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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27
SKATER AND THE BEAR.
PortIy Hero of Santiago TickIed Bruin
and Got n Run.
San Francisco Call.

san FRANCISCO Call.
"Old Mitch" the armorer over at the
University of California, is the uncrowned
king of the student body. The select few
whom he delights TO honor consider 1t a
privilege to sit down in his office under the
gymnasium and hear the old ex-sergeant
spin off tales of life in the army. One day
Mitch" stuffed cigar into his pipe-that
is a favorite trick of his-and began to
grow reminiscent.
"Well, sir" began Mitch" ST have
hunted bears several times myself and 1
have seen others hunt them, but 1 will
never forget the time that General Shafter
went after big game. 1 with Miles
then, up in the Yellowstone country, and
Shafter came through the post on a trip
north Shafter said he wanted to get some
bear hunting and so Miles and a few of us
took the general in an army wagon up on
one of the forks, where we knew the beasts
were to be found
After we had been on the road some
hours we spotted an old she one and her
cubs off on a little level fat some rods
from the road We let the general take a
shot at the bear. but he missed and she
went of into the bushes. Nothing would
do but that Shafter must go after her so
he started and the rest of us stayed in the
wagon. so that he could have all the sport
of bringing her down. Well Shafter dis
appeared IN me bushes and there was no
noise for a minute, and then we heard a
shot. We were just saying that the general
must have made his kill when we heard a
yell. and here comes Shafter
He came out of those bushes on the
jump waving his gun and going over the
high places like a rabbit. You know that
must have been going some for General
Shafter. Behind him about 100 PAGES was
the she bear with her back bumped up and
sapping at her sides as she ran. The
general was coming down hill toward us
and was right in line with the bear. so we
could not take shot at her without being
I'm danger of hitting Shafter.
well, sir, the way General Shafter came
down that slope was something TO remem-
Der Finally he tore up TO the wagon and
we hauled him in over the tailboard. Then
one of the men shot the bear.
when Shafter had got his breath some
he turned to Miles and said: Miles. 1 don
think much of your new carbines out here.
They would not be OF much good in a
forced retreat. and he broke the gun at
the breech and showed Miles the empty
shell. which had lodged in the chamber. -
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Sexes in Competition.
Boston Advertiser.


mo woman receives $4,000 year" de-
clared the financial manager of one of Bos-
tons big dry goods stores yesterday after
noon.
DR.. Hills. of New York. when he said in a
sermon Sunday that a New York woman
has succeeded a $4,000 man at a salary of
$4,000, was-ah-er-mistak
Positions bringing a pecuniary reward
of that size mean physical strain which
no woman could stand. / have been in this
work for years. and L know.
There Is not particle OF doubt, however,
that women are coming TO the front In
this store they do everything which has
been given them to do as well as a man
could do IT, The only exception | might
make is in the case of bookkeepers; work
which in a store of this size taxes a Wom-
ans endurance to the utmost We have
two lady 4oookkeepers, and they find 1t very
hard TO stand the constant strain which is
put upon them.
Whenever it is a question of mental
strength only, there is absolutely no diff
ference between the working capacity, and
often the pay of the sexes. There are any
number of women buyers who receive $4,000
per year and over. A hlgh-grade woman
buyer is as good a high-grade man buyer
In some lines her Judgment is better than
a mans.
Still, I do not believe that women will
in the next fifty years hustle men off the
industrial stage entirely, although ii Is I'M
doubtedly a fact that salaries for high
grade work by women are on the increase.
1T is true that in certain lower grades
of our work we pay men more than we pay
women for the same work. This is not only
because men as a rule have families TO sup
port While the women have only them
selves to look out for but il is our object
TO keep the men and their families in the
city.
"A man having a family will not leave
Boston if he is getting fairly good wages.
II means more to him to pull up stakes. a
woman, on the other hand, can much more
easily throw up a job here for something
only a trifie better elsewhere or because
of some social advantage which she can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27

