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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-13
THAW JURY DISA GREES.

Just as we go to press word was
received that the Thaw jury had
disagreed. 1t is thought that Harry
Thaw will go free now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-13
LICENSED TO WE'D.
Cupid's Franks as Recorded by County
Clerk Tuffiey.

Andrew Dorer, Mt. Ida, and Lucy
Christman, Bonneville, Ill.
John Shedry, Orion, Richland
county, and Mary Stedra, Water
loo.
Oscar Seipp, Patch Grove and
Mary Martin, Waterloo.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-13
COUNT soei.s,
Many New Faces Will be Sees o.
County Legislature this Fall.

The personnel of the newly elected
county board as determined by the
recent election in the various pre-
cincts is given below. Those marked
with star are new ones. The eoln-
tY legislature now consists of IS
members, as follows:
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21

rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
save its own dashings" was then un-
der treaty of joint occupation by
Great Britain and the United States,
by the terms of which the determine
tion of the interna tional boundary was
left to future settlement. Previous
to the coming of the Lees and the
Whitmans and their followers there
were no American settlements in the
whole vast region and it was not un
til its marvellous resources and at
fractions were made known by the
brave missionaries and their assOci
ates in the great work inaugurated
by the Lees and DR.. Whitman that
settlers began to pour over the noun
tains-the vanguard of the throDg OF
sturdy pioneers who made "the Ore
gon country American instead OF
British territory.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21
State School Fund
Apportionment

This county's portion of the August
apportionment Of state school funds
is 50, 129. .82, which is $55. Is less than
the corresponding apportionment o.
last year. The apportionment was
made on the basis Of $0.O23 for each
days attendance, whica is an increase
of two tenths Of a cent day over the
basis used in making the August ap-
portimment last year. The county
is credited with total attendance OF
81, 601 days last year, only four coun-
ties IN the state-Adams, Ferry, Ska
mania and Wahkiakum, having less.
island county led San Jusu BY 17O
days. This district gets = little over
one sixth of the total an0uns sppor-
toned to the county.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21

ments of ministers to the various
churches of the district were an
nounced that day by Bishop Moore,
Rev. E. O. Harris, of this place, goes
to Lopez, and Rev. Alfred A. Brit
tain, who has been at Lopez for the
past few months, goes to Gig Harbor,
in the Tacoma district. Rev. S. V.
Warren is transferred from East
Sound to Monroe, Snohomish county.
Mr.. Harris is to be succeeded here by
Rev. Herbert Jones, who has been at
Rainier Beach, near Seattle, for the
past year. He is expected here Mon
day with his wife and two children.
He is to preach at Roche Harbor also
and will receive 500 per year from
the home mission fund in addition to
the salary paid him by the members
of the churches to which he is assign.
ed. Mr.. Harris transfer to Lopez
was made in accordance with his own
wishes. Mr.. Warren is to be succeed
ed at East Sound by Rev. J. w. Moles.
The people of the northwest owe
much to Methodists. The first pro-
testant house of worship west of the
Rocky mountains was built on French
prairie, in the Willamette valley, in
1884 by Jason and Daniel Lee, who
were sent out to the Oregon coun-
try" by the Methodist board of mis-
sions, their arrival antedating by two
years that of DR.. Marcus Whitman
and his brave wife in the Walla Walla
valley. The Willamette mission was
no. only the first mission OF any
church in the Pacific northwest but
it was the first distinctivey Ameri-
can settlement west Of the Rockies.
In 1870 it numbered nearly fourscore
men, women and children, including .
number Of farmers, mechanics and
teachers and nearly twenty white
children When the Lees arrived on
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21
Methodist Churches to Have New Pastors

the coast the Hudson's Bay Company
held undisputed sway in the whole
vast valley Of the Columbia, with head
quarters at Vancouver, where the
great-hearted DR.. John Mclaughlin,
a true friend of the pioneers though
loyal to bis own country, was chief
factor. The great territory "where
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21

This county has been detached
~ from the BellingEam district of
the Puget Sound conference of the
Methodist church and has been inclu-
ded in a new district to be known as
the Port Townsend district. The twen-
y-fourth annual conference Gle Sc
at Seattle last Monday and the assign
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21


