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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
WHEAT CROP FIGURES.
Government Estimate Is Over 81,
100000 Bushels for 1904.

Government Estimate Is Over 32,.
100000 Bushels for 1904.
Washington, Jan. 18.-Waehington
had the largest wheat crop in its his
tory last year, with the single excep-
ton of 1901, when the bumper crop
was raised. The completed statistics
given by the department Of agriculture
are surprise in many features. It
was known that Washington had pro-
duced tremendous harvest of winter
wheat, and there was no doubt that
the crop of spring sown wheat was ex-
cellent in quality and quantity, but
only few persons we'll informed in
farm statistics had ventured to predict
a total crop exceeding $4,000, 900
bushels.
r Yet it turns out, according to the
corrected figures of the agricultural
department that the 1904 harvest
amounted to 80, 40, 603 bushels. The
bumper crop of 1901 was "a, 518, 968
bushels. The 1908 harvest was good
one, but it was more than $4,000, 900
bushels less than that of last season.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
WAR ON STANDARD OIL.
Kansas Petroleum Producers Backed
in Opposifios by Whole State.

Kansas City, Jan. 18.-Vigoru
war on the Standard Oil Company il
now the cry in the Kansas oil fields
where two months ago the STANDARD
was coddled up to as beneficent cor
poration upon which depended the Life
Of the fields. All this change has
come about through the recent ont in
oil prices, Is cents in three weeks
which has put the price below che
profit line.
The whole state is behind the oil
producers and half dozen bills aimed
at the Standard Oil Company are now
before the legislature. These include
provisions for state refinery which
Gov. Hoch recommended in his mes
sage, having the blishment Of
maximum freight rates on oil for an
object and taxing the life out Of pipe
lines. The Standard is now buying
80, 900 barrels in the Kansas oil field,
on which the profit Is nearly $1,000
600 year. A meeting of all oil pro
ducers will be held in Topeka Jan. IL,
at which plan will be outlined and
the state refinery project Endorsed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
TWO new JUSTICES
BILL PASSED BOTH HOUSES Of
LEGISLATURE.
Governor Mead Will Promptly APP
point Milo A. Root, OF Seattle,
and Herman D. crow, of Spo-
kane-Newspaper Libel Law Re-
pealed.

Olympia, Jan. 19.-Both senate and
house yesterday acted fsvorably on the
judiciary committee joint bill for two
additional Justices of the supreme
court. The vote on the bill was al
most unanimous.
Will Name Crow and Root.
1t is authoritatively announced at
the executive office that Herman D.
Grow, of Spokane, and Milo A. Root,
of Seattle, will be promptly appointed
supreme court judges by Gov. Mead as
soon as he approves the bill passed yes
terday in both houses of the legislature,
increasing the court from five to seven
members.
This will enable the new judges to
begin their duties within few days,
so that they can assist in the disposal
of cases on the present calendar and
assist the other mem bers of the bench
in clearing up the docket, now some
800 cases in arrears.
Gov. Mead will approve the Tucker
bill, repeating the newspaper libel law,
which was passed in the senate Tues
day and in the house yesterday by
nearly unanimous vote.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
RUSSIAN PROTEST.
Note to Powers Accuses China of
Giving Aid to Japan.

Note to Powers Accuses China OF
Giving Aid to Japan.
Paris, Jan. 16.-The Associated
Press learns authoritatively that Rus
STA 8 note addressed to the powers rel
alive to China's breaking neutrality
gives what Russia claims to be abso-
lutte proof Of Chinese breaches. The
three main complaints are:
First, that the Islands Of Miaotao,
in the straits of Penhill, opposite Port
Arth r, have been constantly used by
the Japanese without Chinese inter
ference as a strategical base and as a
harbor for Japanese torpedo boats.
Second. that the Chinese army on
the border has accepted the command
Of Japanese officers.
Third, that Chinese firms have been
constantly working in behalf Of the
japanese, supplying them with provi-
sions, military accoutrements and gen.
eral war stores.
The note lengthily sets forth the de-
tails and complains that China has
not given satisfactory explanations of
the breaches Of neutrality and that
therefore Russia advises the powers
that she intends to use complete iber-
ty of action in regard to future abuse
Of neutrality.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
DAIRY CONDITIONS.
Buffer Production lncreaSed-leSS
Cheese Made.

