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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
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The electric life-saving hook of j.
McKenna, a Scotchman. is long pole
with a hook and an electric light at
the outer end. The light Is made to
glow when seeking a body in the
water at night.
The hearing of fishes has been much
debated. The presence of an Internal
ear has given reason for believing In
the existence of this sense, but other
evidence has led to the conclusion that
the function of the ear Is to preserve
the equilibrium of the fish In the
waer, sound being felt through the
skin and not heard. From late ex-
periments, In which the nerves of the
skin and Of the ear were cut In turn,
G. H. Parker finds that at least one
species (Fundulus heteroclitus) must
hear with the ear.
A phenomenon known as "cavita-
ton" has lately come to be recognized
as one of the most important causes OF
loss of efficiency in the driving screws
of steamships. When the velocity of
the screw Is increased above certain
limit cavity is formed in the water
inside which the screw revolves, and
further increase of power then
causes no increase Of the ships speed.
Mathematical investigation. tested by
practical experiments, has shown that
cavitation can be avoided by preserv-
ing q certain ratio between the resist
ance and the propelling surface con-
cerned. Upon this principle the speed
of some vessels has been greatly in
creased by simply changing their driv-
ing screws.
The United States consul at PrOgresO
says that the fields and gardens of
Yucatan are filled with useful vege-
tables and fragrant herbs unknown to
the outer world. In the cultivated
fields are grown species Of Indian corn,
beans, squashes and tubers for which,
In this country, we have no name, be-
cause we have never seen nor heard
Of them. In the forests and 1ungles
grow wild fruits, already excellent in
quality, which could be made delicious
by scientific cultivation. Mr.. Thomp-
son. the consul, AYERS that there are
half a score of wild fruits which offer
more promising results to cultivation
than ever did the bitter wild almond,
which was the progenitor Of the peach.
There are six varieties of Indian corn
in Yucatan. and the natives speak of
this plant as 1.-The grace Of God"
Mr.. e. A. Martel, the celebrated ex-.
plOrer of French caverns, has lately
been explaining, before the Academy
of Sciences, the remarkable variations
in the flow Of the great natural foun-
tainSof Vaucluse. This fountain, which
has been famous for ages, and Is con-
nected with the romance of Petrarch
and Laura, excites the admiration of
all travellers. Arthur Young visited
it, during his travels In France on the
eve Of the great revolution, and gave
delightful sketch Of 1t In his book.
The fountain is so abundant with wa
ter that it gives rise to the Sorgue. a
small river. Mr. Martel says, In fact,
that the fountain is the debouchment
of river. which, In the upper part
of Its course, flows entirely under
ground; and he explains the curious
Irregularities in the quantity and the
temperature Of the water by certain
assumptions as to the shape and size
of the subterranean cavities that give
1t passage.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
CARPENTERS QUIT.
Four Hundred Are Out at Vancou-
YER, @. g.

Four Hundred Are Out at Vancou-
yer, @. @.
Vancouver, B. c., April 3.-The car
penter's strike went into effect Wednes-
day, and 400 men went out
At noon several contractors, not
members of the Builders Exchange,
signed the new schedule. providing for
an eight-hour day, 40 cents per hour
and a,qniescence in the use of the card
system
The strike having been formally in
augurated, the claim is now made that
union members of other trades will un-
doubtedly join, and from present indi-
cations the strike will be the largest
and the most thoroughly fought in the
history of labor in the Dominion
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
ANOTHER COAL STRIKE.
President Mitchell Orders 1t Fought
to Finish.

