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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08

Bellingham has all the rain it
needs. and there are newcomers who
find superabundance of it; but it is
a fact not generally known that the
rainfall in this city is not much more
than half that in Seattle. This coun-
ty has more clear, sunshiny days than
any other section of the state west of
the Cascade mountains. -Belllngham
Herald.
Hardly, brother Herald. hardly.
We move to amend the statement by
adding to the last sentence the words
with the exception of San Juan
county, 'and it might be we'll enough
to include also Fidalgo and WILDLY
islands and Port Townsend.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08

farmers OF the country to write their
congressman and ask them to support
the new parcels post measure recon-
mended by Postmaster General Meyer.
Undoubtedly many farmers are hood
winked into doing So, not realizing
that the project is the entering wedge
Vt vast scheme to close the doors OF
thousands upon thousands of country
stores and divert millions upon mill
lions of country trade to the big city
department establishments. Farmers
may we'll think seriously before Civ
ing their aid, active or passive, to the
Meyer measure, which is we'll calcu-
lated to impress country people favor
ably and which really might be quite
desirable if any assurance could be
given that It would not soon be sup
planted by the more extensive measure
for which the millionaire mail order
merchants hare for years been work
ing. It is announced that Congress
man Overstreet. of Indiana, chairman
of the committee on postoffices and
post roads is emphatic in his opposi-
ton to the Meyer bill. and Speaker
Cannon is also opposed to it. ALI of
the memb ers of Congress from this
state are said to be against it.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08

The railroads of the United States
killed /, 33y and injured 2l.724 peo-
pie during July, August and Septem-
Der of 1907, being an increase in
killed Of 157 and in injured of 8. O56
over the same period in 1906. This
is an appalling average of 446 violent
deaths and 7.241 injured and MAIN
ed per month, total far in excess OF
the losses in battle during the Cuban
and Philippine wars.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08
Rich Men Will Be Perfect
In Another World.

Mrs Theosophica Society
~ EINCARNATION makes look at a in ways
Take of your rich men, say for instance, Mr. Rookie
+ u Teller In his NEXT INCARNATION he will return
with all his good qualities with everything that good and
r,e within him. He will be PERFECT BEING for he will be
those qualities which have made him 50 BRUTAL AMI
SO UNJUST.
There are ways look him. First the physical He
has gone through very UNSCRUPUOUSLY He has wrecked
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08
Amount
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All of said amounts bearing interest at the
rate OF fifteen per cent. per aDnum from the date
of payment of said respective amounts; and you
are further notified that he will apply to the Su.
perior Court of the State of Washington, in and
for said County, for Judgment fofeclosing his
lien against the property hereinbefore mention
ed; and You are hereby summoned to appear
within sixty days after the service Of this sum
mons upon you, exclusive of the day of service,
if served personal1y,-if served by publication,
then within sixty 6o) days from and after the
date of the FIRST publication of this notice and
summons, exclusive Of the day Of said FIRST pub
lication. towit, within sixty days from and after
the 75th day of January. A. D. 1908, and defend
this action or pay the amount due, together
with costs: and in case of your failure to do 90,
Judgment will be rendered foreclosiug the lien
for said Certificate Of Delinquency penalty,
interest and costs, against the lands and premi-
ses hereinbefore mentioned.
Any pleading or process may be served upon
the undersigned atthe address hereinafter mem
toned.
v. j. cAPRoN, Plaintiff
r. Q. Address, Roche Harbor, San Juan County,
Washington, and
w. r. GARRETT, Prosecuting Attorney, San
Juan County, Washington, Plaintiff Atty.
r. o. Address Friday Harbor, Washington.
Date Of first publication, Jan. rs, 1908.
Date Of last publication, March 4, Ioo8.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
RATES RAID

