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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
GENERAL Investigation
OF HARTMAN sys1Fp

Washington, Nov. 1o.-A ,o,
investigation OF what is known n. 80
Hartman system of rail- Dads nns ,u'
the authority conferred by law il on.
OF the subjects which has been disc,a. Wv
ed for some time by the interstate com
merce commission and that BODY rssIl,
stands committed to an inquiry.
We have been Informed. )" man
Der of the commission said. chat th;,
system in some Of its features ia MT
unlike the Northern Securities Com
pany, which was dissolved throupb tha
Interpolation OF the attorney general
OF the United States
Any steps which may be taken nv
the commission along tho lines refs-
red to will be in accordance with thu
general powers of the commission con
ferred by law, and not because of anv
immediate specific complaint of vic.
lation of the statutes.
In January, if time permits. the
commission will take up the complaint
Of the municipality of Spokane against
the Northern Pacific. the Great North
ern, the Chicago, Burlington & Ouip-
cy, the Union Pacific and the Oregon
Short Line railroads, involving al.
legged discrimination in charging a
higher rate for a shorter than for a
longer haul.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
OREGON WILL OPERATE
CELLO PORTAGE ROAD

Portland, Or, Nov. 13.-The port
age road around Cello falls will not
be abandoned. Its operation by the
state authorities will be continued.
Strong efforts have been made by rail-
road influences to secure the leasing
of the road to private parties, but at q
conference between the state portage
board and members of the Open River
Association, it was decided that the
road was a success and the policy of
state operation will be pursued.
The road has not until the present
season had a chance to demonstrate
its utility as link in the river trans
portation chain between the Inland
Empire and the Coast markets. The
road was completed in June Of last
year and there we're no river accom-
for handling the traffic at
that time. Then came the question
of inland warehouses and hauling the
grain to the river bank. Last year the
portage road carried $1,000 sacks of
grain; thi, year $4,000 sacks have al
ready been hauled and 20, 900 sacks
more are awaiting transportation, so
that only time is needed to make the
road successful.
It is conceded, however, that the
chief benefit of the railroad has been
in reducing railroad rates, the o. R.
& N. having been forced to cut rates
to the interior in half.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
STAND OF union LABOR
IN REGARD TO POLITICS

Minneapolis, Nov. 1.-THE recent
political activity of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor occupied prominent
place in the report of the executive
council, which was read yesterday at
the convention of the federation.
The report defined the attitude of
organized labor toward politics. Ac-
cording to the report the total sum
received for campaign purposes was
$8,056, the total expenditures being
1884.
The American Federation, the re-
port says, does not contemplate the
formation of q distinct political body.
It does not intend to dictate the party
membership of any union man. It
does propose to suggest from time to
time legislative measures Of advantage
to labor and to secure the nomination
and election of representatives and
senators favorable to their enactment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
FAVOR $5o,ooo,ooo FUND
National Body to Further River AM
Harbor improvements.

National Body to Further River and
Harbor improvements.
New York, Nov. 12.-The national
Rivers and Harbors congress, which
was organized in Washington last Jan
uary, is preparing to hold a second
convention on December and z. Ar
rangements are being completed. and
Invitations have been sent out.
The purpose of the forthcoming con-
vention is to demonstrate to congress
that sentiment has arisen in favor of
increased and regular river and har-
Dor appropriations. Business men,
representing commercial bodies, river
improvement associations, maritime
exchanges, chambers of commerce and
other organized bodies from every city
in the United States are expected to
be present. Members of congress will
be invited to attend the sessions of
the body, and resolutions will be pre-
sented asking that $50, 600, 900 be APP
propriated annually for river and har-
Dor improvements.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
News

