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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Superior Court of the State of Washing
ton, in and for San Juan County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Robert K Nc
I.achlan, Deceased
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrative of said estate, to the creditors Of
and all persons having claims against, the said
deceased or against his said estate to present
the said claims with the necessary vouchers,
within one year from the date of the first publ
cation of this notice. towit: within one year
from February IS, 1908, at the law Office of How
ard c. Thompson, in Friday Harbor San Juan
County Washington, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business OF said estate
Dated February II, 1908.
SELMA H. McI.ACHIAN,
Administrative of the Estate of Robert K. Nc
Lach1an, deceased
HOWARD G. THOMPSON, Attorney for Admins
tratrix, Residence and Postofice Address
Friday Harbor, Washington
First publication Feb. IS, 1908. st
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
HOME, SCHOOL AND CHURCH

Speaking upon the topic visions
and Dreams" at the Boylston avenue
Unitarian church, Seattle. last Sunday
the pastor, Rev. ]. D. o. Powers said ::
ssThe chief value OF our home and
schools and churches is that they are
the answer to our faith that there is,
somewhere in the universe, q best that
corresponds to the best in us. and
perfect as they may become. they
still stand out beyond Us pointing to
something even better and larger.
They are the best educative influences
we have. The man who yields him
self for an hour only on Sunday morn
ing to the spell of noble music and
inspiring thought is training his soul
to those habits and is filling the gal
lery of his mind with memories which
will be source of distinct power in
the years to come. This is the best
kind of salvation for the evils of
society and the individual. and this is
the method advocated by the Unitar.
ian church. The best way to cure evil
is to say nothing about it: to put
something good in the place of it.
The best way to rid field of weeds is
TO plant 1t to grain /; it will grow the
grain as we'll as the weeds. The best
way to save a soul form evil thoughts
and tendencies is to fill it full of good
thoughts and desires it will respond
to them just as quickly as to the evil.
The more homes and schools and
churches and Fairgrounds and parks
and libraries and uplifting social in
situations we can establish in society
the better; it IL like sowing good
grain In q field; there is less room for
weeds.''
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

The East Sound merchants were ar
dent supporters of Mr.. Garrett when
be was q candidate for election g
year and a half ago. Has change
come over the spirit of their dream
since they have come in closer con-
tact with him? From bis standpoint
be should not be blamed for his eff
forts to enforce a law which according
to the testimony of M. Rudow he
has himself frequently asked that gen.
tleman to violate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

Will the East Sound merchants,
who did so much to stimulate the ex.
cursion business last summer anc
thus acquaint many hundreds of city
people with the scenic beauties Of
this county, and especially the at
fractions of the picturesque Orcas isl
and resorts, give notice to the steam
boat companies and general public
that excursionists visiting Eas
Sound this season, on Sundays, mus
take the precaution to provide them
selves in advance with every posslbl,
thing that they might want that nigh
be obtained at the stores there OF
other days?
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

Rev. A. @. Dixon. pastor of Moody
church, Chicago. one of the largest
congregations in the city. in recent
interview compared President Roose.
velt to the prophet Isaiah. crying the
nations Sin. and declared that Mr..
Roosevelt Is the first of all presidents
to apply uninterruptedly Christian
principles to everyday life and to the
enforcement of the law. Later DR..
Dixon followed the reference &c
Isaiah by likening the president tc
John the Baptist as the precursor a OF
new and purer life for the nation and
the world.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

