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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
LAKE WASHINGTON CANAL
Victory for the Project Secured in
the Senate Commerce
Committee.

Washington, April ia double vic
tory for the commercial interests of the
state of Washington has been won in the
senate commerce committee. By the
terms of the river and harbor bill, as
amended and completed by that commit
tee 1914 $40 is to be ultimately used for
improvement upon the upper Colum bia
and the benefit of the Inland Empire.
The obnoxious paragraph in the house
bill declaring that the appropriation Tor
Salmon bay shall not be construed as
committing the government to the con-
struction of the Lake Washington canal
is stricken out. In authorization of the
survey for the proposed canal, the words
"and advisability" are also stricken out,
thus removing the doubt or QUESTION inn
piled in the bill as to the wisdom of the
object. AS the canal provision stands
at present, the government actually be-
comes committed to the policy of build
ing the Lake Washington canal. The
senate bill also adds the following to the
canal provision, referring to the authori-
Zation OF new survey, land shall recon-
mend in it's report that route which it
finds to be the most feasible, practicable,
economical and best, taking into consid-
Grafton the needs, requirements and
commercial growth of Seattle"
In the house bill authority was given
only for survey of the canal route be-
tween The Dalles and Cello. This is
stricken out in the senate bill aud the
following Is inserted: " Improving the
Columbia river between the foot of The
Dalles rapids and the head of Cello falls,
Oregon and Washington, and the i'm
provement of the channel of the river in
accordance with the project submitted
in house document 228, Fifty-sixth con-
gress, second session. The unexpended
balance heretofore appropriated for the
purpose of procuring right-ef-way and
commencing the construction of said
canals, and commencing the other i'm
provements contemplated as a part of
said project; pravided, that contract
or contracts may be entered into by the
secretary of war for such materials and
work as may be necessary to prosecute
said improvement in accordance with
the plan approved by the chief OF engi-
neers, to be paid for as appropriations
may from time to time be made by law,
not to exceed in the aggregate $400, 900,
excluding the amounts herein and here
tofore appropriated, said contract or
contracts be made for such work and
materials as will materially forward
and advance the completion of said pro-
ject."
The appropriation for upper Columbia
and Snake rivers is increased from
$25, $50 to $40, $50. The Tacoma harpor
improvement is placed on the continuing
contract basis, involving the ultimate
expenditure of 1925, 900.
Other increases in the state of Wash
ington are: Puget sound and tributary
waters, from $4,000 to 100000; Okla
hogan and Pend d. Oreille rivers, from
$4,000 to 500, 500; Whatcom harbor,
$25, 900 to SAC, 900,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
A. o. U. w. GRAND LODGE.
Tenth Annual Convention Of the Order In
Session at Everett

Everett, April ,O.-The teuth annual
session of the grand lodge, Ancient Order
of United NOrkmen, convened OF 10
o'clock a. m. The morning session was
taken up with preliminary routine work
and comforting the grand lodge degrees
on eighty of the delegates. In the after
noon the lodge, upon reconvening, elect
ed the following grand officers for the
ensuing year:
Grand master workman, III. X. Cox,
of Tacoma; grand foreman, j. M. Hit,
OF Port Townsend grand overseer, G. +.
PARCEL, of Seattle; grand recorder, J.. ID.
Hemer, of Seattle; grand receiver, F. M
Mead, of Puyallup; grand outside watch,
j. Nj. Harris, of Davenport; supreme
representatives, F. M. Stain, of North,
Yakima, w. A. Innman, of Colfax, and
u. w. Race, of Tacoma.
Everett, April 1.-THE tenth annual
sessions of both the A. 0. U. w. and
Degree of Honor grand lodges adjourned
late yesterday afternoon, after three
days meeting. At the session of the A.
o. U. w. in the morning Olympia was
chosen as the place for holding the an
nual session of the grand lodge next
April. The resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution provid.
ing for biennial sessions of the grand
lodge, instead of annual sessions, was
indefinitely postponed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
OREGON DEMOCRATS
Geo. E. Chamberlain of Portland
Unanimously Nominated
for Governor.

