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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

canadian elections will be held on
October %. Nominations will be made
October 10.
Former Governor David B. Hill has
declined to run for United States SEN
ator from New York state.
With as much enthusiasm as is dis
played by Americans on the Fourth of
July, the 98th anniversary of the indie
pendence of Mexico was celebrated
throughout the republic Wednesday.
A bronxze statue of Major General
Nathaniel p Banks, erected on the
state house grounds at Boston, was un-
yelled Wednesday. All the living de-
scendants of Gen. Banks were partici-
pants in or spectators of the exercises.
A Montreal dispatch says: That the
Canadian Pacific will eventually biuld
an all Canadian line to the Yukon is
admitted by high officials of the COM
pany, and some surveying work has
already been done with that object in
view.
Sven Anders Hedin, the explorer,
who started in 1905 from Chinese Tur-
kestan on journey throughout Thi-
bet, and concerning whose where
abouts there was great anxiety, has ar
rived at Simla.
More than 46, 900 acres of land for
merly included in Indian reservations
in the vicinity Of Leech lake, Mime
sofa, have been opened to settlement
in accordance with orders from the
general land Office.
In the South Carolina dispensary
cases, heard in the United States court
of appeals at Richmond, Va, the
lower court was affirmed. The general
grounds for affirmation seem to be that
a state cannot enter. private business.
The department has announced that
DIR. Henry Love, special agent Of
the land Office, assigned to duty in
Oregon, has been appointed United
States marstal for the third division Of
Alaska in place of George G. Perry.
The Minnesota state fair proved it's
right to be called the biggest fair in
the Union by reaching the large at
tendance of $50, 900 for six days. The
directors have decided to expend $3.50,
900 on concrete ampitheater and
main building the coming summer.
Passengers who have arrived at Ant
werp from the Congo report serious
troubles in the French Congo, where
natives revolted and in sections sur
rounded number of whites. A relief
force was sent to the aid Of the whites
and several engagements were fought.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
WASHINGTON WHEAT CROP
Total Acreage 2,125, 900, and Tot,, w., \,
29,7OO,OOO Bushels. ''u

Tacoma, Sept. 19.-Deputy Grain 7.
spector S. S. King has given Ont .
statement of the acreage of WHO'D.
grown in the cereal counties Of ~,
state the past year, and also the os.,
mated yield by counties. The os.,
mates come from leading wheat GROW
ers and warehousemen in the diffo.
ent counties, and both Mr. King On,
State Inspector Arrasmith believe tha
statistics are not far wrong. Tho -
tails for the year were: Acreage .
$4,000; yield, 29,7OOOOO bushels
against 100000 acres and 4OS45 OOn
bushels in 1907.
The oat statistics for washington
for the year are as follows: Acreapo
$4,000, as against $4,000 last wear.
yield, 100000, as against 5425on
last year.
Barley-Acreage, 100000, as against
141,O00 for last year; yield, 5,7oOOOO
as against $4,000 for last year
The state grain commission held its
annual meeting this week. The SOS.
sion was mere formality, there be.
ing nothing done but the continuing
of existing grades.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Mcbride Denies Story

Seattle, Sept. 19.-Henry Mcbride
emphatically denies the story to the
effect that he and Charles E. Coon in
Intended to CONTEST the recent primary
election on the ground that the second
choice provision of the statute is un-
constitutional. $50 far as I am con-
cerned there is absolutely not word
Of truth in the statement, declared
Mr.. Mcbride. 81 know nothing about
such proposition. I have taken no
such steps myself and have not author
lied anyone else to act for me-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
WAGE AND FOOD ADVANCE
Cost of Living Is Increasing Faster Thar
Salaries Are Boosted.


