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LABOR WAR is ON.
Denver Alliance Against Union Men
Precipitates 1t.


Denver, May 1l.-Saturday after
noon the nucleus of general strike of
all the labor organizations in Denver
was born. and very shortly both sides
expect the tienp to be complete.
The recently organized Citizens AL
lance gave its ultimatum to organized
labor through the Hurlbut Grocery
Company, a retail store, that no union
contracts would be signed, and labor was
prepared to act. Two minutes after
the answer was given the business
agents of the retail grocery clerks, the
cooks. walters, engineers, drivers, bak-
ers, and other unions having members
In Hurlbut's employ, were going
through the various places of business
and calling the strike. The Citizens
Alliance OF this city were the advisers
of Hurlbut, and leaders of both sides
assert that this is but the beginning of
bitter struggle between the unions
and the employers.
One thousand men are now out.
This number is expected to be increased
to $4,000 within three days.
The alliance has been making prepa-
rations for the struggle for two weeks.
Labor was anxious to have it over, but
was loath to open hostilities.
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NEW YORK SOCIETY.
State Organization to Meet at Sc
attic May %.

attic May %.
The New York State Society of the
State of Washington will hold it's first
annual dinner at the Washington, for
merly the DENIM hotel, Seattle, Fri
day, May %, at 8 p. m. This date
was selected to suit the convenience OF
the many New Workers throughout
Western Washington who will undoubt-
eddy be in Seattle at that time to well
come President Roosevelt. At this
meeting officers will be elected to serve
for the ensuing year. The plans formu-
lated by the special committee for the
society's share in tho reception to the
president on May % will also be an
nounced.
All men now living IN Washington,
who were born in New York or who
have ever acquired a legal residence
there are eligible for membership In
the society, which has for it's object the
conservation of goodfellowship among
the New Workers now 30 far away from
their old homes.
r. The committee in charge of the din
ner requests that all those who expect
to attend send in their names to the
temporary secretary, II. l.. Sizer 81
starr-Boyd building, Seattle, before
May Is. The cost of the dinner will
be 81. 90 plate without wine, and that
amount should be forwarded with the
acceptance.
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A True CanYas-Back.

A good story is told of John Ashley.
a fellow student with Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds In London and in Rome.
While walking In the Campagna
Reynolds and some other students took
off their coats; but for a long time
nothing would persuade young Ashley
to take his off. At last he was pre-
vailed on to do so, and the cause OF
his unwillingness to comply with the
wishes of his friends was then reveal
ed by an oil sketch Of a waterfall
painted on the back Of the artists
waistcoat
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
SALONICA BESIEGED.
Ten Meu-of-War of Foreign Nations
in HarbOr.


London, May 1.-THE Salonica cor
respondent of the Times cables that
there are ten foreign men of war in the
harbor of Salonica. state of siege
has been proclaimed and Turkish
troops are guarding every square yard
of the town. Quiet prevails. The
schemes of the revolutionary leaders
may hang fire, but it is not likely that
they viii be abandoned.
There have been found documents
which convince the authorities that
the recent explosions were carried out
by officers of the Bulgarian royal engi-
neers.
The general opinion prevails, the cor
respondent says in conclusion, that tho
only way to clear the atmosphere is by
a war with Bulgaria.
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CourtmartiaI Alaska omcers.

Washington, May 1.-THE officers
who were implicated in irregular trans
actions in commissary supplies at Skag-
way, Alaska, and whose courtmartial
has been ordered, are Major Charles A.
Booth, Seventeenth infantry. now at
Vancouver, Wash. and Captain F.
Knudson, Eighth infantry. now at Fort
St. Michael, Alaska. Other officers
have been implicated and will be or
dered before a courtmartial.
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Plan Large Warehouse.

st. Paul, May 9.-The Northern Pa
cific railway has petitioned the city
council for the vacation of four cross
streets, two alleys and part of Fifth
street, adjoining the company's main
freight house. On the land it is pro-
posed tn erect freight warehouse
covering four city blocks, with eleven
yard tracks, and on the four adjoining
blocks belonging to the railroad will be
erected freight warehouses.
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Ide Ruling Sustained.

Washington, May 9.-rhe decision
of Collector Ide at Port Townsend has
been confirmed by Secretary Shaw i'll
the case of Hum Town, the Chinese
who appealed from the order refusing
him admission to this country on the
alleged ground that he was member
of firm of merchants in Butte. Hum
was formerly in this country, having
sailed for China on the Shawmut last
December.
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BLEW UP A MOSQUE.
M oslem House of Worship Destroy
ed by Dynamite.