mighty evils of the day undermining
faith; subverting moral principle
leading men off the rock of eternal
realities to the quicksands of shifting
opinion and moral uncertainty: A
MIGHTY FOE. stalking with giant
stride and tread throughout our land
lifting up It's bold. brazen face
audacious and unabashed as prison
entry; infusing its mental and moral
poison into the veins of the young.
those who have not been firmly ground
ed on the solid rock of truth: this
giant evil is the monster that says
There is no God the Bible is only q
myth; there is no hereafter: death
ends all; Heaven never existed-it
is only f1gment of diseased imagi-
nation. The name of this monster
is INFIDELITY. We are not insen
sible to its deadly ravages and malig-
nant power
But. however rife and busy inf3del-
ity may be in this our day; however
great may be the number of hearts
that it has saddened. shocked, stagger.
ed; however it may be thought to be
the one fear and foe of Christianity
have looked around me as / have
travelled abroad in the Eastern states,
in the middle states, and on the Pa
cif1c slope, and have never had to
look far or long to see something COM
pared with which intellectual. specu-
lative inf1dellty sinks into q striking
insigniflcance; and that something
that / have seen. undermining the
Church's foundations. dismantling her
walls, and filing her with the ele-
msnts Of decay-that deadly some
thing is INDIFFERENCE.
It is the bane OF the modern church.
It is the foe within, not the foe with.
out. that is the Church's deadliest
menace. A Peter can hurt the heart
Of Christ In way that Pontius ri
late can never do.
The infldelity that is eating ont the
life Of the church, deadening its fac
ulties. multiplying its efforts. paralyz-
ing its powers. tightening its purse
strings, thinning its membership, and
thronRing the broad road that leads to
the Pit ID not THEORETICAL. but
q PRACTICAL infldelity. The inf
deity that we have to fear and flght.
that is damning the souls Of men and
peopling He'll, is not the theoretical
iDfldelity OF Robert Ingersoll, but the
PRACTICAL infldelity of indiffer-
ence.
In how many ways indifference is
shownl The mother SENDS her
child to the day school. He is taught
that it is necessary part Of his life.
He goes without questioning about it.
She ASKS him If he wants to 60 to the
Sunday school. She is careful about
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
Mac" in his speech at West Sount

Mac" in his speech at West Sound
on the 23rd of October. 1905. was
literally quoted in the islander last
week. This paper has no disposition
to misrepresent the gentleman. The
truth about him is quite enough. It
Is just possible that he and those who
are his sponsors and apologists are
not so proud now of his utterances at
that meeting as they appeared to be
at that time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

The persons here who profess to
know the authorship of the "Just q
Word" circular. issued in Seattle
and referred to at some length in The
Islander last week, are remiss in their
duty to the public in failing to an
nounce the writer's name. Possibly
the man who wrote it is proud of It.
At any rate there is no reason whv
he should be shielded in this county.
II he is known. Scurrilous insinua-
tions and innuendoes are the refuge
of towards.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

If the Gid" is to be on at the East
Sound stores tomorrow the Islander
suggests that Ed Templin be engaged
to sit on it. He ought to be able to
hold it down.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
MOTE the Topic: ''The Bane of
the Modern Church. l am not

the Modern Church. / am not
preaching to you tonight on ''The
Bane of the LOCAL Church. That
is not my subject. The church as
bounded by lines OF locality. or as
confined within the narrow limits of
UNCONVENTIONAL b O d q r st b e
church thus narrowed, circumscribed,
''cabined, cribbed, confined. - that is
not the church am preaching about.
! look at the church tonight in its
broader aspect-the church as un
bounded by local or UNCONVENTIONAL
lines. the church at large, as you find
it everywhere you 60 throughout the
length and breadth of our country.
Ny topic is. ''The Bane of the MOD
ERN Church. -
This is restless. advancing, chang
ing age in which we live. an age
in which old things are passing away
and new things are appearing in their
places. Scientific discovery. the past
half century. has changed the face
of the world. In business. in com.
MERGE. in travel. in social and nation
al affairs. everything is ever on the
move. Old methods are discarded
new ways of doing things are con,
Atantly arising. and this never-ceas
ing CHANGING of ways and means is
ever being flashed before our vision
80 that we are ut loss to know what
may be on the morrow. Things which,
fifty years ago. swayed the hearts and
fashioned the lives Of our fathers have
passed into history. or ceased to be.
In realms material; in regions that
have to do only with things beneath
the stars-that have nothing whatever
to do with life that will not die out
with DEATHS it only here that this
constant change. this restlessness ex-
lists? No. In regions Of truth. that
have to do with . life that survives
the wreck Of time and the crash Of
burning worlds. the minds Of men are
driven hither and thither. and tossed.
Gods truth never changes, but mans
view of that truth changas. and his
grip on that truth is not ever the same.
Change. restlessness, uncertainty.
characterize the realms that have to
do with things beyond the stars, az
we'll as the realms that have to do
with things beneath the stars.
This grand old Book lBiblsl: the
Church OF which it 10 the charter. and
the Christianity that it teaches have
been Indignantly assaulted. are being
assailed. and will be; and the name
Of their foes is Legion. for they are
many.
Conspicuous among the great and
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
Notice Of Settlement of Account and
Distribution Of Estate
In the Superior Court of the State of Washing
ton, in and for San Juan County.

