The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-06-08
ROCHE HARB0k NEWS BRIEFS.

! ROCHE HARBOK NEWS BRIEFS.
!, Miss Blanche Simpson returned Il
Friday Harbor Tuesday after q visit O
several DAYS at the home of Mr.. anS
Mrs. o. III. Culver.
Bernard Mordhorst is building {
large fiat bottom boat at his place or
Stuart island for use at his Reed har
Dor herring fishery.
School closes this week Friday. The
teacher, Miss Sprague, intends to leave
Saturday or Tuesday for her home in
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Fred McMillin returned last week
from San Mateo, California, having
completed his course of study at st.
Matthew's school there.
| A fine traction engine, made at
Masillon, Ohio, arrived Sunday night
on one of the company's scows in tow
steamer Roche Harbor, for Jas. Buch-
anan, of Lopez.
The steamer Rainier was disabled
last Friday near the south end of
Henry island by the breaking OF her
shaft coupling, and was tOwed here by
the little five ton steamer Hector for
repairs.
Mrs. Kinsey arrived safely at Roch-
ester, N. Y, May q. She will spend
most of the summer in New York
visiting her mother and sisters and
other relatives and friends whom she
had not seen for fourteen years.
The fine Kirk place, on Mitchell's
bay, is reported to be for sale, because
England, where she went last year to
relatives and friends.
What is doubtless the prettiest row
boat in the county arrived on one OF
the company's scOws in tow of the
Roche Harbor Sunday night for Mrs.
McMillin. 1t was built at Racine,
Wisconsin, and is "clinker built"
natural wood finish, highly polished.
It is copper riveted and has nickled
trimmings.
C. w. Freel was over from West
Sound Monday with Mr.. McLelland
and one of Mr.. Mines boys, whom he
intended to take over to Vancouver
island. It seemed bit too rough to
cross the Canal de Haro:: in a small boat
Monday, so Mr.. Freel returned home,
leaving the others to get over from
here in some other way.
Mr.. Shultz's fine gasoline launch
"Pauline" arrived Sunday night from
Racine, Wisconsin, and was launched
Monday. 1t is twenty-five feet long
and about six feet beam and is hand
somely finished with oak, ash and
mahogany, and brass trimmings. 1t
has a six horse power gasoline engine
and 22-inch propeller and is expected
to run at the rate OF about ten miles
an hour.
VIM. Gilmore, of this place, who
served for year and half, or more,
tn the French army in the TOnquin
Tor Tong-Kingl war, in China, and
who has been at Manila and has con-
siderable personal knowledge of the
Philippines and their people, is an ar
dent believer in the retention of all of
the great archipelago by the United
States as a permanent possession. The
resources are wonderfully rich and
varied, and SO far as the climate is con-
cerned he says it is considered far bet
ter than that of TOng-Klng, or the
other provinces of French Indo- China,
Just across the China sea from the
Philippines, and better than that of
Hong Kong, which is a British colony,
the chief port of China and one of the
finest cities in Asia.
Roche Harbor Lodge No. rs, A. o.
U. W., gave smoker" Saturday
night, which was we'll attended and
much enjoyed by the lodge members
and number of invited guests. S.
A. Kinsey presided. Elias Anderson's
music box and Ray Babies graphic
phone contributed much to the pleas
ure of the occasion, and with readings
by a number of the lodge members,
songs, and most excellent address OH
the origin, objects and work of the
order by Master Workman Thomas
Kinsey, an autobiographic recitation
and song by Alex Hall, as "Major
Short" disguised as dwarf, and
abundant refreshments, the time passed
NEST pleasantly until late hour.
The lodge has over twenty members
in good standing and is in a flourish
ing condition. The oldest of all the
fraternal insurance organizations, the
A. o. U. w. has accomplished an inn
measurable amount Of good, not only
by its own benficent work of nearly
third of century, but likewise from
the fact that its own grand success has
led to the organization of the now num-
erous similar orders, which have done
and are doing an infinite amount Of
good through the aid they render to
'.the fatherless and widows in their
aff1iction," and through their broad
fraternaI influence in behalf of good
citizenship aud upright living.
ROCHE.