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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT:
Purchasing Prices.

The following prices are being Of
fered to the producer by the local deal.
ers for delivery in round lots on the
Grain-Oats, $21@22 per ton; bar.
ley, $21 per ton; wheat, chicken feed.
s26Q27 per ton: bran, $21 per ton;
shorts, S21 per ton.
Hay-Eastern Washington, $15@16
per ton; alfalfa, $10010.50 per ton.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, 25@26c
per doz.
Poultry-Live hens, 13a@141ac per
ID; old ROSTERS, SC per Id; spring chick
ems, $3.75@4.75 per doz; ducks, ITO
13c per Id; geese, 9@10c per Id.
Live stock-Choice beef cattle, cows,
&c per lb; steers, sc per ID; sheep,
sac per lb; hogs, sac per ID; calves,
507c per Id; spring lambs, $2.50@9
per head.
Hides. Pelts and Tallow-Heavy
sailed steers, over 60 lb, 71ac; medium
per Id, &c; light, under so lbs. 6ac;
cows, all weights, 61ac; sailed kips.
&c; calf, Sc; stays and bulls, SC; green
hides. 1c less tlan sailed; culls and
grubby, 1c less: dry hides, 12@13c;
winter deer. dry. 14@20c; good but
cher tallow, 4Q41ac; grease. ~ @2c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
DOING GOOD WORK.
Port Angeles Civic Club Clears School
Grounds.

Port Angeles, Sept. 5.-(Special)-
More than fifty men and boys, repond-
ing to the call of the women of the
Civic Club. met at the central school
grounds here today with teams, plows,
picks and shovels and did public work
in the way of grading and draining
that has long been needed and will be
of great benefit to the health of the
children.
When the noon hour arrived the
school bell called the workers to a pic
mic dinner prepared and served by the
women of the club. In addition to the
sanitary work upon the grounds the
building is receiving an entire over
hauling, and is having installed in it's
rooms modern ventilating sytem.
All this is the direct result of the eff
forts of the Civic Club. A second
school day" has been announced for
Thursday, September 10, when further
work for the welfare of the children
will be undertaken.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
STATE NEWS.
The Washington apple crop is re-
ported to be short.

The Washington apple crop is re-
ported to be short.
Construction of the Everett stove
works is expected to begin within a
few days.
Exceptionally ram weather prevails
in Japan and is expected to cause
large harvests.
Good harvest weather again prevails
in the eastern paht of the state. The
yield is better than anticipated.
The indictments against Chief Sulli-
van, the last of those found by the
late Seattle grand jury, have been dis
missed.
Several bogus S. bills have been
passed at the Seattle Woodmen carni-
val. The bills passed were worthless
notes of the defunct state bank of
Brunswick, N. ].
Within the last five years the vol
ume of business at this port, as re-
CARDS duties collected, mas more than
quadrupled, according to report COM
pleted Tuesday by Collector Mitten.
Moy Sam, charged with smuggling
chinese into the United States, has
been bound over to the federal court
by United States Commissioner Bow
man on $4,000 bonds. He was arrested
August IS.
V. w. G. Staples, collector, is lying
at the point of death in local hospi-
tai, as the result of bicycle collision
with w. 3. Sapsley. The latter is also
injured. The collision occurred in the
business district at Spokane, and
neither is able to explain how =. hap
pened.
Fire at Monroe destroyed the dry
kilns of the Monroe Mill Company.
The mill itself was saved. When the
fire started the kilns were full of
shingles, but some of them were re-
moved before the flames reached them.
The exact loss is not knwon, but it is
believed that it will be less than
$4,000. The loss is partly covered by
insurance
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
DIRECTORS ARE ACQUITTED.
Court Dismissed MansIaughter Case
AGAINST Street Car Officials.

