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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
TACOMA QUOTATIONS

Wheat-Milling: Bluestem, 81. 25@
1.s0. Export: Bluestem, 81. "a; club,
81. ID; red, 81. O8.
Poultry-Turkeys, live, 200; dress
ed, &c; spring chickens, dressed, zoe;
ducks, live. 12e; hens, live, 100;
spring chickens, live, 1Sc; geese, fresh
dressed, 15c;
Butter, Warrington, SOC; Eastern
storage, 28c; fresh Eastern, Bio.
Eggs-Washington ranch, candled,
24@25c.
Oatse$40@42; rolled oats, 941@Ss.
Hay, Alfalfa, eto-Wheat hay, 916@
10; timothy, $22@28; naked, 41e@
10; wild, $1s@16; clover, e18@19:
Ttimothy and clover, $1,000; alfalfa,
e15@16; straw, I'll.
Feed-Corn, 384@8e; wheat, $500
s8; barley, whole grain, 4s2@SS
rolled, eS4@S5; shorts, o8O@8I. 80;
bran. e27@2s. 80; midlings. ess@s4:
oil meal, "a.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Students to Build Clock Tower

State College, Pullman, May g.
Students in the mechanical engineering
departments of the State College are
preparing plans for the construction of
a clock for the high tower of the new
auditorium and library building. Esti-
mates for the purchase of a clock for
the new building were submitted to
the appropriation committees Of the
recently adjourned legislature, but
were eliminated when the total amount
asked was reduced 500, 600. The
board of regents will furnish the stu
dents with the material and the stu
dents will build the timepiece as a part
of their regular laboratory work.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
MISSOURI FEDERAL JUDGES
FACE AN NVESTICATnr

Washington, May 4-Making ser;o,,
charges against Federal judges ,Johs
F. Phillips and Smith Mcpherson y.
the Western district of Missouri Poa
resentative Murphy of that state int,a
deuced a resolution yesterday to ipve,.
tigate their conduct in the litigation he.
tween the state and railroad comnan;s,
over the maximum freight law and tbs
two-cent passenger rate law.
The preamble of the Murphy resolu.
ton alleges that the two judges accom-.
panied certain railroad ATTORNEYS on ,
fishing trip, on which occasion mem.
bers of the party were arrested for viz.
laing the game laws of the state.
The resolution charges that judge
Phillips neglects his duty by continued
absence from the bench and that when
he does preside the court is in session
only four hours each day. Mr.. Muir.
ply desires the general conduct Of
Judge Phillips investigated, contend.
ing that he is insulting to the ATTORNEYS
who are compelled to practice in his
court, and that he has at various times
instructed the jury to bring in a Ger.
tain verdict. If the Jurors bring in a
different verdict, declares the resolu.
ton, Judge. Phillips becomes insulting
and virtually charges that they have
violated their oaths as Jurors.
The resolution recites the various
phases of the litigation, including a
statement that the railroad companis
refused to establish certain rates with.
in the state of Missouri, in violation
of the state antitrust law. 1t is stated
that the two judges rendered certain
decisions which, in effect, usurpa
the Legislative powers of the legiss-
ture.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
NICHOLS TO
RESIGN
SECRETARY OF A SAYS
HE WILL GIVE UP
CONTEST.
Conscious of No Wrong Doing He
Says, But Is Getting too Old to
Fight-Schively Would Like to
Let Go, But Is Afraid to Do So
at Present.

Olympia, May 4-Secretary of State
Sam H. Nichols, accompanied by Mrs.
Nichols, returned home from Everett
on last evenings train. Both appeared
in excellent spirits and MI. Nichols
comported himself as though not at all
worried over the aspect of the future.
He attempted nc concealment of his
decision to resign from Office and in an
offhand manner rendered the sale OF
his Olympia home to the attorney gen.
eral for 81, 600.
Eyes, I am going to resign said
Mr.. Nichols, although I Am guilty OF
no wrong doing. Il Am an old man and
my children want me to get out of pol
itics. I am going to quit the fight.
But if I were fifteen years younger, Ia
stay"
MI. Nichols has already purchased
lots in Everett, where he will build a
home for himself and Mrs. Nichols.
The spot he has selected is close to the
homes of his two daughters. He is in
independent financial circumstances.
Schively Much Worried
Insurance Commissioner Schively is
in a state of great perturbation. The
dilemma in which he finds himself is
tragic in the extreme. He is without
individual financial means. He is will
ing and anxious to follow the example
of Secretary Nichols and resign, but
he is deferred from so doing from fear
lest his Spokane bondsmen withdraw
at once in the event of resignation and
thus throw him behind the bars.
It is not for attorney fees that he is
casting about but for enough friends
who will pledge themselves to safe
guard the Spokane bond if he resigns
as insurance commissioner.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
HILL LINES ORGANIZING
REFRIGERATOR SERVICE

