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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
NO REDEMINc TRAIT
Sunday Supplements Bad Both Morally
and ArtisticalIy.

and ArtisticalIy.
New York, May 4-Accusing the
comic supplements Of Sunday news
papers of "bad morals and bad art, !"
the International kindergarten Union,
which closed q weeks session Friday.
has declared war against them. These
are the principal counts in the indict-
ment:
Count No. They inculcate bad
morals, melting children to rebellion
against their parents by ldeallzlng
boys and girls who invariably get the
best of their elders.
Count No. 2-They represent low
type of art most of them being as bad
artistically as they are in their infiu-
ence on the impressionable minds Of
their readers.
Count No. 3-There is no necessity
for their existence in their present
form; something far more artistic and
more entertaining could be furnished
which would prove as popular.
It was decided to provide for the
sending of circulars to women's clubs
and to parents, calling upon them to
bar comic supplements from their
homes. A sub committee is to be Sc
lected to provide substitute and pre-
sent it's plan to the next convention,
which will he held in New Orleans.
The organization has 1900 members
throughout the United States and
Canada.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
HAYWOOD ASKS FOR
BILL OF PARTICULARS

: Boise, Idaho, May 7.-''You charge
this man with crime that it is impos-
sible he committed. You have refused
to indicate how he could have done it.
The Indictment charges the murder Of
Gov. Steunenberg at Caldwell, Idaho,
on December 80, 1905, when Haywood
was in Colordao. Then the crime is
q conspiracy, while the indictment
charges murder. I appeal to the court
to compel the prosecution to show
what overt act is alleged before the
trial day is fixed"
Thus torcibly e. +. Richardson, Of
Denver, chief counsel for the defense,
fred the opening gun in the Moyre-
Haywood Petition cease.
The proceedings were purely tech
nical The selection Of the jury will
begin Thursday. Yesterdays plea for
. bill Of particulars was taken under
advisement By Judge God.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
RAPID RISE in Value
OF washington FARMS

Chicago, May 8.-Two and hal,
billion dollars is the astounding in
crease in the value of farm lands tb.t
has taken place within five years in
states on or tributary to the Union
Pacific railroad. Seventeen states So
grouped showed farm values. includ.
ing buildings, Of $1,000, 1880, s72 in
1900. Five years later, according to
statistics gathered by the United
States census, values of farm proper.
ties had increased to 1924, 782, $751;
an advance Of nearly As per cent
The individual per centages of in.
crease vary from 119 per cent for
Wyoming, to "a per cent for Califor.
MIA, the other higher records being
held by Washington, 60 per cent, Ne.
braska, 81 per cent, Idaho So per cent
Texas 81 per cent and New Mexico S5
per cent.
In a bulletin just issued by the
Union Pacific railroad, in which these
statistics are presented, it is shown
that hay and grain farms have in.
creased in value in the five year period
1856, 500, 600. Live stock farms show
an increase Of over a. billion dollars,
fruit farms SOL, 100000, vegetable
farms, $50 600, 900, general farming
lands $165, 100000
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
irish HOME RULE
council BILL PASSES FIRST
READING IN COMMONS.
Bill Grants Government by Coun-
ell Under Lord Lieutenant.
Irishmen are Disappointed But
Will Give Measure Fair Trial.
Stormy Scene Preceded Vote.

