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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-07
EXPLOSION AT AN OIL WELL
Four Farmers Killed and Seven Ser
i0usly Injured.


Four Farmers Killed and Seven Ser
iously Injured.
Marietta, O.. Junet Am explosion
of nitro-glycerine on the Kelly farm, a
few miles east of this city, resulted in
four deaths, four fatally injured and
three seriously injured. Fifty quarts
of nitro-glcyerine had been lowered in
37O-foot well. The "go devil" was
dropped as usual, but failed to set the
shot off. A 'squib" was made with
glycerine in tube connected by fuse.
This was dropped and in striking the
can at the bottom the main shot ex-
ploded and sent great quantities OF
water, oil and the unexploded squib
into the air. The squib fell on the
derrick floor unnoticed. AS soon as
the water cleared away there was a
great rush to the derrick by the inquis-
itive countrymen. The Marietta Tor
pedo Company and contractors could
not keep them back, but fed to a safe
distance themselves. There were
about l5 in the derrick when the fuse
to the squib ignited the glycerine. and
the terrible result followed.
William M. Watson, Fl. E. Selton,
Frank Speers and Thomas Daniels were
killed. Those fatally wounded are
James P. Sueers, Herman Speers, Daw.
son Stallar and William Carpenter.
Those seriously injured are John Stall
lar, Walter Daniels and Henry Stallar.
All the victims are residents of this
county. well-to-do and prominent citi-
ZenS
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WAS IT ACUINALDO?
The Filipino Leader or His
Adjutant Shot.
COMPANIONS TOOK HIM AWAY
with saddie-Bags Containing In.
surgent's Diary aud Papers.

Viagn, Luzon. via Manila, June s.
Major March, with his detachment Of
the Thirty.third regiment, overlook
what is believed to have been Agui-
naldo's party on May 10, at Lagat,
about 100 miles northeast of Vigan.
The Americans killed or wounded an
officer. supposed to be Aguinaldo
whose body was removed by his fol.
lowers.
Aguinaldo had 100 men. Majo,
March 125, the American commander
reaching La Boagan, where Aguinaldo
had made his headquarters since M,rch
8, on May z. Aguinaldo had fed seven
hours before leaving all thu beaten trails
and travelling through the forest along
the beds OF streams. Toward evening,
May l9, Major March struck Agui-
naldo's outpost about mile outside OF
Lagat. killing four Filipinos and cap
turing two. From the latter he learned
that Aguinaldo had camped there foi
the night, exhausted and half starved.
Major Msrch's men entered Lagat on
the run. They saw the insurgents scat
tering into the bushes or over the pla.
teau. A thousand yards beyond the
town, on the mountain side, the figures
OF 25 Filipinos dressed in white with
their leader on q gray horse were
silhouetted against the sunset. The
Americans fired volley and saw the
officer drop from his horse. His fol.
lowers fed. carrying the body. The
Americans, on reaching the spot.
caught the horse, which was richly
saddled. Blood from badly wounded
man was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddle bags contained
Aguinaldo's diary and some private
papers including proclamations. One
of these was addressed: "To the CIV.
ilized Nations" 1t protested against
the American occupation Of tho Philip
pines. There was also found copies Of
Senator Beveridge's speech, translated
into Spanish and entitled: "The Death
Knell of the Filipino People,"
Major March, believing that the
Filipinos had taken to river which 10
q tributary of the Chico, followed 1t for
two days, reaching Tiao, where he
learned that a party of Filipinos had
descended the river May 20 ON a raft
with the body of dead or wounded
man upon litter, covered with palm
leaves. There Major March reviewed
his command, shoeless and exhausted,
and picked out "a of the freshest men,
with whom he beat the surrounding
country for six days longer, but with.
out finding any trace OF the insurgents.
The Americans pushed on. and arrived
at Aparri, May 20.
The officer shot was either Aguinaldo
or his adjutant, and as the horse was
richly taparisoned, it is fair presump'
tion that it was Aguinaldo.
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PLAGUE SITUATION.


