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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
SAYS LABoRlNG MEN
ASK FOR SQUARE DEAL

Indianapolis, Feb. S.-John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers,
when asked in regard to the rumors
to the effect that there had been in
augurated during the recent United
Mine Workers convention movement
to indorse the candidacy of certain as
pirants for the presidency of the Unit
ed States and for other political Of
fees, stated that SO far as he knew
there was no foundation for these ru-
mors. He said, however, that the
members of the miners union, togeth-
er with all trade unions affiliated with
the American Federation of> Labor,
were interested actively in the cleo
ton to all executive, judicial and ad-
ministrative offices of men who are
known to be sympathetic to the rea-
sonable demands of the wageearners
of the country.
1T follows, therefore," said Mitchell,
that they would oppose the candidacy
of aspirants for political honors who
are known to be unsympathetic or an
tagonistic to the labor movement.
"This activity on the part of the or
gained and to less extent on the
part of the unorganized workers of
our country is not partizan move
ment. think there is little POSSIBLE
ity of the labor organizations entering
the political field from a party stand
point In common with other citizens,
the workingmen seek the general well
fare of our country, and at the same
time they ask such special legislation
as is necessary for the protection of
their own lives and the preservation
,Of their own health, so far as these
ends may be secured, by legislative
enactment.
I'm other words, the laboring men
believe that officers of the law, wheth-
er they be high or whether they be
low, should be especially solicitous for
the welfare of the members of society
who are least able to serve them
selves"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15

to mend the stringency OF payment.
They did, what they refused to
me, week later for the Bank Of Eng
land, 80 that the statute Of the bank
did not restrain them at ALL he said.
Bankers % a. They Like.
!" Certainly not / replied. AS 2
matter OF fact, the chiefs Of the Bank
of France may do just what they like
with the authorization Of the gov
eminent. yes. The government re.
fused. Don't they realize that the
United States is their best customer
and that an attitude like this will not
help to develop commercial relations? ?
"Mr. Morgan would like to take ven
geance on France as he did on the
English bankers.
Il explained to him that In my opin-
ion there had been some uneasiness In
France as to American relations with
Japan; that France had refused loan
to Japan, and felt obliged, therefore,
in order to remain impartial, to refuse
money to the United States.
Just Wanted Gold.
"'That is ridiculous Morgan ex'
claimed. We did, not want money
We just wanted metal, gold. We
would have shipped it back soon. We
don't want any loan. Our situation is
sound. Business is sound; all is
sound. We have got plenty of all we
need
But, in your opinion, did not the
rather peculiar business methods OF
certain big bankers contribute to a
certain extent to the outbreak of the
panic?'
"'Oh, no; the panic only proved an
opportunity for cleaning out the bank
ing business
Morgan seemed to me as claiming
to be the sword-shaking archangel at
the door of the Wall street paradise
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
BRITISH FLEET NOT
COMING TO EsoUlMALT

London, Feb. 8.-The Associated
Press is officially authorized to declare
that there is absolutely no truth in the
report telegraphed from Halifax that
the British squadron in the Pacific is
to be materially increased. No
changes whatever are being made or
are contemplated in the Pacific squad
ron. and the British government has
not the slightest intention Of replac-
ing the old Pacific feet, which former
~ had its base at Esquimalt, B. c..
and which is now represented. by 8
solitary sloop Of war.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
JUST ONE SANK Goes Under.
Washlnqton etate Dant< Examiner
MaIeoo publIc tils Repcrt.

|
Olympic Feb 10.-But one Of the
1S2 stats banks and three trust CON-
panies doing business IN Washington
tailed - weather the recent financial
storm. according to the nrst annual
report OF State Examiner A. ". Engle,
advance sheets Of which were made
public Saturday. The report states
that December last his department
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
CONSERVATIVE DECLARES
FOR IRISH CANCELLATION

London, Feb. 8.-The Earl of Dud-
ley, Conservative, who was lord lieu
tenant of ireland in Mr.. Balfour's min
istry, 1902-5, created somewhat of a
sensation among the Unionist benches
of the house of lords by dissociating
himself entirely from the policy of CO.
ercion in Ireland, advocated by the OPP
position. The leaders of the Liberal
government, the Earl of Dudley said,
were not going far enough in their con-
ciliatory methods to please him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
YAKIMA RESERVE
MILLION ACRES TO BE opENEr
EITHER This FALL oRih
EARLY SPRING.
Advices From Washington Are to This
STRAIGHTFORWARD OF Settlers *
peeted to File on Rich Land in Cen
trail Washington by the Spring OF
1909.