Denver, May 4.-The Denver Post
says:
James j. Hill, in control of the Bur-
lington and Colorado Southern roads,
has begun the organization of a $15,-
600, 600 refrigerator private car line,
which will have it's headquarters and
car shops in Denver, and will operate
in opposition to the lines controlled bv
Armour, Swift and other big packing
house interests. The announcement
was made from the offices of Vice Pres
ident Parker and General Traffic Man
ager Wellington.
Hill has no contract with the refrig-
orator lines between Colorado and the
Gulf, and over these lines he will op-
crate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Washington State News

Edward E. Cushman, of Tacoma,
brother of Congressman Cushman, has
been appointed judge for the new di-
vision in Alaska.
Tacoma will spend $50, 900 in Seattle
during the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex-
position in advertising. OF this pub
licity fund SIS, 900 has alreay been
raised.
The twenty second annual %conention
of the Western Washi lgton Sunday
School Association, was held at Ia
coma Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, M ay 4-6.
The state tax commission collected
$14, sos inheritance taxes during April,
according to a report by Secretary
Kohrs. Total collections since JAN
uar1y, ss4, s2s.
Frank Dallam, Jr., has been ap-
pointed private secretary by Gov.
Hay. He held the same position
under Gov. Mead, but since the first
of the year has been secretary OF the
railroad commission.
Char les K. Shu, a native of Seattle,
probably the first Chinese to be made
a justice of the peace in this country,
was last week invested with that au-
thority at Boston. by the common
wealth of Massachusetts.
The thirty-day period of mourning
for Gov. Cosgrove having expired, the
crepe festoons and rosettes which have
been so much in evidence at the CAPT.
toll building have been removed and
thessfag above the building again flies
at the top Of the staff.
r. F. Parkhurst, former assistant
cashier of the First National Bank of
Seattle, has been found guilty by a
jury in the federal court of appropriate
ing funds of that institution. The pen
atty for the offense is imprisonment
from five to ten years.
The Northern Express company
collected over half a million dollars on
business solely within this state in the
year ending March 81, 900, according
to a report to the state tax commission.
The companys state tax at 5 per cent
is 1927, 962. .
The harness season will open in Sc
attic on Decoration day with q. matinee
race meeting, to be given at the West
ern Washington fair grounds by the
Seattle Speedway club, an organization
composed principally of owners Of
harness horses in Seattle.
Rich & Harris Construction Com
pany, of Seattle, will pave six of Walla
Walla's seven improved districts this
year with asphalt. The contract has
just been awarded. The Improvement
embraces about twenty blocks of
streets, aggregating nearly thirty
thousand square yards. The price is
about 500, 600.
The commissioners of King comfy
have disposed of the question of pur-
chasing a rock crusher for the North
Bend quarry by awarding the contract
for a Symonds gyratory crusher, of a
capacity of from 25 to so tons an hour,
to Poison & Co., of Seattle, at So, $50.
The crusher is to be delivered set up
within 60 days at the county siding
near Snoqualmie.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Three Million Dollar Option

Spokane, May3-D. G. Corbin, mill
ionaire railway builder of Spokane, is
now the central figure in the largest
mining deal made in this city for sew
eral years. He has taken an option on
the Wagner group of claims on Hall
creek, a tributary of the Duncan river
in British Colubmia. The price is
stated to be IS, 600, 600. The property
includes more than a dozen claims and
lis said to, contain enormous ore bodies.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
To Build Safes at Everett

