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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04

Russia is truly in a dapIorable con-
ID. tion. The news up ID this time
shows that her whole territory is hon
with disafTection. Revolt 10
the order of the day, and the spirit Of
is spreading rapidly. The
Imperial officials seem 20 be daZed
with the turn affairs have taken in the
last few days. The affair at Odessa
produced CONSERVATION. That
shows how rotten to the core is the
Russian official establishment. The
people, the army and the navy are
ready for revolt against the rule Of
|despotism. Conditions have gotten be-
|yond an isolated rise of working men
and peasants here and there. The
spirit Of revolution pervades the
whole empire. 1t infects every class
|of society. 1t has taken hold in the
lately emancipated slave. The most
alarming feature of the situation is the
successful revolt of the crew of the
ltattleship of the Black Sea feet and
the bombardment by it of the fleet at
Odessa. Russia hardly knows which
way to turn. She fears her enemies
lat home more than in the Japanese
Iservice; and she may well do so. What
|vestige of power Japan will leave her
Twill be destroyed by those people at
home whom the government and its
lfavOriteS have trOdden under foot for
|years. The cruelties of Katharine and
Iof Peter have been handed down to
their successors for generations and
1.-THE people while they have borne them
thave O forgotten them. The lower
l~ciasses have accounts Of griev-
lances for a century or more laid ur
flor settlement when the oppOrtune
thine comes, just as did the p%easantry
lin France with the BOurbOns. The
Bourbons paid a fearful penalty for
their cruelty, and so will the Russian
Imperial and a~ristocratic families. II
lis bound to come. There will be a
reckoning and it will be a fearful one
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04

The farmers in several localities in
Mexico are making strenuous efforts to
secure Chinese immigrants as farm Ia
borers. If these immigrants will
make money for the Mexican cotton
farmers why will they not do the same
for those of the Southern states of
this country. Negro labor is growing
scarcer and scarcer here each year. 1t
must be supplanted by some other class
of labor. Can we get any better and
any cheaper than the Chinese? That
question we throw out to our subscrib-
ers. What do the people have to
say about it?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04
EASILY ANSWERED.

Are not the places of vice. now be-
ing so loudly cried against, recruited
from the homes of our land? Then
where ices the evil begin, and where
is the place to stop it?-Raleigh Post
1t strikes us The Posts questions are
easy to answer; in fact that there
should be no hesitation in coming TO a
correct solution CT the matter. The
evil begins in the home and the home
and the church are the places to stop
them. No girls rail- ever started IN 4
house of immortality.
If you wish to suppress an evil apply
your preventives at the root of that
evil. Do not wait until it has flourish
ed for a long while and grown mo a
far reaching, evil disseminating condi-
ton. Nip the evil in the bud. Let the
preacher, the Sunday School teacher
and-more potent than either-the
for good and by proper teaching and
precept educate The youth Of the land
to be moral and virtuous.
All the laws that have eve been en-
acted or that may hereafter be enacted
cannot make moral, Christian people
out Of those who have not had the
proper home and church training. You
can enact and enforce laws against GER
tain crimes, the commission of which
disturb the public peace Or interfere
| with the enjoyment of those privileges
| which the law guarantees to all citi-
| zens; but the idea of legislating into
| the breasts of the people a proper sense
of conduct or a correct moral code is
absurd. No man of sense would claim
that such a thing could be done.
You may legislate against a man
committing the deed of murder. You
cannot by any law prevent a man On
| ceiving and harhoring the desire to
commit murder, which in the sight OF
God is murder. AS we'll try to do the
latter as to try TO enact and enforce
laws against immortality. ALL the state
/ Cdu w ID ~ Su.OlSC uCI 1dWo oSAlil0.
| such immoral conduct as offends the
sensibilities of the public for whose
protection these laws are enacted. So
| long as mems and women's lack of sci!
| respect and Of love of virtue will not
prevent their obeying moral laws just
SO long will we have the violation OF
the laws of morality. No sensible man
can deny this. Then the only remedy
is in the home and the church. They
are the only powers which can correc,
the vice and to them alone must we
look for remedy for the conditions now
existing. All the laws you may pass
and all the newspaper abuse you may
illuminate against fallen m or i'm.
moral men will not correct the evil.
You cannot by legislation make 9
Joseph out of a single roue in the land
Laws should be enacted and enforc.
ed preventing public vice and against
other crimes against public peace arc
morals, but private vice you cannot
control by legislation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04

the ministers of the churches and the
other many good people of the city.
Has Raleigh become SO Wiley i'm
moral in the last week? Were we cor.
rect in s~upposing her a model city up
to that time? Did three pistol shots
on last Saturday change the moral at
mosphere of the entire city or is the
editor of that paper again trying TO
get on what he thinks is the popular
side of the question?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04
Hence Those Tears.