London, May 8.-After the storm
lest scenes witnessed in the house OF
commons since the days of Gladstone,
the Irish council bill was put to q
vote last night under closure, and
passed the first reading by a vote OF
416 to 121.
The Liberal government admits that
the bill is only an experiment, but 1t
promises, if the new law works we'll,
that it shall ultimately lead to home
| rule for the Irish people The Irish
members of parliament are dlsap-
pointed in the measure and frankly
say so. Yet they say they will give
| it fair trial.
The Conservatives and Unionists,
led by Arthur Balfour. denounce the
bill as makeshift, which is sure to
break down.
Briefly the bill proposes to mai the
following changes in the adimnistra-
tion of Ireland.
1. The head of the administration
will be the lord lieutenant, as now,
but all religious disability will be re-
moved.
2. The administration will be in
the hands of council of 1O6 members,
80 elected and "a nominated by the
crown. In the election women and
peers will have the right to vote.
8. The council will have control of
the finances, public works, education
and local government works, and agri-
culture.
4. The imperial government retains
full power over the supreme court,
constabulary, land commission and
prisons.
5, The lord lieutenant has the veto
power over measures passed by the
council.
6. Twenty seven million dollars an
nually will be paid into the Irish
treasury from the imperial treasury,
to be expended or der the direction
of the council.
Z. The Irish treasury is to be Gre
ated by the council with an Irish
treasurer at it's head. The council has
no power to levy taxes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
SPECIAL CAMERA TO
PHOTOGRAPH MARS

Chicago, May 9.-Work on a cam
era designed especially to be used by
members Of the Lowell expedition to
photograph the canals and polar caps
Of the planet Mars has been completed
by William Gaertner, Chicago maker
of scientific instruments. The appa-
ratus has just been shipped to Prof.
Percival Lowell. of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, who is send
ing out the expedition.
The party, which will be under the
direction of Prof. David Todd, of Am
herst college, will sail for South Amer
lea on Saturday and will establish
itself at some point on the Andes,
where the planet will appear in the
zenith.
Mars will be nearer the earth this
summer than it has been in fifteen
years, and for this reason astronomers
are making elaborate preparations for
a study of the planet.
Gaertner's camera is in the general
form of four-foot brass tube, one end
fitted to be clamped to the end of an
eighteen-inch telescope and the other
containing a shutter and plate holder.
The main tube is in two parts, the one
telescoped into the other and adjusted
with device for slow focusing.
The unusual features of the appara-
tus are peculiar arrangement of the
plate holder by which large number
of exposures may be taken on one
plate, and a coDcave lens, which en-
larges the image on the plate instead
of diminishing it, as do the lens of an
ordinary camera. By pressing pneu-
matte bulb the operator may move the
plate so that as many as fifty exposures
may be taken, each exposure showing
different phase of the planet.
On account of the difficulty Of fol-
lowing the planets motion accurately
the exposures cannot be longer than
ten or twelve seconds.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Diplomatic Relations Scared

Washington, May 1.-THE state de-
partment has been advised that Mex
leo has severed all diplomatic rela-
tions with Guatemala as the result of
Guatemala's refusal to surrender to
the Mexican authorities Generals Jose
Lima and Calberear, his close personal
friend, who are accused Of instigating
the murder recently in Mexico City of
Barillas, former president Of Guate-
mala. The American legation at Qua
temala will look after Mexican affairs
in Guatemala.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
TROLLEY line FROM
SEATTLE TO BELLINGHAM

Seattle, May 6.-That the interur.
ban electric railway for which surveys
are now being made in Whatcom and
Skagit counties, with Bellingham as
a center, is to be the nucleus Of sys.
tenn connecting Bellingham and Seat.
tie, is the announcement made by Ja-
cob Furtb. head of the Stone & Web
ster interests in this state.
Mr.. Furth was not ready to make
an official announcement, and he sim.
ply confirmed a rumor which was
gaining currency. His confirmation
however, was unqualified. although ne
stated that it was vet too early TO
make any definite announcement OF
the details as to route, cost of opera
tion, date of completion and other
matters connected with the construc'
ton and operation.
cit will be an interurban line like
that between Seattle and Tacoma,
said Mr.. Furth, Except that it Will
have no third rail, but will be oper,
ated by trolley. We have not yet
decided definitely on the route the line
will follow, although it is quite likely
to run pretty we'll inland, and an effort
will be made to avoid parallelllng any
other line, so far as that is POSSIBLE
cit will probably take two years 10
construct the line, and the cost Is Ike
~ to be not less than $4,000, 600 :,
The distance between Seattle anu
is about 100 miles, mocn
of which is fertile country, rich alike
in timber and agricultural develop
ment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Capacity to Be Doubled

