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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
WORLDS 1910 TRADE
At RECORD ,r,

Inc worlds internationa,
promises to make a new .S, trade
ORD. IN the calendar year 1917, sn re- FEC.
. ules received by the bureau Of s.a rig
tics' department Of commerce. ~ 80. stats.
Dor, show that in nearly everv and Ia
q the world both imports and country
are larger than in 1909, and t thO
ports thus far received indic.t ,ne re-
tional commerce in 1910 will r n.erna'
higher figure than ever before aeacn
Taking the more imnorton.
.rles' q comparison of the monthly, S0 IN
port and export figures during I'm IN
portlons OF the calendar year is, Iuc %
are now available, with tho WV as
bonding :. periods Of 1909, indicates sO's res
ticqy the upward trend Of in.. us
tio4al trade. On the import sid Ie' ~
average monthly importations ' the
FOR the United Kingdom in 1914 care are
osa.Ooo.33, against s244,5oo,OoO in 9N w.
similar period of 1909; for Cerm ~ Tue
sl7s'Soo.ooo, against $172, 10000 in ny.
corresponding period of 1900. - .ue
United States, $129,5OO,OoO in lou, us
against $119,5OO,OOO for tho a .'iu
months OF 1909; France, s1O3. Ja one
against ss7,333,OOO33 for 1909 r'' pO,
GUM. s62,5Oo.ooO in 1910, against s Ss'
100000 in 1909; Italy, $4,000 OoS S'1 =;
1910, against $4S,25O,OOO in the sir ~
lar period of 1909; Austria.Hunparr
$45,250,O0O in 1910, against s43 750 0o y,
In the same months of 1909. pus usv
In Europe, $4O,50O,OOO in 1910 againn.
$32,5OO,OOO in the same period of 1q00.
Canada, $36,50O,OOO in 1910 apaius t
$2S,75O,OOO in the Correspondent
months of 1909. and Japan, s1s 2O0 NM
IN 1910, against $17,OOO,OOO in 1908
On the export side the figures ~
the United Kingdom show an AVERAGE
of $173,333, OO0.33 per month in 1911
against $151, 100000 in the corresnond
ing period of 1909; Germany, s15O5OO.
600 per month in 1910, against s1a9.
OOO,OOO in 1909; the United States
l43,OOO,OOO per month in the 1910 per.
iod, against $1S6,OOO,OOO in the CORES.
ponding period of 1909; India, s55.
100000 per month in the 1910 period
against $45,250,0OO in the similar Der.
lod OF 1909, while Argentina shows but
$31 100000 per month for the first half
of 1910, compared with $4O,5OO,OO Der
month for the corresponding period
of 1909.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Washington State
News Items

The Seattle Young Woman's Christ
ian Association plans the erection Of
100000 building.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has been
invited by the Municipal League to
lecture in Seattle when he reaches the
city on his contemplated swing around
the Western circle next April.
r. D. Shut, of Tacoma, has plan
to have all places that pay federal
or state liquor license pay munich
pal license as well. Opposition is ex-
pected from the drug stores.
F. E. Weymouth has rendered his
resignation as superintendent of the
Seattle division of the Northern Pa
cific railroad. The resignation is to
take effect January l. Weymouth
has been with the N. p. for "a years.
The bids opened last week by Major
C. w. Kutz for dredging the Willapa
river, all exceeded the government
estimate of 16 cents per cubic yard,
and totaled more than the appropria-
ton OF $5O,OOO.
Judge Hanford last week fined the
Great Northern Co. 500 and costs for
violating the law which prohibits car
rying cattle for more than % hours
without food or water.
President Thomas F. Kane of the
University of Washington was host to
approximately 1000 teachers on the
first evening of the 26th annual meet
ing of the Washington Educational AS
sociation, which began December q.
By three to one vote mass meet
ing held at West Seattle went on rec
ord as favoring the $250,0OO bond is
sue to establish municipal ferry be-
tween Seattle and West Seattle. 1t
is proposed that the bonds be put to
a vote in March.
According to announcement made at
Washington, the two bids submitted
for the construction of the Snipes
Mountain Drops in the Sunnyside unit
of the Yakima irrigation project have
been rejected, because they were in
excess of the governments estimate of
cost. The work will be don by the
defamation service.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
CHINESE GOVERNMENT
DEHED BY ASSEMBLY