Vienna, May ia mosque at Kin
priut, in which 200 Moslems had as.
sembled, was, according to dispatch
TO the Zeitung from Sofia, blown up
with dynamite May 2.
The worshippers were buried in the
ruins. The perpetrator of the outrage,
a man named Popow, committed sui
eide by shooting. A. paper found in
one of his pockets described him as a
member of the Macedonian Knights
of Death"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
OF LITTLE THEY GIVE MUCH

Poor human nature Is at least as ro-
bust In the slums as 1t Is among the
brownstone fronts. Good and evil go
together In the tenements, says JacoD
Riis in 1.-The Battle With the sums
and oftentimes the evil is prominent
merely because it is nearer the sur
face. Here, as elsewhere, the goou
outweighs the bad. Two or three sim
pie stories which Mr.. Riis tells are sur
ficient to make one accept his optim-
ism.
l remember, he says. tenement at
the bottom Of back alley, where
once went visiting with the pastor or
a mission chapel. Up in the attic there
was family Of father and daughter
In two rooms that had been made out
of one by dividing off the deep dormer-
window.
1t was midYinter but they had no
fire. He was a peddler, but the snow
had stalled his push-cart. and robbed
them Of their only other source or
income. a lodger who hired cot room
in the attic for a few cents a night.
The daughter was not able to work.
But she said cheeerfully that they
were getting along"
When 1t came out that she had not
tasted solid food for several days. was
starving, In fact Indeed she died with
in a year Of the slow starvation of the
tentments that parades on the NOR
tality returns under variety or sci
entic names which all mean the same
thing, she met her pastors gentle child
ing with the excuse, "Oh, your church
has many that are poorer than l. l
don't want to take your money"
l found that in their time of dire
distress they had taken In a poor old
man who was past working, and kept
him all winter, sharing with him what
they had. He was none Of theirs;
they hardly even knew him. as 1t APP
peared. 1t was enough that he was
poorer than they, and lonely and hun
CRY and cold.
1t was on the East Side that the chill
dren of Mr.. Elsing's Sunday school
gave, \out of the depth Of their pow
erty, $54 In pennies to be hung on the
Christmas tree as their offering to the
prosecuted Armenians. One of their
teachers told me of Bohemian fam
lily that let the holiday dinner she
brought them stand and wait, while
they sent out to bid to the feast four
little ragamuffins Of the neighborhood
who would otherwise have gone hun
CRY.
p and here II was In "the hard win
ter" when no one had work, that the
nurse from the Henry Street settle
ment found her cobblers patient enter
tanning a lodger, although there was
barely bread enough in the house for
himself and his boy. He introduced
the stranger with some embarrassment
and when they were alone excused
himself for doing 1t. The man was
just from prison-a man with "a his
tory"
But" said the nurse. doubtfully, sis
it good thing for your boy to have
that man in the house,
There was a passing glimpse of I'M
easiness in the cobbler's glance. but
it went as quickly as 1t had come. He
laid his hand on the nurses.
'"This." he said, "ain't no winter to
let fellow from Sing Sing be on the
street"
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A Lover of Nice Distinctions.

The Siamese differ from other ORR
entails in a kind of youthful curiosity
which has made them reach out for
European ideas. whereas most Eastern
races have repealed the West or been
Indifferent to 1t. A recent writer on
Siam gives an account of the learning
Of the King Of Siam who died In 1868
He was a trained Oriental linguist,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
Coppress of Scientists.

Washington, May PROF. Simon
Newcomb, of this city, sails on the
deutschland today to begin arrange
ments for the international congress Ut
scientists to be held next year during
the exposition at st. Louis. He Will
visit Paris and London, where he VIII
meet many scientific men and perfect
plans for the congress.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.
Ressland Man Gees to Visit FAR
eDts, Over 100.

eDtrs ONCH AOO'
Spokane, May ia remarkable In
stance of longevity was revealed at
Rossland Saturday through the depart
ure of George Williams, a we'll known
miner, to Wales to spend year with
his parents. Both are living, the faith
er being 1O7 and the mother lO4 years
of age. They are said to De feeble In
body but their mental faculties are I'M
dimmed. The eldest son, william,
aged s5, Lives at home. The other
sons are John, Sc. Charles, "a, George
(Rossland) so, Thomas, 81, and Alfred
AZ. Four sisters are living, three be-
ing over forty years. The old gentle,
man is a eat-great-grandfather, and
has almost 100 descendants. All the
men in the family are miners and are
remarkably preserved.
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position at the capt.
tai of the island re-
p u b lie. Minister
Squiers is the most
influential member
of the diplomatic
corps at Havana
and visiting Ameri-
C a II S h a v e been
charmed by I h e
hospitality of the
United States EN-
bassy.
Mrs. Squiers is a
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WALLS AROUND MANILA.
Secretary Root Prohibits Their Pro-
posed Description.

