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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Governor Vetoes
Clallam Clam Bill


Governor Mead has vetoed house
bill No. 373, which purported to be
an act "for the protection Of owners
or lessees of second class tide lands
on which they are propagating clans
and oysters" The bill was intro
duced by the representative from
Clallam county at the instance, SO
the ISLANDER is informed, of two liq-
uor dealers who secured long time
lease of tide lands in Washington
harbor upon which there are large
clam beds, from which Indians have
for generations taken the succulent
bivalves, which constitute one of
their chief articles of diet and from
the sale of which to cannery they
derive a considerable part of their
meager cash income. The lessees
sought to prevent tie Indians from
digging clans and brought suit
against H. J. Bugge, the cannery
proprietor, in an endeavor to compel
payment Of ten cents per case for all
CLANS packed at the cannery for the
past year or more. The governors
veto message is both humorous and
serious and his argument in support
of his disapproval of the bill is good
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Jury Term of Court

The first jury term of court to be
held in the new court house will con-
vene next Tuesday, the jury having
been called for the trial of the case
against Lightheart Bros. charged
with having permitted gambling IN
their saloon. All the witnesses who
were subpoenaed at the preliminary
hearing and who are now here have
been subpoenaed for the trial except
Mr.. L. B. Carter. The defendants
will be represented BY Mr.. Jay Al
len, cf Seattle, attorney for the state
LIQUOR dealers association, while Pros
ecuting Attorney Garrett will rep
r: :sent the state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Moved to Seattle

L. NJ. Harper and family moved to
Seattle Tuesday from Roche Harbor
with the expectation Of locating
there. MIR. Harper was for many
years in the employ Of the Roche
Harbor Lime Company, first as stem
ographer ano bookkeeper and latter
ly as superintendent, and for the
past six years he has been deputy
collector of customs there. He and
his estimable family have many friends
in this county who greatly regret
their departure. Mr.. L. w. LIE
Sourd, head bookkeeper for the lime
company, succeeds Mr.. Harper as
deputy collector Of customs.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Pull Together For
The Soldiers Home

A meeting of the legislative COM
mittee appointed to act in conjunct-
ion with the state board OF control to
select site for the new sol, .iers'
home is to be held in Seattle on the
24th OF April. Senator Blair, who was
one of the most active and effective
workers for the bill providing for the
new home, is chairman of the commit
tee, all of the members of which are
old soldiers. The act specifies that
the home shall be located at some
point overlooking the waters of Puget
Sound. Blaine is making strong eff
fort to get it and SO is Anacortes and
there are quite good many advo-
Gates of American lake, between Ia
coma and Olympia. A public spirited
citizen of Friday Harbor. Mr.. Goald,
has offered to donate to the state
desirable site Of forty acres and an
other especially fine site can also be
secured here without cost to the state.
The home is prize well worth striv-
ing for and every possible effort
should be made to impress the COM
mittee favorably with the exceptional
natural advantages which the location
here affords.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Easter at the
Local Churches

Easter, the great annual festival of
all Christian churches, commemorate
ing the resurrection of Christ, will be
appropriately observed at both of the
churches here tomorrow. In the
morning, at the Presbyterian church,
there will be a literary and musical
program by the Sunday school but
there will be no evening service. At
the Methodist church there will be no
morning service, but in the evening
the Sunday school will render the fol-
lowing program:
Easter Hymn......No. 156...... Congregation
Chorus-With Waving Palms
Recitation ettle higgins
Exercise. Calvary. y.......Seven Primaries
Song. Lilies of the Valley. Pr mary Glass
Recitation. uanlta murray
Recitation ....... FlOy Larson
Chorus-ROll the Stone Away
Recitation Ruth Wright
Song-Lift Me Up
Recitation. -. ...... .......Georgie Higgins
Exercise ..........................Thr Three Girls
Song-He Lives! The Savior Lives
Recitation Dorothy ShrOdes
Chorus-Shout, Snout. His Triumph!
Recitation. ...... Wilverna Francis
AOQr0SS........ ....... 0stoI
Song.....No. 634, Hymnal.... Congregation
Benedjction
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Pleased with San Juan

