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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
AMERICA OBJECTSTODAT
FOR HAGUE CONFERENCE

st. Petersburg, April 9.-Ambassa
dor Meyer, representing the United
States, has informed the Russian for
eign Office that July is not approved
of by the United States for The Hagu,
conference, because it would conflict
with the Pan-American congress and
with the Red Cross convention at Gen
eva, Switzerland. M
The text of the Russian note to the
powers on the subject gives the en-
peror full credit for the initiative, not
mentioning President Roosevelt's pre-
limlnary step in this direction. The
introduction to the document is ia
striking contrast to the invitation to
the original conference of 1898, which
pointed out how the increasingly ex-
pensive ornaments were weighing
down the various nations and threat
ening the world with gigantic catas-
trophe and made noble appeal for q
general disarmament in order to sub
stitute for the era of armed peace, the
era of peace based upon the settlement
of international disputes by the justice
of arbitration.
Not only do the second invitation
not press the idea of disarmament, but
it distinctly excludes it from consider
alton and only presents as program
for discussion the questions raised by
the Russo-Japanese war, without
touching on questions relating to the
limitation of the naval and land
forces."I
It is remarkable that alongside this
document, for the further develop
ment of the principles of humanity
which formed the basis of the confer
ence of $780," the Official Messenger
prints another batch of repressive
laws, making it a penitentiary offense
of one and a half years and the loss Of
all civil rights for an unarmed person
to resist the police or other govern
ment employees, or to make threats de-
signed to prevent an employee or off,
cial from fulfilling his duty.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
NO GOVERNMENT AID
FOR ALASKAN ROADS

Washington, April o. Senator
Burnham, member Of the committee
on territories; senator Piles, Of Wash
ington, and Representative Hamilton,
chairman of the house committee on
territories, have had conference with
the president regarding the granting
Of government aid to railways project
ed in Alaska. After the conference
Representative Hamilton said that it
was quite certain that the government
would not guarantee the bonds Of any
Of the Alaskan railroads. Some OF
the promoters of railroads in Alaska,
he said, were very insistent that gov
eminent aid should be rendered, bat
the committee could not see their way
clear to give the aid asked, az private
capital was known to be in readiness
to construct the needed roads in the
territory.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
NAPLES MARKET FALLS
UNDER Weight OF ASHES

Naples, April r0-A frightful dis
aster has occurred in the center of this
city, following the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius. Two hundred people, it. is
estimated, were buried this morning
in the ruins of the market Monte live
to when the roof collapsed under the
weight of cinders from the volcano.
The exact number of people within the
building at the moment of the catas-
trophe is not known, and the list of
fatalities is problematical.
Terrifying news is reaching the city
this morning from points throughout
the district surrounding Ottajano. Re-
ports indicate that an enormous area
is buried beneath ashes and cinders.
The present disaster is looked upon
as a repetition of the catastrophe to
Pompeii and Herculaneum,e except that
in this instance ashes rather than lava
cover the devastated places, and the
loss of life is less.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
oYsTER RESERVE CREATED.
Four Thousand Acres 10 Be Kept b.
State ~ a6eding Ground.

Four Thousand Acres to Be Kept By
State NJ a6slins Ground.
Olympia, April l9.-The state oyster
commission, consisting Of Acting Gov
ernor Charles E. Coon, StS1e Itohd
Commissioner E. w. Ross and Fish
Commissioned j. L. Riseland, have
made an order creating Long Island
Oyster Reserve, more than 1000
acres in extent, in Willapa bay, near
South Bend.
The matter of creating this reserve
has been pending before the board for
several years, and was brought to a
head during the week, whom State Sem
ator ]. T. Welsh, of Pacific county ap-
peared before the board and made ap-
plication to withdraw thirteen appli-
cations of his clients for purchase OF
oyster lands in Willapa bay, the with
drawal of the applications to purchase
being conditioned on the establish
ment by the board of an oyster re-
serve.
The order was made and the lands
are thus forever reserved from sale or
lease, and will be used as seeding
grounds, from which oysters for pur-
poses of culture will be sold under the
direction of the state fish commits
sioner.
It is announced by the state oyster
board and by Senator Welsh that the
action of the board in creating this re-
serve accounts for the rejection of ap-
plications made in the past to pur-
chase oyster lands within the limits
Of the reserve just created.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
CYCLONE OF SOCIALISM.
Morgan Predicts Disaster as Result Of
Railroad Legislation.