In the Superior Court of the State of Washing.
ton, in and for San Juan County.
IN PROBATE
Notice of settlement of account and distribution
of estate.
In the matter of the estate of Salvatore di Ri.
tandO, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that c. E. Hackett, the
administrator of the estate of Salvatore D BIZ
tando, deceased, has rendered and presented
for settlement, and filed in said Court his first
and final account of his administration of said
estate and petition for distribution; and that
Tuesday, the 9TH day of April, 1908, at O'Clock
m. at the Court room of said Court, in the
Court House at Friday Harbor in said County,
has been duly appointed by said court for the
settlement of said account and the distribution
of the residue of said estate, at which time and
place any person interested in said estate may
appear and file his exceptions in writing to the
said account, and ntest the same or show cause,
if any he have, why the Court should not pro-
coed to distribute the residue of said estate
among persons who by law entitled thereto.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
the 28th day of February 1908.
c. L. CARTER
(sEAL) Clerk Superior Court
First publication March = 1908. st
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

Mr.. Fowle's communication in re-
ference to the schoolhouse, else where
published in this paper, is timely aud
his criticisms are we'll founded.
Fortunately the defects pointed out
can easily be remedied and at small
cost.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

We rise to inquire why the nronr;.
etors OF only one of the saloons in
Friday Harbor have exhibited thai,
profound respect for the Sunday Law
by putting up curtain in front .,
their bars on Sundays instead Of INIT.
ting up the curtains of their win.
dowss Would any man who chm.
gers and thirsts after righteousness,
go behind curtain to take a drink
ana Is any man who is troubled hv !.
dinerent thirst likely to be preyented
Dy q curtain from assuaging it?
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
THE BANE OF THE MODERN CHURCH

delivered
AS
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

FOR SALE OR RENT-156
acres. with bearing orchard Of 400
trees; 20 acres hay and pasture land.
New four room cottage and good barn.
Inquire at Islander Office.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
The
House Of Johnston

Our policy is small profits and
quick sales. That's why we sell
more pianos annually than all other
dealers on the coast combined.
You probably read or are told nv
agents of other concerns that they
can give you piano for less than
anyone else. But don't take his
word, investigate yourself. for
statements and claims always look
different when slood in a row with
downright facts. Write today for
beautiful catalogues, sent free on
request.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14
It's Dollars In
Your Pocket

When you buy a piano or ORGAN
you are making lifetime purchase
You cannot afford to experimen,
with unknown quantities. Nor do
you want to pay more for your in.
strlment than its actually worth.
There is not another concern in
the west who can sell you as good
an instrument for so little money 90
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-14

Mr. CARROTS reference to cold
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