OUtbCT PUOuu~bIOs Uu&GS0S(O-l(SS
Cheese Made.
Seattle, Jan. 16.-The fifth bien.
NAL report Of State Food Inspector Nc
Donald, covering the dairying and
butter industry Of this state, has just
been completed and shows an increase
Of SOC, $3.50 pounds of butter produced
by the creameries for the fiscal year
ending November l, 1904, as COM
pared with the preceding year. The
total output of butter for Washington
during that last twelve months was
1855, 769 pounds, as compared with
6,970,173 pounds for the preceding
year. OF this total 2,O52.71O pounds
were manufactured east of the noun
tains and 1914, 059 pounds west of
the Cascades.
On the other hand, there is q de-
crease Of S27, $50 pounds in the out
put Of cheese. The total outrun for
the last fiscal year was 85S, 551
pounds, compared with 1926, 1856
pounds in the preceding twelve
months. OF the forty -seven factories,
eleven were out Of business and ten
did not operate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
NEW ALASKA ROAD.
Seattle Capitalists Organize New
Company.


Seattle, Jan. 16.-Seattle business
men and capitalists have decided to
put their shoulders to the wheel and
build railroad from Valdez through
the Copper river valley, tapping the
great mineral belt Of that section, and
the Tanana as we'll, to q point on the
American Yukon.
Those engaging in the gigantic en-
erprise are Judge Thomas Burke, ia
cob Furth, 81. G. Henry, w. D. Hofius.
4. A. Ballinger, J. e. Chilberg, Rob.
ert Moran, Capt. G. E. Caine and @.
j. Smith. Articles of incorporation,
with those named as incorporators,
have been filed.
One Of the men having to do with
the incorporation stated that every
dollar necessary for the construction
of the road has been arranged for. 1t
is all American capital and q lot of
Seattle money will be invested.
With the perfection Of the organiza.
ton it is planned to have the enter
prise laid before congress with a view
to securing governmental concessions
and encouragement similar to that
given railroad companies In the Phil
ippines.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
AFTER HARRIriAN'S HEAD.
Rumored Morgan and Hill Are Seek.
ing Revenge.

Rumored Morgan and Hill Are Seek
ing Revenge.
New York, Jan. 19.-The theory
that J. P. Morgan and j. j. Hill are
secretly buying control of Union Pa
cific railroad system to retaliate on E..
II. Hartman and John D. Rockefeller
for snatching the Northern Pacific
away from them and forcing them to
club it out of their hands, is advanced.
There has been mysterious buying in
Union Pacific, and certain persons
claim to have evidence that the deal is
actually under way for shifting con-
troll of the Union Pacific.
This control is said to lie in the open
market; that is, neither party owns q
majority of the stock. Hartman and
his friends have never held more than
80 per cent.
Many facts in connection with the
rumor look suggestive. The most i'm
porte.nt is a steady rise in the price of
Union Pacific from II to 1870, in the
face of determined efforts Of the Har-
riman party to depress it. Only with
in the last ten days has the Hartman
party ceased throwing large blocks of
stock on the market in the hope of
breaking it. 1t is now believed, even
in Union Pacific Offices, that a myster-
ious strong party who has taken all
this stock was working for Morgan
and Hill.
There is much nervousness at 20
Broadway. where Hartman has his
Office. His friends believe Hill and
Morgan will at least get enough stock
to demand the retirement of Hartman
from his present czar-iike control of
the property.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
Noors PLUMBER.
japanese Commsnder Reports q. i.
Booty Of Port Arthur "e

japanese Commander Reports a. .
Booty ct Port Arthur.
Tokyo. Jan. 16.-The followin,
port from Gen. Nogi giving detail. q
the Russian property at Port I,.s o
which has been Transcend to thu y
aneee, has been received: 'ap
Permanent forts and forti6c.s.
SO.
Guns-Latrge caliber, "a; mod.
caliber, '49; small, 343; total 54s a
Shells, s2.67O; torpedoes, 60.
plosives, 1888 pieces; powder, 20 N MA
bushels. ~
Rifles, 1852; pistols. 57s; swo,,.
1891.
Ammunition for small arms, s,ss
500 rounds.
Ammunition wagons, 300: t,.
carts, 606; miscellaneous carts g.
saddlery, harness, etc.
Searchlights IA; telegraph appan
tus, 10; telephones, 1874; sigpsJin.
apparatus, 3.
Horses, 1920.
A number of intrenching tools.
Four battleships, not including N.
Sevastopool; 2 cruisers, IA gunbos,.
and torpedo boat destroyers; 10 steam
ers, launches. IL miscellaneous Graf,
and also private steamers. The abovs
were sunk or otherwise destroyed.
Besides these there are 35 email
steamers, which will be servicesbIs
after slight repairs.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
RATE BILL READY.
Pre- sident'S Views Embodied In Meas
ure Proposed by Hepburn.

