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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
San Francisco Markets.

Wool-Choice foothill, collie; San
Joaquin, 6 months 5000; do years
staple, 1000; mountain, 10@ 12c; Ore
gon, LOG 12c per pound.
Hops-8@l2c per pound.
Millstuffs = Middlings, $18.5O@
30. SO; California bran, $13@l4.5O per
ton.
Hay-Wheat, $S@11; wheat and
oat, $7@10 oat, $6@8.5O river barley,
$5@6; best barley, $6.50@8; alfalfa,
5000 clover, $6@8.
Potatoes-New, in boxes, 50@9Oc.
Onions-New red, GOO roo; do new
silverskin, 10000 per GENITAL.
Fresh fruit-Apples, 25@35c per
small box; do large box, 5O@85c Royal
apricots, 20@4Oc common cherries,
25@3Oc; Royal Anne cherries, 45@ SOC
per box; currants, $10O@2.00 per
chest; peaches, 25@5Oc pears. 20@
SOC; cherry plums, 20@40c per box.
Butter-Fancy creamery. Ice; do
seconds, 15@151c; fancy dairy, 1411kc;
good to choice, 100 l4c per pound.
Cheese-Fancy mild, new, Sc; fair
to good, 7@7Hc per pound.
Eggs-Store, 10@12c; ranch, 1870
Ice; Eastern, 1908; duck, 13c per
dozen.
Citrus fruit-Navel oranges, 81. so
@3; seedlings, $1@150; Mexican
lines, $7@7.50; common lemons, 75c
@1.5O.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Trolley Service without Wire.

The electric trolley system to be intro
duced in Paris in time for the Interna-
tional exposition of 1900 is vastly diff
erent from that commonly employed in
the United States, inasmuch as the
dangerous overhead wires are absolutely
done away with, according to the
Philadelphia Inquirer. The new sys-
tenn is the invention of the French en-
gineer, Bochet, and, while rather SIM
pie, it steers clear of the objection of
unsightly obstruction which is usually
raised when overhead wires have to 60
up. Bochet establishes overhead con-
facts from electric lamposts belonging
to the city, the distance between posts
being somewhat smaller than the
length Of the electric train, consisting
of two or three cars, so that contact is
always assured at one point at least.
Through flexible points of contact sus-
pended from each electric post along the
proposed line the current will be taken
up by means of a copper rail fastened
along the edge of the roof of the car not
less than IA or Is feet from the ground.
The contact point will slide along that
copper rail and there is not the slightest
difficulty in establishing continuous
current if the points of contact are
made sufficiently elastic. The current
is allowed to return to the power sta
ton through the track Of the line. as
usual. This system offers all the bene-
fits of the overhead as we'll as of the
underground system without any of
their shortcomings.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Only One in the World.

So far as obtainable information goes,
Mrs. Louise Jewell Cabel of East Low
ell, Me. is the only woman justice OF
the peace in the world. Mrs. Cabel
first saw the light of the world So years
ago last December. At the tender age
of 20 years her devoted parents sent
her to school, her mother having pre-
viously taught the child to read the
Bible. School occupied her attentions
until she was 10 years old, when she
became a school teacher. AT the age
of "a she was confined to her bed for
three years by illness, and during that
time took up the languages and became
proficient in French and German. For
the six years following cOnvalescence
she averaged 1000 vests year, finally
becoming the bride of Mr.. Cabel. She
finally became interested in prOhibi-
ton, and became contributor to score
OF magazines and papers, keeping up
that line of work until 1888, when she
was granted a commission by Sebastian
S. Marble, then governor of Maine, to
''solemnize marriages, administer oaths
and take acknowledgements of deeds. !"
She then began to do the work of a
pension justice or notary, as they are
called in Maine. She has ridden thou
sands of miles after affidavits for the
soldier and his poorer dependents in
their claims before the pension de-
partment. She does her own house
work all the time. She is now acting
under her third commission. One year
ago last September her husband, who
is an organ and sewing machine vender
was stricken helpless with paralysis.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
BUSINESS IMPROVING
GRATIFYING REPORTS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

