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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Washington News

The new Methodist Episcopal church
built at University station. Seattle,
was dedicated Sunday.
Herman Wendt, convicted at Sc
attic of counterfeiting, disappeared
from the penitentiary at McNeill's ISL
and. Sunday.
A Walla Walla dispatch says the
loss in fruit by the recent heavy frosts
in Eastern Washington will amount to
half million dollars.
William 81. Lavizne, known thro-
ghout the country as "Biliy" Lavigne,
died at Providence Hospital, Seattle
Monday after brief illness
Patri,k Brannan, of Tacoma, has
been elected president Of the State
Blacksmiths' union to succeed George
Butler, of Bellingham. Olympia was
selected as the next meeting place.
Violations of state automobile laws
are to be Investigated. Information
has been received at the secretary of
states Office that there are many du-
plicate numbers, and an effort will be
made to put stop to this practice.
A new steamship company has been
formed at Seattle by the Centennial
Mill company and the Jebsen Steam
ship company, Of Hamburg. Three
vessels with an aggregate tonnage of
6, 500 net. The vessels will carry
cargo between Puget Sound ports and
the Orient.
The LaOonner city council has rails
ed the liquor license fee from $500 to
81 900 year.
The Bellingham school board has
raised salaries of teachers, effective
at the beginning Of the new school
year.
Government officers and private
citizens are under Investigation be-
cause of charges of obtaining land in
Whatcom and Skagit counties by
fraud.
State fire Warden Welty is sending
out letters to loggers and lumbermen
to burn all slashings before June l.,
to eliminate possible dangers from
forest fires later in the season.
Master in Chancery Chsuncey w.
A. Warde has begun taking testimony
in the suit to set aside the patent is
sued by the governmet to the Wilson
Coal Company to certain valuable
coal lands in Lewis county on which
are some rich producing mines. This
is believed to be the forerunner of a
searching investigation into the meth
DDS by which may of the coal lands of
the state have been taken up.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
HERMANN JURY SAYS
HE IS NOT GUILTY

Washington, April 29.-Binger Her.
mann, former congressman from Ore
gon and former commissioner of the
general land Office, was acquitted of
the charge of destroying public records
by verdict of the jury Saturday.
The trial had progressed for twelve
weeks and the jury deliberated 81
hours. After the verdict there was
Immediately general scene of con-
graduation in the court room. Mr.
Hermann expressed thanks to each in.
ryman, as did his counsel.
United States Attorney Baker and
many others in the court room CON.
graduated the defendant.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
SAYS TAX
Law IS Still Vain

Seattle, May 2.-Joseph q. Easta,
day, member Of the state tax COMM.
sion, who was in Seattle yesterday N
his way to Wenatchee, when asked IA,
an expression Of his views on the n.
port from Olympia to the effect that
owing to detective title, the law rs'
Gently enacted by the Legislature 81.
empting from taxation moneys and
mortgages is invalid, said:
II am inclined to think that nv a..
sociate, Mr.. Frost, has been misouot.
ed in saying that money and mort.
cages must now be assessed
owing to defective title in the o..
emption act.
1T is true that the Roman numerals
designating the chapter amended in
some manner became transposed or in.
verted. This reference to the chapter
however, is not material to the title
Of the act, and with this eliminated
there is still enough left to fully cd.
wise the ordinary reader as to the sub.
stance of the act. This is the purpose
Of title, and all the law requires.
''The deliberate will of the lawmak.
ing bodies and the executive is not 10
be defeated by trivial matters.
'.It is not our policy, nor the prov.
ince OF q state officer to assume that
laws are void. On the contrary it Is
the duty Of officers to try to carry into
effect the Legislatures will. It works
serious hardship on the state to have
the validity Of this law questioned.
ITO large extent the most desir.
able new business which is obtained
in our state Is attracted here by this
beneficial exemption. As an adverti.
ing medium Washington's progressive
revenue law is the talk of the entire
country. and the admiration Of all 20.
litical economists.
~ presume that a test could DO
made by some person aggrieved by not
having his money taxed. If the records
Of the past are an index to the pres
emit, however, there are very few in.
deed, and In some countries none at
all, who ever suffered from this form
Of brainstorm.
Seriously, however, with but Few
exceptions, those who in the past have
made an honest return of this class OF
property have been the poor and help
less.
''It was for the protection OF these
that I have persistently for years
asked, and now have obtained, tnls
exemption.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
MAY BE DELAYED
But Milwaukee Road Will Net Abandon
Line to Coast.