Washington. April 11.-Mr. Nc
Laurin and Mr.. Morgan addressed the
senate on the railroad rate question,
the former advocating the legislation
and the latter opposing it.
The Mississippi senator announced
his intention to support the amend
ment providing for a court review Of
the decisions of the interstate COM
MERGE compassion, and also stated his
adherence to the Bailey act. prohibit
ing the Temporary suspension of the
commissions orders by the inferior
courts.
Mr.. Morgan said he was opposed to
the Hepburn -Dolliver bill because It
created national committee that
would ultimately be under the control
of the railroads. He said that the
bill repealed law that was sacred to
the English speaking people, the right
Of jury trial and vested in commits
sion the right to determine the reason
ableness OF rate
In the end. he, said the United
States will own all the railroads. q
condition which he did not like to
contemplate. He spoke OF the dangers
OF the management of tho railroad sys-
TENS of the United States By fifty mag
mates, and predicted Cyclone 81 60
cialism," with consequent wreekage
Of values, as the result Of their unbri-
died control Of this great power.
He believed the states could control
the roads singie-hAnded. but II aid
from the national government should
be necessary it could be granted by q
few simple enactments without enter.
ing upon an effort to regulate rates
The United States cannot control
the roads," he said, because they
have no proprietnrship in than; the
st4tes can contsol them beoxn6s th15
have proprietorship in them through
their charters.
He sid be would deny to any rail.
road the NJ jo1ftt 81 wi,pse stick NJ
c9ntaol1hd ~ Enother camjApJ o. he'll
in another state than that in which
| the road was owned, the pripileRe d
ld6Mk N inssf1tnse business.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Timing Succeed Nadeau.

Seattle, April lI.-Alexander Tin
ling, general agent Of the Northern
Pacific railway at Spokane and for q
number of years in the same capacity
at Tacoma. has been named az the
successor to Ira A. Nadeau, who re-
Gently resigned as general agent of the
Northern Pacific in Seattle to take the
position of salaried executive officer
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
The official announcement Of the ap-
pointment was received from st. Paul
at the local Offices of the Northern Pa.
'cific yesterday. The change takes ef-
feet April l6.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
RUSSIAN ELECTIONS
0VfRNaEl WING VICTORY FOR n,
uBElM PARTIES.
As Far As Ascertained Hardl, .
Single Reactionary Candida.
was Elected = Issue Betw..,
Reaction and Reform Prec;,
itated.

st. Petersburg, April 9.-The OH.
toral colleges in twenty-eight Of ~.
fifty one provinces of European Rnss;s
yesterday elected l78 members Of ~.
national parliament, about ope.th;as ~
of its entire membership, and retnr nv
received up to midnight indicate th..
the widest hopes of the Liberals how
Eeen realized, the constitutional nem
ocrats and other progressivists nract;
cally everywhere having gained tra
mendons victory over the Octoberi.,.
and other conservative parties.
As far as ascertained not single ,.
dictionary candidate pulled throuoh
and nowhere did even the Octoberis,..
score triumph. The majorities Oh '
tanned by the radicals clinch the char
acter of the victory. From the VolO,
to the frontier of Poland and from thu
still ice bound coast of Archaneel :.
the Black sea the story is substantial.
" the same.
One of the astonishing as we'll .s
hopeful signs for the future is the
character of many of the peasants
elected. Before the electoral colleges
began to elect the members allotted Ia
a province, the peasants chose one Of
their number as a candidate. This
provision was designed to appease the
peasants and also was regarded BY the
government as insuring conservative
nucleus, but this calculation has bee.
sadly upset, for in almost every in.
stance the peasants were not only pro-
gressivists of the highly educated
among their class, but the majority Of
them at least have school education.
Among the prominent persons elect.
ed are Prince Balataitef, the well
known zemstvoist worker Of Sim irsk:
Prince Shakeffsky, of Yaroslav, and
Prof. Maxim Kovolevsky, Of Kharkof.
While no definite results of the mu.
nicipal elections held yesterday are
they seem also everywhere to
have gone in favor Of the progressiv.
lists
Yesterdays results prove beyond
4uOcCAOA VAdO tAO CdAOu4dV4OAS VI Guo
government have been rudely upset
and that the opponsition elements will
control the national parliament by a
decisive majority. Premier Whites
efforts to induce the emperor to pro.
claim constitution should now be
greatly reinforced.
Another crisis plainly confronts the
government, for the sweeping charac-
ter Of their victory undoubtedly will
encourage the Liberals to push the
government to the wall, and it would
seem that the emperor must yield to
the enteraties of those who counsel a
final surrender by issuing constitu.
ton to the people or dispensing the
national parliament as soon as it as
sembles. There seems no alternative
to the choice of one of these courses.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
VESUV|US BELChES
FIRE, SMOKE AND Lava
Hundreds Perish In the Small Towns
Near Great Vo1can0-Ashes In
Naples Crush Buildings.