Peking, Dec. 24.-The government
and the national assembly issued coun-
ter defiances today.
In lengthy edict the throne ordered
home the provincial leaders now in
Picking agitating for the immediate
convocatiOn Of general parliament
and instructed the viceroys to employ
gendarmes to prevent any further as
semblings in the provinces and to treat
the agitators as revolutionaries, pun
1shing them in severe manner.
Assembly Replies.
The assemblys counter blast took
the form of memorial to the throne
which recites in scathing terms the ca
reer of Prince Ching, whose office is
that of advisory to the naval depart
ment but who is of such influence in
the government that he has borne a
great share of the attack of the pro-
gressives, and that of his associates in
the grand council, by whom it is as
serted the country had been steadily
impaired.
Arging that a constitutional regime
has been begun already and that, there.
fore, the government is no longer vest
ed in its entirety in the person OF
Prince Ching, the regent, the memorial
states that the throne does not have
the right assumed in the edict of De.
cember Is, in which the memorial for
the creation of a constitutional gov
eminent is rejected.
The memorial calls for the imme
date establishment Of ministry re
sponsible to the people. It is reported
that the government is arming the
troops with the purpose Of suppressine
any outbreak.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
RAILWAY ENGINEERS
NOT TO STRIKE
INTERVENTION OF LABOR COM.
MISSIONER PROVES
EFFECTIVE.
Men VIII Get Increase Of 10 1-s Per
Cent Over 1910 scaIe-New Rate Of
Wages to Be Put in Force at Once
Alterations in Working Conditions,

Chicago, Dec. 24.-Four millions of
dollars a year was what the officials
Of 81 Western railroads put in the
stockings of the locomotive engineers
today. The gift brought peace and
goodwill and averted what might have
proved one of the most disastrous
strikes in the history of the country
Commissioners of Labor Charles P.
Neill played the part of Santa Claus
to the engineers. For seven days he
worked to bring the railroads and the
engineers together, and with his work
accomplished he left in the afternoon
for his home in Washington to spend
Christmas with his family.
In spite of their repeated assertions
that they had reached the limit, the
managers made concessions in the face
of a threatened strike. Concessions
were made by the engineers, also, but
they established two of the chief points
for which they commended jurisdic-
ton over motor-trucks and an in
creased schedule for the Mallet type
of engine The increase granted the
men runs as high as IA per cent on
certain engines and as low as 8 per
cent on the higher paid runs. The
average increase to the payrolls of the
railroads is 10 1-3 per cent.
Specific Figures.
Specifically the agreement provides
for raise of 40 cents day for all
engineers with a differential in ad-
vance of Is cents for LIE. O00-pound en-
gines, an added differential of Is cents
day for the smaller Mallet engines,
and a differential of 81 day for the
heaviest Mallets
In letter to United States Com
missioner Charles P. Neill, who as
mediator under the Erdman act,
brought the settlement out of what
seemed sure disagreement, Grand
Chief Engineer Warren s. Stone, of
the Brotherhood, gave as the reason
for accepting the terms the suffering
and loss which would attend general
Western strike.
New Rate Is In.
Numerous specific working condi-
lions are improved by the agreement
signed formally late today, and engi-
neers are given control of electric and
gasoline motor cars used as locOmO-
tives, with an increase of SO cents a
day in present wages. Hostlers are
given an increase of Is cents day.
The new rate is effective with the
signature of the agreement today.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
!, ovErT FAvoRs FEDERAL
CONTROL OF RAILROADS

