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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
American Telephones for Pekin

New York, Aug 9.-The tinkle of
$500 American telephones installed
by New York company will be heard
in Picking. China, within year. Word
has just been received here by cable
that the Chinese government has
signed q contract with New York
company for the installation of COM
petite telephone system, at . cost of
$1O5,0OO The plant will have an
ultimate capacity Of 200, 900 lines.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Washington State News

A general campaign is being organ
lied in Tacoma against the Canada
thistle.
Every lumber manufacturing plant
on Grays harbor is now in operation,
something that has not been before in
three years.
The state of Washington started out
the month of August with cash
balance of 81, 533, 6O17O, according
to the report of Treasurer Lewis.
The wheat yield of Asotin county has
been revised. First figures put the
crop at 10000 bushels Later esti-
mates place the yield at $50. 900
bushels.
The Western mill at Aberdeen has
resumed work with full force. The
mill shut down with the strike of the
mill workers, but did not resume with
the others the first of July.
Company No 4, of the Coast artil-
lery reserve corps, has been mustered
in at Tacoma The company is re-
cruited entirely from among the young
business and professiononal men and
artisans of Tacoma.
During the month of July the state
tax commission collected total of
$40, 987. 81. as inheritance tax on var
ious estates filed for probate. The
largest sum was collected on the ST.
O37, 1897 estate of the late j. M. Col
man, King county, upon which the
state collected $1O,378.87.
By resolution passed by the county
commissioners of Walla Walla county
that county was taken out of the elev-
enth class and made county of the
seventh class. Counties of the former
class have from $4,000 to 10000,
while those of the seventh class have
35, 900 to 10000.
Ellis De Brueller, for eleven years
city attorney Of Seattle, and present
incumbent Of that Office, has been ap-
pointed by President Taft commits
sioner of immigration in Seattle at a
salary of $4,000 year. The Office
was created only last week by the pres
ident.
Another record was smashed at the
Seattle postoffice last week Tuesday,
when 1876, 900 letters were put through
the stamping machine. These were
all locally posted or drop" letters
and were stamped at the rate of 5000
an hour. This is several thousand
better than the best previous record.
The sixth annual meeting Of the
Women's Home Missionary Society of
the Puget Sound Methodist conference
district was held at Tacoma last week.
One of the features of the session was
a dialogue participated in by twenty
four young wnomen, each representing
one of the countries in which the
church has done missionary work.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Greeks Lower Flag in Crete

Canea, Island of Crete, Aug 10
Inc Greek flag, which was run up
over the fortress and the Cretan mill
.ary barracks on July q, the day after
.ne evacuation of the island by the
International troops. was lowered to-
Jay as result of the protests of the
TOUR protecting powers.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Roosevelt Lays Cornerstone

Kijabe, British East Africa, Aug. 7.
Roosevelt and his son Ker-
NIT arrived here Wednesday and the
former performed the ceremony Of
laying the cornerstone of the new
mission church and school for white
children.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Adds Five Lives to Rescue :, :,

Newport, R. l., Aug . rnerics,
1.-THE Grace Darling OF e. g Ibis bs
from Rock lighthouse, OIL a;shtssn
has saved the lives OIL '1 ,;ves 70
sons, has added five more rhost,
splendid record. A rox Srs p
five girls was capsizeo ~ By
steamer, and all were 50 sa vssrs Old
Lewis. Ida Lewis is % thnrpps
for thirty years has kept
light on Lime rock.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
Gives Wide Latitude

''The authority of the president to
use agents to assist him in applying
the maximum and minimum sections
of the statute, and to enable officials
to administer the law, gives a wide
latitude for the acquisition, under
circumstances favorable to its truth, of
information in respect to the price and
cost of production of goods at home
and abroad, which will throw much
light upon the operation of the present
tariff and be of primary Importance in
the way of officially collected data
upon which future executive action
and executive recommendations may
be based
'The corporation tax is a just and
equitable excise measure, which it is
hoped will produce sufficient amount
to prevent deficit and which, Incl
dentally, will secure valuable statistics
and information concerning the MANY
corporations of the country, and will
constitute an important step toward
that degree of publicity and regulation
which the tendency in corporate enter
prises in the last twenty years has
shown to be necessary"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13
TARIFF BILL
SIGNED
CONGRESS FINISHES WORK
OF SPECIAL SESSION
AND ADJOURNS.
Signature of President Placed on
Document Very Soon After It
Reaches White House a
Statement Taft Says Measure
Represents Honest Effort.