\ North Yakima, Feb. S.-There is
now practically no doubt but that II
145 900 acres Of land on the Yakima
Indian reservation will be opened for
settlement either late in the fall OF
this year or sufficiently early next
spring to permit of the newcomers
getting in their crops for harvest in
1909. Word has been received here
from the department OF the interior
to that effect and the news is most
welcome to the people of the valley.
North Yakima is the metropolis OF
the Yakima country and will benefit
but the new reservation
towns of Toppenish and Wapato will
grow by leaps and bounds so soon as
the reservation is opened. Spectators
in real estate already are looking to
those towns for big profits in the near
future.
The lands to be thrown open to set
Element are being classified and val
ued. In order to acquire holding the
settler will have to pay in installments
the amount of the valuation which is
really the purchase price of the land,
and which will go to the Indian own
ers, and then hold the land on the
usual homestead conditions.
It goes without saying, however, that
the valuation placed on these lands by
the government will not approach the
real value in the open market, for a
considerable extent of the land to be
thrown open is the finest agricultural
and horticultural property in the coun-
try. Some of the lands are already
under irrigation, others will shortly
have water and others again will have
to wait some time before irrigation is
available, but even the dry land on the
reservation produces splendid hay and
other crops.
The local United States land office
is receiving large number of inquiries
from all parts of the country regard
ing the date of the opening of the res
ervation and there can be no doubt
that the opening will be the signal for
the infiuz of hundreds and hundreds of
white farmers and orchardists, who
will Immediately increase the wealth
of the state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
ATTORNEY HALL CONVICTED
BY PORTLAND JURY

Portland, Ore, Feb. S.-Former
United States District Attorney John
H. Hall, indicted for conspiring with
the Butte Creek Land, Livestock and
Lumber Company to maintain an lille
gal fence which enclosed 10000 acres
of public land in Wheeler county, was
today found guilty. The trial, which
began January 10, has been bitterly
fought on both sides.
Three hours and ten minutes after
receiving the instructions of Judge
Hunt last night the jury arrived at
decision and early this morning a
sealed verdict was returned. This was
opened at 10 o'clock.
The offense is punishable by a fine
not exceeding $4,000, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding two years. Sen
tence has been suspended for the pres
ent and Attorney Lionel R. Webster,
for Hall, has taken sixty days in which
to file notice of appeal. He was grant
ed until May to prepare a bill of ex-
ceptiOns.
Heney 10 Satisfied.
Francis j. Heney, who conducted
the prosecution for the government,
was well satisfied with the verdict
The prosecution admits that had it con-
fined it's evidence to Halls connection
with the illegal fencing of the Butte
Creek company it could not have con-
victed the defendant. It was only by
bringing in outside cases which tended
to prove that Hall had been ready to
protect political friends involved in
land deals that the government sue
ceeded in triumphing.
Hall, too, shares this opinion. The
defendant declares that he cannot I'M
derstand how such verdict could be
arrived at except that it was based on
evidence wholly outside the case
charged, and which Hall, having no
previous notice of, has had no oppor-
tunity to meet. Hall emphatically de-
clares in a statement to the press that
there was no evidence against him of
the conspiracy charged in the indict-
ment, and that it was on outside evil
dence the verdict was based.
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Short supreme cour+ r.-r,

Olympia, Feb. S.-The Jannarv torn,
OF the supreme court closed Wednes-
day. when five cases from Spokane
ana stevens counties were taken un.
aer advlsement. The next term Of
tne court will begin in May. The term
Jus. completed was one of the short.
est m years, with but eighty-nine cases
On the docket. For this reason It Is
PROBABLE all the decisions will be writ.
Yen ana the court business win be
cleaned up to date by the berinrine
OF the next term.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Washington News

