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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
Cannot Altenate Lands.

Olympia, April 17.-That an Indian
cannot ALLEVIATE, even by will, any
property acquired by him by allotment
under the treaty negotiated with the
Indians by Territorial Governor Isaac
Stevens, and that the title is only pos
sessory during the occupancy of the
land, is the gist Of an opinion handed
down by the supreme court in the iti-
CATION among the Indians over the es-
tate Of John Puyallup, Tulalip Indi-
an, whose tribal name was Kuds-eha-
ons. The property is given to Peter
jackson, q direct heir.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
WASHINGTON NEWS

A creamery IL to be established at
T wisp.
seattle is to have . plant for tho
manufaotpre q steel and iEon pipe.
The state board Of highway com.
missioners, created by act Of the last
legislature, has organized and will be-
gin business at once.
As q result of the announcement of
the intention Of the Great Northern to
build to that place this summer, real
estate around Oroville is booming.
Del Stimson, convicted at Spokane
of running gambling game, was SEN
fenced to one year in the state peni-
Tertiary. Stimson has given notice of
appeal to the supreme court.
The big sawmill at Port Ludlow has
about completed the rebuilding which
was begun several months ago, and the
plant will be put in operation inside
Of month. About $50 men will be
employed.
The annual convention of the State
Bankers Association will be held this
year in Portland, July 20, 81, and %.
This was decided upon by the executive
committee of the association at its
meeting at Seattle Saturday.
Quartermaster Grant has received
from Washington CITY authority to
award the contract for furnishing the
government with 100000 feet Of
lumber to be used in the Philippines
to the st. Paul and Tacoma Lumber
company, Of Tacoma.
Wenatchee is to have new canning
plant Of large capacity.
The Great Northern is to put in q
station and sidetracks at Monitor.
Bellingham will do considerable paw
ing this summer, portion of which
will be of asphalt.
A summer school and teachers in
stitute, continuing for ten weeks, will
begin at Everett June 20.
A contract has been let to build
about three-quarters Of mile Of trest.
ling and bridge incidental to opening
up the Pocahontas coal mine near
Palmer.
Eighteen carloads of machinery for
the big creosote plant at Lowell are
expected to arrive on the grounds by
April "a. 1t is planned to have the
buildings ready for the installation OF
the machinery by that time.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Spokane for the Spokane and
Big Bend Railway. An electric line
from Spokane through the towns OF
Crescent, Reardan. Davenport and 9th.
er places near the mouth Of the Spo.
kane river is projected.
The Entiat Improvement Company,
Of Waterville, owning q large stock
and alfalfa ranch at the mouth of the
Entiat river, has decided to divide il
up into fruit farms. The ranch CON
tains several hundred acres and whe1
divided will make room for at least
sixty families.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION FIGHT
Great Northern and milwaukee Crews
at Yankt0n Clash.

OSSdS NOT uuSTU 0uU SJuJWdukCC NrGWS
at Yankton Clash.
st. Paul, Mimi, April 20.-By q
clever move yesterday afternoon, the
Great Northern beat the Milwaukee in
it's obstructive tactics at the approaches
to the Missouri river at Yankton, 8. D.
According to advioes from Yankton,
the two roads have looked horns and
for three days have fought and coun-
tered each others moves in an effort
to get first to the river. The Great
Northern started building to the river
early in the month, and Monday the
Milwaukee suddenly shot spur track
over the hastily built line of the other
road, and by keeping a locomotive
standing on the crossing prevented the
supply trains of the Great Northern
from reaching the point where the
road was laying track.
All day Tuesday the Milwaukee To-
connective kept its place in spite of
demonstrations by the forces of the
other road and the threats of iniunc-
tions and other legal and equitable
proceedings. Last night, however,
word came to the effect that the Great
Northern had completely beaten the
other road by slipping crossing past
the tracks Of the Milwaukee, both be-
fore and behind the Milwaukee engine
and blocking the crossing with loaded
cars.
The move. while temporary, is the
winning one in the combination. for
it affords time for the Great Northern
to run its construction trains forward
and close the small gap to the river.
Tne whole trouble is the result Of
the rivalry Of the roads and their con-
certed move to cross the river to Ne
braska.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
Dr.. GLADDEN. viii Appeal.