Altoona, Pa, April 4.-What prom
ises to be one of the most bitterly con-
Vested strikes ever known in Central
pennsylvania bituminous coal region
mas begun at the mines of the Lehign
valley Coal company. at Snowshoe,
ra' The men cay the coal company is
irving to destroy tn union.
Prsident Mitchell has wired District
rreslndet Gilday to contest the strike
TO finish.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09
Mrs. Mckinley i'm Runaway.

canton, o., April 6.-Mrs. McKin-
ieys team started on runaway as she
W. MAS driving to the cemetery. At the
west Fifth street hill one of the horses
.ell' and the team was stopped. Mel
ener Mrs. Mckinley nor the other &C.
oupant of the carriage was injured.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-09

Don't you complain too much. and
don't you find too much faultE THINK
1t over.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
VARIETY IN CLIMATE OF MAINE

Bangor. Me. April II (SpeciaD.-The variety of
climate to be found in Maine is shown by the fact
that this week. while planting is in progress in
York County and at various places along the west
ern coast, the still lies four deep in the
forests and fields of AroostOOk County This last
winter there only two weeks of sIeighing on
Deer Isle in PenobscOt Bay. while the northern
part of the State has already had four months of
snow with every prospect of several weeks more
before bare ground comes In Bangor the ground
has been bare for three weeks. but hundred miles
north of city all hauling is yet on runners
When the strawberry crop of Southwestern Maine
has been picked and eaten the berries are lust he
ginning. about JClyl to ripen in the region about
here and when the last of the berries gone
here the children of Aroostook County begin tn
gather the crop. Lima beans. which grow abun-
danty in York County, cannot be successfully cuI-
tIyated in PenObscot County. while the pumpkin
which reaches it's full size and mellowness In the
north of this city.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
WILL URGE SIGNING OF REPEAL.
Governor HUM. of Delaware, Still Consider
ing "Voters Assistant" Law.

Dover Del April IL (SpeciaD.-Governor HUM
has not vet signed the bill repeating the Voters
Assistant law. having until April 10 to decide. A
delegation of Regular Republicans. Democrats and
others interested to appear before the Governor
on Thursday to urge him to sign the bill. Later a
delegation of Union Republicans will wait him
to urge him to sign the measure. If the Gov
ernor refuses sign the bill passed by the
legislature then the present law is still In force;
if he signs it then the entire avsis wiped out. Sec
tions and 8 of the present law follows:
Section 2. That the voters assistants shall be
toned within the where the election is being
sist such mark, alter, change, scratch or
fold his ballot In the presence of the voter and of
each other and shall also when requested by the
voter read to him the names of the candi-
date on the ballot which he desires to
3. That if voters assistant make
false declaration any voter he shall. upon con-
vctton. be fined S100, and voters assistant Who
shall decline any voter III any way shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor. and conviction shall be fined
not less than $3.50 more than $500. and may in
the discretion of the court be imprisoned for
term not exceeding five years
The word decline in Section should have been
deceive" but not until the law published
the mistake discovered. II makes the section of
force whatever The enrolled bill searched
for and the word decline" found there.
ing the supposition that the word deceive had
been changed decline OF course. voters
assistant would decline assist voter, hence
the bars were let down for the wholesale bribing
which has been the pracuce since the law
into effect two years ago
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
KILLS HIS OWN son.
Pole Also Shoots Landlady and Has
Fight zcifh Police.

Buffalo, April 12.-Joseph kwaitkowski. fifty
one years old formerly we'll TO do business
man is locked up at Police Headquarters
charged with fatally shooting his landlady and
killing his own nine-year-old boy Kwaitkow-
children Since her death his affairs have gone
from bad worse. and his business difficulties
drove him to drink. For the last four months
he has lived in rooms at No. 100 Coit-st. The
owner Of the house, Mrs. Tekla Wolinski her
husband and their children, occupied the rear
part OF the building The children Of the two
families constantly quarreling.
Tonight Kwaitkowski returned home and
found the children in the usual turmoil Mrs
woIinsd told him that he would have TO move
whereupon Kviatkowsk drew revolver and
began firing. backing of the house he did
So Mrs. Wolinski followed. and he shot her in
the breast Kwaitkowsh fired several more
shots one of them striking his own nine-year-
OLD son, Peter. killing him instantly.
A large crowd quickly gathered. and kwiat-
korski retreated into the house, locking the
door behind him Five officers in plain clothes.
who were on duty in the vicinity surrounded
the house. The Pole harricaded the doors. and
began firing through the windows at the Off
GERS The policemen crept up alongside the
They fired about thirty shots through the win
dows. but failed to hit him. A bullet knocked
off OF the officers hats and another passed
through the lapel Of his coat.
Kwiatkowski continued fire until his
nauniton exhausted. The officers then bat
tered down the front door. They found the Pole
hiding In a closet. he gave desperate battle
with stieto before he was overpowered.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
"TOO CONTEMPTIBLE TO NOTICE" F."
Reply of A. E. Orr to o. a. P. Belmont's
Insinuaticn