Everett, May misrepresentation of
a safe and lock company have definite
~ decided to locate at Everett, and
have selected n OF. the several sites
offered through the Chamber of Com
MERGE and Business Mems Association.
The site contains five acres, and four
nreproof buildings are to be erected at
once. At least 5000, 600 is to be in
vested in machinery and buildings.
The plant will employ from 200 to 500
men, and the monthly payroll will
amount to $50, 900 to $50, 600.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
spOKANE-SEATTLE ELECTRIC
LINE DECLARED CERTAINTY

Spokane, April 3O.-OHiclal an
nouncement has been made by Col. Al
bert M. Dewey, of Spokane, president
of the Okanogan Electric Railway COM
nanv. that French capitalists have tax
On over a bond issue of So, OOO, 600, the
money from which will be used to
build a line from N~ighthawk. in North
Centrall Washington, to a point near
the head of navigation on the Column
bia river, Is miles. The road will also
be extnded east to Spokane and west to
Seattle, making a system of more than
500 miles. Col. Dewey says:
"We have had engineers in the field
for months running preliminary sur
veys for an electric line from Spokane
to Seattle. We are looking for a feast
BILE pass through the Cascade noun
tains. near the west fork of the Methow
river. If we can find the right pass
we shall build by way of Bridgeport
and the Methow valley and down the
Skagit river to a point which will give
us a connection with the Great North
ern railway at Rockport, going thence
into the Sound cities.
"The Okanogan Electric railway is
certain IF construction, and we already
own a 50-year franchise right of way
and charter for a steam or electric rood
from a point at or near Nighthawk,
Okanogan county, to a point near the
head of navigation on the Columbia
river.
: "The line will pass through LOOMS,
Okanogan, Ophir, Marriott, Brewster
and Riverside, and our road is to con-
meet at the north end with the Victo-
ria, Vancouver & Eastern extension of
the Great Northern and at the south
with the Columbia river steamboats,
and Great Northern railway, thus con-
Meeting up with Spokane on the east
and the Sound cities on the west. We
want direct communication with Seat
tie and Spokane and are running a line
of survey to secure a feasible route for
an electric line
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Eastern HOLSTERS for Pacific

Halifax N. S. May An further
ance of an effort to establish the lob
ster industry on the Pacific coast a
carload of live Holsters will be started
from here to the other side of the con-
tinent. A number Of Holsters were
shipped in a similar manner about q
year ago and are reported to be thriv-
ing in the Pacific.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Pierce County Calls Warrants

Tacoma, May S.-County Treasurer
Edward Meath has called in warrants
70 the amount Of $S99, 600, the largest
call OF outstanding warrants in the his
tory Of the county. The call Is made
possible through the extraordinarily
neavy tax collections made since the
beginning OF the year. There is low
nearly . million dollars in coin ii the
county treasury, with heavy additions
coming in daily.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
N. p. Shopmen to Work Full Time

Tacoma, May 3.-Beginning May /
the 800 men at the South Tacoma a
shops will be put on full time, work
ing ten hours a day and six days a
week. Traffic on the Northern Pacific
is improving. A number of locomo-
tives that have been idle in the yards
here have recently been placed in COM
mission and hundreds of freight cars
yarded at different division headuuar-
tiers are now rolling.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Canada to Reserve Much Timber

Winnipeg. May 3.-The Dominion
government has decided to reserve a
belt OF about ninety million acres of
timber land running south of the
Crows Nest line Of the Canadian Pa
ci1ic railway to the international line
and from fifty miles east of the British
Colubmia boundary line in to Alberta.
The government will control the cut
ting OF timber on this land, which will
amount to about IL, 600, 900 feet Der
year for the next sixty years.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Immense Order for Steel Rails

New York, May s.-The third larp.
est order for steel rails this year has
been given to the Illinois Steel Com
pany by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway. The order was for 65.-
ooO tons at $2S a ton. The only larger
orders have been those of the New
York Central and Pennsylvania. The
rails Will be used on the main line of
the Milwaukee road.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
THE Turkish PARLIAMENT
VOTES 500, 900 FOR
SUFFERERS.
May Also Pension Families OF
Dead-Said Massacrees Will Be
Probed and Perpetrators Pun
ished-New Sultan Replies to
Message of Congratulation.