At 81 % p. M, Thursday, the SEN
ate adopted the conference report on
the tariff bill, which effected the final
passage of that bill through congress.
The Vote was Al ayes, 81 nays The
bill received all the Republican votes
except those of Bristow, Clapp, Cum
Minis, Dollivel, La Toilette, Bever-
idge and Nelson. The senate later
took up and adopted the concurrent
resolution reducing the rates in the
leather schedule.
President Taft signed the tariff bill
at 5 :06 p. M. and at 6 O'Clock the spe-
cial session of congress adjourned sine
die
In the evening President Taft gave
out a statement embodying his views
of the new tariff act. The statement
follows:
II have signed the Payne tariff bill
because I believe it to be the result of
sincere effort on the part of the Re-
publican party to make downward
revision and to comply with the prom
Uses of the platform as they have been
generally understood, and as I inter
preted them in the campaign.
''This is not perfect tariff bill nor
a complete compliance with the prom
ises made, strictly interpreted, but q
fulfillment free from criticism in re.
spect to a subject matter involving
many schedules and thousands of arti-
cles could not be expected. 1t suffices
to say that except with regard to whis-
ky, liquors and wines, and in regard to
silks and to some high classes of cot
tons, all of which may be treated as
luxurjes and proper subjects of rev
enue tariff. there have been very few
increases in rates.
''TEere have been great number of
decreases in rates and they constitute a
sufficient amount to justify the state
ment that this bill is a substantial
downward revision and a reduction OF
excessive rates.
'This is not a free trade bill. 1t
was not intended to be. The Republi.
can party did not promise to make a
free trade bill.
|
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Bars Excessive Prices

''It promised to make the rates bro
tective, but to reduce them when they
exceeded the difference between the
cost of production abroad and here.
making allowances for the greater nor
NAL profits on active investments here
I believe that while this excess has
not been reduced in a number of cases,
in a great majority the rates are
such as are necessary to protect Amer
lean industries, but are low enough in
case of abnormal increase of demand
and raising of prices to permit the
possibility of importing the foreign
articles and thus prevent excessive
prices.
''The power granted to the executive
under. the maximum and minimum
clause may be exercised to secure the
removal of obstacles which have been
interposed by foreign governments in
the way Of undue and unfair discrim-
nation against American merchandise
and products.
''The Philippine tariff section I have
struggled to secure for ten years past
and it gratifies me exceedingly by my
signature to give it the effect of law.
am sure it will greatly increase the
trade between the two countries and
it will do much to build up the Philip
pine islands in healthy prosperity.
''The administrative clauses of the
bill and the customs court are admir-
ably adapted to secure more uniform
and more speedy final construction of
the meaning of the law.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-13

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Evening star., 1909-05-16

Waynesboro Pa. He was on time up 10
that point. He checked in at S:d O'Clock
last evening His observer was 5 NJ.
Trammell.
The last car in classes A and to
arrive was Wayne car, No. . driven
by A. D. Borton. with J. B. Sperry as
observer. The car was scheduled to
finish at 2:4 O'Clock. but did not re-
port to the judges until 552 pm
In class C. the smaller cars. two Ford
runabouts were the first to put In an
appearance at the finish. car No. 8. H. 6.
Machin, driver. and c. H. Fickling. OBJ
server. arriving at 500 o'clock. on time.
Car No. .. Charles z. Miller az the
wheel, with DR.. |. W. Mcconnell. Oh
server, also finished in good condition. ut
6:O6 O'Clock, exactly on time. Half an
hour later, George Thomas. driving car
No. l.. REQ. dashed over the line on
time, at 6:36 O'Clock.
The last car to report in class was
No. 81, Brush runabout. seven horse
power. which arrived thfrty-six mlnut
behind schedule. Brush car No. IL. he'd
considerable tire trouble and stripped It's
low speed. and was left on the road.
Route for the Run.
The route was south on l4th street to
Columbia road, where a turn west was
made for the run to Rockville. Nd, l4.o
miles, There the first checking station
was located. From that pont the route
was to Frederick, 2s.S miles: to Hagers-
town. 2G.7 miles: to Waynesboro, Pa.
122 mics, to Emmitsburg, 16.l miles to
Westminster, 81 miles; to the finish lin,
at the clubhouse, via CookSTiile, i5o
miles
The distances between the towns
through which the cars passed are as
follows.
Evening star., 1909-05-16