Speaking Of the criticisms of the Rapid Transit
Commission by ex-senator Ford and Henry George
in their letters Withdrawing their acceptance Of
an invitation to speak at the Lexington Opera
House meeting in protest against the sneak
railway bills. Saturday night, Alexander E.
Orr. president Of the commission, said last night
1T seems to me ridiculous that any one should
take execution to the Rapid Transit contract at
this time When the contract came before the
Rapid Transit Commission and the Board OF Estl-
mate and Apportionment all were unanimous In its
acceptance All rejoiced. I understand that in one
of the letters it was stated that the Rapid Transit
franchise was now estimated TO be worth S9oOe0.-
oa0 The value probematical. You might as
well say that the sky would fall and would all
catch larks We have only paid the contractors
s26oOOOOO in the aggregate so far They certainly
can't have made sS00G0. 600 in profits
Mr. Orr said that the insinuations in the tee-
gram of o. H. P. Belmont read at the meeting
that some of the commissioners might be inter
ested in the Interurban Company or in contracts
in connection with 1t. were too contemplate 70 be
noticed
other members Of the Rapid Transit Commission
whose views were sought not at their homes
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
DR.. HOBART CHEESMAN.

Dr. Hobart Cheesman. of No. III West Ninety
ffth-st- with offices No. Is Broad-st, died last
night at St Iukes Hospital in his ffty-ninth
year. after Illness OF seven days DR.. Cheesman
was alumnus of st. Lukes Hospital and
the house surgeon there for several years He
graduate OF New-York University in the
class of rs He was a member OF the County
Medical Society, the Society OF the Alumni of St
Lukes Hospital the Society for the Relief OF
Widows and Orphans. the Society OF Medical Men.
and the Physicians Mutual Aid Association The
funeral will be at the Church of Zion and St.
Timothy, a No 3S4 West Fifty-ssventh-st.
morrow afternoon, at o'clock
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
SHIPPING NEWS.
Port of New-York, Sunday, April IL, 1903.
ARRIVED.

Mnnehaha (Br). Robinson. London April and
Southampton Atlantic Transport Company and
Mercantile Marine Company with pas
sengers and mdse. Southeast Of Fire Island
Steamer Diamant Ger. Lotze, Hamburg March "a,
Shields 81 Philip Ruprecht in ballast Arrived the
at 2:50 a m.
Steamer Dona Maria CPor). Marreros. Lisbon March
p. Hagemeyer Bruhn with passengers and mdse-
Arrived at the Bar at about
Rlsk & Jevons with 1213 steerage passengers dse
Arrived the Bar at $3.50
steamer (Br1. Mcclure. Sourabaya February 3.
Colombia Said March Z Algiers rs
Rreakwater April 10. to the American Sugar Refining
with vessel to Howat Howlder. Rowat
g Arrived the Bar 1870 a
Steamer Alliance, Skillings Colon April
ma Railroad Steamship Company with passengers. mails
and mdse. Passed in Sandy Hook at e:21 2 m.
Steamer Curitvba Cuban Hoppe. Cardenas March 2s
Cibara April . Baracoa f.. Nuevitas 5. Matanzas and
Havana o w n Munson. with 81 passengers mail and
udse Arrived at the Bar at
Canova CBelg). Russell Santos March 25
Ba hia % to Busk with passengers mdse
Arrived the Bar at $50 m
Steamer C0manchee. Platt Jacksonville April and
Charleston 10 William Clyde Co. with passengers
and mdse
Steamer Nacoochee. Askns. Savannah April q. the
Ocean SIS Co passengers and uldse.
Steamer Hattie Kelsey. Rulon. Newport News.
Pawtucket
Steamer Oneida Chichester. Philadelphia. William p
C1vde & Co. with mdse
etoame- Manrarset CRr1. White April to
Hogan & Sons in ballast
sandy Hook n / April IL. $50 rn-wind calm: clear
SAILED
Steamers MIlos Ger. Fernandna: Ohio Osr) for
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
4LLDS At YORK ON BILL.
Getting Up Nezc Mortgage Taa
Appropriations May Be Cat.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