SIMS, is now owned by Don Enrico Rus
poll, the second husband Of an Ameri-
can woman, whom he married in Wash
ington six years years ago, Mrs. Bru-
tons, whose maiden name was Eugenia
Berry, and whose girlhood home was
at Oak HILL Ga.
On the borders of the lake, where
now the strawberry beds cover the
ruins, stood temple of Diana, once
renowned for magnificence. 1t was pre-
sided over by a priest, whose sole quail
fication was that he killed his predeces-
sor and always carried a sword in his
hand to prevent being served likewise.
Deep underneath the strawberry beds
lie famous treasures. When the Or
SIMS owned the castle they dug up an
tique goblets and other treasures val
ued at 100000. But the list Of the
jeweled plate still exists and it is
known that not a little of these have
been found. Still lying hidden there
is q famous emerald cup, the goblet
fashioned from one great stone
In the lake, half imbedded in the
mud. lie the two celebrated villa boats
of Tiberius and Caligula, boats which
contained hanging gardens, temples of
marble, columns of porphyry, roofs of
cedar. ornaments innumerable of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

Work is progressing at Dublin, says
William E. Curtis, in letter published
in the Chicago Record Herald, on the
monument to Charles Stewart Parnell.
which is to be erected at the head Of
O'Connell street The monument was
designed by the late Augustus st. eau
dens, and is considered to be one of his
best works. The statue of the "un-
crowned king will stand at the base Of
an artistic shaft, bearing the Irish harp
and an appropriate inscription. When
John E. Redmond saw the design for
the. figure Of Parnell in st. Gaudens'
studio, he exclaimed: 81 would not
have you alter a line nor a crease in
it, Mr. ST. Gaudens. 1t is Parnell to
the very life-his figure, his appear
ance, even his very gesture when under
the influence of strong feeling or emo
ton. l congratulate you on your won
derful success; and l am satisfied that
we shall have in Dublin, when this is
finished, monument not alone worthy
of Parnell, but work of art second to
none in Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

In certain sections of the country
there are much favored words which
are required to do duty with wide
variety of meanings. Such is the word
smart" among Yankees, and up along
the Labrador shore the word civil. y
The following conversation between
TWO natives was overheard by trav-
eler.
we are goin' to have lots of dirt TO-
day" said one. glancing at the sky.
Nav. It'll lie civil replied his COM
panion.
How did you get on with the cap
tain?"
"Oh, he got civil to hunting deer by
and by. When he went out he didn't
know nothing, but he got civilized
Did you go down the Ketchee?"
Nav It's too civil for him. He
wanted lots of rapids. SO we went
down the Boomer. Them's about as
civil rapids as l want to see"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

use them for blowing up roots and tear
Ing down trees and also for fighting
their enemies.
The average tusk is strong and elias
tic; but it can be broken and the ends
are sometimes snapped off. Ivory tuskS
are always sold by weight, and the
traders tell me that in buying them
of the natives they have to be careful
to see that pieces of iron or hts oi
stone have not been driven into the
| hollows of the horns to make them
| weigh more.
Many of you have been il the hands
of a dentist and have seen how he al
most breaks your jaw in pulling Il
molar with a long root. The tusks are
really elephants teeth and it is diff
cult to get them out of a dead elephant.
! They are fitted into a bony socket AID
| the roots go almost up to the eyes,
A tusk eight feet long may have two
feet of its roots imbedded in the skull
and if it is taken away at once the
| head has to be chopped to pieces II
| get it cut.
In addition to the tusks, the elephant
has six great teeth inside its mouth
on each side its jaw above and below
and these are almost as firmly imbed-
ded as the tuSks themselves.
The tusks are hollow about half way
up The smallest forms a big load for
man. while one weighing $50 pounds
requires four porters to carry it Such
a day for their labor, so that the cost
of transportation is not heavy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
ELEPHANTS TUSKS.


