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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-11-18

The Republican politicians do not seem
TO want to turn Geer out to pasture
for fear the fence might not hold.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29

who helps the Footsteps " the wavcr-
inr and vain sister an these are TO
b, found in our grave Yards the last
iuur homo uf our race whore poverty
and riches. honor and dis race vice
aud virtue. purity and unclcanncss.
success ana failure love ana hate. an
min"lo In one common dust ana await
the Dies irac. Dies lila" when all
earthly thinos shall pass away" and
a truer and a justcr Judge than the
opinion OF our fellow worms, shall
value what is good and noble and
grand. and what is not.
Remembering then what the day was
originally established for let also our
thoughts and our hearts go forth to the
greater army of civil life. to our loved
ones who have gone before, and let us
not forget our enemies just as no
brave soldier I'm blue forgets the mem
DRY Of the one i'm grey. Let us heap
the fragrant and beautiful flowers Of
our tropic isles as a memorial and a
type. Their beauty shows the brilliance
and happiness of life, it's exuberance
and the promise of seed from the bios
SONS further teaches that each life has
had a purpose, and that when the
flower is not untimely cut off, it will
yield what will afterwards expand and
grow into an equally beautiful flower
or into a plant which shall have count
less beautiful flowers. And then a day
after those brilliant punches and gar
lands have been laid on the graves we
shall find them withered and is not this
type of the ephemerai nature of life,
which like the grass today is and
tomorrow is dried up and withered."
Brilliant and gorgeous today-full of
high thoughts and aspirations, or full
of foul thoughts and dreaming of evil
deeds, like the rose and the hellebore,
and tomorrow withered in "a common
catastrophe, gone for good or evil, but
the rose ever leaves a scent, faint and
DELEGATE, even though it's life has pass
ed away. Type this of the lasting
power of good deeds. The thought was
to complete this article with the words
I'm the midst of life we are in death. "
But the thought of the rose typifying
the memory and sometimes the effect
of good deeds of man or woman, hero
or heroine last forever recalls Moore
brighter lines:
You may break, you may shatter the
vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will cling to
it still"
The casket of life may be broken, the
good done cannot be broken.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29
A DANGEROUS TOOL.

Grand Baniff Oscar Lewis or .. Chas.
Lewis as he signed himself when he
resigned his position in the First Circuit
Court, must have been well known to
the First Judge of the First Circuit
Court when he appointed him. If we
only take the career of Lewis and his
inseperable Turk here, it was of such
a character, that he should never have
been appointed to any such position.
But it could not have escaped the
Judges acumen and keen knowledge
of the lower depths of. ward politics,
that Lewis had a much worse reputa-
ton upon the coast than ever he had
here, and that upon that reputation he
should never have been appointed to
any such position even if his conduct
and history here had been that of an
angel, which it was not, save black
angel.
This appointment of Oscar Lewis is
probably one of the most damning
things in the career of the judge upon
the bench 1t cannot be palliated in
any way. In other things one may find
some palliation, as an ungovernable
temper, personal dislike, a mistaken
idea of how dignity is to be asserted,
some men, many men have no need to
assert their dignity, it. is self evident
and needs no assertion, but to this there
can be but one explanation. Lewis
must have been appointed because his
character was what it was, and not
because the judge was ignorant of what
it was. 81,
1t was unfortunate that Lewis show
ed his hand, as far as the Judge was
concerned because when exposed the
man was forced to resign. This may
affect the proposed policy, because
Lewis might get mad. Lewis is a man
who will work for any party. He would
work for the judge on a contract, and
when the contract was up would, if
paid hipher price, be just as ready
TO work against him and shanghai him
if that was in the fresh bargain. Lewis
is a dangerous tool and one that might
cut back. But think of such a man
being employed as the First Circuit
Court chose to employ him. 1t was a
fair outrage upon justice and the honor
of the court.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29
REQUIESCANT.