The Tariff Bill Is Being Rapidly Pushed
The Cuban Decentralization IL
Still Gaining Ground I'm the South.
E. F. PARSONS, Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.-Reports from
the business centers, which reach men,
bers of congress here, are extremely
gratifying. Dun's review, which is
accepted as reliable business barom-
eter, not controlled or Influenced by
political or other causes which could
affect its accuracy, presents the most
satisfactory trade statement for the last
week that has been made since the
present business depression began.
That statement was remarkable In Its
showing of the decided decrease In
embarrassments in all branches Of trade
and in reports of unusual activity in
all the industries in anticipation of the
passage of the tariff bill. The failures
reported in most branches of trade are
less in number than at any time in the
last thirty months while the volume
of business transacted is, in quantity,
larger than in 1892, the year Of our
greatest prosperity, the slight reduction
in values being due to the smaller
prices paid for the articles of commerce
handled. When it is remembered that
this happens before the new tariff bill
gets upon the statute books and with
the industries of the country depressed
by the importation Of foreign goods at
the rate of over hundred millions a
month, the improvement thus noted
is very remarkable and is proving very
gratifying to those who are following
the situation closely.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
A Miracle of Surgery.

A man named George Burns, who
will soon walk out of Cook County
(Chicago) hospital, is living example
of the miracles performed by modern
surgery. He went into the hospital
broken up in bone and body, and when
he leaves the hospital he will carry
with him a certificate showing he has
been the victim of the most remarkable
assortment of hurts that ever befell a
mortal being. Surgeons report him
broken up as follows:
Loss of the entire bony vault of the
skull, the top of the head being covered
with silver plate.
! Five ribs gone from the left side of
the body, having been removed by sur
geons in an operation.
Heart shifted from its natural posi-
ton to the right side in order to secure
firm resting place for that organ.
Both legs fractured in two places and
right arm broken twice.
Both elbow joints gone and the
cap of the right knee twisted around
to the back of the leg.
Large piece of the breastbone taken
out in the removal of rife ball.
Part of the windpipe missing.
Notwithstanding all that he has gone
through, the Tribune says, Burns is
still in a condition to shift for himself
and earn bis own living like other
men.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
KIDNEY TROUBLES
Cured BY Lydia E. p,n1s,n,.
Vegetable Compound

~ have been a great sut,s,..
Kidney trouble; pains in musc, e.e, iron
back and shoulders; feet vows 1ona
also had womb troubles an Os' = swell.
hea. After using Lydia E. pin ,ssae0'''
Vegetable Compound Blood I pas
and Liver Pills, I felt like = turtle,
man. My kidneys are now IL new NO
condition. "-MRs. MAGGIE po,!ps perfect
Kaufman st., Philadelphia, p Pa "a
My system was entirely NV ~
and | suffered with terrible ba.l'',a
in the small of my back, and Daes zach.
hardly stand upright. I had I could
petite. Since taking Lydia p ~ ~. ap'
hams Vegetable Compound, 7 r IN
gained fifteen pounds, and 7 nave VA
better than I ever looked betora ,ook
Mrs. E. F. MORTON, 1913 Hopkin 's, :, :
Cincinnati, Ohio. st.
1LLIANChlPpEN, Box77 81 Ana-
Bay, Fla, says:-"Before takinc es
u. Plnkham's Vegetable Componns !,
had suffered many years with L;aS
trouble. The pains in my bacl I lucy!
shoulders were terrible. NJ y menst. NV
ton became irregular, and 'ua'
troubled with leucorrhea. Twas wv. wy
ing very weak. Ibegan the use of INV
Pinkham's medicine, and the first hls
tie relieved the pain in nv baoI wv
regulated the menses. 1t relieved t ~
pain quickly and cured the disoasas ~
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
The Cuban Situation.

