The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-11-22

/ The preliminary hearing Of the Lord.
Grossop rape case, mentioned IN TN
ISLANDER last week, took slace FRIDAY
before Justice Larson and resulted s,
Lords discharge, tile evidences heinz
deemed insufficient, not only nv the
justice, but by the prosecuting attorney
also, to justify binding the defendant
over for trial in the superior court.
The Fraser river fishing boat sold ~
auction by Deputy Collector culver
at Roche Harbor Saturday, was bouvht
by DIR. Capro.l for Patrick Welch fnr
S55. The boat is rs feet long and about
feet beam, of good model and staunch.
~ built. Mr.. WEIGH talks or HAVING
her built up.a little and putting In =
small engine and using her as a carry
Ing and trading boat between here and
Waldron island. =
Chas. L. Daley was over from Orcas
the first-Of the week to make annlica.
ton for all increase Of pension to which
his disabilities as a result of seyer,.
wounds would seem to clearly entitla
him under the law He served in tho
18th regiment of Illinois cavalry aud
also in the ZOuaves, took part in the
great battle of Shiloh and was wounded
in a hot skirmish with detachment IF
Marhaduke's raiders in Missouri.
w. j. Youmans and wife, of Billings
Mont, left for Los Angeles, Cal, Tues.
day to spend the winter, after a short
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Blair
here. Mr.. Youmans has been i'm the
lumber business at Billings, but recent.
~ sold out and intends going into the
sheep business. He voted for BRYAN
and says that one reason why he did so
was his belief that if BRYAN had
been elected he could have bought
sheep for ST. each, instead of So. and
by the time he would have many to
sell, Bryan would be out and prices up
again.
Thos. Delaney, brother of Ed. De-
laney, of this place, and well :known
here, helped to save two men from
drowning at the mouth of the Duwa-
mish river, Seattle, Saturday afternoon
They were fishermen and with two
Others were approaching their usual
landing place in a small sail boat when
a squall capsized the boat aud threw
the four men into the ice cold water
Mr.. Delaney, who is a United States
customs inspector, was surveying a
vessel near 10y and hearing their cries
Immediately started to their rescue in
a small boat, with young man whose
name is not reported. They and Arnold
Bern, OF Port Blakely, who went out in
small boat alone, succeeded in saving
two of the men, but the other two sank
before the rescuing party reached them.
A dealer in oysters in Portland re-
ports thai! in sack of these bivalves
recently received from Puget Sound he
found number of tiny Holsters, which
had ensconced themselves in mussels
and oysters, evidently for protection
from enemies, and for the purpose of
feeding on their hosts. The hermit
crab, common OH the beaches of this
coast, uses the shells of whelps, peri
wrinkles, etc, as a habltation, and it.
was suggested that the so-called Holsters
might he nothing but hermit crabs, as
it is not known that there are any lob
sters Oh Puget Sound, but the man
who opened the oysters and found the
young crustaceans in them, asserts that
they were Holsters and nothing else, as
they were completely encased in shells
and had long feelers projecting from
their heads.-AstOria Budget.