Chinese OF San Francisco State Their
Grievances In Detail.
San Francisco, June 2.-Referring to
quarantining of Chinatown, the attor-
neys for the Chinese Six Companies
have made the following statement:
"We shall do nothing precipitantly
in the way of litigation. and therefore
we do not contemplate making an ap-
plication to the courts at this time for
any order to modify or hinder the oper-
ations of the board of health.
"a cause of considerable uneasiness
among the inhabitants of Chinatown is
the lack of quarantine regulations thus
far observed within the Quarantined
district. The general quarantine order
keeps 10000 people within pre-
scribed district, and that compare :
lively samll district. In this district
1t is not claimed that there are or ever
have been more than nine or ten cases.
The contention made by the people who
are subject to the quarantine is that If
1t is necessary to quarantine this num-
erously populated district, it is the
duty of the board of health to go furth.
er and quarantine or isolate the houses
and persons who are said to be in
fected.
eve shall also request the board of
health to proceed vigorously with the
sanitation of the quarantined district.
The question of expense is a secondary
matter. If genuine bubonic plague ex-
lists there, the city should stop at moth.
inmg to stamp it out. million dol.
lars would be q mere ,trife to expend
in doing this work quickly and well" !"
Chinese Consul Ho Vow takes the
position that the municipal government
of San Francisco is bound to furnish
necessaries for the support OF the quar-
antined Chinese.
The federal authorities refused to
issue clean bills of health to the steam
ers City of Peking and Australia,
which have sailed for the Orient and
Honolulu. They will have to undergo
quarantine and fumigation on reaching
Hawaii.
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Ignorant Foreigners in q Riot.

Chicago, June "A free dispensary
at $40 West Eighteenth street. said to
be conducted by medical students,
was attacked today by crowd of in
furiated Bohemians and Lithuanians,
and before the police arrived in re-
sponse to a riot call, the building was
badly damaged. Today a boy disap-
peared, and his boy companion report
ed that he had been waylaid and killed
by the doctors. In few moments a
mob Of several hundred people was at
work demolishing the building. The
police arrived and several arrests were
made before the crowd was dispersed.
Later the missing boy was found un-
harmed.
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TROUBLE IN SAMOA
German Part of It in an Un,
settled State.
CAUSED BY MATAAFA FACTION
In Tutuila and the Other American
Islands the Natives Are PeaN0-
able and Happy.

Apia, Samoa, May Is, via San Fran
cisco. June 4.-Since the German flag
was hoisted in Samoa. affairs have
been in an unsettled state. The Ma.
taafa faction until after Easter re-
mained in or around Apia. claiming
that although they had given the king
ship to the commissioners in July last.
they had not by any means given up
their rights to govern the islands under
the guarantee given to them by the
Berlin treaty, which assured the au-
tonOmy of the Samoan group and the
right of the natives to elect their own
king. Mataafa claimed that the treaty
powers mad no right to hand over the
government of the islands to any single
power, and that such course was not
sssented to by his people.
DR.. Solf, the newly appointed gov.
ernOr of German Samoa, had thus at
the very outset of his career difficult
and trying position to face. After sew
eral interviews, in which the matters
were discussed from the different points
of view. the natives agreed to return
to their homes and there await further
news after the arrival of dispatches
from the German government. 1t is
generally understood the governor con-
ceded the right of the majority of the
natives to be the party who should be
consulted later in the formation OF the
native administration and be entitled
to appointments Hereunder. The
Mataafa party claims that 1.-THE spoils
belong to the victors."
In Tutuila the American representa-.
tive, in the person of Commander Til.
ley, of the United States steamer Aber.
enda, has had a much more agreeable
and pleasant experience than DR.. Solf.
There the natives hailed with enthusi-
asm the hosting of "Old Glory" At
Manua, the island lying east of Tutuila,
the chiefs have requested Commander
Tilley to visit the islands in person aud
there hoist the flag. This he consent
ed to do, and the date fixed for the
function was May II, but at the time
of writing there is no news from that
place.
Customs regulations have been pro-
mulgated by the commander. The
only port of entry in Tutuila is Pango.
Pango. The duties are the same as
formerly collected under the Berlin
treaty, with the one exception that the
export duty on copra has been abolish
ed. Lands are not to be alienated by
the natives, although lands may be
leased for period not exceeding 40
years with the approval of the COM
mander. The natives will be governed
in districts. There are three districts,
each under a chief. Under the chiefs
are the judges and village magistrates,
and an appeal lies from all to the COM
mandant. The importation of arms
and ammunition is strictly prohibited.
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NEW ARMOR DEVICE NEEDED