E.W. Botsford walked down from
his home at Mitchell bay Wednesday
morning and reached Argyle in time
to take the Rosalie for Lopez. He
came by the old English military road
along the ridge by Cady mountain to
the old Mckay place. It was fine
bit Of road during the days Of the
JOINT occupancy and was the scene Of
many gay riding parties from the
English garrison. The grade IS far
better than that Of the present coun-
ty road and if it were opened through
to the Beaverton valley road it would
materially shorten the distance to
English camp and Mitchell bay. Mr..
Botsford found fine pair OF deer
horns near an old abandoned cabin In
the woods.
Frank Guard went to Benngham
Tuesday with bis son Harold 70 con
|sult a oculist about the boy eyes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21

THE county game warden reports
~ that he is practically powerless
to enforce the game law on this island
in the face of the attitude manifested
toward it by large proportion of
the farmers, who refuse to obtain IL
censes and not only claim that they
have right to hunt upon their own
property without first obtaining IL
censes but also have a right to
permit oilers to do so. No man has
a right to violate the law and if he
knowingly permits any one else to do
so he makes himself an accessory in
such violation. The principles upon
which the game law is based were
well set forth in an opinion rendered
some years ago by Assistant Attor-
ney General Dalton when the same
question which has arisen here was
submitted to the attorney generals
Office from Ellensburg. In his reply
Mr.. Dalton said:
II am strongly of the opinion that
farmer, or any other person, hunting and
killing wild game on his own land.
whether enclosed or not, is compelled to
take out license the same as any other
hunter. Wild game is the property of the
state so far as capable of ownership, and
there is no question but that the state has
the absolute right to regulate the hunting
and killing Of game, and one must COM
ply with and obey such laws and regula-
tions on his own lands the same as upon
tho lands of another. It is not question
of hunting on ones own promises, but Of
killing the game. The ownership of the
soil gives no property to the landed pro-
prietor, either in the fish or the wild fowl.
They are not like the rocks in the bottom
Of the stream. or the ice which forms upon
it's surface. They are wild things in
which no man has property while they
are alive and untamed. For the hunting
and protection of such game the state has
provided reasonable regulation rsQuir-
ing license to be issued to the hunter,
If hunter claims to be exempt from this
license provision for the reason that he is
hunting on his own land. he may as we'll
claim that he is exempt from the other
provisions of the game law, such as ki.s
ling game out of season, provided he Is on
his own land. If he can hunt without q
license on his own land. what is to pre-
vent others from doing the same thing on
his land provided he grants them the
privilege?
.Game and fish are subject to the juris-
diction and dominion OF the state no mat
ter where they may be within the terri
torial limits Of that state; and a citizen
cannot kill. the one, even though upon his
own land, or capture the other. though in
the water which flows over his own land,
in violation of the laws Of the state.
ut is q violation of the law Of the state
to hunt and kill game without first pro-
curing license, and am therefore plain
" Of the opinion that such license must
be procured whether the hunter is upon
his own land or not"
Game Warden Sweeney wrote to
the state game warden about the
matter and received a letter FROM
him this week in which he says.
mo one has right to hunt without .
license. Because the farmers own the
land they do not own the wild game Of
the state which happens to come upon it
and it is the same way with the pheas-
ants.''
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21
CANNOT ENFORCE
The GAME LAW
Game Warden Reports Hostile Altitude
Toward il

Farmers Claim Right to Shoot Game
Upon Their Own Property and Al
cense-Former Assistant Attorney
Generals Opinion.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21
THE ESCAPE OF
JOHN KELLEY, JR.
Conflicting Statements of Sheriff and
Attorney

Sheriff Declares that the Prosecuting
Attorney, Before He Left Town,
Was Fully Advised of Kelley's
Confession Kelley Went to Van
cOuver Island.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
IN BERKSHIRE HE rs.
Season Promises To Be NOtablg
Successful.

