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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
DISCUSS RULES OF WAR
Subj Committee Getting Down to Work
at The Hague.

Sub-Committee Getting Down to work
at The Hague.
The Hague, June 24.-In the con-
ference Saturday subcommittee we're
formed to consider rules of war. One,
presided over by M. Beernert will deal
with the amelioration of the rules of
land war. The other, presided over by
M. Asser, will deal with the rights and
duties Of neutral powers in the event
Of war.
The Russian delegation presented a
proposition on the subject of the OPEN
ing of hostilities.
The committee, evidently to avoid
hurting the feelings Of the japanese,
concluded that up to the present there
is NO existing international under
standing on the subject of opening
>hostilities, holding that each conuntry
can affirm that its point Of view in
this connection is correct. The COM
mittee must decide whether to main
tain the status quo or establish inter-
national rules for the opening of hos
tilities.
The German delegation presented a
proposition regarding the treatment Of
neutrals in the territory of belliger-
ents.
In the second committee Gen. Hor-
ace Porter presented proposition not
to collect debts by force whenever the
debtor nation expresses wish to sub
nit it's obligations to arbitration.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
CAR MAKES MOVE
TO awe SUBJFC7s

st. Petersburg, June 22.-An i'm
perial ukase abs been issued 70 N.
governors of the provinces of Archsn
gel, Novgorod, lneitz, Paskoy Rvs
zan, Smolensk, Tver and Yardslsu
empowering them to suspend nev,
papers, dispense meetings, Danish NV
desirable persons and take other mea.
ures for the maintenance of public 90
curity by administrative process
without having resort to the courts
and to inflict punishment up to tbrss
months Imprisonment and $500 6ns
These provinces include practically
the entire area of Russia where soma
form of martial law has not alread,
been proclaimed.
The step was taken to head off
agrarian disorders, the possibility Of
which, it is believed, greatly increased
the determination of the Social Dem.
ocrats, Social Revolutionists and
members of the Group of Toll to issue
a joint manifesto to the nation urging
the people not to accept the "aristo.
cratic regime contemplated by the new
election law" but to defend by force
the idea of popular representation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
MUST Divide PROPERTY
when GRANTED Divorce

Olympia, June 22.-The supreme
court has laid down the rule that prop.
erty within the jurisdiction Of the
court belonging to parties to divorce
suit, must be divided in connection
with the decree of the court and fur.
Their if it is not then divided the one
responsible for not bringing it to the
attention Of the court cannot later
claim an interest in it.
The case at the bar was that Of D.
Ambrose, APPELLANT, against Mrs. Au.
gusta Ambrose and other respondents,
from King county. The plaintiff
signed deed to certain piece Of
property transferring it to his wife in
1904, but the deed was put in escrow
to be delivered only upon his order
In 1905 the wife obtained decree
of divorce and later the deed was DE-
livered to her and filed for record
The husband brought suit to set aside
the deed and to be declared owner Of
half the property. The lower curt
sustained a demurrer and threw the
case out of court. In reversing tne
decision the supreme court says:
Elm our opinion, when a person PROF.
ecutes suit for divorce and fails 70
bring the property rights of the parry
before the court for adjudication Dc
or she valves any right in or to tns
property of the other side, and Vnsa
q defendant submits to a divorce un.
der like circC instances the same rlen:
will apply. The power to dispose "
the property of the husband and wiz
Is an incident Of the power to grant u
vorce, and ordinarily that power csn.
not be exercised by any other cour' ~
any time or in an independent ~
tion."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
URGED TO Obey LAWS

St. Paul, June 26.-The Association
of Transportation and Car Accounting
Officers, national organization, met
here yesterday. A. q. Briggs, chief
counsel of the Great Western road, in
welcoming the delegates, said:
"There is question Of paramount
interest to every railroad and to every
railroad man:
''Shall the railroads and the public
be at peace or at war?
1.-THE public believes that railroads
are robbing the people. When told
by high authority that their suspi-
cion was correct. then they were sure
Of it. Now the confidence of the pub
lie must be restored. It can only be
restored when the public is convinced
that railroad officials are law abiding;
that they desire only what is just and
right. The best way to convince the
public that you are law abiding is to
abide by the laws. Even bad law
obeyed is better than bad law vio-
lated.
"How shall we satisfy, I might say,
how shall we placate the puhlic?. How
shall we restore public confidence?
Wrongs have been committed in
legislatures, but it will do no good to
call lawmakers dishonest. sincerely
believe the majority of them mean to
do right.
cit is a long step from the time
when communities We'd with each
other to give rights of way free to rail-
roads up to the memorable legislation
of 1907. Old times have passed, new
ones are upon us. Time will tell what
the outcome will be. -
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TO Double TRACK
NORTH, BANK ROAD