TFLFGRAPH
Albany April 12.-The Republican leaders In the
legislature are hard work finishing the appro-
priation bills and the Governor has already been
over the ones carrying the largest amounts-the
General Appropriation bin and the Supply bill
When the legislature adiourns, therefore. the
Governor will be SO well informed about the chief
appropriations that he act swiftly on them
What the members of the legislature fear is
that the Governor in order to prevent an increase
of direct State taxation, either the coming fiscal
year or the following it, will cut the appropria-
ton bills severely. According to the estimate OF
what will be raised by the indirect taxation meas
already passed. 1t will be necessary to provide
for about $500 COO more. But. apparently the Sem
ate and Assembly cannot agree bill. Senator
Aids however is reported to be drauShting a
new taxation bill at his home at Norwich, fnpos-
ing a four mills tax on future mortgages
There is little time left though. to pass new
bills as it has been agreed to adjourn on April
% and another obstacle is the general desire OF
both the Senators and AsSemblymen to pay atten-
ton their local measures
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
THINKS GRAB BILLS" DEAD.
Believed That the Republicans Have De.
cided to Kill Them
TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

fBY TELEGRAPH TRIBUNE.
Albany April 12.-One of the most influential
members of the legislature said to-day that in
his opinion the street railway grab bills' af-
fecting New-York City especially would not be
passed This leads to the belief that the Re-
publican leaders have quietly decided to kill
these measures.
Only two OF the street railway bills-those of
Senator GoodselI and Senator WilcoX-now in
the hands of the Senate Railway Committee
have any vitality. AS the Senate Railway Com
mittee did not act favorably on either of them
last Wednesday, the chances are largely against
their being pushed.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
WHAT is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Circus at Madison Square Garden
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Association o1ces
of American Bridge Company. 10 a m
New-York Presbytery, Tenth-st- and Fffth-ave. p
Ne 81 lRse'f Was
St Nicholas Society. annual Paas Festival Delmonicos
.. m
Society Il II Vest Msaacf5 FotyntRrd-st M
The Ohio Society New-York Waldorf-Astoria. p m
Harlem Board Of Trade No so East one-hundred-and
Illustrated lecture Dr. p Ioomis on sanatora ana
United Charities Building. p.
EIy lecture The Ideal Of the Rev9
West Forty -fonfth-st. sis p. m
Mass meeting protest against railroad grab bills NO
Amsterdam-ave-, evening
Jefsersonan dinner, under auspices OF Tammany Haii
general committee Of the Sva District sns Thrd
ave. evening.
Jerersonan dinner of Manhattan Tax Club. Hotel
Dinner of Phi Phi Club. Hotel Marlborough even
NeYork Society of Medical Jurisprudence. No 10 West
Forty-third- evening.
G 9 OF ats by es anf
Monroe and woodbury.. Peoples Institute. Cooper
Union. evening.
ican Museum Of Natural History, evening.
Opening % Of @ gn6r 6 Ma
recsPsioP Of a Pan &d 6s Bos me- s
brooklyn evening.
Free Of the Board of Education P mschoo
pieces of Greek Scuptqre Eugene sehoen Schs9
Nicholas ave. Better Homes the People John
IJovd Thomas; School No 225 East Twenty
seventh-st Martinique" George Donaldson: School
No 33 41S West Twenty eighth-st., Two Great
Standardization and Calhoun" H. W. Elson;
school No as one hundred andffy-sxth,gt so and @ St
fessor G Castegnier: School No Sc, Ninety sxthst
and Iexngton-ave, ''Ecipses.' Dr. S. 4. Mitchell;
school No 100 No 2e9 East Fourth-st.. Naples and
Pompei' Augusta J. Chaplin; School No 1856,
Eighty-ninth-st. between Columbus and Amsterdam
What yaccination Has Done ezd for S the World
and -eIeventh-st. between Fifth and Lenox aves..
The Land OF the Incas' Mrs NJ. Clare Finney:
Columbus Hall Sixteth-st.. between Columbus and
Amsterdam aves-. Irish Poetry and Patriotism,
Michael Monahan; Educational Alliance. corner East
Broadway Jefferson-st., THE Virtues of 1ndi-
vdual Life F Barrows Makepeace; Hall of ST.
Chrysostom's Church. Seventh-ave and Thrty-ninth-
Copenhagen Thorwadsen.'' Miss Virginia
Butler; Manhattan Congregational Church, corner OF
Seventy-siXth-St Broadway, The West Coast Of
America Ernest @ Rost-
Meeting Society its in the Waldorf
S m.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
PACKERS PAY FINES.