Discovery Of the SOft-NOsed ArmOr Pierc.
ing Shell Makes this Necessary.
New York, June "A special to the
Heald from Washington says: Con.
sideration is being given by naval ord.
nan e experts to the invention of some
armor-device which will overcome the
superiority impaired to an armor-
piercing projectile by soft steel cap.
As the United States has led all other
natl ons in the adoption of the soft
nosed cap, there is no crying need for
haste in providing American men-of.
war with additional protection. The
authorities understand, however, that
the success of American experiments
with the cap will lead other nations to
adopt the invention, and it is, there.
fore, desirab BILE that some plan should be
determined upon to overcome the super.
;ority of the shell.
Rear-Admiral Watson, upon his re-.
turn to the United States, will be or.
dered TO command the Mare Island
navy-yard.
Congress, having placed assistant
surgeons in the navy on the same basis
as assistant surgeons of the army, no
difficulty will be experienced, Rear
Admiral Reypen believes in filling the
Is vacancies now existing in the medi-
cal coprs of the navy. Assistant sur
geons will be given the rank and pay of
lieutenants, junior grade.
Secretary Long has received from
Captain B. HI. McCalla q formal &C.
ceptance of the pardon granted him by
the president, and he has been restored
to the place he occupied before he was
reduced.
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THE ALUM BAKING POWDERS.


Names Of Some of the Principal Brands
Sold In this Vicinity.
The recent discussion in the papers
of the effect upon the human system oI
food made with alum baking powders
and she opinions that have been pub.
lished from noted scientists to the
effect that such powders render the
food unwholesome, have caused numer.
Gus inquiries for the names OF the vari.
ous alum powders.
The following list of baking powders
containing alum is made up from the
reports of state chemists and food com.
missioners, Of Minnesota, or other reli.
able authority:
Baking Powders Containing Alum;
X. c.. Contains Alum
Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago.
Cal l1met. .......... Contains Alum
Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.
Home. ............. Contains Alum
Home Baking Powder Co., San Francisco.
Washington. .......... Contains Alum
Pacific Chemical Works, Tacoma.
Crescent. .............. Contains Alum
Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle.
White Lily. ..........C Contains Alum
d. Ferrera Co., Tacoma.
Bee Hive ve............. Contains Alum
Washington Mfg. Co., San Francisco.
Bon Bon. n.............. Contains Alum
Grant Chemical Co., Chicago.
Denance. Contains Alum
Portland Coffee Spice Co.. Port and.
Portland. ....... Contains Alum
BenO & Balls. Portland.
In addition to these. 1t is learned
that many grocers are selling what
they call their own private or special
brands. These powders are put up for
the grocer and his name put upon the
labels by manufacturers of alum pow.
ders. The manufacturers, it is said,
find their efforts to market their goods
in this way greatly aided by the ambi-
ton of the grocer, to sell q
powder with is own name upon
the label. especially when the grocer
can make an abnormal profit upon it.
Many grocers, doubtless, do not know
that the powders they are thus pushing
are alum powders which would be act
ually contrabrand in many sections il
sold without disguise.
1t is quite impossible to give the
names of all the alum baking powders
in the market. They are constantly
appearing in all sorts of disguises,
under all kinds of cognomens, and at
all kinds of prices, even as low as five
and 10 cents pound. They can be
avoided, however, by the housekeeper
who will bear in mind that all baking
powders sold at % cents or less per
pound are liable to contain alum, as
pure cream of tartar baking powders
cannot be produced at anything like
this price.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-07
POLITICS IN SENATE.
Senators Hanna, Hale and Tillman Led
in the Debate.