A GAINST the proposed raid on the
IN prosperity of Southern California
IA by a raise in freight rates 1t is
the duty of every citizen to protest.
United action may convince the mag
mates" who regard Southern California
in cold blooded manner-as merely a
piece on their board at the big game OF
money making-that there is some pub
lie spirit behind the rates protest, and
that public spirit will not permit the
Industrial growth and activity of our
fiourishing section Of the state to be
interfered with at the despotic and
unreasonable win of 'magnates."
1t is no doubt pleasant to make a
discovery that lean profits, the result
of lean years in the east, may be fat
tened up at the expense of the pros
porous Pacific coast. but we must not
allow the railroads to be guilty Of the
eccentricity of robbing California Peter
to pay the eastern Paul. Apart from
all other considerations, the proposed
rate-gouge should be denounced be-
cause it is immoral. It is yellow rail-
reading of the worst kind, and most
outrageously unfair to California ship
pers and importers, for California is
to be mulcted both coming and going.
We will receive smaller returns from
the products sent out of the state, be-
cause the railroads will require a
larger amount for hauling them, and
we will have to pay out more Of our
California earnings for goods freighted
into the state.
Threatened with this raid, are the
citizens Of California to sit quiet and
passive?
1t is useless to assume a Micawber
mental attitude and hope something
may turn up" for nothing viii turn up.
If any results are to follow the various
expressions of discomfort with the new
rates which are being uttered, these
expressions must be put into the form
of definite protests, and the aid of the
interstate commerce commission and
every other possible agency of relief
must be invoked. To expect any coun-
tenance or support from the state rail-
road commission in a fair rate agita-
ton is of course out of the question
and absurd. No more strenuous sleep
ers were ever allowed to snore through
prolonged siesta Of office holding
than the hebetudinous aggregation of
talent whose powers and scope of mas
terly inactivity and chronic do-lessness
are about to be enlarged If the attorney
general and the legislature are allowed
to perpetrate on this long suffering
community o Gargantuan joke which
is said to be contemplated by them.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
NATIONAL RESOURCES

N OVERNORS and their advisers as
VT sembled in Washington to receive
W and discuss the report of the ma
tional executive committee of the con-
servation commission appointed by
President Roosevelt.
Truth to tell the conservation COM
mission is the result of natural alarm
over the depletion of resources once
regarded and written of as practically
only too many examples of the ease
with which the ''inexhaustible" may
be exhausted.
In the years Immediately preceding
the War of the Rebellion, who would
have dreamed that the "lordly bison, -
better known as the buffalo, would
almost disappear from the plains?
When the overland trains would pillow
their way (sometimes at great risk
through immense herds of buffalo, ana
passengers would view from the car
windows the pillows of a boundless
black sea, who would have dared to
say, "Such a sight as this to our chill
dren will be only a memory, and to
our children's children a tradition?"
Only the diminution of water flows
and the shoaling up of once navigable
rivers called the attention of the coun-
try to the national peril caused by the
reckless waste of timber, and to- the
gular imprudenee has marked the ma
tional history. If America is not to
pay the prodigals price for the reck-
lessness of youth. it is time to be up
and doing; and let us rejoice there is
a multitude of capable and wise and
experienced counsellors in our great
country.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

ERHAPS the most significant part
of President Roosevelt's message
all of which Is significant. i'm
portant and in some respects remarls-
able and will bear close perusal-is
his statement: Both the preachers of
an unrestricted individualism and the
preachers of an oppression which
would deny to able men of business
the just reward of their initiative and
business sagacity are advocating pol-
icies that would be fraught with the
gravest harm to the whole country. To
permit every lawless capitalist, every
law-defying corporation, to take any
action, no matter how iniquitous in
the EFFORT to secure an improper profit
and to build up privilege would be
ruinous to the republic. and would
mark the abandonment of the effort to
secure in the industrial world the spirit
OF democratic fair dealing. On the
other hand, to attack these wrongs in
that spirit of demagogy which can see
wrong only when committed by men of
wealth, and is dumb and blind in the
presence of wrong committed against
men of property or by men of no prop
erty, is exactly as evil as corruptly to
defend the wrong-doing of men of
wealth."
In this passage the president Of the
United States recognizes plainly, ex-
plicitly and in a manner so pointed
that it will attract the attention and
comment of all foreign nations. the
existence of that unhappy class jeal-
ousy which divides America, and which
is far worse than the old-fashioned
.sectiona1isrn which made two families
of the citizens of this republic. The
conditions recognized and deplored by
the president and by all observant citi-
zens have brought discord into the
family circle of the United States. and
divided the country not into two sec
lions, but into many jarring warning,
clashing interests. While we recognize
and admire President Roosevelt's great
and unusual ability as a preacher, and
look forward with sorrow to the time
when the country will no longer find
in his messages food for thought and
discussion, at the same time we think
his statement of the facts is clearer
and more impressive than any sug-
gested remedy which might be applied
to the entire, grievous case. and stop
the discomfort which undoubtedly exists
in the United States. There is evil
IDENTIFY something wrong with the sys-
tenn. The presidents message shows
this very clearly.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
SAN PEDRO HARBOR

