The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
Gown and County News
Delineators at the ISLANDER

october Delineators az the isLANDE
ofce.
u,utad-At the San Juan creamery
one ton of apples for canning.
r Carter made business trip I
whatcom this week.
c.mrbo- Naptha Moth Balls Csc pc
' U For sale by the Friday HaI
bOr Drug Co.
Tho revenue launch Scout went t
p,rt Townsend Tuesday.
,,rou can use blue vitriol aud sulphu
,at prices at the Morse Hdw. Co.
wo still have few summer shir
.,,ists that we are closing out at specia
Woes Martin e. Jensen.
Are YOU going to paint? IT 50, us,
IT GOODS. Send a postal to the Mors>
T5w Go. for observation-disclosures pain
color cards'
The Morse Hard ware Company has
auautity of galvanized fish wire at q
cents per pound. This price Is for i'm
mediate acceptance.
Chief Engineer WhitwOrth, Of the
ak oartyinn on klxn S0svr1
was here few days ago inspecting the
machinery Of the Scout.
Wsnted-A school teacher in district
Va % West Sound, for a term to
Lpgin October IA. Call upon or address
" 0 Nichols, Clerk, West Sound,
Washington.
We are carrying fine line of mems,
ladies' and children's fine dress shoes.
Jfyou will call and inspect them you
will not he likely to purchase else.
where.-Martin & Jensen.
Watches repaired by K. F. Harpst.
Twenty years experience. All work
c,laranteed. / also have a Bike and
1un shop i'm connection Next door to
bank, Friday Harbor, Washington.*
Alex Keay, the popular ex-purser
Of the steamer Lydia Thompson, now
secretary and treasurer of the McGhie
Meat Company at Everett, is spending
sfew days vacation on Orcas island
hunting deer.
Found-Adrift i'm Nelson harbor, or
Monday, August 10, 1901, a scOw SO #.
long, II It. wide and Al IT. hold. Same
can be seen in Nelson harbor, Decatur
island, Washington. Owner is re.
quesed to pay charges and take il
away. Mrs. Z. w. Hammond.
The Sucia island "Placer Stone
Mine" has been decided 10y Ovid l..
Byers to VIM. Beddow, both of Seattle,
the consideration named in the deed
being $1,000. The records also show
the filing of a mortgage on the same
property from Beddow to Byers for
5000.
III see by the ISLANDERS Deer Har-
Dor correspondence that someone over
there wants to know the whereabouts
OF Richard Giffin," said County Treas.
urer Tucker Monday. II received a
letter from him few days ago from
Grand Forks, Yukon Territory, via
Dawson City"
The county auditor reports quite a
demand for hunters licenses of late.
The open season for hunting deer began
September ID and quite a number OF
hunters from outside the county are
already securing the woods for them,
especially on Orcas island. Many
farmers on this island have posted
notices forbidding hunting OH their
premises.
The Measuring Social" to be given
ny the Santa Juanita Club Friday
night, the proceeds of which are to be
used Tor sidewalk improvements, ought
TO be well patronized. The public
spirit displayed by the ladies merits
cordial commendation and liberal sup.
port. The ISLANDER suggests that all
The men be measured with their hats
on and that every fraction or twelve
inches be treated as a foot.
Deputy County Attorney King re
turned Monday from Olympia, where
he appeared before the state board o.
equalization and endeavored to have
ule county's classification and assessed
sa,uation for purposes of state taxation
reduced. The county has been paying
STATE taxes upon q realty valuation
considerably higher per acre than sew
eral other counties i'm Western Wash
lhgton which are much larger anC
more populous. The boards decision
IN the matter had not been given wher
he left Olympia.
George Gibbs, one of the best known
notliculturlsts i'm this section of th'
STATE now engaged in bulb growing on
al extensive scale at Fort Bellingham
near WhatcOm, was i'm town q few day
ago on business. He has been spend
lug a few weeks packing and shipping
nu.t from his place at Crcas. He re
ports the outlook for the bulb industr.
very encouraging and says that he ant
hs partner have lately received 1876 ,OO'
oGlos OF choice varieties from the east
p plch they intend setting out I'm thei
rockingham gardens.
-
II It is true, and it is, that salmon
vall be kept alive In spillers two weeks
~Tny can't the trap method be mad
" H'e most economical fishing method
~ can and will. There should be law
Enacted Enacted requiring trap men 10 lift ever.
lay II possible, and not TO leave traI
s TInger than three days. The surplu
Snouid then be turned out. II tina
we're we're done no dead fish would ever b
muhd: Every salmon, however, take
hlna gill net is dead salmon. He can
oe otherwise, In which Ia the create