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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
NEW ORDER MAKES
TACOMA RESERVE CITY

Washington, d. c., Jan. 25.-The
comptroller Of the currency has des-
ignated Tacoma as a reserve city in
accordance with request OF bankers
of that city.
The comptroller stated that here
after the national banks Of Tacoma
can hold reserve of other national
banks, particularly those Of the state
of Washington. Heretofore Tacoma
banks were required to keep reserve
of only 10 per cent Of their deposits.
They will hereafter be required to keep
Is per cent In reserve. They will be
permitted hereafter to keep IL IL per
cent In central reserve cities New
York, Chicago or st. Louis.
Tacoma's national banks will be ex-
|pected to hereafter show larger bank
balances on their returns.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
MAMMOTH FRUIT RANCH
is PLANNED At WAPATo

North Yakima, Jan. 25.-One of the
largest fruit ranches in the state, if
not the largest, will be that of the
Weber Russell Cannery Company, near
Wapato. The company there owns
72O acres, which will be planted to
fruit as soon as the work can be car
ried through. Sixty acres will be plant
ed to berries and 10000 fruit trees
will be set out. An additional ten
acres will be devoted to apricot and
peach nursery stock. Eighty acres adj
joining the town Of Wapato will be
planted by the company to pumpkins
and squashes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
NEW TELEPHONE LINE
SEATTLE TO PORTLAND

Portland, Ore, Jan. 25.-S. v. Davi-
dor, H. ]. Meagher, D.. J. Eaton and
B. G. Clements have filed articles of
Incorporation of the Washington Home
Telephone & Telegraph Company, Civ
ing as its plan the building Of tele-
phone and telegraph lines in Oregon
''and other states"
I The capital stock is fixed at $780,
900, Mr.. Davidor stated that the inten-
ton Is to rush line from Portland to
Seattle and have it in operation
within six months. The exchange at
Vancouver, Wash, will be in opera
ton February /. From Vancouver the
line will reach to Centralia, Chehalis,
Tacoma and Seattle.
Experts of the Home Telegraph
Company have been employed to work
on the line and will rapidly place it in
shape for operation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
NEVADA LEGISLATURE
PASSES POLICE MEASURE

Carson, New, Jan. 28.-The Nevada
legislature police bill giving the state
a measure that provides for a system
of policing in time of riots which it is
believed will quell all trouble in the
Goldfield section at the present time.
and place the state in position to
handle any future contingency that
may arise was passed in the house.
yesterday
Several members who were devout
union men have made a fight in OPP
position to the bill. while the con-
lservative members have made fore
ible issue and won the law. Speaker
Skaggs, who has been taking most
active part for the union men, left his
chair and voted. Skaggs denounced
the measure as pernicious, unconsti--
tutional and czar-like, and predicted
that the men who voted for it were
digging their political graves. ALL
amendments were lost, and the bill
went through as it came from the SEN
ate. Assemblyman Williams stated
from the floor that he was a member
VI IAO WOSICIA CcUSTdtlOu OI Miners,
but that he favored the bill as meas
ure that does not injure any man.
The bill was then put to vote, with
thirty-one in the affirmative and seven
in the negative. A resolution will be.
sent to the president, asking him to-
keep the troops in Goldfeld until such
time as the state can organize her
forces under the bill.
Another bill will be introduced, en-
deavoring to unseat several officials,
|of the Goldfield district who are said
to have violated their trust. 1t is be-
lieved with the present showing that,
this can be done.
An arbitration bill is framed and
will be presented probably today.
While several measures regarding
state Improvement are to go to the
law makers, it is believed that the
session will close its work Saturday
might.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
SUNDAY aRYAN's DAY FOR
NOT DISCUSSING POLITICS

Washington, d. c., Jan. William
J. Bryan did not, according to his an
nouncement, discuss the subject Of pol
itics with Democratic party leaders
yesterday. Mr.. Bryan saw q number Of
prominent Democrats during the day,
but he said that they were social call
ers, and that he did not talk presiden-
tial politics with anybody. Mr.. Bryan
declined also to discuss politics with
newspaper men. replying to all inqui-
ries for his views that It is his invaria-
BILE rule to eschew politics on Sunday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
MANY STATE CORPORATIONS
HAVE NEGLECTED LICENSES