Washington State college defeated
Idaho in q football game at Pullman
by q score of 10 to o, after very ex-
citing contest.
A site for the Oregon state building
at the Alraska- Pacific fair has
been selected. The selection is the
first to be made.
j. A. Bunce, a well known Seattle
man, has been arrested by United
States treasury officials, charged with
smuggling opium.
Tacoma electricians refused to work
with unorganized plumbers and walked
out on buildings where they were en-
ployed in place of strikers.
The city of Blaine will attempt to
secure from congress an appropriation
for a public building there. Senator
Piles conferred with the citizens on
the subject Tuesday night
By an order received from the act
ing commissioner of the United States
land Office all of the surveyed public
lands in Western Washington not set
tied are withdrawn from entry. Re-
Gently the same lands were withdrawn
by the department for reservation as
coal lands.
Seattle Socialists polled 1912 votes
at the recent election.
Three Chinese and Thirty japanese
we're captured in gambling raid at
Seattle last week.
Football teams of Washington and
Oregon universities will play their an
nual game Saturday, Nov. II.
Col George B.Lamping, Second reg
iment N. q. W., and Miss Edith Dill
lon Denny, granddaughter of A. A.
Denny, founder of Seattle, were mar
ried Thursday at Seattle.
Deputy fish commissioners and
county game wardens may not legally
receive half the fine collected as in
formers, under decision just render
ed by the attorney general.
The Arctic Brotherhood held its
annual grand camp at Vancouver, B.
c., Thursday. Judge w. a. Bard
was elected Grand Arctic Chief. Ia
coma was chosen as the next place of
meeting.
The last legislature attempted to
provide q heavy license for the men
who travel about the country peddling
sewing machines and the like, but the
supreme court held the law unconsti-
tutional- Attorney General Atkinson,
in an opinion to the Mayor of Rosly /,
says there are state laws however,
which permit towns and cities to levy
license on peddlers, which may to
some extent remedy the conditions the
law was aimed at.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
STARTED BY SPOKANE

Spokane, Nov. 1S.-Fifteen thou
sand dollars will be raised at once 0!
the special committee Of the Chamoel
Of Commerce, which is prosecutlns
the fight before the interstate com.
merce commission for q readjustmen'
Of transcontinental freight rates for
Spokane. The decision was reacneo
at meeting Of the committee. IN
tensely aroused over the comblnatlon
of the Coast jobbers' associations "
fight its demand for terminal rates'
the committee declares it's intentlon
to raise 500, 600 If necessary.
Furthermore, an educational cam
paign is to be started at once and es-
cry merchant in the Inland Epmife -
to be sent q circular letter settins
forth Spokane's case.
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CALL FOR MORE WAGES
Employees OF Forty-Seven Railways Unite
in Demand.

Cleveland, Nov. 12.-The Plain
Dealer yesterday printed long news
article on the different phases of rail-
road wages and one of the most i'm
portant features of it is statement oh
the authority of Grand Chief Engineer
Warren M. Stone, of the international
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS, that employees of over AZ roads
have united in a demand upon the
roads for higher wages, shorter hours
and different working conditions.
Mr.. Stone is quoted as saying that
the demands have heen formally pre-
pared and the roads are given until
December 10 to make answer. Mr..
Stone left Saturday night for New
York, but stated before leaving that
the settlement of the talked of strike
Of switchmen in Chicago had not re-
moved any point that is to be put in
issue by the demands to be made of
the roads west of Chicago. These de-
mands, he said, would be presented
next week.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
PRESIDENT STARTS
ON PANAMA TRIP

Washington, Nov. 10.-Advices re-
ceived in Washington last night show
that the president, who is abouard
the battleship Louisiana, headed for
the isthmus of Panama, is we'll on bis
way. The transfer from the yacht
Mayflower to the Louisiana, took place
Thursday night in Chesapeake bay.
The ship passed out the capes to sea
early yesterday morning and at noon
passed Cape Hatteras. The Louisiana
was followed by the armored cruisers
Tennessee and Washington, which are
to convoy the battleship on her south
ern trip.
The latest news given out by secre-
tary Loeb concerning the whereabouts
of the vessel was contained in dis
patch from Capt. Couden, command
ing the Louisiana, which stated that
the ship had passed Cape Hatteras;
that the sea was smooth and that all
were well.
Secretary Loeb expects but one mes
sage day from the president unless
intervene which require
more frequent communication. ANY
matter which requires the presidents
special attention will be communlcas-
ed to him by wireless telegraph.
Small bulletins of important news
of the day will be made up in Washing
ton and sent to the president, 50 tina.
he may be kept accurately informed
VIII at is going on in the United States
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
ADAMS PLEADS GUILTY
and GETS ten YEARS

