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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24

gave up his time to the drilling Of
troops In order that they might be in
readiness for the inevitable conflict.
With the company Of minute men
that he had trained DIR. Brooks was
present at the battle Of Lexington and
received soon afterward the commission
OF major. From then until the close
Of the war DR.. Brooks was constantly
in the field.
In the battle Of Saratoga he stormed
and carried the German intrenchments
at the head of his regiment. He was
adjutant general at the battle Of Mon
mouth, being associated with Baron
Won Steuben. During the Newburg con-
spirancy Of 1888 Brooks was faithful
adhercnt of Washington and rendered
great service to him.
After the war he returned to the
practice Of his profession in Medford
and later acted in several military po-
sitions In the state. In 1916 he was
elected governor of Massachusetts, be-
ing chosen by grateful commonwealth
In recognition OF the services he had
render them In a time of danger.
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GREAT NORTHERN and
BURLINGTON TO merge

Omaha, Nov. 2O.-The Bee says:
Within one week the equity which
the Northern Pacific now holds in the
Burlington will pass into the hands OF
the Great Northern, and within fifteen
days be merged into one vast system,
with James J. Hill in control
This statement was made by man
close to the official family of the Hill
roads who has just returned from Chi
cago, where the intricate operations
of this gigantic transaction are now
being perfected. He makes the state
ment without reservation.
So far as the lines of track Of the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
Burlington are concerned, these three
roads lack but one little link of being
in fact, one great system. When the
short cut from Billings to Great Falls
Mont, is completed the uni6cation
will be contaminated. The Western
terminus of the Burlington is Billings,
where it meets the Northern Pacific.
A line has been in course of con-
for some time from Billings
to Great Falls, where the Great North
EN- runs on its way to the Coast.
This line will soon be finished, and
when it is the three great railroads
will be joined and merged, physically,
into one vast system, but the federal
objecting, the Northern
Pacific will not be named in the union.
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Names COMMITTEES
OF INVESTIGATION

Olympia, Nov. lin pursuance
of his general policy of having all insti-
buttons and departments of the state
government Investigated and examined
by committees of officials and citizens
not connected in any manner with
these institutions and departments,
Gov. Mead has announced the person
mel of committees to examine the state
reform school, at Chehalis, the state
fish commission, whose headquarters
are at Bellingham, and the state oil
INSPECTION department, whose head
quarters are at Seattle These investi-
cations are for the purpose Of report
ing on the exact condition Of affairs
and making recommendations for leg
islatjon concerning the institutions
and Offices.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
WATERS ARE REcEpINc
Conditions In Flooded District. Show

Conditions In Flooded District. Show
Improvement.
Seattle. Nov. 19.-Conditions in the
hooded district between this city and
Tacoma are much brighter. The wa.
ters In the White and Black rivers
have receded and farmers are gradu.
ally resuming their usual routine.
At Kent dairying operations are re.
snmed and lights have been. turned on
again. Auborn's condition is i'm.
proved and local train service oper.
ating
Communication with Renton from
this city has been resumed by the Sc.
attic Renton railway, which gets
within half mile of Renton. Lines
OF other railways are washed out and
1t will be near the end of the week be.
fore they can operate.
Many farmers in the valley state
that instead of doing harm the floods
have done them good by fertilizine
their lands. The Great Northern and
Northern Pacific have resumed par
tai train service and expect to be run.
ming as usual by the end of the week.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24

Racine, Wis. Nov. 19.-Represen-
tatlve 81. A. Cooper is an advocate OF
the immediate revision of the tariff.
He believes that session OF congress
should be called in the spring for the
purpose Of disposing OF the tariff ques-
tion in order that business may adjust
itself to the new scheule and new con-
ditions before the campaign OF 1908,
thus removing the tariff from the pres
idential contest. President Roosevelt,
it is reported, has incorporated in his
message recommendation that the
Porto Ricans be made citizens OF the
United States. Mr.. Cooper expects
his bill to be considered at the coming
short session of congress.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
DOUBTS VALIDITY OF
Rail WAY COMMISSION ACT

Olympia. Nov. % in his forthcom-
lug biennial report, Attorney General
John D. Atkinson calls attention to
the serious doubt existing as to the
validity of the railway commission
act of 1905 because of the exemption
of street railway and interurban lines
from its operations.
While expressing his opinion that
the act is not unconstitutional, he
calls attention to the matter for legls-
lative consideration.
Mr.. Atkinson also calls attention
to The fact that the state has no anti
trust law, as provided for by the state
constitution, fact brought out first
in an opinin given Grain Commission
er WI. Reed relative to the alleged
grain buyers trust.
In his report Mr.. Atkinson calls at
tention to the constantly increasing
Work of his department. In period
twenty-five months the states at
torneys have appeared in 134 cases,
the majority of which have been de-
cided favorably to the state. Seven
hundred opinions are included in the
report, besides large number of lesser
Importance that are not made OF re-
cord in the document. The creation
OF the railway commission has greatly
increased the duties of he office, both
In an advisory capacity and in repre-
senting the state in railway hearings
Attention is called to the progress
made with the settlement of the Wash
intgon-Oregon interstate boundary
dispute on the Colubmia river
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
CITIES MAY REGULATE
SPEED OF AUTOMOBILES