Washington, Sept. 19.-The average
wages per hour in the principal manu-
featuring and mechanical industries of
the country were 81 per cent and the
principal retail prices Of food were A.
per cent higher, according to the July
report of the bureau of labor. The
regular hours of labor per week were
our-fourteenths of one per cent lower
and the number of employees in the es-
Establishments investigated by the bu.
reau showed an increase Of per cent
The report shows that as compared
with the ten years preceding, 1890 to
1899, the average wage in 1907 was
20.7 per cent higher; the number Of
employees A. 4 per cent greater, withs
decrease of per cent in the average
hours Of labor per week. The retail
price Of the principal articles Of food
was 20. 6 per cent higher in 1907 than
for the period from 1890 to 1899. Com
pared with the average for the same
ten year period, the food purchasing
power of an hours wage in 1907 was
6.8 per cent greater. Retail prices Of
food in 1907 were higher than in any
other year Of the eighteen-year period
above named, being AZ per cent higher
than in 1906.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT
Purchasing Prices

The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots f. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tice.
Grain-Oats, $27@ 27k per ton ;bar-
ley, $4,000. 30; wheat, chicken feed,
$4,000; corn, $500.
Hay-Eastern Washington timothy,
$15@$16 per ton; Puget sound hay,
SO. SOC 80; wheat hay, $12; alfalfa,
SO. 5O@1O.50;
Eggs-Select ranch, $32@34c doz.
Poultry-Live hens, 12@13c per
lb; springs, 16@17c.
Live Stock-Steers, 4k@4Ac per
lb; COWS, 31a@4c; wethers, 4bc;
lambs, &c; hogs, 6@7Ac; veal, 7H@
&c.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
ONE WARsHIP LESS
Hill Says He Would Take Money So Saved
and Build Farm Schools.

Hill Says He Would Take Money So Saved
and Build Farm Schools.
Crookston, Mimi, Sept. 19.-'If l
had my way would build couple OF
warships less, yes, one would be
enough, and 1 would take the $5,OOO,-
600 which it would cost and with it
construct 1000 schools of agriculture
within the United States" declared
James J. Hill, chairman of the board
of directors of the Great Northern rail-
road, at the dedication of Stephen hall,
an agricultural institution, here. Mr..
Hill stated that with the present birth
rate the country would not be able to
take care of it's own people, let alone
the prospect of exporting grain to Eu-
rope, unless the farmers study the sci
ence of agriculture and learn how to
raise more bushels to the acre than
they are able to do at present.
Il believe we have seen the last day
in the history of this country" he
said, when wheat will be cheap.
Hereafter No. 1 hard wheat will bring
the 80 cents which it is worth at the
present time, and even more if the
soil is properly cultivated
Mr.. Hill declared further that the
crops of the last few years have been
steadily decreasing in the yield per
acre and with the many thousands of
people who have come into this coun-
try to settle most of the land has been
taken up, so the chance of accumu-
lating greater acreage upon which to
increase the size of the crops would
soon be an utter impossibility, even in
Western Canada. The only solution
of the problem, according to Mr.. Hill,
is to study the question and find out
in what way the output per acre can
be increased.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Must Furnish Surveying Instruments

Olympia Sept. 19.-That county
commissioners are required by law to
supply county surveyors with transits
is the ruling of the supreme court in
case appealed from Stevens county.
5. W. Manning, surveyor for the coun-
ty, has sued for and obtained a writ of
mandate requiring the county to pur-
chase an instrument for him. The
order granting the writ is affirmed by
the supreme court.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
TACOMA QUOTATIONS

Wheat-Bluestem, CSC; club, gle;
red, SOC.
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, 22@25c !;
spring chickens, dressed, 1S@2Oc;
hens, dressed, &c.,. ducks, live, 1Oc;
spring chickens, live, 14c; geese,
fresh, dressed, 1sc; squads, live, 81. 30
@3 doz; dressed, So. SO doz.
Observation-Disclosures, So@31c; Ore
gon, 27@28c.
Eggs-Washington ranch, candled,
32@34c; Oregon, 25@26c.
Oats $30@31; rolled oats, $1,000.
Hay, Alfalfa, Etc.-Wheat hay, $14
OILS; timothy, $18@19; mixed, $3.50
II; wild, $11@13, clover, s15@16;
alfalfa, $12@13.
Feed-Corn, 5000; wheat, $S1@
80; barley, whole grain, $26@27 !;
rolled, $27@28; shorts, $28@29; bran,
$40. 50@$275.0.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
SAYS JOB IS
DIFFICULT
ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS
BEEN TRYING TO JAIL
A MAGNATE.
Statute of Limitations Has Run in
Most Cases, and There are
Other LimitatiOns-AlsO Has
Had Difficulty In Getting Sufi-
cient Evidence to Convict.

