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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06
The Problem of
Farm Labor

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer com.
ments at considerable length editori-
ally upon the ISLANDERS reference
last week to the fact that one of the
large farms of this county is for sale
for the reason that the owner cannot
hire satisfactory help to carry it on
at prices consistent with the returns
which it is possible to obtain from
such labor. The P-I is persistert
advocate of small farms and regards
the division of large places into small
ones, and the intensive cultivation OF
the latter, as the logical solution of
the farm labor problem. In this con-
nection it says:
ut is not surprising that the owner OF
q big farm should decide to abandon the
dairy and invest his money elsewhere.
IF that farm was divided into ten dairy
places, every family would probably sue
ceed in making comfortable homes and
creating bank accounts. BHt the day of
the big farm as profitable investment is
passing into ancient history. It depend
too much on cheap labor for financial
success. That work is generally dear at
any price. It enlists the transients, who
are here today and somewhere else to-
morrow. They do not have an interest
in their work or the country. The labor
is performed in way that indicates the
trend of thought, shiftless and unsatis-
factory manner.
.sThe small farm holds the key to sue
cess in tilling the soil. II applies with
equal force to the dairy, poultry and
truck farms of the present day. It inn
plies diversified productions that will
bring some cash to tho family treasury
every day in the year. And that from the
direct labors of the persons comprising
the family. Dairymen and poultry farm
ers need not expect large measure OF
success if they buy their hay AID grain IN
the open market. and 60 to the city en-
ployment Offices to secure help. Both are
contrary to the theory and pratice OF
modern intensive farming. That con-
templates the utilizing of home help and
the producing of homo food Ifor every
thing required on the farm"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06

III DISTINGUISHED party of ed
- ucators arrived Tuesday from
various eastern cities to spend few
days at the University summer school
OF biology here and learn as much as
they can during their brief stay of
the flora and marine life of the San
Juan archipelago. They will leave the
first ef the week for Tacoma whence
they will go to Mt. Rainier to spend
week. From there they will 90 to
Moclips for week and will then re-
turn to the Sound and 60 to south
eastern Alaska, where they plan to
spend four weeks. The party is head
ed by DR.. Henry G. Cowles, assistant
professor of botany in the University
of Chicago and one of the leading au-
thorities in America on the compara-
lively new science of plant geology.
This is his third trip to the Pacific
coast, though his first visit to this To-
cality. Heis accompanied by his wife.
Other prominent educators in the
party are DR.. Henry G. King, presi-
dent of Oberlin College, Ohio, of
whom DR.. Cowles was former pupil;
Prof. c. E. st. John, also from Ober-
lin; Prof. G.. H. Bretwall, Monmouth
Illinois, College; Prof. w. E. Law
renee, Michigan State Agricultural
College; Prof. L. I. Knight, Washing
ton, D. G. High School; Prof. W. P.
Holt, Toledo, Ohio, High School; Prof.
R. w. Brown, Bryn Athyn, Pa. Miss
Long, Miss Mullin and Miss Haessler,
New York Normal College; Miss Fo-
GEL Iowa State College; Miss Weldt,
Michigan State Normal, Mt. Pleasant.
Altogether the party includes:
DIR. Cowles, Miss Katherine Bones, ,G.H.
Bretwall, Mrs. Elizabeth w. Cowles, Miss
Emma Dorfinger, Miss Estelle Fogel,
Miss Betty Haessler. Miss Louise Haess-
Ter. w. P. Holt, Miss Nelsine Kildall,
Henry G. King, w. e. Lawrence, Miss
Emile Long, Miss Rosemary Mullen,
Miss Elizabeth Robertson, Miss Louise
Robertson. c. E. st. John, Miss May
Woldt. s. s. Visher, F. J. O'Brien, r. w.
Brown, L. l. Knight.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06

The West Sound Mill Company's
fine little steamer Elmo is now max
ing two trips week between West
Sound and Rellingham, touching here
anG at Roche Harbor, Stuart, Wal
dron, Sucia and Lummi islands. She
leaves West Sound Mondays and Fri
days at 6 a. M, Friday Harbor at
Z and Roche Harbor at 8, reaching
Bellingham at $50. Returning she
leaves Bellingham Tuesdays and Sat
urdays at II a. M, reaching here at
6:15 p. m. and West Sound at 7::3O.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Walsh, Of Victor
ia, are visiting relatives and friends
here. He is q nephew Of Isaac and
Robert Sandwith.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06
A BEAUTIFUL
| YACHT IN PORT
Mr.. {. |. Tut and Family Here On The
''AnemOne"