But Milwaukee Road Will Net Abandon
Line to Coast.
New York, May 1.-The Tribune
says:
At q meeting of the directors OF tns
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul ne,'
the question of the company's Pacin'
coast extension was discussed. Az
cording to an interest identified WIZ
the road, the opinion was about un a..
imous that the work Of carrying %s
Milwaukee, lines to Seattle snoulu
not be abandoned. One of the lalgSs'
stock holders said, however, tnss t.'
contradiction of the road would % 10
layed until reduction In the co't !"
labor and material had been maui J.
When recently seen the president -
the Milwaukee company said cnan0e
favored the abandoning OF the scs's
extension as a result Of RESTRICTIVE
legislation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
rich QUARTZ STRIKE
SOUTH Of VALDEZ

Valdez, April 3O.-A stampede is
on to'the new strike Of gold quartz
sixty miles down the sound. Every
available launch and small boat has
been chartered, bought or stolen by
the stampeders. Samples of the ore
brought from the ledge on the MAIN
land west of here two months ago on
assay showed 81, 800 to the ton, and
the discoveries are wild.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
CHILEAN CITY BURIED
By VOLCANIC eruption

Santiago de Chic, April a7.-Anotn,S;;;
volcano is in eruption in the Va,un
district, which threatens to comPlc""
the havoc begun by the volcano W.
larica. It is pouring forth vast cloa II
Of ashes, which are fast burylng -
the towns in the district. Vaioi w.
is completely overwhelmed. Al w
residents have fed. The city Is wv
led under many feet Of ashes, lava au s
dust. Lava and mud streams are NV
completing the work Of destructlon.n
Thousands have been driven ii
their homes in the devastated distl,S1s
and are now living In the open nei'7
subsistiDg on roots and wild fruits:
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Cost of Living Still Increases

Washington, April 29.-The bureau
of labor has taken another look into
the cost of living and it finds it is still
increasing. It's latest examination
had to do with Wholesale prices only.
It Is now making study Of retail
prices. The Investigation just COM
pleted shows that wholesale prices.
considering 258 commodities, as a
whole, reached higher level in 1905
than at any other time during the II
year period covered. The average for
1905 was Sc. per cent higher than for
1905; 1875 per cent higher than for
1897, the year of lowest prices during
the 17-year period, and 224. per cent
higher than the average for the ten
years from 1890 to 1899.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Salmon Review Ont

Seattle, April 27.-The Trade Reg.
lister today issued the annual salmon
review which is feature of that pub.
location. It gives the total pack Of
the canneries on the Coast in the sea.
son OF 1905 at a,So5, oil cases, which
4 larger than had been anticipated.
Of the total the Alaska canneries nut
up ., sos, 900 cases and those Of Puget
sound 4S6, S94, of which 1872, 47s were
sockeye and the rest chums and co.
hoesL
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04

Ottawa, Ills, May Ia suit to
recover s., O00. 900 back taxes has
been filed in the circuit court Of La
Sale county against the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad company by Attorney
General Stead for the state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04

Wheat-Club, 72@7sc; bluestem,
74@76c; red, 70@7lc.
Oats = 80. 50$@32; rolled oats
$31. 50@S3.
Hay, Alfalfa, Etc.-Wheat hay. SIS
Gal; timothy, $25@$27; mixed, S15
gao; clover, $21@2S; alfalfa, SIC
@18.
Feed-Corn, $26; wheat, $27; bar
ley, whole grain, $1,000; rolled,
$24@25; shorts, $21@22; bran, SIC
@2O.
Poultry-Turkeys. dressed, 22o;
chickens, dressed, 100; ducks, dressed
loo; geese, dressed, 16c. Live-Hena
15c;- ducks, 18c; geese, 11c.
Butter-Washington creamery, $50;
fresh Eastern, $50.
Eggs-Washington ranch, 2sc.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Hughes Defeated

Albany, N. Y, May 1.-The senate
yesterday defeated Gov. Hughes by
voting to permit counsel for Kelsey,
the removed insurance commissioner.
to argue before the senate against the
commissioners removal.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
in THOMPSON CASE.
STATE SUPREME COURT RENDERS
DECISION.
Disposal Of Insane Criminals
Rests With Trial Judge-May
Be Imprisoned In Penitentiary,
County Jail or Asylum for the
Insane.

