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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
Anthony Near cordova.

William Kruhn recently arrived at
Cordova from Dan mountain, in the Ma.
zina basin, and brings word Of the dis
covery OF anthony. He says the ledge
carries high values in gold. has also
q trace Of silver and shows up SO per
cent in anthony. Mr. Kruhn reports
also that on Copper creek, tributary
Of Dan Creek, another ledge has been
found by Harry Fagenburg which car.
ries anthony and gold
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
SURETY COMPANY SEEKS
TO EVADE HAMILTON LOSS

Seattle, Oct 1.-The suit of the
state of Washington against former
Art. Gen. Ortis Hamilton and the Ma
tional Surety Company, to collect
$40, 900 bond for the faithful perform
ance of his duty, commenced Thurs
day in the superior court by the Hing
of an answer by the surety company
the complaint of the state being un-
filed. The state sues the bonding COM
pany for $4,000 and, $37.6S7.47 dam
ages, on account of thefts for which
Hamilton is now in the penitentiary.
The surety company denies respon-
sibility for any payments on the Dono.
asserting that Hamilton was not au-
thorixed by law to receive or handle
state money. The company willingly
became guarantor for Hamilton's safe
handling of public funds, and accepted
the premium for the risk, but charges
that he had no legal business to put
his hands on q dollar of state. funds,
and that II he did, and the state lost
money through his dishonesty, it was
because OF negligence and carelessness
by state officers and agents, for whose
acts the company is not responsible.
The superior court is asked to dis
miss the case and tax the costs up to
the state.
The state, through it's attorney gen
eral, interposed a demurrer to the an
swer, setting up that it does not aver
facts sufficient to constitute 9 defense
to the action.
Assistant Attorney Generals W. Y.
Tanner and George a. Lee represent
the state, and Roberts, Battle, hubert
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
ABSURD, GALLAGHER SAYS.
Secretary Of San francisco Labor
Council Makes Comment.

San Francisco, Oct. ANDREW j.
Gallagher, secretary of the San Fran
cisco Labor Council, in statement to-
day, characterized as absurd the
charge that the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times building was the result
of plot laid by industrial enemies OF
that paper, and expressed deep sym
pathy of the union men of San Fran
cisco for the families of the victims.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
Halsey Declared Not Guilty.

San Francisco, Oct. AFTER several
hours Of deliberation the jury in the
case of r. v. Halsey, formerly an Of
ficial OF the Pacific States Telephone
& Telegraph Company, charged with
offering a bride to q member of the
board Of supervisors under the
Schmitz administration, returned q
verdict OF not guilty.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The population of Birmingham, Ala.
is 132,6S5, an increase of 1920 OF
245.4 per cent over 3S,415 in 1900.
The construction of the Hudson Bay
& Pacific Railway will be started al
most Immediately from Prince Albert
Saskatchewan.
1t is announced in Chicago that the
Pennsylvania Railroad is about to be
gin work on construction of a new $780,
100000 station there.
The Standard Oil Company has
struck natural gas well on Walnut
Creek, near Dunkirk, N. Y, which
flows 100000 feet a day.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the Brotherhood of st. Andrews in
the United States was held at Nash
vile, Tenn, last week.
Delegates to the United Irish league
which met at Buffalo last week, pledg-
ed themselves to raise fund of $780,
rule movements.
The plant of the American Olive
Company, at Los Angeles, said to be
the largest of it's kind in the world,
has been completely destroyed by fire.
The loss will be $450,000.
The committee called by President
Taft to determine how the government
may best supervise the issuance of
railroad securities will hold it's first
session in Washington November %.
Quarters will be opened at once and a
force of clerks hired.
Sir Thomas " Strong has been
elected lord mayor of London without
opposition. Sir Thomas is temper.
ance advocate and enjoys the distinc
ton of being the first teetotaler chos.
en- as chief magistrate of the metropo
lis.
Circulars warning banks and the
public against clever $40 counterfeit
bill are being prepared by Chief Wilkie
as the result of a discovery by the Sc
cret service The, bill is a national
note on the Pasadena (Cal.) National
bank.
Secretary of War Dickinson and
Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bu
reau of insular affairs, and their party
passed through Hardin Friday, en-
route from Pekin to Moscow and St
Petersburg.
According to a Tokyo dispatch the
Standard Oil Company and Asiatic
Petroleum Company, Limited, have
Cancelled the agreement which they
had, thus ending the oil combination
between Japanese and foreign com
panies. AS consequence price war
has been begun.
The state of Missouri has a popula
ton of 3,29S,335, according to the
enumeration made during the thir.
teenth census, statistics of which were
announced by the census bureau today.
This is an increase of 186,67O, or
per cent over the population in 1900,
which was 3,1O6,665.
The navy department is preparing to
spend $4,000 to put the New Orleans
navy yard in condition to do some
work. The last night but one that
Theodore Roosevelt was in Office he
signed an order closing the New Or
leans yard. The department has de-
clded to reopen the yard.
The Texas railroad commission has
held public hearing on the proposal
to adopt rules for issuing negotiable
and non-negotiable bills of lading by
railroads and to make the roads re-
sponsible for shipments made on bills
of lading. The object is to prevent
frauds in cotton shipments.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
Chinese Dive in submarine.