Winner of Second Prize in the Trans
Pacific Yacht Race to Honolulu in
19O6-How Mr.. Tut Happened to
Purchase 'sDinner'' Island, in
Griffin Bay.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06
The Ball Games

The ball game last Sunday between
the Fort Worden and Friday Har-
Dor teams resulted in victory for
the local team by q score Of II to 10.
The game at the Corners on the
Fourth between the Friday Harbor
and Valley teams resulted in . score
3 TO O in favor of Friday Harbor.
Only five innings we're played on ac-
count Of the afternoon engagement OF
the Friday Harbor team at East
Sound, where the Friday Harbor boys
were defeated by q score Of Is to IS.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06

Suit has been instituted by Joseph
West against the members Of the
lately dissolved San Juan Realty and
Investment Company, W.R. Garrett,
manager, and w. W. Lee. Tor $3.50
damages for alleged misrepresenta-
zion il connection with the recent
sale to West Of the Armstrong place
in the San Juan valley.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-07-06
DISTINGUISHED
EDUCATORS HERE
Many Prominent Eastern Institutions
REPRESENTED

Party Headed By DR.. HI. G. Cowles.
of fCh1cago Un1versity-Thetr Sum-
mer Itinerary Includes Mt. Rain
Ter, the Olympic Peninsular and
Southeastern Alaska.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05
Atlanta, Ca. Thursday, December 5, 1907.
Banks Are Hsked For n Sh0lv D0h'n.

the resumption Of cash payments by
the banks, now clearly at hand. The
disappearance Of the premiums on
currency which, by alternative state
ment Of terms is a discount on bank
checks, will herald the restoration
to use Of many instruments Of credit
which share in some Of the functions
as money and Of which the driving
out Of use forced the extraordinary
demand for actual cash. The re-es-
tablishment Of credit is expected to
lead to prompt resumption of ex-
change operations between the diff
ferent money centers in this country,
the dislocation Of which has formed
the most serious embarrassment to
the conduct Of commercial operations.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05
THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

Although it is not considered polite
to inquire too closely into the age Of
lady, the scientists will keep both
ering Mother Earth about hers. DIR.
r. F. Scharff, of the Dublin Museum,
believes that the oldest and most per-
manent forms Of the earth s surface
can be ascertained by study of the
distribution Of the present forms Of
animal life. He finds that animals
found east of the Rockies were COM
paratively unknown on the western
slopes until modern times. But al
most identical forms are found in
Europe-Austria particularly.
This leads to the belief that al
some time this continent had been
connected with Europe by a strip
Of land, and that the part of North
America now west of the Rocky
mountains had been submerged. He
also declares it proven that North
and South America were not joined
together until the middle Of the ter
tiary period, many thousands q
years ago, but geologically speaking,
very reeently.--Louisville Herald.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05

the farther was out Of sight he turned
to the trooper and said, "Now, go
to your quarters, and if you ever
steal another mule and get caught at
it, I will have you shot"
The country knows the president
to be an honest man, and without
fear, and great majority believe
him to be the only man who is thor
oughly equipped, has the essential in
side knowledge, and the courage, both
moral and physical, to make the fight
to a finish, for "square deal"
While we all know that he can not
do everything at once, it is believed
that these people can not fool him at
all. That when the time comes he
will tackle the system under which
they cry from the housetops, "Stop
theft" while a constant stream of
the people life and blood Through
the tariff) is going into their cellars.
Mr.. Bryan's purpose is undoubt-
eddy honest and patriotic, and his
voice will ring out when the process
sion moves, somewhere along the line.
But he appears to me to have ac-
quired the habit Of letting loose too
much to ''spit on his hands. But sup
pose Mr.. Roosevelt fails, that Mr..
Bryan fails, or all leaders now in the
limehght fail, "the spirit of '76" is
abroad, and the great mass of citi-
zens are determined to have better
things.
VIM. Allen White, of Kansas; Cum
Minis, Of Iowa; Folk, Of Missouri;
LaFollette, of Wisconsin,; Deneen, of
Illinois; Hughes, of New York; Tom
Johnson, Of Ohio; Vardaman, of Mis-
sissippi; Glenn, of North Carolina;
Conner, Of Alabama; Broward, of
Florida; and the noblest Roman Of
them all, Tom Watson, Of Georgia,
are marking time, with hundreds of
thousands behind them.
When the right mans bugle rings
out they will all march under the
banner Of honest things, the result
not at all uncertain.
AN OLD FARMER.
New Boston, Mich.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05
rs OUR CREDIT IN A BAD WAY?
November 9, 1907.