three minutes late. His observer was
Thomas .. Walsh.
One Of the pluckiest drivers OF the uay
was A. Stanley Zell in his Chalmers-De-
troit, who fought tire trouble from start
to finish: He used up six tires: HIS sup
ply was exhausted when HagerstoWn
was reached, and fearing further trouble
on the last peg Of the journey he pur-
chased aelditional tires there. AS it was
the streak Of bad luck could not be shak-
en- Off and he crossed the line three MIN
utes late with front tire fiat. he took
the situation philosophcaliy' however
| and never lost courage.
| The other big Matheson 4o-oO horse
power car, No. 20. with James Orme driv-
| ing. pulled into the crowd In good con
dition, three minutes behind scheduie'
which was 800 o'clock.
A slight mishap to the Pullman cur
No Il, caused 1t to lose twelve minutes
John R. Thomas was driving the car, with
]. B. Chaplin as observer,
Clarence Barnard Happy.
| One of the happiest drivers was Clar-
ence Barnard, who swept down the pike
and pulled up at the control at 3:i3
| O'Clock Just eight minutes in advance OF
the schedule. He drove Stoddard-Day-
| ton, his car being numbered H. No
trouble of any kind was experienced. and
| the car was in excellent trim at the
| fnish He was congratulated on his
| good work, finishing one minute behind
| the Matheson car, No. 13. as far as spare
time was concerned At all or the con-
trolls he was ahead OF the schedule from
ten to fifteen minutes. His observer was
C. M. Brown.
Another car which Is regarded as a
winner is No. 18 Buick driven by J. A.
Muehleisen. with G. Green as observer.
The car finished In good style. and at
controls along the route was from ten TO
fifteen minutes ahead of schedule. Inc
car finished Ave minutes ahead OF the
schedule at the finish. Two weeks ago
the same car went over the route as the
official pathfinder.
Breaks a Spring.
AS car No. 18, an Oldsmobile. neared the
| timers 1t was seen that one of the front
| tires was gone. Frank Tyser, the driver.
was anxious to finish on schedule time
and would undoubtedly have done so had
not his front tire jumped completely off
the rim band and all. and rolled off the
| road. He did not stop, but kept on,
| finishing sixteen minutes behind time.
| Later one of the cars picked up the miss
| ing tire near the District line and took II
| to the clubhouse. Despite the missing tire
| Tyser put the car through the examina-
/ tion at the finish with the referee at his
side.
| The most serious accident occurred to
Isador Freund's Packard touring car. No
u. One Of the front springs broke neaI
Evening star., 1909-05-16
FINISH THE LONG RUN
Cars in Reliability Contest Go
Over the Course.
SEVERAL HAVE HARD LUCK
Scenes at Finish in Front of Auto
mobile Club House.
INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY
One Machine Crosses Tape With
Tire Missing-oHcials Gratifed
by Success of Event.
INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY

After a strenuous day. climbing noun
tains. speeding through valleys, over
water breaks. testing the skill Of drivers
and the endurance of automobiles rang
Ing from seven-horsepower runabouts to
''ffty-f1ve" touring cars. seventeen of the
eighteen cars that started In the third
reliability road contest of the Automo-
bile Club of Washington finished before
sundown yesterday.
The day was perfect for the event and
large crowds of spectators and auto en-
thusiasts were on hand at both the start
and finish. The start was from the for
mer car barn, near 14th street and Park
road, the finishing point being at the club
house on Georgia avenue, The officials
of the club were on hand throughout the
day and were highly gratified at the ex-
cellent showing made by the cars In the
several classes. The cars We're started
at three minute intervals. The pilot car
moved of at o'clock, but became dis
abled at Rockville, and President West
Evening star., 1909-05-16

gia avenue. In a minute the car would
have finished with a. perfect score.
which 1t had maintained throughout
the run. AS result of the accident
the car checked in at 3:O1 o'clock in
stead of 2:59 o'clock.
NJ S. Bates. driving car No. 15, a
Franklin, had tire trouble, which cost
him about fifteen minutes and put him
in at the judges stand at 3:17 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
THE PACKARD, FIRST ARRIVE CLUBHOUSE