Walla Walla county will sue the o.
r. & N. company for taxes.
Walla Walla has passed an ordi-
nance forbiddtng bicycles on sidewalks
on downtown streets.
Bachelors have practically been
kicked from positions In the city hall
at Spokane and their places flied with
competent married men.
King county commissioners have
agreed to run the Lake Washington
ferry between Seattle and Kirkland
on an actual expense basis.
A movement is on foot at Tacoma
either to abolish by ordinance the tele-
phone and telegraph poles in the city
or else taxing them 81 each per year.
1t is stated officially that the Sc
attic Electric Company will spend a
million and a half dollars the coming
season in improvements and extern
sion of lines in Seattle.
Port Townsend saloons have lifted
the lid and will remain open all night.
The state railroad commission will
force the railroads to a hearing re-
garding the establishment of more sta
tons, improving roadway, etc.
Twenty-four out of the forty that
took the examination to become regis
tered pharmacists at Bellingham, jan
uary % and %, have passed and will
be awarded pharmacists certificates
by the state board of examiners.
At a meeting at Spokane of the
Western Pine Manufacturers Associa-
ton, which is composed of the large
millmen of the Inland Empire, the
members were urged to curtail their
output for fear that a big surplus
might result. H. B. Svenson was elect
ed president.
Application for a franchise for the
Washington & Oregon Traction Com
pany will be made to the county COM
missioners at Walla Walla April 6.
The company was recently granted a
franchise by the city council. The
COuSCTuCtlOu OI line luCO the Due
mountains and also to tap much of
the rich farm lands of this section is
planned.
Bellingham's new Carnegie library
has been opened to the public.
Seattle will have seventy-three days
racing this coming season. The meet
ing will open Saturday, June 20, and
close Saturday, September IL.
Colonel B. F. Shaw, commander of
the Washington volunteers during the
Indian wars of 1856, pioneer of
Washington territory, died suddenly at
his home in Portland Monday.
That new depot will be erected by
the o. r. & N. at Winona, Whitman
county, as soon as the weather will
permit, is information conveyed to the
state railroad commission in letter
received from a representative of the
road.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
SAYS RAILROADS VIOLATE
RULES OF COMMISSION

Olympia, Feb. 11.-Inspector Perley
has reported to the state railroad COM
mission that the Northern Pacific is
refusing to obey the commission rules,
which went into effect February and
which relate to passenger traffic mat
tiers. The Northern Pacific, he says,
has refused to post the commission
rules in its stations as required by the
commission order, but instead is post
ing rules which include some of those
ordered by the commission and some
decidedly antagonistic.
The commission, for instance, ruled
that no excess should be collected for
a rebate slip for cash fares paid on
the train. The Northern Pacific post
ed rules that provide for such col
lection.
The Northern Pacific also refuses to
obey the rule that more mileage be
pulled than would amount to the cash
fare.
Commissioner. Lawrence himself
discovered this latter violation. He
came home yesterday from Seattle
The conductor pulled seventy-three
miles Of mileage for the trip Seattle
to Olympia. or equal to about $1.S3,
figuring the price paid for the book,
or equal to $2.19, figured at q Scent
rate. The cash fare is but $3.50. or
less expensive than mileage, and I'M
der the commission rule but mileage
of that value should have been pulled.
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Prepare TO Argue sia FINE.

Chicago, Feb. 10.The printed rec
ord Of the governments case against
the Standard on Company Of Indiana
was placed IN the hands Of Assistant
District Attorney J., H. WiIkerson by
the clerk Of the circuit court Of APP
|peals Saturday. The court viii con-
vene on April 20. On that date the
hearing Of the APPEAL from Judge Ian
dis nne Of 81, 24d 900 win be set for
argument.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