Olympia, Jan. 27-The names of sew
|eral thousand corporations in this state
will be stricken from the records of
the secretary of state within few
weeks unless payment of the annual
license tax for the last two years is
forthcoming.
There are about $1,000 corporations
on the books of the secretary of state,
including church, fraternal and similar
associations, which pay no annual tax,
as well as those having amended ar
ticles.
The exempt corporations may mum
Der several thousand, but as only 7,100
corporations have paid for the current
year, the number of delinquent ones
will run into the thousands.
The last legislature gave the secre.
|tary of state the right to strike from
his rolls the names Of corporations that
are delinquent for two years. Clerks
in the office are now checking up, and
about March / a new index containing
My the names of live corporations will
be in use.
Once stricken from the books Of the
secretary of state, a corporation has nc
longer a legal right to its name and
has no standing in court. In fact, a
corporation cannot now sue unless its
Estate license for the current year is
paid. 3
A new corporation may take the
name OF any corporation stricken from
the secretary of states books.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Tacoma Quotations.


Wheat Club. $50: blnesten. S5c;
red, Sic.
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, 20@22c;
spring chickens, dressed. Ice: hens
dressed, 16c;s ducks, dressed. 18c;
geese, dressed, 1sc. Live turkeys, 1s@
1sc; hens, 13c; springs, lie; ducks
old, 12c: young. 12c; geese. 11@12c;
squads. live. $26o03 dozen: dressed
$3.50 dozen.
Observation-Disclosures, 36@38c; Ore
gon, SEC: Eastern. 2s@3sc.
fresh, 30031c: Eastern storage, 23@
fresh. ss@s3c; Eastern storage, $50
&c.
Oats-$31@s2; rolled oats. $s2@33
Hay, Aalfalfa, etc. -Wheat hay, SIS
@1s; timothy, $24025: mixed, 1870
%: Wild, $1,000; clover, $18@19;
timothy and clover, $22@23; alfalfa
$14@1E straw, $1z013.
Feed Core SO; wheat 4s2@33:
barley, whole grain. 427W38: rolled,
$s1032: sh1kts, t16037: bran, $3.50
01s5o; mlddling >se03l; oil meal
s14046.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
RATES DECREASED;
PROFITS SHOW BIG INCREASE

Olympia, Jan. 25.-That freight and
passenger rates have been reduced in
the last decade, while business and
profits have been increased enormous
ly on the three transcontinental lines
having main lines and branches in this
state, is shown by tabulated statistics
prepared by the railroad commission
from data furnished by the interstate
commerce commission.
From a deficit of $2,117,07S in 1896
the operation of the Northern Pacific
has gone to the other side of the ledger
until in 1906 the profits aggregated
$19,936,979.
In the same period the gross earn
ings of the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern and Oregon Railroad & Nav
igation Company increased to three
times the gross earnings in 1896, while
the percentage Of operating expenses
to gross earnings tumbled in the case
of the o. r. & N. % per cent; North
ern Pacific, 10 per cent, and Great
Northern, 2 per cent.
In the same decade the average pas
senger rate per mile was reduced
from 1904 to 2.166 cents on the o. r.
& N; from 1882 cents on the Great
Northern to 2.33 cents, and from 1871
to 1908 cents on the Northern Pa
cific.
Freight rates per ton per mile were
reduced from 1853 cents to 1.13 cents
on the O. r. & NJ: from 1.O19 cents
to IT'S of cent on the Great North
ern, and from 1.135 cents to 1928 of a
cent on the Northern Pacific.
Passenger earnings constitute from
20 to 30 per cent of the gross earn
ings of the three railroads; freight
from 6S to Is per cent, and other earn
ings from IL per cent to per cent.
Mail earnings run from LIS per cent
of the gross earnings to 2.12 per cent
and express earnings from IL per cent
to 1874 per cent.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
|5700,O0O FOR APP.
SENATE COMMITTEE UNANIMOUS.
~ RECOMMENDS A GOOD
SIZED APPROPRIATION.
Alaska, Government, Fisheries, Hawa-
iian, Philippines, Irrigation and Bio
logical Exhibits and Buildings Are
lncluded-indorsement Covers All
Asked For In New Bill.

