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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
SECRETARY WILSON WANTS
BIGGER POTATO CROP RAISED

Washington. March 30.-Secretary
Wilson of the agricultural department
is interested in having the potato croI
of the country made larger. The
growth in population is more rapio
than the growth of the potato crop ano
Secretary Wilson wishes to prevent one
of the principal articles of food from
becoming dear through becoming
scarce. For the year 1908 the potato
crop aggregated 275, 900, 600 bushels.
This is considerably below the aver'
age, and the result last year was that
potatoes were imported in large guam
titles, some of them from Europe.
It is the purpose of Secretary Wilson
to turn the question over to a commit
tee of experts in his department, which
will study it during the present year
and then make report. The potato
crop is a severe tax on the soil, and
particularly in the Eastern states, near
the great centers of population, the
price of potatoes is high year after
year because the farmers prefer to
grow something else.
In the West and middle West the po-
tato crop is plentiful and the prices
are low, but potatoes are so bulky that
they cannot be shipped long distances
by rail without the cost becoming pro-
hibitive, and 500 the thickly settled
Eastern states derive no benefit from
the big potato crops of the Mississippi
valley.
Secretary Wilson thinks it will be
possible to encourage the farmers and
market gardeners of the states east of
the Alleghenies to pay more attention
to potatoes and to improve their meth
DDS of potato raising. He wants them
to use better seed and to cultivate the
land more carefully. The expert COM
mittee named by the secretary is to
visit the great cities of the East, from
Boston to Pittsburg, and form the &C.
quaintance Of the market gardeners
and others who are likely to be inter
ested, with view to securing their CO.
operation. Meanwhile the government
will import better seed varieties from
Europe, and experts of the department
of agriculture will go to work to de-
velop other varieties from them.
The farmers are to be encouraged to
plant potatoes more regularly and not
plant heavily in one year and almost
nothing the following year. Denatured
alcohol has a place in this considera-
ton of the potato. It is from the po-
tato that the cheapest alcohol can be
made, and Secretary Wilson believes
that if he induces the American farmer
to grow potatoes i'll greater quantities
the dennatured alcohol problem can be
solved The culls could be used for
alcohol and the potatoes of uniform
size and quality put on the market,
with the result that they would bring
a better price than is now commanded
by the unsOrted potatoes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02

Beautiful SNOW.
On, the snow, the beautiful snow.
Filling the sky and the earth below;
Over the housetops, over the streets,
Over the heads Of the people you meet;
Dancing. flirting, swimming along.
6eautlful snow, 1t can do nothing WRONG,
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Chnging to lips In q frolicsome freak.
Beautiful snow, from the heavens above,
Pure as an angel and tickle a. love.
Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow.
dow the flakes gather and laugh as they
60,
Whirling along in its maddeninx fun:
It plays In its glee with everyone,
Chasing, laughing, hurrying by,
IL lights up the face and it sparkles the
eye;
And even the dogs with q bark and
bound
Snap at the crystals that eddy around.
The town is alive and it's hearts in a
glow
10 welcome the coming Of beautiful snow.
How the wild crowd goes swaying along,
Halling each other with humor and song,
How the gay sledges like meteors flash by,
Bright for moment, then lost to the eye,
Ringing, swinging, dashing they 60
over the crest of the beautiful snow,
Snow, so pure when it falls from the
sky,
To be trampled in mud by the crowd
rushing by,
To be trampled and tracked by the thou
sands of feet
Till 1t blends with the horrible filth in
the street.
Once was pure as the snow, but fell !;
Fell. like the snowfakes, from heaven
to hell;
Fell, to be trampled as the fish of the
street;
Fell, to be scoffed, to be spit on and
beat;
Pleading, cursing, dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing In shame for morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Merciful God, have fallen SO low
And yet l was once like this beautiful
snow?
Once l was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like it's. crystals, a heart
like its glow;
Once 1 was loved for my innocent grace,
Flattered and sought for the charm Of
my face,
Father, mother, sisters, all,
God and myself l have lost by my fall.
The veriest wretch that goes shivering
Will take wide sweep lest I wander
too nigh
For of all that is on or about me !
know
There is nothing that's pure, but the
beautiful snow.
How strange it should be that this beau.
tiful snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere
to go.
How strange it would be when the night
comes again
If the snow and the ice struck my des-
perate brain;
Painting, freezing, dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for my
moan
To be heard in the crash Of the crazy
town
Gone mad in its joy that the SHOWS COM
ing down
To lie and to die In my terrible woe,
With a bed and a shroud Of the beauti-
full snow.
j. w. Watson.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02