Newport, r. l., Oct. 1.--Sir Admiral
Sab Ping and three other members
Of the Chinese naval commission. who
are inspecting American naval estab-
lishments. made their first trip to the
bottom of the sea In the submarine
Octopus here. The submarine remain
ed under water for half an hour.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
Washington State
News Items

The Chehalis county grand jury re-
turned six indictments.
The state association of county
treasurers will hold its 1911 conven-
ton in Tacoma.
Mrs. Mary Gardner, past president
About 5000 people visited the Che
Ian Farmers Union fair at Chelan,
last week.
Between 40 and so non-union men
employed by the Moran Company at
Seattle went on a strike for higher
wages Saturday morning.
Three hundred pairs of Monaghan
pheasants have been liberated at Mon
tesano, and a law will be invoked to
protect the birds for five years.
The Northwestern, last boat for
Nome this season, sailed from Seattle
Sunday. She is expected to leave
Nome on the return trip October II.
Headquarters of the United War
Veterans will be maintained in the
Epler block, Seattle, for the next year
by Commander-in-Ch Chief Joseph R. H.
Jacoby.
Three hundred new students have
been enrolled for the fall term of the
State College at Pullman. About 500
old students were also on hand at the
opening of the term.
Robert StrOhorn, promoter of the
North Coast railroad, in an interview
at Tacoma stated that he expected to
have the line finished to Puget Sound
inside of eighteen months
Declaring that at present two tele-
phone tolls must be paid, the Fremont
Commercial Club passed a resolution
urging the installation of municipal
ly owned telephone system in Seattle.
A large corporation is contemplated
by Captain H. Barrow, manager of the
Star Steamship Co. of Seattle, to ex-
plot his ship elevator invention. The
ship elevator, which is already in
stalled on the steamer Fidalgo, is said
to save much time and labor in loading
vessels.
More than 600 bankers, represent
ing the largest financial institutions
in New York and Pennsylvania, will
visit Seattle October Is on their way
home from the American Bankers As
ISOLATION meeting in Los Angeles. Six
special trains, representing the last
word in train construction, will be
used in taking the bankers home.
of Miller Corps, No. 81, of Seattle, was
elected national chaplain of the Wom-
ems Relief Corps at it's annual con-
vention in Atlanta, Ga. She served
through the war as hospital nurse,
being attached to the same Pennsyl-
vania regiment as her husband, Capt.
Reuben S. Gardner. She resides at
ALTO Linden avenue.
The September gold receipts of the
United States assay Office in Seattle
amounted to S94,451.S9, practically
all of it Alaska gold, and paid for in
newly minted gold eagles, which pass
ed into circulation in the city. Local
banks, for two months, have been TAX
ing practically all the value of bullion
shipments in gold coin for local circu-
lation.
State road No. has finally been To-
Gated by State Highway Commission
er Bowlby and the old route from
Wenatchee down the Columbia river
to the Colockum creek and along the
Colockum over the mountains to FL
lensburg will be hereafter known by
that name. The appropriation made
by the last legislature for the work on
state road No. will be put into use
next year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07
UNION MEN NOT SUSPECTED.