Newark n. j., Sept. 4.-Chief Jus
tice Gummers, in the Essex county
court, today announced that he had
decided to grant the motion for the
dismissal of the indictments against
the officials and directors of the
North Jersey Railway company, who
were accused of having by alleged neg
lect of their duty caused the death of
Ernestine Miller. Miss Miller, who was
a high school pupil, was killed with
eight others in the Clifton avenue
crossing accident on February 10.
In instructing the jury to find a YER
dict of not guilty, the chief justice said
in order to hold the defendants GRIM
nally responsible it must be shown
that they had failed to perform some
specific act This the stateMhad failed
to do, he said
The chief justice declared that the
rules of the street railway company
as laid down to its employees would
have been sufficient safeguards if they
had been carried out.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
ANOTHER SCANDAL.
Federal Officers Interested in Indian
Business Concerns.

South McAllister, |. t., Sept. s.
Something of a sensation was created
here today by the publication of list
of office-holders interested in the reg
istered companies doing business with
the Indians. Following is a list Eu-
faula Trust Co., G. R. Breckenridge, T.
B. Needles, members of the Dawes
commission, Pleasant Porter, chief of
the Creek nation, Canadian Valley
Trust Company, Tames Bixby, chair
man of the Dawes commission; fish
omingo Loan and Trust Company, W.
C. Stanley, member of the Dawes COM
mission; Tribal Development Co.,
Pliny Soper, federal attorney; Benja-
min COLLECT, marshal; Verdigris Oil
and Gao Co., James Bickleberry, as
sistant federal attorney; Watch Gas
and Oil Co.. w. H. Darrough, marshal;
Jefferson Trust Co., j. w. Freeman
clerk of the court of appeals, and F.
f. Fannin, clerk of the district.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
CHANGE OF POLICY
CONSULAR AGENTS TO BE PRO-
NOTED.
Hereafter Important Places Will Be
Filled by Men Who Have Had
Training in Subordinate Posi-
lions in the Consular Ser.
vice.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 5.-An important
change of policy with respect to the
making of appointments in the con-
sular service has been decided upon by
President Roosevelt He discussed the
change today with Assistant Secretary
OF State Francis B. Loomis.
For many years it has been practi-
cally the uniform practice of the pres
idents to appoint men to positions in
the consular service substantially with
out reference to whatever previous ex-
perience they may have had. Quite
naturally, the president endeavored al
ways to select for appointment men of
integrity and ability, but experience
was not a determining factor in the
equation.
President Roosevelt after consulta-
ton with Secretary Hay. Assistant
Secretary Loomis and members of his
cabinet immediately identified with
the state department, has determined
to appoint hereafter to important
places in the consular service men who
had experience and training in minor
positions which will render them the
more capable of filling places of higher
grade and greater Importance.
The change in policy does not eX-
tend, necessarily, to a consuls tenure
of Office at any particular place, but
it is pointed out that it does give
reasonable assurance to the manufac-
turing and commercial interests of the
United States, which particularly are
interested in the extension of the
countrys trade, that in a comparative
ly britt time all important consular
situations will be filled with men, not
only of character and ability, but with
men who, by training and experience,
are especially qualified to advance the
trade interests of the United States.
George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the
department of labor, was the first
caller on the president today. The
secretary came to Oyster Bay to talk
with the president about an official
matter that had been pending for some
time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
MEN FELL FIFTY FEET.
One Dies in Few Minutes With
Broken Neck and Limbs.

Spokane, Sept. 5.-George Gerrick,
OF Seattle, was killed, and Emile Lar
son, Otto Butler and Carl Williams, of
Spokane, were seriously injured a few
minutes before noon today by an ac-
cident on one of the big wheat bins
being constructed for the Centennial
Mill Company, of this city. The men
were working fifty feet from the
ground, when the scaffolding on which
they stood gave way. Gerrick lived
for few minutes, but could not speak.
Both legs and arms were broken, and
his neck was broken. He leaves a
young wife at lila College avenue, in
this city.
The work was being done by con-
tract by Gerrick Brothers, of Seattle.
Two wheat bins had been completed
and the men were working at the top
of the last one
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
nx4ef Summary 81 Less fmporrs.'
Though not the Loss Interesting.
Happe.fngs Of the Week. 1rs<
All HArss ef The World.
california grape crop is large.