Secretary Root Prohibits Their Pro-
posed Description.
Washington, May 9.-The proposed
destruction OF the walls about the city
of Manila has brought out protest
from number of patriotic societies in
this country, and after considering the
matter Secretary Root has given in
stfuctions to Governor Taft not to dis
turb the walls. The removal of only
small portion of the wall at one place
where commerce will be benefited was
contemplated, but even to this Secre-
tary Root objects. Manila is now the
only "walled city, in the Orient, and
it is Secretary Roots intention to have
it preserved. 1t is quite likely the
moat outside the wall will be filled up
as sanitary measure.
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Attorney General of Porto Rico.

Washington, May 9.-Willis Sweet
oi 'ouer 'Alene, Idaho. has DAen APP
pointed attorney general of Porto Rico
10 succeed James Harlan, who recently
resigned Mr.. Sweet was at one time
associate justice of the territory of Ida
no and later represented his state In
congress. He is considered lawyer OF
note.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14

New York woman. She was In Pekln
during the terrible Boxer uprising, her
husband at the time being secretary OF
the United States legation. She herself
took an active part in defending the
legation against the terrible Onslaughts
of the Boxers.
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MACHEN RELIEVED.
Another Incident in the Postoffce
Investigation.

Another Incident in the Postoffice
Investigation.
Washington. May 9.-The investiga-
ton of the affairs of the postoffice de-
partment, which have been dragging
along for two mouths, took sensa-
tional turn during the afternoon, when,
by order of Postmaster General Payne,
August w. Machen, general superinten-
dent of the free delivery system, and
one of the most widely known govern
ment officials in the United States, was
relieved from his duties and Postoffice
inspector M. g. Fosnes was designated
to take charge of the service.
The change takes effect today, and
MI. Fosnes Immediately assumes charge
Of the free delivery sevrice, and at the
same time that service will pass under
the control of the Office of the fouth as
sistant postmaster general. Heretofore
it has been under the jurisdiction OF the
first assistant.
The action of the postmaster general
was taken on the written recommends
ton of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Rristow, who is directing tt g
investigation of the affairs of the de-
psrtment, that the transfer of Mr..
Machen's bureau to his department and
it's administration by postoffice in
spector would expedite the investiga-
ton.
In ordering the change the postmas-
ter general gave M. Machen ''leave OF
absence until the investigation is con-
cluded."
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POPULAR IN HAVANA.

Wife of American Minister Leads in
Hospitality at Cuban Capital.
Mrs. Herbert G. Squiers, who is the
wife of the United States minister to
Cuba, has attained an enviable social
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
JUNGLE SAM GOVERNS HIS CLOCKS BY
OBSERVING ONE OF THE FIXED STARS.

HE United States government does not make of the
sun In reckoning instead of the fixed stars
they are called Every clear night astronomer with
big and makes his
calculations from which he tell just when the
would cross 10th meridian One of the clocks
In the observatory called the transmer because
ms the signal that keeps standard time This
clock regulated by the starme and then every
day minutes and 10 seconds before II switch Is
turned beats of the pendulum of this clock
sent electricity the wires to the telegraph offices
in Washington and New York When the telegraph
this sound their instruments they know
that the signal is about be sent and they
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-05-14
officials at Peking Perplexed.

Peking, May 1.-THE official at
Newchwang who sent the news of Rus
sia's alleged action at Newchwang and
elsewhere in Manchuria, telegraphs
that the occupation of the forts at tn ,
mouth of the Lao river was temporary,
and that the Russians have now with
drawn. Official circles at Picking are
mystified. Their subordinates at New
chwang have not reported the reoccupa-
ton of that place, hence there is dis
position to question the correctness OF
the information, although the author Of
the latest dispatch is considered to be
one of the ablest and best informed
foreigners in China.
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RUSSIA RETlRES
occ,IpATION OF NEWCHWANG
WAS BRIEF.
xews of the Evacuation Said to
Give Great Relief at Washing
.o,...Obviates Present Necessity
for Any Joint Action by United
states, Great Britain and Japan.