Tomorrow from Maine to Florida,
from Boston to San Francisco, in Cuba,
in Porto Rico, in Hawaii, in Tutuila,
in Guam, in the distant Philippines, in
frozen Alaska and in the ever verdant
Isle of Pines, will be heard the steady
tramp of marching millions the dirge
of the funeral march, the eloquence of
many silver tongued orators in honor of
the dead, the unforgotten dead. The
dead who laid down their lives for their
country's integrity. The dead who left
the plough, the school, the shop, the
mandatory, the college, the luxurious
home and the humble cottage, and
of patriotism fought and died for the
Union.
Though the custom of the day has
extended though we now make it a
memorial day for all graves, and dec
crate the last resting places of par
ents, relations and dear friends who
have gone before, yet we must never
forget, and it will be a sad day if gen
erations to come should forget, what
the day was instituted for. The eXer-
cises of the day are now, and will be
for some years to come presided over,
and taken charge of by the remaining
veterans of that war which decided
whether we should be a nation, or
whether we should be split into a jar
ring mass of petty states, each with
its own LITTLE selfish aims
The march of the veterans to the
graves of their comrades must cease in
a decade or two, each year sees the
number lessen, each year sees the
mounds of green earth and the tomb
stones increase In a short space of
time there will be no survivors and the
generation of the future will march to
see the army of the dead.
Time, the great healer, has wiped
away the bitterness of that past time
when brother fought against brother,
cousin against cousin, and sister hated
sister. The rancour has gone, and we
honor the crave of the soldier in grey,
as we honor the grave of the soldier
in blue. Equally the wreaths of flow
ers decorate and commemorate the
last resting places of those that are
gone.
The extension of the custom, begun
so many years ago, for the specific
purpose of honoring the dead soldier,
is a good thing. 1t recalls to the most
callous that the dead should not be
forgotten. That though there might
have been sacrifice for patriotism in
the grim clutch of grizzly war, yet there
are also life sacrifices in humber and
less conspicuous fears. The father
who sacrifices all for his children, the
mother who never thinks of self and
toiling that others might be happy,
the sister who sacrifices; to the worth
less and erring brother, the brother
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29
BRITISH INCOME TAX.

AS we have passed an income tax bill
it is interesting to note how the tax
is regarded in Great Britain and also
the amount which is derived from it
at the present time. The London Elk
press says:
The British citizen is wont to look
upon the income tax as the most OBJ
jectionable of the various duties levied
on him by the state because it is
direct tax; and though we have now
grown accustomed to it as one of the
necessary evils to which flesh is heir,
time was, and that not so many years
ago, when John Bull regarded this i'm
position with anything but the equani-
nifty of today"
1t is 102 wears since an income tax
as it is now understood. was first i'm
posed, and from 1892 to 1901 here have
been no fewer than thirty-nine changes
in the amount of the income tax, which
has varied from pence to shillings
in the pound. A penny in the pound
nowadays realizes G2,312, 900
1t was in order to furnish the means
for defraying the expenses of the war
begun with France in 1893 that Pitt
proposed, amid great opposition, a tax
on incomes. This tax, which produced
an average of &5,5OOOOO annually, was
repealed after the peace of Amiens in
1902 but in the following year the in
come tax was revised under the name
Of the property tax, though it was fin
ally repealed ON Broughams motion in
1916.
The next appearance of the income
tax was in 1912, when Sir Robert Peels
bill imposing a tax at the rate of
pence in the pound on incomes of ESQ
and upward was passed, the measure
being limited in it's operation to three
years, and was renewed for similar
periods in 1S45 and 1913. Such is the
story of the income tax in brief. In
1912 it yielded e5,71O, $50; in 1852, e5,-
500 G37; in 1862, e1O, 3OOO 600: in 1872, S.
100000; in 1882, e9,95O,OOO in 1892. G13,-
$4,000, and last year, G25, 300, OOO
No Chancellor of the eXchequer can
easiest to impose and the easiest to
tighten. The only objection to it is
that stated by Sir Michael Hicks Beach
in his budget speech. 1t does not reach
all classes. A collier earning twenty
five dollars a week, and many do is a
wage Garner and is not touched, but
a clerk earning $3.50 year salary, is
counted as having an income and is
taxed accordingly 1t was on this ac-
count that the tax on sugar was put on.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29