Washington, Jan. 25.-By unani-
NOUS vote the senate committee on in
dustrial expositions decided to recon-
mend to the senate an appropriation
of 100000 to encourage the holding
of the Alaska ukon-Pacific exposition.
The vote was secured without the
least opposition, and the question Of
Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, as to
whether or not the amount agreed
upon was sufficient and satisfactory
to those interested seemed to be about
the only thing the committee wanted
to know.
Senator Piles, Senator Ankeny, for
mer Governor McGraw and Henry e.
Reed, who appeared before the COM
mittee, brought with them an amend
ed copy of the bill, and the $500, 900
appropriation recommended was all
the new bill asked for.
The appropriation is divided as fol
lows:
Government exhibits, including fish
cries, $250,00O; Alaska exhibit, $780,
900; Hawaiian and Philippine exhibits,
$4,000 each; for government build
ings, including an irrigation and bio
logical building, fisheries building,
Alaska, Hawaiia and Philippines build
ing, 100000.
The bill does not designate the
amount to be spent on each building.
That was left to the treasury depart
|ment. The new bill also provides that
the government shall coin all medals
on coming press at the exposition,
instead of at the government offices.
The clause at first inserted provid-
ling for issuance of $4,000 worth OF
souvenir gold dollars was struck out,
on the belief that the exposition com
pany would not spare the amount of
money necessary to secure the issue.
The bill provides for adequate quar-
tiers for geographic display, which
will be novelty to exposition visitors.
The report to be made to the senate
will be substantially as submitted last
session, the only difference being that
Jail statistics regarding Alaska and isl
and possessions will be brought up to
date.
The house bill will have it's first
earring on Monday, when the following
will apepar in it's behalf: Secretary
|of War Taft, Governor Hoggatt, former
Governor McGraw, Henry E. Reed,
Delegate Kalanianaole of Hawaii, Del
|egate Gale of Alaska, Land Commits
|sioner Ballinger, and the Washington
delegation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
WILLIAMS AND WETMORE
ARE ELECTED SENATORS

Jackson, Miss. Jan. 22.-The Iegisla-
ture has elected John Sharp Williams
to the United States senate to succeed
II. D. Money, whose term expires
March 4, 1911.
Providence, r. l., Jan. 22.-United
States Senator George Peabody Wet
more was elected to the United States
senate on the first ballot cast in both
branches of the general assembly here.
This is Senator Wetmore's third term.
He entered the senate first in 1894.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01

The Shawmut and the fremont are
among the largest passenger and
freight steamers plying the Pacific,
For several years they have been run.
ring regularly between Puget sound
Japan, China and Manila, carrying
general freight and passengers. M.
merous rumors have been afloat in
reference to their sale during the past
year. but they are still operating to
the Orient. m
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
PRESIDENT LlSTENs 70
RAILROAD COMPLAINTS

washington, Jan. "a. The operating
| vice presidents OF many Of the large
railroads Of the country were re-
ceived by President Roosevelt yes
terday and presented q request that
lin executing what is known as the
committee amendment Of the railroad
rate law one case be brought against
the roads by the government, this case.
to be finally disposed Of by the SUI
Ipreme court Of the United States. This,
lie agreed to by the government. would
mean that the railroads owning coal
producing properties would not sell
them by May next, as required by
the law, but could operate them as,
heretofore until the disposal Of the,
test case. The law in question Is re-
garded by the roads as unconstitu-.
tional in that It requires the disposal
Of property at what would be neces-
sarily sacrifice. The law is also
questioned on other grounds.
The president referred the railroad
men to the interstate commerce COM
mission, where the question would be-
finally discussed and a report made to.
the president as to the legal POSSIBLE
lily of carrying out the suggestion
made.
Those who participated in the con-
ference besides the president were:
C. R. Gray, of the st. Louis & San
Francisco, who acted as chairman of,
the conference on the part of the
railroads; l. Grawn, Illinois Central;
E. G. auckland, New York, New
Haven & Hartford HI. U. Nudge, Rock
Island; D. Wizards, of the Burling-
ton; w. A. Garrett, Seaboard Air Line;
c. E. schaff. New York Central; w.
A. Gardner, Chicago & Northwestern;
C.. H. Potter, Baltimore & Ohio
They also presented to the president
another request that an amendment
be recommended to congress to the.
act Ito promote the safety of en-
lployes and travellers upon railroads by
limiting the hours of service Of en-
ployes thereon" The act referred to,
will become effective March 4 next.
It limits the hours of duty of telegraph
operators and such other railway en-
ployes as may be engaged in transmit
ting train orders. Extension OF the
time when the law should go into
effect was asked.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Miners Indorse woman's Suffrage.

