The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-12-11

and colt which has just been trained
to navigate in single harness.
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w. p. Smith was in town Tuesday
from his home near Roche Harbor. He
hopes thas the new board of commits
sioners will make a larger appropria-
ton than has hitherto been made for
the Improvement of the road between
his place and Sportsman lake.
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The Santa Juanita Club gave a very
ENJOYABLE lat home'f at Mrs. Farms
worth'I Friday evening, about thirty
five ladies and gentlemen being pres
ent There was a short literary pro-
gram, followed by ping-pong, crokinoe
and other games, and refreshments. The
club will meet Saturday afternoon with
Miss Ada Mullis.
1t is announced, that the Puget Sound
Navigation Company, which purchased
the steamers and mail contracts of the
Thompson Steamboat Company, has
contracted for three new steamers to lie
built in Seattle, 1.-TWO of which are to
be larger, faster and more modern in
equipment and service than the Ma
jestic,' the newest and finest vessel OF
tn Thompson fleet and one of The
finest on the Sound.
n,:, 10 GnottIo tndaU ~
tomorrow to meet Mrs. Hamburg, of
Honolulu, who is coming north from
San Francisco especially to see her.
Mrs. Hamburg was formerly Miss
M yra Sloggett, daughter of .Sloggett,
ho practiced medicine here ten years
ago and who has for several years been
one OF the leading physi clans of Homo
lulu. Mr.. Hamburg is a member OF
one of wealthiest shipping firms OF the
Hawaiian capital.
Miss Mabel Hays, daughter of the
well known mail clerk of the steamer
Lydia Thompson, is one of the latest
victims of the thugs who infest Sc
attic. She was brutally assaulted by
masked burglar at her home last Fri
day evening and rendered insenslble
for nearly an hour by blow upon her
head with a club which the thug car
ried. He got away with gold watch
and about $40 in money, having drop
ped some other articles in his haste TO
escape.
The steamer Raven which left here
on the 5th of November for the north
ern part of Vancouver island, has met
with quite a serious mishap. After
breaking two fiukes off her wheel by
striking log she ran onto rock in
Lima bay and was hard fast and partly
submerged when the report OF the
mishap was sent to Mrs. Dennison, the
owners wife, here's The letter stated
that 1t was thought that the steamer
had not suffered any very serious in
jury and that she could easily be floated
by the aid of q tug, for which Mr..
Dennison had gone to Nanaimo.
The Fairhaven Commercial Club is
in receipt OF communication from
someone who wants to buy an island
somewhere in the vicinity OF Belling-
ham bay to be used as an Angora goat
farm. There are several islands in this
county that would be ideal places for
such an industry. Crane island, be-
tween Shaw and Orcas, would be hard
to beat anywhere for such a purpose,
and Jones island, just off the SOUTH
west point of Orcas, would be nearly, If
not quite as good, though not SO large.
Johns island would be good place;
Center island, In Lopez sound, Is an
other; James island. east of Decatur,
might do, and Obstruction Island, be-
tween Orcas and Blakely, offers excep-
tionaI advantages as to location and
an abundance Of brush for goat feed.
If the goats should prove fastidious
and buck for something more substan-
tial it could easily be obtained from
Orcas. Old clothes, tin cans and other
foothsofne delicacies of which the goat
species is particularly fond could be OBJ
tained from steamers passing through
Peaviie and Obstruction passes, the
gateway to the San Juan archipelago
-. paIlinobotn hav Rut really there