The return of Special Commissioner
Calhoun from Cuba revives interest in
the situation in that unfortunate island
and in the prospective action of the
administration. 1t is believed that
President Mckinley and Secretary
Sherman are now likely to have suffi-
cient information within a compare
lively short time to enable them to act
intelligently and in way which will
bring relief and encouragement and
substantial aid, not only to American
citizens in Cuba, but to those who are
struggling in behalf of the cause of
liberty.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Quick!

The sooner you begin tc
use Settings Best tea, the
bigger your chances at that
$1,000 offered for the miss
ing word-besides the ex-
ira prizes for the most tick
cts sent in.
ScAzllaug's Best tea is at
your grocer's.
Rules of contest published in large
advertisement about the first and middle
OF each month. All
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Pushing the Tariff.

Events have moved rapidly in WASH
ington this week. The senate, realizing
the pressure which is being brought
upon it by the country for rapid action
on the tariff bill, has held sessions early
and late and pushed through the bill at
a rate of speed absolutely unparalleled
in the history of that ordinarily slow
going body. That this should have
happended within few months of the
close of one of the most bitterly fought
campaigns that the country has ever
seen is the more remarkable. And
that people should 60 on complaining
because still greater speed is not made
under these remarkable circumstances,
can scarcely be accounted for, except
upon the theory suggested by~a gentle
man recently quoted in this correspond
ence that the state Of nervous prostra-
ton to which the Cleveland admins
tration brought the country has rem
dered the people to some degree ire
sponsible and unwilling to measure
things expected by those that have hap
pened in the past.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Shot hy q burglar.

St. Louis, June 30.-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Redbud, ILL.,, says:
Miss Lillian Blais, aged 81, highly
respected young lady of this city, had
terrible experience last night with a
burglar. She was awakened by a man
with beard or mask who was search
ing her fathers clothes. Miss Blais
screamed, and the robber thurst pistol
to her breast and fired, the ball taking
effect just above the heart. Miss Blais
is not expected to recover. Blood
hounds were put on the trail of the
burglar.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Seattle Markets.

Butter-Fancy native creamery,
brick, TIC; ranch, 10@12c.
Cheese Native Washington, 100
lie; California, 91c.
Eggs-Fresh ranc, 14@15c.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, Hobo; spring chickens, $3.50
$3.50; ducks, $4@5.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $50; feed $21
@s2.
Corn-Whole, 500; cracked. per ton,
$40; feed meal, $40 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$40; whole, $3.50.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef,
steers, SIC; COWS, &c; mutton sheep,
6Ac; pork, 6Ac; veal, small, 6@7.
Fresh Fish-Halibut, 3@4c; salmon,
4@5c; salmon trout, 7@1Oc; founders
and sole, 3@4; ling coad, 4@5: rock
cod, &c; smelt, 3@4c.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Portland Markets.

FOrCkanU MdrkeUSs
Wheat-Walla Walla, 67@68c; VAL
ley, 69c per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, $3.60@3.75;
grahram, $3.40; superfne, $3.50 per
barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 38@4Oc; choice
gray, 37@39c per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $16@ 16. so;
brewing, $1S@19 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $14.50 per ton;
middlings, 1913. so; shorts, SIC. so.
Hay-Timothy, $1O@13.50; clover,
$11.5O@12.5 so; California wheat, 500
IL; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, SO @
10 per ton.
Eggs-12k @13c per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 30@35c;
fair to good, 25c; dairy, 2O@25c per
roll.
Cheese - Oregon, 111lc; Young
America, 121ac; California, 90 10c per
pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, 81. 5O@3
per dozen; broilers, $2@3; geese, So. 30
@4.50; ducks, So. $685. SO per dozen;
turkeys, live, loo per pound.
Potatoes. Burbanks. 400
SOC per sack; sweets, $2.7 per GENITAL
for MERGED; new potatoes, $1.O0@1.1O
per GENITAL.
Observation-Disclosures, new, red. 90c@
81; yellow, $3.50 per GENITAL.
Hops-7@7kc per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, &c.
Wool-Valley, 1O@12c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 6@8c; mohair, 100
zoe per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 2Hc; dressed mutton, ~ @
&c; spring lambs, 6@7 per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, s.; light
and feeders, $2.50@3; dressed, $50
Ats per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, So. so; cows
$2.50@3; dressed beef, 5@61ac per
pound.
Veal-Large, 81 @4c; small, ~ @
&c per pound.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
The Boat-Rocker was Aboard.