Baltimore, Md, Sept 21.-Attorney
General Bonaparte while in Baltimore
made answer to the charge w. }. Bry-
an has been making frequently of late
that the present administration has not
squared itself with it's promises by
putting some trust magnate in jail.
''From the time 1 became attorney
general, to the present" said Mr.. Bo-
naparte, ''it has been the earnest de-
sire of the president, as we'll as my
own, to do that very thing in proper
case. I have been compelled, however,
to advise against such a prosecution in
every instance suggested, because did
not believe it would be successful, and
I did not wish to give the defendant
the benefit of an unmerited whitewash-
ing.
Gin the case of nearly all the great
trusts, the combinations and CONSOLE
dations to which individuals promi-
nent in their management were parties
as such took place ten to twenty years
ago, and, even if they occurred after
the enactment of the Sherman anti
trust law, had long since been barred
by limitations when I assumed my
present office You will remember that
with respect to crimes against the
United States the period of limitation
is only three years. In our report upon
the postal frauds Mr.. Holmes Conrad
and suggested that this period ought
to be heightened, and the president SO
recommended, but the congress took
no action on the subject.
cit is of course true that officers of
the corporations can be held response
BILE criminally for corporate acts in
which they are proved beyond a rea-
sonable doubt to have individually
participated; but, while it is compare
lively easy to prove the act of the cor
poration, it is usually very difficult,
if not altogether impossible, to obtain
legal evidence to convict individual
officers as participants.
"While, therefore, I am we'll aware
purveyors to the public Of what
Speaker Cannon calls wind and ink
have been CRYING out loudly for some
trust magnate to be put behind the
bars, have always found this advice
to be the same in character as that
generally given by bystanders to the
smaller boy in street fight-namely,
Go in and VIM which, as Dickens
wisely remarks is an excellent thing
to do when one can do it, but not an
especially good thing to try to do
when one can't -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Miners Strike COIlapses

Butte, Mont, Sept. 19.-The strike
of the United Mine Workers of Wyom-
ing has practically collapsed. Miners
in the northern part of the state are
returning to work pending further
discussion of the wage scale, and it is
thought before the end of week every
miner that walked out ten days ago,
tying up every mine in Wyoming, will
be back at work. Seven thousand min
ers walked out when the strike was
called
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Washington State News

Tacoma is to have juvenile court.
Friday, October 2, has been set aside
as Seattle day at the state fair at
North Yakima.
The Columbia river M. E. confer
ence has been divided into five districts
instead of four. The headquarters Of
The Puget Sound Methodist confer
ence was held at Tacoma last week,
with about 200 ministers in attendance.
the new district will be in Wenatcehe,
with Rev. o. w. Mintzer as superin-
tendent, who will move from Spokane
to Wenatchee.
Carl D. Eshelman, secretary of the
Democratic state cetnral committee,
has resigned, and has left for Califor-
MIA on protracted business trip.
City Engineer R. H. Thompson, Sam
uel Hill and S. @. Lancaster, will at
tend the good roads convention to be
held in Paris beginning October 10, as
deleatges from Seattle.
The Aberdeen city council has passed
an ordinance limiting the number OF
saloons in that city to forty and put
ting other restrictions on the liquor
traffic. There are now thirty eight
saloons in the city.
The fortieth anniversary of the in
stitution of the A. o. U. W. fraternal
organization will be fttingly celebrat-
ed on October 81 by the seven Seattle
lodges of the order with monster
joint meeting and initiation.
On October 1 the following fourth
class postoffices will be advanced to the
presidential class, with salaries as in
dictated: Medical Lake, 81 200; Teni-
no, Sumas, Starbuck and Edmonds,
s1,lOO; Black Diamond, 81, 900.
According to the new city directory
the population of North Yakima is TO-
900.
The Washington state university be-
gan the school year Tuesday. The
enrolment is large.
O. F. Johnson, cashier of the Che
halls county bank at Aberdeen has re-
signed to establish bank at Camas.
A vel drilling outfit has commenced
work at Thrall prospecting for oil. It
is inntended to sink we'll 2, 500 feet,
if necessary.
Ground has been broken for the con-
struction of new Touring mill at
Vancouver. The capacity is to be $50
barrels daily.
The war department has given au-
thority for the construction Of two
double sets of noncommissioned officers
headquarters and one double set of
firemen's quarters at Fort Worden.
The delegation of Pacific coast mer-
chants who will visit Japan this fall
will sail September 25 on the Tango
Maru for Yokohama. They will rep
resent Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, San
Francisco, Eureka, Fresno, Los Ange-
les, San Diego and other cities. They
will stay in Japan until early in No
vember.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Russio-Japanese Sealing Agreement