O1ympl0s April H0-Ou0oS0A AAOoP
son, who killed q. Meade Emory, may
be legally sent to prison, Is the deci-
sion of the state supreme court, rem
dered Saturday afternoon In the appli-
cation made for a writ Of mandate to
compel Trial Judge Smell, of the Pierce
county superior court, to empanel a
jury to determine Thompsons present
sanity, and for writ to prohibit that
Judge from ordering Thompson COM
mitted to prison. In its decision,
which denies both these writs, the su-
preme court says the case is goverened
by the old territorial law of 1854,
evoked in the case of Thomas Brown,
Of Chehalis, who was acquitted Of
fratricide on the ground Of insanity
and promptly ordered confined in
prison. The decision in part says:
Ruling of the Court.
"When we remember that there are
different tyres Of insanity and when
we reflect that the purpose Of caring
for the insane involves both regard
for them and for the safety of the pub
lie, we cannot say that this statute
conflicts with any subsequent statute
or any principle of sound public pol
icy. Good reasons readily OCCUR in
justification Of it's enactment.
''There are occasionally defendants
acquitted of murder on the ground of
insanity who should and can be COM
mitted to the penitentiary Under this
statute. A defendant so committed or
otherwise restrained of his liberty
would have the right, upon asserting
a recovery of his sanity. to have the
question of such recovery determined
by the court.
Authority for Sentence.
''The statute in question authorizes
the committing of defendant to pris-
on if the discharge or going at large
of such insane person shall be by the
court considered manifestly dangerous
to the peace and safety Of the commu-
nifty. The question is suggested as to
what evidence establishes the mani
testify dangerous condition. The fact
of his having killed a human being is
conclusive that he was dangerous and
the verdict Of the jury is that he was
insane at the time of the homicide;
and unless there is clear, ample and
conclusive evidence that his mental
condition has undergone q radical
change toward a normal condition
since that time, the trial Judge should
not hesitate to find him manifestly
dangerous within the meaning of the
statute-unless, of corse, his physical
condition by reason Of sickness, dis
ease or otherwise should have rendered
him absolutely incapable Of doing vio-
lence.
1--WE think the word prison used in
this statute comprehends the peniten-
tiary, any county Jail and any state
hospital for the insane, and that the
trial judge may commit to any of these
in accordance with the nature of the
alleged insanity and the other facts Of
any given case"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
SEATTLE nARkcT REPORT


PrchasinS Prices.
The followiong prices. are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots t. 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, $25@27.
Hay-Eastern Washington, $s2@24;
Puget Sound $4,000; alfalfa, $15. 80
@17.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, s2@24c.
Poultry-Live hens, Ito per ID; old
ROSTERS, lie; ducks, 15c; spring
chickens, Ito; turkeys, live, 20@21c.
Wool-Eastern Washington 15@
18c per Id; Western Washington,
18@21c; dirty or timber stained, Is
@2Oc.
Live Stock-Sheep, wethers, $40
SIC per ID; ewes, 1900; lambs,
$1,000; Hogs, 5000; Cattle, steers,
51c COWS, 30; calves, 4@6c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
To Reappoint Lawrence

Seattle, April 27.-J. G. Lawrence
will be reappointed member of the
board Of state railway commissioners,
according to statement made by
Gov. Mead while in the city. The ap-
pointment will be for the long term of
six years
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
CANAL IN 5 YEARS
SECRETARY TAFT FIXES THIS.
LIMIT OF TINE. !
Disappointed if It Should Take
Longer, But Not Surprised if
Work i Accomplished Sooner.
Says Conditions on lsthmus
are Satisfactory.