A lady who complained to her milk
man of the quality of milk he sold her,
says Harper's Weekly, received the
following explanation:
You see, num-. they don't get
enough grass feed this time O. year.
Why, them COWS o mine are just as
sorry about it as | am. | often see
'em crying-regular cryin'. mum-be-
cause they feel as how their milk don't
do them credit. Don't you believe it,
num-
"Oh, yes, | believe it." responded
his customer, but l wish in future
you'd see that they don't drop their
tears into our can"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04

DO you think that our country will
ever succeed in getting rid of graft
ers?" YES" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. There will be a time when
grafters are unheard of. But it will
be due to the change that is constantly
going on in our vocabulary. There will
be a new word that ear the same
thing."-Washington Star.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04
Broke His Neck.

Near Low Gap. this county, last
Tuesday, Flerid Murphy, a we'll known
citizen of that section, met with an ac-
cident that resulted in his death. He
left home on a horse, and in a short
time, some n discovered his dead
body in the road, and an examination
showed that his neck was broken. 1t
is supposed that his horse threw him
or he suffered an attack of vertigo and
fell on his head.
The deceased was well known, and
had accumulated a large estate during
his lifetime.-AIount Airy Leader.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
Complaint Withdrawn

1leldlng to the earnest wishes and
advice OF warm personal friends P.
l. whitman was persuaded to with
draw his complaint against G.. R.
Wetherby, charging insanity, and to
sign an agreement with Mr.. Wether-
by to let the matter drop, the agree
ment stipulating that the charges OF
each against the other shall not be
pressed Or made the subject of fur
ther controversy. It is highly cred
liable to both of the parties to the
unfortunate affair and also to the
people of Lopez who have been in
strumental in securing the agree
ment reached, that it has been ad-
]usted without recourse to the law.
Mr.. Wetherby's friends do not ques-
ton his sanity and those who know
Mr.. Whitman best are strongest in
their belief that he is entirely inno-
cent OF any wrong doing. The Is
LANDER is advised that Mrs. Wether-
by, who is now i'll at her mothers home
near Puyallup, has voluntarily made
a strong affidavit that her husbands S
accusation is groundless.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
Attorney-General ''Side-Stepss

Acknowledgement ssSide-Steps''
The question Of Miss Sweeney's eli.
gibility to the Office Of county SUPER
intendent of schools, which was the
subject OF considerable controversy
during the summer, was submitted
by State Superintendent Bryan to
Attorney-General Atkinson recently
and that official rendered a quasi.
opinion this week in which he "side.
steps" the real points raised, merely
saying that Miss Sweeney is s'atleast
de facto officer and her acts in such
Office are valid" He adds that should
an action in quo warranto be institu-
ted by the proper authorities to test
her title to the Office he would feel
called upon to give a more specific
opinion, which he now declines to do
for the alleged reason that the matter
was submitted to the state superin.
tendent by private individuals It is
to be regretted that the attorney
general evades the real question and
it would seem that his excuse for do
ing so is not entitled to much consid-
GRAFTON, inasmuch as the matter was
submitted in proper manner by the
head of the states educational sys-
tenn.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

D. B. SKULL, San juan want to
see brick or stone building erected
that viii be credit to the county.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
NEW PERSONAL
DETAIL LISTS
New Form Prepared By State Tax
Commission For Use of County
Assessors Expected to Materially
Increase Personal Assessments.

The ISLANDER is in receipt of a
communication from the state board
of tax commissioners enclosing new
form of detail list of personal proper
ty prepared and prescribed by the
commissioners for the use of the va
rious county assessors and to which
taxpayers will be required to sub
scribe under oath in making their
annual report of taxable personal
property. The commissioners say:
ut has been the aim of this commission
in the preparation of this new form to Sc
cure, as nearly as possible, uniform as
sessment and valuation of the various
classes of personal property throughout
the state, as well as to reach certain classes
of personal property that have heretofore,
in many instances, escaped taxation.
You will note that this form separates the
classes of personal property into 81 items.
while the old list heretofore used contains
only 81 items. Among these changes are
a new classification of horses and cattle,
the addition of bicycles, automobiles, stat
uary, paintings, engravings, ETC., Libraries,
scientific instruments. lumber of various
kinds, fish traps and locations, threshing
machines, engines, pile drivers and tim
Der on state lands. Replies to the ques-
tions asked at the bottom of page two,
and the listing of credits and debts claim
ed as deductions, will be required by the
tax commission in future assessments
The form OF real property assessment and
tax roll prepared by this commission will
not differ materially from the form now
in use, except in providing information
as to the number of acres fenced and for
the number of acres and value OF I'M
proved lands being separated from the
number of acres and value of unimprov-
ed landS."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

