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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
PRESIDENT APPROVES
PLANS Of SECRETARY

Washington, Nov. Following is
the presidents letter:
The White House, Washington, Nov.
IL, 1907.
My Dear Mr.. Cortelyou: 1 have
considered your proposal and 1 ap-
prove the bond issue of fifty millions
of Panama bonds, which will be imme-
diately available as the basis for adj
ditional currency. I also approve the
issue of $1O0,00O.00O, or so much as
you may find necessary, of per cent
Understanding notes, the proceeds of
the sale of which can be at once de-
posted by you where the greatest
need exists, and especially in the West
and South, where the crops have to
be moved.
I have assurances that the leaders
Of Congress are considering a strong
currency bill which will meet in per-
manent fashion the needs of the situa-
ton, and which believe will be
passed at an early date after Con-
gress convenes two weeks hence.
What is most NEEDED just at present
is that our citizenship should realize
how fundamentally sound business
conditions in this country are, and
how absurd it is to permit themselves
to give in to a panic and create a
stringency by boarding their savings
instead of trusting perfectly sound
banks.
Absolutely No Risk Involved.
There is no particle Of risk in
volved in letting business take its
natural course, and the people can
help themselves and the country most
by putting back into active circulation
the money they are boarding.
The banks and trust companies are
solvent. There is more currency in
the country today than there was q
month ago, when the supply was am
pie. Fifty-five million dollars In gold
has been imported. and the govern
ment has deposited another $50, 0O0,-
600. These are facts, and appeal
to the public to cooperate with us In
restoring normal business conditions.
THE government will see that the
people do not suffer, II only the peo-
pie themselves will act in normal
way. Crops are good and business
conditions are sounds and we should
put the money we have IN circulation
in order to meet the need OF our
Astounding prosperity. So 3. s.
Normal Actions Are Demanded.
There is no analogy at al With the
way things were In 1903 On Noyem-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

New York has retired the Clear
ing House certificates, money being
pie ltiful.
Four Indians were blown to atoms
near Birney, Mont, when key of
powder exploded.
Advices from China are that the
dowager empress will abdicate at the
beginning of the Chinese New Year.
Fire last week destroyed Russia's
Baltic ship yards and burned two gun
boats that were under way OF con-
struction.
The Canadian government has been
requested by the Victoria Navy League
to ask the imperial government for two
cruisers and four destroyers to be sta
toned at EsQuimalt.
The Standard Oil company, of New
Jersey, has declared dividend OF $40
a share for the last quarter. The
same amount will be paid this time
as was paid last year. John D. Rookie
feller's share will be about 100000.
The hearing of the IL rebating in
dictments against the Southern Pacific
company has been postponed until
November 10. This respite was grant
ed by United States Attorney Robert
Devlin.
Attorney General Bonaparte has an
nounced the selection of Joseph Van
Orsdel, of Wyoming, as associate JUS
tice of the fcourt of appeals for the
District of Columbia, to succeed JUS
tice McComas.
The Western Federation of Miners
and the American Federation of Labor
have joined hands in Montana.
The Los Angeles city council has
adopted an ordinance which permits
no mere prize fights Of more than ten
rounds.
Practically the entire business Sec
tion of Worlsnd, Wyo., has been
wiped out by fire, the loss being about
100000.
Elastic currency was the topic dis
cussed by former Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, at New
Haven, Conn.
The Japanese wrestler, Hitchiyama,
and his four experts gave an exhibit
tion before President Roosevelt at the
White House Monday.
Sealers arriving from the north re-
port raids on Copper island rookeries
by the Japanese. Russian gunboats
have been sent to the scene.
Valuable pictures and data pertain
ing to the international boundary line
betSeen Canada and Alaska have been
lost by the overturning of a canoe
used by the surveyors on the Bradfield
river.
w. E. Hampton, of Los Angeles,
representing the National Wood pipe
Manufacturing Company, has decided
to erect large plant in Portland for
the manufacture of their products.
The plant will employ 200 men.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
Discovers Freak Apple Tree.