- 2
a spirited debate, the chamber adopted
a resolution that a parliamentary com
mittee be dispatched to Adana to in
vestigate the massacres and to organize
a military court to courtmartial the
guilty persons.
One hundred thousand dollars has
been appropriated to relieve the dis
tressed in that district.
The deputies have under considera-
ton a proposal to pension the families
of those killed or wounded in the re-
cent fighting in Constantinople.
An imperial chat" was read in the
presence of the cabinet and other off
Gals confirming the appointment OF
Tewfk Pasha as grand vizier and Res
ched Effendi as Sheik Usham. The
chat briefly referred to the revolu-
tion and the recent massacres and en-
joined universal observance of the con-
stitution and sheri laws.
Describes Massacre
Stephen Trowbridge, a missionary
who witnessed the killing of D. M.
Rogers and Henry Maurer, fellow mis-
sionaries at Adana, has supplied an &C
count Of the occurrence, dated Adana,
April "a, to representatives of the
grand vizier and has written it out also
for the mission board at home. MI.
Trowbridge says:
Firing and fighting began April "a
between MOslems and Armenians which
resulted in a number of casualties on
both sides.
"The next morning CONGREGATIONS
resulted from incendiary fires and had
spread to such an extent that we were
obliged to watch closely the building
of the girls school and residence of
William N. Chambers. Mr.. Rogers
was guarding the home of Miss Wal
lace and the dispensary across the
street.
"All this time there had been nc
sign of any effort on the part of the
government authorities to stop the fir
ing, the pillaging and burning"
Death of Missionaries
Mr.. Trowbridge then tells of the eff
forts of himself, Mr.. Rogers and Mr..
Maurer to save the school building.
"Mr. Maurer vas using the crowbar
against a wall and I, higher up, was
pouring water on the places catching
fire. Suddenly two shots rang out not
more than 80 yards from where we
were working.
"Mr. Rogers, who was on the street
bringing in water, was MORALLY
wounded. He called me by name and
then fell in the middle of the street.
The other bullet hit MI. Maurer in. the
left lung near the heart and the crow
bar fell from his hands. He then
climbed down the ladder and collapsed
at the side of MI. Rogers"
A little later when British Vice Con-
sui Daughty- Wylie, with twenty Turk
ish soldiers, arrived the neighborhood
was deserted and the murderers had
fed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT
Purchasing Prices.

The following prices are offered to
the producer by the local dealers for
delivery in round lots I. o. b. Seattle,
and are subject to change without no.
tice:
Eggs-Select ranch, :4@25c. per doz.
Poultry-live hens, 16c lb; springs,
100; roasting, 16c; old ROSTERS, loo
ducks, 1876; geese, 18c; live turkeys,
21c; dressed, 2Sc.
Live stock-Steers, 4 1-10c per lib.
cows, SHc; wethers, 4 1-1Oc; lambs,
4Ac; hogs, 6Kc; calves, 4H@6c.
Potatoes-$30@sS per ton for local
$S1@34 for Yakima
Ranch butter, 100.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Land Fraud Cases Postponed