pocket full of evidence against a criminal
and keep that evidence concealed, am l not
also a criminal2
Notwithstanding all this it is my own
conclusion. formed after investigation on
the ground that polygamy Is decreasing
This is not because il is not as Thoroughly
believed in as ever. or because OF the
respect for the law, but simply Tor the
reason that men cannot now afford II. .
'Harper's Bazar' killed polygamy'
was the epigrammatfc generalization of one
Western man. His meaning was that when
the Mormon women got TO reading ABOUT
other women, other homes, other ways Oh
dressing and living, they began TO want the
same things for themselves. They adopted
new notions about servant girls, clothes,
pianos, and what not-and even an ordinary
Mormon. industrious as he IS, cannot sup
port many such wives. For IL Is proDaDly
well known that each new wife means a
new home. Even the wOmens devotion 10
their religion does not enable them TO get
along in the same house with other wives
and the same husband
That same man, a copper magnate, who
has known the West for generation re-
fuses 70 regard MormOnism as religious
sect. 1T Is simply a business institution,
he said. and wonderful one The leaders
rival Wall street operators. Everything
they touch seems to turn TO gold; the salt
air amusement pavilion, out on the lake, is
the only venture that has not paid welt.
Their mixing in politics is solely ior Dusl-
This man l found to be rather sweeping
in all his views, although the following
statement accords with the observations OF
many:
''Mormonism is one of the wonders OF the
past hundred years. IL has taken the dregs
I az Europe and so potent is the American
spirit. even in Utah, IL has fused them into
! a thrifty law-abding, prosperous commu-
nifty. There are no poor among the Nor
mons, although many of the parents were
I paupers"
/ In this connection he pointed out, as most
I genties do, that Mormonism makes no
\ converts at home; the shoe is on the other
| foot The various denominations make con-
I verts from MormOnism, but IL is a rare
/ thing indeed for any person who knows
/ Mormonism at first hand TO enter that fold.
/ The proseyted recruits all come from a
\ distance, most OF them from Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27
FUNNY CHINESE NOTIONS.
They Know Little About the Structure
of the Human Body.
American Medicine


Chinese medical literature IS copious and
its photography has been drawn up with the
most scrupulous care, but the whole con-
tents consist of unreasoning commentaries
Oh the works OF q few old masters whose
texts. like those of other scored volumes of
Oriental literature, far too sacred to
suffer the smallest innovation. Those mas
ters' of Chinese medicine were contempo-
rarieS of Machaon and Podalirius who
dressed the wounds of the besiegers OF Troy
Direful would be the almost inevitable re-
suits of the exploration Of any of the cavi-
ties OF the human body by the Chenese prac-
titioneri No Chinese representative of the
healing art has ever dissected any portion
of the human frame. Accordingly their
ideas of anatomy and physiology are mat
tiers of faith-confirmed by images which
have been reproduced during untold cen
turtles. Their osteology teaches that the
skull is formed of one bone: so is the pelvis:
the number of ribs varies with the indi-
Vidual, and at the junction Of the arm with
the forearm is placed a subtal patela. Ae-
cording to Chinese splanchnology the small
lDtestines communicate with the cavity OF
the heart, while the colon, after describing
sixteen circumvolutions, terminates by
opening into the lung.
The heart governs the vital processes-in
operation with the cavity of the stomach II
supplies all ideas and all the pleasurable
sensations The liver is the habitat of the
soul. and il is from this gland that all noble
and generous sentiments emanate. The gall
bladder is the receptacle of courage: its as
cent in the body is the cause of a fit of
anger. They have an idea of the continuous
motion of the blood. but il seems TO be the
product of an imagination more riotously
Oriental than even that which created the
other items of their physiologic knowledge
They do not know the pulmonary circula-
ton; they naturally know nothing Of the
valves in the veins; they do not even appear
TO have quite grasped the motor function OF
the heart itself: but they nevertheless pro
fess to differentiate no less than seventy
four varies OF pulse-simultaneously recog-
nizable on the person of single individual
In its ultimate structure the body is com
posed of five elements-fre. water, earth
wood and metal Each of those elements is
in harmonious rapport with the correspond
ing members of the series OF five planets
five metals, five solid viscera, five colors and
five tastes All diseases originate from di q
turbances of the primary and essential
Quintic harmonies OF these corresations.
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get in another city. such as Providence
perhaps, and not here; so that even II we
paid them as much as the men We could
not depend on them.
Then. too. women will get married and
leave. Men get married. too. but don I
leave. This lack of permanency is against
women.
I'm the higher positions, that is. posi-
tions of more than $40 per week, there is
less fear that either men or women Will feel
tempted to migrate and the salaries Ior
equal work are equal.
"A $4,000 woman is not so likely TO mar
ry, either She is too contented with her
lot as il is.
in work which calls for mental capac-
ity. keen perception and nice judgment and
not for heavy physical strain, l see actual
ly no limit to womans achievement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27