transferred his flag to the first car reach
ing him.
After the last car had been sent on its
journey, at o'clock, the officials dis
persed, taking station in the afternoon
at the finishing tape.
Finish Was Interesting.
The finish was regarded as one of the
most interesting ever witnessed here.
When the big Packard car. No 4. ap-
peared in sight on the hill beyond the
clubhouse a mighty cheer arose. which
continued until the car reached the tape
line. The car had a clear road. and
entered the control of the clubhouse with
four minutes to spare. The car arrived
at 2:37 o'clock, and was held up at the
control until 2:41 o'clock, the scheduled
time, when it was permitted to pass in
before the judges. The car left the start
ing point at 500 o'clock in the morning.
with John Day at the wheel and Charles
Orme, observer.
On reaching Rockville. Nd, the pilot
car, Stanley steamer, with Horace c.
Chandlee driving, which had left at 4
O'Clock. was overtaken and found to be
in trouble by car No. =. a Chalmers
Detroit car, with A. Stanley Zell at the
wheel. The flag was transferred to car
No. , which proceeded In the lead. A
short distance from Rockville. Nd, the
Packard overlook the new pilot car. and,
the Packard being in class A, President
West. who had started out In the pilot
car again transferred his flag and re-
sumed the journey.
G. 8. Bergman, on motorcycle. fol-
lowed the pilot car from start to finish.
with the exception of ten miles. when
he went out of the road near Waynes-
boro. He covered the trip in a fraction
OF ten hours.
Arrival of Pilot Car.
The excitement of the arrival of the
pilot car had hardly subsided when an
nouncement was made that another car
was In sight. Everybody scampered
from the clubhouse to the finish line to
greet car No. {. Columbie. Otto ia
cobie at the wheel, E. A. Pitkin. op-
server. and two passengers. After be-
ing blocked on the road for the last
eight miles OF the trip the car. pulle
into the control at $50 o'clock. in ac-
cordance with the schedule, not having
"a minute to- spare. No trouble was ex-
perienced on the trip in any way. ana
Evening star., 1909-05-16

ali Of the occupants OF the car were en-
thusiastic over the run.
Nine minutes later the big Matheson,
No. II, driven by w. B. McBirnay,
dashed down the road and RENAME l
outside OF the control nine minutes.
then finishing on schedule time-3:0S
o'clock. No trouble was encountered ON
the ruin, and it has a bright outlook in
class A. as far as road penalties are
concerned The car had more time t.
Evening star., 1909-05-16

One of the accidents occurred within
a stones throw of the finish, when the
Oldsmobile car No. 10. with E. l.. Lein-
bach at the wheel, sustained trouble TO
its connecting rod The accident hap
pened near Takoma Junction, on Geor-
Evening star., 1909-05-16
system for Checking

System for Checking.
The checking system was so arranged
that checkers were stationed at points
on the outskirts of the various towns
selected for this purpose. Each town had
Continued on Twelfth PaseD
Evening star., 1909-05-16

spare at the finish than any of it's {
petitors in any of the classes.
One of the Accidents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-12
FORESIGHT OF PILGATH
HE TRIED TO AVOID HrS
GRANDFATHER.S WOES
He Is NovO looking for a Runn-r,
House zcitb a Perfectly Good
Wife Concealed. IN II
BY Eiits Parker BuEi1x
Author % Pigs "a Pfzas ~,