James Buchanan brought his sepa-
rator over from Lopez few days
400 and has been busy this week
threshing for his brother, William
Buchanan, his brother-in-law, William
Hemphill, and others. he says tnat
Mr.. Hemphill's oat crop was the m
est he has threshed this year. II
was very clean and not discolored oy
the rains. There is q good sized gran
ary on the place which the former
owner found amply large enough TO
hold the yield from the same acreage,
hut it wouldn't do it this year. Inat
Mr.. Hemphill is fine farmer IS e'l
dent from the work that he has done
dnring the short time that ne has
been ii the county he bought the
Ross farm last spring and he evident
i intends to make it one Of the most
productive in the county.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
SHALL WE HAVE A
NEW COURT HOUSE?
A FEW OPINIONS OF WELL KNOWN TAX
PAYERS
Most of Them StructureUrgent
a Substantial Building
Admitted

whom residents the
influenced
best interests Some the heaviest
Friday
strongly building
proposition
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

ANDREW NEWHALL, Newhall: You
want to know just what I think about
it Well, I think it is foolishness to
talk about putting up cheap frame
building, or any kind Of wooden
building. The need of a new county
building is urgent and I would like to
see larger, more imposing and more
substantial structure erected than
the design submitted to the comms-
sioners and illustrated in the ISLANDER
would seem to call for The design,
however, is of less impor rtance than
the material and construction. We
have fine building stone i: the county
in abundance and ] favor using it
when we erect a county building, that
is, of course, for the exterior walls.
With brick partitions the building
could be made practically fire proof,
and occupying, as it would, an entire
block, the insurance rate would be
low and there would be practically no
danger of fire loss. The way look
at it the county would find such a
building a profitable investment, in
stead of burden. It would attract
great deal of favorable notice from
tourists, homeseekers and investors
and would in my judgment consider
ably stimulate settlement and de-
velopment and thus add materially to
the valuation of taxable property. It
would serve the needs of the county
for a great many years and / believe
that long term bonds should be issued
to raise the greater part of the funds
required for construction. AS to the
limit of cost would say at least $25,
600. I believe it would De more sat-
isfactory to the people generally to
vote upon the matter at regular or
special election than to have the
county commissioners proceed to
erect building upon their own res
possibility.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

C. F. Bickford returned to Port
Ludlow Thursday after making q trip
to his ranch on Stuart island and en-
loving a short visit with friends at
Mitchell bay.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

John Kelly has sold to S. Stewart
154 acres in sections 20 and 20, town.
ship 35, range 3 (west side Of San Ju-
an island) for $1,000.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
Inspecting Cable Stations

III. w. Kent, Of Vancouver, B. G..
snnerintendept of the Internationa
Telephone Company, visited the com
pany's cable stations in this county
this week, accompanied by M. p
Williams, manager of the Sunset Com
pany's Office in Bellingham. Mr.
Kent brought a fine dog with hin
and wanted to do little pheasant
bunt,ng but didn't feel inclined to pay
the $50 license fee, which the la" re
ouires from aliens.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

Mrs. Welch has sold to Peter Law
son, Jr., 1872 acres in Sec. "a, town
ship 80, range I, near Deadman's bay,
for 1915.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

Fred Kline has bought forty-acre
tract on Lopez from D. W. Woods for
$500.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

b. w. MCGEARY, San Juan:-I
voted for the proposition submitted
three years ago and would vote for a
similar one again. In fact I would
favor considerably larger expendi-
ture than was proposed then. We
might perhaps get a good enough
building for SIS, 900 but 1 will cheer
fully pay my share if it is thought
best to build one costing $25, 900, and
| would be glad to have the commits
sloners go ahead and put up such a
building, if they can do so legally,
without waiting to again submit the
question to a vote. The matter is
Important aside from the question Of
the safe keeping of the public records
and providing proper facilities for
transacting public business. I know
that the present old shack impresses
visitors most unfavorably. I have in
mind just now one instance where a
Minnesota man came here with view
to locating but when he saw the court
house and main street of Friday Har-
Dor he left disgusted, saying he would
not live in a county of s'mossbacks. +"
=. F. TEMPLIN, East Sound: Il vo-
ted for the proposition submitted
three years ago and I would do so
again. We certainly need court
house but | haven't given enough
thought to the matter to be ready to
express an opinion as to just how we
should proceed to get it or what
should be the limit of cost. I do not
favor wooden building, however.
LAURENCE TUCKER, Sportsman
Lake:-I am in favor of going ahead
and building decent court house,
the sooner the better. The old shack
we have is disgrace to the county.
AS to cost l am in favor of any
amount necessary to build substanti-
ally and large enough to serve the
needs of the county for at least twenty
years.
G. RosLER, San Juan:-I believe
| the commissioners should proceed to
erect new and creditable building
as soon as possible; not a fancy struct-
ure but one that would be substantial
and safe. 1t is wrong to risk valu-
able records in such building as we
now have.
G. 81. SUTTON, San Juan Valley
A new court house ought to be built
by all means. / favor erecting q well
proportional brick building on stone
foundation at maximum limit Of cost
of about $40, 900.
n
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28