Victoria, B. c., Sept. 19.-News
was brought by the steamer Aki Maru
from Japan, that an aergement has
been reached between Japan and Rus
STA for treaty regarding pelagic seal
ing whereby sealers will be prohibited
from hunting within thirty miles of
the Copper islands and Robben island
seal rookeries, owned by Rsusia and
Japan respectively. No arrangement
was made with regard to Bering sea-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
HILL CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Railroad Magnate Rides After Old Engine
Piloted by Veteran.

ST. Paul, Sept. Thames J. Hill
celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday yes
terday. In the afternoon Mr.. Hill met
practically all the old employees of the
Great Northern and was their guest at
one Of the most interesting functions
in the history of the West. The party
was hauled from the Union depot to
Lake Minnetonka by the first locomo-
tive ever brought to Minnesota. The
trip was piloted by AL Smith, the old
est man in the engine service of the
Great Northern.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
To Insure Peace of World

Berlin, Sept. 2O.-An imposing An
glo- German workingmen's peace dem
onstration was held here Sunday. Some
20, 900 German workmen gathered to
welcome delegation representing the
British workmen, and much enthusi
asm was displayed on both sides. The
delegation presented an address, asking
the cooperation of the Germans in an
effort to secure the settlement of inter.
national disputes by arbitration. Later
a great open air mass meeting was
held and resolution was passed pledg-
ing the support of the German work
ers. Many of the delegates to the in
terparliamentary congress were present.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Judge Holds Iowa Saloons All Illegal

Davenport, Ia, Sept. 21.-Accorains
to q decision by Judge Smith McPne4
son, Of the United States circuit cou''
the Iowa mulct law system, ul'uo J,
which sloons are now operating, -
illegal. Judge Mcpherson 1ur'i0,
declar es the Iowa mulct law IS Nv
license system, and that there has peeL
no license system in Iowa for the ias'
quarter of century, and for that 'in.f
there has never been lawful sale ~ ~
liquor as a beverage within the .s'a'0
Of Iowa. He further holds that no p0-
son under any circumstances can 10"
fully sell liquor as beverage III loN'
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Marathon Race for the West

Oakland, Cal, Sept. 19.-The first
Marathon race ever held in the West is
to be run over course in East Oak
land hills Thanksgiving, according to
an announcement just made public by
the Century Athletic club of this city.
The race is to be started at Fruitvale
and run over mountain trail through
joaquin Miller's home. No contestant
under 10 years of age will be accepted.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Investigate Reclamation Work in Hawaii

Investigate Reclamation Work in Hawaii
San Francisco. Sept. 19.-Director
F. H. Newell, of the reclamation serv-
ice, sailed on the transport Cook for
Hawaii, where he will remain several
weeks investigating reclamation work
in the islands. He stated that the gov
eminent desires to ascertain what forms
OF employment are open to home
builders outside of the sugar planta-
tions, where coolie laborers are at work
almost exclusively. The government,
hesstated, desired to open up in the
islands larger field for white labor.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
Will Not Hurry Divorces

Seattle, Sept. 21.-Judge A. w.
Frater, in the superior court of King
county, abs made ruling not to grant
any further divorces unless at least one
year has elapsed since the parties con-
cerned were married "There is no
need to be in a hurry about obtaining
a DIVORCE said the court, land q
year rolls around soon enough. -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
New Mill at Eatonville

Tacoma, Sept. 19.-The Reliance
Lumber company of Seattle will build
a new mill at Eatonville The plant
WIN have capacity of 1875, 900 feet
DAILY. Work is to begin at once.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-26
HEADS OFF HILL ROAD

OdlduIdh Fdcmc acquires LINK 10 COM
plete New Main Line.
Winnipeg, Sept. 21.-By the pur-
chase 70 the Alberta Irrigation Com
pany's line in South Alberta for $40, :
600, 600 the Canadian Pacific railroad
intends making the Crow Nest Pass
the main line to the Pacific coast, to
head off the Great Northern, which
road, it is said, has been trying to get
control of this railway for years.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-31
DR.. HILL IS
ACCEPTABLE
Baron Won Sternberg Calls
at White House and State
ment is Issued to Effect
That Casual Converse
ton" Has Been Badly Gar
bled and Distorted.
BY Associates Press.