Portland, Ore, April H. The Demo-
cratic state convention met in this city
at III o'clock Thursday morning, effected
permanent organization, adopted a plat
form, nominated George K. Chamberlain
of Portland for governor, by reclamation,
and at 8 80 p. m. adjourned until tomor-
row, when the ticket will be completed.
The platform favors tariff for revenue
only and opposes any protection what
ever to trusts, combines and corporations
with which the Republican party is in
iniquitous alliance and which partner
ship is calculated to overthrow Repub-
lican institutions and subvert the liber-
ties of the people. 1t favors placing on
the free list all trust-made articles of
every kind.
On the Philippine question the plat.
form says: We believe the true policy
is to prepare the people of those islands
for self-government as speedily as posi-
BILE, and when so prepared to grant them
their independence, retaining such coal
ing stations and ports as may be neces-
sary to protect these islands from foreign
interference and to MAINTAIN our trade
relations in the Orient.
For Chinese Exclusion.
The platform demands the passage OF
the Mitchell Kahn Chinese exclusion bill
and also legislation to restrict the immi-
grafton of Japanese labor; favors the
election of United States senators by
popular vote the initiative and referen-
dunn system; the speedy construction of
the Nicaragua canal and the creation by
congress of department of labor in
charge of a secretary entitled to seat in
the cabinet. 1t opposes the leasing of
the public domain to individuals or cor
porations. and the ship subsidy bill, now
before congress, and declares against any
such combinations of competing rail-
roads as was made in the formation of the
Northern Securities Company. The plat
form demands the improvement of the
Columbia river from its mouth to the
head of navigation, and declares strongly
in favor of economical administration of
state affairs.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The annual meeting Of the teachers OF
Eastern Washington and Northern
Idaho, which has been in session here
for several days, has closed. Over 3OO
teachers were in attendance.
Arthur Gum, who is in the employ OF
the Great Northern Railway Company,
and who is an authority on immigration
i'm this state, says he believes $4,000
settlers will locate in Washington this
summer.
DR.. F. Walter Morrison, county phys
ician and president of the Spokane city
board of health, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the federal court, in which
he saws his debts amount to S. ,2S6.S2
and his assets to but $3.50.
The following postmasters have re-
Gently been appointed in Washington {:
Christian Engdal, at Norman; Joseph
futile, at Waterville; w. K. Meserve,
at Cray's River; Edward Bradley, at
Clyde NARROW Zindel, at Zindel. 2
Dayton is to have new school building
to cost $4,000.
The dog show which has been held at
Seattle the past week was the most sue
cessful ever held in the state.
Ninety tons of sardines, packed by the
recently opened canneries at Port Town
send, have been shipped to Manila.
Chelan's incorporation is assured.
The county commissioners have granted
petition praying for it. The date of
the election of municipal officers and
the final vote is set for April rs.
Students of the university of Washing
ton are up in arms because of the cost of
board in the dormitories of that institu-
ton. Nearly all the men have left and
the ladies promise to do so unless there
is reform within another month.
Charles Francis Adams of Boston, a
descendant of two presidents of the
United States and an overseer of Har-
ward college, has just completed the
erection of a three story brick block at
Spokane, which is shortly to be opened
as the biggest gambling house in Spo-
kane.
C. G. Raby, county auditor OF Whit
man county, resigned after the commits
sioners had discovered many irregulari-
ties in his accounts, including the CASH
ing of q warrant for 1853. issued to a
bridge company of Chicago for bridge
built at Palouse. He has confessed cash
lug this check. 6
Colfax is agitated over the work of a
tack fiend, who scatters carpet tacks on
the sidewalks frequented by bicyclists.
The All-American bowling team made
up of crack rollers from New York, Chi
cago and one other cities from the middle
West, will visit all bowling centers west
of the Mississippi river to the slope. The
tour, which will begin about October !,
includes Seattle and Tacoma.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Seattle Markets.