VICTOR H. METCALF, former sec
Y rotary of the navy, in discussing
San Pedro harbor, said: I'VE
must work together on matters affect
ing our common interests. This part
= of the country is far removed from the
centers of population In the middle
west, and must work out our own prob
lens. The harbor, for instance, should
be a matter of pride to all sections of
the state. We cannot afford to let triv-
ial differences make us lose sight of
paramount issues. The government is
taking an active interest in San Pedro
partment has a special report covering
fortihcations for the port"
This kind of talk rings true. 1t is
to the point. and expresses the senti-
ments in the minds of large majority
of our fellow citizens who are not
aware Of the existence of anything re-
sembling sectional differences in CAL
ifornia, although they know South Call
ifornia has many natural climatic ad-
vantages, and in San Pedro possesses
a most admirable harbor-facts which,
they think, should be recognized by
our northern friends in an apprecia-
tive way. And that is the common
sense Of it.
The development of San Pedro har-
Dor is of the utmost importance not
only to Los Angeles and the southern
part of California, but to all of Cali
fornia, to all of the American Pacific
coast, and to all Of the United States
of America. Every addition to the
seaport facilities of a nation is an addi-
ton to the power and wealth of that
nation, and is matter of national con-
Germ.
If the nation is to be regarded as
one family, living in big house, the
harbors are the principal doors of the
house, and such a huge house as this
is should have plenty of doors. We
have not nearly enough. The develop
ment OF the export market of the
United States will help solve many
social problems, and will make money
more plentiful and wages better. 1t
cannot be developed satisfactorily I'M
less every producing and manufacture
ing district has its harbor city and it's
seaport. Nothing will curb the AFRO
gance of rate-making railroads more
effectually than the growth of the mer-
camille and commercial sea power OF
the United States. San Pedro harbor
and the Panama canal will free South
ern California commercially, and, in
good old eastern phrase, will make it
mighty independent of any partico-
lar form Of transportation; although
glad to do business on a reasonable
basis with all competitors for freight
service by land and by water.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
ASSAY OFFICE

I OS ANGELES is the mining capital
of South California. why should
"a it not have an assay office?
Perhaps the deficiency is merely the
result of an oversight, for if govern
mental officials in Washington are as
we'll posted with regard to Los Angeles
as are most of the eastern newspaper
writer's, they are certain an assay office
has been long established in
this metropolis. and that Main
street and Broadway are haunt
ed by red-shirted miners who
think it disgraceful if they are com
PEELED to die with their boots off. The
Merchants and Manufacturers associ-
alton and chamber of commerce are
actively interested in agitation designed
to make washington realize the neces-
sity for the establishment of an assay
office here.
The organizations named have sent
letters to United States Senators Per-
kins and Flint, asking their aid in Sc
curing one. We think there will be no
difficulty on the part of anyone in
Washington in acceding to the request,
and we believe the assay Office will be
established. Mining and miners first
made California world-famous, and it
is not to be wondered at that some of
the good people back east and most of
the people of Europe continue to associ-
ate the entire state with mining inter-
ests. Certain it is, mining interests
should never be sighted, and when
men representing the mining interests
III Southern California express a de-
sire to have long felt want supplied
citizens in other walks of life should
back them UP Loyalty
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
SCHOOL TEACHERS TOUR