Tacoma, May At is announced
that the capacity Of the Northern Pa
cific Car shops at South Tacoma will
be doubled within the ensuing year.
For year or more the shops have
not been able to keep up with the
demands made upon them.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Washington News

Plans are being matured for the
erection at Excelsior, near Bellingham
of a $500, 900 smelter to handle ore
from Mount Baker mines.
The Cutler residence at Pullamn,
which has been used as dormitory
by twelve students Of the state col
lege, has burned to the ground. The
loss, including books and clothing OF
the students, amounts to about 81, 600.
By plurality of nearly 1900 votes,
@. Herbert Moore, Republican, was
on Tuesday elected mayor of Spokane,
over Floyd L. Daggett, Democrat and
present incumbent. The result is
considered victory for the closed
town sentiment.
According to the report Of the state
horticultural, just filed with the gov
ernor, the orchards of the state are in.
creasing rapidly. There are now S.
6O7 acres of land devoted to fruit rails
ing and nearly one-f1tth of this acreage
has been added since the spring Of
1906.
On the charge of having fraudulent
II converted to their own use timber
from government land, Peter McMar
tin, D. A. McMartin and Walter Fair
banks were fined in the aggregate $751;
213 by Judge Hanford, of the federal
court. The defendants made no ap-
pearance and judgment was taken by
default in the full sum asked.
John Riplinger, former city comp
troller of Seattle, and for many years
one of the most respected citizens OF
that city, is accused by his successor
with having embezzled several thou
sand dollars of city funds. A warrant
for Riplinger has been issued. He is
supposed to be in Honduras, where he
went at the expiration of his official
term about year ago.
Judge Hanford began the first term
of United States court ever held in
Belilngham at that place Friday.
The Polk directory estimate of the
population of Bellingham is approx
mately $1,000, an increase Of about
1000 for the year.
Charles E. Hutson, state enator
from the Eleventh district, has sent
in his resignation and the governor
has accepted it.
A meeting of the fruit producers of
nfu hn11 Of Roff1o
Falls last week at which was incor-
porated the ''Stevens county Fruit
Growers and Producers Association"
Loaded with lumber, the German
full-rigged tramp schooner, Arthur
Fitzger, lying directly outside Salmon
bay, near the West Point light, burned
late Friday night, the cargo, worth
fully $50, 900 being total loss.
BENJAMIN I. Sharpsten, distinguished
pioneer lawyer of Walla Walla. mem
Der of the territorial legislature, and
one of the trainers of the state consti-
tuition, died suddenly at his home last
week. He was eighty years old.
There was discovered beneath an
old building at Goldendale which was
being torn down by workmen in max
ing repairs, cleverly concealed Gel
lar, in which was found some spurious
coins and set of counterfeiters' tools.
The state university regents have
announced their policy of retaining
all lands at present owned by the uni
versity. 1t is the opinion of the board
that the lands will increase greatly
in value in the next few years and that
the income will become sufficient for
the support of the institution.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
SEATTLE r1ARkET REPORT


The followiong prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots +. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tice.:
Grain-Oats, $4,000 per ton; bar
ley, $4,000. 30; wheat, chicken feed,
$22@24; bran, $17@18; shorts, $40
gal; corn, $25@27.
Hay-Eastern Washington, $s2@24;
Puget Sound $4,000; alfalfa, $751;
@17.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, s2@24c.
Poultry-Live hens, ITO per Id; old
ROSTERS, lilo; ducks, 15c; spring
chickens, Ito; turkeys, live, 20@21c.
Wool-Eastern Washington 15@
18c per ID; Western Washington,
1S@21c; dirty or timber stained, IS
@2Oe.
Live Stock-Sheep, wethers, $40
SIC per ID; ewes, 7H@8c; lambs,
OK csc; Hogs, 5000; Cattle, steers,
6Kc COWS, 90; calves, 4@6c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Fuel Famine sill in Evidence