Cincinnati, Ohio, April SO.-"If the
Panama canal is not completed within
eight years I shall be greatly disap-
pointed. If it is completed in less
time than that shall not be greatly
surprised.
This statement, made last night by
w. 81. Taft, secretary Of war, before
the Business Mems Club Of this city,
was loudly applauded by the 1900
members of the club gathered in the
banquet hall.
Secretary Taft announced at the be-
ginning that he would speak on the
panama Canal" and particularly on
the improvements and rapid progress
in the work.
''It is only by a comparison Of the
conditions existing at the time Of my
two visits said the secretary, that
I am able too give an adequate idea Of
the work that has been accomplished
and of the present condition Of the
work. would like in passing to pay
a tribute of justice to the French peo-
pie. What they did down there has
never been properly appreciated by
Americans. The great danger of work
of this character under the auspices of
the American people is that the work
of construction will be undertaken be-
fore the work Of preparation is complet-
ed. I do not think that the prepara-
tory work of the last two years has
been productive Of anything but the
most beneficial results.
''My visit this year was to settle the
location Of The locks, the completion
Of which will, in my opinion, mark
the completion of the canal. It is
possible, however, that the finish of
the work in the Oulebra cut will be
the end of our labors. In this cut
there are yet to be excavated 81, 900,
900 cubic yards Of earth, exclusive of
the digging to be done on the ap-
proaches to the cut proper. In the
nine miles of the cut there are now
fifty EIGHT steam shovels at work, and
they will take out on the average
1000, 600 cubic yards per month. This
rate may be increased until We have
ninety shovels ar work, and then it
will gradually decline until 1t will
probably be somewhat below 700, 600
cubic yards per month. The space in
the cut narrows as it goes down.
Why Contract Was Not Let.
Eve advertised for bids on the ca
nal work and then declined them for
the reason that We found it would be
necessary for the contractors to have
the help Of capitalists and we should
be compelled to allow the contractors
7 per cent interest on the money they
would Re compelled to borrow from
the capitalists. AS we could borrow
money at 2 per cent, this 2 per cent
proposition did not appeal greatly to
Us.
''To us in responsibility it is a great
comfort to be able to introduce the
army engineers upon the work. We
have three of them there, and if one
falls out the continuity of the work
will be undisturbed. It is only fair
to say Of the army engineers that
there will be no graft that they cannot
suppress, and there will be not bad
work that they cannot supervise.
"The record of the army is guar
antee that the work will be capably
and honestly performed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Government L. investigating

Government 10 InveS6gatng
Washington, May 2.-The govern
ment has started an investigation of
over twenty railroad and steamboat
lines which are accused of discrim ina
ton in the shipment and handling of
cotton goods for export.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-04
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

The railroad committee Of the Him
OF senate has decided to report favor
ably upon the two cent fare bill.
The strike of carpenters at Vancou-
YER. B. c., has been settled on basis
of $4.25 per day. A thousand men
were affected.
Officials of four of the largest ice
companies Of Kansas City have been
tried and convicted on charges of COM
bining to regulate prices and output.
The big freight steamer Mexican,
built by the Union Iron Works OF
San Francisco for the American Ha-
waiian Steamship company. had he-
first trial trip last week.
At tho thirty-seventh annual re-
union of the Army Of the Potomac
Thursday President Roosevelt unveiled
the statue of George B. Mcclellan, or.
Ranizer and first com mander OF the or
der.
On April 80 there were forty ships
laden with coal waiting at Superior,
Wis, for a chance to unload. The
situation there was unprecedented, the
receipts for "a hours being 100, 900
tons.
Beginning July rural mail carriers
are to receive an advance of 25 per
cent in wages. This is made possible
by the larger appropriation made by
the last congress. Over &c.
OOO,O will be spent in this increase.
The United States Circuit court of
appeals, sitting at st. Paul, affirmed
the decision of the lower court in con-
victing Armour & Co, Swift & Co.
and Cudahy & Co. for accepting re-
bates ON shipments from Kansas City
to foreign points.
Reports brought to Victoria from
Barclay sound by the steamer Tees
state that the present whaling season
will be the most successful in the his
tory of the station and information Of
similar character is being received
from other whaling grounds.
1t is announced from Madrid that
Spain will at once start construction
on three big battleships.
T. P. Shonts has endowed Drake
university with fifty service scholar
ships valued at about SIS, 900.
Ell. Southern and Julia Marlowe
have made great hit at London, ap-
pearing in ''The Sunken Bell"
The remaining portion Of the ceded
strip of the Crow Indian reservation in
Montana will be opened July 10.
Dennis Kearney, the famous "sand
lot orator." whose agitation brought
about the Chinese exclusion law, died
at Alameda, CAL, last week.
1t is reported at Washington that
Secretary Loeb is to resign to assume
the presidency Of the Washington
Street Railway Electric company, to
take effect January 1, 1908.
Over 10000 men from the factories
at st. Petersburg are out on strike.
The movement was started by the pres
ence of troops, who killed several of
the workingmen. The troops must
withdraw, the men say, before they
will return.
Unless he can obtain 100000 addi-
tional funds, Robert E. Peary may
have to abandon his proposed expedi-
ton to the Arctic regions. If the
money is raised, he hopes to make a
determined effort to find the North
Pole next February.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the
chemist bureau; DR.. Frederick L.
Dunlap, associate chemist, and George
r. McCabe, solicitor Of the depart
ment Of agriculture, have been consti-
tuted the borad of food and drug in
spection by Secretary Wilson. Their
duty Is to administer the national
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30
NEW ENGINE FOR RESERVOIR.