San Francisco, March ga special
from Los Angeles says that mining
man who has recently arrived in that
city from Mexico reports that the
spineless cactus has been fourishing in
a wild state for years in the Sierra
Madre ranges and valleys Of western
Chihuahua. Cattle eat it as readily as
they do alfalfa, and thrive on it. The
miner claims that it bears large lus-
cious fruit, from which the Mexican
housewives make excellent jam and
other edible CONNECTIONS. w. L. Wolfe,
the miner who made the discovery,
brought back some of the plants with
him and he has set some of them out
in his garden.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
Des Moines Profits by Commission Plan

Des Moines Profits by Commission Plan
Des Moines, Iowa, March 30.-With
the first year Of the Des Moines COM
mission plan of municipal government
completed, the treasury shows a sur
plus of 500, 600 on hand over and above
expenditures In the year previous,
under the old system, there was a de-
felt Of $4,000. Advocates of the
plan, therefore, assert that the new
system has saved the city more than
$500, 600 in the past year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
Calkins Northwestern Freight Agent

Chicago, March 29.-R. M. Calkins,
general freight agent at Butte, Mont. /,
for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railroad, has been appointed
traffic manager. Headquarters will be
at Seattle, where complete traffic
force will be organized.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
The Better Part.

A delightful little story IS told OF
prosner Merimee, the French author.
He was once guest at a royal hunt,
when hares. pheasants and other
game were driven before the emperor
and his followers, and the servants
picked up the victims Of the sport
Among all the members OF the hunt
ING marty. Prosper Merimee alone had
no trophy to display.
aHow does this happenY asked
some one. :.
.Where game is SO plenty, the merit
~ marksman seems to me to lie In
hitting nothing" replied Merimee,
with grave courtesy. 80 ! nreo %
tween the birds.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
PAYDAY.

It was pay day, and every one had
got his envelope before the dinner hour.
Some Of the men had gone out quietly
| as soon as the little packet had been
handed to them, only to return again
| to their. desks At noon there was .
slight let-up In the work, as half the
force prepared to go out to get some'
thing to eat.
II like pay day." said thin man,
because then I always spend 10 cents
more for lunch, and 1t makes me feel
better all the rest of the day."
"You ought to eat more, anyway"
said the stout old clerk, cycling the
smaller man with disfavor. Il spend
all my extra money on food. Not be-
ing married, 1 have to have some ex.
travagances"
II don't call being married an ex.
travagance," remarked third. III
costs about once and a half as much to
keep two as it does to keep one. As
matter of fact, have saved money
or rather my wife has-by it."
Saved money!" exclaimed one who
was struggling out Of tattered Office
coat into his neatly pressed street
Jacket. II don't see how any one can
save money, not in this world. at any
rate. 1t costs so much to keep up ap.
pearances!'
II guess you're right" said the faded
cheerful man, who had worked there
the longest. II found that out when
I was your age, and decided that
there are lots Of things better than
appearances. I've got 'em in my room.
any time you'd like to see. Anybody
going to Cutters to eat?"
No one cared to just then, and the
faded man went out alone.
"What did he mean?" inquired the
married man. what has he got In
his roomY'
aOh, nothing much" said the stout
clerk. Ellis wife died, you know, about
ten years back, and he's been living By
himself. Collects books and pictures
spends bis money that way. I'd rather
eat"
HSod I. Or buy Clothes" said the
stylish youth.
~ wouldn't" said the married man
emphatically. II know how he feels
His wife died, you say? never knew
that before. He put his hat on. =
think I'll go to Cutters to-day"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
"B or No B.0

I really think my sister May
Is stupider than me,
Because she said the other day
There wasn't any OBJ
In honeycomb, and spelt it just
C-double ONE!
OF course she's wrong; I told her 50
There's got to be a "bee'
Somewhere in honeycomb, because
He makes it; don't you see !!
Our Little Ones.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
Great Britain Undertakes Mediation