President Gompers Does Not Believe
Labor Back Of Crime.
st. Louis, Oct. Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, said today he did not believe
union labor members were in any way
responsible for the deadly explosion
and fire in the building of the Los An
geles Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
Prafesscr Axteun.s Bit o. Humor


Another bit of scholastic humor,
now generally forgotten, that playec
an important part in its own time was
the spasmodic tragedy with which
Professor W e. Aytoun of the Univ.
yers.ty of Edinburgh ridieuled out OF
existence a current literary fashion
"a England just before the middle oil
the nineteenth century. A school OF
writer's had come INTO vogue who
were all bcmbast and absurdity which
the public nevertheless took i'm large
quantities as serious and aCmirabl
literature Professor Aytoun belonged
10 the opposition. He began his at
tack by writing a magazine review OF
an unpublished Tragedy by an un
known writer 7, Percy Jones. and
Illustrated by extracts. But some OF
The newspaper Immediately attacked
the reviewer He was evidently un-
fair 10 r. Percy Jones, they said, ana
they demanded the whole tragedy so
that people could Judge for them.
selves. Whereupon there appeared
Firmilian, the Student OF Badajoz. AID
certain number of readers immodi.
ately welcome. Z. Percy Jones as a
new genius lsdt the more YOU read
"Firmilian' the more you discovered
that II was utter nonsense and nothing
whatever 10 be said in favor of Mr..
Jones as rising young author. The
final re.nlt was a general eye-openef
toward the Stiffness OF the school oi
writer's that Professor Aytoun had SET
out to ridicule. although II was some
tine before the Identity Of r. PEGGY
Jones WIS discovered Perhaps like
Professor Aytoun, Profe sor Phelps
had Il also in mind to set his hearers
thinking as well as smiling when ne
read the Dash at the Pole before the
New Haven Choral Union and so ac-
quired the titles pf Champion Pole
vaulter and Membre de 'Institut dc
Call.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
A GREAT TAIkER.

| once met Miss Geneva, when passing
by her gate,
And asked Il she'd go stroliing. She
said, THAT would be great"
] spoke about the weather we'd al en-
ioycd of late.
Geneva showed her dimples, and
smiled, III has been great!
T:nsued silence deadly. which, hop.
ing 10 agate,
asked her. 'htw's your mother2"
She laughed, Mas feeling
preatN"
The minister. two novels, a play, my
sister Kate
No matter what l mentioned, Geneva
thought twas great.
II happened some months later
don't recall the date
She married Cousin Herbert fno doubt
she thought him great;
she neither ings nor waltzes nor
pIa. s" heard him state,
Put whom Il comes to talking. Gene
vas simply great"
--Lippincott's Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

$16,544 90

Nearly all the sales were made at
appraised value except those in Rusk
county where there was competition
among buyers and nearly ell weat at
figures above those placed by the ap-
pralsers One ten-acre tract which
was listed by the commissioners at
Sis was the subject Of lively bidding
and went to the Menasha Wooden
ware company at $500. Another
tract that was valued at sl.O4l brought
81, 500.
These lands were originally ae.
CURED by the state under the old
swamp land act but We're converted
to the forest reserve by act CT the
legislature They are not suitable.
however. for forestry purposes, being
too widely scattered for that purpose,
and SO the legislature authorized the
forestry commission TO sell them, the
proceeds TO be used to buy other
lands, contiguous to the forest re-
serve. This is what Treasurer Dahl
has been doing ON his northern trip.
The Wisconsin forest reserve con-
sists now OF some 27S,697 ACRES.
mostly in Oneida. Forest Villas and
Iron counties and is beng added to by
purchase, from time to time as funds
are available.
Treasurer Dahl says that thece are
some 10000 acres OF state lands in
Burnett county, in the northwestern
part, that will not sell at the present
time. even at the appraised value
They are what are known In the YER
naclllar Of the lumberiack as jack.
sand lands, not suitable for agricul-
tural purposes. These lands, with 9th
ers contiguous that may be bought. Mr..
Dahl believes are suitable for fores-
try purposes and he will propose to
the next legislature that they be ere.
ated a forest reserve. Such action he
believes would prove blessing to flu
ture generations. not only By the
growth OF timber thereon but through
the operation Of natural law, act 10
conserve the waterflow In the streams
OF that section.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