San Francisco has been offlclaily
declared free from plague.
Secretary Metcalf has asked for an
annropriation of $73,770,000 for con-
struction and conversion Of war YES
sells.
Bryan SAYS the Democrats have got
next to themselves and will present a
united front in the presidential elec-
ton.
The directors of the Jackson Trust
& Savings bank of Chicago have been
charged with handling worthless Sc
curities.
President Roosevelt has nominated
George B. Grigsby to be federal dis
trict attorney of Alaska, vice Henry
Hoyt, resigned.
The national convention of the So
cialists for the nomination OF a presl-
Dental candidate will be held at Chi
cago on May 10.
Major Richardson, in charge of road
work in Alaska, has had his approprl-
alton of 100000 cut to $250,OOO, and
this bill will be reported favoraDly by
the senate.
Hotelmen of New York city have
the right to refuse food and entertain
ment to women after p. m, when
not accompanied by man. This is
~ %hn
Billiards are raging from New York
to st. Paul. Trains are tied up and
the suffering in places is intense.
Bandit Henry Gruber, on trial at
Butte, Mont, for holding up a train
and killing the engineer, has confessed
to manslaughter.
The treasury department Monday
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for
delivery at New Orleans, at $3.50
cents per fine ounce.
Wheat clearings from the Pacific
coast for the week ending February
amounted to 1,172,542 bushels OF wheat
and 85,443 barrels of flour.
vice-President Gallivon, of the In
ternational Union of Boilermakers, has
announced that the strike of boiler
makers against the several railroads
in Minnesota has been declared of.
The Ohio Republican state central
committee has voted to recognize the
so-called Baker committee, which is
friendly to Secretary Taft, as CONTROL.
ing party affairs in Cuyahoga county.
Commander Peary paid his respects
to President Roosevelt Monday. u
shall start for the North on another
exploration trip the first of next July
said Commander Peary as he left the
White House.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
house of representatives the report OF
the special commission of investiga.
ton into the GOldfieM labor troubles,
in reply to a recent resolution requir.
ing him to do so.
The house with only one vote in op-
position passed the Sulloway bill
granting fat pension of $12 monthly
to all widows of honsrably discharged
soldiers. Its author said it involved
an additional expenditure of $12,741,-
900.
Senator Gallinger has favorably re-
ported from the committee on com
merce bill increasing the mail sub
sides on steamship lines between the
United States and ports in South
America, the Philippines and Austral-
asia.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15

Purchasing Prices.

Purchasing Prices.
The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery In round lots t. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no
tice:
Grain Oats. Puget Sound, $3.50
$3.50 per ton; barley, $27 per ton;
wheat, chicken feed, $28@29 per ton;
Eastern Washington oats, $25@27.5O
per ton; corn. $2S029 per ton.
Hay-Eastern Washington timothy,
20 per ton; Puget sound hay, $16@17
per ton; wheat hay, SIS per ton; al
alta, $10@14.
Eggs Select ranch, 26@27c per doz.
Poultry-Live hens, 14@14kc per
ID; small spring chickens, 14kc per
lib; turkeys, 1S021c per lb.
Wool-Eastern Washington wool,
clean. 14@16c per ID: do dirty, 12@14c
per ID; Puget Sound wool, clean, 1870
zoe per ID; do timber stained. 16017c
per lib; sheep pelts. full wool, $1.40@
LEO each; medium wool, 10000 each;
shearlings, 15@30c each.
Live Stock -Sheep-Wethers. so
Sic per lib; ewes, 4c per Id; lambs,
6@6 lie per ID. Hogs 1-2c per ID.
Cattle Steers, 405c per lb; cows,
3@4c per Id; calves, SC per lb.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Tacoma ouotatlons.

Wheat Club. soc; bluestem, SIC:
red, 78c.
Poultry dressed, 20@22c;
Spring chickens, dressed, 18c; hens,
dressed, 18c; ducks, dressed, 18c;
geese, dressed. 1Sc. Live turkeys. 16@
18c: hens. 13c: springs, lac; ducks
old. 12c; young, 12c; geese. 11011c;
squads, live. $2.5o@3 dozen; dressed,
$3.50 dozen.
Butter-W Washington. sS@40c; Ore
|gon, SEC: Eastern, 23033c.
Eggs Strictly fresh ranch, 2S029c
Oats -30@31c; rolled oats, $32033
Hay, Aalfalfa, etc.-Wheat hay, SIS
|01s: timothy, $z4025; mixed. $22@
3: Wild. $1,000: clover, 318@19;
timothy and clover. $21073: alfalfa
$15016: straw, $12013.
Feed Corn. $50; wheat $3303s;
barley, whole grain, 427o73: rolled
|es1031:. shprtA $oe017: bran. @14-5e
09660; middlinss, @se031; oil meal
|e4lols.
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Big Cement Contract Awar,...