Walla Walla, Nov. 18.-J. c. Caro-
ner has discovered a freak apple tree
in HIS yard in this city. The tree be-
gan poisoning early in the spring
and continued until the latter part OIL
uly. The first fruit ripened in August
and there are still some apples OIL
the tree. which have just ripened. ine
fruit is all the same kind, as the Tree
has never been grated.
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Koreans Recognize Japanese Control.

Koreans Recognize Japanese Control.
Seoul, Nov. 1S.-Owing to the recur-
renee of minor outbreaks in the Sec
ton OF Korea south of Seoul troops
have been sent to reinforce the patrol
In that district. Reports from
throughout the country generally show
a lessening of activity on the part Of
the discontinued element and a grad
ual recognition of Japanese control.
The Korean emperor has moved into
his new palace, and now seldom sees
the former emperor.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
Coalina Station in Mexico.

Washington, Nov. 18.-Asslstan.
Secretary Of State Adee has conhrmeu
the Associated Press dispatches from
Mexico City, which stated that 'no
United States would be allowed "
maintain two coaling ships at Mag
dalena; bay. on the coast OF Lower
California. for a period Of three years
provided like concession was maae
to the government Of Mexico by INC
United States.
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Did Not lndorse Government Owner.
shin.

Norfolk, Va, Nov. 1S.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor by a vote of
154 to so has refused to record itself
as favoring government ownership of
railroads and mines. The question
came up on a resolution to include
railroads and mines in the action
taken at Minneapolis last year favor
ing naturalization" of telegraph and
telephone properties. The opponents
took the ground that government own
ership of mines and railroads would
prevent strikes, no matter how peace
ably they might be conducted, and that
with federal government opposed to
labor it might prove a death blow.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
Boycott Asiatic Products.

New Westminster,s Nov. 19.The
agitation against the employment Of
Asiatics has reached such stage In
this city that the merchants and store
keepers find 1t advisable to label most
of the product they handle Product
Of white labor" An unorganized boy
colt against all things Asiatic has been
on for the past two weeks.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT


The following prices are offered to
the producer by local dealers for de-
livery in round lots, I. .. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no
tice:
Grain-O Oats, $4,000 per ton; barley
$27@ wheat, chicken feed, $28
@29; bran, $40; shorts, $2I; corn,
$s8@29.
Hay-Eastern Washington timothy,
$2S; Puget Sound hay, e2O@s1; wheat
hay, $15@ alfalfa, $500.
Eggs-Select ranch. 48c.
Poultry-Live hens, 14c per. lb;
spring chickens, 14c.
Wool-EasterD Washington, LAG
16; dirty, l2@14c; Puget Sound,
clean, 10000; timber stained, Is
Clio.
Live Stock Sheep Wethers, AZ
5Hc;ewes, 4Hc; lambs, 5H@6. Hogs,
70; Cattle-steers, 4@41sc; COWS
21a@31ac; calves, 4Kc.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23
Giant starfish CAUGHT,

Bellingham, Nov. 16.-While fishing
ior crabs OF the end of Sehome dock
this morning some boys hauled to the
surface in their net a twenty-armed
starfish The creature is perfectly
formed and measures two feet in d.
ameter.
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GREAT SUN FLAME.