Rochester, N. Y, June 29.-Harry
W. Clancy, newspaper reporter, was
drowned in Iron Dequert bay today.
Clancy and three companions were row.
Ing in the bay, when one of the party
rocked the boat, which capsized. The
entire party was thrown into the bay,
but three of them were rescued by per-
sons from the shore.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days
REMARKABLE GAIN IN WEIGHT
OF A CALIFORNIA MINER.
A Physical Wreck and Not Expected e
Live-He Begins the Use of PINK fiiis
and in Three Days IL Able to
Walk-His Friends CORRIDOR
ata Hfa Testimony.

and In Three Days IL Able to
Walk-His Friends Corrobor-
alto His Testimony.
From the Republican, Santa Rosa. Cal.
Here is true story from California:
Some three years ago, James d. Falk-
ner, of Santa Rosa, while prospecting.
discovered a quicksilver mine, and
while preparing to work it, was alone
on his ranch, far from any one. II
was there he was attacked by pneu-
monia, and when found five days after
and carried to his home9h he was ap-
parently dying. He did not die, how
ever, but for over year was in daily
expectancy of death from what was pro-
nounced by nearly all the physicians as
consumption.
At the end of about one year Mr..
Falkner heard that DIR. Williams Pink
Pills were sometimes efficacious in such
maladies as his, and procured some.
The result was astounding, for before
three boxes of pills had been taken,
the man who had been given over, and
could not walk without assistance,
when he began their use, was working
at his trade. and has ever since been a
hale and hearty man.
These facts are vouched for by such
men as Sheriff Allen, Mr.. G. L. Ma
bley, the city clerk of Santa Rosa. Mr..
Perry Fits, the well-known lumber
dealer, and many others, and are made
the subject Of quite an extended article
in the Santa Rosa Republican by Mr..
Virgil Moore, the well-known CORE
spondent, who resides near Mr.. Falk-
ner, and was familiar with the whole
circumstances.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain all
the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are sold in
boxes (never in loose form, by the
dozen or hundred) at SO cents box, or
six boxes for 81. SO, and may be had of
all druggists or directly by mail from
DR.. Williams Medicine Co., Schenec.
tady, N. Y.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

A quantity Of gold and silver coin was
discovered the other day at Casino
Beach, Astoria, L. l., by workmen en-
gagged in making excavations for some
new buildings. The coins were found
at depth Of forty feet and ranged in
date from 1861, the time of Napoleon
III. At first they we're supposed to be
part of the treasure generally believed
to have been buried by the pirate,
Kidd, but the presence Of coin Of
Napoleon III spoils good story.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
A Queer Judgment.

An Atchison (Kas.) mother goes once
a month to court and takes out judg-
ments for $40 each against her two
sons, the money being due according
to an agreement, the consideration
named in which is that the mother
shall refrain from annoying the sons
by her presence or talk. She says that
the sons have defaulted in payment
since last fall.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins 3 Company's Review
OF Trade.