Kansas City, April 12.-The five Missouri packing
oompanies which were fined $500 each on March %
for violation Of the antitrust law. through their
attorney. Frank Hagerman. of this city. have
mailed TO the State Supreme Court draft for
sZI3s in payment Of fines and costs The firms
fined are the Armour Packing Company. the Cud-
ahy Packing Company, the Hammond Packing
Company. Swift & Co and ScbwarZschild & Sulz-
berger The payment made before il due.
as the offenders had thirty days from March % in
g-ricb to satisfy the judgment.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
DEATH OF MoNsIeNoR soUcHET.

Louisville April l2.-Monsignor Michael Bouchet,
vicar general OF the Catholic Diocese OF Louisville.
died to-day the rectory OF the Cathedral OF the
Assumption. He stricken with apoplexy while
on his knees IN prayer last night Though he was
seventy-six years old. he had been man OF good
healt and the fatal attack came without warning.
He native OF France. and came TO this
country 1853 Seven years later he was called to
This city where he had remained since. hav-
ing been appointed vicar SsnsrAl Ct ths diocese
tn lSu
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
ZEAL POWER BEHIND THE THRONE

Queen Elizabeth vas congratulating herself.
THANK heaven she exclaimed. Il not a
king. Nobody can say there is woman power
behind the throne"
MAY IT please your ma jesty.' interrupted
,.ev ,n waiting tho COX a1ys she viii leave
a. vor, dent increase Ter uaSes
TrenbltngIy has.a+:-g &c hel bidding the
<,,,.a, 6anarfed while the courtiers srnothered
sh.fr il concealed laughter
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
REMARKABLE IDIOT DIES.
[RY rELEGRAPH ID THE TRIRT-NF. l

Trenton, N j. April l2-William Valance
whose mental attainments have puzzled scientists.
died at the Hospital for the Insane tonight
aged thirty years. He taken 20 the institution
about g. week ago. Valance had been an idiot
from boyhood. In arithmetic. history and geog-
ranhv he was exceptionally well versed but in
most other matters has mind seemed nearly a
blank He could perform feats of multiplication.
addition or division remarkably quick time, with
no aid but that of mis- memory His mind
storehouse Of dates and historical and geogra aphcal
Ca
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
NETWORK CITY.