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, $27 so; barley, $22
wheat, chicken feed, $22@22.50; bran,
SIS; shorts, $l7.
Hay-Puget Sound, $l1@l2; Eastern
Washington timothy, new, 1850; al
falfa, tll per ton.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, l5@16c.
Butter-Fresh ranch, l3@l6c; cream
cry, 25c.
Poultry Live hens, l3@l3kc; old
ROSTERS, Sc: ducks, lSc; spring chick
ems, l5c; geese, S@l0c.
Live Stockholders beef cattle, cows,
Sl9 @4c steers, 4@6c: choice sheep,
4@4Hc; hogs. live. 6@61c calves,
5@7c; spring lamb, 91sc.
Hides, Pelts and Wool heavy and
salted steers, over 80 Ms, Sc. medium,
sound, pen b. ne; light, sound. under
90 pounds, &c; COWS, sound, all weights,
7c; stays, bulls and oxen, Be; sailed
kips, &c; calves, per d, Sc: green
hides, lc less than sailed; dry hides, per
b, lSe; dry culls, one-third LEES sum
mer deer, per h, 2O@36c; winter deer.
dry, l4@2oc; papery deer, 12@l6c; dry
slk, S@l0c; greeu elk, 4@5c; sheep pelts,
z5c@sl; sbsariings, l6@40c: Eastern
Warrington wool, 7@8c; Western Wash
ington wool, lSc; dirty or timber stain
ed, l0@llc: tallow, 3H@41<c: gTesss,
lk@2c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
ALMOST A MUTlNY.
Many Of the Belgian Militia Wear Anti.Gov.
eminent BADGES.

London, April ia dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Brussels says that troops called out in
bordering on mutiny. Many of the mi
anti government colors on their hats and
are mavching through the streets singing
the "Carmagnole" and the "Marseil-
laise."
Great excitement prevails in the in
dustrial districts. Several militiamen
have been arrested for INSTRUMENTATION
and the regulars are confined to their
barracks Ball cartridges have been is
sued to the troops.
The civic guards of Schaerbek and St.
eosse Ten Noodle, near here, have been
ordered TO be on duty this evening and
the burgomasters of these two COM
munes have prohibited assembl ages in
the streets of more than five people.
Lancers and chasseurs have been dis
patched from Nous to Charleroi, where
truble is anticipated.
The civic guards of La Louviere. where
buildings were dynamited last night,
have been reinforced by mounted chas-
seurs.
A dynamite outrage has been commit
ted at Houdeng Aimerias, in the prov.
ince of Heinaut. Cartridges were ex-
ploded outside the Catholic club, which
was partially wrecked.
The burgomaster of Liege has made a
requisition for artillery and has called
out the civic guard there. All the troops
at Liege are confined to their barracks
The council general of the labor party,
in session here, has decided to issue q
manifesto recommending general strike
for April ii. A warrant is about to be
issued for the arrest of M. Volkaert,
president of the Society of the Young
Socialist Guard, whose members were
prominent during the riots, and who is
charged with being largely responsible
for the disturbances.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Landing Place for Commercial Cable.

San Francisco, April 12.-San Fran.
cisco has been chosen as the landing
place Of the Pacific cable. The cable
will start from point near the life saw
ing station, on the north side of Golden
Gate park, and will be carried under
ground several miles through the streets
to the Postal Telegraph Company's main
Office. 1t is expected to have the first
link in the cable from this city to Homo
lulu completed before next Thanksgiving
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
PRISON is A PALACE.
Ohio Legislators Make an Inspection Of Re.
formatory at Mansfield.

tOTWatOTy IL WanSIiSIu.
Columbus, o., April 9.-What the
finance committee of the Ohio senate
learned by recent visit to the state re-
formatory at Mansfield was in the nature
of a revelation.
AS the result of an expenditure of ST..
300, 900 of the money of the taxpayers
they found one of the most palatial build
ings in the state, 700 feet long, all occu-
pied by the administrative officers of the
institution as Offices and living apart
ments. Behind this palace they found
one completed cell block and one shell
OF a cell block, in which to place the cells,
which will cost nearly $fO0, 900. and one
little workshop occupied by brush fac
tory on contract.
Aside from this one workshop are half
a dozen wooden shanties in which in
mates are employed on state work. The
shanties are of the kind that are put up
by contractors to house tools during the
construction o. buildings.
The palace is there, but the prison
must yet be built by the state. Seven.
teen years have elapsed since the insti-
tuition was begun. Today it's capacity is
but 800 prisoners. The Ohio penitentiary
at Columbus, with three immense cell
blocks, sufficiently roomy administra-
ton department, rs immense factory
buildings and a capacity for about 200
prisoners, cost the state, all told, $685.
$50. The Mansfield reformatory, with
one-seventh the cell capacity and one
sixth the workshop capacity, has cost
the state more than double what the
penitentiary cost.
The administration building would
make Biltmore, the country palace Of
Vanderbilt, look like three dimes. Its
walls are of cut granite and the caves, all
around, are bedecked with towers and
columns that in the aggregate must have
cost the state at least 100000.
In the interior the building Is
Waldorf Astoria. It's MOSAIC floors, i'm
mepse rooms and grand furnishings are
in keeping with its dimensions. Much
of the furniture is mahogany. Most OF
the % or 80 bedrooms are furnished with
the most expensive brass bedsteads, and
nearly every room contains just about
the finest class of leather couch that is
to be found in the market, and enough
expensive rocking chairs In each room
to supply regiment. There are marble
baths of great magnificence.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
SOCIALIST RIOTS
SEVERAL COLLISIONS OCCUR AT
BRUSSELS
Between Police and Mounted Soldiers and Mem.
bers of the Socialist Party - Several on
Each Side Wounded-Larse Number Of the
Militia Wearing Anti. Government Badges
General Strike Advised for April Ia.