Washington, March 30.-With a
view of bringing to close gossip
connected with the disapproval in
Berlin of the appointment of DR..
David ]. Hill, as ambassador, and
terminating the incident, Baron Won
SteTmburg, the German ambassador,
called at the White House tonight,
by appointment TO see President
Roosevelt, and Secretary Root.
At the conclusion of the conference
a statement was issued saying the
German ambassador had. conveyed to
the American government, the assur-
ance of Emperor William that there
had never been any change in his
attitude towards DR. Hkl and in his
cordial Willingness TO welcome him to
Berlin.
Apparently" the statement says
some remarks in casual conversation
have been distorted by gossip. and
exaggerated by rumor so as TO give a
totally erroneous impression of the
whole matter. The two governments
have never shared this misunder
standing"
The nomination of DR.. Hill as am
bassador to Germany will be sent tC
the senate tomorrow, according TO {
plan agreed upon tonight. No timt
has been fixed for the retirement o
Ambassador Tower, hut it is expected
that Dr. Hill will succeed him some
time in May.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-31
SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST CHIEF
FORESTY DEPT.
Forestry Bureau is Tainted
by Charges Made in House
by Two Mernbers-Senate
Discusses Snake River Bill
But Nothing of Import
ance is Accomplished.
Rv Associated Press.

Washington, March 3o.-Charges OF
a serious nature against Clifford
Pinchet, chief of the forestry bureau.
were made in the house today by
Smith, of California, and Monden of
Wyoming. during the consideration of
the agricultural appropriation bill.
Smith accused Pinchet of entering
into secret understanding with the
city of Los Angeles, with a view of
securing to that city yaluble water
rights in the Owens river valley, as
against the interests of private par
ties owning prior claims.
Mondell denounced him for, as he
charged. illegally paying expenses If
forest officials in attending cOnven-
tons in the west in which the govern
ment had no part, also of sneudins
government money, to boost his bu-
reau in newspapers.
Pollard, of Nebraska, and Scott, OF
Kansas, defended Pinchet.
The bill was under discussion all
day and every line relating to the
forest service was fought, with the re-
suit that many provision were sJrick-
en- from the bill.
SENATE DOES NOTHING.
Passage Of a number of bills of
minor Importance and extended dis
cussion of the measure authorizing
the damming OFF Snake river. Wash
ington, occupied the entire time of the
senate today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-31
Banquet at Kansas City Is
Marked by Enthusiasm
for Nebraskan.
WERE 1000 PLATES
AND $1,000 PRESENT
Noted Gathering Of Staunch
Friends of Great Common
er-Judson Harmon, 9th
er Guest, Also Recipient of
Ovations-Senator Stone
and Dave Francis Among
Those Present.
By Associated Press.


Kansas City, March 30.-Democrats
from all parts Of Missouri to the num-
Der of 1900 attended the banquet here
tonight Hon. w. J. Bryan, OF Nebras-
ka, and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, were
the guests of honor and principal
speakers, and were the recipients of
repeated ovations from the $4,000 per-
sons who thronged the hail.
Prominent Guests.
The democratic clubs in st. Louis,
St Joseph and other cities of the
state sent delegations to the dinner.
Among the guests were the four for
mer governors OF Missouri, T. T.
Crittenden, David E. Francis, Senator
William j. St0Qe and Alexander NJ.
Dockery, as also was present Gov
eanor Joseph w. Folk. All candidates
for state offices were present.
A Bryan Affair.
The meeting was essentially a
Bryan affair, spontaneous enthusiasm
marking every mention of his candi-
dacy for the presidency. The recep-
ton accorded Harmon was no less
cordial. and Suggestions promising
him hieih honors from MS party were
enthusiastically TecesTtei-