VCGSi0GnIS views EmDOOte0 IN Meas
ure Proposed by Hepburn.
Washington, Jan. 16.-Presidsp,
Roosevelthas held q conference with
Secretary Taft and Representative Hen
burn Of Iowa, chairman of the inter.
state and foreign commerce committs
OF the house, regarding railroad freight
rate legislation. At the conclusion Of
the conference Representative Hepburn
said he had prepared a bill on the sub
ject of freight rates which embodied
the recommendation of the president
so far as they went. Mr.. Hepburn
added that in a few days a conference
would be held, probably at the White
House. for the consideration of the
measure he had prepared.
"Do you think rate Legislation will
be ratified at the present session." be
was asked.
81 do, most certainly" replied Mr.
Hepburn. 81 believe the house will
pass a measure before the end Of this
month, and there is no reason why it
should not be crystallized into law BE-
fore the session ends"
There were some informal confer.
ences among the senators on the quss-
ton of railroad legislation after the
senate adjourned. The general opinion
expressed was that there is not sufi.
cient time left to accomplish anything
in that line during the present session
of congress.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
Won Holderbeke to Stav.

Olympia, Jan. 19.-State Horticul-
tural Commissioner A. Van Holder
beke was in the city this week con-
ferring with Gov. Mead. No state
ment was given out by either, but it
is understood that Mr.. Van Holderbeke
will be retained as commissioner of
horticulture indefinitely. He has the
Endorsement of majority Of the coun.
ty Horticultural societies in the state,
as well as large number OF personal
recommendations, and his work is con-
sidered to have been commendable.
Mr.. Van Holderbeke was appointed by
Gov. Rogers and was retained by Gov.
Mcbride.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT

The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots T. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tioe:
Grain-Oats, ese. 50@s7 Per ton;
barley. % .50@23 per ton wheat, chicken
feed, % 80 per ton; bran, SIC; shorts,
$20@21; corn, $50.
Hay-kastern w Washington, $16@17h,
per ton; Puget sound, sl1@ls; alfalfa,
s1o@1l.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, s9@slo.
Poultry-Lve hens, ls@lsko per
ID; cid BOOSTERS, loo; duoks, 1s@1aM;
geese, SC; springs, 100.
Live Stock-Choice beef cattle,
cows, sko per ID; steers, sk@sko;
sheep, Skc; hogs, 6@6Ko; dressed
calves, 1890; live, $500.
Hides, Pelts and Wool-Heavy and
sailed steers, over 60 pounds, $40 per
10; medium, sound; So; light, sound,
Sc; COWS, sound, all weights, &c; stays,
bulls and oxen, 5kc; sailed kips, 60;
calves, e@10e; culls 10 less than
sound; green hides 10 less than sailed |;
dry hides. 11@15o; dry oulls, one-third
less; sheep pelts, s5c@1.s5 each /;
shearlings, 10000 each; Eastern
Washington wool, 11@16o per ID;
Western Washington wool, 10000;
dirty or timber stained, 16@1So; tai.
low, 5000; grease, 11k@2c.
Tacoma Quotations
Wheat-Bluestem No l, coo; club
No. I, sec.
Livestock-steers, 4@41ke per Id;
COWS, s@SAc; hogs, L@SNc; sheep,
5@5Lo.
Poultry - Turkeys, dressed, $40:
chickens, spring, dressed, 1ec; ducks,
dressed, 1bc; geese. dressed, 15o. Live
Hens, 19c ;ducks, l2o; geese. 12ck;
turkeys. l9c; spring chickens, lao:
squads, $a.60@s.
Batter-Washington creamery. SOC:
ranch. 15@1Sc.
EgRs-s3o.
Oats-$27@29; rolled oats, $s9@SO.
Hay, Alfalfa, etc-Wheat hay.
sls.60@14.6o; timothy 17.0o@1 90:
mixed, $1S.50@15; clever, S14.6O@
1850; alfalfa, e1l.B0@1s.Oo: Pueet
sound$12@l1.
Feed-Cem, &25.; wheat, esa: bar.
Ley, whole grain, $2s; rolled, ga so:
nean, t2e.bo ehuEts, e9l03s.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
WASHINGTON NEWS