California grape crop is large.
BRYAN has ended his Ohio campaign.
Dominion Steel and Dominion Coal
companies, two biggest industrial
concerns in Canada, have filed articles
of dissolution.
Helbein, the swimmer who started
to swim across the English channel,
gave it up when eight miles off Calais.
He had been in the water II hours and
20 minutes.
May Goelet. the New York heiress
of $20,000,000 is to wed the duke of
Roxbourgh. The engagement was
announced today. The duke is now
with Miss Goelet and her mother at
Newport. The queer thing about it is
that the duke is also ricn.
Sir Ernest Satow, British minister
to China, addressing a reputation OF
the China Association at Shanhai, when
en- route to Pekin from England, said
britain would not be weak in her
China policy. British commercial
privileges would certainly be main
tanned in Mancnuria.
Backed by the Union Pacific, the
Southern Pacific, New York Central
and Lake Shore, a plan is now on foot
to run train from coast to coast, and
for the purpose company is being
organized with a capital of $1,000,0O
to furnish the equipment and handle
the train. 1t is understood mat all of
the stock in the new company will be
held by the roads mentioned, over
whose tracks the train will run.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
- GOODS MUST BE LANDED.
Court Says II Is Necessary to Convict
for Smuggling. q. -.

San Francisco. Sept. Sin the trial
of the case of the United States
against Naoi Nanamatsu, who is
charged with the crime of smuggling,
Judge De Haven delivered instructions
TO the jury TO which he in substance
said that landing of the goods was
necessary TO constitute the crime of
smuggling. 1t is contended by the Of
ticials charged with the capturing and
convicting of this class of offenders.
that, If the opinion of the Judge is
right, it will be a difficult matter to
punish evaders of the customs laws.
Judge De Haven positively instruct
ed the jury to bring in a verdict of
not guilty on the first count, that of
smuggling, giving as his reasons those
ABOVE stated. Despite this the jury,
after being out six hours. disagreed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
REWARD MUST BE PAID.
California Cannot Get Her Convicts
Otherwise

Carson, New. Sept. Gov. Sparks
today stated that the two convicts
captured at Reno, Miller and Woods.
would not be returned to California
until the rewards offered by the state
of California were paid. He did not
intend. he said. that the officers MAX
ing the capture should be put to the
trouble of lawsuit that generally fol-
lows such cases.
The governor stated that when the
check came for the amount due the
extradition papers WOULD be signed and
not before. II is believed that the
division of the mony among the Reno
men will be a matter of little diff
Guilty.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10

Wheat-BlueStem Soc, club SIC.
Cattle-Steers, $500 per cwt; cows,
SS.oV' - '1-'' ssl:s s&s~s ,,s' -.
Sheep-3c.
Hogs-6@7c.
Veal-4@5c.
Observation-Disclosures creamery, 26c;
ranch, 10000.
Honey-California comb. lac; Cali
fornia strained, &c; home honey, lac.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, 25@26c.
Oats-s2S.5O@245O; rolled oats. s25
@26.
Feed-Barley. whole grain, 5000;
rolled $3.50; wheat. $2S@2S.50:
wheat hay $14Q15; timothy hay.
s1S@19; blue grass. SIT; corn. $27.50;
alfalfa, s12@1S; clover, $13.50@14.50.
Bran-$22.50; shorts 500.
Poultry-Turkeys dressed, zoe:
chickens. dressed. 15c; spring, 1Sc;
ducks. dressed. 11c; geese. dressed,
10c. Lve-Chickens 10@12hc; ducks.
10c; geese. 10c; turkeys. tic.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
DIRECT TO EUROPE.
Fruit To Be Shipped From WaIIa
WalIa.

Walla Walla, Sept 4.-The first di-
rect shipments of fruit from the
Northwest to a foreign market will
be made from this city Friday, Sat-
uroday and Sunday of this week. On
each of these three days the Blalock
Fruit company will load one car of
Italian prunes, which will be carried
across the continent by express to
New York and then transported to the
ocean liners and transported to En-
gland. One carload will be consigned
to Liverpool and the other two to
London.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
NOT INTERESTING
THIRD RACE OF CUP SERIES
TOO ONE.sIDED.
Reliance Again Sails Away From the
British Boat Without EffOrt...
Shamrock Ill About the Worst
Beaten Boat That Ever Came AZ
ter the Trophy.

