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Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
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?
"rhe 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. 1t 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 a bad law vic.
lated.
How shall we satisfy, might say,
how shall we placate the public? 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.
ut is 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.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
Ordered "clubsn to Close

Spokane, June 29.-Eight gambling
resorts where many varieties Of games
OF chance have been conducted under
the guise of social clubs, have been
ordered by Chief of Police Rice to
close Immediately. In tour the chief
and several detectives found plenty
of evidence to show that the anti
gambling law is being violated. The
proprietors were informed that fire..
quenters of the place will be arrested.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
Spreckels Has Anti. Graft Plan

San Francisco, June 27.--Rudolph
Spreckles announces he has almost
perfected plan for permanent safe
guard against municipal grafters, and
that he hopes to put it in operation
by the first of the year. The plan
coptemplates the formation Of a civic
auditing agency, which is to follow
every movement of the city govern
ment and keep close watch on the
officials from mayor down. Mr..
Spreckles figures the scheme could be
put in operation for 100000 year,
and that 1t would effect saving of
SO, 600, 600 to 50, 500, 900 annually.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05

OF commerce based upon the friendly
relations of the two nations may be
eventually retarded.
"We, the undersigned. representa-
tives of chambers of commerce, taking
special interest in the promotion of
our mutual economic relations, are
unable to remain silent spectators of
this state of affairs. We accordingly
have addressed the principal chambers
of commerce in America, inviting
them to exert their best endeavors for
the amelioration of the situation, re-
lying at the same time upon your per-
sonality and wisdom for speedy and
satisfactory solution of existing diff
culties, and We respectfully appeal to
you for your friendly spirit"
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
Kuroki Much Pleased

Tokyo, June 27.-Gen. Kuroki and
party have arrived here from visit
to the United States. The party spoke
in the most eppreciative terms Of the
hearty reception accorded, not only
by the American government, but also
by the people. Gen. Kuroki is conf
dent that his visit served as an occa-
sion for furthering better under
standing between the two nations.
Gen. Kuroki is reported to have said
that words were powerless to describe
the grandeur and enthusiasm OF the
reception accorded himself and party.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
WHY so MANY USE GLASSES.
Tho Human Eye Is Naturally Fo.
cusea on Distant Objects.


cused on Distant Objects.
Many of the commonest physical de-
fects OF civilized man are due to an
imperfect adaptation of his body to
new conditions of life Nearsighted-
ness IS an example.
c. w. Saleehy. the English writer on
scientific subjects, says that all the
talk about the degeneration of the hui
man eye is "undiluted nonsense" Tho
truth is that ''man was not born to
read" An instrument made for seeing
long distances is forced to accommo-
date Itself TO little marks and signs on
piece of papers Says DR.. Saleeby:
The eye which we have inherited
from, our ancestors is one that is used
without effort at long range. merely
containing within it an apparatus en-
abllng IT at the cost Of nervous and
muscular effort to be used at short
range.
The general need Of GLASSES arises
from the necessity. In modern life of
the use of the eyes at short distances.
If the eye were naturally focused upon
near objects the advantage, as DR.. sa-
leeby admits, would be great. How
ever. he continues:
II one started TO make a list of the
bodily characters of man which the
amazing development of his lntelll-
gence has rendered more or less ap-
propriate to his needs than originally,
one would require a volume.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05

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All metals except copper. and alloys
except those containing high per-
centage of copper, may, it Is said, b6
nodded in rubber and vulcanlzed with
out trouble. Metals and alloys giving
trouble can be used after coating With
hot tin.
The most difficult part of the coal
dust problem ia to discover what ele-
ments must necessarily be present in
a coal TO make the dust dangerous.
Some experiments have been carried
ON with this end in view, but the re-
suits obtained have not been particu-
larry enlightenlng.
In consequence OF the official in
quiry into the causes of the Courrleres
catastrophe, the French minister OF
public works has decided that the wind
Ing shafts of mines must be provided
with breathing appliances, ready for
immediate use, and permitting their
wearers 10 remain at least an hour in
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Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
w. & C. R. Transferred to N. p.

Walla Walla, June 26.-President
Elliott, of the Northern Pacific Off
cially confirmed the transfer of the
Washington & Columbia River rail.
road to the Northern Pacific while in
this city yesterday. He stated that
the corporation name would be kept
alive until its bonds were taken, but
that the road would he known as the
Northern Pacific after July l.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
Nichol.on 10 Command Nebra,ka

Washington, June 29.-Capt. Regi-
nald Fairfax Nicholson has been Sc
lected to command the battleship Ne
brsska, recently constructed by the
Moran Shipbuilding Company at Sc
attic. and now at the Puget Sound
navy yard.being fitted for sea duty.
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
THF APPEAL OF JAPAN
Chambers of Commerce Ask That Re
forms Be Instituted.