Berlin, March 30.-Great Britain
has undertaken to find peaceful solu-
ton of the Austro-Servian conflict
Sir Fairfax Lighton Cartwright, the
British ambassador at Viena, has dis
cussed the subject fully with the Aus
tro- Hungarian minister Of foreign af-
fairs and formula acceptable to Aus
tria has been foud, which is to becom-
municated to the governments of Rus
STA, France, Germany and Italy.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
that time! I'm going to let the furnace
finish what the mice began"

Mother laughed again as Eleanor
snatched up the waste-basket and start
ed cyclonically for the door, but she
said, approvingly, you're right, my
dear. Unless a record Is kept as to be
worth keeping, better let it go. Most
young girls can't keep their diaries
from being either harsh or sentimental.
Perhaps that's why you find so few
old ladies porting over their chronicles
of vanished youth; or perhaps, al
though youth doesn't think it, they
really have more interesting things to
do."-Youth's Companion.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
Stxle..

why don't you get your hair cut, M
boy?'
"Wot! IN de football seasonl
guess not |"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02

i man never wants to. be woman
except when q woman abuses him
then he would like to be q woman e
talk back
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
They Need 1t All.

@How long does it take a correspon
dence school student to graduate7s
ssThat depends"
ION his mentality r
sNo; on how much money he has e"
Houston Post.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02

we never knew 3 woman o I bcD
Who wouldn't run mile to - ! m
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
MONTANA NOTES.

This month has been the wettest
ever experienced in the Vir-
ginia section of the state. Heavy snow
has accompanied almost daily rains,
causing immense damage. Fields of
grain in the Madison and Ruby val
leys have been crushed to the ground.
The roundup of the remainder of the
Pablo buffalo herd on the Flathead res
ervation, which has been purchased by
Canada, was resumed this week by
Michel Pablo and his 10 riders. This
last spring, after weeks were spent in
a vain effort to corral the monarchs of
the plains, dispatches announced that
Canada and that the remainder of the
herd would be presented to the United
States by the Canadian government.
This was erroneous. The Canadian gov
eminent does not own the herd; it pays
for only those animals delivered across
the line in sound condition.
Seventy thousand acres of land near
Conrad, placed under irrigation by a
private corporation in accordance with
the provisions of the Carey act and I'M
der the supervision of the state land
board, is about to be thrown open TO
settlement. The land will be sold to
the settlers at so cents an acre, and
perpetual water rights, which must be
bought from the corporation irrigat
ing the land, will cost 40 per acre. In
accordance with the Carey act, this
land can be obtained by a residence of
30 days, providing the purchaser en-
cages some one else to build house
and improves at least one-eighth of his
land during the two years following
the placing of water upon the land.
This land will be distributed to pros
pective settlers in the same manner a,
are the government reservations-by
lottery Registration for this drawing
will be from October 1 to 6. The draw
ing will begin on the following day
and will be directly under the super
vision of the Montana state land board
These 10000 acres are a part of tn,
100000 acres which, under the Carey
act, the government turned over t,
each state which contained semi -arit
lands.
District Judge Webster of Missouli
has decided that the playing of tn
card game of solo in a saloon is al
otfense against the law, even if it wa
not shown that the game was 70
money, chips or other articles of value
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24