BOULDER. Col, Dec pa report from
New York to the effect that William h.
Smith. brother OF the late Mrs. Charles Ia
Fair, Is mysteriously missing from home.
and that his relatives had called on the
police 10 find him. brought out the fact that
Mr.. Smith is here having left his home in
New Market, y. j., on Monday last and
come through TO Denver. leaving later for
Boulder, and arriving here yesterday 10
visit his brother Charles J, Smith, OF this
city. Mr.. Smith said his visit had nothing
do with plans for settlement OF ths
Fair estata-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27

Hungary have complained with little
bitterness of the adulteratiOn OF their
choicest wines by INSCRIPTIONS middlemen.
They therefore ask for a bottle which can
be used only once-that is to say, when 1t is
filled in their own cellars at the vineyards.
Distillers. manufacturers of medicine and
makers Of choice perfumery all suffer i'm
mense loss through the lack of some re-
ceptacle which when once its contents have
been poured out can never be refilled with
an inferior article as the original.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
Santa Juanita Club

The new Year Book of the Santa
Juanita Club for 1904 has been priut-
ed and copies will soon be ready for
distribution to the members. The club
year begins September 5, when the an
nual business meeting will be held, at
the home of Mrs. l.. B. Carter, and
regular meetings will be held each two
weeks thereafter until tho close OF the
club year, May IA. Following are the
names of the officers: President, Mrs.
Dennison; vice-president, Mrs. Farms
worth; secretary, Miss Esther Fowle;
treasurer, Miss Josie Sweeney. Pro-
gram committee Farnsworth,
Mrs. Sweeney, Mrs. Fowle, Miss May
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
FREE LECTURE

Congressman Francis w. Cushman
has consented to deliver q lecture in
Friday Harbor, Thursday evening,
August q, at 8 p. M, on "Washington
City, the Capital of the Nation"
Mr.. Cushman's lecture will be illus
trated with over 100 beautiful stereopti-
con pictures of the Capitol Building,
the White House, all the public build
ings at the capital, parks, statues, ma
tional cemetery, and all the attractions
of Washington city. These pictures
were selected by Mr.. Cushman In
Washington city and form a very hand
some collection that will be interesting
to all. All are cordially invited.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
SOLD LIQUOR TO INDIANS
Two Boys Plead Guilty and Are Given
the Minimum Fine

Two Boys Plead Guilty and Are Given
the Minimum Fine
Frank Higgins and Ray King were
arrested Monday upon complaint
charging them with selling liquor to
two Indians from British Columbia, a
man and woman, on the preceding
day. Their parents engaged &. e.
Hackett as counsel and a jury trial
was at first demanded. Subpoenas
were issued for witnesses and venire
was made up for jurors and the case
was set for hearing before Justice Blair
at O'Clock Tuesday morning. Before
that time, however, the boys decided
to plead guilty, with the understand
ing that the minimum fine provided
by law, viz, $25 and costs, would be
assessed, and the case was disposed of
in this way. The ISLANDER is in-
formed that the money for the pay
ment of the fines was put up by the
liquor dealer or dealers who furnished
the whiskey. The evidence obtained
by the prosecuting attorney tended to
exonerate young King from compile
ity in the offense except as an access
ory, as the whiskey was in the possess
ion Of the Higgins boy and the Indians
identified him as the one from whom
they bought it. They charge that sub
sequent TO the purchase of the whiskey
the woman was overpowered by the
Higgins boy on the beach where they
were camped and robbed of $36, and it
was because of this loss that they made
complaint to the authorities and the
facts relative to the whiskey transac-
ton were developed. AS the boys de-
MED the robbery and no evidence was
ohtainable to corroborate the testimony
of the Indians, given through an inter
prefer, no arrests were made on that
charge. The boys may consider them
selves very fortunate to escape so easily.
The evidence which would have been
produced in the justice court had the
case come to trial would undoubtedly
have been sufficient to secure their
quick conviction ia the federal court
were the case brought to trial there, as
a great many similar cases are, and the
penalty would be much more severe.
The father of the Higgins boy is an
industrious, temperate, law respect
ing and honest man and his oldest son
had much better follow in his footsteps
than in the despicable way marked out
by the saloon-keeper who supplied him
with whiskey and perhaps instigated
the whole disgraceful affair.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27