Columbus. o.. April 17.-Wheu in.
formed Of the final action of the p,p.
Dental committee accepting the Roct.
efeller gift, Rev. Washington s. Glad
den said: 1.-THE prudential Commits
has placed itself on the broad and IN.
telligible position that all gifts must
be received, no matter what may 10
the character Of the giver nor by what
immoralities or crimes his gains have
been gathered. From this decision an
appeal will be taken to the conscience
Of the Congregational churches and
the consc ience of Christendom."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
STEAMSHIP MINNESOTA
HOLDS PACIFIC RECORD

Seattle, April 19.-The steamship
Minnesota reached port last evening
shortly after 2 O'Clock, 10 days, q
hours and minutes from Yokohama.
She is now the proud possessor Of the
transpacifio record. having completes
without accident Of any sort her maj
den round trip voyage from Seattle %
the Orient.
Apprised of the fact that the Mil
nesota was due, a large number Of pee
pie went out to Smith cove for TIDE
purpose of witnessing her arrival
They watched, with many ezclans
tions Of admiration, the ease WIN
which her huge bulk responded 10 o.
cry movement of her helm during 800
delicate task of making a landiDs
Not an accident marred the trip scfos
the Pacific, and from the lips OF sos
passengers. as they came down 'p'
gang plank and greeted friends WV
had assembled to meet them, osp'
nothing except words of praise for 'ss
big floating hotel which for fortn's''
had been their home.
All told the Minnesota brought ~.
passengers, AZ of whom were u''
class, 20 intermediate and the oaiap'
steerage. She had 1896 tons Of fre'su''
consisting Of hemp, silk. raw and u -.
ufactured, rice, curios and a mlscens
neous consignment Of Oriental af'l0'sf
She also brought 142 package
mail. The greater part of the mlD ~.
sofas freight cargo was for raw -.
coast consignees, fifteen OF WHO'LL
Seattle firms or individuals.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
BelIinghsm to Offer College Site.

Belhngham, April 17.-Bellingham
has agreed to give site for the Luz
theran college which it is proposed to
build at some point on the Sound. This
guaranty was made by the trustees Of
the Chamber Of Commerce. A meeting
Of the special committee delegated to
select site is now in session to decide
upon the location. II Bellingham is
selected the work of securing the site
will at once be taken up.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
TO ACCEPT TINE en-
prudentlal Gommitiee pec,u
eskller Money Is Coz I'd

ls9s<s '~S OSAtWRQ =
eseiier Money Is Coz I'd.
Boston, April IA 49,.
made pablo " the pruasr. ::en,sas
nniteee of the Amsrioan tosrs a oea.
mia1ioness q foreign mission. /" w.
Tuesday voted to accent 49, .hisA
Rockefeller. JOIN b
Two weeks ago the pruden.;,,
mittee adopted the report ~ -. ''a.
COMMITTEES recommending the go : saS
anoe Of the money. but in view ' !,
strong protest made by the Co. VI tk
tional clergy final action was da;
until Tuesday, when a sun SS.sl'sa
tary report was adopted by th ra'ass,
committee. This report. toseth Ss ' saS
that Of two weeks ago, was ado 1. WITH
The supplementary report tsta ea'
the objections Of the protestan.s " y
asserts that they are not suf3c; S aad
prevent the board from accent;na ' y .
money. It says in part: '''
Zone Of the principal point. .
in the report 10 the claim Of Tho 's ~
mittee that the American boara ooa
not now legally return Mr. Row.. W.
ler's money, because the deoisio,' ''sl
the highest courts are to the effect , -, y
trustees who have once aocepted = ~. y.
and assumed certain obligations h sa'
no power to return the gift and n :.
solve themselves from these ohr ~
tions.
"The committee holds that r, :.
turning the gift, as suggested hy -. y
protesting olergymen, the Ams,;. w.
board would be made Responsible ~.
only to those for whose benefit tho s ~.
was designed, but also to the mrs. ~.
officers successors. ~
This statement refers to thu f..
that the board already has used ons
half Of Mr.. Rookefeller's gift, which
was actually accepted Februsr, a.
The committee holds that the ac.;,,
proposed BY the professionals, nama],
the return Of the gift, would have bs.n
wrong, for it would have exprsssd
'disapprobation and condemnation n
man when he was doing an sot n
benevolence.
The committee also contents th,.
the board is not organized to deciA
on questions Of temperance, econou,
or socialism. It is held that the N.
turn Of the money would be the pss.
ing Of judgment upon the character q
the donor and the business methods bs
is alleged to have used, and that tbjs
would be q wrong to the church Of
which he is q member.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
Alabama Cement for panama canal