Now York, Dec. 24-Robert 8. Low
ott successor to Edward ii. Hartman
&C president of the Southern Pacific
and Union Pacific railroads, told the
"a abroad securities commission that he
was in favor of federal supervision of
RAILWAYS. but questioned the wisdom
If or the necessity for, federal laws
IN govern the issue of railroad securi-
ties AS a railorad executive, he did
not oppose government regulation Of
stock issues, but he did insist that If
regulation is to come, the authorities
charged to enact it be vested with full
power to enforce.
The present status of the railroads,
harassed on all sides by conflicting
state laws, was bad, he said, but a
further conflict of state and federal
laws was possibility from which he
hoped to be delivered.
Rates and capitalization, their rela-
ton to each other and the relation of
the public to both, was the gist OF
Judge Lovett's testimony. He did not
see that rates had anything to do with
dividends in actual practice, or that
the government should have any con-
Germ in what kind of railroad securi-
ties the public bought.
AS long as the individual was left
free to speculate as he chose in wild
cat shares, he need not be specifically
protected from the railroad.
The government was chiefly inter
ested, he thought, in seeing that the
railroad companies received value in
full for their issues.
Hence, the question:" he said,
would seem to be not what the com
panies now own, but what they get
for the securities furnished. The value
of the property now owned would
seem to have no relation to that lues-
tiOn."
If it is proposed to make physical
valuation of the railroads a basis for
limiting rates, he could only say any
scheme of appraising property by an
attempt to estimate the cost of it's re-
production was exceedingly mischiev-
GUS and utterly impracticable.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
PEARY PROMISES TO
GIVE CONGRESS PROOF

Washington, Dec. 24.-After montns
of persistent refusal on the GROUND ol
interference with contracts with pun
fishers, Capt. Robert E. Peary aas
promised to furnish Congress tne
proofs on which he relies to sno"
that he discovered the North Pole.
The assurance has been communl
Gated indirectly to some OF his au.u-
Gates at the capital, in connection VIII
the bill to reward him with rear ad'
miralship on the staff in recogni'ioA
of his Arctic achievements.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Minor Happenings
of the Week

Each married employe of the White
House received turkey, as a Christ
mas gift from President Taft. One
hundred and two fowls were dis
tributed.
Secretary of State Carmi A. Thomp-
son of Ohio has announced his &C
ceptance of the post of assistant secre-
tary of the interior. The place was
offered him some time ago by Presi-
dent Taft.
Only fifty-seven lynchings were re.
corded in the United States in 1910, a
much smaller number than in almost
any previous year in the last sixteen.
In 1909 the total was seventy, and In
1908 it was sixty-fve. In 1894 there
were 100 and in 1895 there were I'll.
In the bleak mountain district of
Central Alaska half hundred hardy
engineers, bridge builders and mem
bers of construction gangs celebrated
Christmas day by driving home the
last rivet in the great cantilever steel
bridge over the Kuskulana river.
1t is reported at Washington that
the department of justice has come to
a conclusion that it cannot convict and
obtain Imprisonment of sugar trust
magnates for violations of the Sher-
man antitrust law in the newest
frauds discovered, those relating to
drawbacks.
A radical enlargement Of the scope
of the nursery stock bill by the House
Committee on Agriculture is probable
The committee has already ordered a
favorable report on the bill, which
authorizes teh secretary of Agricul
ture to quarantine against any country
or any part of a country where dan.
gerous disease of nursery stock exists.
All charges against Binger Her
mann, former congressman and for.
mer commissioner of the general land
office, growing out of the Oregon land
fraud indictments, have been dismiss
ed by Judge C. E. Wolverton, on the
motion of Francis J. Heney, the spe.
cial prosecutor of the federal govern
ment.
A shipment of 10000 railway ties
of "stringy bark" sometimes termed
Tasmanian oak, left Hobart for the
United States at the end of October.
Two similar shipments will follow,
probably in March and June of 1911,
making total of 100000 sleepers of
Tasmanian timber for the United
States.
Senator Piles has introduced a bill
asking for s205,OO0 for light and fog
stations along the Alaskan coast.
The annual three months special
mining course at the University of
Washington for practical engineers
begins January 5. Applications from
as far back east as Connecticut
have been received. No entrance ex
aminatiOns are required
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION
PROPOSED FOR FRANCE