Lenox Mass Juno (SpecinD-Berkshire has
suffered from the OF @ backward
spring, characterized by snow squalls as late a.
May 2S but despite this is fully prepared for thS
resort season. which gives svery promise of being
IN all ways notably successful Each season for
the last ten years has demonstrated ever widen
ing popularity. and OF late years the automobile
has been potent factor in spreading the fame OF
tho Berkshire Hills. The season OF 1903 was the
most prosperous ever known here. and the early
influx OF automobile parties who have braved the
unreasonable weather indicates busIer
summer than that of last year.
Lenox will miss the diplomats this year espe-
cially Sir Mortimer Durand, the former English
Ambassador, who. with his family and the at
taches Of the embassy. filed q large place in the
resort life. Baron Won HengeImtller may come
for brief period IN the autumn and 1t is stated
that tho new British Ambassador, James Bryce,
Will be in Lenox for a few weeks In October. on hts
return from Interyae. n. H. where he Is 10 spend
the summer. Tho official family Of the government
Will be represented by Secretary Bonaparte who
is coming to the Hotel Aspinwall in July with Mrs
Bonaparte TO remain until September. They are
fond OF driving and the hotel stables hold some
fine new horses for the use OF the Secretary. The
literary world will be represented by Mrs Herbert
Parsons and Mrs. Edith Wharton who Is soon TO
return from Europe to spend tho summer at The
Mount Richard Watson Glider is already at his
country place in Tyringham with his family and
It is not unlikely that Samuel Clemens will be his
guest there in course Of the season. r. de p
Tytus the Egyptologist. has just returned from
abroad with Mrs. Tytus. and they. too are at
their Berkshire home at Tyringham. The soulp-
tors, Daniel Chester French and Augustus Luke
man, will spend the summer at StockbridEe and II
IS understood that Mr.. French Will execute some
important commissions at his Glendale studio
Practically all OF the Lenox cottages have been
taken for the season. and among the new addi-
ti9ns to the cottage colony are Mr. and Mrs. Rob
Mrs. w. Roscoe Bonsal, of New York W
The season win not be marked by any great
amount of building. the only notable enterprise OF
this nature being the new, home TO bo erected on
the old Shattuok estate by Newbold Morris OF
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09

@SS Te qg2y Of the product Of 5.n the pion 5ns
ysis a purity OF moro than 90 per cent
Briefly stated. the sulphur is melted by means OF
deposit through iron pipes The melted sulphur,
being insoluble in water, and OF greater specific
gravity, falls to the bottom OF the well. whence
1t ia raised to the surface by means Of an air
pump. on the surface it is allowed 70 CONCEAL
IN the form Of huge square masses and subse-
9uentIy is broken up and loaded on TO the cars
The details of the process are as follows: A
We'll is drilled In much the same way as for petro-
well is run system Of pipes, one within the other
until 1t extends not quite 10 the bottom OF the well
The outermOst pipe is 10 inches in diameter; within
pipe. and within hat A I-inch pipe Water, heated
grees Fahrenheit, is forced down through the an
pipes. and issues through number OF perfora-
tons IN tho side at point two three feet above
The water. because Of its great heat and pres
Ices of the limestone rock, attacking and melting
the sulphur and causing IT, because OF It's superior
er r thu So0m o Re pipe OF through S
Gf aFd a Sb p. up sng B
3-inch pipe. Normally. the two columns OF liquid,
water and sulphur. would stand in equilibrium at
different levels. whose height would be inversely
as their respective specific grayites, the water
column so that when the top Of the water column
Vas, Vas at me level OF ire ground the Top OK me
way between the bottom and tho top OF the pipe.
pressed air is forced down through the i-inch pipe
Into the liquid sulphur and the density of the lat
of the water, ana the mixture OF sulphur and air
rises and flows out in a steady stream at the sur
face shown IN one Of our Illustrations.
From what has been said above. II will be un-
derstOOd that the radius OF action OF the hot
IL issues from the bottom OF the tube will be
dependent upon its pressure and heat That is 70
say II VIII extend through the seams and assures
OF the limestone rock. melting out the sulphur.
Just far and Just as long as ii can maintain
Its heat above the melting point OF the sulphur.
AS tho sulphur, because Of it, greater specific
gravity, drains away TO the bottom OF the well or
pump. the water takes It's place. although. OF
course. there IS a gradual subsistence OF the ground
70 I'll the vods thus produced. From four hun
drc1 five hundred tons OF sulphur have been
known 10 fow from well IN q single day, this
rate being maintained for weeks at a time, and
wall has actually furnished 6OOO0 tons OF
sulphur. The wells were sunk AT distances OF dfty
hundred feet from each other, aid IN this
way this enormous deposit IS being gr"sH-ally ex-
plotted Scientific American.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09