in the Debate.
Washington, June 4.-The senatorial
debate today was caustic and as warm
as the weather outdoors. At times the
exchanges between senators bordered
on personalities. Much of the discus
sion was of a political nature. although
in themselves the questions involved
were not essentially political. Soon
after the senate convened, q memorial
was presented from the people of Cali
fornia asking that the government pro-
vide some relief for the starving people
of India. Hale, with this as text,
severely arraigned Great Britain for
expending hundreds of millions of dol
lars in crushing liberty and freedom
in South Africa, instead of caring for
the helpless and dying people OF Eng
lands chief colony. Aldrich charged
Hale with making political speeches
ON irrelevant matters. and little
later, when Hale reported further dis
agreement on the naval appropriation
bill, an exciting discussion arose over
the xrmor.plate question. A sharp
political twist was given to the debate
by a speech which Hanna delivered in
favor OF leaving the whole matter in
the hands of the senate conferees, and
OF comforting discretionary powers upon
the secretary of the navy in accordance
with the house proposition. He be-
came involved in q controversy with
TillmaQ and Allen over the govern
ment's ability to manufacture armor
satisfactorily, in which the sparks few,
to the intense interest of the auditors.
Teller, Allen and Pettigrew replied to
Hanna, all speaking in political vein.
The bill finally was returned to confeI.
ence. Seventy-nine private pension
bills were passed, and also the military
academy bill carried amendments max.
ing General Miles and all future COM
manders of the army lieutenant-gen-
erals, and General Corbin . major
general. Consideration of the last OF
the appropriation bills, the general de-
ficiency bill, was begun. but was not
completed.
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STILL FAR FROM QUIET.
Several Disturbances by the st. Lou
Car-Strikers.

Several Disturbances by the st. Louis
Car-Strikers.
st. Louis, June 5.-A riot OF small
proportions, during the progress OF
which boy was fatally shot and
dynamite explosion occurred, marred
what would have otherwise been an
uneventful Sunday. As car on the
Tower line was passing the corner Of
Twelfth and Calhoun streets. crowd
of strike sympthizers threw rocks at it.
An unknown man in the car fired q
revolver into the crowd. The bullet
struck Peter Frank, l6 years old, who
who was sitting in the doorway Of his
fathers house. A detachment OF
police dispersed the rioters. The boy
will die.
At q late hour this afternoon an ex.
plosion OF dynamite shattered the cable
conduit and switches of the Olive street
line, at the intersection OF Maryland
and Boyle avenues. No one was in.
jured, but traffic on that end of the line
had to be suspended. There is no clue
to the perpetrators.
More than the usual quota Of police
was furnished today for the protection
of passengers and crews, and as q re-
suit the number of cars on the various
lines OF the Transit Company was
materially increased. Cars were oper-
ated ON 16 lines.
This morning the nucleus OF the first
regiment of special deputies forming
Sheriff Pohlmann's posse comitatus,
consisting of 10 companies Of 80 men,
each armed with s),otguns. were as
signed to active service in preserving
order. Their duties consisted in pa
trolling the streets and doing guard
duty at the various power houses and
car sheds.
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Eight-Year-Old Hero.

Media. Pa, June 1.-Two children
we're dragged from burning house on
the truck farm of 7. Steerbicksloe last
night by their 8-year-old brother. His
mother, carrying the baby and lamp,
fell on the stairway. the lamp setting
fire to the house. The boy, realizing
that the house was doomed, dragged
out q brother and sister, who were
intent Oh rushing through the fire to
their mother. Then he returned for his
mother, whose arms clasped the baby.
but her weight was too great for his lit
tia arms, and, as the flames were clos
ing on him, he fled heart-broken to a
place of safety.
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Chicago, June 2.-Bubonic plague,
which has been epidemic in Sydney.
Australia. Is said to be under the con-
troll and dying out, in q private cable.
gram received by Charles Oliver, head
of the commission in charge of the
railways of New South Wales, who is
visiting Chicago.
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The Strike In Chaion, France.

Chalon. Sur Saone. France, June 8.
The strike here reached q critical
stage last night, and today the city IL
studded with soldiers. The trouble
began during the afternoon. and at
night the street lamps were extinguish-
ed and missiles of all sorts were thrown
at the cavalry and gendarmes, who
fired, killing one Of the rioters and
wounding 20. some Of them seliously.
Fifteen gendarmes and two cavslrymsn
were injured. The trouble u not ~
ended.
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BURIAL OF SPANISH RULERS.
Weird Ceremonial Custom Prescribed
for Royal Obsequies.