Indianapolis, Jan. 25.--The conven-
ton OF the United Mine Workers Of
America adjourned at noon until to-
morrow. None Of the committees was
ready to report. The delegates were
addressed by Miss Laura Gregg OF
Kansas, fraternal delegate from the
National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton. The delegates Endorsed the
movement by rising vote.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
TALK DRY FARMING.
Cultivation. Of Arid Lands q Yielding
! Surprising Profit,

= Surprising Profit,
Salt Lake, Jan. 23.-rWith scores Of
delegates present and many others on
the way, with q large attendance Of
visitors and with the good wishes Of
prominent men all over the land ex-
pressed in letters and kilograms, the
Trans-Miss0uri Dry Farming Congress
began its second annual meeting here
yesterday.
Governor Cutler presided at the
morning session, and John Dern of
Salt Lake occupied the chair in the
afternoon. The absence Of First Vice
President ]. L. Donahue and the omis-
sion of his annual address from the
program caused not a little comment.
The Colorado delegation was not unan-
imous in its support of Mr.. Donahue
for the presidency and the friction
which ensued explains his absence
from the meeting.
President Harris said that the vice
presidents annual address would be
read today.
The officers and executive commit
tee for next year will be elected today.
constitutional amendment to this
effect was adopted yesterday. Cover
nor George e. Chamberlain Of Oregon
has been suggested for the presidency.
No one else has been openly mention
ed. but others will no doubt be pro-
posed before the vote is taken. Chey-
enne, Wyo., aspires to entertain the
congress next year. The Arizona del
egates are striving to create sentiment
for Tucson, and Idaho may enter the
contest.
The progress of dry farming during
the past year in Colorado, Montana,
Wyoming and Utah was presented and
indicated that the subjugation of So
called arid lands to cultivation is pro-
crossing with surprising rapidity and
great profit. Exhibits of wheat and
fruit grown without irrigation are dis
played in the convention hall and at
tract general attention.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
sLiberaIists GET Hard Blow.

London, Jan. 22.-The liberal morn
ing newspapers are obliged to confess
that the result of the election at New
ton Abbott Saturday, when Captain
Morrison Bell, the Unionist candidate
for parliament, defeated the, Liberal
candidate, c. R. Buxton, is the worst
blow that the present free trade gov
eminent has received and reveals how
strenuously the protectionist party is
working, the successful candidate be-
ing a stalwart advocate of "undiluted
Chamberlainism."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

The cruiser South Dakota has gone
into commission.
Tsuneii Alba, Japanese vice consul
at Portland, has been recalled
Governor Folk of Missouri has an
nounced his candidacy for United
States senator to succeed w. j. Stone.
A bill has been introduced into con-
press for the construction of 10 sub
marines for the Pacific coast, to cost
100000.
Edward Alexander Mcdowell, who
has been recognized as Americas fore
most composer, died in New York at
s o'clock last Thursday.
The senate committee on military
affairs has agreed upon favorable
report on Senator Warren's bill In
creasing the pay of the army.
There is a great scandal in the New
York fire department. Hose burst at
recent fire, and investigation shows
that tests have never been made.
Judge Phillips of Cleveland, in decid-
ing the case of the Amalgamated Glass
Workers Union, says that the organ
ization was in restraint of trade and
its dissolution was ordered.
The census bureau has issued a re-
port showing that the total amount OF
cotton in the United States glnneo
from the growth of 1907 to January Id
was 10, 337 ,607 bales, as compared with
12.176,199 bales for the same period
last year, and 9,9S9,634 bales for the
same period in 1906.
John Redmond has been reelected
chairman of the United Irish party
forces in parliament for the coming
session.
The Chinese tong war, which was
declared a short time ago to have
ended, has broken out afresh at San
Francisco.
Benito Legarda and Pablo Ocampo
delegates to congress from the Philip
pines. have arrived at San Francisco
en- route to Washington.
Japanese immigration to America Is
decreasing. According to official re
ports received by the immigration bu'
reau, the falling off for December, 1907
was 1924, as compared with Deem.
Der, 1906
The mention of Senator Culberson's
name in connection with the nomina'
ton for vice-president has been sub
ect Of more or less discussion in Wash
ington the past week.
Lord Curzon, exviceroy of India, has
received majority of the votes cast
in the election to fill the vacancy
among the representative peers of Ire
land caused by the death last Novem-
Der of Lord Kilmaine.
A charter for the Nevada Miners
Union, incorporated, was filed at Gold
field. This is the union that is intend
ed to displace the Western Federation
in the Goldfield district, and has moral
support of the operators association.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
BIG OYSTER SEED oRpER.