Paris, Dec. 24.-The text of govern
ment measures for preventing general
strikes, with particular references to
the employees of public service corpora.
lions, has been made public.
The measures constitute a compre
hensive plan for ending the strike evil
on the railroads and in other public
service by means Of an organized con
Citation commission composed of rep
resentatives of the men and companies
The commission will meet at regu-
lar intervals, and when Cancellation
fails, compulsory arbitration is pro
vided, the principle being introduced
that where the arbitral sentence i'm
posed an additional charge the corpor.
alton can indicate the method where.
by the railroad or other service can
secure compensation, either by raising
the rates or by other means.
The report accompanying the meas
ures is a remarkable document. 1t
quotes the declaration of the rights
of man to prove that public services
have been instituted for the public
good, not for the benefit of those to
whom they have been confided, from
which it deduces the conclusion that
the interruption of public service is q
crime. At the same time it admits
that public service employees. like other
workers, have a right to amelioration
and arbitration, it is proposed to give
them a weapon "as powerful as the
strike
The companies must accede, the re-
port declares, because it is now con-
coded as a principle of Jurisprudence
that the state, in conceding public SER
vice monopolies, does not waive its
right to interfere and compel the con-
cessionaries to grant ameliorations in
the interest of public good and the
preservation of public ORDER
The report reviews arbitration ex.
periments abroad, especially those car
ried on in the United States and Aus
tralia. 1t emphasizes the general evil
of strikes, which it likens to the war
of barbarism., 1t points out that the
moral tendencies of the world are
against violence as manifested by the
widespread growth OF the movement
for the peaceful settlement of interna-
tional disputes, and it argues that the
twentieth century marks the dawn of
arbitration as the solution of both in
ternational and social war.
=
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
WARDEN DECLARES AGAINST
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Salem, Ore, Dec. 24.-"It does not
appear that the increasing number of
executions in this state has operated
as deterrent of the crime Of homf
cide," says Supt. C. w. James OF the
Oregon state penitentiary, in his an
nual report to the governor, just made
public, "and as result of my investf
cation, observation and experience dur
ing the past eight years, l am fully con.
WINGED that capital punishment should
be abolished"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
SECRETARY MEYER WANTS
BETTER COALlNG FACILITIES

Washington, Dec. 24.-Important
sible naval activities, according to a
statement Secretary Meyer made to
the house committee on naval affairs
in urging a $1,OO0,O00 appropriation
for coal depots, are Puget Sound,
Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, Guantan-
amo, Boston, New York and Hampton
roads.
Secretary Meyer has advised the
committee that there are no facilities
at any of these places for coaling a
battle fleet expeditiously, and that it
is desired to provide them as soon as
possible.
Coal depots of a minimum capacity
of 100000 tons are required at all
these places in his estimation. Puget
Sound already has depot of $4,000
tons capacity; Guantanamo, $4,000
tons; Boston, 1850, and New York
$500.
Mr., Meyer favors Puget Sound and
Guantanamo first, an initial cost of
$89O,000 altogether and maximum Of
81, 100000 as ultimate cost for each.
Fuel oil depots at naval stations
have also been urged by Mr.. Meyer,
at Boston, New York, San Francisco,
Puget Sound, San Diego, Olingapo,
Corregidor and Pearl Harbor. Such
depots are being built at Key West,
Charleston, Norfolk and Narragansett
bay, and one is to be provided soon at
Guantanamo.
+ He told the committee he had asked
no provision for Panama canal ports,
as it was hoped that adequate coal
and fuel oil depots would be provided
for commercial requirements and the
navy as well.
"An ample stock of coal and OIL"
said Mr.. Meyer, sis as essential in the
preparation Of q fleet for war as is
reserve ammunition"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Half ! Billion Fry Wanted.

Spokane. Dec. "a Five hundred
million fry will be planted annually
in the lakes and streams in the state
Of washington IL measure fathered
by the State Fish Protective Associa-
ton Is adopted by the legislature at its
sessions beginning next January.
State Senator Myers Of Davenport
will have charge of the bill, which is
endorsed by prominent sportsmen ali
over the state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Germany soon to import All Meat.

Washington, Dec. Pin the course
of few years Germany. in all likeli-
hood, will consume nothing but i'm
ported meat, according to Consular
reports. Therei an immense decrease
noted in the number OF animals for
slaughter, according to the last count,
made on October 10, 1910. The espe-
cially noticeable Is young animals. AS
result. prices OF animals for slaugh-
ter are expected to rise very high.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
SUPREME COURT UPHoLDS
PERSONAL INJURY VEhD'''

Olympia, Dec. 24.-When "o.a
man is called by one in autnori'' co. .,,
told to obey, he has no ALTERNATIVE o sn
to 70 into the place which nao Des sa
pronounced safe, says the suplemU
court In affirming the Pierce cou ~.
superior court in the case OF Ailce 10 0ra
against the Wilkeson Coal q ~
company, the letter appealing 1ron n,n !.
$4,000 judgment in favor OF tne p'
tin for the death of Alex COX.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Pay Roll Ct puget Sound Yard.