Brussels, April 11.-Repeated charges
of police and mounted gendarmes with
drawn sabres resulted in tina dispersal of
the rioting mobs here early yesterday
morning.
During the rioting one policeman was
shot through the body and face. His
comrades, having exhausted their am
munitiOn, fed and the wounded man
was overwhelmed, kicked and stoned.
Another policeman sought refuge in
the attic of cafe, whereupon the social
lists sacked the establishment, exploded
lamp which set fire to the building,
and completed its ruin. The flames
forced the rioters to retire.
Another mob proceeded to the North
ern Railway Station, where it collided
with the police. Revolver shots were
exchanged and the rioters seized a police
man, beat him until he was unconscious
and left him bleeding on the ground.
After many rioters had been wounded
the mob dispersed.
Wednesdays Incident Started Trouble.
The Socialist incident Wednesday has
aroused intense excitement and there
are fears of further disturbance and COM
plcations. The Minister of War has
ordered the militia reserves of Is regi-
ments to be In readiness to rejoin the
colors, and gendarmes of all the divisions
are held in instant readiness to march
wherever required.
The anti-Catholic meeting Wednesday
night eliminated in riot. A thousand
Socialists attended a meeting at the
Maison du Peuple, and afterward
marched to Senin street, where they
stoned the house of Catholic deputy.
The police charged the rioters with
drawn swords. Several of the latter
were severely injured and 20 were ar
rested.
The smashing of windows, revolver
firing and other disorders continued
throughout the evening. A crowd OF
rioters marched toward the suburb of
Schaerbeek drove three policemen into
cafe. The rioters looted this cafe and
wounded all three of the policemen by
revolver shots. Reinforcements of gen.
darmes have been sent to Schaerbeek.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Transport Rosecrans to be Sold.

San Francisco, April 1.-THE United
States army transport Rosecrans will be
sold by the government. Orders to ad-
vertise for proposals for the sale of the
vessel have been issued by the general
superintendent of the army transport
service at San Francisco. The bids,
sealed, will be received at his Office until
the hour OF IL. noon, April "a, 1902, and
then opened. The vessel will be deliv-
cred to the successful bidder in San
Francisco.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
San Francisco Reserve.

Washington, April 1.-THE president
has issued proclamation setting apart
the San Francisco mountain reserve.
This conserves the water for $500, 900
acres of the Salt River valley, in which
Phoenix is situated.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
EVENTS OF THE DAY
4 Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings OF the Past Week Presented
ina Condensed Form Which Is Most
i.ikcly to Prove Of lnteres: to Our MaiI
6'ssdesA