Portland, Or, June 22.-To double
track the North Bank road from Van
couver to Kalama and from Vancou-
yer to point near Cape Horn, on the
middle Columbia in addition to lay
ing q double track from Kennewick to
a point twenty-five or thirty miles
toward Rose City, are plans of the
Northern Pacific, as stated by Presi-
dent Howard Elliott, who was in the
city, accompanied by other officers of
the system. The passing tracks to be
laid are exceptionally long in order
to provide for complete double track
in the future. President Elliott says
the Cape Horn tunnel was bored only
for single track, so the line will be
operated that way for short distance
each side of the Cape.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
Washington News

The Chehalis city council has voted
$50, 600 for street improvement pur-
poses.
A Buddhist temple is to be erected
by japanese young men at Seattle. 1t
will cost $15, 1000.
Some hop contracts were made at
Tacoma last week at 10 cents. They
are for September delivery.
It is expected that Seattle will be
the meeting place of the National Ed.
itorial Association in 1909, the year OF
the Alaska Yukon Piacfic exposition.
N. M. Hart, for the past four years
superintendent Of the. Butte public
schools, has been chosen principal OF
the Spokane schools, succeeding u. =.
Cloyd.
Twenty of the fifty-one teachers in
the Seattle public schools who retired
at the end of the present year, are to
be married during the vacation period
and will abandon school work.
One hundred and five registered on
Monday at the University Of Wash
ington for work in the special summer
session of six weeks duration. The
registration for the term is expected to
reach $50.
A. Walk, of Pullman, has been
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of the domestic science building
at the state college at Pullman, to-
gether with the plumbing, heating
and wiring, for 1913, 729, and also the
contract for the new veterinary build
ing, including heating, plumbing and
wiring, for $40, 400.
The postoff1ces at Chelan, Irby and
Sultan have been made international
money order Offices.
Everett has b cen selected as the
place for the next meeting of the State
Elks' Association in 1905
The fourth annual convention of the
State Auditors Association was held
at North Yakima last week.
Oscar S. Straus, secretary of COM
MERGE and labor, will visit Seattle this
summer during the course of a jour-
ney across the United States and to
the Hawaiian islands.
The new st. Petrick's church at Ia
coma, one of the finest in the West,
which has been two years building,
will be dedicated with appropriate GER
emonies on Sunday, June 80.
Seattle banks have subscribed for
the So, 225, 900 bond issue for the pur-
pose of extending the city water sys-
tenn. On account of the form of the
bonds there was difficulty in selling
them through usual channels.
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Two CENT FARES.
RATES ON ALL RAILROADS TO Be
REDUCED.
This 10 Said to Be the Decision
of Presidents Of Western and
Transcontinental Roadsat Chi
cago..-Forced to Bow to Pop
ular Demand.

Seattle, June ga special dis
patch from Chicago to the Morning
Times says:
Passenger rates on all railroads OF
the United States will be reduced to
two cents mile. The lowering OF
the price and the complete abolition
of the old three cent rate is to begin
on July 1.
This was the decision reached in
Chicago after long land heated dis
cussion by the leading railroad presi-
dents Of the Western and transcontin-
entail roads.
It was not formal agreement but
is equally binding, for two large roads
doing transcontinenta business have
served an ultimatum on the others
that they would put the rate into eff
ect Immediately.
Following the meeting, officials of
several roads admitted that they had
been forced to bow to public opinion
and anti-railroad legislation. They
said that no further fight, would be
made on the two cent laws already
passed, and that the roads would &C.
cept the inevitable.
Among those who are said to have
attended the secret meeting were
President B. L. Winohell, of the Rock
Island and President A. j. Earring, O.
the Milwaukee. Neither would disf
cuss the report.
The first reduction will be made
July on the Illinois rates. This is
expected to be followed by general
order from the passenger traffic de-
partments lowering the interstate
rates.
The results will be that within a
few months the travelling public will
be able to reach any point in the Uni
ted States for two-thirds the usual
fare. Railroad officials also say that
it will mean the revival of keen COM
petition for business among competing
lines.
Another consideration said to have
forced the informal decision to cut
the rate was the impossibility of
charging two cents in one state to con-
form with the law and attempting to
charge three cents when the passenger
crossed the line into another state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
CONTROL OF PLACERS
GUGGEEHEIM's COMBINE THOSE
IN KLONDIKE WATERSHED.
Biggest Placer Merger the World
Has Ever Known Consumma.
ted at Dawson--Claims on
Hunker, Colorado, Banana
and Other Creeks Included.