Mr.. P. E. Alvord, of Seattle, rep
resen,ing Caas. Somers & Co., real
estate brokers, was here this week
looking at farm lands which the firm
has listed for sale and listing theirs.
Mr.. Alvord recently came to the
coast from OHIO. He is delighted
with the Sound country and is par
ticularly charmed with what he has
seen Of this county, the beauties OF
which, he says, far exceed those OF
the famous Thousand lslands OF
the st. Lawrence.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

Letters from DR.. and Mrs. Wright
say that they reached Los Angeles
without delay or Inconvenience, not
withstanding the freshets which did
considerable damage to the railroads
il California, and that they are hav-
ing fine time.
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village Improvement

The IsLANDER has several times
suggested that . village Improvement
society. conducted along the lines Of
similar associations in many eastern
towns, could do much to improve tho
appearance Of Friday Harbor, and
at small cost. The same suggestion
has now come from another source
and the ISLANDER would be pleased
to see it acted upon It Is none too
early to begin and have 9 thorough
cleaning up Of streets and BY WAYS,
front yards and back lots.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

S. H. Gross and family have re-
turned from Seattle to spend the
summer on their farm. 1t IS ques-
tionable, however, whether Sam
will content himself with the simple
life" very long and the probability IS
that he will escape from the ranch
quite frequently to look after bis
property interests in the city.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

Mr.. A. W. Eng.e, Of Seattle, who
recently visited i.ere, i promlncntly
mentioned IS . possible appointee 8
state bank examiner, undeF The ness
Law. E E
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their. own yard. Before say any
thing more want you to descend
from your elevated steed, so. / can
carry on conversation with you with
out megaphone. You are right at
the point where you are about to make
so.lle very bitter enemies or some
mighty stanch friends, and true friends
are rare enough in this world to make
it worth while to go little way to get
them. 1t is true that you didn't mar
ry the whole family, but by your mar
rage you assumed good many re-
sponsibiIities and secured some incum-
brances and few perquisites that the
preacher neglected to mention. Your
.wife's people may be incum brances,
and they may be perquisites, but
whether they are one or the other de-
ponds to mighty considerable extent
on your attitude toward them.
She's Been MaIigned.
From time immemorial it has been
the custom of humorists out Of mate
rial for copy to fall back on the moth
er-in-law. She has been held up to
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Let her be once convinced that you can
be depended upon to give 'hersdaughter
the care and love she is entitled to, and
she will become your most devoted ally.
Take her into your confidence, treat her
as you would your own mother, show.
her that you are TO be trusted, and you
will have made friend you will have
many occasions in after life to be thank
full for. Make her your enemy, and you
not only make your wife unhappy, but
you lay the foundat ton for some mighty
uncomfortable moments for yourself.
Don't be chump, my boy. Diplomacy
has ever Won more victories than war,
and tact will accomplish what opposi-
ton cannot effect in the least
Give Them Their Due.
1t is much the same with your wife's
sisters, but the conditions are consid-
erably modified. 1t is quite important
to obtain and retain their good will
important, | mean, for your peace of
mind and comfort as well as Anna
May's-and you can't get it by force
Of arms. Keep in mind all the time
that they are your sisters-in-law and
therefore entitled to greater considera-
ton, than most other women. Once
make them your friends, it will take a
cataclysm to change them. AS to your
father-in-law and brothers -in-law-well,
they are men and comparatively easy
to get along with. Just let them see
that you are a real man and that you
are going to give their daughter and
sister a square deal, and they will
stand by you until the lower regions
become CONCEALED.
So, John, it all resolves itself into the,
right treatment of your wife in the
first place and the kindly and tactful
consideration of her relations in the
second. You are not required to yield
any of your rights; you don't have
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''that this year I'd get outdoors more
It's not good for me, this staying In
the store all day. I'm going to do my
own gardening
Are your came in faint voice
from the sunbonnet. It wasa troubled
voice. Ann was afraid of Stephen
Long because his eyes twinkled and
danced to the accompaniment Of fun
loving tongue. Belle could cope with
him, giving him back" in the par
lance Of Bridgeport, ''as good as he
sent"
For few moments the only sound
heard In the garden was the click of
two hoes one a loud, strong, but un
certain click; the other light, but sure
Presently Stephen wiped the perspira-
ton from his forehead and looked with
an exclamation of dismay into the reg
ular, shallow holes, the product of
AIMS brown hands,
"Jerusalemp' he calculated. els that
the way you do? See herev'
Ann glanced over the fence, and the
sight caused her internal mirth. Next
she inyentoried the new tin pail, and
her mirth became external Their
usual positions were reversed All the
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KEEPING TAB
ON II THE y WORLD o R
Concluded from page .