New York, Sept. 3.-The Reliance,
the American cup defender, today won
the third and final race and the series
for that famous sea trophy, the Amer
icas cup. In a dense fog which pre-
vented vision beyond 200 yards, she
finished the race at 5: 30:02 amid the
acclamations of the assembled fleet.
Shamrock Ill, after running for more
than an hour in the fog, missed the fin
ish line, passed it and returned to it
from the opposite direction. AS the
Reliance was then being towed through
the fleet, the yachts ensign fiuttered
from her truck and spreaders in cele
bration of her victory, the Shamrock
III. did not cross the finish line. AS
often said of the historic race when
the American boat won the cup, there
was no second.
This successful result was achieved
only after four futile attempts to sail
off the final race, and after the outcome
had been admitted by even Sir Thomas
Upton to be a foregone conclusion.
Today's was the eighth attempt to
sail a race. After one fluke the Re-
lance won the two following races, one
by seven minutes and three seconds
and the other by one minute and nine
teen seconds.
A week ago today the first attempt
to sail the third race failed, and at
tempts have been made every day this
week. On these occasions the Reli
ance led the Shamrock to the finish
line by two miles, but failed to reach
it before the expiration of the time
limit of five and a half hours.
Today's victory means that the cup
is destined to remain in America until
England is able to produce a genius
equal to Herreshoff in yacht design
ing.
A Spectacular Finish.
Rarely, if ever has there been a
more spectacular finish than the Re-
liance's today. After racing for more
than an hour at terrific speed through
a binding fog, the Reliance burst
through the wall of mist upon the vi
sion of the spectators on the fleet as
sembled at the finish line, and Keeling
under great bellying balloon jib top
sail, with her lee rail awash, flew
across the finish line almost before
the spectators could determine for a
certainty that it was she. Once more
the Yankee boat has added to the long
string of victories in contests for the
honored old silver trophy that carried
with it the blue ribbon of the sea.
A fleet of less than thirty vessels
went down to the familiar waters of
the international course to witness
this fifth effort of the Reliance to COW
er the course of thirty miles within the
time limit. 1t had become a race of
the Americah boat against time in
stead of a contest of two well-matched
crafts.
When they reached the lghtship a
gentle southeast wind of five knots
that barely wrinkled the surface of the
sea gave but faint promise that this
was to be the final day, but shift
of the wind to the south shortly aft
er noon revived the despairing hopes
of the yachtsmen, for it blew away the
misty haze which had been hanging
over the course since the easterly
storm of lasc week.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
Trial by Mixed Court.

London, Sept. 5.-The Shanghai CO..
respondent of the Daily Mail says Wv
Chinese authorities have consen'es,
to the trial of the editor and stan "
the reform newspaper Supao by 'H'
mixed court.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
Tacoma Quotations.

Wheat-Bluestem, Soc; club SIC
Cattle-Steers, $500 per cwt; cows,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-29

WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET
EDGERToN. WIS, May %, 100

EDGERToN, WIS, May 80, 1908
The leaf markets have to all appear
ances entered upon the summer vacation
period. A little warehouse handling is
yet being done at few points. but no
where has there any trading developed
worthy of mention in this column. w.
L. Pomeroy & 20. report the sale Of a
couple car load lots of 1901 leaf, breaking
monotony of dull week in old goods.
The heavy rains of the week have
doubtless flooded some plant beds on
low grounds. but otherwise the young
plants are making satisfactory growth
aud in some instances will be ready for
the fields the coming week. Everywhere
throughout the growing sections plants
will be in time for early transplanting.
The present indications are that growers
will be behind with their field work ow-
ing to delays of the rainy weather.
The shipments out of storage do not
exceed car loads, 400 cases, from this
station to all points for the week past.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-29
NEW YORK. MAY 20. 1903.