November y, l9O(.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: We have been told, the
past week, by Mr.. Geo. Gould, that
our credit in Europe is in bad way,
and lays it on Judge Lands "mon-
strous fne'' which he calls "confs~
catory." He defends the Standard
Oil Company, and calls Morgan ga
lamb. /" 1t is peculiarly fitting that
the son Of the man who was "a
Democrat in a democratic district"
and "a Republican in a republican
district" who first systematized the
debauchery Of the Legislative and ju>
dicial part Of the Public Service, and
whose fortune was built upon long
and sinuous line Of wrecks, equaled
only by the trail behind the "Steward
of God" should defend him.
Meantime "the panic" could not
be made to work, or even to be taken
seriously, outside Of localities where
the "Standard Oil banks" were dom
inant.
Tt is significant that Judge Gary,
Of the steel trust, and other trust
leaders, after comforting with the
President, as announced, are admon-
ishing each other and kindred con-
Germs to revise their methods in con-
formity with the public demands for
honest things. They are evidently
running with the hare, while 26
Broadway and Morgan are hunting
with the hounds.
This all makes me think of Gen.
Joe Shelby's trooper who had lost
his mount. Shelby, by the way, was
a fighter, who called his soldiers
boys" and they rode together to
death or victory, with mutual af-
lection known only to brave men.
This dismounted trooper took the
mule Of an old farmer in northwest
ern Arkansas and made for camp.
The old farmer followed him so close
ly as to be able to find and identify
his mule, and reported the matter to
General Shelby, who sent promptly
for the man and the mule, After salts
flying himself of the facts, told the
man to take his animal and go home;
that he would have the offender shot
promptly at shutdown. Az soon as
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05

have brought condition of actual
redundancy of the money market,
heavy accumulation Of banking re-
serves and free export movement
Of gold.
Return Flow of Gold.
While the enormous mass of gold
that has flowed to the United States
in response to the urgent require
ments developed by the crisis is adj
mittedly in excess of the normal re-
quirement Of the coming period, the
return flow of gold is bound to have
analnfavorable effect on financial SEN
timent, and in the event Of its undue
stimulation by any imitation of paper
note issues, which would tend to force
out gold, the danger of a check being
added to the recovery in commercial
activity is taken anxious account Of.
The decision Of the United States
treasury department to limit the al
lotments Of 3 per cent treasury notes
and to accept on more bids for them
was the outcome of this new phase
of the situation which the turn toward
normal conditions has developed. The
opinion Of the treasury department
that the secretary may call in these
certificates before their one-year pc
Rod has expired and so provide for
the immediate requirement of all
bank notes issued against them Of
fers another resource for contraction
in the event Of any symptom Of in
fation.
To Find Employment for Gold.
In another direction it is hoped to
find permanent and substantial en-
ployment for a large amount Of the
gold that has been rushed to the
United States as a relief measure.
The commission appointed by Cover
nor Hughes to consider changes in the
New York state banking laws is en-
joined to report conclusions by the
18th Of December. While the exact
terms to be expected to the recon-
mendation of this commission can not
be foreseen, it is taken for granted
that they will include drastic reform
in the requirements upon trust compa-
MES for holding cash reserves. The
recent crisis has demonstrated the
inadequacy Of present reserve re-
quirements for trust companies do
ing an active banking business, which
most Of them do. It is pointed out
also that a more favorable moment
for effecting this reform could hard
ly be chosen than the period now be-
lieved to be approaching, when the
heavy inflow Of foreign gold will be
found superfuous for the diminished
needs of the circulation and will tend
to flow out again.
Nearly 100000 of Gold Engaged.
The engagement of nearly 800,
100000 of gold for import, of which
approximately $60,OOO,OOO has been
received, the deposit with the nation
al banks Of about $67, 100000 of gov
eminent funds and the issue Of new
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05