4
speed thirty peFsoRs were Killed and
more than seventy injured, some being
roasted alive In the burning wreckage.
The crew Of the freight had forgotten
orders. Most Of the victims were
from I0nia &44
Pacific Coast Liner Sunk.
At this writing the record indicates
beyenty-seven drowned or unaccount-
Ad for and los saved from the steamer
Columbia, which sank eight minutes
after colliding with the steam lumber
schooner San Pedro on July 20.
The Hau Murder Verdict.
Karl Hau, formerly professor Of law
at George Washington university,
Washington, was convicted at Karis-
ruhe, Germany, Of having murdered
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Molitor, at
Baden Baden last November and was
sentenced to death. The verdict was
met with popular disapproval, and a
great throng Of people made demon
stration outside the courthouse, so
that they had to be dispersed by troops
with fixed bayonets. Counsel for Hau
gave notice Of appeal to the higher
eourts.
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The /! Making a il 3 Ola
| Successful Husband
By cAs.'PAR 5. Y0sT.
1t Is Contrary to Popular Tradi-
ton and the Newspaper Humorist.
but 1t Is Fact That a Mans
Mother-in.law Is What He Makes
Her. ~ * * - ~ 4
Copyright. 1905, by c. 8. Yost.l

aESopyrlght, 1So, by =. 3. 1oSt.l
AY DEAR JOHN Marriage al.
|" ways means great deal
more than merely trotting a
girl up to a preacher. Most
Of the present day youngsters seem to
think that's all there is to it and never
try to see beyond. They don't realize
that marriage is the passing into a
new life,, or, rather, the graduation
into real life, where the surroundings
and conditions are different and the
responsibilities much heavier than be-
fore. That's why there are so many
disappointments. It's just like putting
green man into a football team at
the beginning Of match. He doesn't
know the game, isn't prepared for the
contest and is carried out in the first
half. Marriage is the greatest game on
earth, and there ought to be such
things as matrimonial coaches to teach
those who would play it not only how
to line up, but how to reach the goal.
Such a coach would need to have
many and diverse lessons for his pu-
pills, and one Of the most important in
the course would deal with the treat
ment Of ones wife's relations.
That, l judge from the lugubrious
tone of your last letter. is the problem
you're 'rasslin'" with now, and it's a
problem that better men than you and
I have tackled from the days Of Cain
and Abel down. It's knocked out a
good many of the best Of them too.
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/ to make martyr of yourself; you
don't need to get down on your knees
to anybody. Simply be man OF
sense, plain boss sense. Keep your
wagon in the middle Of the road, but
dodge the stumps. The driver who
goes over instead of around obstacles
may reach his destination, but he'll
need a blacksmith when he gets there.
Make tact, tact, tact, a compound with
your love, and you will eventually
praise the Lord that your wife has
relatives. And now, my boy, right
now, is the time to make them friends.
Now you are on trial in a way; now
they are sizing you up to see whether
Anna May has drawn prize or a
blank The judgment will be rendered
soon, and your conduct toward them
has much to do with that judgment.
See that 1t is rendered in your favor
and you will have provided capital for
your future life that will yield inter
est compounded semiannually to the
end
1 have treated this matter seriously,
John, because it is really a mighty Sc
rious subject in spite of the jokes it
has caused. Your wife's relations are
of much more Importance in the main
tenance of your domestic happiness
than your own, and you cannot do too
much to secure their respect and love.
Your affectionate father,
JOHN SNEED.
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DIES In SWIMMING POOL.
Phiiadeiphia Bank President Acct
dentalIy Killed.