he comes 10 trim the trees on mis-
land By either setting dogs on him or
ordering him OF the property ana en-.
forcing his orders with a shotgun.
While there is hardly one OF TINS
class of men who has not had mar
row escape from death, yet they
glory IN their vocation. They love to
boast OF their many hairbreadth es.
cares among themselves. but to the
stranger they merely shrug Their
shoulders and make some Indifferent
Eep,y when questioned abont them.
As a general rule they are fataMsts,
believing that if they must have an
accident II WI come when ordained
~r3 not until then.
The underground cable has done
much 70 remove the hiker from the
larger cities, and to-day i IS used
successfully by one OF the telephone
companies between New York ana
Philadelphia 1t IS at present I'M.
suited for telegraph work and it Il
safe for the hiker to believe he win
always be able to secure a position
al his will and continue singing mis-
lAayori;e song
The hiker stood en- the cTossarm the
foreman on the ground,
Said the hiker TO the foreman DO We
cult when the sun goes DOWN.
mo, no said the company's foreman
we work until his dark
u that's the case" said he hiker
III take my time and start.
III travel this wide world over, rn
roam from town to town
TIL | fnd some good honest foreman
who will quite when the sun
goes down"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
Boon For The Farm coIIene.

The graduate of the agricultural coli
lege. IL he does not go TO farming for
himself, finds that there is a demand
for his services L. installing dairie.
prescribing for unproductive farmy,
laying out the land so that II can be
better utilized etc If he desires TO
teach, he can eonGnand p better sab
airy than he could IL he we're a pro-
lessor of Greek or mathematics.
The federal agricultural department
is on the lookout for foresters ana
similar experts. The big diaries ana
cheese factories need men scientifi-
cally trained for their work. IL looks
as though the agriculturist has de-
cidedly a favorable position among
the college men at present .-Cleve-
land Leader.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

shown their confidence by starting
the construction of new airship har.
bors at Frankfort ard Hamburg, the
latter to be finished in 1911.
But ii must not be supposed that
the Zeppelin company VIII be permit,
ted to have monopoly OF continental
aerial travel The PaIseval company
with its soft, swift dirgibles OF limit.
ed radius, has been in the field for
several weeks offering short daylight
excursions from Munich to neigh5or
ing points and Oberammergau.
News comes, however, or much
more formidable rival to the Zeppelin
air craft. Ii will be found in the
Sehuette wooden airshlp, the
Schnette-Lanz, of about the same ca
pacity as the Deutschland. It's meas
rrement is 44G by so feet. The
ship is now complete and presents
many striking details of construction.
Its hull is built up. not Of metallic
aluminium or eleEtron, but Of three
layers of wooden strips that are band
ed together lcngitudinally, laterally
transversely. Thus greater staneh.
ness is obtained and a more mobile
resistance offered to chance blow
or collision. In weight OF hull the
Schuette type IS lighter than olher
rigid dirigibles in proportion TO it's
cubical contents.
The wreck of the Deutschland is a
mere Incident 1t will not affect the
result. Aerial travel over Germany
Is an assured circumstance.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

diyiduaIs, about half clergymen and
half laymen A few women are
in the council The personnel In
cludes Protestants, Catholics. Jews.
and among the representatives are
bishops, clergymen, college presi.
dents, labor leaders, representatives
in congress, lawyers, officers Of pa,
triotic societies, editors and heads Of
philantnropic and religious bodies. In
Guided in the list Of dignitarfes who
have signified their intention Of join
ing in the movement are the Rev. DR..
Samuel Schulmsn, the Rev Or. John
Wesley Hin Timothy Healy and
others equally well known.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

In an effort to combat what the
promoters consider tt G evils of social
ism there was organized in the par
ish house of All Souls Unitarian
church in New York The Individual
and Social Justice League of Ameri-
ca. The leaders of the movement
objected to having it called an anti
socialistic organization, but termed
1t rather a middle ground between in
dividualism and socialism. The league
has a general council of sixty-six in.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
STATE LAND SALE
BRINGS S16,544
TREASURER DAHL REPORTS DIS
PosAL OF SOME 1900
ACRES.
PROPOSES CREATION OF FOREST
RESERVE IN NORTHEAST
PART OF STATE.