In a letter to the edit0r of the ISL
ANDER Secretary Kline, of the What
com County Agricultural Association,
says: "We expect to have a big fair
this year something better than ever
before. We trust that the island peo-
pie will send over large exhibits. They
always take a good share of the premi-
ums and we are glad to have them do
SO. Arrangements are being made
with the boats to give low rates and re-
turn exhibits free of charge"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27

Sweeney. Music committee = Mrs.
August Void, Miss Elinor Dennison,
Miss Josie Sweeney. The Year Book
contains the new "Federation Song"
Mrs by Ella Higginson, of Whateom,
as follows:
know place where the sun is like geld
And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
And down underneath is the lovliest nook,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
One leaf is for hope and one is for faith,
And one is for love, you know,
And God put another in for luck
you search, you will find where they grow.
But you must have hope aud you must have
faith,
You must love and be strong-and So
If you work. if you wait, you will find the
place
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27

The recent order of Judge Denny, of
Snohomish county, by which that
county was advanced from the 18th to
the 5th class upon showing satisfac-
tory to the court that the population
had increased to such an extent as to
justify such classification is of special
interest to county officials in all coun-
ties in the state, as their salaries are
determined by the class to which their
respective counties belong and this
class is based upon population, varying
from $4,000 or more for counties of the
lst class to less than 500 for counties
of the 10Th class. For the purpose of
determining the population of Snoho-
mish county the number of school
children in the county June |, 1904, as
shown by the school census was multi.
piled by five, producing total of A..
$50, while the total of the government
census of the county outside the city
of Everett added to the returns of the
recent municipal census of Everett
give total of 47,0Q0. Upon this show
ing the court ordered the county ad-
vanced from the 18th to the 5th class.
BY the federal census of 1900 this
county's population was 1928, or only
72 less than enough to advance the
county from the 9th to the 25th class.
IL was advanced to the Goth. At the
same time the number of school chill
dren In the county as determined by
the official census was 8S4, the ratio Of
the number of school children to the
total population being approximately
81. The school census of this year
shows the number of children of school
age in the county on the 1st of June to
have been $40. If we multiply this
number by 81, which ratio is Ii lower
than that accepted in SnOhomish coun-
ty, we have total of 3 ,233, or consider
ably more than enough to advance the
county to the 25th class and increase
the salaries OF the county officials ag
follows: Auditor, from $500 to 5000
clerk, from 5000 to $500; treasurer, from
$3.50 to 5000; sheriff, from $500 to 5000;
school superintendent, from $400 to
$500. If the Snohomish ratio of to
were adopted the county would be ad-
vanced to the 22nd class, with o popu
lation of 1850 and the salaries of the
auditor and sheriff would be increased
to 81 ,O50, clerk to 5000, attorney to 5000
and school superintendent to 500, the
salaries of the treasurer, assessor, sur
veyor and commissioners being un
changed. While salaries are arbitrari- q
ly fixed by statute according to popu-
lation, no. method is prescribed by
which the question of population shall
be determined. 1t seems to be simply
matter of competent evidence, of
such character as to satisfy the COM
missioners, if they please to act upon
their own volition, or the Judge of the
superior court in the event that tbs
commissioners refuse to act except up
on an order of the court, as was the
case in Snohomish county, where. the
county officials brought mandamus
suit against the. commissioners to com
pei them to take action. There can be
no question but what this county be-
longs in higher class than the 26th
and that the officers are justly entitled
under the law to higher salaries than
they are receiving.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27