| lated to bear the weight of ashes and
cinders that have fallen upon them.
Inevitably it will be found that con
siderable number of persons have per
ished in the falling Of their homes.
Although the eruption of the volcano
is less violent than it was twenty -four
hours ago, the ashes are still falling
in great quantities.
Refugees Fill Roads.
Refugees from the threatened vii
lagos are coming into Naples by every
description of conveyance and on foot.
The roads are crowded with the pro-
cessions. Special railway trains, war
ships and steamers are taking thou
sands of homeless people to Naples,
Rome and Castellamar, while large
numb ers of people are fleeing overland
In the direction of Caserta.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Helena have further endeared them
selves to the people by their activity
in behalf of the sufferers by the erup-
ton.
The military authorities are distrib-
uting rations and have placed huts
and tents at the disposition of the
homeless.
In the course of at our of inspection
in an automobile by an Associated
Press representative point was
reached from which Vesuvius could be
seen under its cloud of smoke. The
high cone of the volcano has gone
almost entirely, having been swallowed
up, so that the height of the mountain
is nearly 600 feet less than formerly.
On the north side of the mountain
new craters have been formed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
ILLINOIS PRIMARY Law
NOT CONSTITUTIONAL

Springfield, Ills, April 9.-The Illi-
nois primary election law has been de-
clared unconstitutional by the su-
preme court of the state.
Gov. Deneen at once issued call
for special session Of the state legis.
lature to be held at Springfield Tues
day morning to enact new primary
law.
Chairman West, Of the Republican
state central committee has isseud q
call for the state committee to meet
next Saturday to rescind the call 70,
the Republican state convention called
for May Il.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Favorable Report ON Burke Bill.

Washington, April THE house
committee on Indian affairs has au-
thorized favorable report on the
Burke bill providing for the allotment
and distribution Of Indian territory
tribal funds. These funds aggregate
$50, 600. 900 and are to Be distributed
to individual Indians on the order OF
the president, who, upon the applica-
tion of an Indian, shall determine his
fitness to relinquish the tribal relation
and become q citizen Of the United
States.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14

Lorain. O., April Upon author
ity it is learned that independent steel
interests, backed BY monied men Of
New York and Chicago, have planned
q gigantic steel plant to be located al
Oak Point, q few miles west OF here,
BY means Of which they propose t.
fight the United States Steel Corpora.
ton. According to advance reports,
the syndicate, which has purcha sed
8, 900 acres Of land, intends to locats
furnaces and tin plate mills at thai
noiut
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14