Portland, Or, May s.-Several cases
pending before the federal court. in
Guiding cases against Binger Hermann
" others untrled on land fraud in
dictments, will not be taken up until
next fall, according to United States
Attorney McCourt.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The German emperor has extended
an invitation to King Edward and
Oueen Alexandra to visit him at Corfu.
Heinrich Conried, former director Of
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York, died last week at Meran, Aus
tria.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Daniel A. Sutherland to be
United States marshal for the First
division of Alaska.
The monument erected to Henry
Chadwick, father of baseball, was
unveiled at Brooklyn a few days ago
with fitting ceremonies.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
signifed his intention of reducing the
tariff on a list of articles now in pre-
paration 40 per cent.
Secretary Dickinson, accompanied
by Gen. Bell and members Of HE
party, have arrived at Colon on the
government yacht Mayfower
A dispatch received at st. Petersburg
from Hardin says Japan is sending
large reinforcements into Manchuria,
and that the soldiers are spreading
along the frontier.
Following the announcement last
week by the Carnegiet Seel Company
of an increase in the prices of their
products, other steel manufacturers
are also increasing prices.
It is reporteda t London that 100,-
900 persons have already booked pas
sage from theU nited States to Europe
for the present summer season.
The French government, acting in
accord with Great Britain, has deter
mined to recognize the independence
of Bulgaria as soon as certain formal
ties shall be fulfilled.
Judge Laandis, in the United S tates
district courtat Chicago, in the test
case against the Santa Fe road on
the nine-hour law governing telegraph
ers,.. has upheld the law.
Former Vice President Fairbanks
has concluded through agents a deal
for the purchase of a $50, 900 residence
in one of the fashionable districts of
Pasadena, Cal. It is said he will make
his future home there.
The American Newspaper Publishers
Association, representing 200 daily
newspapers, last week instructed the
secretary to telegraph to each United
States senator advising the confirma-
tion of the action of the house in the
matter of pulp. and print paper.
The German bundesrath has voted
to ratify the new patent treaty be-
tween the United States and Germany.
The new treaty eliminates the require.
ments that the articles be manufac-
tured in the country issuings the pat
ent. The treaty was ratified by the
American senate April l.
The will of the late George c.
Thomas, Of PHILADELPHIA, disposes of
an estate valued at ten millions. It
gives his three sons and a daughter
81, 900, 600 each and devises most of
the remainder to the widow. His
church, the Holy Apostles, gets $780,
600 outright and a contingent bequest
Of nearly 5000, 900 more.
Government experts declare that the
smoke nuisance in many American
cities is now abolished. They have,
they claim, solved the problem. They
say there are over 200 plants being OPP
Grated smokelessly and at lower cost,
and that in 30 per cent of the indus
trial plants of the United States over
10 per cent of the coal bill can be
saved b. the smokeless burning of
fuel.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
To Elect Old Officers

New York, May 3.-The board Of
directors OF the New York Central e
Hudson River Railroad Company have
reelected all the old officials Of the
company for the ensuing year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
COMMITTEE NEAR END
OF TESTIMONY TAKING

When the legislative investigating
committee adjourned last week not to
meet until Wednesday, it was the un-
derstanding between the members and
Assistant Attorney General Lee, &C
cording to the Olympia correspondent
of the Post Intelligencer, that the case
against Secretary of State S. H. Mich
OILS, as ex-officio insurance commits
sioner, and J. H. Schively, as deputy
could be closed at the next hearing.
The investigation, SO far as Eastern
Washington companies are concerned,
has been finished, and the remaining
witnesses will be from Seattle.
The final hours of the inquiry prior
to the preparation of the findings,
which may require two weeks time,
will be given over to an exhaustive
denomination Of the two accused and
terminating officials, and to the in
PRODUCTION of affidavits obtained from
the officers of foreign insurance corpor-
atoms.
It is betraying no secret to predict
that the report of the committee will
include such positive and ~disgraceful
findings of graft and malfeasance as
to justify. the verdict to demand that
both men resign from Office. Beyond
that lies the possibility Of prosecu-
ton for perjury and extortion should
the accused, in the face of the evil
dence, persist in remaining in the
public service.
Contradictory Testimony
In his testimony last week, Insur-
ance Commissioner Schively said he
divided the pickngs with Secretary
of State Nichols. The secretary of
state swears he never received a cent.
From other testimony, in addition
to that of Schively, it is evident that
the insurance companies were held up
for various sums. Schively admits
getting money. The only question
now in doubt is whether or not the
secretary of state shared in the spoils.
Schively sweals he did, Nichols
swears he didn't.
If the question at issue was not so
inherently serious, the outcome of the
investigation so far would be ludicrous.
But the fact remains that one man
holding state Office stalked abroad
through the United States calling up
on insurance companies to stand and
deliver. Either this official purjured
himself q hundred times before the
investigating committee, or the secre-
tary of state swore falsely with an in
sistency and rapidity never before
equaled in the capital.
Nichols Denies It
Secretary of State Nichols has den
led under oath in detail every assertion
of Schively wherein Schively connect
ed Nichols with a division of the plum
der. Nichols swears emphaticallv
that he turned the insurance DEPART
ment owe to Schively and paid no
more than q formal attention to il
thereafter. Nichols did not know of
Schivelys holups; never heard of them
until he read the papers; advis-
ed him or suggested anything to him.
Schively swears that every move he
made was with the advice, consent and
appreciation of the secretary of state
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-07
ACCUSES BOTH SCHIvELY
SECRETARY NICHOLS

One OF the sensations sprung in the
case was when Attorney General Bell
showed to Secretary Of State Nichols