Pdy hUI1 Ur ruget SU
Navy Yard, Puget Sound. Dec. "a
The salaries Of the yard labor force
clerks. craftsmen and naval officers
attached to this station. will amount
to total Of 81. 81 .140 for the year end
ing December 81. This exceeds by
about $4,000 the record for any other
year at this yard. The pay roll for
1910 shows but little variation, from
month to month, showing that the
work has been so distributed through
out the year as to keep 9 permanent
force OF workmen employed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
socialist Vote Is $4,000.

New York, Dec. Wv, :. an.
statistician for the Socialist par. ION.
nounces that the vote for Sociano' this
didates throughout the country n
wear total over 100000. His figures 90
detail include California, 1922 * o47
gon. S,05e, and Washington ~ a.t in
The largest vote, 60.6S7, was ca''
Ohio.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
sioux "a, Be Z anded December 81.

Seattle, Dec. 24.Just when the
hiRhets tide reaches the East Water
way ST 3 o'clock in the afternoon Of
December 81, the new steamship
Sioux. Of the Puget Sound Navigation
Company, VIII be Iaunced 1t Moran's
shipyard.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-30
Manila Bonds Accepted.

Washington, Dec "a Secretary 81
the Treasury MacVeagh has decided
70 accept bonds Of the Manila RAN.
road Company ct 80 per cent uf their
market value. but not exceeding so
per cent Of par a security for govern
ment deposits Ia national banks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
MOORE THEORIES
ARE CONTRADICTED
College Professors Assert
ForeStation Tends to Pre-
vent Floods.

The views OF Prof Willis L. Moore,
head OF the United States Weather Blu
reau, concerning the causes Of FOODS
were fguratveIy thrown down and
tramplcd upon at a hearing before the
House Committee on Agriculture this
morning.
The attack upon them was made
Jointly by Prof George +. Swain, of
the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
noIoSy. and Prof. j. L. Gllnn, Of Van
derbnt University, who appeared before
the committee In the course or a hear
ing on Representative Weeks bill L.
establish an Appalachian forest reserve.
In a report issued recently Professor
Moore made statements 10 the effect
that precipitation is the only cause OF
floods. and that defOrestatiOn has moth
ing TO do with them.
Professor Swain denied this theory in
toto and asserted that IL is the rush of
waters al the heads Of sirea ms where
there are no forests to check them that
Is largely responsible for floods
Prof. Glinn went so far as to charac-
terize the Moore report as ''mis-state-
Practically all the testimony Of Prof
Swain dealt with the subject of the re-
lation between erosion and the naviga-
ton of streams. He pointed out the
beneficial effect Of forestation of steep
slopes on navgable streams. and de
clared that people viii hold Congress
responsible eventually for lack OF pre-
ventive action.
Prof CHM argued that deforestation
increases the height and frequency %pr
foods and increases the erosion on the
steep slope He informed the commit
tee that before Columbus discovered
America there were foods here, but not
as destructive nor as frequent as there
have been since.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
FORTUNE
AIDS SANATORIUM
Financier's Widow Gives $4,000
for Research and Medical
Fund.

SARANAC LAKE, y. Y, Feb. "a
DR.. z. I. Trudeau. president of the
Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium. has
announced that Mrs. F. r. Hartman
had offered TO give So. 900 for a research
and medical fund for the support Of the
sanatOrium labratOry The FUND IS to
be known as the r. II. Hartman Re
search and Medical Fund Of the Adj
rondaCk Cottage Ssuat orium and the
interest is 70 be applied each year &c
the support OF the laboratory.
Mrs HarriWan's gift will be accepted
by the board Of trustees II was prof
fered on the occasion Of the twenty
fifth anniversary or the sanatoriUr In
connection with a letter OF cOnEratL-
lation 20 Dr.. TrudeaU.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
HOPE FOR ECZEMA PATENTS

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