Seattle, June 25.-A Post-Intelli-
gencer special from Dawson says:
Records in the gold commissioners
office show that the biggest placer
merger the world has ever known has
been contaminated in Dawson where
by the Guggenheim interests have
taken over properties from A. N. @.
Treadgold, Northwest Hydraulic Com
pany and Yukon Consolidated Gold
Fields companies and other smaller
concerns. By the deal the Guggen-
helm people have absorbed all the
placer properties in the Klondike
watershed, which have been worked
ty old methods. Hundreds Of claims
on the Eldorado, Bonanza, Hunker,
Bear and their rich hillsides and trib-
utaries are included in the deal. 1t
is estimated that the claims have cost
the company ten millions and the five
millions which have already been spent
for equipment.
The company has just started three
of the largest dredges in the world at
the mouth of the Bonanza, and is
planning to start three on the lower
Hunker, one on Anderson concession,
one at the Arlington road house, at
the junction of the bunker and the
Klondike river, one at Forty below
bunker. It will also install dredge
or two more at the lower Bonanza this
season and several giant electrical
conveyor machines for hosting gravels
and sweeping out creek bottoms with
electrical power without the use of
dredges.
After Boyle Concession
The Guggenheim interests are un-
derstood to be making strenuous ef-
forts to secure control of the Boyle
concession, covering eight miles along
the Klondike river; the Bronson and
Roy concession, covering long stretch
along Bonanza creek and the Anderson
concession covering part of the Hun
ker. It is said to virtually control
the Anderson concession now.
Several other heavy American and
English concerns are in the field try
ing to buy before the Guggenheims get
all the good digging ground. The
Pioneer Dredging Company Of Cali
fornia have the greater part of Do
minion creek, which is twenty-seven
miles long, under option. It will
mean deal of several millions, it is
conceded here. The same company
has already bought the Gold Basin
company's ground and the dredge on
the lower end of the Klond1ke river.
Extensive deals are being negotiated
at Forty Mile, Circle, Sixty Mile and
other districts, several New York ex.
perts representing number Of COM
panies. Some Seattle capital is on
the ground.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
Confers 952 Degrees at Yale

New Haven, Conn. June 27.-Presi-
dent Hadley conferred 952 degrees at
the Yale university commencement.
Among those who received honorary
degrees we're United States Senator
Knox, Of Pennsylvania, doctor of laws;
F. Hopkinson Smith, doctor Of itera-
ture.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
MORE BIG BATTlEsH,pe
Contracts for Two Of Dreadnaueh,
Awarded. W

Awarded. ~
Washington. June 22.-Tba :,
port News ShipbuildinQ Cow Nes.
with one bid Of s., 9s7, 900. any paas
Fore River Shipbuilding Comna a tas
sachusetts, with bid Of q y, q
600, were successful bidders for htonr
ing the two 0,0OO-ton battleshS;ul ld
the Dreadnaught type for the I1a ~ q
States navy. 'ed
The design selected shows thu. d.
ships will carry as heavy armor sas
as powerful armament as snv 80, and
vessel Of this class; will have a saa
believed to be the highest pract;n .vsd
for vessel Of this type and class a ass
have the highest practicable reaa;n auu
of action, with total coal bunSo. oss
pacity of about 2, 800 tons.a snasd I'd
trial Of 81 knots, a length m ). 10
load waterline of about $40 feet ' ~s
an extreme breadth Of about * t auu
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
Another San Francisco Fire