is expected by bankers here to come
from the comptroller of the currency
this week. -Four of the five calls re-
quired each year by law have already
been made, the last having shown the
condition Of the national banks on
August %. It is possible that the
call now anticipated will have an i'm.
portant influence on the financial sit
uation. It is expected that it will re-
veal large reserves Of cash in the
country banks and this will tend to
restore confidence among depositors
to degree which will make it easy
to resume currency payments through
out the country. The banks, even in
normal times, usually prepare for
call by Strengthening their cash in
order to make a good showing, not
only to the comptroller, but to their
clients. Their statements are re-
CURED by law to be published in
local paper, and they are also for
warded to Washington, where they
are compiled by cities and states.
Effect of Call for Report.
The effect of call for report Of
condition on fixed date, which is
usually few days before the cali
by the comptroller, is to enable the
banks to release cash after the call,
with the knowledge that another call
is not likely, in the natural order Of
things, for about two months. In the
present situation, it is declared by
New York bankers, the call will show
that boarding is not being done by
New York bankers-as, indeed, their
deficiencies in required reserves al
ready indicate-but that many Of the
interior banks have reserves running
up to such proportions as 40 or 50
per cent of deposits. The facts will
reach the public by individual banks
through publication locally and then
will come to the public generally
through the compilations made by the
comptroller.
If large reserves in lawful money
in their own vaults are revealed gen
orally by the reports, it will at once
inspire confidence in the strength Of
the banks and create demand which
they will no longer be disposed to re-
sist, after sending in their reports,
for the immediate resumption Of cur
rency payments.
Financial Men Fear Imitation.
1t is significant Of the change in
financial opinion that most of the
discussion amongst financial men last
week dealt with the dreaded effect Of
a state Of initiation Of the currency,
into which it was feared the country
might emerge with the passing Of the
effects Of irrational distrust. The
bringing forward Of this subject into
debate while the premium on the cur
rency was being paid yet and other
active measures for relief of the cur
rency famine being pursued, was due
ITO the plain lesson of experience in
Aoast crises Of similar kind. In all
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1907-12-05

and the re-establishment Of credit
have brought condition of actual
redundancy of the money market, a
heavy accumulation Of banking re-
serves and free export movement
Of UO1d
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-04
The Doctor Away from Home when
Most Needed.

People are often very much dis
appointed to find that their family
physician is away from home when
they most need his services. Dis
eases like cramp collie and cholera
morbus require prompt treatment,
and have in many instances prov
en- fatal before medicine could be
procured or physician summoned.
The right way is to keep at
hand bottle of Chamberlain S
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy. No physician can prescribe a
better medicine for these diseases.
BY having it IN the house you es-
cape much pain and suffering and
all risk. Buy it now; it may save
life. For sale by Rocsoe w. Smith.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-04

For the first four months of this
year net earnings of the United
States smelling company were 80
per cent larger than for the CORE
spending period OF last year, the net
earnings averaging S350,000 a
month, against an average of $500, :
900 a month ago.
The Bald Butte Mining Co. has
resumed dividends and has declared
quarterly dividend of 3 per cent,
payable July /. There are $50
stockholders, the largest majority
of whom are New Englanders. To
date the company has paid 1850, =
600 in dividends.
The Independence mine on Smith
creek, IS miles southeast from War
rem, Idaho is controlled by Topeka,
Kansas, people, ]. S. Warner of
that palce being manager. H. H..
Potter, who is in general charge OF
the property, states that work will
7 be resumed next month.
The Discord mine in Marshal
lake district, Idaho, between Resort
and the Salmon river, was sold for
( $40, 900 cash by A. B. Lucas and
G. c. and c. T. Irwin to o. L. Or
cult and associates of North Yaki-
ma, Washington. The purchaser
will develop the property further
this season.
The Heath district in Idaho, will
be quite active this season. Half q
dozen properties there have beer
opened to quite an extent by
means of adits and crosscuts the
slope of the mountain being such at
to enable the miners to open the
VEINS of ore without the necessity
of sinking shafts, as rule.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-04
KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL
Health Is Worth Saving. and Some
MOuniainhOme People Know How
TO Save II.