The domestic leaf branch of the mar
ket remains in rather legarthic condi-
ton. There is quite some inquiry for
various kinds of tobacco, but prospective
buyers hesitate at the prices asked by
holders, and do not appear to need the
goods badly enough to come to the sell
ers' terms. A few out town buyers
are in the market this week, but so far
have accomplished little more than to
look around. The total sales reported
amount to less than a thousand cases,
principally of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
and thinner Spanish.
Sumatra. The past week has shown
fairly satisfactory results, and reported
sales aggregate $50 bales. The new
goods continue to receive the lions share
of interest.
Havana.-While sales to manufacture
ers have been limited, the speculative
tone which the market took on over a
week ago is still in evidence, and some
good sized lots of tobacco have changed
hands among importers and dealers.
Among transactions of this class was one
of Remedies, various crops, amounting
to 1000 bales; prices not stated. An up
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-29
New York.
New YORK. May 23, 1903.

The premature summer weather seems
to have forced the dog season on the
market, too. The only breeze that kept
the market from falling into languid
sleep was the reported sale of 1000 bales
of Havana tobacco by one of our most
prominent Havana importers to Water
street firm and the purchase of 1900
bales by another Water street firm.
These houses have evidently become
converts to the policy repeatedly advo-
Gated in this space of laying in suffi-
cient supply of old Remedies, in view of
the fact that the 1908 crop of Remedies
has hardly produced any leaf fit for the
United States. In other lines the mar
ket was hardly up to an average busi-
ness. Besides, the stock has dwindled
down to such an extent that good-sized
selections are almost out of the question.
The Sumatra market is doing fairly we'll,
considering the general apathy. If the
further inscriptions-as it now has the
appearance should fail to offer the
same leaf in any appreciable quantities
as were offered in the inscriptions so far,
then some stringency is bound to make
itself felt in available and suitable Su-
matra for our market. Whatever the
prospects may be, an abundance in any
type of leaf is not among them, and yet
the output of our cigar industry is in
creasing by from fifty to seventy millions
every month over the phenomenal in
creases during the same period of last
year and two years ago.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-29
Connecticut valley Tobacco Market.

We hear of sales being made of such
crops as have been assorted and force
sweated, and some not sweated, at bet
ter prices than those the spectators
were willing to pay. We are glad to hear
of these transactions. 1t has tendency
to encourage the growers not only to
grow better crops, but to assort and pack
their products, and also to sweat them.
Setting, or the work of transplanting
the plants, is in progress. Where glass
is used the plants are very forward. The
soil is very dry, as but little rain has
fallen for the past five weeks. 1t will be
hard work to make them all grow. We
hope that the sales being now made will
induce many of our growers to make it
their winters business TO assert, pack
and sweat their crops. There are many
who advocate the idea of having the
plants quite large before setting, as they
are said to live better. There is more
substance to them, although some Of the
leaves may die off, This dry weather
would make it difficult for small plants
to grow.
Our correspondents write as follows:
Hatfield, May ID: Joseph Gaden has
sold his crop of 1902 tobacco, 40 cases, at
15c. Thaddeus Graves sold 80 cases at
16c. G. L. Warner and John Denline
were the first to commence transplant
ing. They have about 80 acres each set
in the field. Others are also setting now.
Plants are forward, and the land is very
dry About the same acreage as usual.
Tents are being spread for the shade
grown crop. The shade growing inter
ests are safely doubling their acreage in
this vicinity, including Hatfield and
Northampton. The firm of King, War
ner & Co. are doing considerable this
year. And the growing interests,
are doubtless as good as they have been
heretofore represented. Later, will send.
you some more definite news. Labor is
scarce, and every one is short of such
help as they desire. ."-Cultivator
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-29
Lancaster.
LANCASTER New ERA, MAY 10, 100:

A canvass of the leading packing
houses brought to light nothing more
important than that trade has been ex-
ceedingly dull during the past week.
Some dealers say they got rid of few
boxes, but none was ready to go on rec
ord, so we are without our usual sales
record.
The situation in regard to the coming
crop is not as favorable as could be
wished AS a rule, the majority of
growers prefer early planting, that hav-
ing given the best results for a good
many years past. This year this has not
been possible. The dry season has pre-
vented the fields from being put into
good condition for planting, and the,
same reason has prevented much plant
ing from being done. Planting by hand
is hardly to be thought of in weather
like the present. A large number of
planters we're sold in the country last
season, and they will now come into play
with good effect and enable such as have
them to make a start in spite of the lack
of rain.