Some of Them Are Nine Feet Long
and Weigh 200 Pounds.
Sixty-tive thousand elephants were
killed in Africa last year AID more
than a million and a half pounds Of
ivory were taken from them and
shipped off to Europe, writes Frank c..
Carpenter. Of this fully one-third
came from Zanzibar, another third was
from Portuguese East and West Africa,
and a large part Of the balance was
from the valley Of the Congo.
Cape Colony furnished a hundred
thousand pounds, Egypt 100000 pounds,
and a large part came from the Niger
territories and Lagos.
African ivory brings the highest
prices in the markets. 1t is superior
to any other in the size of the tusks.
have seen some which are nine feet
long, and there are some which weigh
as much as 200 pounds each. The
average weight of a tusk is much less
than this and one of a hundred pounds
is quite valuable.
In India the average tusk does not
weigh fifty pounds, but that of the
African elephant is much heavier. Many
Of the tusks are broken when they are
brought into the market The elephants
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

It's a poor excuse Sthat a woman
won't accept when she wants to because
nobody else will
The way woman judges how sick
her husband isn't is by how much fuss
he makes about it.
When a girl wants you to squeeze
her hand it's sign she will make more
fuss about it than if she didn't care.
There's always a lot more enjoyment
in smoking when your wife worries for
fear you viii spill the ashes on the
floor.
To maintain her social position a
woman needs to have things in her
wardrobe whether she can wear them
or not.
Something a woman can never learn
is that when a man who works hard
all year gets a little holiday he'd rath-
er spend it enjoying himself than Wis
iting her relatives or have them visit
him.
Every woman would like her son to
go into the ministry except that she is
afraid it would stand In the way of his
being President-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
GIVE BACK THE RIVERS.
Once They Were ThorouEhfares and
They Should BE Made So Again.


They should Be Made So Again.
In early days our rivers were thor
oughfares, says the World To-day
They continued. to be thoroughfares IN
til the middle of the last century. Now
they are used mostly for sewerage and
drinking water.
Yet sooner or later nature knows
that human nature will come to it's
senses. 1t takes no great genius t. dis
cover that the Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois
Mississippi, Missouri and the Arkansas
might very easily be Joined by the
canals of the great lakes. They are
raw material ready for a transporta-
ton system which will make the Nile
look like strip of litmus paper.
The rivers themselves seem anxious
to work. Not having farm products to
transport they are transporting farms.
There is good deal of agricultural
land of Missouri and Illinois, not to
mention half a dozen other states, to be
seen in the Gulf of Mexico. Dig I'D
few sand bars, build a few levees, and
blow up few dams, and the rivers will
be sobered. Then the region between
the Alleghanies and the Rockies, the
Gulf of Mexico and the north pole can
get its goods to market without worry
ing about the shortage of freight cars.
If it is for the interest of the country
that We should have harbors on the
Pacific and Atlantic, it is just as neces-
sary that there should be wharves and
on the big rivers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
CAUGHT AFTER WORLD CHASE.
henoshH Man, Charged with $4,000
Iheft. Arrcs1oi L.. ns.1.xl..-.>r

AFTER having been trailed by detectives
throughout the United States and Europe
LOT nearly year, Harvey T. Wells. u
years OF age, son of wealthy Kenosha
parents, was arrested in East Cambridge.
Mass on a charge of larceny of $4,000
from the First National bank of Ke-
nosha, OF which he was cashier. Hardly
had he been locked up in the Tombs.
when young woman, who claimed TO be
his wife. presented herself. stating that
she had heard her husband had haan ar
rested and that she desired 70 SOC him
Wells disappeared on Oct. :. 1907 The
Plnkerton agency traced him to Chicago
then over the United States into Canada
and finally 10 Europe While in Tivar.
pool. it is reported, he fell in love with
girl, who was member of the family
of a rich retired trader. When the sugi-
tive was forced to leave the country
through the activities of the Pinkertons
the young woman eloped to New York
with him, it is said. From New York
the couple travelled south, where young
Wells was forced to seek employment.
After some time in the South the pair
went to New York. but hardly had Wells
got q job before he was discovered by
the PlnkertonS and forced to fee Going
TO boston, he went to work for the Bos-
ION Gasiight Company. Again the de-
tectlves located him. While being booked
Wells said his folks probably would settle
with the bank if they had not already
done so. Pawn tickets for jewelry to the
value of $1,000 were found on him. When
Wells left kenosha it is declared he was
accompanied by a woman from Chicago
and that she was the cause of if all