Naples, April 10.-Yesterday was
day of terror for the cities, towns and
country about Mount Vesuvius. Ac.
cording to information received late
last night, probably as many as SOC
lives we're lost.
It is said that more than 200 persons
persisted in the district of San Gui-
seppe, where from the ruins OF a
church which collapsed owing to the
weight of ashes on the roof forty-nine
bodies were extricated, and it is as
serted that at Sorrento twenty two
persons were killed by falling houses.
San Guisippe is near Ottajano.
A railway train from San Giuseppe
for Naples was derailed owing to show
ers of stones from the crater.
Cavalry proceeding to the succor of
the inhabitants of the devastated re-
gion have been unable to make prog
ress, the rain falling on the ashes a
foot deep having made it impossi BILE
for the horses to travel.
The sea is greatly agitated. The
sky has cleared, but heavy clouds hang
downpour.
Troops are erecting barricades in
the direction of Pompeii to prevent
further danger in that quarter.
At midnight the situation had be-
come more reassuring, the lava streams
having diminished in volume and in
some directions having stopped alto
gether, while copious rainfall was
cooling the lava where it lies station
airy.
Church Destroyed During Mass.
Almost equal to the devastation
wrought by the lava is the damage
done by cinders and ashes, which, in
incredible quantities, have been car
ried great distances. This has caused
the practical destruction, of San Gui-
seppe, a place Of 5000 inhabitants.
All but two Numbered of the people
had fled from San Giuseppe, and these
200 assembled in a church to attend
mass. While the priest was perform
ing his sacred Offices, the roof fell in
on about sixty persons.
At Ottajano five churches and ten
houses fell under the weight of ashes
and cinders, which lie four feet deep
on the ground. In the fall of the
buildings about twelve persons we're
killed and many were injured. The
village is completely deserted by its
people. After the evacuation of the
place the barracks and prisons fell in.
Towns Devastated.
Reports from the coast and inland
towns depict terrible devastation and
many of them have been almost COM
pletely abandoned.
Most of the buildings in the villages
are of flimsy construction and have
fat roofs, and go are but poorly calcu-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14

Washingtoa, April 9.-The follow
ing bills hAve peel the senate: Az
thorizing the d5spbsition Of govern
ment pcrobefty a Hawaii; incorpo..
rating the Archaeological Institute +"
Ametioa; authorizing cable from
Key West, Florida to Guantanamo.
Cuba, and thence to the isthmus Oh
Panaaha Tor government and CONNER.
cial husiuess, ct . cost Of 1927, WV
authorizing appeals to circuit cop,s
Of interlocutory orders in cases invol'-
ing constitutional questions.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Must be Careful of Wires.

Washington, April 11.--Action is
contemplated by the war department
which will make more stringent the
old regulations regarding Interference
with military telegraph lines. On ac-
count of the carelessness of travellers
on Alaska trails in telling trees in such
q way as to break down telegraph
wires, it is proposed to prosecute In
cases Of mere carelessness the same as
in instances of malicious destruction
of property.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
WASHINGTON NEWS

Nelson is to have bank.
Harrington Baptists will build new
church.
A new rural delivery route has beer
authorized at Park, Whatcom county.
Sunday was law enforcement day il
Seattle churches, many Of the minis
ters speaking on the subject.
Inspector Brown, Of Yakima county,
says Yakima valley ranchers will plant
$50, 900 fruit trees this season.
The Sunset Telephone Company has
cut it's rate between Bellingham and
Lynden from 25 cents to 10 cents.
The state penitentiary is filled to its
capacity. Work on the new wing il
at standstill becauses OF differences
with the contractors.
Vancouver has municipal league,
just formed, with mem bership OF
fifty citizens, to look after the enforce
ment of law and order. The city is
now a Mecca for the unemployed on
account of the building of the north
bank railroad.
The little town of Moscow, eight
miles east of Harrington, which in
times past has caused much trouble to
the postoffice department by the SINH
larity of it's name to that of Moscow,
Idaho, has decided on a change of
name and has adopted 'Bluestem.
Work has begun on the new court
house at Waterville.
A gas franchise has been granted by
the Vancouver city council.
Rainfall in Washington, for March
is reported by the weather bureau to
have been remarkably light.
Colfax had town house cleaning
day last week. Everybody turned out
to help.
The quarterly report of the county
auditor shows 322 coyotes and three
lynx were killed in Whitman county
in that period.
l. u0 SIduu AOOS0 VI w oSAAASGOAs ~.
of P, will hold its annual session at
Seattle May Is, 16 and II. Competi-
tive drills for prize and trip to New
Orleans will be a particular feature.
Found guilty of acting as attorney
for both plaintiff and defendant in
number of cases; of acting as an at
torney while on the bench and other
discrepancies, Attorney G. V. Martin
has been suspended by the court at
Wenatchee from the practice of law in
this state for three years.
The secretary of the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce has received letter
from L. L. Pictus, who has charge of
the bulb culture work of the Depart
ment of agriculture, saying that the
department is contemplating the es-
tablishment of bulb farm on Puget
sound. Mr.. Pictus expects to visit
this section soon with view to taking
the matter up.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Treaty Includes Bribery.

