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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06

Olympia, Oct. 1.-The supreme
court rendered its first decision ID any
Of the GASES involved in the Hill-Har-
riman fight. the decision giving the
first point to the Hill forces. The de-
cision rendered is In the case Of the
Portland & Seattle (Hill line) against
Henry ]. Biddle for . right Of way
across land owned by the latter. the
court holding that the company il :
bona fide corporation and entitled to
make use Of the condemnation laws In
forcing line across the property In
question.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
choese children,. Friend

London, Oct. Sir William Ire
loar, alderman Of the city Of London,
has been elected lord mayor Of Lon
don, In succession to Walter Vaughan
Morgan. Sir William has been known
as the "children's alderman" because
Of his many benefactiona to the chill
dren Of the elums.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
TO BUILD DOWN SNAKE
Northwestern Line Directors Adopt Con.
struction Plans.

Northwestern Line Directors Adopt Con-
struction Plans.
Boise, Idaho, Oct. 1.-Action taken
at meeting of the board of directors
of the Northwestern Railroad Compa-
ny, held at Huntington, indicates
that construction of the line from that
place to Charleston, opposite Lewiston,
is to be rushed. The profiles of the
first % miles out from Huntington
were accepted, also those of 10 miles
out of Charleston. It was announced
afterwards by the Utah Construction
Company, which is said to have the
contract for the entire line, that it
would have 600 teams on the work by
November 1. 1t was supposed the road
would 60 to Lewiston, but the infor-
nation about the pro6les indicaes it
will keep on the west side.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Will Fine the Bank.

Washington, Oct l. The comptrol-
Ter of currency has announced that
hereafter he will collect fine Of 500
per day from each national bank for
failure to report their condition With
IN the prescribed Ave days after . call
For their statement IL issued.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Transport Thomas ON Fire

Manila, Oct. Transport Thomas
is on fire. The fire originated in the
hold. where there are 6, 500 bales Of
hay. The flames have spread to the
bunkers. The hold Of the vessel has
been flooded. II Is thought that the
only hope Of saving tho vessel is in
hiking her. The water at her dock
Il shallow.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06

Madison, Wis, Oct. President
Charles Vanhize, Of the University Of
Wisconsin, has proposed to . body Of
freshmen and sophmore students that
the system Of hazing be abolished and
an orderly method Of student discipline
be substituted. He suggested that all
cases Of extreme freshness be reported
to the student advisory committee.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Frenchman Get. con.r.-,

Paris, Oct I'M. Gardener, the
French architect, who was awarded
first prize in the competition for the
designs OF the Carnegie Peace Palace.
has received from Queen Wilhelmina
an order for the construction of that
building at The Hague.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Will Not Try for Senate

New York, Oct. 4.-The Evening
Post publishes a cablegram from
Woodrow Wilson, president of Priceton
DIVERSITY, saying that he could not
leave Princeton to take seat in the
United States senate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