for Royal Obsequies.
Strange and almost weird is the cere-
monial which accompanies the burial
Of Spanish kings. The pantheon, or
royal tomb, is at the palace of Escurial,
situated 5000 feet above the level of
the sea and some distance from the
capital. Only kings, queens and moth
ers of kings are buried there, the coffins
Of the kings lying on one side, and those
of the queens on the other. After lying
in state for several days in the throne
room in Madrid, says the San Francisco
Argonaut, an enormous procession is
formed accompanying the body to the
Escurial. A halt is made on the way
and the corpse rests there for one night.
In the morning the lord high chamber
lain stands at the side of the coffin and
says in loud tones: "Is your majesty
pleased to proceed on your journey?'
After short silence the procession
moves on and winds up to the grand
portal of the palace. These doors are
never opened except to admit royal
parsonage, dead or alive. When the
casket containing the remains is at last
placed in the vault the chamberlain
unlocks it and, kneeling down, calls
with loud voice: ''Senor! Senior!
Senorl' After solemn pause he cries
again: ''His majesty does not reply.
Then it is true the king is deadP' He
then locks the coffin, gives the key to
the prior (the palace of the Escurial
contains also large monastry and the
church) and. taking his staff of office.
breaks it in pieces and filings them at
the casket. The booming Of guns and
the tolling of bells announce to the
nation that the king has gone to his
final resting place.
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New York, June 4.-Della May Fox,
the well-known actress, was today COM
mitted to an insane asylum BY Justice
McAdams on petition of her brother
and on evidence of physicians, showing
that she Is laboring under delusions.
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Killed by Lightning.

st. Clair, Mich. June 2.@Captain
Ariie Morrison. Frank Campbell and
William Medlar were killed by light
ming today. The three men were at
work in the cabin of new boat. Tho
lightning struck the mast, splintering IT
and passing down into the cabin.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-07

A contract has been let BY Mrs. Jane
L. Stanford for the new chemistry
building at the Leland Stanford uni
versity. The total contract IL slightly
in excess of 500, 900.
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The glory we remember we are to
hand down unimpaired. Tho next
peneration needs the example of faith
m as we'll ~ forefathers. s.-Boston Con-
gregationalist
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Literary Ornaments.

"What is library, pa?"
"a library, Jimmy, is what . man
nas when he gets together an awful lot
,f books that he never has time to
eesd. ."-Chicago Record.
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EN- ROUTE TO PEKING.

Small Forces Landed From the Foreign
Warships-Past Tien Tisn.
Tien Tsin, June "A special train
started for Peking this afte, noon with
the following forces:
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Saving Oneself by Service.

A man was travelling over an Alpine
pass. He went over the glaciers, sink
ing in the snow step by step, upward.
until he was aweaIy. High on the
summit of the pass desire to sleep
overcame him. He could hardly put
one foot before another. Just as he
was almost sinking down into the sleep
which would have proved the sleep of
death to him, he struck his loot against
an obstacle which proved to be the
body of traveller who had preceded
him. He bent down. found that the
heart had not ceased to beat and began
at once to rub the frozen limbs and to
do his best to reanimate the body. In
his effort he was successful. He saved
the mans life; and, in the effort, he
banished his own desire to sleep and 80
saved his own life in saving another
Herald and Presbyter.
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Troops Mustered Out.

Frankfort, KY, June 2.-Governor
Beckham this afternoon issued an order
mastering ont 10 companies of the
state guard
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Dallas, Tex, June 4.-Tremendous
rains have fallen in the last two days.
The rise in the ~Brasos at Waco since
last night in % feet and the river II
still rising six inches an hour. IL IL
out of its banks, and much alarm IL felt.
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81 have decided" said the girl in
blue, ''that when ! marry ] shall
marry q wIdower."
"Cowardl" returned the girl in
gray, scornfully.
Truly, it would seem that Q woman
,hould be willing to tame her own
husband. Chicago Post.
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Trackmen and section men on the
Central New England railroad in Con-
necticut and New York, struck for
81. so q day.
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americans, seven OfhCerS and b.
men; British, three officers and 2
men; Italians, three officers and 81
men; French, three officers and q
men; Russians, four officers and z
men; japanese, two officers and @
men.
The foreign contingent also took witt
them five quick firing guns. 1t is he
lieved that the foreign troops will b
opposed at the first gate of the capita
outside the wall.