Ex-Secretary J. Settling Morton is
seriously i'll at his sons residenc 20 In
Chicago.
Jacob Riis has declined President
Roosevelts prefer of an appointment as
governor of the Danish West Indies.
Richard Croker has become Lord of
Manor at Vantage, England, by the pur-
chase of the Manor lands.
A Sofia dispatch saws A proclamation
has been issued in behalf OF the Anacon-
dia committee summoning all Macedo-
mans in Bulgaria to invade Turkey on
the orthodox Easter day. April ~ 2
Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned to
Washington from her Cuban trip.
f. H. Hartman has been reelected
president of the Southern Pacific Kali
road Company.
The house pensions committee has re-
ported favorably the bill granting PEN
sion of $1,000 year to Mrs. Mckinley.
The Northern Pacific railroad company
has donated to the University OF Mon
tana 40 acres of land for an observatory
site.
A large consignment of groceries has
been forwarded from New York city to
Bermuda for the aid of the prisoners OF
war there.
Gen. Wade Hapton is reported to be
critically ill by his physicians, who say
he il suffering from general breakdown.
He is "a years old.
The general hospital at the San Fran
cisco preside is so crowded with patients
that AZ convalescents have been ordered
TO Fort Logan, Col.
The scarcity of American meat and
the consequent increase in the price have
Obliged many retailers at Birmingham,
England, to close their stores.
Mrs. Marion Roosevelt, wife or Robert
Roosevelt, of New York, and an aunt OF
President Roosevelt, died suddenly at
Atlantic City of cerebral paralysis. q
Indications point to the formation of
candy trust.
The total valuation of the late p. D..
Armour's estate in Chicago and New
York is given out as amounting to $751;
600, ON.
Robert Winnie, the Washington cor
respondent for the New York Press, has
accepted the place OF first assistant post
master general.
William Marconi has sailed for Eng
land on the Majestic. He said he was
going homo for rest, and would remain
in England about two months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whittier Pickard died
at her residence at Boston. Her father
was the younger brother of John Green
leaf Whittier, and at an early age he be-
came a member of the poets household
at Amesbury.
According to letters received from
Captain Brown of the sealing schooner
Mary Taylor, life buoy belonging to
the lost warship Condor was found by
that schooner, short time ago As miles
to the southwest of Cape Flattery.
Cabling from Cettinje, the capital of
Montenegro, the correspondent OF the
London Daily Mail reports heavy fight
ing between Turks and Christians i'll the
province of Novibazer, in European Tur-
key, and the revolution is spreading. 5
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Democratic Executive Campaign Committee

Washington, April 1.-THE Demo-
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee, has agreed on the following execu-
tive committee: Ben T. Gable, Illinois,
chairman: Lewis Nixon, New York,
chairman of the finance committee !;
David Overmeyer, Kansas Thomas Tag
CART, Indianapolis; Richard Olney !:
Massachusetts,, and Daniel S. Lamont,
New York.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
The Ticket Completed.

Portland. Or. April 1.-THE Demo-
cratic State Convention reconvened and
made the following nominations for
state officers: Supreme judge, b. F. Bon
ham, of Marion county; secretary of
state, ID. w. Sears, Polk county; treas
urer, Henry Blackman, Morrow county !;
attorney general, j. II. Raley, Umatilla
county; state printer, ]. E. Godfrey,
Marion county.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS.
Inland Empire Teachers Association Is in Favor
Of That Plan

Spokane, April 1.-THE Inland En-.
pire Teachers Association has decided to
meet at Walla Walla next spring. At
yesterdays session resolution was
adopted calling on the legislatures of
Washington, Oregon and Idaho to pass
laws enabling school districts to consoli.
date and transport pupils to a central
school at public expense, where the cost
of their action would not greatly exceed
the cost of separate schools.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
President Draper In Serious Condition.

Champaign, H.. April l2.-President
Draper, of the University of Illinois, who
was injured in a runaway accident Sun
day, is not expected to live through the
day. A leg in which an artery bursted
was amputated last night.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Major Waller Acquitted.

Manila, April 14.-Maj. Littleton w.
T. Waller, of the marine corps, tried by
a court martial, on the charge of killing
natives of the island of Samar without
trial, has been acquitted. The court
stood III to . for acuuittal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS.
Five Men Of Tennessee Skeriffs Posse Killed
and Two Wounded.

Knoxville, Tenn. April r. In battle
between sheriff's posse and outlaws In
Scott county, Va, Friday afternoon, five
men, all members of the sheriff's posse,
were killed, two other posse men were
wounded, and Jim Wright, an escaped
Hancock county, Tennessee, murderer
shot and captured.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
Kruger Said TO Be Seriously m.

Amsterdam, April Paul Kruger is
seriously ill with influenza. Members of
his encourage fear the worst, as is health
has been anything but robust for several
months.