Tokyo, July l.-At joint meeting
of FIVE chambers OF commerce here it
was resolved to address the principal
chambers of commerce in America as
follows:
at has always been a matter Of pro-
found satisfaction to the people of
Japan to witness the constant growth
of cordial relations between our two
countries and of our community inter-
ests in the field of trade and com.
merce, but since last year the people
in a section Of your country have I'M
fortunately acted in manner csicu-
lated to prejudice the legitimate rights
of the Japanese people, who have been
subjected to unjust and abusive treat
ment at che hands of lawless element
prevailing. Their right Of education
has been denied them; their houses
have been repeatedly attacked and
their property destroyed without the
least cause or provocstioD, with the
result tina. not only have the treaty
rights of the Japanese been wsntonly
disregsrded, but their persons and
property also have been exposed to Sc
rious danger.
ut is to be extremely regretted that
such unfortunate incidents should be
allowed to occur so frequently, as it is
feared that unless they are speedily
stopped the i'll feeling which our coun-
trymen are constrained to harbor for
the people of single section in Amer
lea may eventually have an unhappy
effect upon the development of COM
mercial relations of the two nations,
for while the United States is good
customer for our natural products,
Japan is also increasing her demand
for American goods and promises to
become one of the most important
markets for your ever expanding and
prosperous industries.
"Should the progress of trade and
commerce between the two nations be-
come DISTRACTED as the result of the
unwarranted action of small section
of your population, the loss sustained
by the two countries would be incai-
culable.
eve therefore venture to address
you and express our views on the stu
alton, confident in the hope that they
will be shared by you and that you
will, considering the matter on the
right principles of national intercourse
and the mutual advantages of trade
relations, DO yonr best 70 speedily
eliminate the present causes of discord
and to insure our common prosperity
for the future.
Also Addressed Roosevelt
The chambers of commerce have
also addressed President Roosevelt as
follows:
1--WE have always watched with pro-
found satisfaction the growing strength
of the bonds of traditional friendship
between America and japan, coupled
with the steady progress of the COM
merce between the two nations. 1t is
therefore source of deep regret and
concern to Learn of the actions fire.
quently reported since last year of a
section OF the community in San Fran
cisco against japanese residents there,
whose persons and property have thus
been exposed to serious danger. While
highly approaching your unremitting
efforts in the cause of justice, we
humbly think that if such abuses are
allowed To continue the develonment
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
Roud Thieyc. Sentenced

New York, July 1.-Oliver w. D.
Bennett, tbs broker who pleaded gull
ty to having received stolen bonds,
mas been sentenced to five years at
Sing Sing. William o. Douglas, who
stole the bonds, received three-year
sentence. -
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
TO ASK FOR A Vote
RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
AT SEA DISCUSSED.
MIR. Choate on Behalf of United
States Will Ask For a Express
sion on the Policy America
Has Advocated for Many
Years.

The Hague, June 29.-The sitting
yesterday OF the first committee of the
peace conference afforded an oppor-
tnnity for Joseph II. Choate To de.
liver an eloquent speech upholding
the exemption Of private property,
except contrsband, from capture on
the high seas.
The sitting began with considera-
ton of the following questions:
''First--Do practice and legislation
admit of belligerent states transfer.
ming merchantmen into warships?
"Secoud--IH case of merchantmen
being transformed into warships,
what are the legal conditions which
belligerents have to observe?
Thirds the present practice re.
lating to the capture and confiscation
OF merchantmen sailing under hos.
tile flag to be maintained or abol-
ishcd?"
Count Tornielli, Italian. and Sir
Edward Frye, British, observed that
in principle the first question WAS
generally admitted, and thus, they
said, it was only necessary to define
conditions for the Transformation of
merchantmen.
America Supported
Then began the debate on the en-
emption Of private property at sea.
Baron Macchio, Austrian, supported
the American proposition.
Senior Barbosa, Brazil, gave his
torical survey of the attitude of the
United States from the time of Ben
jamin Franklin, and eulogized the
position, assumed by the United States,
which, he declared, WAS the view of
the whole American hemisphere.
Senior Barbosa concluded by declar-
ing that by the orders of his govern.
ment he associated himself with the
American proposal.
Mr.. Choate then made speech
based on the American declaration
of the conference of 1899. He referred
to the different occasions in which
the United States had proclaimed her
support of the doctrine. Long before
the first conference, in 1856, Mr..
Choate said, Russia declared the mat
ter worthy Oh consideration, saying
INA. ene success oi Tue american prih
cipie "ouiu pe c,owh oi glory 10
in1 g9, uipiomaos
States had followed the same policy of
century, earnestly ureine IA .he
iils1 uays u i's eAis'enue 'na' ,ne
pIinoipie y. anopseu' ne reoaiieo
.ne 'ole Oh the nrusseis conference IN
1919 on .he immunity OF priVate
properly on isnu' anu ASKED Una. tne
properly y az sea- ,
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05
A Rank onen.c.