Downing, Hopkins 3 Company's Review
Considerable activity has been noted
in July wheat during the past week,
owing to the fear of manipulation by
the elevator men. Stocks Of wheat in
Chicago are now down to 5000, 600
bushels, and this is firmly held by men
who believe in higher prices for spot
wheat during the next 80 days. There
has been little doing in other options,
although September wheat has gained
two cents. The news has been some
what conflicting in many respects, re-
ports of harvesting from the Southwest
tending to somewhat dishearten hold
ers, while the news in other respects
was bullish in tone, and indicated a
good demand for cash wheat. Receipts
have fallen off sharply in the North
west, and everything indicates that
from now on until the next crop moves,
but little will be received. Foreign
crop news has been bullish in tone,
European advices confirming the res
ported damage to the Roumanian and
bulgarian clOp VI 90 pei CCA'' OonuA0
tions Of India have improved but little.
Russian reports continue to speak OF
damage to wheat in certain sections,
while in France there has been only a
slight improvement. Exports have
shown a moderate decrease under those
of the previous week. Bradstreet's re-
ports them at 2,l56, 900 bushels, while
ocean passage decreased 1 ,440, 900 bush
els. Our visible supply decreased
$4,000 bushels, and is now down
to Is, 1914, 900 bushels, the smallest
in many years. Were there any
speculation we would see higher prices
at once, but the market is in a rut and
so narrow that it is at present con-
trolled by few professionals who are
scalping for small profits. While the
present dizziness lasts, we hardly look
for bull market, but our supplies are
getting so low that the short side is
very dangerous to be on, and we advise
our friends to buy wheat on the little
breaks at present, and be satisfied with
small profits until speculation revives,
or there is material change in the
situation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

\ Paris doctor has discovered the
microbe of badness and has exhibited
It at the St. Louis hospital, together
with sheep inoculated with it that
had lost its wool. He is now HUNTING
for the means to destroy the microhe
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Durable Shoe soles.

A German inventor has found way
to make durable shoe soles. He ap-
plies waterproof glue to the leather
and then sticks on lot Of clean quartz
sand. This wears splendidly, besides
giving a good foothold when walking
is slippery. It is said that these soles
are as flexible as could be desired.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
1t is calculated that by the end OF
the year 1000 there will be roo, 600
English-speaking persons on the globe.
steamer Nisbit sunk.

Huntington, w. Va, June 29.-The
steamer w. F. Nisbit, owned by the
Cincinnati & Pomeroy Company. bound
for Pomeroy, sank mile below Central
City this afternoon. The boat is on
the bar in FIVE feet Of water. None Of
her cargo is damaged. The passengers
are all safe.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
ERE THE FAREwELL IS SPOKEN

On the deck of the steamer, or on board the
train that is to bear you away from those dear
to YOU, you will, If you are wise, have safely
slowed away in your luggage . Sufficient sup
ply Of that safeguard against illness-Hostet-
ter's Stomach Bitters. Commercial travellers,
tourists and pioneer emigrants concur in testi-
fying to the fortifying and saving properties OF
the great tonic. Use for constipation, bilious
ness, malarial and kidney complaints and ner-
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Toothache No Excuse.

Toothache will no longer be accepted
by the Geneva (Switzerland) postofice
as an excuse for the absence Of en-
ployes. The Canton superintendent
has issued circular directing them to
have their teeth extracted rather than
to have the service suffer.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
Beware Of Ointme nts for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

As mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex-
cept on prescriptions from reputab ,physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry and is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t is taken internally,
and made in Toledo, O., by F. ]. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

Bengal was in ITO devastated by q
fearful famine, during the course of
which nearly one half Of the inhabi-
tants died, the trade became disorgan-
lied, and the revenues remaining UNI
collected.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

Emile Arton has admitted that he re-
ceived $500, 900 to use in lobbying for
the Panama Canal project, and has
handed the books containing the
amount of his expenditures to M. lie
Poittevin, the judge d'instruction in
his CASE
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

A medical journal says that paper
"can be used effectively for keeping q
person warm" True; three-line item
has been known to make q politician
hot for month.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

An addition Of $11, 900, 900 q year
will be made to the Prussian govern
ment expenses by the proposed increase
of the salaries and pensions Of officials.
teachers and their families.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

The people of Wolfe Valley, Texas.
have organized rabbit club. The club
pays one cent for the scalp of each cot
ton-tail, and ~ cents for that of a
jackrabbit. By this they hope to clean
out the nuisance.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08

The will of G. P. Woodcock, who
died on December II, in Seattle, Wash.
was admitted to probate few days ago.
After directing the payment of his
debts, the testator bequeathed to his
son and daughter the sum of 5 cents
each.