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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
MITCHELL BAY

Mrs. Alfred Jones is VISITING har
two sons at kosario.
Alfred Lawson lie serionsIv III a.
bis home with bronchitis.
Aadm Clock has moved to his new
home near Sportsman lake.
P. A. Perry and daughter Grace
visited at the Grassland home Sunday.
Mr.. Kirk. Mr. Ramsden and Miss
Clara Kirk are visiting in Seattle.
Misses Grace and Ida Botsford Wis.
tied Miss Amanda Jones on Sunday.
Laurence Nesseieh has returned
to Beliingham to work in one of the
mills.
Joseph Briggs. Charles Luck, and
Arthur Jones visited at the Botsford
home Sunday evening.
Edward Botsford and Robt. Finn
made business trip to Friday Har-
Dor the first of the week.
A very enjoyable dancing party
was given Saturday night by q
number Of young folks in the new
Botsford home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Gross returned
home Friday from Seattle. where
they were called by the illness of Mr..
Gross's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. Warwick have
just received the sad news of Mrs.
Warwick's oldest sisters death at
Bellingham. also of the death of her
neice in Vancouver, b. @.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
AGRICULTURAL NOTES

A recent report of the Hop Grow
ers' Association Of California shows
that fifty cents worth Of chemicals
are now taking the place of ten bales
of hops.
The United States is producing one
f3fth of the worlds wheat: over one
third OF it's manufactures nearly two
thirds OF it's cotton, and over two
thirds Of its corn.
It Is reported that machine has
now been made by which flax which
has been threshed in the ordinary way
can now be used for the extensive
manufacture of linen goods.
The leading states for the poductlon
OF fax seed are North Dakota. MID
nesota and South Dakota. The 1907
crop in these states was about twenty
Ave million bushels.
Secretary Wilson has given notice
that the anti-tuberculosis Law respect
ing the removal of animals infected
with the disease. from one state TO
another. will be rigidly enforced.
The Buff Orpington hen which took
the first prize at the Madison Square
exhibit, In New York city. was re-
Gently sold to North Carolina poui,
try. raiser for four hundred dollars.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Stuart leland

stGrandma" Cook is quite ill.
Chris Cook spent few days in
Roche Harbor during the week.
Mrs. L. A. Brochers spent the at
ternoon Friday with Mrs. A. v. Chew
slier.
B. Mordhorst. accompanied by Tom
Matson and Kaspar Mordhorst. made
trip to Friday Harbor the first of
the week,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. V. Chevaller. Har-
~ Cook and P. A. Chevalier enjoy ed
a ride with Mr.. Hunter Sunday in
his new launch.
Chas. Miller sold small raft of
logs to the Roche Harbor Lime Com
pany They we're towed over this
week by the Roche Harbor.
A few persons from here attended
the basket social on Waldron island
last Saturday. More would have gone,
but did not know of it. until too late.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Millinery Opening

Mrs. Ada Mullis-Larson will have
her spring millinery opening Wednes-
day Thursday and Friday. March 4. 5,
and 6. She will have an exception
ally fine display of the latest millin-
cry creations. daintily arranged by
an expert trimmer. Miss Thatcher, OF
Seattle. All the ladies of the county
are cordially invited to call. No
special notes of invitation will be
dlstrib uted this year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Spring Millinery Opening

Miss Todd and Mrs. Hicks announce
that they will have their spring mil.
linery opening on the 18th. 18th and
1Ath of March. Their stock has been
most carefully selected and includes
all the newest and best designs Of the
season at popular prices. Mrs. Eel.
lows. of Seattle. an accomplished
milliner. will assist. All the ladies
of the county are most cordially in
vited to attend.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Notice to Merchants

A meeting of the San Juan County
Merchants Protective Association
will be held at the court house Thurs
day. Marco 5, ut 80 p. M. for the
purpose of perfectine the organization
and attending to such other business
Ms may come before it. The attend
ance of all merchants In the county il
desired.
s. M. BUGGE. l.. @. RUDOW.
Secretary. President.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Funeral OF Ed Buckley

The funeral of the late Ed Buckley.
whose death at Ell Paso, Texas, on the
18th inst. was reported in the Isl
ander last week. took place at the
Catholic church and cemetery yester-
day. (Friday) afternoon, Rev. Father
G. G. Won Goethem, of Sedro Wool
lev. officiating. There was large
attendance of relatives and friends.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Az the apple contains more ph,

AS the apple contains more phoe-
phoric acid in easily dieested form
than any other fruit. It is Of high
value as brain food. A prominent
physician once said that eff one half
the meat, one fourth the bread and all
tie candy given to children could be
made to give place to fruit Of which
apples formed large proportion. the
death rate would Be greatly reduced.
their bodies better formed, and al
would IS healthier and have dr. great
e. brain activity :
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