Philadelphia, Aug. Edmund R.
Watson, president of the Northern
National bank and treasurer of the
Henry Hess Brewing company of this
city, met death in the swimming pool
of the Columbia club, one of the lead
ing social organizations Of the city.
Mr.. Watson's death was accidental.
He was standing on the springboard
and was about to dive into the pool
when he slipped and fell. His head
struck the concrete coping of the pool
and he sank to the bottom. The jan
itor was summoned and with the aid
of long pole Mr.. Watson was taken
from the water in an unconscious con-
dition. He was hurriedly taken to
hospital, where he was pronounced
dead by the physicians. Mr.. Watson
was about fifty years of age.
Morris tribune., 1907-08-03
a matrimonial coach to teuch the tre0
nent of ones oDife's relations.

maent of ones aoife's relations.
Some of these dusty diggers after fam
lily secrets of the past are said to have
found mother-in-law jokes in cunei-
form inscriptions. That may not be
true, but nobody can deny the fact
that there were mothers-in-law in the
days when men wrote their letters
and they were doubtless as prominent
In domestic affairs then as now. Yes,
I know it's the present that's bothering
you now, but l just wanted to show
you that you haven't butted into an
entirely new proposition, as you seem
to think. Why, even your mother had
some relatives when l married her,
and good many of them have the
temerity to be alive yet. I am rather
glad of 1t, too, because | have become
as much attached to them as to my
own blood kin, and there are one or
two in particular that I'd feel mighty
lonesome without. There's your Grand
mother Larson, for instance. Why, my
dear boy, I don't know how many
times that blessed woman has pulled
me back from the pearly gates by her
nursing, and l have mighty distinct
recollection that she helped you over
the rough places more than once.
Don't Be Ungrateful.
And don't you remember what q"
lightful doughnuts and cookies she
used to make for you when you visited
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,ose. Isn't that all rfghfYy

pose. Isn't that ali right
At this Ann laughed until the sum
bonnet collapsed in a heap into q po-
tato hole back Of her. Then she
checked herself and explained: THE
sprouts come out OF the eyes If You
don't leave the eyes, youth get no POI
tatoes See" a
YES; see.'' His visual interest
centered, however, on the speaker
rather than on the eyeless potatoes,
Say" he suggested suddenly, "let's
swap work this morning. I'll help
you plant, and then you help me cut
the SETS" !.
"All right" agreed Ann. She turned
to recover her sunbonnet and SO failed
to see the expression of satisfaction
which overspread Stephens face as he
placed hand on top Of the post and
vaulted the low fence.
When, an hour later, they sat beside
the hedge over basket of potatoes
provided by Stephen, matters grew
worse. He did not cut the sets cor
rectly. His fingers were all thumbs,
he came perilously near having
'ess to get in his way while cut
Ills fourth potato.
.',lln bound up the cut dexterousiy.
Then she ''set her foot down." You
hand me the potatoes, and I'll cut
EN- she said decidedly and fell to
work with a will.
Stephen obeyed. Seems to me you
are rather little to be bossing your
elders,' he said, with a flash of his
much dreaded fun.
Ann hung her head and blushed un-
comfortably. She considered it dis
grace to be SO small, an opinion shared
by her dressmaker.
'It's much as ever that I can find
where Ann Wright's waist begins or
ends,' complained the latter individual
bitterly. ''She's all waist. Nights
well try to fit broomstick. Best I
can do is to hang her clothes on her
and let it go at that. With her sister
Belle, now, it's different"
So Ann meekly accepted the dress
makers hangings and surveyed with
I longing Bellies plump proportions She
sighed the morning of May 16 as, at 5
o'clock, she dOnned her short blue dem
i'm skirt and looked at her. small but
muscular arms, white down to the ell
bows and brown beyond. She took
pride and comfort in her garden, but
she wished her hands were as white as
Bellies.
Her face lighted as she opened the
gate in her hedge and saw Stephen
leaning on one of the line fence posts
impatFently awaiting her. In his new
role as gardener, with overalls and big
hat and with that odd expression of
dependence on his clean cut face, he
did not seem to her half as formidable
as the Stephen Long who had for ten
years gayly sauntered through the
hearts of half the girls in Bridgeport,
his own untouched; danced at their
weddings and stood godfather to their
babies.
II tell you what" he began as soon
as Ann appeared, "I'm glad to see
some one looming over the horizon who
knows trife about gardening. What
Continued on Page 8.
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ACTION WAS NECESSARY.
Secretary BirreIl Defends Sending Of
Troops to Belfast.