The town of Moclips on the North
Beach, near Hoquiam, is to have
$50, 900 hotel.
z John King, notorious safe crecker
and burglar, has been arrested in Ia.
coma by Seattle detectives.
The Seattle city council has author
lied public work for the year to the
extent of million and half dollars.
The fourth annual meeting Of the
Oregon and Washington Laundrymen's
Association was held at Seattle Mon
day, ending with a banquet in the
evening.
1t is stated that the Okanogan irri-
CATION project will be abandoned by
the government, the cost being cosid-
cred to great for the limited area to be
benefited.
Work on Seattle's new theater, to be
erected on Second avenue, and the ar
cade Of which is to be the entrance to
Hotel Washington is to begin within
sixty days.
Under the head of Sporting" the
Seattle acknowledgements says: both
houses of the legislature pass resolu-
tons Of thanks to the city Of Seattle
for their recent visit"
The Monte Cristo mines were bid in
by F. II. Brownell for the American
Smelling and Refining Company, at
the RECEIVERS sale Saturday. The
amount bid little more than covers the
Indebtedness. Only one bid was re-
ceived.
Judge Black, of the superior court
at Everett, has made two important
rulings in divorce cases. One is that
allowance for attorneys fees will be
greatly reduced, and the other that the
plea of incompatibility Of temper will
not alone be considered ground for d.
vorce.
Ferndale has new free reading
room and public coffee club.
The president has decided to reap
point q. M. Stewart postmaster at
Seattle.
Mrs. Louisa Harvey, an Indian wo-
man living near Traitor and reputed
to be more than 100 years old, died
last week.
Tho annual meeting Of the Pierce
County Pioneer Association took place
at the Ferry Museum at Tacoma last
week. with over 140 members in at
tendance.
Collector of Customs Ide has receiv-
ed instructions from the department
that after May /, 1905. certain officers
Of the service designated in the in
structions, would be required to wear
uniforms of a prescribed make.
The funeral of former Mayor T. J.
Humes, Of Seattle, who died at Fair
banks, Alaska, early in the fall, was
held at the Grand Opera house, Seat
tel, Friday. The services were largely
attended and many glowing tributes
were paid to his memory.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
NEW IRRIGATION CODE.
Except Two Sections u PlcsS<s
Government Experts.

@AR&s
Washington, Jan. 16.-The proposes
irrigation code for the state Of Wash.
ington has been examined by CHEZ
Engineer Newell, Of the reclamation
service, and he agrees entirely Wild
Supervising Engineer Bien as to tns
defects in the instrument. In an ON
cial letter to Engineer Noble, N.Y.
Newell says, among other things:
II desire You to express to the con-
mission my feeling that they have
done antexoellent piece Of work in pfs
pairing this draft. Except in the prV
visions directly affecting the opera
tions Of the reclamation service it aP
pears to me the bill is satisfaction!
but l. wish to state that in my opinion
the operations Of the reclamation sei'
vice will be seriously hampered, esr
cially in any large work, by requil'ns
the department to conform to suVD
provisions. / trust that they Will
amended in order that the state ma
have q sound and logical basis for :,
ture acts on irrigation development
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
ARBITRATION TREATIES.
Senate Gives Out Presidents Letter
of Transmission.

OF Transmission.
Washington, Jan. 16.-The senate
has made public the letter of the pres
ident to the senate regarding the arbi-
tration treaties sent to the senate De-
cember Is, 1904. In this letter the
president says:
"These conventions do not go 80 far
as could wish in scope and object.
but they form, taken together, very
important step in the progress of the
world toward policy Of a peaceful
solution of such difficulties as cannot
conveniently be settled by diplomatic
negotiation. Their very limitations,
which seem Objectionable to many ad-
vocates of policy Of arbitration, are
not without compromising advantages.
They commit none Of the contracting
parties to any action in opposition to
their national interests, their policy or
their aspirations. Their principal val
ne is that they constitute a consldera-
BILE advance in the direction Of the
purpose so ardently desired, of the
reign of universal peace and good will.
"No discrimination has been made
among the powers signatory to The
Hague convention who have desired to
enter into these friendly relations, and
it would be undesirable from the
standpoint of what this government is
striving to accomplish to make any
such discrimination. I should not
willingly exchange notifications with
any of the powers unless the series OF
conventions as whole should meet
with the favorable consideration of
the senate
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
FELLOW SERVANT PLEASURE.
Governor T00ie Signs Bill Passed b.
Montana Legislature.

itOtsb0ba0 I~NsSt0bOb( s
Helena, Mont, Jan. 18.-The fell
low servant bill, which was passed
last week by both house and senate,
has become law by Gov. Toole's sig
nature.
The fellow servant bill was one Of
the most important introduced at the
present session, and provides that every
person or corporation operating rail-
way or railroad in this state shall be
liable for all damages sustained by any
employe Of such person or corporation
in consequence of the neglect of any
other emp'oye or employees thereof,
and in consequence of any willful
wrongs, whether of commission or Of
omission, of any other employe thereof,
when such neglect, Encouragement or
wrongs are in any manner connected
with tho use and operation of any rail-
way or railroad on or about which
they shall be employed, and no con-
tract which restricts such liability
shall be legal or binding.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
Minor. Happenings
of the Week.