7 INTEREST in the teachers contest
is constantly increasing. Los An
geles Herald will give fortnight's
vacationvisit to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition at Seattle to twelve
school teachers. Three of them will be
chosen from Los Angeles, three from
Los Angeles county outside of the city,
one from San Bernardino county, one
from Orange county, one from Santa
Barbara county, one from Riverside
county, one from Kern county and one
from Ventura county. The terms which
must be observed before the privilege
Of voting can be exercised are simple.
They are described in our advertising
pages, where complete particulars and
details relating to the great contest will
be found. We think our readers will
be glad to show their appreciation of
the school teachers by taking part in
this contest.
School teachers as rule work harder
for less money than any other class in
the community. and certainly among
our public servants there are none from
whom more is expected. They are the
moulders of the nation. "As the twig
is bent the trees inclined" and the
school teachers train our young hope
fuls, the twigs, in the way they should
go. If all the teachers of Los Angeles
could be sent on health-bringing trips
every year, it would be a benefit to the
community, which depends on the good
health of the teachers for the progress
of the children.
But since that would be impractical
BILE, we must make the best of the
opportunities within our reach; and as
The Herald cannot think of arbitrarily
picking out, without rhyme or reason"
twelve teachers, it will leave to sub
scribers the pleasure of sending dele
gates to the great exposition. AS in
every other undertaking, hard work and
organization will probably result in
placing candidates at the head of the
list. Friends of teachers should get
together and make plans by which the
conditions of the contest can be car
ried out, ard they may have the pleas
ure of seeing the names of their friends
or favorites among the fortunate dozen.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
PLAN FORMAL BALL
FOR ACTORS FUND
Local Stock Companies Engineer
Scheme to Raise Contribution for
Organization Asking Little
and Giving Much

Plans are under way for what is in
tended to be one of the most elaborate
formal balls ever given in Los Ange-
les for the benefit of the actors fund
of America, under the auspices of the
Belasco, Burbank and Auditorium
stock companies. 1t was announced
yesterday that the date probably will
be the first week in February, and that
it will be an ultra-exclusive affair. Two
hundred invitations will be issued, and
the ball will be followed by a dinner at
the Alexandria.
The patronage of a number of per-
sons well known in Los Angeles soci-
ETY. has been secured for the affair,
and it Is predicted that the event will
be one of the most important of the
local season. The committee in charge
consists of Lewis S. Stone, Charles
Ruggles, William Yerrance, Harry Gla-
zier, A. H. Van Buren,, William Des-
mond, Lon Beasley. and Harry Mes
tayer. These popular ThespianS are
already working like hired men in har-
vest time, and it is promised that the
ball will make every other run-togeth-
er in this part of the country look like
barn dance.
Support has been promised to the
worthy enterprise on every hand, ana
there is no reason to fear that the
fall short of realizationh The actors
give much and ask little, and there Is
no more deserving Organization in the
country today. If you ever have
slipped into the little church around
the corner and have seen this organ
ization mark the passing of some
brother with its tribute of sympathy
and flowers, you will understand some
thing of what 1t means. You know the
story. no doubt, of the high church
minister who refused to off1ciate at the
funeral of an actor, and said there was
-
"a little church +h afou sort t nf tbipa
Won never will haveea better opportun-
itv to line yourself up with a good
cause than you have now in your
chance to boost this affair. Push it
along!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
Society News