Seattle, Nov. 14.-Before Judge
Hanford, in the federal court George
Edward Adams pleaded guilty to two
counts in the indictment against him
and was sentenced on each count to
five years at hard labor at the federal
prison on McNoill's island
The first count to which he pleaded
guilty was the charge of embezzle-
ment of $50. The second count was
for the embezzlement of 400 ounces of
gold from the United States assay
Office here.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
SEATTLE nARkET REPORT
Purchasing Prices.

The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots (. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tice:
Grain-Oats, $24@25 per ton; bar
ley, $20@21; wheat, chicken feed,
$S2@a4; bran, $15; shorts, SIS;
corn, e27.
Hay-Eastern Washington, $3.50
10; Puget Sound, $11.5O; alfalfa,
$I1@11.50.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, 45@47c.
Poultry-Live hens, 14@15o per Id;
old ROSTERS, 10c; ducks, old, 1876;
spring chickens, lac; turkeys, live,
ITO.
Wool-Eastsrn Washington, 15@
18c per ID; Western Washington, Is
@20c; dirty or timber stained, 10000
Live stoek-Sheep, wethers, &c per
ID; ewes, 6@5kc; hogs, eH@7e;
steers, ~; cows, S1ac; calves, 500
lambs, 1906 per head.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
New Hampshire May Vote Again

concord, N. H., Nov. 1O.-Unofi-
clal returns in New Hampshire indi-
cate that the voters failed by the mar
row margin of ten to elect a governor.
The state law requires that the suc-
cessful candidate receive a majority
over the other candidates, and Charles
M. Floyd, of Manchester. the Repub-
ilcan nominee, falls short ten votes of
receiing thew needed majority. I'm
less the official result shows q change
the legislature will be called upon to
name the next governor.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
CANADIAN ROUTE
OF GREAT NORTHERN

Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 12-Omcial
announcement of the Great Northern
railroad route from the Pacific coast
to Winnipeg has been made. It will
touch the coal district at Fernie, into
which place the company already has
branch, then pass through Warman
county to Raymond, and on to the
natural gas district of Medicine Hat.
There the route will be laid direct to
winnipeg. The road is to be COM
pleted in two years.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

King Haakon and Queen Maud, of
Norway, are visiting King Edward and
Queen Alexandra at Windsor.
The bureau of insular affairs has
invited bids for $4,000, 900 1870
Der cent bond issue of the city of Ma
Mia. The bonds are exempt from tax
alton.
Maj. Gen. Shafter, q. s. A., retired,
died Monday at the ranch of Capt. ".
H. McKittrick, his son-in-law, twenty
miles south of Bakersfield, Cal after
an illness of seven days.
Mrs. John F. Merrill declined the
presidency of the California branch
of the National Red Cross Society at
its annual meeting, and James ID. Phe-
Ian was elected president of the So
ciety.
Secretary Metcalf, of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, who was
sent to San Francisco by President
Roosevelt to investigate the exclusion
of Japanese children from the schools
attended by white children, has con-
cluded his work and returned to
Washington.
ALI Western railroads have an
nounced that they will discontinue
the practice of issuing free transporta-
ton or reduced rates to land agents.
and a majority of the $4,000 land
agents who are registered with the
Western Trunk Line Company will
find themselves out of work. This &C.
ton was taken because the interstate
commerce commission ruled that the
issuance of such transportation was
illegal
The directors of the American Cot
ton Oil Company have declared an an
nual dividend of per cent on COM
mon stock. Last year the rate was
per cent.
According to a Vancouver, B. G.
dispatch, gold in immense quantities
has been discovered at Purling, Saskat-
ehewan. The diggings are ten miles
long and one mile wide.
The board of church extension of
the Methodist Episcopal church, IN
session at Syracuse, N. Y, decided to
raise 1000. 900 next year; $3.50, 600
to be used for home mission work and
$3.50, 600 for church extension.
Capt. Roald Amundson and five
others of the Norwegian exploring
party, who for the last three years have
been seeking the Northwest passage
and the magnetic pole, have sailed
from New York for home ON the
steamer Helligolav.
Indictments have been returned by
the federal grand jury at Pittsburg
against J. Jay Damn, Charles T. Close
and Frank T. Emmett, officials and
employees of the Shelby Steel Tubs
Company, charging them with con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
connection with the boiler tubes fur.
nished for number of battleships.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17