Madison. July Estate Treasurer
Dahl. returned from the northern
part of the state where he concluded
sales OF state lands under the direc-
ton OF the state forestry commission,
reports the conveyance OF about
l,9op acres, receiving therefor S16.544-
The lands sold were IN six counties.
as foIlows.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

Man differs from the beasts in thai
he can piece out what he knows with
guesswork, and thus possess himself
OF illusions sufficient on which 10
huild philosophies.--P Puck
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
Thex Liked Il.

Seymour How did your ducks like
the new runway you put outside Of
their COON
Ashley-All right: they came out
faffo0ted for it,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

10 not fold your arms and Dc Scto
ing II is better to saw the atmog.
phe,e and howl than % DO that
Dallas News
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

Il wpu.d he probably just as easy
70 love a rich girl as poor one. If
there wasn't 50 much competition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27
Fares and Commercial Aspects.

1t is not on the cards just now to
cover the long journey of the Ger.
man airsbip lines on an arbitrary
schedule Thai will come when the
Deutschland's sister ship is put in
commission on the Rhine route next
month. In the meantime short trips
10 Stuttgart, Mannheim, Cologne and
Frankfort viii be the rCle.--or would
have been but for the mishap TO the
vessel. Fares range from SIS for the
shortest run to SIPS for a voyage all
the way to Friedrichshafen All trips
will he finished in one day. The
larger cities and towns along the
present route have voted subsidies 10
the Navigation company ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000. In this way a guar
antee fund Of several hundred thous-
and dollars has been collected and
the new company begins business
with an assured income. thus assur-
ing the policy that has built up Ger
many's extensive merchant marine.
So confident is the directorate of
the German Air Navigation company
Of the ultimate success of this aerial
venture that it has ordered still an
ether airliner OF the Zeppelin Airship
Construction company. The Hew and
larger flyer already begun will have a
gas capacity OF $4,000 cubic Eaeters.
q length and beam OF 500 feet and 81
feet respectively and VIII shov. IN
.creasing power commensurate with
ats greater bulk, the theoretical speed
of an airship increasing with the cube
Of its Dimensions The directors Of
the Navigation company have further
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

10 please its patrons. and it is en-
tirely feasible to use them on a
steady going liner, whereas on a tenn
pest tossed ocean greyhound the GER
tainty OF speedy breakage would be
prohibitory.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-12-15
(First Pub. Nov. ~
Mortgage Foreclosure Sale.

Default having been made in the
payment of the sum of Ten hundred
and fifty dollars, which is claimed to
be due and is due at the date of this
notice upon certain mortgage, duly
executed and delivered by John
Kruger and Hattie Kruger his wife,
mortgagors, to The 500 State Bank,
q corporation, mortgage, bearing
date the I'D day of February, 1909,
and with power of sale therein con-
tanned, duly recorded in the Office of
the register of deeds in and for the
county of Mile Laos and State of
Minnesota, on the 9th day of Febru-
airy, 1909, at o'clock p. NJ, in book
$ of mortgages, on page 275, and no
action or proceeding having been in
stituted, at law or otherwise, to re-
cover the debt secured by said
mortg age or any part thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given, that by virtue of the power of
sale contained in said mortgage, and
pursuant to the statute in such case
made and provided, the said mortgage
will be foreclosed by a sale of the
premises described in and conveyed
by said mortgage, viz: Lots eight (8)
and nine (9) of block nine 10y of
Wahkon according to the plat thereof
In the registry of deeds of Mile Laos
county and State of Minnesota, with
the Embellishments and appurtenances:
which sale will be made by the sheriff
OF said Mile Laos county at the front
door OF the court house, in the village
OF Princeton in said county and state,
on the Both day of December, 1910, at
10 o CLOCK a. NJ, of that day, at pub
lie vendue, to the highest bidder for
cash, to pay said debt of Ten hundred
and fifty dollars, and interest, and
the taxes, if any, on said premises,
and fifty dollars, attorneys fees, as
stipulated in and by said mortgage in
case of foreclosure, and the disburse-
ments allowed by law; subject to re-
demption at any time within one year
from the day of sale, as provided by
law.
Dated November IA, A. D. 1910.
500 STATE BANK,
By Frank P. Morneau, Cashier,
Mortgage.
CHARLES KEITH,
Attorney.