Olympia, Nov. 20.-That the state
law of 1905, licensing and regulating
the speed of automobiles in this state,
does not take away the right Of the
cities of the state to pass ordinances
regulating the speed of automobiles,
is held by the supreme court In the
case of the City Of Bellingham against
Ray Cissna. The city Of Bellingham
has an ordinance regulating the speed
Of motor vehicles and Cissna was ar
rested for exceeding the limit. On
appeal the supreme court holds that
the ordinance is valid.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
WHAT DID LUCK DO FOR THEMf

Has Chance Advanced Most Of Our
Successful Mens
When we consider the few who owe
fortune or position to accident or
''luck," in comparison with the masses
who have to fight every inch OF the
way to their own loaves, what are they.
in reality, but the exceptions to the
rule that character, merit-not fate, or
"luck," or any other bogy of the imag-
ination-control the destinies Of menu
The only luck that plays any great
part In a mans life is that which In
heres in a stout heart, willing hand.
and an alert brain.
What has chance ever done In the
world? Has it invented telegraph or
telephone? Has it laid an ocean ca
bic? Has it built steamships, or es-
tablished universities, asylums, or hos
pitals? Has it tunneled mountains.
built bridges, or brought miracles out
Of the soil?
What did ''luck" have to do with
making the career Of Washington, Of
Lincoln. of Daniel Webster, Of Henry
CLAW. of Grant, of Garfield, or Of Elihu
Root? Did it help Edison or Marconi
with their inventions? Did 1t have any
thing to do with the making OF the
fortunes of our great merchant princes?
DO such men as John Wanamaker,
Robert Ogden, or Marshall Field owe
+boir success to luck?
I have never known a man to amount
TO much until he cut out OF his vocaD-
ulary such wards as good luck and
.bad luck" and from his life maxims
all the II can't" words and the Il
can't" philosopy. There Is no WORD
in the English language more misused
and abused than luck" More people
have excused themselves for POOR work
and mean, stingy, poverty -stricken ca
reers BY saying luck was against
themn than by any other excuse.
That door ahead of you, young man.
ia probably closed because you have
closed it-closed it by lack of train
ing: BY a lack Of ambition, energy, and
push. While, perhaps, you have been
waiting for luck" to open 1t, q pluck
Ter. grittier fellow has stepped In ahead
Of YOU and opened it himself Orison
SWEET Marden, In Success Magazine
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SUGAR TRUST GUILTY
Convicted at New York on Charge Of
Receiving Rebates.

Convicted at New York on Charge Of
Receiving Rebates.
New York, Nov. 21.-The American
Sugar Refining Company was found
guilty by jury in the United States
circuit court here of accepting rebates
amounting to $26, 900 from the New
York Central railroad. The New York
Central was recently found guilty OF
giving rebates to the American Sugar
Refining company and fined sos, 600.
Joseph 81. Choate, formerly ambas-
sador to Grea. Britain, in his argu-
ment for the defense. declared that
there was no precedent in American
law for such an enormous penalty as
the stat,te against relating provided.
It was necessary, he added. to go
back severa. centuries in English law
to find an instance in which penalty
amounting to more than 500, 600 had
been imposed.
The defense offered no testimony.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
JAPANESE TOO AGGRESSIVE


Rnssians complain Of Constant North
ward Advance in Manchuria.
st. Petersburg, Nov. l7.-According
to advices from Vladivostok there 10
constant friction between the Russians
and japanese in ManchLria. The
Japanese, According to the newspap-
ers of Vladivostok. are continually
pressing northward in Manchuria,
with the apparent intent Of establish
ing themselves in the hinterland Of
Vladivostok, where their presence
would constitute serious menace to
the fortress, involving the possibility
Of tho resumption Of hostilities.
The charges that the japanese are
fortifying the island Of Saghalien. in
violation of the terms Of the treaty
of Portsmouth, is reiterated by the
User Zhisn.
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Magazine Coupons Barred