Birmingham, Ala, April 17.-C. s.
Bachelor. of Salt Lake City, and W.
d. Mcintyre, of st. Louis, have been
given permits from the state to mine
cement from the Alabama reservoir
near Mobile. A large plant is to be
erected and the cement shipped down
from the reservoir TO the gulf and
thence to the Panama canal
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
Pass Exposition BIlr.

Paris, April 19.-The chamber of
deputies has passed the bill providing
Tor workingmen's exposition in 1909
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
Minor. Happenings
Of the Week.

~ sSSO 4
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution are holding their national con-
vention at Washington this week.
San Francisco is said to be on the
eve of q great gas war. Claus Spreck-
els and the Addicks- Rockefeller people
are the principals.
A commercial treaty between Japan
and the Indian government has been
signed, whereby goods will be imported
into each country under q reciprocal
customs tariff.
The abandonment of the Esquimalt
naval station was completed Saturday
with the sale Of discarded naval stores,
including scows. lighters, torpedo nets,
anchors, chains, etc.
The movement to establish a customs
district for Hungary alone, az distinct
from the present Austro- Hungarian
tariff, il becoming important in the
serious question of Austro- Hungarian
relations.
-Four thousand conductors and mo-
tormen of the Union Railways Compa-
ny at st. Louis have heen notified that
freQuenting saloons or race tracks
would eubjeot the offender to instant
dismissal.
The Union Pacific has announced
that hereafter it will not handle oars
Of other roads which are not supplied
with the safety appliances required by
law. All Union Pacific cars have been
fitted with these appliances.
Several hundred Finnish miners and
farmers in the vicinity Of Red Lodge,
Mont, all ardent Socialists, are plan
ming the establishment of a colony
near Havana, Cuba, in which Social
istic doctrines will be carried out to
the letter.
Police will enforce the Sunday. clos
ing Of saloons in st. Louis.
Frank Oliver, new Canadian minis
ter Of the interior, is to be returned
without opposition.
The county government bill has
passed the Hawiian legislature over
the governors veto.
Ex-senator John B. Thurstoon, of
Nebraska, has been retained as chief
counsel for Senator Mitchell, of Ore
gon.
Il is stated that the government may
abandon its plan to locate cable ter
minus at Seward, owing to the high
price demanded for land.
The Illinois house has passed to third
reading the bill making all pipe lines
common carriers and giving the rail
road commissioners power to fix rates.
The statement is made from Boston
that new corporation is to be formed
to take over the last of the orc lands
ownen by the Great Northern RAILROAD
and develop them.
The Independent Oil company has
captured the OIL contract for all the
Nebraska state institutions. The
Standard has hitherto enjoyed the mo.
nopoly Of this business.
Gov. La Toilette has signed the anti.
cigarette bill, which prohibits the sale
or manufacture of cigarettes or cigar.
cite tobacco or paper or the giving
away Of cigarette papers in Wisconsin
The act goes into effect July 1.
The federal grand jury at st. Louis
has again indicted United States Sena.
tor Burton on five counts. Three OF
the five charges are that he made an
agreement with the Rialto Grain com.
pany to protect them from postal in.
vestigation; the other two that he &C.
copt0d mOn0y for theao servlces
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22

readiness there to sail for Kamranh
bay and attack tho Russians there
while Admiral Togo continues 70 hold
the passage toward the Pacific.
Il 10 reported that an AmerlcAn ana
British squadron are in touch with
the Russians Watching for violations
of neutrality or the endangering Of
British shipping.
The belief 10 growing here thft the
stay of the Russian feet in Kamranh
bay is prearranged.
The report that Admiral Rojestven-
sky is maintaining patrol and exam.
lining neutral shipping of Kamranh
bay increases the irritation toward
France for permitting the use Of that
port as base of operations.
The Japanese government continues
silent regarding the representations on
this subject which have been made to
France. The press, however, continues
it's agitation against France, demand
ing vigorous action.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22
British public Anxious.