ROBERT McLAcHLAN, Deer Har-
bor:-It is little short of criminal, it
seems to me, to leave SO large por-
ton of the county's records exposed
to the danger of loss by fire in such a
building as we now have. | favor the
erection of new and creditable court
house as soon as possible, large en-
ough to afford ample and comfortable
accommoda tions for the county Off
GERS and with fire proof vault large
enough to provide for the safe keep
ing of the public records for many
years.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28

G. 81. SUTTON, San Juan Valley
A new court house ought to be built
by all means. / favor erecting well
proportional brick building on stone
foundation at maximum limit Of cost
of about $40, ,O0O
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-28
PHEASANT NEWS
FROM SEATTLE
County Farmers Find Chinese
Pheasants a Destructive Pest and
Are Glad to Have Them Killed.

A Seattle sportsman who is an en-
thusiastic champion of Chinese pleas.
ants-from the sportsman's point of
view, of course, and who says he shot
on San Juan island last year, is quo
ted in the Post-Intelligencer as say
ing that San Juan farmers are 'spay-
ing premium for the scalps of male
pheasants because they come into the
barn yards and kill off domestic
cocks" Well, well, what an inter-
esting item! It would be more inter-
esting, however, if it were true. In
course of time the farmer. may be
glad to pay for hen pheasant ''scalps"
as well as for the scalps of the more
gorgeous male birds, and then such
items of expenditure as 5000 for
twenty-one stock pheasants brought
from Oregon (paid from the game
protection fund) will not be likely to
appear in the proceedings of the
board of commissioners.
The farmers over in Whatcom coun-
ty are reported to be rejoicing that
the pheasant season has opened and
that it is now lawful to kill the male
birds. They would be still more ju-
bilant if it were lawful to kill the hen
pheasants also, for considerable loss
has been occasioned by their depre-
dations. The birds, so the farmers
say, pull seed in the spring, destroy
peas and potatoes and in flying across
grain fields 90 so low that their wings
will beat down the grain, causing a
loss in harvesting. The Whatcom
Chinese pheasant crop sprang from
birds which came across the line from
British Columbia without being stop
ped by the immigration officers,
though it is questionable if they are
not about as great a menace to the
agricultural industry of the county
as the Chinese themselves would be
if their free entry" into the country
were permitted. The Whatcom peo-
pie don't seem to have been guilty OF
the folly of importing stock birds at
fancy prices to breed sport for hunt
ers and trouble for the farmers, as
has been done in this county.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-09-22
A Strong Attraction.

One of the strongest of the coming
attractions at the Grand Opera House,
Bloomsbury. Thursday evening. will
be the elaborate and beautiful produc-
tion of Wilson Barrett's remarkable
drama. "The Sign OF the Gross, :"
which will be seen for the first time
in that city on Thursday evening. The
action of the play is laid in Rome dur
ing the time of Nero's tyraDnical
reign. and the story of the prosecuted
Christians who died for their faith is
beautifully told. aided materially by a
series of magnificent pictures of anci-
ent Rome and the sumptuous magnific-
ence of tha corrupt ruler's court. The
company is under the direction OF
Wagner SO long the manager of the
late Sol Smith Russell and is compos-
ed of twenty-five actors who have
been chosen carefully for their fitness
to represent the stIong characters with
which the piece abounds. There is a
great deal of interest in the appear.
auoe of this attraction and there will
be a rush for seats. Mr.. William II.
Ferris, the eminent young American
actor, from Wilson Barrett's original
company, appears as Marcus Super.
bus" Prefect of Rome.
A special trolley car will leave for
Danville after the performance.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-09-22
rIay Organize Cricket Team.

Rev. DR.. Mccormack, pastor of Grove
Presbyterian church. and his guest, Il.
W. Woodward, of Tioga, who has been
In Danville for few days past, were
chosen as umpires at the cricket match
between Williamsport and Blooms
burg. which was played at the latter
place on Saturday afternoon.
DR.. Mccormack is an enthusiast on
cricket. He pronounoes the game Sat.
urday as a very interesting one. the
bowling being exceptionally good. The
score was SO to 26 in favor of Blooms.
burg.
AS will be seen by the score Blooms.
burg has winning team. Cricket is
rapidly coming into favor in Danville
among persons who desire some form OF
healthful exercise that is not confined
to the young and athletic and which
does not carry with it as much risk of
being injured as base ball and foot
ball. For several weeks rast a party
of players has been practicing at criok-
ct at DeWitt's Park and has been get
ting along very nicely. The season for
cricket is about closed now but next
spring, it is thought, club will be
formed in Danville.