Seattle. Nov. 17.-After March 4,
1907, publishers of magazines and
periodicals will have to eliminate re-
turn coupons in advertisement or pay
a higher rate for postage. This in
formation has been received at the Sc.
attic postoffice from the third assist
ant postmaster general. Newspapers
and magazines are entitled to the
second class rate. The coupons are held
by the assistant postmaster general to
be writing paper to be used by the
reader for future correspondence,
hence belonging to the class of mail
matter listed as merchandise, for
which rate of one cent an ounce is
provide.
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Had Right to Hire EXPERT

Olympia. Nov. 2l.-The state su-
preme court, by vote of toll, has de-
cided that writ of mandate should
be granted to compel the state auditor
to issue warrants in payment Of q
thousand dollar a month salary of 81.
P. Gillett, the expert engineer en-
p!oyed by the railroad commission
Justice Fullerton, in a dissenting
opinion, declared that the salary was
extravagant and that the majority de-
cision was radically wrong when it re-
fused the state the right to pass upon
extravaganza in auditing bills against
its treasury.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
COTTON AND CORN IN SOUTH.

Greater liberalization of Crops
Would Be More Profitable.
In those parts of Louisiana and Ar
kansas where cotton is grown, D. A..
Brodie, In the Yearbook of the De-
bartment Of Agriculture, divides the
farmers into three classes, says the
New York Tribune. First, there is the
large planter, who owns extensive
tracts Of land, In most cases amounting
to thousands of acres. 1t is not un-
common to find anywhere from twenty
to 100 families on one plantation.
These are mostly negroes. The owner
himself either engages In business In
the city. or, more commonly, person
ally directs the operations Of the ten
ants. The second class is the small
land owner, who owns and operates his
own farm, either doing the work alone
Or with hired help. The third and
most numerous class is the tenants,
consisting largely Of negroes. Most Of
these are found on the large planta,
lions, paying either a cash rental or
giving share Of the crop.
Although the list of crops that can
be and are successfully grown In
Louisiana and Arkansas Is as great as
that of any portion of the country,
still it may be said that the agricul-
ture Of this region is based on two
crops cotton and corn. Cotton. being
the most important crop, usually occu-
pies itself year after year on the same
ground, except on such portions as are
selected each year for corn. 1t will
readily be seen that where cotton and
corn have been grown in this way on
the same ground for long periods Of
time the land has become SO exhausted
that 1t no longer yields profitable crops.
In former times, when the land became
exhausted, it was allowed to "lie out"
that Is, it was no longer cultivated
and soon became thicket of trees and
brush The old cotton rows may yet
be seen In the second growth pine
thickets, marking many fields that have
not been cultivated since the Civil War.
The advance to more improved meth
DDS has been greatly hindered by what
Is known throughout the South as the
credit system. By this system farmers
are furnished with the supplies and
tools necessary for conducting the
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
BEE BURROWS IN THE EARTH.

One Variety Makes Home Uuaer.
ground to Rear Its Younx.
The burrowing bees are commonly
ranked with solitary insects. Certainly
they are not Social" living In organ
lied communities like honey bees. But
one might venture to call then,
neighborly insects" for they love to
make their cavernous hermitages In
well-equipped neighborhoods.
Their burrow sites are preferably
upon hard, dry spots with a bit Of
slope maybe. Therein the mother will
sink shaft eight or ten inches deep
and about three-eighths of an inch
wide. On either side she will dig out
small ovate cells, five or six in all.
which she duly provisions and supplies
with an egg apiece.
The burrows are about the bigness Of
the occupant and extend inward for
foot or 50 with sundry enlargements
after the fashion of their kind, where
In the young are bred. In the height
of the season these bee neighborhoods
are the scene Of a busy life. The air
resounds with the hum Of wings as the
insects fly to and fro on parental duties
bent, plenishing their nurseries with
pollen and honey of the flowers. But
just inside each burrow gate an inter-
esting phase Of insect life goes on.
Beyond the gateway, which Is about
the length of the bee, there rises YES
tibule-a tiny expansion of the burrow
whose use soon appears. Just with
in the gateway with face toward the
opening one of the housekeepers, now
the male and now the famale, but often
er the former, keeps constantly on
guard. And great need there Is for
such sentry duty, for insect rogues and
thieves besiege the doors to plumber
the contents of the nurseries or infect
them with parasitic eggs.
Here, then, we see the male on SEN
try duty, his body blocking up the gate
way and his rounded head closing up
the entrance. When his mate comes
home with her bee basket full tho
guard backs into the vestibule, which Is
large enough to allow the passing Of
the female, and returns to his post. A
loving welcome awaits the incOmer, for
the doorkeeper with open mandibles
and waving attennae, the apain style Of
embrace, greets his partner right JOY
ously. Thus the good mistress Of our
homes and their maids at the back
gate are not the only order of house
keeping creatures that exchange kisses
at ones doorways.-Harper's Magazine.
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Milwaukee, Wis. Nov. 19.-The
Evening Wisconsin says: The
Of the Pacific extension OF
tho Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul to
the coast viii mean the elimination
from that system Of independent ex-
press companies. The road will or
oanize and put into operation its own
express line, supersedinR the United
states Express company. At the same
time. it Is said, the Chicago, Burling-
ton q Quincy will refuse to renew Its
contract with the Adams company and
will make q contract with the North
ern Pacific Express company.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24
GRAND JURY INDICTS
SCHMlTz and RUFF