Shot Outward at Rate Of Ten Thous-
and Miles a Minute.
s New York, Nov. ia Hearst News
Service dispatch from Oxford, Eng
land, says:
While observing the sun today Prof.
Ambu, director of the observatory
here, saw a remarkable outburst on
the sun.
An immense flame shot up at the
rate of over 10000 miles minute un-
til it reached a height of $4,000 miles.
At 1910 it broke into fragments and
disappeared.
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Wheat Club, $40; bluestem,
$50; red, sac.
Poultry-Dreesed- Turkeys, 22c;
spring ohickens, 100; hens, 100;
ducks. 1870; geese, 18c. Live-hena
12o; springs, 12c; ducks IA
geese, 11@l2c.
Butter Standard, 85e, Washington
creamery, 88@85c; Oregon, SOC;
Eastern creamery, 500
Eggs Washington ranch. strictly
fresh, 400.
Oats, -tS3@8S. 90.
Hay, Alfalfa, etc Wheat hay, 410
Gao; timothy, $27@ss; Glover, $3.50
%; mixed, s2s@24; alfalfa. e1s0 10;
straw, $ls@18.
Feed Corn es4@s5; wheat, ga
@SS; barley. whole grain, 327038;
rolled, eso01l; shorts, t34035; bran,
-.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-23

Prospects Of Success Or Defeat
Should Have No Weight IN De
Gliding Question Availability
For Voters Of Democratic Par
y to Decide.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 16.-Under the
caption Mr.. Bryan's Position the
Commoner contains an editorial state
ment by William J. Bryan, in effect
that he is ready to accept the presf-
Dental nomination from the Demo
cratic party. It follows:
Now that the election Of 1907 is
past and plans are being made for
next year sacampaign Mr.. Bryan feels
that a statement is due to the public.
Those who prefer another candidate
are entitled to demand an answer to
the question SO often put, viii you
accept a nomination. His refusal to
answer the question has led to the
circulation of many false reports and
'unfriendly newspapers have taken ad-
vantage of his silence to misrepresent
his attitude.
Mr.. Bryan will not ask for or seek
a nomination and he will not assume
to decide the question of his availa-
bility. He has been SO amply recon-
pensed by his party for what he has
done and for what he has endeavored
to do that he cannot claim nomina-
ton as a reward; neither should his
ambition be considered, for he Has had
honors enough from his party to sat
isfy any reasonable ambition. The
only question that ought to weigh with
the party is whether the party can be
strengthened and aided more by his
nomination than by the nomination of
someone else? II he can serve the
party by being it's candidate. he will
accept the commission and make the
best fight he can.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09
IN HURRY FOR THE SHEETS,

Hotel Employe Said They Were
Wanted for Use as Tablecloths.
DR.. Irving A. Watson, secretary of
the New Hampshire State board of
health, and DR.. Edward French, super
intendent of the Medfield Insane Asy-
lum. relate an interesting incident of
their travels together some years ago
through the interior of Mexico.
After a long horseback ride up
through the mountains they arrived in
small village whose apology for a
public inn looked as though it had seen
the sorest Of hard times. But thor
oughly tired out, the medical men were
very glad to find place to rest for
the night and, retiring, told their host
that they should probably not arise
until late the next day.
Their protracted slumbers. were
broken when the morning was well adj
vanced by pounding on the door.
What's the matter?" asked one Of
the still sleepy doctors.
Its most dinner time and we've got
to have those sheets for tablecloths,"
was the somewhat startling reply
Boston Herald.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09
Wasn't She Say1nxH

Ingenuity, thy name Is woman r
said the conductor, as plump woman
laden with packages alighted from bis
car. do you know what she did
Well, after she had slowed her pack.
ages in her lap, she opened her bag
dug down into 1t, brought up her purse
and gave me 10 cents. For two,' she
said. I thought she intended paying
for the bundles and was about to tell
her that it was needless extravaganza
when she said: ia like two trans.
fers,' I grinned.
''Are you getting a transfer on your
parcelsr asked.
"She replied In very matter of fact
way: oh. no; but, you see, a friend
of mine Is going to meet me at the
corner and want to pay her fare
but It'll be an awful nuisance for me
to get my purse again with all these
bundles. 20 thought If you'd give me
two transfers I'd save all that trov.
ble.'
II gave her two transfers. The com.
pany won't lose anything by 1t. ana II
the friend doesn't happen to be ~.sit.
Ing on the corner, It'll be something
ln."-New York Press.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