Many Mountain Home people
take their lives in their hands by
neglecting the kidneys when they
know these organs need help. Sick
kidneys are responsible for a vast
amount of suffering and i'll health,
but there is no need to suffer nor
to remain in danger when all dis
eses and aches and pains due to
weak kidneys can be quickly and
permanently cured by the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Mrs. F. Edwards, living on the
edge of Pocatello, Idaho, says
Some three months ago a pain
caught me in the small of my back.
| was not certain at first as to its
cause but ii grew worse as time
went by. AS noticed it particu-
larly in the morning or when |
overworked myself, came to the
conclusion that it was due to some
irregularity of the kidneys. MIR.
Edwards got Doan's Kidney Pills
for me at drugstore and after d
dose or two l noticed a change for
the better. When completed
their use the backaches and head
aches were a thing of the past. "
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milbdrn Co., Buffa-
10, New York, sole agents for the
United States. Remember the name
~ Doans-and take no other.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-04
jamestown Exposition.

For the Jamestown Exposition,
Norfolk, Va, April 26th-Nov. 30th
1907. round trip tickets will be
sold as follows:
Direct routes, season tickets
$1,000.
Sixty day ticket $1,000.
Tickets on sale daily May goth
to Nov. 30th. Final limit Dec. IS
Transit limit 10 days going; no
transit limit returning. Returning
outside final limit, stop overs will
be allowed where ever local regu-
lations will permit. For further
information call at ticket office.
HIS F. E. AUSTIN, Agent.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-04

'Doan's Ointment cured me of
eczema that had annoyed me long
time. The cure was permanent. ,"
Hon. S. w. Matthews, Commits
sioner Labor Statistics, Augusta,
Me.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-16
TRADE CONDITIONS.
n. G. Dun A. Co.'s weekly Review OF
Business Activity.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review Of trade says:
Commercial reports Indicate little al
iteration for the past week, but there
Is greater confidence In marked I'm.
provement after Jan. /. Holiday trade
monopolzes attention In some sections
exceeding that of last year, although
aggregate sales do not compare favor
ably with 1906 to date. Jobbing and
wholesale lines are seasonably quiet
while manufacturing operations are
curtailed pending the resumption Of
normal demands. Returns of pig iron
production Indicate little more than
half the furnace capacity in operation.
Steel mills and textile factories have
added TO the percentage of idle ma
chinery, shoe shops work only part
time, but some railway extensions
have been resumed The supply of la.
Dor has not increased in ratio to the
closed plants, however, owing TO emf.
grafton being double that of last year.
Railway earnings thus far available
for the first week OF December show
a loss of 81 per cent ms compared with
1906, and foreign commerce at this
port for the latest week decreased
$75S,457 in value Of exports and So.
921 go in imports.
Estimates of winter wheat acreage
and condition were interpreted as indi.
eating crop of about 400,000,000 bush
els. Export inquiries were less urgent,
and some aggressive work by the short
account produced moderate net de.
cline in wheat prices. Western re.
celpts of Coo, 033 bushels Of wheat
compared with $5,543, 1876 bushels In
the same week last year, and exports
from all ports of the United States
were 4S73,I74 bushels, including flour,
against 1880. 296 bushels year ago.
Liabilities of commercial failures
thus far reported for December amount.
ed to $5,402 59S, of which 1881, 490
were in manufacturing, Sites ,96S in
trading and $795, 131 in other CONNER.
cial lines. Failures for the week mum.
bered 800 in the United States against
261 last year and So In Canada com.
pared with % year ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-16
DIR. Gilmore. Insane. Opens Artery.

WILIIAMSPORT. Pa. Dec. 14.-Dr.
Thomas ]. Gilmore, former coroner Of
Lycoming county, committed suicide
in his office by severing an artery in
his neck with lancet. DIR. Gilmore
had recently recovered from a. pro-
longed attack of typhoid fever, which
left him in n weakened condition.
When he failed to return home his
wife visited his office and found DR..
Gilmores body in pool Of blood.
Temporary insanity is assigned as the
cause.