Hoquiam, Jan. &c T. Hall and
other prominent men Of this city have
ordered two carloads Of Eastern
oyster seed to be delivered this spring
to be planted on the company's
grounds In South bay. The success
Jul experiment Of r 4. Philbrick and
Others IN the oyster culture on GEays
harbor has stimulated interest ana !
large amount Of seed viii Be planted
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Public Lands withdrawn.

Washington, Jan. 23.-The interior
department has temporarily with
drawn 323,517 acres Of the unappro-
priated public lands In Southeastern
California as q proposed addition to
the Sierra national forest.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Hoquiam to Get Marine Hospital.

Hoquiam, Jan. 23.-The news that
a marine hospital will be erected and
maintained at THIS place is regarded
with favor here. More than 1000 sail
ors enter this port every month and
Hoquiam's location is looked upon as
an ideal one for this hospital.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Cargo Of Herring for Japan.

New Westminster, B. c., Jan. 25.-
Eight carloads of smoked herring, de-
stined for the Japanese market, are
being shipped from this city over the
Great Northern road, via Seattle.
Larger consignments will follow in the
course of the next few days.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
FREMONT AND SHAWMUT
OFFERED TO GOVERNMENT

Washington, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
Boston Steamship Company has Of
fered to sell the steamships Fremont
and Shawmut, of it's Pacific line, for
the isthmian transport service, but no
action will be taken at present.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Fulton Argues for Washington Biii.

Washington. d. c., Jan. 27.-Senator
Fulton OF Oregon submitted an argu.
ment before the senate committee on
Interstate commerce on the bill advo.
Gated by the Washington lumbermen to
give the Interstate commerce commits.
sion power to suspend the operation Of
rates complained of in advance of their
being put into effect. The committee
took no action.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-01
Riseland Gets Golden EauIe.

North Yakima. Jan. ga lire gold
en- eagle. recently captured near here.
mas been given as q present to State
t1sh Commissioner John L, Riseland.
who win exhibit it at the state CAPITOL.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-02

The first woman to be ordained
clergyman in the United States, Rev.
Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell, now
83 years old, is about to resume active
work In the Unitarian church. She
gave the site, and with the aid OF 3O
adherents is having built the first Uni
tartan church in Union county, New
Jersey, near her home, in Elizabeth.
Every fourth Sunday she will occupy
the pulpit.
About 60 years ago Rev. Mrs. Black
well preached her first sermon at Hen
rietta N. Y. She was one OF the first
women in the United States to receive
a college degree. In 1853 she was or
dained a Congregational minister at
South Butler, n Y, accepting the pas
torate of a church there. She Is q
noted woman suffragist.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-02
A Little RetOuchinE.

The wonders of photography are
ever on the increase. Nevertheless.
there are still some limitations to the
power and skill of even the most ex-
pert photographer.
Mr.. Hall is an amateur of no mean
attainments, and when his old Aunt
Hannah from Bushby came down to
the city he secured picture of her in
her most characteristic pose-arms
akimbo and mouth slightly open
When Aunt Hannah saw the first
print she looked at it, held it off,
drew 1t close again, and then sat down
to write her nephew.
Dear James," wrote the old lady,
yours with photograph taken during
my late visit just received. In reply
would say, I'm well enough pleased
with it for myself and your folks. But
in the one you send out to California
to Emma, I'd rather you'd straighten
out my elbows and let my arms hang.
Affectionately, Aunt Hannah.
"P. S. Perhaps you'd better close
my mouth a mite more, as Emma'S
husband is a stranger to me-"