San Francisco, June 22.-Fire has
destroyed several dry goods houses
In Van Ness avenue, near Sacramento
street, causing a loss estimated from
$4,000 to $500, 600. It was in
this section that the Market street
merchants took refuge after the fire
tnat followed the earthquake last
year. The buildings were Of wood
ana were constructed under special
Two years permit The origin Of the
nre Is unknown. This is the third
disastrous fire in the business section
within few weeka
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

A successful rose carnival was held
at Portland last week and plans are on
foot to make it an annual event.
Investigation shows that the official
order closing the opium dens in the
Chinese part of Shanghai has been
obeyed.
An exceptionally rich strike of cop
per in the Butte and London Compa-
ny's shaft has caused considerable ex-
element at Butte.
The Sebastopol railroad and its
branches have been declared under
martial law as a precautionary meas
ure against strikes.
The steamship Ohio, disabled at
Nome, is expected to be ready to sail
for Seattle July 5, after which she will
undergo extensive repairs.
President Roosevelt and the govern
ors of the several states have been
asked to aid the National Union OF
Railway Trackmen in campaign fonr
greater safety in railway travel.
An order for fiat two cent passen-
ger fare in Kansas is to be issued by
the state board of railroad commits
sioners regardless of the fate of the
two cent fare rates in other states.
An order has been signed by the
postoffice department establishing an
exchange of mail between Skagway,
$ Alaska and Prince Rupert, B. c., the
terminus of the Grand Trunk.
Mrs. Catherine E. ellison, known to
members of the Woman's Relief Corps
throughout the United States as the
"godmother of the w. R. c." died
Premier Campbell annerman has
offered in the house of commons the
governments resolution restricting the
lords power to nullify the house of
commons work by veto, which the
house of lords now possesses.
Treadwell mines and electric plant
will use oil for fuel instead of coal.
Difficulty in obtaining coal supply is
given as the cause for the change.
W. Betehel, former president of
the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company Of Minneapolis, has been
found guilty of grand larceny by a
jury which was out % hours.
An effort to obtain weather reports
from all craft equipped with wireless
telegraph apparatus while off the
North Pacific coast will be made by
District Forecaster G. A. Beals, of the
nited States weather bureau at Port
land.
At Kiel, Friday, Emperor William,
after sailing over thirty-three mile
course in nine-knot breeze, steered
his schooner yacht Meteor across the
finish line three minutes and fifty Sec
onds ahead Of the Hamburg, his only
competitor.
Five thousand freight handlers in
the employ of railroads at Chicago
will probably receive wage advances
amounting to $4,000 annually with
in the next few days. The Milwaukee
road has offered it's men per cent
increase and other roads are expected
to follow the example.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT


6mC0A0o08 1t1C0os
The followiong prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots I. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tice.:
Grain-Oats, $4,000 per ton; bar
ley, $4,000. 80; wheat, chicken feed,
$4,000; bran, &17@18; shorts, SIC
gal; corn, &28@27.
Hay-Eastern Washington, $21@ /;
Puget Sound $4,000; alfalfa, $3.50
GIT.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, 21@22c.
Poultry-Live hens, 18c per ID; old
ROSTERS, Ito; ducks, 100; spring
chickens, Ito; turkeys, live, 20@21c.
Wool Eastern Washington 16@
1Sc per Id; Western Washington,
21@22c; dirty or timber stained, Is
@20c.
Live Stock-Sheep, wethers, "a
THO per ID; ewes, 1860; lambs,
|7H@8c; Hogs, 5000; Cattle, steers,
$40 COWS, 30; calves. AGO.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
Put Ban ON Pol;.h Stems

Wilma, June 26.-The chief Of police
has ordered all Polish shop signs. to be
removed. The owners Of shops are
new obliged to paint their signs and
publish their advertisements ii the
Russian language only.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29

Wheat Club, SEQ q bluestem,
SIG red, $40.
Oats = 8l.60$@s2; rolled oats
$S1. 609S2.
Bay, Alfalfa, Etc.-Wheat hay. SIS
@21; timothy. s27@$29; mixed, $16
@s0; clover, $21@28; alfalfa, $1e
Gle.
Feed-Corn, 500; wheat, $s1; bar
ley, whole grain, $40; rolled,
s2s@27; shorts, ssi@ss; bran, $40
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, $50;
chickens, dressed, 100; ducks, dressed
1sc; geese. dressed, 16G Live-Hens
loo; duckA lao; geese, lilo.
Butter Washington creamery. 29c;
fresh Eastern, 30c.
Eggs-Washington ranch, 2la
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-29
GET ONE FARE FOR 1Hf
convsntion at Los A