The French ministry, headed by NJ.
Coombes, will resign.
Thomas H. Carter has been re-elect-
ed senator from Montana.
Congressman Burkett has been elect
ed United States senator from Ne
braska.
The house passed 357 pension bills
in the record time Of eighteen minutes
Saturday.
Eastern capitalists have acquired
control of the Alaska Central railroad.
The transfer was made last week.
China has again been warned Of the
grave complications that may grow
out of any breach of neutrality on her
part.
During the past year AGO national
banks were organized, with capital OF
$24, 5O4, 800, of which 46 were state
banks converted into national assecia-
lions. Of the whole number PAT were
primary organizations.
The British Columbia government
has announced that the output of min
eral in the province during the year
just ended totaled $19,770,000, Of
which $500, 900 was gold. The excess
over the previous year was 81, 900, 900.
Signor Marconi, of wireless tele-
graph fame, according to the Rome
Patria, is engaged to marry Princess
Miacinta Ruspoli, aged 81 years,
youngest daughter Of Prince Francesca
Ruspoli, master Of the Holy Fospice,
a high hereditary church title.
1t is reported that three British YES
sells have been captured by japanese
warships and that all were carrying
contraba
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to permit foreign vessels to
trade between the Yukon river and
other American ports.
The ecclesiastical court of inquiry
called to consider charges against Bish-
op Talbot, has decided that it was I'm.
economically constituted.
The steamer Columbia, of the New
England Fish Company's feet, was
wrecked off North island a few days
ago, the crew being landed at Van
couver.
Quartz has been discovered, it is
claimed, in great quantities near the
town of Bonanza, Alaska. The dis
covery was made at Skookum hill on a
claim owned by Robertson and McClay
1t is stated that President Roosevelt
will withdraw the arbitration treaties
recently negotiated with various for
eign countries before he will consent
to have them emasculated by senate
amendments.
A Dawson dispatch says the Klon-
dixie Mines railway will be built from
Dawson to Grand Forks during the
coming summer. J. A. Chute, who
recently arrived from London, is max
ing preparations to start work as soon
as the snow is gone.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
RULES COMMITTEE RULES.
Senate places Calendar Absolutely
in It's Hands.

ut0tOSs
Olympia, Jan. 1S.-There was much
Of interest in the senate sessions this
morning, including the announcement
OF senate committees by Lieut.. Gov.
Coon, the resignation of e. B. Palmer.
OF King county, from the chairman.
ship of the Judiciary committee in
favor Of E. M. Rands, Of Clarke conn.
ty; the adoption without debate of the
new rules placing senate business com.
pletely in the hands of the new rules
committee. by the adoption of a new
section, which states that "the com.
mittee on rules shall have charge Of
the calendar, and shall direct the sec.
rotary the order in which business
shall be transacted" a short debate
between Tucker, of King, and Graves.
Democrat, of Spokane, over the pur.
chase of session laws for members, and
tho memorial services in memory Of
Edward s. Hamilton, former senator
from Pierce county.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
SUBMARINES FOR JAPAN.
Another Consignment Passes r1inne.
sofa Transfer.

Minneapolis, Jan. 16.-Another con.
Segment OF submarine torpedo boats
has been transferred to the Great
Northern railway from the Burlington
at the Minnesota Transfer and are be-
ing rushed onward to the coast. It
was a duplicate Of the shipment Of
boats which passed through here in
the summer.
These shipments Of war supplies
have become so numerous as to excite
little attention at the transfer station.
They consist of ammunition. gums.
beef and medicines. In no instance
have the supplies been shipped direct
" to the Japanese government, but
have been consigned to the agent Of
the shipper in Japan.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-01-21
TWO CONFESSIONS.
nore Evidence In Oregon Land fT'0'
Cases.

Portland. Jan. 16.-Judson a
William Mealey, brothers, orout
here as witnesses from Foster, IN TO-
ton to the investigation of tho 's -.
fraud cases, have made q oomplIs -.
confession to William j. Burns, Id
government secret service. They =.
mitted they were employed TO ;,.r
fraudulent entries and to do Hm
work by the conspirators. Tne w
fession materially strengthens the md
ernments case against Mitcnea .sr
Herman and duplicates State oen sh6
Booth and Frederick A. Kribs, IA
agent, deposed Roseburg ofacian'
othera.