The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-03-30

lent satisfaction and the pupils anl
parents OF the district would be very
term. S'
Prot. J. NJ. Hit, formerly county
superintendent of schools at Whatc0m.
out Tor the past two years superiutend.
ent OF the Port Townsend schools. was
= passenger on the Thompson Monday
LOT Whatcom, going to attend the citl.
zens' banquet to the legislative lele9a-
tlon, given Tuesday evening.
On and after March 2lst the North
ern Pacific Railway Co. will sell to all
points along its line of road west of
Little Falls second class tickets from
81. Paul and duluth at one half the
lowest dst-class fare. Daily service.
Inis Will make the rate to New What
com and other Sound points SIS.
Joe Sweeney is all business this week.
Inc piles have been driven, extending
MS dock out 200 feet, and James Farms
worth and his men are now putting on
the finishing touches. Mr.. Sweeney
10 not the only one that will be pleased
over this improvement, the steamboat
men also feeling well pleased.
Steve Sweeney brought in common
hens egg, this week, Just to show
what his fowls are capable of doing
when eggs are selling by weight. The
egg measures 81 inches In circumfer-
ence and 81 inches lengthways. 1t
weighs 81 ounces, or nearly twice the
weight Of an ordinary sized egg.
Until returns come in to refute it,
we make the statement that the ewes
on the ranch of Robert Firth. ST., are
the champion breeders of San Juan
county. This season four of his ewes
gave birth to thirteen lambs. Last
season, It will be remembered, we an
nounced that FIVE ewes gave birth to
sixteen lambs.
Tom Benson, bos'n of the revenue
launch Guard, who resigned a short
time ago to accept position as master
OF the steamer Michigan, has with
drawn his resignation on account of
the sale of the Michigan, with the
other property of the Island Packing
company, to the new fish combine, and
will remain in the revenue service.
Parties who bought lands at the tax
sale Of 1895 should bear in mind that
they must complete their title and get
their deeds this year. The law under
which they purchased lands at this sale
requires that they shall proceed to
prove their title at least three months
before the expiration of three years
from the date of sale.-Island County
Times.
Leroy Simpson, representing The
ISLANDER, will spend the remainder
of this week and part of next week
on Orcas island. He is authorized to
receipt for subscriptions, old or new,
and to take orders for any of the
papers or magazines named in our
list. Any courtesies shown
him will be appreciated by him and by
the islanders publishers.
This is what c. e. Cline, speaker of
the fusion house in '97, thinks of the
fusion state senate in '99. Mr.. Cline is
a Populist from way back: 1.-THE sem
ate increased its expense account for
employees, which was Sc, 400 in '97, to
S., 965 in '99. Hundreds of dollars
were wantonly distributed to favored
clerks during a drunken debauch
which marked its closing hours. May
its like never be witnessed in Wash
ington again."
Patrick WEIGH was among the few
sion in Seattle Tuesday evening Of last
v,vl. :ot, l-sl
and several severely injured. He had
just come out from restaurant across
the street from the scene Of the explO-
soin under the sidewalk and he says
that in few seconds more he would
have been directly over the spot, to-
ward which he was walking with q
gentleman with whom he had just had
supper. He saw the victims thrown
high IN the air among the mass of tim
Der and shattered glass displaced and
broken by the force of the explosion.
The last legislature appropriated $44,-
GOO for the establishment of new
hatcheries, in addition to four already
in existence and capable of turning
out Is, OOO, 900 young salmon annually.
The appropriation contemplates the
establishment of sixteen new hatch
cries on various tributaries OF Puget
Sound, Columbia river and Willapa
harbOr, and the hundreds of millions
of young fish to be thus added to the
waters Of the state, will according to
the opinion of some enthusiastic advo
Gates of artificial propagation, restore
the fisheries to their original bountiful
supply and provide for the maintenance
of the industry upon the enlarged scale
which it is assuming.