British public Anxious.
London, April 20.-The British pub
lie is now only beginning to realize
how much depends on Togo's skillful
conduct Of the approaching contest.
Until Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
actually arrived in the Straits Of Ma
lacca there was disposition to ridi-
Guile the efforts Of the Russian squad
ron, but now that there is seen grow
ing likelihood of Vice Admiral Nebog-
atof joining Rojestvensky before the
fatal struggle opens, interest is deepen
ing into anxiety.
According to the Tokyo correspond
emit Of news agency, a momentous
war conference lasting five hours was
held there Wednesday, attended by the
elder statesmen, the premier and min
listers. 1t is not difficult to conjecture
the nature Of the deliberations. Tokyo
correspondents assert that Japan has
addressed protest to France on the
Russian Pacific squadron's presence in
Kamranh bay. but France has not yet
replied.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-04-22

"Str0nQly W0rded Protest"
Chicago, April 20.-A special ca
blegram to the Daily News from Tokyo
says:
cat a conference of the elder states
men and the principal cabinet minis
ters strongly worded protest was sent
to France regarding it's frequent viola
tions Of neutrality in providing shelter
for and rendering assistance to Russia's
Baltic fleet at Madagascar, and now
at Kamranh bay"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-29
BY means Of 4 small boat Of BY thu nss

49,
BY means Of small boat Or BY thu nss
Of oars. 3 4 a " Il
I In Kashmir the floating gardens ~
islands are spoken of as being remark
ably beautiful In their high state 0f
cultivation. The city OF, Kashmir be:
ing divided into many isolated portions
by lakes and narrow streams, the low
ground is very likely to be suddenly
overlooked, and in order to avoid the
loss which such a flood would probably
cause the inhabitants made their gar
dens on small floating islands which
drifted about over the smooth surface
of the lakes. # ts.3sy
Although the f1oating gardens of
Mexico were at one time Of great
celebrity, covered with rare tropical
plants and brilliant with gayly colorel
flowers, vet still more interesting are
the rural floating islands which are
swept seward on the great rivers of
South America by hundreds and thou.
sands, large and small, and swarmins
with a menagerie Of wild and excited
animals. The zoological gardens Of
Buenos Ayres have received an addi-
ton Of about fifty different species Of
tropical animals rescued from the
islands passing down the Rio de la
Plata.-New York Herald
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-29
just as Well.

Bright sayings are often to be heard
in the courts, and they enliven a dull
and tiresome day.
At oneN time Sergeant Manning, q
very nervous man, was arguing case
before the judges of the common pleas
He had large number of books before
him, almost enough to constitute a Ii
brary. While he was reading the re.
port of one Of the cases humber OF
books tumbled off the table in front OF
him.
"My lords" said the sergeant nerv
ously, lit is reported in two Other
books in these exact words"
care you sure" asked Justice Maule
chat it is exactly the same?"
Certainly, my lords" replied Man.
ming earnestly.
"Well, then" said Justice Maui.
gravely, "why hunt for the other
books? lead the same case again Out
OF the one you have in your hand"
Manning saw the point, and When
the merriment caused by the Justices
suggestion had subsidized he proceeded
with his argument without further
search for the much quoted case.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-29
The Old Man Of the mount.,p.

The title "Old Man Of the Noun.
tain" was first applied to Hassan Ben
Sabbah, chief of a Mohammedan sect
who founded formidable dynasty In
Syria, A. D. 1890. Banished from his
country, he took up his abode on Mount
Lebanon, gathered a band Of followers
and soon became the terror of Jews,
Christians and Turks. They all obeyed
his orders implicitly in the belief that
they would receive choice rewards in
the joys Of paradise. These assassins
as his followers were called among
themselves, rode roughshod over the
country for about 200 years. When
ever their chief. the Old Man Of the
Mountain, thought himself injured, he
sent a band Of these men secretly to
murder the offender, and it was from
this that our word assassin originate
took it's meaning. II
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-29
THE BLACK CROSS.