A freshman who had entered one Of
the large universities, and was not
much accustomed to the ways either
Of institutions Of learning or of cities,
was returning late one evening from
lecture. When near his lodgings he
was halted by two masked men, who
"held him up" In true metropolitan
style.
One Of the men leveled the conven-
tional revolver at the young man,
while the other relieved him of his
watch, pocketbook and other valuables.
He made no mention Of the matter
to anybody at the time, but few days
later he reported 1t to the president Of
the university.
1T wasn't great DEAL" he said,
"but 1t was more than I like to lose,
and think It's an outrage to treat q
boy that way"
"Why didn't you tell me Of this soon
err" asked the president.
II supposed they would bring the
things back to me next morning." he
answered. ut was a. couple Of soph0-
mores hazing me, wasn't it7"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

PROTECTS WATCH. nevertheless, nnO
no difficulty in purloining right and
left, watches, as rule, being most
sought after. The ordinary watch
guard is not sufficient protection to the
wearer, but are really "easy," even for
the amateur What is wanted is some
thing like the safety watch pocket
shown here. The most proficient pick
pocket would find it impossible to try
to lift watch thus protected without
being detected. This pocket is shaped
like a triangle, and is placed on the
trousers In the usual position. 1t is
in the form Of flap, and when open
ed out assumes the position indicated
by the dotted lines. Inside the flap is
the real pocket for holding the watch.
When the latter has been slipped into
place the flap is turned down and fas-
tened by suitable fasteners. The in
ner pocket is made just large enough
to hold the watch securely, the edges
being sewed to the edges Of the flap
and the opening being made along the
edge where the flap bends.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09
CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XII.
It was about 6 O'Clock in the evening
when we brought the Celsis through the
Narrows. Then the greater harbor be-
fore the city itself rolled out upon our
view; and as we steamed slowly into It
the customs took possession Of M, and
made their search. 1t was short busi-
ness, for we satisfied them that Paolo
suffered from no malignant disease.
For ourselves We went off to dine at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. When dinner was
done I suggested that Roderick should
take Mary through the city awhile, and
that I should get back to the Celsis, there
to secure what papers were left for me,
and to arrange, after thought, what my
next step in the following of Captain
Black should be.
was driven to the wharf very quickly,
and got aboard the yacht with no trou-
BILE. There was a man keeping watch
upon her decks. went to my own cabin,
getting my papers. my revolver and other
things that I might have need of ashore.
As l was ready to go back to the 9TH
ers l looked in Paolo's cabin, and, some
what to my surprise, saw that he was
dressed, and seemingly about to quit the
yacht. This discovery set me aglow with
expectation. If the man were going ashore,
whittier could he go except to his asso-
ciates? Was not that the very clue I
had been hoping to get? This thought
sent me forward into the fo'castle, where
Dan was.
Hist, Dan !" said l, "give me q mans
rig -out-a jersey and some brooches and
a cap-quick," and, while the old fellow
stared and whistled softly, I helped to
ransack his box; and in a trice I had
dressed myself, putting my pistols, my
papers, and my money in my new clothes !;
but leaving everything else in heap on
the floor. As l came on deck, saw a
shadow on the gangway. The man was
leaving the yacht at that moment, and I
followed him.
Once out into the city, and having turn
ed two or three times to satisfy himself
that he had no one after him, Paolo
struck for Broadway, and thence with
staggering gait he made straight for the
Bowery. At last, after a long walk, and
when the man himself was almost falling
from the exertion Of it, he stopped before
an open door in the dirtiest of the streets
through which we had come, and disap-
peared instantly. l came up to the door
almost as soon as he had passed through,
and found myself before a steep fight Of
steps, at the bottom of which through a
glass partition l could see men smoking
and hear them bawling uncouth songs.
1t was a fearful hole, peopled by fear
full men all nations and all sorts of vii
lains were represented there; low Eng
lishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, even
Cinnamon; yet into that hole must go
if l would follow Paolo to the end. I
pulled my cap right over my face and
passed through the swinging door.
The room was long and narrow; bank
ed it's whole length by benches that had
once been covered with red velvet, but
now showed torn patches and the pro-
truding wool Of the stuffing. I passed
quickly to a bench near the door, and
there sat wedged against a fair-haired
seaman, whose look stamped him to be .
Russian.
Ito be continued.)
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09
OLD-TIME RAIN GAUGES.

