The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-17
the confirmation of sheriff's sale i'm case
Of Cabot VS.. Hollins.

| vi SupOU vs.. I1OIIlllS.
For Sale-4O acres good FARMING land
on San Juan island; 20 acres improved
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
office.
For first-class watch, clock and Jew.
elry repairing go to Arthur Lord, the
watch -maker and jeweler, Friday Har.
Dor, Washington. After many wears
OF experience in some of the best East
ern houses, | am prepared to guarantee
nrst-ciass work in every respect. Prices
reasonable.
A full line of A. Shilling & Co. q
Teas, COffees, Spices, Extracts and
Baking Powder i'm stock. Remember
two-thirds the quantity of Shilling's
Baking Powder is guaranteed to do the
work OF any other high-grade baking
powder, making it cheaper. Absolute
~ pure. Money back if not satisfac-
tory. Martin q Jensen.
Miss Jessie Strahl entertained about
forty of her young friends, at the Bay
View Hotel, Monday evening i'm honor
OF her seventeenth birthday. A most
delightful evening was spent by the
young folks in playing games, ETC., and
fine lunch was served about 10 o'clock
consisting of ice cream, cake and other
dair ties.
The National Packing Company's
steamer Rainier, of Port Angeles, was
in port Monday evening with the COM
pany's pile driver. The company has
just finished driving its trap at Kanaka
bay and is now at work on one of its
locations near Waldron island. The
kanaka bay trap just driven is the one
over which the law suit is now pend
ing.
The steamer Griffin, with a scow
load OF boats and fishing tackle, left
Monday for Ketchikan, Alaska. 1t
Will be engaged for about three months
in the vicinity of the Cleveland penins-
ular, under charter to the Great North
ern Fish Company, of Seattle, which
operated extensively i'm this county last
year. The company expects to EMPLOY
about forty five men in Alaska during
the fishing season.
The FaIrhaven Herald of the l1th
inst. says: "HOn. w. s. Thacker, of
Friday HarbOr, member of the last
state legislature from San Juan county,
was i'm the city yesterday with Patrick
WEIGH, the well-known Friday Harbor
hotel-keeper, on some fish-trap bust
hess. Judge Thacker is an old timer
on the Sound, and is a Grand Army
man. He says that Friday Harbor is
growing and improving, and that it is
the only town on the Sound which
continued to grow during Grover
Cleveland's administration. The farm
ers of San Juan island are well along
with their spring work, and the fishing
interests are busy. A building is being
erected for new drug store at Friday
Harbor."
Messrs. G.. G.. Snow and A. F.. Crom-
well, mining experts, were here the
first of the week for the purpose of
looking over the Ka,akh bay quartz
proposition. Mr.. Snow is the gentle.
man heaviest interested in the BIakely
island copper properties which are
showing up so well. These gentlemen
came here ut the reques: o. some ca IL
taliSts tn report on this proposition, bit
what their report will be, of course, we
ito not know. Mr.,;Smw tells us, how
ever, that he thinks the property will
turn ont all right and if the rock will
ASSAY what he anticipates, the property
is a bonanza, as the Ledge is an il, =
nenSe one, being some 500 feet W de.
These gentlemen went from here 10
Biakely island yesterday, Oh the Buck
eye, to look over their properties there.