AL Adams, New York's policy king,
has suicided.
Nitrate shipments from Chile this
year will amount to over six billion
pounds.
The Oregon hop crop is estimated
at 10 per cent less than last year. The
quality is about the same.
Rev. Charles Scadding, was on Sat-
urasy, at Chicago, consecrated Bishop
of Oregon, succeeding the late Bishop
Wistar Morrvis.
An Oroville, CAL, dispatch says
that M. J. Cooney, mining engineer
from South Africa, expects to open
the first diamond mine in the United
States about a mile from Oroville.
As result of the strike Of 5000
miners at the Crows Nest Pass Coal
Company and the Fernie-Michel and
Coal Greek Companies, coal famine
threatens the cities of the Canadian
Northwest.
Attorney General Moody has direct
ed that suits be brought against a
large number of railroad companies
to recover penalties for violation of
the safety appliance law through fail
ure to keep their equipment in proper
condition.
After conference at the state de-
partment between the Chinese minis
ter and Acting Secretary Adee on the
subject of CERTIFICATES to Chinese who
may desire to come to America from
other countries than China, 1t was
announced that satisfactory arrange
ment was made.
The amendment to the New York
state labor law prohibiting the en-
ployment of children under l6 in any
line of business after p. m has gone
into effect.
Simplified spelling in civil service
examinations will be accepted the
same as the old style. according to an
order just issued by the civil service
commissioners.
The Italian ambassador to this
county, Desplances, dean of the d.
plomatic corps, has resigned. He is
now at Rome, but has successor has
not yet been chosen.
Seven committees of the immigra-
ton department of the National Civic
Federation have been appointed to
investigate the immigration question
from every standpoint.
The male teachers in the United
States are steadily decreasing as
shown be recent statistics. In 1870
the proportion was Al percent. It has
since dropped to 25 per cent.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from entry $4,000 acres
of land in the Kalispell, Mont, land
district, which are to be added to the
Lewis and Clark and Kootenai forest
reserves.
Seattle has been chosen by the State
Grocers' Association as the next an
nual convention city. G. E. Coon. of
Port Townsend, was elected president
for the coming year and j. J. Higgins,
of Seattle was reelected secretary.
Fire destroyed the large Touring
mill at Toledo Friday morning. It
was the only -four mill in Lweis
county, other attempts at milling hav-
ing been abandoned since wheat grow
ing on an extensive scale has become
almost thing of the pats in that Sec
kiop
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Tacoma QuotS6ons.


Wheat-Olub, csc; bluestem, SEQ;
red, SEC.
Oats sac. oo@s7. 90; rolled oats, sa7
@3O.O
Hay. Alfalfa. etc.-Wheat hay,
$lS@14.5O; timothy, $4,000; mixed,
$lS@17; clover, $15@16; alfalfa,
$12. 5O@1s.5O
Feed-Corn, SAT; wheat, $s4; bar
ley. whole grain, $3.50; rolled,
$S5. so; bran, $16.00@16.O0; shorts
$l8.OO@i9.OO.
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, $40;
chickens. dressed 10. ducks, dressed,
16c; geese, dressed l6c.; Live-Hens,
14c; spring chickens, 14015c; ducks
lilo; geese, 10.
Butter-Washington creamery, %.
Egg-Washingboa ranoh, S6
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06

Chicago, Oct. 3.-The Rock River
conference Of the M. e. church in ses-
sion here has approved the action of
the Methodist Book Concern in grant
ing an eight hour day to the printers.
The book concern submitted a report
emhodying it's action and saying that
it has never opposed the principle Of
an eight hour day, but conditions had
been such heretofore as to make it's In
PRODUCTION impossible. After Novem-
Der an eight hour day will be inaug-
urated in all departments of the tusi-
ness and the book concern will with
draw from the United Typothetae Of
America. About 1000 are affected.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Remove Embargo on Lumber

San Francisco, Oct 4.-The string
ency Of the lumber situation in San
Francisco is about to be partially re-
lieved by the removal OF the embargo
on carload shipments by the Southern
Pacific four months ago. More than
500 oars Of lumber have been unload
ed during the past month.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06
Chinese Consul for Western States

Portland. Or, Got. 4.-The Chinese
imperial government has appointed
Moy Beck Hin, prominent merchant
OF Portland, consul for the states q
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mem
tana.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-06

Seattle, Oct. 4.-The first days sub
ecription to the stock of the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition reached q
total of $608, $50, or $l08, $50 more
than the sum which it was proposed
to raise.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

same brush? Is Thomas Hill going
through transition or is the greater
part of his work. the good and the
bad, merely the result of what might
be called accident? The best of Hills
work in the past shows him to be a
man of training and it may be that
all of this will concentrate and that
he will develop into one of our great
est artists.
Thomas Hills life has been one of
unremitting labor and his brush has
yielded him several fortunes. IN his
advancing years he is still a worker
and his easel is set up at very early
hour each morning. And he keeps at
it until day begins to fade. Such in
tense application can hardly continue
without progress. 1t will at least re-
suit in facility This is what has been
lacking in Hills work in the past;
it is what is apparent in the good
canvas that l saw last week. 1t looked
as though he enjoyed painting it. AT
any rate 1t was good and I only hope
that we will all of us soon have a
chance to see more of them.
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President Wheeler Upheld.