James Meiklejohn. of the Lopez
Lum Der Company was in town Mon
day. trying to hire carpenter to 1n-
lsh the house which his late partner,
Ole Holm, was building at the time
of his death. Mrs. Holm will. for
sone time at least. retain her hus-
bands interest in the mill business.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
BROWN HERB TABLETS

Have made for themselves many lasting
friends throughout the county, and as
tbev are becoming better known, they are
surp TO make many NOR. Box (s-ven
months treatmenDS 81 90, postpaid. Sample
nackage mailed free. w. p. Caldwell,
Special Agent, Box "a, Lopez, Wash.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Fl. G. Thompson was married in Bell
ingham Wednesday to Miss McKIyltt
from bis former home in Nebraska
whom he has known for many years.
They are expected here Monday. Mr..
Thompson's friends here extend their
cordial congratulations and best
wishes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

FOR SALE-Farm of sixty
acres. Attractive and convenient 10
cation about four miles from Friday
Harbor. Good improvements. Call
at or address the Islander office.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Mr.. and Mrs. F. N. Culver and
children spent Sunday and Monday
with friends IN BelliLghsm. Mr..
Culver went over for examination and
treatment of his eyes. which troubled
him seriously last week.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Silas Davis was over from Olga the
f1rst Of the week to get some point
ers" from Alfred Coffelt about the
operation of the unique little Raso
line motor with which he has equipped
an ordinary row boat. Isl" had a
natural curiosity to find out the name
of the "Admirer" who wove in the
Islander last week such q nice little
fabric OF fact and fancy about jap
anese recently employed at the Davis
farm. Mr.. Davis says that he liked
the young man very much because Of
his cheerfulness. willingness as work
or and eagerness to learn. He was
not discharged but left upon receipt
of q formidable looking document
from the japanese government direct
ing him to report to the Consul Of
Nippon in Seattle.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Joshua Wottou returned Thursday
from trip to Bellingham.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

s M. Bugge has put fourteen
horse power Campbell engine in the
launch Owasse in place OF the ten
horse power engine of the same make
which he had previously used.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

John McCrary went to st. Luke's
hospital. Bellingham. Wednesday, for
treatment of his foot, injured in the
machinery of the Concordia two
weeks ago.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Ladies' water proof capes at Bakers.

L. A. Borchers. keeper of the Turn
Point Light station was in town Thurs
day.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Oscar Klassel came over from Port
Townsend yesterday for short visit
with D. B. Shull and family.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

e. Maxwell has sold his farm to
Mr.. Jeffrey. of Kent. King county,
for 81. 500.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

There will be services at the Meth
odist church tomorrow, both morning
and evening.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Short order lunches served at all
hours at the San Juan oyster house.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

The Ladies' Aid Society met yester-
day with Mrs Martin Nichols.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
Private board by the week. "a. SO
at Mrs. George Galbraith's.

The launch Concordia took Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Balch's children from
Rocky bay to the Tuiaiip Indian
school. near Everett. last Saturday.
The trip was made to Everett in SIX
and one half hours. On the way back
Sunday call was made at LaConner
for gasoline but ''the lid" was on
there so tight that Capt. Fullerton
had to wait several hours before he
could get any. q. B. briggs made
the trip with him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

FOR SALE-12 horse power. 80
foot launch. A bargain. Address j..
81. Chase, West Sound. Washington.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Why get up in the morning feeling blue,
Worry others and worry you;
Here's secret between you and me,
Better take Rocky Mountain Tea.
Friday Harbor Drug Co.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

There was another big drop in coal
at Churchill's dock last Saturday
night. the drop being caused by an
other break in the wharf which pre-
cipitated twenty tons or more into
the bay. About half of the shipment
of sixty-seven tons which was unload
ed on the dock for government use
three weeks ago has now gone down.
The loss, not including damage to the
dock. is about $3.50.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

The Ladies' Guild will meet with
Mrs. Churchill next Wednesday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
leland
Pop. 1850

T. Brittendall was over from Port
Stanley Wednesday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29
San Juan
Hrea ST 90. Mtles

JAS Crook was down from English
camp Thursday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

George Galbraith has sold his meat
market to Nichols Bros.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