San Francisco, Nov. 1.-THE grand
jury yesterday returned indictments,
five in number, against Mayor Schmitz
and Abraham Ruef on charges of ex-
tortion. Bail was fixed at $40, 900 on
each charge.
San Francisco, Nov. 17.-Following
the indictment yesterday of Mayor
Schmitz and Abe Ruef by the grand
jury that body met again to continue
investiation of the alleged wrong
doings by these two and others.
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DR.. Crapsey Suspended

Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-Rev. DR..
Algernon s. Crapsey, of st. Andrews
Episcopal church, Rochester, is con-
demned to suspension from the church
as result of the decision of the eccles-
iastical court Of review, just made
public. The court of review sustain
ed the decision Of the lower court,
which was that DR.. Orspsey should be
suspended for heretical teachings.
The announcement of the decision
was made as follows: ''The court Of
review has affirmed Unanimously tho
decision Of the lower court in the case
Of Rev. Algernon s. Crapsey, D. D."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24

Spokane, Nov. 2l.-The fourteenth
annual meeting Of the State Dairy
mems Association will be held in this
city four days commencing with De-
cember IL. A fund has been raised
by the dairymen Of the state to pur-
chase q silver cup to be presented to
the person making . model sanitary
milking stool, and it is expected that
models will be shown at the coming
meeting.
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in her passports. came near becoming
the central figure in an international
episode between the United States and
Russian governments. Miss Winhofer
is an Iowa girl, musician. She had
been visiting pupil in Russia at the
time Of her brutal treatment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-24

those Of the men
who made common
cause with them at
time when the proc
lamation Of allie
glance to such q
cause was c0nsid-
cred treason to the
e existing govern
ment. One of these
men was DR.. John
Brooks, who settled
as a physician at,
Reading, Mass, and
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INSURANCE Commission
RECOMMENDS new LAWS

NnIC08O, NOV. l9.-MemDerS OF the
insurance commission who have been
in session here for the past week draft
ing projected laws for the control of
life insurance throughout the country.
have completed thier work and ad.
journed.
No complete report Of the contem-
plated recommend atoms was made
prior to the adjournment, and it will
not be prepared for some time. Six
teen new proposed laws have been
drawn up and it is believed by the
commissioners that they will, if adopt
ed by the various states, correct the
greater part of the abuses in the man.
agement of the life insurance compa.
MES. The bills will be introduced
during next winter into the legisla-
lures Of thirty-seven states.
T. Enrake, the insurance commits
sioner for the District of Columbia,
will submit the proposed measures to
President Roosevelt in order that they
may be mentioned in the forthcoming
message of the president to congress.
The proposed new acts may be sum-
married. as follows:
Standard Policy Forms
A standard policy act which pro-
vides six forms Of uniform policies for
use by all life insurance companies.
An annual superintendent act which
requires life insurance companies
either to pay annual dividends or
credit the amount of surplus which
the companies are permitted to retain
in their treasures.
An act prohibiting discrimination
and rebating between agents and pol
icy holders.
An act prohibiting corporations
from acting as agents of life insurance
companies.
An act regulating the election Of the
directors of mutual life insuranc COM
panies.
An act prohibiting the publishing
of estimates and illustrations which
misrepresent the terms Of any policy,
or the benefits or advantages promised
thereby.
An act prohibiting life insurance
companies from expanding more than
So, 900 for any specific purpose without
the consent of the board of directors.
An act prohibiting life insurance
companies from paying any officer a
salary in excess of $50, 900 annually.
An act regulating the Investment of
life insurance company funds.
Policy Entire Contract
An act making the policy the entire
contract between the insured parties.
An act defining the status Of persons
who solicit life insurance.
An act prohibiting life insurance
companies from issuing participating
and participating policies.
An act regulating the disbursements
of life insurance companies.
An act regulating companies run on
the life assessment plan.
An act regulating the retirement OF
capital stock of life insurance compa-
MES.
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Transfer Made to Seattle

st. Louis, Nov. 1.-THE Japanese
consul in st. Louis says Japan will
probably punish San Francisco by
transferring commerce from San Fran
cisco to Seattle.