Mysterious Harvest of Death Reaped
In Haunted Hut.
We were forced to camp three days
at the mouth of the Rio Frio, which
empties into Lake Nicaragua just
where the San Juan begins. We We're
Joined there by a party Of German
scientists who were making tour Of
the Central American republics. There
were seven in the party and two ma
tive guides. They had lost a tent in
crossing the rapids, and one of them
was forced to sleep in an old deserted
hut buried in the wild foliage. He was
a young Leipsic student of fine ply
sique and beloved by all his compan-
ions. The natives had tried to dis
suade him from sleeping in the hut,
telling him that the place was haunt
ed. They asserted that whoever slept
there was always found dead next
morning, with q mark of black cross
on the neck just over the main artery.
AS a proof of what they said they
showed two ominous looking mounds
buried in the shrubbery near the hut
which, they said, were the graves Of
two Englishmen who had sought shell
ter in the haunted casa.
Tradition had it that some crime or
sacrilege had been committed there
and that, as punishment, whoever
slept in the hut was found dead in the
morning with the cruz nigra on the
neck. Herr Shilbach, however, was
not to be deferred by any such super
stition, as he called it. So about 10
O'clock he retired to his hut, and
noticed his torch was out in few
minutes and all was darkness. We
had paid no attention to the story Of
the natives, but as Herr Shilbach did
not answer the bugle cali for breakfast
the Indians were ordered to summon
him. 1t was only under threats that
they yielded, but scarcely had they en-
tered the hut when we heard the most
frightful screams, and the next min
ute the guides were rushing wildly to-
ward us, shouting in broken Spanish
and Indian: "Epia la cruz nigra, Ia
cruz nigra! II senior is dead!' We all
ran to the hut, and to our horror there
lay the young man wrapped in his
blanket, his head thrown back, show
Ing the small black cross on the left
side Of the neck.-Exchange.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-12-29
Ff1endahip.

The plant Of friendship grows only
IN the warm air Of congeniality. Con-
ddence binds it's parts together and is
the cohesive power OF Its nature. while
sympathy 10 the life giving sap cours5
Ing through every fiber. It ~ an ever
green and is Indigenous to AL lands.
lts most beautiful flowers open during
the night and, while a perennial bloom
q, II is most fragrant % winter Time
cannot wfther Or destroy 1t; age but
strengthens and develops q. 81. Field.
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-09-29
H0STETTER'S
S T0MACH BITTERS

that dog loved much, and of all the
things he hated, cats came first. There
wasn't cat within a mile of my barn
that hadn't been chased up a tree bE
that beast, and all the dogs within
the same distance had been most
painfully and shamefully abusea. One
little yellow fellow he especially hated
and he used to heap indignities on
that dog until / was afraid I'd get into
the papers. Little did he think that
there was such a thing as the yellow
peril, and that it would some day
send him to the dog heaven-no, not
heaven, but the other place.
The yellow dog and an old black
Tom cat used to hobnob together a
great deal, and finally their actions
aroused by suspicious. | noticed they
would walk down the street together
and sit down and wait at various
points which they knew the terrier
was certain to pass. But the place
they picked would always be close to
a tree that the cat would climb and
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-09-29
PROF. THOS. CODY KNOCKED OUT
MINER JACK IN THREE ROUNDS

So unevenly matched were a couple
of pugilists, who fought a hammer and
tongs fight at Las Vegas Wednesday
night, without the curtains being
drawn, that one of them was knocked
down and out and unconscious, and
was still hors de combat up until 10
O'Clock last night. The fight was so
braZeniy advertised that Albuquerque
sports attending the festivities were
led TO believe that IL would be a fake,
but apparently IL was the real thing.
In explaining the affair the Las We
gas Optic says:
While a friendly boxing bout was
going on before members of the gym
nasium club last night, Jack Miner,
who was boxing with the instructor,
Thos, Cody, lost his balance and fell
heavily, striking the back Of his head
blow from which he Is suffering
seriously"
To make this boxing ruse hold good
Prof. Thos Cody had better insert a
professional card In the Optic.