James Crook, who was badly bitten
about ten days ago at his home at Eng
lish Camp by all ugly hog, is getting
along nicely and is able to walk by the
aid of a crutch. Six stitches wera
taken in the wound. -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
THE ONLY AD. HE EVER HAD

There was man in our town
Who was so wondrous wise;
He thought a business he could run
And never advertise.
Take heed and learn the moral
OF this sad and mournful tale,
For the only ad. he ever had
Was Closed for Sheriff Sale"
Brownsville pa Monitor.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27


be seen by the accompanying figures
that the shortage on sockeyes in l9O2s
as compared with 1901, amounted to
LAY ,6O3 cases; while that of 1903, as
compared with 1902, amounts to more
than 500, 900 cases, and that of 1903, as
compared with 1901, amounts to an ag-
gregate of almost 100000 cases. In
addition to this there will be short
age on the Columbia river (the fishing
season on which closed on August Isl,
amounting to upwards of 1850 cases
as compared with the pack Of 1902,
which was small one. 1t is also esti-
mated that there will be a shortage on
the Alaska pack for this season of at
least $50, 600 cases, from which it is ap-
parent that the total shortages of the
years 1902 and 1903, as compared with
1901, will amount 10 upwards of 2,000,-
900 cases in round figures. In other
words, the time seems to have arrived
in the history of the salmon industry
when it has become serious question
as to an adequate source of supply of
fish to fill the requirements of the con-
suming public.
at is now conceded that the annual
consumptive demand for salmon ex-
ceeds four million and a half of cases.
and as the surplus which was carried
over from 1901 and 1902 has passed out
of first hands and to a very great ex-
tent is now no longer to be reckoned
with, the visible supply under existing
conditions for the coming twelve
months will be inadequate to fill the
normal demand, and values under
natural laws must be considerably en-
hanced."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
THE COUNTY'S GLASS
FIGURES SHOW THAT 1T SHOULD BE
RAISED ONE OR MORE CLASSES

Based Upon the Ratio of the School Cen
sus OF 1900 to the Federal Census of
That Year the Population June 1 Was
3,233-- -Oficers' Salaries Affected.
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According to figures collected by the
Seattle Times the shortage in the sock
eye salmon pack for the present season,
as compared with 1902, will be about
100000 cases, and nearly 100000 cases
short of the pack of 1901. Mr.. Chas.
Corby, manager of the Pacific Selling
Company, which markets a very large
portion of the salmon pack, is quoted
by the Times as saying:
"a comparison of the sockeye sal
mon packs on Puget Sound and in
British Columbia waters for the sea-
sons 1901, 1902 and 1908 show some
startling figures and shortage which,
when taken into consideration with
the increase consumptive demand for
salmon occasioned by the opening up
of new markets throughout the world,
tends to verify prediction made not
long since that, 1T is only matter of
time before the question of q supply of
raw material sufficient to fill the
worlds requirements for salmon will
engage more attention than the ext
gencies of the marketing of the fin
ished product"
He gives the following figures of the
packs of 190l-2-3:
Cases
British Columbia pack I,I83,335
Puget Sound pack .......... ........... 1,II6,2
Total. .,.,........ 2,299,o42
| Cases
British Columbia pack. ................ s3I,456
Puget Sound pack. ck.......,,.............. 35o,5o3
Total. al.............,.... ............ ssI,o39
1903
Pack to August 10, 1903, estimated
Cases
British Columbia pack 245,ooo
Puget Sound pack ck......................, 10000
Total. .............. 365,ooo
Continuinp Mr. COrby said. HTt will
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
THE SOCKEYE PACK
NEARLY 100000 CASES LESS THAN
THE PACK OF 1901

Figures of the British Columbia and Pa
get Sound Pack for Three Years-In-
dustry Seriously Threatened High
Prices Sure to Prevail.