London, Aug. 2.-Defending the &C
ton of the government in rushing
1000 troops to Belfast for strike duty
Chief Secretary for Ireland Birrell de-
clared in the house of commons that
the mutinous action of portion of
the constabulary and the continuation
of the strike necessitated prompt and
broad measures. The soldiers had
been sent in response to the require
ments of the civil authorities, who re-
main in command of the situation, so
that it was quite incorrect to suggest
that Belfast was under military rule.
Mr.. Birrell added there was good rea-
son to believe that the strike would
soon come to an end.
Morris tribune., 1907-08-03

Don't you remember aDIlGt delightful
doaIghn,Lts she used to naaEe2
her and how she used to take you up
on a cold winter night and, after you
had said your prayers, bury you deep
In a great feather bed, tuck the covers
close around you and then sit by you
and sing old fashioned songs until you
wandered off into Sunderland? And
don't you remember-but, pshaw,
could keep on reminding you all night
and not exhaust the list of her good
deeds to you and me. Oh. you say.
but that's my grandmother! Sure!
And you don't want to forget that she's
my mother-in-law. You think whole
lot of your Aunt Fanny. too, don't
you? l heard you say not long ago
that she was peach" I don't know
that l would express it just that way,
but my opinion is the same as yours
And there's your Uncle Bill. Did Ell
Yes, it's true that both of them are
your blood relations, but they are not
mine. They are just my wife's people,
and l want to get that pushed clea.
through your thinker and clinched Oh
the other side These kinfolk you
love so we'll bear the same relation to
me that the people you are grumbline
about do to you. and | don't believe
my Relationship will average up
any better than yours.
You feel aggrieved because your
wife's father and mother and brothers
and sisters are inclined to make them
selves at home in your house You
say you didn't marry the whole dern
ed family and want them TO stay In
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In Gardening
q Time. j.
By ALICE LOUISE LEE.
Cnnuright 1905 by Alice I.nuise Lee
Copyright, 1906, by Alice Louise Lee.

~HEY lay side by side. two long,
narrow strips of plowed land
separated by a woven wire
fence Tall, we'll trimmed
I hedges at either end screened them
from the two parallel streets of the
village; tall, well kept hedges at the
sides screened them from the houses
Of their owners. Facing each other in
the side hedges were small iron gates,
entrances to these prosaic plots of
ground.
On May Is, at $50 in the morning,
the gate in the south hedge opened
with a squeak. and a trim figure of de-
cidedly scant dimensions stepped brisk
" through. A short blue denim skirt,
a bit faded and worn, barely reached
the tops of stout, thick soled, dew
proof shoes. The sleeves of blue cali
co shirt waist were pushed above the
elbows, while concealed in the depths
Of an enormous blue sunbonnet was
small tanned face crowned by brown
hair coiled tightly in convenient work
aday fashion on top of her head. In
one hand she carried a tin pail full Of
pieces of potato, "sets" for planting; in
the other hoe which had seen much
service.
Beside the dividing fence she began
work on the potato row, digging away
so industriously that she did not hear
the gate i'll the opposite hedge open
and was unconscious of any disturbing
element in her Eden until a CHEEKY
"Good morning. Ann" caused her sun
bonnet to bob up hastily.
"Good morning" she returned in
faint and wondering tone.
On the other side of the woven wire
stood a man, also in blue denim, but it
was surprisingly new. So were his big
straw hat and his bright tin pail, full
of potato sets, and his hoe. So also
was his method of preparing for po-
tato crop on his side of the fence
II made up my mind" he began, Wig
orously thrusting his hoe into the dirt
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dance and twinkle departed from Ste
phen's gray eyes, and he sent look
of comic dismay into the capacious
sunbonnet
'I've made every hole deep enough
to plant old Hickory in,' he said rue
fully. Hickory was an enormous cat
that played havoc with the rats in
Longs hardware store.
"And you've-gone-and cut-the eyes
out Of your potatoesr' gasped Ann.
Then she chung to a post supporting
the wire fence and laughed. Her sun
bonnet slipped back, revealing two
pink cheeks and small, delicate chin
Stephen chuckled in sympathy and
came nearer. why, confound 1t all, ].
cut the eyes out becausAwell, be-
cause they didn't look pretty, sup
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ridicule as the
common enemy
of married men
the world over.
There isn't any
more real basis
for these jokes
than there is
for the ancient
one about the
baldheaded men
in the front
row. I have al
ways been a
pretty regular