Winnipeg, Man., May 4-The fuel
famine here is assuming serious pro-
portions. Hardly town in Western
Canada has enough to last week.
At GALAXY many people are down to
their last pound Of coal and many
industries have closed. Some 1000
cars arc tied mp on the Canadian
Northern, between Winnipeg and
Fort Frances, the company being I'M
able 70 bring them in owing to : short
no q engines. q
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
GEN. KUROKI ARRIVES

Famous japanese Soldier Spends Day in
Seattle on Way East.
Seattle, May AFTER an enthusiast
tic reception and enjoyable entertain
ment during his stay here of a day
and half, Gen. Baron Kuroki, the
Japanese governments representative
TO the Jamestown exposition, left Se-
attic with his staff for the East at an
early hour this morning, under the
escort Of Gen. Macarthur and staff
The party will go in a special car to
Washington and later to the exposi-
ton, where the general will remain
about three weeks returning to japan
by way of this city early in June.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
President Sends Repre.ent..;v.

Chicago, May SIT is reported here
that Wilkie, chief of the government
secret service, is en- route to Boise with
corps of. sleuths to watch the Hay-
wood trial as personal representative
OF the president. They are expected
to report to Washington the exact con-
d1tlons, to watch every move and to
investigate all the evidence.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11

Los Angeles. May 9.-Tommy Burns
won from Jack O'Brien after twenty
rounds last night He received the
decision mainly on the score of 40.
greasiveness. for there were few mo.
ments IN the fight when Jack gave
Tommy chance to show what he
could do at fair stand-up work.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Votes $1,000 forFair

Bellingham, May 4.-The Chamber
OF Commerce has voted to raise ST..
600 for the fair which is to be held in
this city next October. The oranges
OF the county will have charge of the
exhibition and Whatcom, San Juan
and Skaeit counties will participate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Chicago Detectives Su.pended

Chicago, May sergeant Prem
dergast and Detectives McNully and
McGrath have been suspended pend
ing the investigation Of graft charges
made by the grand jury against the
police officers and ex-of11cialA
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

New York shipping is badly demon
allied by strike Of longshoremen.
Former United States Senator Hen
nv Heitfeldt has been nominated on
the Republican ticket for mayor OF
Lewiston, Idaho.
The coal miners strike at Fernie, B.
c., has been settled and an agree
ment signed for an increase of wages.
The men have returned to work.
It is reported from Panama that
fire at Bocas del Toro on Saturday
practically destroyed the town, which
had population of about 1000.
+ The ice in front of Dawson opened
Tuesday. The river in front OF
White Horse has also opened and
this means an early season. The
weather has been warm, meltings the
great drifts of snow.
DR.. John Watson, Ian McLaren, IA
nous as author of "The Bonnie Brier
Bush" died at MountP leasant, Ia,
Monday afternoon, having been taken
ill on the train en- route from Mime
apolis on a lecture tour.
Charles S. Fairchild. former presi-
dent of the New York Security and
Trust Company and former secretary
of the treasury, who, with George w.
Perkins was indicted for forgery as
result of insurance disclosures, plead
ed not guilty Tuesday and was held
in $4,000 bail for trial.
According to Rome dispatch, the
pope in private interview with Bish-
op Fox, of Green Bay, Wis, admitted
that the quarrel of France with the
Vatican caused a deficit in the last
balance sheet of the Vatican. The
pope said that unless wealthy commu-
nicants should contribute freely the
church would become poor.
The schools and colleges affiliated
with the University of Calcutta, In
dia, are such hotbeds of political agi-
tation that the government has sent
out circulars prohibiting the partici-
patton Of professors, teachers and pu-
pills in political movements under a
penalty of the withdrawal of the gov
eminent scholarships.
Arthur McEwen, chief editorial
writer for the Hearst newspapers, died
last week at Bermuda.
A bill providing for much stricter
Ion hos hoev fo
the Italian parliament.
The government transport Buford,
with 1000, 900 pounds of -four for the
Chinese famine sufferers on board,
has sailed for Chinkiang.
The Russian cabinet has decided to
submit to the lower house of parlia-
ment bill dealing with the extradi-
ton Of foreign criminals.
The board of regents of the Oregon
Agricultural college have elected DR..
j. W. Kerr, of Utah, president, to
succeed DR.. Thomas Catch, resigned.
The Postal Telegraph company will
build new line direct from Salt Lake
City to San Francisco with branch
from Reno down to the gold fields of
Nevada.
Capt. William N. Patterson, who
built the ironclad Monitor and COM
manded her at the time of the battle
with the Merrimac, died at Portland
Thursday, aged 80.
Emperor William has purchased
from Princess Leopold of Bavaria, the
villa Of Achilleion, on the island of
Corfu, which has been held by her
since the death of the empress of
Austria.
The treaty between the United
States and Santo Domingo, intended
to replace he treaty which has been
pending before the United States sen.
ate for the last two years, has been
ratified by the Dominican congress.
GEN. KUROK ARRIVES
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
Tacoma Quotalions.


