,
but the bottom is such that the pot
could not be driven as intended, and
the location may not he fished this sea-
son. Last year there were no traps
operated in that locality.
Goo Shung, the bright young China
man who is commissary for the Chinese
at the Friday Harbor cannery, was
here Monday buying pigs. He says
it IS not easy to get enough good ones
to supply the force there and at the
Anacortes and acknowledgements, one
in each place, where his father and
uncle have the Chinese labor contracts,
as they have at Friday Harbor.
B. Mordhorst has his wharf at Reed
Harbor, Stuart island, nearly COM
pleted. 1t has floor space of 50x6O
feet, built especially for handling fish
and fish barrels. Mr.. Mordilorst has
contract for packing thousnd bar
rels Of salmon, if he can get that many,
for the Great Northern Fish company,
of Seattle. He has contracted for all
the humpback salmon caught in the
Nelson traps, on this side of the island.
Eight of the Japanese recently ar
rested here for illegally entering United
States territory are being held in Port
Townsend to await the action Of the
secretary of the treasury, and the
ninth, the bOatman who brought them
over from Victoria, has been commit
ted for trial in the United States court
for violation of Illumination laws. The
boat, which was seized by the deputy
collector here, has been Ordeded sent
to Port Townsend.
Raymond Babe and Mrs. Mckay,
sister of the Burr Bros. and widow of
J. G. F. Mckay, who was drowned in
the Fraser river about three years ago,
were married at the home of the brides
mother, Mrs. w. F. Smith, Tuesday
evening, the 4th inst. They will be at
home to their friends this summer at
their place in the country, near the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, but will
probably spend the winter here, where
Mr.. Babe is employed by the lime
company.
VIM. Gilmore, of this place, who
fought in the French army In the To3-
keen war in French IndO-China, and
who is familiar with the character of
the natives of Southeastern Asia and
the Philippines, believes that it will 6e
necessary to treat the Filipinos with
far greater severity than has thus far
been the policy Of the United States
before they can be forced to lay down
their arms, acknowledge the sovereign
! ty of this country and conform TO the
conditions which that sovereignty I'M
plies. ROCHE.
Sick headache, fullness in stomach,
pain in bowels. Hudyan cures. AL