The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-14

AT the school election held last Sat
urday in school district No. / ri. A
armstrong was reelected director and
Norman Frazer clerk. In district No
70 Louis Archambault was elected al
rector and Mrs. Joshua T. r. Wottor
clerk. 'o'
The Friday Harbor Drug COMPANY
Is starting In business in the new build.
ing just completed by DR.. George s..
wright. Mrs. Summers is In charge
ana has recommendation proving her
to be competent and experienced
pharmacist.
The harvest time of 1900 now an.
proaching has been hitherto unap.
preached in its promise of fruitful
abundance for San Juan county. Never
with an equal acreage have the condi.
tons governing been 50 favorable for
good crops.
For Sale-4O acres good farming land
on San Juan island; 90 acres imnroved-
Five minutes walk from school house.
and half-hour drive from two different
postOffices and steamer landings. Fine
well OF water and good orchard. Will
sell cheap for cash. Apply at this
office.
The P. A. F. cannery at Fairhaven
closed down making cans last Friday
evening. Enough have been made to
fill loo, 900 cases, forty-eight cans to the
case. The company's cannery here
finished up this part of the work Mon.
day and will have enough for $4,000
cases.
On Saturday last 6lO sacks of oats
were shipped to Seattle on the Thomp-
son, 400 going from Carter's dock and
2lO from Richardson. They were con-
signed to the Galbraith Grain Com.
pany and Lilly, Bogardus & Co. About
300 sacks were also shipped from Car
ter's dock, Tuesday.
Fairhaven plans to celebrate the
Fourth of July in glorious manner.
1t Is proposed to "blOw in" about So, 900
and have high old time. The steam
ers on the island route will doubtless
give excursion rates that will be an in
ducement to many in this county to
celebrate i'm the fish city.
1t is understood that q contract has
been practically consummated between
the Puget Sound Packing Company
and the North American Fisheries
Company whereby the former secures
the early catch of salmon in N. A. F.
traps. The new company will not lie
III shape to handle them soon enough.
Census EnumeratOr Tucker has com.
pleted his work in precinct No. and
is now at work here. Epumerator
Snowden is at work ON :Orcas, and
Enumeration Allen OH Blakeley. The
enumeSatOrs are prohibited by the
census rules from giving out any in
formation about the census for publica-
ton.
A subscription paper was circulated
this week by Joshua WOttOn aud nu.
merously signed to raise funds to buy
wooden ley for James Began, q
young man born in this county, who
had the great misfortune to lose q leg
recently while employed in logging
camp in Skagit county. He was in
town Tuesday.
A full line of A. Shilling & Co.'s
Teas, COffees, Spices, Extracts and
Baking Powder in stock. Remember
twO-thiris the quantity of Shilling's
Baking Powder Is guaranteed to do the
work OF any other high-grade baking
powder, making it cheaper. Absolute
ly pure. Money. back if not satisfac-
tory. Martin & Jensen.
Mr.. Charles Lomler and Mrs. Mary
+. Lord, formerly of Friday Harbor,
were married in the parlors of the Sun
set block, Whatcom, Wednesday morn
ing, June 6, Rev. Mr.. Snyder officiating.
AT noon Mr.. and Mrs. LOinler departed
for Waldron island, where they will
visit Mrs. Lomler's uncle for few
days. They will make their future
home i'm Mexico.
The P. A. F. Co. has one trap fish
ing on the salmon banks-inshOre, and
three others ready for the web. The
Anacortes Packing Company has its
big trapin and waiting for web. The
Ainsw0rth & Dunn trap is fishing and
so is the Fidalgo Island Canning COM
pans trap west of Eagle point, aud
Steele's trap at Kunaka bay. Only a
comparatively few fish are being
caught now and most of them are be-
ing shipped east OH ice from Seattle.
The members of the San Juan Club
will be at home i'm their comfortable
and even elegant quarters today, al.
though some little things are yet to be
sidrred completed. The billiard table
;.,; foy 1,a fo ho
amateurs, and the carpets are down,
furniture IN place and curtains hung.
Arrangements will be made in q few
days for the formal opening Of the
club, to which friends of the members
will be invited as guests.
Taxes Of which one-half were not
paid OH or before June l are now de-
linquent. The treasurer reports collec-
tions up to this time greater than they
were OH the same date last year, al
though the May collections last year
were little i'll excess of those of this
year. In May, '99, tax collections of
the current year were 81, 568.4l aud i'm
May, this year, current tax cOllec-
tons were SIS ,239, and total collections,
including delinquent, were $5,9l4 Is.
OF the May collections this year ST.
844 II goes into the current fund; the
state gets 81, 979.O4, and the remainder
is apportioned among the various
special funds.
There seems to be a woeful lack of
interest in school matters in the Shaw
island district There was no school
election there Saturday, as there were
not enough electors present at the poll
ing place, including one director, to
nrnaniza an election hoard short