The Daily Review, of Berlin, states
that the Government of Prussia is in
favor of establishing public libraries.
For cities, permanent Libraries and
public reading rooms will be maintain
ed. while for the rural districts NOV
able Libraries are recommended. Many
districts have already voted adequate
appropriations. The Government will
also give financial aid. DIR. Russers
library bill fell through which is a
pity, but it will be sure to come up
again at next session. The travelling
library may have to be tried after all
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29

Can a man live well on two dollars
a day." has been a question running
round the newspapers. Some one who
has been studying the peculiar phases
of Hawaiian politics replies why,
certainly. If he is a member of the
Hawaiian Legislature. He can have
oysters and champagne and fu"r'eh his
house and swell his bank account on
that sum easily"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29

Ringing words, those Of our Presi-
dent. WE WANT \ CABLE FROM
HERE TO THE PHILIPPINES. WE
WANT 1T TO BE AN AMERICAN
CABLE, THAT CANNOT BE CUT BY
ANY POWER IN THE WORLD.
THEY SAY TRADE FOLLOWS THE
FLAG. THE TELEGRAPH MUST
FOLLOW TRADE"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-29
CLEARANCE SALE OF
Ready Mixed
Paints for
Household
Purposes

g.. Five gallon tins of Barn and
Roof Paint at 75c per gallon.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
ROOSEVELT TAKES OATH OF oFFlcI


Theodore Roosevelt, who was tradgic-
ally elevated to the chief magistracy Of
the American republic by the death Of
President Mckinley, had been president
under the constitution and law of the
land since the minute the martyred
president ceased to live. All the duties
and powers of the Office had devolved
upon him, but he was as powerless as
the humblest citizen to exercise one OF
them until he had complied with the
constitutional provision requiring him
to take prescribed oath to support and
defend the constitution and laws of the
United States. He took that oath at
$3.50 o'clock Saturday afternoon, in the
library of the residence of Ansley Wilcox,
a personal friend with whom he stopped
earlier in the week when the physicians
thought President Mckinley would re-
cover from the wound inflicted by the
assassin.
Judge John R. Hazel, of the United
States district court, administered the
oath.
The scene was a most affecting one.
The new president had just come from
the Milburn house, where his predeces-
sor lay cold in death. Overcome by the
deep personal sorrow he felt, in his char
acteristically impulsive way he had gone
first to the house of mourning to offer
his coincidence and sympathy to the
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19

Seattle, Sept. 15.-The White Sta
dock, between Seneca and Spring streets
collapsed at 9 so o'clock yesterday morn
ing, entailing property loss Of abou,
$4,000. Though several people were
endangered and two had narrow escapes
not life was lost.
The crash came without warning and
the fact that those ON the dock rot of
without personal injury seems almost
miraculous. Ordinarily there are scores
OF people on and about the White Star,
one OF the best patronised docks Of the
entire water front. W
There were two ocean-going vessels-
the Alaska steamers John s. Kimball
and the Mary ID. Hume, tied to the dock.
they were scarcely moved by the collapse
and their lines remained intact. The
klmball is still alongside with her lines
extending out to the wreckage. After
the collapse the Hume moved away.
The going down Of the White Star car
ried CONSERVATION into the ranks of the
Office and clerical forces of the neighbor-
ing docks, the Arlington to the north
and the Galbraith-Bacon to the south.
On the Galbraith-B Bacon dock the shock
was not so perceptible, being broken par
tally by the big Kimball, which lay be-
tween the two wharves.
There were, it is declared, but 2,65O
tons of freight on the dock when it went
down. This was made up of 1,70O tons
of cement, 800 tons of hay and so tons
of general merchandise. The total value
of the wharf and freight is estimated at
$50, 900.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
COURT OF INQUIRY.