Washington, April 9.-The supple
mentary treaty between this country
and Japan, recently signed at Tokyo,
is composed of single article, includ-
ing bribery in the list of extraditable
crimes,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Root to Round the Horn.

Washington, April 9.-Secretary
Root has consented, upon the request
of South American diplomats stationed
here, to extend his projected visit to
Rio de Janeiro around the Horn to
the various other South American
countries.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
Woman Suffrage Bill Passed.

Providence, R. l., April 9.-The
woman SURFACE bill, providing that
women as we'll as men may participate
in the election of presidential electors
has been passed by the state senate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14
SEATTLE nARkeT REPORT
Purchasing Prices.

Purchasing Prices.
The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers fos
delivery in round lots I. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no
tice:
Grain-Oats. $ss@so per ton; bar.
ley, $24@24.5O per ton; wheat,
chicken feed, e21@32; bran, $l8;
shorts, SIC; corn, ga.
Hay-Eastern Washington, e16@17
per ton; Puget sound, t1O@1l; al
falfa, 90. 5O@1O.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, TIC.
Pou1try-Live hens, 15H@10o pc,
ID; ducks, lac loo :geese, 10@ 13c.
Wool-Eastern Washington, 1S@2Ot
per ID; Western Washington, 24@25c
dirty or timber stained, 2Oc.
Live Stock -Sheen wethers, &
per Id; ewes, @5 20; hogs, 81
@7c; steers, 4h1c; COWS, sHc; calve,
SOTO; lambs, s. per head.
Tacoma Quotations.
wheat-C Club, 67e; biuestem, $50
red, $50.
Oats PES. Se@so; rolled Data
sac. 5O@s1.
Hay, Alfalfa. etc-Wheat hay
$la. 50@i4; timothy, $l7@1S. 50
mixed, $12. 5O@l4; clover, $lS@14
alfalfa, $1I@ls.
Feed-Corn, $25; wheat, t26; bar
ley, whole grain, $3.50; rolled
$25. so; bran, $1e; shorts, $40. SOC
2l.5O.
Fresh Meats Cow beef, 7c; steei
beef, 7Kc; wethef, 101<@1lc; sprin,
lambs, iOH@11c; ewes, 1OK@1io
pork, loo; trimmed, lac; shoats
$2@S each; veal, dressed, 1880.
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, sso
chickens, dressed, spring, 100; ducks
dressed, lbc; geese, drsA6ed, Ice
Live-HenA 190lshc; dlokA loo
/ geese, loo; spring chickens, 14o.
Observation-Disclosures creamery, $50
SOC; ranch. 1Sc; haltskn sctiis5Amsry
16@3O6.
Eocs-W,shinaeon vanch i've
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-04-14

Reports from the coast and inland
towns depict terrible devastation and
many of them have been almost COM
pletely abandoned.
Most of the buildings in the villages
are of flimsy construction and have
fat roofs, and go are but poorly calcu-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11
Beet Trust, Medicine Trust, Pure Food
Foes, Patent Medicine Fiends Con.
troll State Legislation.
Illinois Is the Only State in the
Union Where the People
Are Asleep.

Beef Trusts and other Corporations
that are crooked or that want much
from the Legislature without letting the
people get on to the fact: and patent
medicine trusts that are afraid the
people will learn that they are selling
poisons have discovered new way of
controlling public opinion without
showing their own hand. They do
their business through professional
advertising agents, who claim to be
able to handle the daily and country
press. In turn the advertising agents
put In large ads. for the Beef Trust,
the Medicine Trust or some other trust
as the case may be, always stipulating
In their contracts that all contracts
for advertising are void II tho State
Legislature passes any law inimicai to
the Beef Trust, Medicine Trust. That
IL about rs comprehensive, as frank.
~ impudent scheme of controlling
legialation as It 10 possible to imag.
ine. And 50 the Patent Medl.
cine Trust Of America, for one,
maintains a lawyer in Chicago. and a
permanent secretary. Office and stan.
In every State capital In the United
States 1t maintains an agent whose
business II Is to watch during the ses.
sion Of the Legislature each days
batch Of new bills, and whenever Q
bill affecting patent medicines shows
Its head to telegraph the bill, yer.
batim. to headquarters. There some
scores Of printed copies Of the bill are