President Wheeler's refusal to permit
Professor Seawell to use a nude model
in one of his classes in tho university
has been the cause of more discussion
among artists than anything that has
come up since the shake. A number
of the artists seem a bit uncertain
as to the merits of the course that
was taken. Personally. do not think
that the case is discussable at all.
In fact. there is nothing to discuss
the president of the university was
right! Right in every sense of the
word, and it cannot be put too strong
ly Everything is right in it's place. and
the right place for the nude model is
either a professional art school or
a professional artists studio. There
the nude model is not only a benefit,
but a necessity. In the present de-
yelopment of high art instruction. free
hand drawing cannot be taught without
1t. to say nothing of painting. But
a nude model in any of the art classes
of the State University would be SIM
ply pronounced case of matter out of
place, and the harm that could come
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
New Center for Local Af.

In these times of business activity,
art has to make way for enterprise in
reconstruction. The latest result of
this unwritten rule is that the beautiful
new gallery Vickery had just about
got into shape will have to make
way for new hotel. The entire lot
at the corner of Cough and Sutter
streets is going to be covered with a
magnificent structure thai will house
hundreds of people, so the beautiful
things win have to go elsewhere. From
present indications. this will be to
California street, just west of Van Ness
right in the heart of the city. 1t
really looks as though that will be the
artistic neighborhood. Keith is locat-
ed there, and the building on the corner
is going to contain several artists. All
of which is very good.
Capitalization Is good in art as well
as other things. II possible. the build
ing now occupied by vickery's gallery
will be moved over without being torn
apart 1t is to be hoped that this can
be done, as in that case there will be
no delay in the date set for the first ex-
hibition.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
BY Will Sparks.

of time. AS for the sums paid, they
will come up to the usual average.
Yet there are some people who said
there would be no demand for pictures
in this city for many years. They were
mistaken. After a while 1t will dawn
upon some of these people just how
important art is to those who claim to
lures are as necessary as books. San
Francisco has its share of cultured peO-
pie. and earthquake and fire are not
going to change their natures. so pic
lures will beNin demand so long as we
demand anything.
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Piracy, Storm and
Wreck All in One

Piracy, storm and shipwreck are in
termingled with love and romance in
The Cruise of the Arrow" by T..
Jenkins Hams. If the book were tilted
The Autobiography of Bucko Mate"
it would not be amiss, for the hero
proves himself true knight of the be-
laying pin, as witness the following:
The big. burly .Germap-the first man
I had chosen in my watch and who
looked like an overgrown sculpin-
made a remark to the man next to
him as they bent over the timber
I brought the end of the lashing
across the fellows broad shoulders so
heavily that he started up with an oath
and faced around at me.
1t was only for an instant, for I held
my face close to his, and he caught the
look in my eye while l cursed him in a
low, even tone for being so slow at his
work. Then he bent to it again. fash
ing out venomous glances at me from
the corners of his little black eyes.
He is something of a philosopher,
this whipper of sailormen. Here is a
sample of his self-communing:
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

seldom opens her lips without letting
fly an extract from some familiar writ
ing, whether or not it is at all applic-
able to the matter in hand? And she is
much given to harangues as well as
quotations. Some of these are several
pages in length. She is likewise
gifted with a keen appreciation of the
humorous and she is a playwright.
and an actress of no mean ability, and
conjures, and does skirt dances, and,
of course, conquers every masculine
heart she encounters.
After the first dozen pages you are
tempted to lay Isabel aside as impos-
sible, but little persistency brings re-
ward, for the absolute dullness and
absurdity of the novel gives 1T a unique
interest. =.
Longmans, Green & Co., New York,
publishers. are responsible for ITS pub
lication.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

1 said in the beginning that 1 was
broad minded, and I've always be-
lieved that if there is an all-good and
all-powerful Creator there can be no
wrong deduced from any action. He
could and would prevent it.
Therefore from this logical stand
point there can be no wrong. for every
one must believe in an all-good and all
powerful Creator.
From a social or religious standpoint
the matter is quite different. A person
can do much wrong from this stand
point.
The story describes the capture or
the high seas of an American vessel
by gang of convicts, who have seized
and burned the English ship on which
they were being transported and their
final recapture by a British warship
Clark Russell has written many a bet
ter tale of the sea and evidently has
given inspiration to the author of this
one.
L. & c. Page, Boston, publishers.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
Merit Lies in Subject.