Educational Convention ut Los
Adjusts Differences. ehup
Chicago, June 24.-Secretai. H
ard. Of the National Educationsn lie
sociation has announced that = nd
objections TO the rates OF rare Il ~
from the convention to Be nelu .;nstsd
Angeles have been finally au nof
Under the arrangements as w. IT.
stand tiokets Win 30 sold % ons
Tor the round trip.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-22
MISSING LINK
WAS SEASICk
GINGER, THE ORANGE-OUTING
SHOWS HE Is ALMOST HUMAN
on SHIP-POLICEMAN WALKS
THE PLANK.

Sad Is the plight OF Ginger. the
near-human orang-outang. the long
lost missing link" which arrived
last week at the New York Zoolog-
ical Park. for he is in the throes of
he dreaded NAL de mer. the disease
which visits majority of ocean
travellers. and which they are accus-
toned to diagnose as seasickness.
Since he was captured in his ma
tive wilds on the coast of South
Africa. two months ago. Ginger has
led an eventful career. Torn from
the home of his doting parents by a
band of heartless sailors on hunt
for ship mascot. the poor little
monk was placed I'm the hold OF a
sailing vessel plying between Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa. and the
port of New York. There. contrary
to the accepted laws OF gravitation
that everything that goes up must
come down. Ginger soon discovered
that everything he tried to put down
in his stomach came up. attended by
the queerest of feelings in that re-
gion.
Throughout the whole weary Jour
ney to America this first cousin to
man lay stretched upon his back. nor
did he care whether he ever reached
land again--nothin@ seemed to be of
any Importance any more Even his
beautiful mustache. the envy OF all
his simian rivals in the jungle, was
allowcl TO grow scrawny and un-
kempt. is long. straight hair. form
erly parted in faultless style on the
left side of his head. was now
tangled mass, and even his we'll
manicured fngernails were orang-
outang
When the good ship finally locked
at the Atlantic docks, i'm Brooklyn.
the troubles of Ginger were not at
an end. The tales of his amazing
good looks and manlike appearance
had preceded him, and at the gang
plank he was besieged by a group
OF newspaper men who would know
what he thought OF America, the
pretty girls. the telegraph strike, the
Peace Conference, and finally, did he
know Consul H.. the great Bostock
monkey at Coney Island?
1t was then that wan smile lit
up the yellow face of Ginger-4yes.
he knew Consul well; did he not
formerly live in the third cotton
wood from Ginger's own home? 1t
was arranged that Ginger and his
old friend should meet at the Zoolog-
ical Gardens and renew old acquaint-
ances. Yesterday was the time set
for the meeting. but, alas! the ply
stefan in attendance upon Ginger
would not allow him to meet any
body he was too sick monkey
This is the reason why Ginger and
Consul have not met and why Gin
ger lies curled up in the bottom of
his cage in the Bronx and groans.
Director Hornaday does not hold out
much hope OF the recovery of Gin
ger.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-22
MONITOR PULVERIZED
distinguished-rightIy so.
MESSAGE TO ALASKA
Communication to be Established
With Cooperation of Army
md NAVY


Washington, Aug. 21,-Arrange-
ments have been completed whereby
the war and navy departments will
cooperate in the maintenance Of
wireless communication between
Nome and st. Michaels. Alaska. and
Seattle and San Francisco. The sig
nal corps of the army has wireless
stations at the Alaskan cities, and
next year will establish one at Fort
GibbOn, which will be capable of
communicating with a navy wireless
station 10 be erected at Vailed. The
navy has several stations in AL ska
The steel towers thai the signal
corps is to erect at Fairbanks an,
Circle City Alaska, to carry wire
less telegraph Instruments will be
175 feet high. The distance between
the two places is 40 miles and reg
ular wireless communication is to- b.
maintained
A wireless telegraph outfit IS be-
ing installed or the battleship Kan
sas and its approximate sending ra
dius is said TO be 500 miles
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