A meeting discuss and consider the immigrant
problem and the efforts of the various removal
offices to distribute the Rumanian Russian and
Galician immigrants throughout the country for
the purpose of making them quickly as possible
self-supporting and loyal Americans will be held
April q at p. in the auditorium OF the Edu-
catonaI Alliance East Broadway and Jefferson-st
The meeting will be under the auspices of Justice
Lodge No. 532. l. o. b. B.. No 1o6 Forsyth-st
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
THE MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS.
FOREIGN PORTS

Inishtrahl April I2-Passed steamer Pomeranian tBrl.
Blanchard. Glasgow for New-Ycrk.
Movie April l2-Arrived steamer Columbia tBr) RaS
ter New-York for Glasgow tand proceeded
steamer kurfnrst
GER. Remfasten. Bremen for Cherbours and New
York.
Isle Wight April I2-Passed steamer Rynda (Duteh)
AN der Zee Rotterdam and Boulogne- for
New-Ycrk
Hevzt AnriI f2-Passed steamer Prins wem Dutch.
StAhelee New York via indies ard Paramaribo
fcr Amsterdam
Gihra .s4Arru i1-Passed Victoria
tGerl aer1pnf Genoa NewYork returning from
Orient cruse)
Queenstown April I2 0;5s mSailed steamer EtruriA
GBrl Pritchard from Liverpool for New-York-
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
WILLIAM r. MARTIN DEAD.

William r. Martin of No 303 West Seventy first
St. died yesterday. In his ninety-first year. The
funeral will at his home Wednesday at 10
! a IN
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANA

MINIATURE ALMANAC
Sunrise 52e 6:s6 Moon s33i age Is
HIGH WATER
AM-sandy Hook s25 Gov Island He'll Gate 10:4s
PM-Sandy sag Gov. Island 9:1s Hell :0T
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
INCOMING STEAMERS

TO-DAY
From Line
edix Hamburg. March 81 .Hamb-Am
Daxbtors Liverpool. March d.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
HOME NEWS.


ALBEMARLE-Perry Porter Hamilton, of Phia
delphta and Arthur Lord, of Boston. MANHAI
TAN-Maxwen Tod. of London. GRAND-Captall
w. o. Clark. u. S. A.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

TO-DAY
Vessel
Vessel For Line Mails close. sails.
Aracbe Charleston. CLYDE. ............. 300
Princess Anne Norfolk Old Dominion $500 m
Trinidad Bermuda. Quebec Hb;oO a m
TUESDAY. APRIL IA
Italian $50 m II 800 m
Ell Vale Galveston Morgan. 800 p m
Hamilton Norfolk Old Dominion. 300 m
Anchora Glasgow Anchor. 4:30 100 m
WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS.
Teutonfc Liverpool White a 1900
New-York. Southampton. $50 1000
Cermania, Naples. Fabre.
Potsdam, Rotterdam. HoI-Am. 100 m 1000
Toronto Hull. Wilson. .-.-..--.-..-...-
EI Dia, Orleans. Morgan 800
Denver, Galveston. Mallory 800
Comanche, Charleston. Clyde 800
THURSDAY. APRIL Is
La Havre French. TOO 1000
I.aurentian. Glasgow, Alan-State-.-.- 100
Motke Hamburg. Hamb-Am. 500
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. r. Davis left this
morning for Des Moines, Mrs. Davis
will visit friends and Mr.. Davis will
attend the Republican state oonven-
ton,
Mrs. Fl. Fl. schenk and two Chill
dren who have been visiting Mrs.
Schenk's sister, Mrs. H. @. Homer
for several days'past, departed Satur-
day night for their home inIMemphis,
Tenn.
Mrs. Eva Erect and little daughter
Edna, who have been visiting at the
home of Mrs. Freet's sister, Mrs, Ed
Hill for the past two months, have
returned to their home in Marshall,
town.
Mrs. j. Vannetter and two daugh-
ters, Vivian and Hazel, departed
Saturday evening via the Iowa
Central for Rush City, Mimi, to
spend a month visiting relatives and
friends.
Homer Knight returned Saturday
night from Marshalltown. He has
been working for the Postal Tele-
graph Co. for the last three months
acting as supply at the Brittian Pack
ing Co.'s. plant.
Lieut.. Nellie Long, of the Salvation
Army, who has been spending a
weeks vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Long, in this city,
returned to Lincoln, Neb., this morn,
ing via the Rock Island.