Thomas Hills work in the past was
not of what would now be called a
highly artistic quality. It's merit lay
largely in the subject All of his pic-
lures were of real PLACES. They were
views. He seldom produced canvas
that was intrinsica1ly beautiful. Unless
you knew the spot there was little
in the canvas to interest. They could
never be enjoyed simply as beautiful
paintings In fact Hill never seemed
to have this idea in view. But now
there is a change.
Of the two pictures that saw last
week there was clear departure from
his old type of work. The good one
was simply a meadow. scene such as
might be found anywhere, but painted
with all of the charm of Diaz. Under
soft, pearly sky the simple stretch
of land fairly glowed with color. The
texture of the canvas was perfect and
the handling that of a master. I have
not seen a better picture of the kind.
But how came the other one from the
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

South Seas now: he's in South Africa.
No, ii isn't that. I'm going to Balti-
more this fall to study music. I've been
arguing it for weeks with Aunt Lou
isa."
Greek. German and song for your
money Nebraska goes to Baltimore
to study music, being perfect in gun
play, but is switched of to the coast
of South Africa. where gunplay is
more to the purpose than Greek.
Mr. Pollock's characters. it will be
perceived, speak the finest kind of lam
guage. Notwithstanding their famil-
iarity with guns and horses. Take, for
instance. the few well chosen words Of
the shipwrecked missionary who was
supposed to hold the secret of the
sunken gold To quote:
1T rained the night after he died.
and that saved me. Two days later 1
was picked up by an Italian steamer
called the Andrea Sforzia-"
Elliott emitted an ejaculation.
Yes. it was providential." went on
the missionary patiently. And then 1
saw an opportunity of burying my past.
trust it was not dishonorable. The
Italian officers OF the steamer could
speak very little English, and as I was
wearing the mates uniform cap they
took me to be an officer of the wrecked
ship I would not have told them a
falsehood, but I did not undeceive
them"
Anybody might emit an ejacula-
ton" If he were talked TO like that
by an infrm old castaway. Elliott not
only calculated. but one learns that he
burst into a bitter and uncomfortable
roar of laughter" when he learned that
the missionary could not locate the
gold. On a treasure hunt the hero
should always roar bitterly.
Plenty of good lighting too, and it
comes in assorted sizes like this:
Quick! Into the boat" Kissed Hen
ninger.
AS they pushed off they saw Sewer
and Carlton running toward the land
ing party. who had dropped out of
sight behind the scattered rocks on the
shore. A confused yell of warning
came over the lagoon from the dhow,
and the next instant half a dozen ir-
regular rife shots banged. Elliott
ducked low over the oar handles. His
pith helmet jumped from his head and
fell into the boat with a round hole
through the top. There was a rapid
tingling like that of telegraph wires in
the air.
Not only did Henninger hiss like a
pirate, but likewise he ripped out a
curse" and a gun. Oh, you get every
thing the law allows in right Homeric
fashion. No sermon goes with this
song. You can bet your boots it is
art for arts sake.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

was content to go on, regardless of the
world.
Last week 1 saw two of Thomas
Hills pictures. They had just been
bought by E. Chase of Oakland and I
was told that they were good examples
of the work that Hill is doing now.
It was almost impossible to believe
that the two pictures were painted by
the old artist of the Yosemite. There
was hardly a suggestion of the work
that has made Hill famous These
were small canvases and perhaps it
would not be right to judge them, but
they were such a surprise that they
cannot help but be of Importance.
Briefly one of the pictures was bet
ter than anything by Thomas Hill that
I have ever seen. The other was the
worst Hill I have ever seen. Bad does
not describe it. 1t was simply a
buckeye
To Judge work from such standards
is most difficult, but many people who
have been in the valley within the last
few months, and they are people COM
petent to judge say that all of Hills
work is just like this. He doesn't seem
able to make any distinction in his
work 1t all seems to please him.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
Appeal for Women
From Nav Beals' Pen