sehley Challenges nowison and Is Sustained =
Court Adiourns until Successor Is Named.
Washington, Sept. 13. The Schley
court of inquiry, composed of Admirals
Dewey, Benham and Howison, convened
in the workshop of the navy yard at l
p. m. yesterday.
At l 80 p. m. Admiral Schley arose
and said that with extreme regret he
was obliged to challenge Admiral Howl
son as member of the court. The text
OF the challenge was that Rear Admiral
Howison had already formed and ex.
pressed an opinion on the merits of the
case about to be investigated and that
therefore he was ineligible for service as
a member OF the court.
Rear Admiral HOwison, in reply to
the challenge of Schley said, he was
here TO obey the order Of the Navy De-
partment and would not enter into a
discussion of his private atterances. He
had no personal feelings and he con-
sidered himself a competent member of
the court.
While the challenge of Admiral
Schley, of course, was expected, it Gre
ated no little commotion, coming as it
did without preliminary announcement
beyond the question on the part of Capt.
Lemly as to whether the applicant had
any objection to the court to offer. Ad-
miral Schley responded promptly.
The court took a recess to consider
the challenge of Schley and later an
nounced that it had sustained the chal-
lenge, and excused Rear Admiral
Howison from duty. The court then
adjourned until the navy department
names a successor for HowisOn.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19

in the Temple of Music and witnessed
the shooting.
At LIS o'clock yesterday afternoon,
exactly ten days after the shooting, the
grand jury voted unanimously to indict
CzOlgosz for murder in the first degree.
CzoIsosz in Court.
Then ensued wait of an hour. The
rumor that the murderer was to be ar
raigned spread, and in a short time the
court room was crowded.
Czolgosz was taken, under strong
guard, from the Jail through the tunnel
unde delaware avenue to the basement
of the city hall and up the stairs to the
court room on the second floor.
The prisoner was shackled to a detect
i've, and another detective held his other
arm.., Assistant Superintendent Cusack
marching in front and a number of
patrOlmAn behind. When the prisoner
was taken before the bench the crowd in
the court room surged about him on all
sides. They were compelled to resume
their seats.
Czolgosz is of medium height, of fairly
good build and has light, curly hair, but
ten days growth of beard on his face
gave him an unkempt appearance. Ap-
parently he feigned insanity, not stu
pidity, and his glance roamed about, but
his eyes were always dOwncast. Not
once did he look the county prosecutor
or the Judge in the face.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
REPORT ON THE AUTOPSY.
Neither Surgical Nor Medical Aid Could hav'
Saved President Mckinley.

Neither Surgical Nor MedlcaI Ald IouIo nave
Saved President Mckinley.
Buffalo, Sept. IA. The following re-
port on the autopsy on the remains Of
President Mckinley was issued at 5
O'Clock:
The bullet which struck over the
breast did not pass through the skin
and did little harm. The other bullet
passed through both walls of the stomach
near its lower border. Both holes were
found to be perfectly closed by the
stitches, but the tissue around each hole
had become gangrenous. After passing
through the stomach the bullet passed
into the back walls of the abdomen, hit
ting and tearing the upper end of the
kidney. This portion of the bullets
track was also gangrenous, the gangrene
involving the pancreas. The bullet has
not yet been found. There was no sign
of peritonities or diseas of other organs.
The heart walls were very thin. There
was no evidence of any attempt at repair
on the part of nature, and death resulted
from the gangrene which affected the
stomach around the bullet wounds as
well as the tissues around the further
course of the bullet. Death was un-
avoidable by any surgical or medical
treatment, and was the direct result of
the bullet wound.
(Signed) Harvey d. Gaylor, M. D.. !;
Herman Matsinger, M. D.; P. M. Rixey,
M. D.; MATHEW S. Mann, Herman Myn-
ter, M. D.; Roswell Park, Eugene
Wasdin, M. D.; Charles G.. Stockton,
NJ. D.; Edward ]. Janeway, NJ. D.; W.
w. Johnston, M. D.; w. P. Kendall,
surgeon, U. s. A.; Charles Carey, M.
D.. Edward L. Munson, assistant sur
geon, U. S. A.; Herman L. Bear, M. d.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
THE TRIP TO WASHINGTON.
Thousands Of People Gathered Along the Way
to Pay Last Tribute.