"Niay we have the pleasure of your
company this evening, colcnel:" she
asked.
The colonel drew hlnself up haught-
lily and replied, with every evidence OF
offended dignity:
Madam, l command n regiment"
Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-07-05

One nelghbor woman who comes In
the back door right from her own
kitchen, any old time of day, is worth
a dozen who dress up and make their
calls in the parlor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
The Hotel Clerk on Holiday Prospects

roof and the top story while Uncle
John, who furnished the nails. took the
rest of the establishment. Ryan was
discovered I'm the act of trying to get
away with the lead pipe of the bath
room fixtures and part of the contents
of the pantry. but was stopped in time.
The former prOprietOrs are now camp
ing out in the hole where the founda-
tons used to be, waiting to be evicted.
Yes. l think on the whole it ought to
be a merry Christmas for John D.
bless mis- old soul-especially as it looks
like kerosene amt going to fall many
cents per gallon between now and
Jan. /"
who was the other happy party
you mentioned a minute ago." asked
the House Detective.
"TIis name is Bryan" said the Hotel
Clerk, William Jennings Bryan,
known as the Boy orator of the Platte.
before that stream got into the way of
oCC asionally drying up. a habit which
units 1t for association with the gen.
tleman l have named. Mr.. Bryan is a
happy and cOntented farmer now. That
is to say, he's still a candidate by pro-
fession and working regularly at the
trade, but he does farming as a side
line He's quite a success considering
that he has to be all the time listening
for the Voice of Destiny or the voice
of Tom Taggart or one of the other
voices that are prominently identified
with the party. l guess he's probably
the only farmer in the world that
plows while keeping one ear to the
ground
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
BY IRWIN s. COBB.
Copyright, 1907, by H. H. Mcclure &
Company

banks-Mr. Fairbanks himself and two
close friends of the Fairbanks family
living in Indianapolis.
." Whereas, on the other hand. the
Democratic party is a compact and
solidified mass, located just south of
Kentucky. I never recall a time wher
the Democrats were so solidif1ed. The
Republicans quarrel among themselves
over this issue or that, but do you hear
US quarreling over any issues? You do
not one reason being that we haven't
any yet. But do not be distressed, my
countrymen. 1 will from time to time
think up issues for you. 1 always have.
" 1t would be useless for me to deny
that our party has made mistakes in
the past. We committed a very grave
mistake in the campaign of 1904, it's
name being Parker-Alfred Parker OF
Abel Parker or some such person.
However, that is of no moment. l feel
justified in saying that as long as
keep my hea1th-and vocal pOwers-our
party will never again fall into d sim
liar error Besides, l have a fine boy
growing up and Lincoln is rapidly be-
coming to having a standard bearer
regularly in its midst
Did he say all that?" asked the
House Detective.
He said more than that" continued
the Hotel Clerk. He said it was a
frightful thing that people would ad-
vocatc third term for president.
Mind you he didn't say third race
but a third term"
Il wonder what the main issue will
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Clerk. Everybody ought to know who
I mean half a second after l start in
telling about him. He's had a busy
fall They've kept making demands on
him, but nobody mas caught him fret
ting or complaining. In every home
great or humble, or once great and
now humble, as many of them are,
they're feeling his influence. tn be
many a long day before the harassed
financiers downtown forget what he's
been doing on their accounts, and in
the tenements of the poor they'll soon
be whispering his name as the even
ing lamps are lit. But he gives no
sign-he just keeps on with his work,
wearing modest smile on his long.
smooth face, and
Long. smooth face?" echoed the
House Detective, in establishment
What talk have you? Since when did
Sanity Claus git a shaVe?"
Who said anything about Santa
CLAUSE" said the Hotel Clerk. An
what's that obsolete old fossil got to do
with the modern celebration of Christ
mas. anyway? He only puts things in
a stocking; he never makes you take
the long green out of it. l was speak
ing of Rockefeller. Who else would |
be speaking Of?
1T ought to be a grand Christmas
for Rockefeller. OF course Morgan
has something to celebrate, but not as
much as Rockefeller. When Wall
street in it's hour of need was calling
for a bale of shingles, twas Morgan
generously came to the relief But all
Morgan got for his trouble was the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