The Da1ryman's Milk Can and the
Ranchman's Wagon Box.
This thing of having a government
rain gauge to tell you exactly how much
1t rains spOils the fun Of a shower
said the man who was reared in the
country. "When 1 was boy after a
rain everybody gathered down at the
pOstoffice to talk it over.
There must have been somewhere
about two inches and half of moisture
dropped, cause my wife left washpan
out and it was rained full. OF course
, it was flaring some at the edges, which
might make 1t look like it rained more
zen 1t really did, began one.
'Then there was the farmer whose
way Of judging rainfall was by two
gallon jar that sat just few feet from
the corner Of the house. He always
prefaced his figures. OF course you
can't exactly always tell about that jar,
for it was settin' purity close to the
caves and some might have got bowed
into 1t from the roof
Inere was Qd1ryman VINO always
tried to tell how much water fell by
milk cans that were narrower at the
mouth than any place else. Tis esti-
mates were always smaller than his
neighbors, and the only way he could
explain the discrepancy was by the fact
that the cloud seemed to break when
1t got right over his farm. But IL his
figures were conservative there was an
old ranchman who lived up on Sand
Creek, about three miles away, that
made up for them. He never got down
to the postofice until about IL O'Clock.
1T was the dadbobdest rain I ever
saw,' he always began Gully washer,
goslin' drownder, toad killer of rain. ,
1T always rained more up on his
ranch than anywhere else In the whole
country. His rain gauge was a tight
bottomed wagon box feet wide and II
feet long. After a thunderstorm that
lasted about two hours, one morning,
he came In and said that wagon box
was rained clean full. Fourteen inches
In two hours That established a rec
ord that hasn't been beat yet to my
knowledge As a further yerifcation
OF the accurateness Of his rain gauge
he said that the prairie dog holes In
Tho low places we're spouting water
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

A German statistician has made 4
careful investigation to discover in
which countries the greatest age is at
tanned The most amazing figures come
from that troublesome and turbulent
region known as the Balkan peninsula.
Servia has 573 persons who are more
than 100 years old, Roumania 1,O84 and
Bulgaria 1883. In other words, Bull
garia has centenarian to every 100
inhabitants and thus holds the interna-
tional record for old people In 1892
alone there died In Bulgaria $50 per
sons who had exceeded the century,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

in the form Of loop and uniting 1t
by contact with the main feeding end
OF the wick Immediately below the en-
trance to the burner.
Two sides Of the wick are thus en-
abled to feed the burner. The end OF
the wick forming the loop Is attached
to the other end by metal band Tho
provision of two feeders to the burner
assures maximum candle power and
the necessity of turning up the wick at
short intervals Is avoided.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

single length OF
the wick Is de-
pended upon is not
sufficient to sup
ply the burner. As
a consequence 1t
is common prac-
tice to turn up the
wick in an effort
to increase the H.
Eliminating power
Of the lamp. This,
Of course, causes
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

the lamp to smoke, endangers the CHM
ney and is otherwise objectionable.
The object of the device shown In
the accompanying illustration is to
obviate these difficulties by providing
means for supplying the. burner with
the requisite amount of oil at the con-
suming end of the wick. The inventor
accomplishes this by bending the wick
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-02-09

are able to carry
out this kind OF
thieving without de-
lection. Nimble I'm
gers and quick &C
ton are absolutely
essential, and these
requisites are only
acquired after long
practice. T b o S e
thieves who are
adept at the game,
~ n