Wheat-Club, Sc; bluestem, ESQ;
red, 64e.
Oats-$26@27; rolled oats, $27@28.
Hay, Alfalfa, Etc-Wheat hay, $16
@15; timothy, $2O@21; mixed, $1S@
II; alfalfa, $12. 5O@14.
Feed-Corn, $27; Wheat, $sS. SOC
IS; barley, whole grain, $22. O0@23;
rolled. $40. 50@24; shorts, $l7.50@
1880; bran, SIS. 50@16. so.
Poul!ry-Turkeys, dressed, 25c;
chickens, dressed, 19c; ducks, dressed,
15c; geese, dressed, 16c; Live-Hens,
SK@14c; spring chickens, 1c;ducks,
11c; geese, 11c.
Butter-Washington creamery, SO@
Bic; Eastern creamery, 1885,.
Eggs-Washineton ranch, 45c; Or
egon, SOC; Eastern, 28c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
Copper Miners Get Nose

Butte, Mont, Nov. 1.-THE men
employed underground by the princi-
pal mining companies operating in
Butte will receive an advance of %
cents shift, beginning tomorrow and
lasting as long as the price of copper
emains good. There is general rejoic-
ing among the men, as an incr Ease
was not expected. The decision of the
companies to advance wages also af-
fects some of the employees of the
Washoe and Great Falls smelters, for
those who are receiving less than So q
day will receive hereafter not less
than So.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
by MOODY'S ORDERS
DISTRICT A1TORNFYs T0lD 10
ENFORCE EIGHT. HOUR Law.
Three Hundred Violations Have
Been Reported in the Past Ten
Weeks-Attention p Particularly
Directed to Emergency Section
of the Law.

Washington, Nov. l4.-ACIorney
General Moody has issued instructions
to United States Attorneys regarding
violations of the eight hour law, IN
which he says the government is de-
termined upon strict enforcement or
this statute as relating to public work
of the United States. Within the
past ten weeks as many as 800 alleged
violations have been reported.
C. J. Carlton, lawyer of Haverhill,
Mass. has been appointed by Attorney
General Moody to have special charge
Of violations.
The attorney generals letter, after
calling the attention of United States
attorneys to the eight hour law, con-
tinues:
''The government is determined up
on q strict enforcement of this statute,
and you are directed diligently to in
vestiagte all complaints which may
come to you from any source of viola
lions of this law and upon your own
initiative to make investigation ii
there appears to you to be any reason
able ground for suspenting violation of
this law. In every case in which you
can secure sufficient evidence you will
submit that evidence to the grand
jury, with view to securing an in
dictment.
Emergency Section
"Your attention is particularly di-
rected to the exception in the frat Sec
tion of the statute, under which labor
ers and mechanics may be worked
more than eight hours in q calendar
day, in case of extraordinary emeI-
gency. In q recent case in the district
of Massachusetts, Judge Dodge defined
that phrase as follows:
"'An extraordinary emergency, such
as is contemplated by the act, is the
sudden happening of something not OF
the usual customary or regular kind,
demanding prompt action to avert i'm
minent danger to life, limb, health or
property The possibility OF danger
is not enough. The peril must be
certain, unusual, imminent and actual
in order to constitute an extraordinary
emergency such as the statute contem-
plates
Judge Dodge also ruled that prob
able pecuniary loss to the contractors,
unless due to an extraordinary emer-
gency, as defined above, is only an
ordinary business risk.
II desire to impress upon you the
Importance of using every effort to ex-
ecute these directions of being vigil
ant and active in this matter. You
will make prompt and full report to
me of all cases and of your action
thereon, with your reasons therefor.
You will report Immediately the &C
ton of the grand jury and the results
of all trials, with specific statement
of the penalty imposed
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
TO HANDLE THE rRAr,,s:
Hartman Lines Order Sixteen r.,
New Cara.