Washington, Sept. H. The special
train carrying the body of the late pres
ident and members of the funeral party
arrived in this city at 40 last evening
All along the entire route thousands
of people had gathered to offer last
homage to the nations martyred leader
School children strewed flowers in front
OF the moving train and in every town
the solemn toll of bells was heard.
Mrs. Mckinley was very feeble when
she alighted from the coach in this city
but under the trying circumstances the
physicians announced that she had stood
the trip we'll. She was Immediately
driven to the White House where she
retired to her old room.
The remains of President Mckinley
last night rested in the East room of the
White House, where for more than three
years he had made his home as CHIEF
magistrate of the great American repub.
lie. 1t was with the simplest ceremony,
that fitted perfectly the sadness of the
occasion, that the body of the late presi.
dent was borne to the White House upon
the bier in the great East room, where
he had stood so often in the prime of his
manhood to receive the greetings of the
common people he loved better than
himself.
1t was fitting that such ceremony as
there was should be severely military in
character, in recognition of the fact that
the president was the commander-in-
chief of the United States army and
navy. The streets about the station were
filled with mounted troops, and the sta
sion itself was occupied by stalwart sol
diers and sailors in uniform. The blue
coated policemen and the railroad en-
ployes were nearly all that stood for civil
life. It was not SO on the broad stretch
of avenue that led to the White House.
There the people strained and crowded
in vast multitude against the stiff wire
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19


The following prices are being offered
to the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots on the dock and
in the car at Seattle:
Grain-Oats, $2l@22; barley, l16;
wheat, chicken feed, &19@2O; bran, $l6
shorts, t17.
Hay-Puget Sound, new, 80; Eastern
Washington timothy, new, $l3 alfalfa,
Erps-Strictly fresh ranch, 25c.
Bntter-Fresh ranch, 14@l7c; cream
Poultry-Live chickens, 1O01lc; live
turkeys, 12@l2c; ducks, 1O@11c; spring
chickens, large, IKE; small, 15c.
live stock-C Choice beef cattle, cows,
31Ic: steers, KEY choice sheep, SC
hogs, live, 5H@6c; calves, 507c ;lamDs,
&c.
H;des. Pelts and Wool - Heavy and
.alted steers, over 60 lbs, SIC; medium
sound, per =, Sc; light, sound, under 3
pounds, TIC; cows, sound, Al we1ghte
zc: stags, bulls and oxen, DC; saIted
kips, Ike; calves, per >, Sc; gfeel
hides. lc les than salted dry hides
'per IS. 12c; dry culls, one-third !oes
summer deer, per Ib, 20@25c; vintel
deer, dry, l4070c; paPery deer. l3e1oo
| dry elk. 60lOc; green elk, 405c; eheoI
peits, 2601l; sheaslinq, 1604ocs Eaaf
IN WaGhin9ton wool, 7o9c; WestsFI
| lWashington wool, l1c; dirty q tlmba
stained, 1O011e; taIlow, 7os7Se
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19
Expires From Wounds at Hand Of
Assassin Czolgosz.
ENTIRE COUNTRY IN MOURNING
End Came Peacefully at 2:l5 a. m. saturday-Mrs.
Mckinley at Husbands Deathbed- -Roose-
velt Takes the Oath of Office

Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept. A.
President Mckinley died at 2:l5 a. m.
He had been unconscious since 80 p. m
His last conscious hour on earth was
spent with the wife to whom he. devoted
a lifetime of care. He died unattended
BY minister of the gospel, but his last
words were humble submission to the
will Of the God in whom he believed.
He was reconciled to the fate which an
assassin's bullet had condemned him,
and faced death in the same spirit OF
calmness which had marked his long
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19

and honorable career. His last con-
scous words, reduced to writing by DR..
Mann, who stood at his bedside when
they were uttered, were:
Good bye, all, good bye. 1t is Gods
way. His will be DONE"
His relatives and the members of his
official family were at the Milburn house,
except Secretary Wilson, who did not
avail himself of the opportunity, and
some OF his personal and political friends
took leave of him.
This painful ceremony was simple.
His friends came to the door of the sick
room, took longing glance at him, and
turned tearfully away. He was practi-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-19

Only the immediate family and the
friends and political associates of the
president where present. The scene
there was pathetic in the extreme. Then
the body was borne through solid walls
OF living humanity, bareheaded and grief
stricken, to the city hall, where it Law i'm
state. Then remarkable demonstra-
ton occurred, which proved how close
the president was to the hearts of the
people.
Arrangements had been made to al
low the public to view the body from the
time it arrived, at about l 80 O'Clock.
until about 5 o'clock. But the people
were wedged into the streets for blocks.