DR.. G. l.. Judd, of East Sound. was
u passenger on the islander Tuesday
enroute home from Topeka. Kansas,
where be went recently with two car.
loads of Orcas island apples which he
disposed otat good prices. He was
accompanied on the return trip by
the family of his brother. who arrived
at East Sound shortly tefore the doc
tor left. They will probably locate
in Seattle.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Another series of meetings for the
purpose of organizing grange will be
held next week-at East Sound Mon
day evening; West Sound. Tuesday
evening; Lopez Center. Wednesday
evening. and Friday Harbor Thursday
afternoon.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Builds up waste tissues, promotes APP
putite, improves digestion, induces re-
freshing sleep, giving renewed strength
and health. That's what HOLSTERS Roc
ky Mountain Tea will do. CSC. Tea or
Tablets. Friday Harbor Drug Co.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Mrs. Shull and daughter Edith ar
rived from Missoula. Montana. Mon
day. to visit her husbands brother,
D. B. Shull. and family.
DR.. Gordon, OF Seattle, who recent
~ bought Center island. near Deca-
tur. was in town Monday in his fine
cruising launch. He is building q
handsome bungalow OH the island.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Mr.. Robert E. Erickson. son of Mr..
and Mrs. E. Erickson. and Miss Abbie
A. Ackley. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. F. Ackley. we're married in Beliiug-
ham this week by Rev. James Thorn
son. They went from there to New
Westminster and Vancouver. After
their return here they will be Eat
home'' on MIR. Erickson's farm in
Beaverton valley.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

Leave orders with briggs fol
first class timothy hay, $40 ton.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

FOR SALE-Six White Leghorn
roosters. rs cents each. Come early.
Archie Fleming.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-29

The steamship Dirigo cleared from
here the evening of the 21st both
coastwise and foreign. She carried
no coastwise cargo from up-Sound
ports but took on 1O1. 600 feet of
lumber at the Western Mills here for
Skagway. She called at Nanajmo to
fill her bunkers with coal and also
take on coal crago for Skagway.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
Restoring Cliff Dwellings.

Denver.-A Washington dispatch
says that Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, pro-
fessor of American ethnology Of the
Smithsonian institution, has gone to
Mesa Verde national park Mancos,
Colorado, to take charge Of the ex-
cavation and preservation OF the IA
nous cliff dwellings there.
His work for the present will be di-
rected towards a so-called spruce tree
house, which he will restore before at
tempting the preservation Of the great
cliff palace. OF the spruce tree house
he expects to make fine show ruin" !"
visible from a point where everyone
who visits the ruins must camp be-
fore he sees the cliff palace.
The cliff palace Is not only the fin
est, but also the largest example OF
cliff house architecture in the South
west In the cliff palace DR.. Fewkes
plans to excavate all the rooms and
plazas to their floors, remove the ac-
cumulated debris, repair all the walls
that are in danger of falling, and put
the ruins in such condition that Wis
itors may walk through the courts and
rooms without obstruction, inspect
walls now buried in debris and appre-
ciate the scientific and educational i'm.
portance Of 1t all.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
WESTERN NEWS.

William j. Bryan delivered an ora
ton at Spencer, Nebraska. on Memo
rial Day.
Thomas and James Wycliff. the ia
nous Oklahoma outlaws, who nave
been hunted by the officers OF Okla
homa for thirteen years, have surren-
dered to the state authorities.
The Seattle PostIntelligencer, after
receiving reports from all points in the
North, estimates the gold output for
the coming season in Alaska at S26,-
000, 900
The Yaqui Indians have agreed to
sever their tribal relationship whole
10000 Of them-Quit waging warfare
anG settle down into peaceable law
abiding citizens of Mexico.
A syndicate of English and New York
capitalists IS considering the PROPOSE
tion of constructing an oil pipe line
from Lander, Wyoming, to Omaha The
syndicate has extensive options on
lands in the oil fields south of Lander
According to Charles B. Wilhelm,
secretary OF the California state board
of pharmacy, opium smoking is increas'
ing in San Francisco and young men
and women of the smart set form not
incosiderable part of the growing army
Of smokers
John Mitchell, formerly president Of
the United Mine Workers of America
has been seriously put to the fore as
candidate for the Democratic guber
Material nomination in Illinois. as the
result of conference in which he
took part, together with Roger c. Sui
livan. John T. Connery and Fred w
Block
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany, in connection with the opening
of its new line between Chicago, Birm-
ingham and Atlanta. has placed con
tract for 5000 tons of steel rails to
cost $t.456,000. The contract goes to
the Tennessee Iron e. Coal Company
and is the largest order since the fl
nancial depression set in.
In holding that the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe railway was guilty of Nio-
lating the twenty-eight-hour law, Fed
eral Judge Lewis said that shipment
OF sheep was a consignment and not
a trainload and fined the railroad $500
for its inhumanity to animals. Three
shipments of sheep were made from
Chama, New Mexico, to Prowers, Colo
rado
The first division OF the Atlantic
feet under Rear Admiral Sperry, con
sisting of the Connecticut Kansas.
Vermont and Louisiana. returned to
San Francisco from Tacoma May 3lst
and dropped anchors in Man O. War
row by the side of the Maine. The
ships were accompanied by the hos
pital ship Relief The Minnesota also
came in later from Bremerton.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06