land Office have rejected 81 filings out
of 1T offered by the state in the town
ships opened for entry July 1. The
land is located east of Bovill and
Clarkia and was withdrawn from the
Occur d'Alene national forest, the APP
plication for survey having been made
prior to the order Of withdrawal made
by President Roosevelt in 1906.
A week more will be required to fin
ish up the grain harvest in Nez Perez
and Idaho counties, and if weather con-
ditions remain favorable most of the
grain will be in the warehouses by
October 1.
President William H. Taft will set
his teeth in luscious flame Tokay
grapes when he is banqueted at Hayden
lake on his western trip, for the Lew
iston Commercial club has set to work
to get the finest specimens grown in
Idaho vineyards for the occasion of the
Idaho game dinner. The fame Tokays
the sweetwaters, the fine exotic Pari'
sian table grapes and every known va
riety grown in the valley will be sent
to Hayden lake.
A band has been organized in the
Kellogg high school.
Mail service will probably soon be
established on the Inland division OF
the Spokane & Inland between Spokane
and Moscow.
After proceeding under the oper
shop plan for year, the Occur 'Alen'
Press has signed up with the typo
graphical union.
Mike Opeck, employed by the Pot
latch Lumber company at camp 10, wa
struck in the back by a falling tre'
Saturday and fatally injured.
-Four forest fires are raging on COeu
d 'Alene national forest, two of then
supposedly of incendiary origin.
The plans of the Hagan & Cushin!
Packing company large plant at Mos
COW, to be used for slaughtering, pack
ing and cold storage, have been com
pleted and forwarded to the nationa
inspector, under the pure food laws
to be approved by him. On their re
turn construction operations are to b
commenced.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
APPRAIsE HARTMAN ESTATE
Few Multi Millionaires Have Left En-
tire Fortune to Wife.

Mrs. Edward H. Hartman, who, by
the terms of her husband IS will, prob
ably becomes the world s richest WON
an, is expected to ask for an official
appraisement of the fnancier's estate
within two weeks. Until this appraise-
ment is made, nothing definite will be
known as to the amount of wealth ac-
cumulated by Hartman, but in Wall
street it is the common opinion that
it will be close to $1OO,OOO,OOO.
Among women who have inherited
most of their husband IS estates may
be mentioned Mrs. Russell Sage, who
received practically all of Mr.. Sage S
fortune of $64,OOO,OOO; Mrs. William K.
Thaw, who inherited more than $780,
900 900, and Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, who
received $4,000, 900 of her husband Is
$13, 100000 estate.
Women who did not share so extern
sively in their husbands estate are
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ST., who was
given 100000 outright and an an.
nuity of $3.50, 900 out of an estate val
ued at $125,OO0,0O0; Mrs. Marshall
Field, VINO received $3,0OO,O0O as a
wedding present in lieu of dover in
terests in fortune of 5000, 0O0, 900
and Mrs. James Henry Smith, who re
ceived $3,0O0,0OO in lieu of dover in
terest in her husband IS fortune of $780,
900 900.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
OREGON sQu13a

Ruth Bickell, IS years, committed
suicide at the Portland sanitarium Sat,
urday by swallowing bichloride of mer-
curry. The girl had been patient at
the sanitarium for three years. The
girls parents live in Olympia.
Announcement will soon be made of
the selection of President John F.
Stevens of the Oregon Trunk line as
head of the North Bank road, Jim
Hills "pet," according to an unofi.
eial' report.
The body of young woman found
recently in the Willamette river has
been identified as that Of Miss Louisa
Rice, whose disappearance six months
ago created considerable excitement in
Portland. Whether Miss Rice commit
ted suicide or was murdered, or met
with accidental death, may never be
definitely determined, but the forme,
theory is advanced because of the fact
that the young woman was despond
ent over an operation which she
dreaded.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
LATE SPORTING NEWS.