Wash ington, May 1.-THE state de-
.ortmept has received from Minister
Ponoer confirmation of the AS
sociated Press dispatch from
pokino that the Russians reentered
Newcbwang and then retired. The re-
ao;nt Of this advice late in the day
bronoht relief to strained situation,
and It was decided by the department
that there was no longer OCCASION for &C.
ton even automatically at this etage.
Count Cassini, in the course of this talk
With Secretary Hay, earnestly i'm
crossed upon the secretary his convic-
tion that the Russian government had
lived up to its agreements, and in view
Of these representations Secretary Hay
did not hesitate to lissipate the impress
sIon that might have existed that there
remained any need for diplomatic action
relative to Manchuria by the United
States, Great Britain and Japan,
The situation consequently lapses
hack to where it was after the original
Russian disclaimer which followed the
demands upon China two weeks ago.
and for the present the attitude of the
limited States " ill be simply one of oh.
servance.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, said
"When the whole truth is known ii
will he found that Russia has not vio-
lated single pledge made any nation,
nor does she intend to do so. More
over, what steps have been taken in
Manchuria are only in self-defense."
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Washington
hundreds
a
Of
and Navy
Of each of these clocks r.
setto the each day
Well meridian the
tmebal
district knows is IL o'clock
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Jaws
Tightly Locked From
Nervous Spasms.
Ply sicians Could
Not Prevent Fits.
DIR. Miles Nervine Cured
My Wife.

DIR. Miles Nervine has been successfully
tried in thousands Of cases Of nervous disor-
ders, but neyer.has it made better record than
when used in the treatment Of fits or spasrns.
Thousands Of testimonials prove this, and in
nearly every instance the writer has stated
that the fits ceased after the FIRST dose of Ner-
vine was given. The statement is repeated
in the following:
sSeven years ago my wife commenced
having spasms or fits and | called in my
home physician and he said she was para
iyzed. He rubbed her with salt water and
gave her calomel and she eventually got
some better, but in short time she had
another attack. She was confined to her
bed for three months and the doctor could
not help her She had fits frequently, some
times very severe. Her hands would crzznp
so we could not open them and she finally
got SO her jaws would become locked.
Finally / saw the doctor was doing her no
good and ordered bottle of DIR. Miles Re-
storativc EervIne. She received 50 much
benefit from the first bottle that got some
more. She has taken a number Of bottles
but has never had fit since taking the first
dose. She also thinks very highly OF DR..
Miles Nerve and Liver Pills and is never
without them. If there Is any way OF max
ing this testimonial stronger do SO because
Of the good the DIR. Miles Restorative Nerv-
inc did my wife. Y. ALEX. P. NJ
Eikville, Miss.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie DR.. Miles Remedies Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases Address
Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart Ind.
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Excursion to Niagara Fails

July IL and 81. Aug. ia and rs. Sept IL
and Is. and Oct. A ten day tour 10 Ming
ara Falls Americas Greatest Natural Wonder
via Baltimore Il Ohio Royal Blue Line. Phil
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Route. through the beautiful Lehigh aud Wy
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Coaches and Parlor Cars viii be run on above
dat 8 leaving:
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Ar. Niagara Falls 1000 r. NJ.
Round trip tickets for this excursion will
also be placed on sale at the following sta
tons at rate annexed:
Harpers Ferry, sil.50
Shenandoah Junction, ITO
Charles Town, ll.s0
Stop-overs permitted on return trip at Buff
falo. Rochs ster, Geneva, Watkins Glen and
Manch Chunk.
Only 800 Niagara Falls TO Toronto and
return via n. Y. e. Il IL. X X. K; si.25 via
George Route
Side trip 10 Thousand Islands from Rocbes-
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daye, but within return limit Of Niagara Fall,
ticket.
Special arrangements for lunch and supper
en- route at reasonable rates. Coll on Ticket
Agents Baltimore Il Ohio X. X for further
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seashore Excursions.

The N. d w. R'y viii sell excursion tickets
to Atlantic City. Cape May Ocean City. Sea
Isle. City, Avalon, Anglrsea. Wildwood aud
Holly Beach, N. J.,via ". u W., Gu mbcrland
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and 80. August IS and "a, and Sep TENDER 10.
Fare for round trip from Charles 10 wn. IS 65;
Correspondingly low rates from other points.
Limit, is days. Including date OF sale Con-
tinnons passage ticket must be deposited with
Joint Agent, Atlantic City, or ut other sea-
shore destinations immediately on arrival. On
the return trip ticket must be validated on
date Of leaving . ashore Stopoyer permitted
at Philadelphia on return trip within limit, on
deposit Of ticket at Philadelphia.
Additional information upon application To
Agents y Il w. K'y. or W. B, Beyill, General
Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va
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duly digested, Force, : ready-to-serve
wheat and barley feod, adds no burden, but
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