A little book Jack London has COM
mended with the expression, full Of
the fine spirit of revolt" is a collec-
tion of stories by May Beals. In one of
these tales, which is a mere vehicle
for conveying the authors sociological
opinions, the writer, under the caption
First Steps," treats of womans sub
mission to the practice of what she
calls the slave virtues. She draws an
inference from Tyler's Anthropology
that in the days of savagery the women
who rebelled against mans mastery
were killed and eaten, and so the
women who best practiced the slave
virtues were the ones who survived
and bequeathed these virtues. now
called the feminine virtues" to her
descendants. Her fear is that woman
can never be truly free until her econ
omica1 dependence on man is abol-
ished She has some bright rebellious
things to say about divorce. Speaking
of press, pulpit and college presidents
waiIing over the divorce evil, she ex-
claims: ut is shameful. 1 know of
nothing more shameful under high
heaven; but at the same time it is the
most inspiring sign of the times .
Then she goes on to explain her belief
that the evil can only be cured by such
loving marriage as will never need nor
ask divorce.
An argument worth quoting which
the rebel makes about the necessity
for men to take loving care that
women shall be happy is this: When
women are free and happy their chill
dren will be free and happy If men
I only knew how much they miss of the
joy of life because of the misery of
their mothers-but they don't know
and never can"
(Charles H. Kerr & Co.. Chicago. so
cents.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
Melodrama Comes
From the Klondike

To the person who would rather sit
at home and read a melodrama than go
to the theater and see 1T acted, Scar
lett of the Mounted" by Marguerite
Merington, may be remembered with
out misgiving. Indeed the book intro
duces itself as "a frolicsome romance
of the gold-lined and ice-plated North
west, remarkable for wit. bright dia-
Iogue and rapid succession of humor-
agent could be more concisely adjec-
tival than that.
Scarlett is a sergeant of police in
the Klondike and deuce of daring
fellow at best. He makes his first en-
trance with a casual air wholly at
variance with the keen, hawk-like
glance of his gray-blue eyes, and i'm
mediately proves his quality by ar
resting an unestimable character who
is about to kill missionary whose ex-
hortations have annoyed him. That
prepares you to find the hero doing
many valiant deeds and he doesn't dis
appoint you.
Most of the other characters owe
their original creation to either Harte
or Twain, and Lost Shoe Creek is
simply an up-to-date Angels Camp or
Poverty Flat. The incidents. too, are
familiar, potably the excitement
created by the arrival of the young
girl from the East, the conspiracy to
keep from her knowledge that the sire
whom she expected to find a million
aire was really a pauper and the noble
sacrifices made to sustain her delu-
SION.
If the authoress had ever mingled
with such people as she tries to depict
the portraits would be more life-like.
She would not have Siwash talk
English like Chinaman, nor would
she quote any one as using curse it
alr' as swearword. And she would
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

shell from his patented pneumatic gun
slap through her boiler room. and in
the resultant confusion capturing and
getting away with the bullion and
rough diamonds that form a consider
able portion of the big ships cargo.
Then, to prove an alibi. he speeds to
Calais at q forty-knot clip, enters the
cross channel race and wins it before
the Dunster Castle arrives at Dover
with the news of her mishap.
But that is a comparatively trifing
incident in the. career of the modern
Captain Kidd. Holly pursued for at
tempted murder, he runsehis automo-
bile to Lands End. England. and with
it disappears over the edge of that
promontory. Petrol is the fuel neces-
sary to keep his motor boat in action,
and to procure it, while several kinds
of resolute avengers are hot on his
track, he is forced to resort to various
expedients, all more or less blood
thirsty.
After robbing a sailing ship of her
cargo of petrol and numbering the crew,
he is chased by a battleship until he
apparently steers the Conqueror
straight into a solid face of rock and
when his pursuers discover that he is
concealed there in a "den." they pre-
pare to root him out, and an explosion
of petrol apparently settles his fate.
L. & C. Page of Boston, publishers.