Among the citizens OF BetzvfTs Pnr,es o..
stands out pre-enineatly for thouEstfII--,'1 1oes
IL Is largely because he once had a s-.-ss.t "a
That grandfather OF his Is why Pflgatb 4. =.
seeing. In every action Of Pilgath's ~. :.
menoered his grandfather. and many OF n. -.
be better of II We did the same. VOID
The reason Pnsath dug his wen IN, g..
Of his barn was because he rernenahsr.s -.
his grandfather had fallen or The ban 80 - -
broken his arm. and Pngsth aa7l-ed ~, >, "a
should happen 70 fall on his ban IA r,,,., : -
hts arm TOO. but that u he had a roo6 6. -'S<<
alongside his barn and fell OF shs ban ~. -
well Instead OF On 20 the hard ground ~. -
would break the fail. II was thirty Sc, - -
TOP Of the barn 70 the ground and the vvsll So.
dug was forty feet deep. and 50, one dsv -
Pflgsth dld fall on the barn into tie vv.lI =. -
down thirty feet into the water and was a. -.
drowned thar II took i've hours ana three 7us--,S,
vhislsy TO bring him 20. He saw stst.I - -
Il he fell OF the barn into the wafer - .I -
times he would be totally drowned 70 dsatb -
fixed that BY pumping all the water out OF tss -
and plugging Up the spring IN the bottom, -
that there was no danger OF hts being drown.s -.
the next time he fell OF the barn he fen CO.
the bottom Of the we'll seventy feet and brok. ~.
arms and a collar bone. Pugath was +. -
thoughtful. foresfghted man
When Pilgath got married and started Ia hnns
house he remembered that his grandfzthsr 80
once built house. and then had sold TIA h. 81.
house was on and had moved his house On "a a.
other lot. and that moving the house was a I,t "a
work. So Pilgath. being thoughtful forestgst.s
man. decided he would have no trouble o. "a.
kind, and that he would build his house 50 thsf b
he ever wanted 70 move It he could move Il vs,s
out any trouble at all The only way hs ssrss
think Of 70 do this % have the house raoupt4S
on wheels. and have good. strong automobile a..
CINE built under the front porch. with tank a.
gssolene IN the attic over the girls room y.
saved quite sum the wheels By using eight a
nillstones that he had Inherited from his gra-d-
mother on his fathers side, and he got ans Oh
storage battery at less than cost rom aunt Phi.
nocolura Belts, who had used IL for her rhsur-a-
tism- There wasn't any electricity In ths bzttsry
but PNgath figured he could get It Hnsd vhss
moving time came The crank 20 crank IN tie
engine. stuck out at side Of the porch and vas
soon covered with Virginia creepers, so ths hous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-12

this Is one OF the pleasantest trips he ever made
and he shook hands with NJ Sibilet when he met
him deck this morning
Mrs. Clary is awfully upset over our staying in
Havre, and she says II Lee is in Paris he won't
like It. either. We expect mail in Plymouth.
Later-The mail came, and had a letter from
Lee He is going to Russia for a week. and ne
folded in an extra piece, saying to give Uncle the
letter L was funny kind of letter but OF course
1t had to be funny kind of letter if was to give
il TO Uncle. I gave It TO Uncle and he said
Hum" and that was all. He says if Mr. Edgar
or Mr.. ChOpstone stay in Havre he'll know the
reason why. do think Uncle might be more rea-
sonable. Edna has been crying. She doesn't want
to stay i'm Havre; she wants 10 go to Paris when
Harry goes Yours with love. ever.
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says it proves too. that It was real diamond
II is beginning TO like a pretty long trip
and Mrs. Clary has started packing her trunk. The
little flag that marks our progress across the chart
is making Europe in great jumps, and we are all
glad. Uncle gets more restless every day, and he
says II the doctor don't quit coming I'D on deck
10 talk 10 Mrs. Clary. something will drop
The doctor is really very amusing he says the first
officer has pet 'marmadillo," but we cannot see
It because II is too anxious. He means fright
ened." it seems. Mr.. Edgar is very nice; both he
and Mr.. Chopstone going to Paris. Lee will
be in Paris by Wednesday, hope, and most sin
cerely trust he will keep the right side of Uncle
They say we will land early day after tomorrow.
I can mail my letters in Plymouth tomorrow even
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-12

over 3 man named Monsieur Sibilet so the situation
has been about briIstony as ever. NJ Sibilet
IS Frenchnan going back TO France, but his chair
IS next 10 Mrs. Cary's. and Uncle says steamer
chairs are never accidents. but always pre-
Ineditated and with intent TO XIII. lie asked Mrs.
ClRTy II she couldn't that woman could ever
he happy with q dancing fan-tan like Sibilet We
6idnt know what "fan-tan" was, but all
agreed with Uncles premises as TO poor monsieur;
snd then Il developed that there is Nine Sibilet
deathly gic1 down below, and Uncle said that he
had known II all the time and only joking
Edna and Harry are very happy but they have
20 be aWfully careful because Uncle says he has a
hslf-dedged notion that Harry is paying attention
20 Edna, and that he won't allow anything OF the
kind-not for York second We don't know
what a York second" Is and haven't asked.
Uncle plays poker nights, and we make the most
OF Il There is a nice Yale man on board, and
walk around with him His name IS Edgar. Uncle
says he looks as II he had his bait out for fort
une, but Mrs Clary says 20 never mind ito go