Wheat-Club, 72@7sc; bluestem,
74@75c; red, 7O@7lc.
Oats = 80. 5O$@32; rolled oats
$S1. 50@33.
Hay, Alfalfa, Etc.-Wheat hay, SIS
gal; timothy, $s5@$27; mixed, $15
@SO; clover, $21@sS; alfalfa, Sic
@18.
Feed-Corn, see; wheat, $27; bar
ley, whole grain, $4,000; rolled.
$24@25; shorts. $sI@s2; bran, SIC
Poultry-Turkeys. dressed, gao:
chickens, dressed, 100; docks, dressed
loo; geese, dressed, Ice. Live-Hens
loo; ducks, 18c; geese, 11c.
6uttsr-Washington creamery, $50;
fresh Eastern, $50.
kggs-Washingtoa ranch, SO.
The oasis., 1907-04-27

sion, 1 explained it myself, and after getting many assurances from me that 1 would back him and stand by him under any and all circumstances, he agreed to get out and make a canvass of the precinct, which we immediately started out to do, travelling all that day and all that night.
 The next day was election day. It was quite a warm one at thst. I have been in many election fights since, and hot ones, but think that one was about the warmest one 1 ever got into. It was my maiden election effort, and when the votes were counted, the entire pool, outside of Bowers, received almost unanimous vote, and my friend Bowers, who wasn't suppos ed to have single vote, got eight majority in that precinct.
 After resting the next day and being entertained royalty by the people who seemed to think 1 had accomplished something almost impossible. 1 started back to Pres colt with the returns of that pre- cinct. 1 hired team and drove to Saint Johns; stopped at Mir. Sol. Barth's place, expecting to start the next morning for Prescott, some 300 miles distant with the returns. But during tine night some parties came in from the Salt Lakes some forty miles distant in New Mexico and reported that they had been robbed there by the same highwaymen, evidently, who had robbed the Englishman and my self. Parties in Saint Johns all that night were organizing posse to 20 out in pursuit of the robbers and at> intervals of every few minutes I would hear something about this party. During the night l resolved to accompany the party on the trip. didn't say anything. From the amount ot talk and boasting that they had done 1 imagined there would be about 25 people; but when the party got to- gether and out on the road, l was a little disappointed in regard to numbers. Leaving my returns with some other persons and arrang- ing to forward them to Prescott, 1 immediately joined this party early in the morning. When we got out on the road our party consisted of Sol. Earth, later on the first treas urer of Apache county: gentle man by the name of Martin, who was afterward the first sheriff of that county; gentleman by the name of Riggs, and your humble servant. We rode to Salt Lakes early in the day, a matter of forty miles, where the robbery was com mitted, finding that the robbers had taken the road 10 New Mexico in the direction of Rillito Quema- do, some forty miles distant. We continued on our journey and ar rived there the next morning at daylight, to find that the rob5ers had just broken camp and left. We attempted to get fresh mounts to continue on our journey, but we could not at that time. We rested our horses ard ourselves, fed them and ourselves, and in about two hours we mounted and were out in search of the trail of the escaping robbers. In few miles we encountered their camp