Reclamation Service Adds to EqciD-
ment at Hermlston.
Hermiston, Sept. 30.-A building
and loan association was recently
formed here. This, 1t is understood,
will enable many Of the people who
come here to build homes and busi-
ness houses.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30

Athena, Sept. S0.-The people from
this section of the county who at
tended the district fair at Pendleton
speak Of 1t in the highest terms, and
are not in favor of Athena being
without an exhibit another year. 1t
was beyond all expectations. and
Umatilla county should be proud that
she has the products and the energy
to make such a showing.
The skating rink at this place con-
tinues to draw crowds, and is very
popular among the young people.
Quarterly meeting services we're
held at the NJ. E. church Saturday
and Sunday. Rev. Gabriel Sykes, pre-
siding elder, was present, and con-
Quoted the services.
Arthur Coppock has leased the
farm Of William Kilgore near town,
and will now live on the place. This
Is considered one of The best farms in
this vicinity.
W. r. Taylor, who has been quite
i'll for some weeks with fever, is i'm
proving.
T. ]. Kirk and wife are in La
Grande for a short time. They will
leave shortly for California to spend
the winter.
Miss Kittie Sharp Is now teaching
school in the Cannon district, north Of
town.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30
TO MOVE FORESTRY OFFICES
Pendleton the Logical Headquarters
for Blue Mt. Forest Reserve.

The Blue Mountain American says
OF the proposed change of headquar-
ters of the eastern division of the
Blue Mountain forest reserve:
'Now that a middle division of the
Blue Mountain national forest reserve
Is to be created, with headquarters at
John Day, materially reducing the
area of the eastern division, a large
majority of those stockmen who re-
main in the eastern division are max
ing an effort to have the headquar-
ters moved from Sumpter to Pendle-
ton.
"They should be successful, as
Sumpter is not the proper place for
the headquarters. The location is not
satisfactory to stockmen, who must
Of necessity attend the range allot-
ment meetings, owing to the great
distance most of them have to travel
to reach there.
"The Sumpter American, which has
been at all times unfair to Grant coun-
ty stockmen, is now without a friend
in the ranks Of either Grant county
or outside stockmen, in its efforts
to hold the headquarters of the east
ern division at Sumpter."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30

Read the East Oregonian.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30
EPISCOPAL SERVICES.
Minister Arrives Here From Adams
for Baptist Church.

Weston, Sept. SO,-Rev. and Mrs.
Quincy, of the Episcopal chuch In
Pendleton. were guests yesterday at
the George w. Proebstel home, and
Rev. Quinney conducted services in
Weston yesterday There was good
congregation, and 1t is hoped that he
will conduct services here often.
Rev. p. S. Rogers has moved here
from Adams, and he will hereafter
preach at the Baptist church here and
at Helix.
A pleasant surprise was rendered
the two young sons OF DR.. and Mrs.
Copre at their home Saturday evening.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30
BREV|T|ES
PEOPLE SPEAK IN HIGH
PRAISE OF DISTRICT FAIR

Athena VIII Be There Another Year
Quarterly Meeting OF NJ. f. Church
Held Saturday and Sunday-Has
Leased Valuable Farm Near Athena
and VIII Live There-Recovering
From Spen OF Fever-Win Leave
for California Soon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30

Tota value ...........s15S,4OO
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-30
Another Big Locomotive.

Another big locomotive weighing
about $4,000 pounds has just arrived
here for use at the reservoir, and it
will assist materially in pushing work
on the project. 1t required IS head
of horses to haul the big machine to
the damsite.