down, and with their knives severed the arms
of the octopus and recovered the corpse.
Clemens Laming, in his book The
French in Algiers' writes: The soldiers were
In the habit Of bathing in the sea every even
ing, and from time to time several of them dis
consequence, strictly prohibited; in spite OF
which several men went into the water one
evening. Suddenly ono of them screamed for
help, and when several others rushed to his
assistance they found that octopus had
seized him by the leg by four Of its arms,
while it clung to the rock with the rest. The
soldiers brought the monster home with them,
It, This adventure accounted for the disappear
Of the other soldiers
The Rev. Wyatt GILL; for long a missionary
in the Hervey Islands, describes in leisure
Hour (London). of April 20. 1872, another mode
OF attack by which octopus might deprive
q man OF life. A servant of his went diving
for poulpes' (octopodsD, leaving his son in
rose to the surface, his arms free. but his nos
trils and mouth completely covered by a large
octopus. If his son had not promptly torn the
living plaster from his face he must have been
suffocated-a fate which actually befel, some
years previously, man who foolishly went
diving alone.
IN The American "Journal Of Science and
Art OF January 81, 1874, a correspondent de-
scribes attack by octopus on diver who
was at work the wreck Of a sunken steamer
off the coast of Florida. The man, a power
full Irishman, was helpless in It's grasp. and
would have been drowned If he had not been
quickly brought to the surface, for when
dragged onto the raft from which he had de-
sCended he tainted and his companions were
him until they had dealt It a sharp blow across
Its baggy body
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
A NUMBER OF VARIETIES.

THE octopus, which is one Of the most re-
rnarkable Of marine animals. forms one family
Of the class Cephalopoda. and has as its nearest
Many Of them are found on both our Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, but II is in tropical waters
that they most abundant and attain their
greatest size. They are especially common in
the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.
and furnish considerable part Of the food
supply Of the natives, japanese and Chinese OF
the islands.
It IS surprising the amount Of rn!sinforma-
ton that IS prevalent, even among well edu-
OF this class. Even in regions where they are
abundant many persons seem unable to dis
tuguish properly between the cuttedsh the
squid and the octopus while news
papers when a large specimen Of either is
found blazon il forth as "devildsh" name
which really belongs alone TO the sQuid The
octopus has eight feet, arms, and IS dis
tinctIve in this regard. The cuttles and squids
have. In addition to the eight feet arms, two
longer tentacular appendages, making ten in
all The cUtue's skeleton consists Of a single
large rigid, cellular float; the squid possesses
long horny pen in the centre Of its body,
while the octopus has merely a small and rudi-
rentary indication Of an internal shell.
They are all constructed on one fundamental
plan. bag OF deshy muscular skin, called the
mantle sac, contains the organs OF the body
heart, stomach, liver, intestines, a pair of gills
by which oxygen is absorbed from the water
Tor the publication of the blood. and q tube by
tanning gas, is expelled. The outrush of water
with more or less force. from this "syphon
tube is also the principal source Of locono-
ton when the animal Is swimming, as IL pro
pels it backward by the pressure Of the fluid
acting inside the body in the direction In which
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
WONDERFUL MINES.
Original Methods Used to Pump Up
Sulphur.