tempted by an aeroplane. 1t was to
have been an endurance test in which
the operator expected to remain in the
air one hour and twenty minutes.
That would have meant flight OF
about so miles. In the government test
next August the Wright machine will
have to remain in the air an hour. but
will not be required to cover as great
a distance as was contemplated in the
unfortunate performance.
One or both of the brothers will go
to Europe within few weeks, but
they will be back here with their new
machine next August.
The Wright machine was construct.
ed with the idea Of selling it to the
government. The body is 40 feet long
and so feet wide, making total buoy
ing surface of $40 feet. 1t is said to
be capable of carrying four ordinary
men with ease.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
Dispenser Of Kisses.

A Frenchman, who apparently has
been amusing himself by reckoning
up the number Of kisses he has given
his wife during the first 20 years OF
his married life.
He finds that in the first year he
dispensed about 100 kisses a day, or,
say, allowing for birthdays and legal
and church holidays, about 36.70O in
the year.
In the second year this number was
reduced by half, and in the third
year to ten a day, while in the fifth
year his better half had to be content
with two a day, one In the morning
and one in the evening.
What happened after the fifth year
is wrapped in mystery" but at the
same rate of progression" he prob
ably arrived eventually at one kiss op
the first of January every leap year
Chicago American.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

At Rome. Italy, on May 30th, Leo
de la Grange a French aeroplanist,
made flight of a fraction less than
ten miles at the rate of 27o miles an
hour.
1t has been announced at Honolulu
that Prof Robert Koch, the famous
German bacteriologist. will soon pay a
visit to the leper settlement on the is
land Of Molokai.
l. A. Gaver, aged twenty-eight. ar
rested on charge of burglary. con.
fessed to having robbed railway sta
tions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
Maine and California of tickets worth
$4,000.
The Lusitania OF the Cunard line ar
rived at Queenstown from New York
Monday. having broken her own rec
ord by two hours and forty-three min
utes. covering the distance of 2,942
knots in five days. four hours and thir-
ty minutes.
The Lorraine Dietrich automobile
finished the Paris Moscow trip of s.
300 kilometres without a stop in eigh-
ty-six hours Sorrel and Rougierm,
who drove alternately, got great re-
ception. The feat was accomplished
despite bad weather.
Leon de la Grange, the French aero
pianist, made fifteen separate flights
at Rome. Italy. on the 2Sth ult The
maximum distance covered was about
$500 feet at height of six or seven
feet from the ground. This distance
was covered in siXty-four seconds.
1t rained all day in New York City
on Memorial Day, but nevertheless T.
900 gray haired veterans marched in
three parades. Secretary Taft made
an address at Grants tomb. but only
those who could get under shelter
heard him, as it rained hard.
There has been an epidemic of sui
cides in st. Petersburg that has last
ed for three months. The average
number of deaths has been eighty five
a month and eighteen destroyed them
selves during the last week. Despond
ency has been the prevailing cause.
Five hundred American marines will
police 100 polling places in Panama at
the coming presidential election, the
first week in July. This is considered
necessary on account of revolutionary
Indications.
The gift OF an additional 100000
to the Rockefeller institute in New
York City by John d. Rockefeller was
announced Memorial Day, after p.
meeting of the trustees of the insti-
tute. The money is to be used for the
erection of a new building near the
present institute. The gift makes a
total of $4,5OO.00O given to the insti-
tute by Rockefeller.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
Coal Land Deal Closed.

Trinidad, Colo.-What is known as
the Clark coal land deal was closed
Monday by the filing OF articles Of i'll
corporation here by w. L. Brethertcn,
private secretary for Senator Clark Of
Montana, of the Montana-Clark Realty
Company, capitalized for $780, 900.
The company is incorporated under
the laws of Washington. Only the
name of Senator Clark and his attor-
neys appears on the papers. At the
same time deeds for 5000 acres of
land which Senator Clary recently pur
chased from Charles F. Adams OF
Boston were placed on record. The
company will deal in real estate and
mines and operate power plants and
electric lines. The land is thirty
miles west of here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
BAD ITCHING HUMoR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw
Feet SwolIen-sIeep Broken
Cured in 2 Days by Cutieura.

Some two months ago had hu.
NOR break out on my limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak. all red, and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were so swollen that l could not get
my shoes on for a week or more. l
used five or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less For two or three weeks the suf
fering was intense and during that
time 1 did not sleep an hour at time.
Then one morning l tried bit of
Cuticura From the moment 1t touched
me the itching was gone and l have
not telt a bit of it since. The swelling
went down and in two days l had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley. so South State St,
Concord. N. H.. May IA. 1907"