wore diamonds. Mrs. Chaffee and her two
guests each carried bouquets of lavender or
chids and lilies of the valley.
Among the special guests was Miss Chat
fees godmother, Mrs William f. Edgar, widow
of Colonel Edgar Of the medical department,
.. S. A. Mrs. Edgar wore white silk and
diamonds.
sfamily now resident in the west are his
brother and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent How
ard of this city, who were present.
Ensign Charles Woodruff. N. S. N, is among
the out-of-town guests who are being enter
tanned by Lieutenant General and Mrs. Chat
fee, as is also General Fred T. Smith, COM
handing the department of California. and
Lieutenant Christie, aide-de-camp to General
Smith, and Miss Smith.
Reception at House
An informal reception at the Chaffee home
Magnolia avenue followed the church SER
vice. the company of seventy-tive comprising
the members of the bridal party and their
families, and a few of Miss Chaffee's young
friends. American Beauty roses were in all
the rooms with the exception of the dining
room, where Brides roses and lilies Of the
valley were used in graceful profusion The
front veranda was inclosed and converted into
a Japanese paror.
Many trophies and souvenirs of Lieut.
Chaffee's long years of service in the army, in
the form of beautiful oriental draperies adorn
the walls of the rooms. and there is little need
for decoration, but for this occasion long
stemmed American Beauty roses had place In
all the rooms except the dining room, where
Brides roses and lilies of the valley were used
in graceful profusion, forming the center piece
the round table and being utilized for the
wedding bell that was pendant from the chan
delier above.
To Attend Sons Wedding
Lieutenant and Mrs Howard left last night
for bridal trip that will terminate at Fort
d. A. Russell, Wyoming, where the groom has
been recently stationed with the Eighth cav
airy. Lieutenant Howard has already made
a brilliant record for himself with General
Chaffee's command in China in the CAM
paign from Tong Ku to Picking, with the
famous Sixth cavalry, with which General
Chaffee served thirty years. and there
not lacking friends who prophesy that his
advancement in rank will not be long de-
ferred.
The wedding trip will include visit to
Fort Riley, Kansas, where Lieutenant How
ard and his bride will arrive in season to
Adna R. Chaffee, 1r, Fifteenth United States
cavalry, and Miss Ethel Warren HUFF, daugh-
ter of Mrs. John G. Dodson of Atlanta, Ca,
which will take place in the post chapel
December Is, and will be celebrated with
full military appointment
Lieutenant General and Mrs. Chaffee are
leaving tomorrow for Fort Riley and will
be present at their sons wedding, Lieutenant
Chaffee and his bride will pass a part of
their honeymoon in Los Angeles, and will
be the guests of Lieutenant Chaffee's parents
from December 10 until the new year. A
brilliant reception at the home of Miss Huff
uncle, Captain Remington, will follow the
marriage, and will be attended by relatives
of the bride living in Tennessee and Ken
lucky well as by many relatives of the
groom.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09

President Taft's brothers. paper is in
a controversy with the New York
World over the Panama canal scandal.
My, what newspapery administration
the next one will be! The president
will be able to hurl invectives and
things with the aid of his brothers
paper. EX-President Roosevelt will
perform in thorough-b roars in the
Outlook. Mr.. Bryan will hand out COM
pliments all around in the Commoner.
And with all these distinguished anna
tours to deal with, mere professional
writer's for the daily papers will surely
have the time of their lives.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
DECLARES HIS BROTHERS.
MIND WAS MUCH AFFECTED

Contest over the estate of John H. Watson.
who died in November, 1907, leaving property
valued at $40, 000 according to the inventory of
his widow, was resumed in the probate divi-
sion of the superior court yesterday. Mrs.
John II. Butler, Watson's daughter, charges
her stepmother with failure to place in the in
ventory $1,000 and some pieces of jewelry. all
of which, Mrs. Watson contends, were given
her by her husband month before he died.
william II. Watson brother of the de-
ceased, the principal witness yesterday.
He said his brothers mind was affected four
months prior to his death, and 1t was impos-
sible for him to attend to any business in a
rational manner. The hearing was continued
until Thursday at 10 o'clock
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
MRS. ROGERS WINS SUIT
AGAINST AUTO DEALER

Judge Oster sitting for Judge Hutton, gave
Judgment for Mrs. Belle Green Rogers yester-
day in her suit for RECESSION, of contract for
exchange Of automobiles with r. c. McClay
and G. j. Black
McClay~was the principal witness yesterday.
He said the automobile given Mrs. Rogers
was in good condition. and that two accidents
to the machine might have occurred had new
car been used under the same circumstances.
One Of these, he said, was due TO erystalliza-
ton, or, as he explained 1t, a defect IN the
molecules OF tho steel parts which not even
scientist could discover.