The extraordinary richness and extent OF the
mineral resources OF the United States are pro-
verbal, and. all things considered. in the whole
range OF the mining industry it would be impos-
s!ble TO find deposit which relatively IN IT'S rich
ness and purity exceeds the sulphur mines OF
Louisiana. These unique, both IN their geo
logical formation and in tho originality and daring
Of the methods adopted for the recovery oc the
metallod.
The deposits in question are situated near tho
little town OF Lake Charles near the coast ~ the
Gulf Of Mexico, and close TO the border between
Louisiana and Texas. They belong to tie Union
Sulphur Company. to the unt!riug patience and In
Yentive skill Of whose president. Herman Frasch,
is due the present ingenious and very successful
method OF recovery. Before proceeding 10 a de-
scription Of this method it IS necessary to mako
clear the character of the deposits and the prob
able method of their formation
The largo number OF boreholes which have been
sunk have revealed the presence al great depth
of n vast extinct geyser whose operations must
have ceased far back in geological ages the sulphur
layers having been deposited In the tertiary age
either eocene or miocene After passing down first
through two hundred feet II clay and then through
two hundred feet OF quicksand and eighty feet OF
sand and gravel the drills revealed the presence OF
a vast cone or mountain Of limestone approx
mately oval in form, the lip OF the cone having a
width OF about two hundred feet and The mouth
measuring from one-third OF a mile 10 one mile
across portion Of the top Of the covered by
deposit Of broken limestone which varies in thick
ness from nothing 20 $50 feet at the edges After
the drills had penetrated through this everything
stripping they entered huge deposit of sulphur
and imestone, consisting Of about 80 per cent Of
limestone ana 10 per cent Of pure sulphur Below
this was found deposit Of gypsum 45O feet in
thickness, and underlying the gypsum is "A deposit
OF sa!t surrounding and covering the walls and
summit Of this cone with It's valuable contents Is
a bed OF sand.
The discovery Of this nne resulted from the
efforts Of company which was formed in 1868 to
search for petroleum, the presence of which was
indicated by oozings from the surface of the
ground. Two years later attempts made TO
extract the sulphur which for fro
leuIn had revealed, but the impossbllity of con
trolling the abundant sub-surface waters Of this
region, which Is almost at level rendered all
attempts to recover the sulphur by tho ordinary
mining methods abortive.
The present successful system may be said TO
date from the year 1891 when the frst patents on
process for recovering sulphur by uquefaction
were taken out; but it was not until the year 1898
that the inventor succeeded in securing the prop
years later that the many difficulties in tho way OF
mining the sulphur in this novel manner were
overcome and the process brought to state OF
perfection which made the method q financial
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
ONIONS AS GERM KILLERS.

Not long ago Scotch teacher gave this advioe to
her pupils; III you have cholera scarlet fever
in the house puts some onions under the bed and
they will sweep away all disease" The onion
proved its virtue in q remarkable way forty years
ago. when cholera ragged throughout London Il
noticed with surprise that one of the most
unsanitary districts was almost exempt from the
visitation. The majority OF the Inhabitants being
Italians. We're great onion eaters and strings OF
this vegetable were found suspended from the cell
ing OF nearly every room. The medical officer OF
health concluded that the onion. among It's many
virtues. contains powerful antidote against cholera
morbus and possibly other dseases.-Chicago News
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09

ssyssore have you oeen lately, little one?
S@~sn't seen you at Sanday school for some
9nae."
"oh, please, miss. I'm learning French and
music now, 80 mother doesn't wish me to take
religion just yet" Tho ratlsr.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
CATCHING THE OCTOPUS.

The natives are great lovers Of the hee, and
have many ways Of catching it. one of the most
interesting being with the cOwTie shell. One or
more cowrie shells Of the Mauritania or tiger
varieties are attached to a string. When only
one is used al oblong pebble of about the size
Of the shell is tied to the face Of it. a hole is
pierced in one end Of the back Of the shell,
through which line is passed. and after being
fastened there a few inches Of the line is al
lowed TO hang below the She'll to which a hook.
whose point stands almost perpendicular to the
Shaft shank. IS attached. Only shells with
small red spots breaking through a reddish
brown ground have attraction for the ami
NAL, and they will not rise to any other kind.
On arriving at the fishing ground the fisherman
drops the shell into the water, and by means Of
the line swings 1t back and forth over a place
likely TO be occupied by one of the creatures
The moment the greedy animal perceives the
shell arm is shot out and the shell seized
II Of q kind attractive to the animal, after a
few moments hesitation another arm is placed
around IT, and this is continued until at last
the animal withdraWs itself entirely from its
hole and hugs the shell closely to its body.
drawn rapidly up through the water. When it's
head comes above the surface the animal raises
It, and then the fisherman pulls it over against
the edge Of the canoe. where he hits It a blow
between the eyes with q club, which generally
kills It.
The natives usually sun-dry the animal and
in this condition il IS tougher than india rubber
but they consider it OF their greatest del-
cacies