Panama. Feb. Sit Is reported here
that the isthmfan canal commission
has awarded q contract Tor 1000 900
barrels Of cement to be used IN con
STRUGGLING, the locks and dams Of the
canal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

Compare the work of the worms with
the work and activity of the various
kinds of ants, which prepare, perhaps,
as much soil as do the worms. Consider
the home and work of the common red
ant. of the red and black ant, and the
small black species. Read and tell of
the enormous amount of work done by
the Irish hill-building ants, the tropical
termites, with their endless mud-bur-
rows on forest trees; the nest and
mound building African ants; the ant
city makers of Pennsylvania, with their
store rooms and burrows. Make some
mention also of the work of the ant
eaters-the Manis family. the aard-
vark. or earth hog of South Africa: the
ant-bear of South America, etc. Local
ants may be treated i'm a subsequent pa
per. Readable accounts of the work of
ants in general will be found in Cages
Great Worlds Farm go cents), and in
numerous works on natural history.
But use all the soil lessons, particu-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

important part IN moving starch from
the green parts of plants TO the seed,
the root or the tuber: and a small
amount of chlorine must also be pres
ent. Nitrogen is the most important
ingredient, and is present in large
quantities in all soil, which rarely have
less than $500 pounds per acre, or
enough for more than seventy crops. of
wheat, allowing thirty bushels to the
acre. In the rich. iake-formed soils of
Manitoba. an average of .373 per cent
was found, or enough for $500 bushels
of wheat from each acre; and chemical
analysis shows still more nitrogen. But
this nitrogen is not ready for plant use.
though its presence in such quantities
shows what can be done when some
one finds out what to dc with the soil
in order &c make the nitrogen in it
available as plant food.
The Soil Bacteria.
Bacteria are micJ OscOpic plants,
often called microbes. There are many
kinds of, them. One kind causes typhoid
fever, another consumption; but the
great majority of them have no direct
effects upon the health of human be-
ings. Certain kinds, however, are of
great benefit to field crops. One kind
lives on the roots of lucern. clover.
COW peas and otaer legumes. They live
in colonies incased in small nodules, or
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

Plants must have nitrogen, potash,
lime, magnesia and phosphoric acid;
hence an infertile soil is one that lacks
some of these essential elements. Sui
phur is essential to vegetable albumen,
so that fertile soils must contain sui
pilates. Silica, although present in
large amount, seems rot to be essen
tial. More of it is found in the leaves
than in the wheat stem, and least of
all in the lowest part of the stem. This
should be reversed if silica were neces-
sary for stiffness of stems. Analysis
shows in lower part of stem IL parts of
silica in 1000 parts of dry substance;
the middle part. 81; and the upper
part, 1873. The lower leaves contain
1858, and the upper leaves 43.S per cent
of silica. Iron in the sap appears es-
septial to the green color of plants,
without which carbon cannot be assim-
Hated. Iron is present in all soils.
Potash, magnesia and lime play an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

Understanding which, on the roots
of lucern, are about the size of pins
head. Examine some lucern roots and
observe the nodules formed by the soil
bacteria. In some way these micro
scOpic plants take nitrogen from the
air, 50 that it becomes available for the
plants on whose roots they live. The
larger part of the air is nitrogen; but
crops cannot take nitrogen from the
air. They can use it only when it is
combined with oxygen and some metal
lie element in the form of a nitrate
When in this form and dissolved in
water. the roots of the higher plants
can absorb it. But they do not seem
able to get it otherwise. Now, the bac-
terra get nitrogen for them and put it
into a form in which higher plants can
use it. The air that is in the soil, be-
tween the grains of the soil particles,
supplies nitrogen for the bacteria that
are on the legumes, Nitrates as fer
tiliZers are expensive. Since the le-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12
Close to the Ground
THE BOUNTE0US
BOSOM OF
MOTHER EARTH.
I THE STATE NORMAL.

| larly those that relate to earthworms,
with discriminating judgment. Soil is
Understanding thing. and does not
naturally appeal TO either teacher or
pupil; while worms are disagreeable,
and ants may sting. Do not shun the
worm-soil lessons altogether, but give
them in the higher grades, say the
seventh and eighth. Soil lessons suita-
Bile for the lower grades are indicated
in the Utah Educational Review. Field
lessons on soils lay the necessary foun-
dalton for the preparation of a school
garden. These Investigations, apparent
iy dry, may be made very interesting
in the upper grades. THE fields" says
Martha McCulloch Williams, ARE rare
gossips if you only take the trouble TO
understand. They have something al
most epic in their gossiping, yet some
thing always new to tell" Substitute
field gossip for petty SANDER, and note
the gain.
In the scientific sense, what is plant
food?