eel design known among hairdressers
as the Statesman's roach. before you
have time to say Jack Robinson or Joe
Folk or any common word like that.
Yes, Larry, at this time Mr.. Bryan
is out yonder in Lincoln feeling in ev-
cry way pleased with the outlook. He's
wearing that familiar and beloved
smile of his that runs all the way
round and hooks at the back like a
clergymans collar. He knows what
he's going to find on the tree on
Christmas morning. He knows, be-
cause he's already hung it there and
he's sitting up nights to see that no
Swede named Johnson from Minnesota
or anybody from Texas or Tennessee
gets a chance to swipe it.
Mr.. Bryan came out in an article
in his paper a few days ago and told
all about the situation. You might
himself but he wasn't. His topic was
immortal document:
The enemy are scattered and dis
organized says Mr.. Bryan. AS shown
by the late election returns, they're
scattered all over the country In the
southwest they're badly disOrganized.
Many of the rough riders have sons
growing up for whom no federal jobs
have as yet been provided. There have
been postoffice fights in many of the
cities. Some Of the Republicans are
openly for Roosevelt for a third term.
Some of them are for Roosevelt. but
not SO openly refer to the Taft fol-
lowing. Some of them are for Fair
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

We'll" said the Hotel Clerk, sit may
be true that this is a time of severe
depression among those who never felt
the cruel pinch of q wintry Wall street
before; IL may be true that Vested
Rights has lost its vest and is now go
ing around in its shirt sleeves with a
tattered pair of Gobelin tapestries
wrapped around its bent shoulders,
begging pennies with which TO buy a
crock of cold poison TO send to the
White House as a Christmas present.
Mind you, I'm not saying these things
aren't correct, only I take notice that
the shop windows don't show any fall
ing of from last year in the number
of sets of forty-dollar chOo-chOO cars
and French dolls that could pass for
babies if they didn't look so lntelli-
gent.
II guess. after all, it'll be like any
other Christmas you can remember.
Anyway. l know of at least two well
ahead for their preparations for the
merriest kind Of a Yuletide. You'll re-
call one of them as soon as I describe
him. Larry. He's an elderly person,
somewhat gray and wrinkled, and he's
slipping around now, doing little here
and a little there. taking a pinch out
of that and a dip into this, and rolling
I'D his mild blue eyes in quiet enjoy
ment, the very picture of satisfac-
ton"
Il know who you mean already"
said the House Detective of the Hotel
ST. Reckless.
ITO be sure you do" said the, Hotel
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He sleeps in the second story of his
cosy farm house, but I'm told there's a
brass pole running through the floor,
the same as they have at an engine
house, so he can come sliding down
when the voice begins to sibulate
across the rolling Nebraska prairies.
There's no need for him to leave a call
with the night clerk: he's light Sleep
er and the merest whisper viii arouse
him. He'll be out with his slickers and
rubber boots on before the first alarm
goes in.
IF for any reason the voice should
be delayed he can fix that, too. He's a
versatile man. Bryan is: He'll double
in voice.
Hell just step in the wings for a
minute. Noise without.) One of the
lesser members of the cast, say a mem
Der of the national committee, is tenn
porarily occupying the stage. He looks
off r. /. u. What's that?' says the
minor performer, Can it be the cry
of the angry mob? No. no, praise
heavens. it's the Voice of Destiny call
ing upon our beloved leader to grid on
his white lawn tie and go forth to do
battle against the common foe Then
the minor performer runs off and Mr..
Bryan comes back on and says. 'Hark
the call of me party! 'Tis well. I will
answer it. Cincinnatus never yet laid
down on this job
"And he shucks off his overalls and
climbs into his black frock coat with
the two buttons in the middle of the
back and has his hair all swept back
from his forehead in The modified mar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

DOss Chiderdos in the Sporting Time3)
He took the book and glanced 1T them.
"Ah, charming, charming" he said in
his most ecstatic tone. But his eyes
were on the lady and not on the poet.
l saw in a moment how things stood.
No matter under what disguise that
woman appeared to him, and whether
he recognized her or not, Charles
couldn't help falling a victim to Nine
Picardet's attractions. Here he ac-
tually suspected her; yet. like moth
round a candle, ne was trying his
hardest to get his wings singedl I al
most despised him with his gigantic
intellect The greatest men are the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

greatest foods, I verify believe, when
there's woman in question.
The husband strolled up by this time
and entered into conversation with US
According to his own account, his
name was Forbes Gaskell, and he vas
a professor of geology in one of those
new-fangled northern colleges. He had
come to Seldom rock spying, he said,
and found much to interest him he
was fond of fossils, but his special
hobby was rocks and minerals. lie
knew a vast deal about cairngorns and
agates and such like pretty things. and
red cornelian, and / don't know Whal
else. in crags on the hillside.