Seattle is first and Spokane second in
the Northwestern league.
Pittsburg won the pennant in the
National league.
San Francisco leads the Pacific coast
league.
Detroit and Philadelphia are fight
ing hard for first place in the American
league.
Newark, N. J.-At the vellodrome
track here Sunday the onemile profess
Slonal national championship bicycle
race was won by Frank Kramer of East
Orange, N. j., in minutes, % seconds.
New Orleans.-Packy Mcfarland
and Ray Bronson fought 20 rounds to a
draw in McDonoughville, across the
river from New Orleans, Sunday after
noon.
Fred Tenny, veteran baseball player
of the New York Nationals, has told
Manager McGraw he had played his
last game in the major league. He then
left for his home at Winthrop high
lands, near Boston. He has been in
jured several times this year and is
convinced that he is practically
through with baseball playing.
Allen of Seattle is leading the pitch
ers to date in the Northwestern league
Frisk is still best at bat, and Penroll
is the "iron man." while Altman is
leading the hunters and Campbell fast
est on bases.
With the laundering hoofs of eight
strong, painting, excited horses, eight
abreast, and the rousing cheers of the
spectators Professor Davidson and Herr
Henschell will combat for supremacy
around the entire one half mile track al
the Spokane Interstate fair every aft
, ernoon this week.
At the New York state fair recently
Barney Oldfeld, on a one mile circula
, track, went 25 miles in a gasoline stool
car in 25:4O. He asserts this is tn
world IS record for a stock car.
Whitman college is to have nam
! moth stadium for the accommodation
of the crowds at the fall football
games to be played at Walla Walla.
-, Jack johnson and Stanley Ketchel
y have decided to try conclusions at tn
motor racing game.
= The University of Washington
planning to take on two post-seaso
games this year. The Iowa State co
= lege team of Ames, Iowa, is negotiat
: ing for game, and the southern Cal
. fornia university is ready to take tn
Seattle huskies on after the close 0
the regular season.
George J. Higgins of Boston ha
q been secured by the athletic cOmmitte
of Oregon Agricultural college
n coach the boxing, wrestling and fen'
-, ing teams this year.
H. l.. Wilson, the big $50 poun
tackle of Whitman college last fall,
: back with the missionaries and will b
a out every night for regular practice
Bowling in Spokane seems to be o
he boom.
The work of the Palouse towns
4 organizing the Trolley league for ne2
year is a good boost for the game.
This week the football teams wi
start work in earnest for the seaso
q of 1909.
The drafting season is over for Sp
: kane this year, and Manager Brow
:, can now figure out where he will
= lilay and Burnett will be taken fro
the Indians by the draft route, al
- Gregg will go to Cleveland by sale.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
IDAHO ITEMS

Frank Adsitt of Standpoint accident
ally shot himself in the left wrist Sun
day ON the county wagon bridge.
Young Adsitt, in company with sew
eral companions, was returning from a
hunting trip. The wound, which was
inflicted with a shotgun, tore about
three inches of the wrist bone and
sinews away.
Register T. H. Bartlett and Re-
eeiver B. C. Barbor of the Lewiston
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
Balfour Arrives.

Lord Balfour of England, who is a
member of the commission appointed
by King Edward to protect colonial
trade, has arrived in New York on the
steamer Campania from Liverpool. He
is on his way to Canada to adjust
~ difference" in the commerce between
Canada and the West Indies.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
SEND NEGROES TO WEST.

Governor Deneen of Illinois Advises
Blacks to Go to Canada.
Manual occupations were urged as
best for negroes by Governor Charles
Deneen in an address to large audi
.enee of negroes recently at an exposi-
tion of the negro business league.
The governor advised young negroes
to turn their attention to the farming
enterprises in Canada and the north
west.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
breaks Racord From Nome.

Bringing 261 passengers ana Si0 III
in gold, the steamer Victoria, 4
has arrived in Seattle, lowered 1ns o.. Z
ing time from Nome to Puge' "A
making the trip in seven days ~
hours. With the treasure shlpmeu i
the Victoria, the gold brought ~. LIZ ID
Seward peninsula to Seattle 'ni'
totals nearly 100000.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
Cotton BlOwup Hurts Girls.

Four girls employed in the factory of
a Los Angeles wholesale drug company
were injured severely recently when
the cotton being prepared for chemical
work on the company laboratory ex-
ploded.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
sovereign Grand Lodge /. O. Q. F.

The sovereign grand lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows of the
United States and Canada is in session
this week at Seattle in Odd Fellows
temple, at which $4,000 members of
the order are present, coming from
every state in the Union.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
I.ord Northclife visited Seattle.

Seattle, Sept. 1s.-LOrd NOrthclife,
proprietor of the London Times, Daily
Mail and many other British publica-
lions, and MoherIy Bell, managing di.
rector OF the Times, arrived from Vic
toria tonight by steamer. They will
leave for San Francisco tomorrow
morning in special car
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-24
A.nnn .nnn at Seattle Fair.

Seattle.-The attendance a. - pOO
Y.-P. exposition has passed NV s.ts
900 mark, the goal set out 10 RI
fore the opening of the fan ~ he v
lieved the total admissions VIII xhi
toward 100000, the goal tow% na
the management is now striSiA