Hartman 1nes Order Sixteen II.
New Cars. sad
Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE I'll,
says: Aaouus
Prompted by the congestion =,
fic and the car shortage for tb;s - nat
the Hartman lines are makin. sear,
chases OF freight equipment fos i Pun.
on q grand scale. It ia anna. isol
that they now have orders in f., u sa
OOO, 600 worth Of refrigerator bo- WI.
and gondola cars, all of which :; nat
expected. will be delivered befo,a :" l.
season Of heavy traffic next wear ~ .ae
total number of freight cars o.a Inc
by them but not yet delivered i
600. OF these $500 are refr;ao W.
CARS These will be of the most '.a'or
ern type and will costs LOCO as9
allthese have been received tho u ai'er
man lines will own total of ; a- ,air'
frlgeIator cars. Heretofore tbar Y "
used annually 4, 500 to 5000 belon lave
to the Armour Car Line Comnanr
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
Keep Consuls Informed

Saettle, Nov. 14.-Within the next
few months every United States con-
sui in every corner OF the globe will
be supplied with information regard.
ing the 1909 exposition at Saettle, and
until the fair opens steady stream
of communication will be kept up. In
that way the fair will be advertised
in all parts Of the world, and every
consul will be equipped to give intend
ing exhibitors full information regard
ing it. All the foreign consuls in the
United States will also be kept sup
piled with information.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
Wa.hineton Apples for Australia

Seattle, Nov. 1O.-E. Wagner Is on
his way to Australia with So, 600 ooA .,
Of Washington apples, which ne wiz
use az q means of advertising tns
orchard product Of this state and Oh
finding q market for it in Austral,a'
New leland and the islands OF tns
South seas. Mr.. Wagner arrlVeo
in Seattle this week from wen.
atchee. He owns large orchard -
Eastern Washington and is makins
the trip for the purpose Of extenoins
the market. He viii personally =.
perintend the disposition OF the pug
consignment Of APPLES which no taxa
with him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-17
RISING OF WATERS
RIVERS SOUTH OF SEATTLE ALL
out OF THEIR BANKS
Northern Pacific and Seattle and
Tacoma Interurban Tracks
Washed Out and All Traffic
Is Now by Boat--Rivers High
ThroughoutState.

Seattle, Nov. 15.-Floods are raging
in the White and Duwamish river val
leys. Other portions of the Western
part of the state are having trouble
with heavy rains which caused the
rivers to rise and overflow their banks.
Hundreds have been forced to leave
their homes and seek safety on the
high lands, and with the falling of
night thousands made their beds on
the damp ground or sought shelter in
the already crowded honmes of those
fortunate enough to be out of reach of
the rising waters.
The flooded district is centered in
the valley south of Seattle. Auburn,
Kent, Orilla and other White river
towns; also Renton and the functions
on the Cedar river and the newer dis
tricts on the Duwamish have suffered
from the rising waters.
The rains have been falling for the
past week and the already swollen riv-
ers yesterday rose very rapaidly.
Communication by rail between Sc
attic and Tacoma is off, both by the
Interurban and Northern Pacific. Pas
sengers from Portland for Seattle were
transferred at Tacoma and sent over
on the Flyer. This will be continued
until the road gets it's track in shape
again.
Eight trains, with a thousand pas
sengers for Seattle have been stalled
for "a hours at Leavenworth by the
washing out Of an APPROACH to the Great
Northern bridge. The repairs were
expected to te finished this morning.
A great amount of damage is also
reported being done by the Yakima
river in the vicinity of Thorp.