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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The transport Logan, with the First
cavalry on board, left Manila Friday
for San Francisco.
President George Harris, OF the Bur-
liptgon, denies published statements OF
his resignation.
Emperor Nicholas has officially re-
ceived W. w. Rockhill, the new Amer
lean ambassador to Russia.
Kiyo Sue Inui, a Japanese graduate
of the University of Michigan, has
inst completed 8, 100 mile trip down
the Mississippi, from Lake ltasca to
the gulf, in an 1Sfoot canoe.
Three West Point cadets have been
found guilty Of hazing, it is reported
at Washington, and their dismissal will
follow the approval of the secretary OF
war who is allowed no discretion In
the matter. No names are given out
Express officials pleaded increased
cost of handling as a result of higher
wages and enlargement of facilities as
a justification of 70 per cent advance
in rates. before the Illinois railroad
commission, meeting at Chicago.
The Earl of Crewe, secretary of state
for the colonies. has notified the Brit
ish Cotton Growing Association OIL
cially that the government has deter
mined to grant $4,000 annually for
three years in aid of experiment work
in the industry.
Speaker Cannon, when asked about
a report that he would not be can
didate for he speakership of the next
congress, declared that he would quit
public life when his constituents failed
to elect him, and not before, and that
he had not the slightest intention OF
retiring from the speakership.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
NO FIRST CLASS NATTER
IN SECOND CLASS PACKAGE

In the future, sending a silk hand
kerchief or a message, gift or other
gree ting through the mail as second
class matter will be punishable as a
misdemeanor
The postoffice authorities have found
silk handkerchiefs wrapped in newspa-
pers and letters enclosed in their folds.
These articles are first class matter.
Until recently the only penalty for
sending matter in a wrong classified
ton was fine of $40, but the regula-
ton recently promulgatel makes it a
misdemeanor and fixes the penalty at
500.
This is considered part of the depart
ment's scheme for retrenchment That
the second class rate has been abused
by people sending matter through the
mail is the belief Of the department..
For this reason the offense of .inclos-
ing first-class mail matter in second
class mail packages will be vigorously
prosecuted
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
PROF. H. s. GRAVES
TO SUCCEED PINCHOT

Washington, Jan. 15-President Taft
has appointed Henry S. Graves, direct
or of the Yale forest school, as forester
of the United States to succeed Clifford
Pinchot. He also appointed Albert E.
Potter, at present acting forester, as
assistant forester. The new forester
and his assistant both served under Mr..
PinchOt.
It was largely through Mr.. Pinchot's
efforts that the Yale Forest school was
established and Mr. Graves went from
the post Of assistant chief of the divi-
sion of forestry under Pinchot to be-
come director of the school in 1900.
He served in the forestry division for
two years.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
COLVLLE RESERVATION
MAY BE OPENED IN 1912

Spokane, Jan. 17.-Indian Commits
sioner Valentine says in his annual re.
port, just given out by the department,
that the south half of the Colville res
ervation in Eastern Washington, north
west Of Spokane, may be opened to
settlement and entry the middle Of
1912. There are more than 2, 500 In
dian claims to be allotted, each receiv.
ing eighty acres of land.
Clair Hunt, of Colville, WASH, who
had charge of the allotments to the red
men on the Spokane reserve prior to its
opening. is making progress with the
appraisement of unallotJed lands, but
owing to the delays in procuring re-
turns from the surveys in the Colvllle
reservation, the actual work OF max
ing allotments in severalty has not be-
gun. Much of the land, Of which
there are several hundred thousand
acres, is timbered; other land is adapt
ed to farming and it is known that
there are extensive deposits OF mill
erals.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Washington State
News Items

DR.. Stiles, county health officer. de-
MES that there is an epidemic OF small
pox at Walla Walla, or that there il
likely to be one.
Vancouver's fifth bank has been Or
agnized " it'll capital stock of $780,
600, all paid in. The bank will be
ready for business February 20.
Voters of Edmonds will have an op-
portunity to say whether they wish to
bond the city for the purpose Of con-
structing sewers on the 9Th of Febru-
airy.
M. S. Kribbs. a travelling salesman
of Walla Walla, has been appointed by
Governor Hay as state hotel inspector
to succeed ]. G. Munger, of Seattle,
resigned.
On motion of Representative Hum
phrey the rivers and harbors commit
tee has called ON the war department
for an immediate estimate on the Grays
harbor jetty work.
Tony Olson, foreman of the Klicki-
tar Light and Power company, at its
station on the Little KIickitat river
near Goldendale, has received $24O
for silver gray fox hide from an
Eastern fur house. The fox was cap
tured about three weeks ago near the
station.
More than sixty government foresters
from the Pacific Northwest and Cali
fornia, are enrolled at the University
of Washington for a three months
course of instruction in the school OF
forestry. During this time the fores-
tiers will be under full pay. A num-
Der of practical lumbermen will also
take the course.
Fifty-four paroles out of the sixty
eight applications were granted by the
prison board at it last meeting. Sixty
five prisoners we're discharged from
parole and thirty discharges were re-
comm ended. Many of these are fol-
men who have been in for years and
whose terms, under the old law, would
soon expire.
The estimate on the 1909 crop by
State Grain Inspector Armstrong, filed
with the railroad commission for the
benefit of the prison board in appor.
tioning the grain bag output of the
penitentiary among the counties, gives
total of ~, 565, 900 bushels for the
3,O45, 600 acres. It is divided as fol
lows: Wheat, 35,095, 600; oats, g..
29O, 900; barley, 1850, 600.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
GREAT BENEFITS FROM
FARMERS UNION WORK

Walla Walla, Jan. 15.-Farmers who
patronize farmers union grain Office
next year will have to agree to pay a
quarter of a cent a bushel to the
union for every bushel sold, regardless
of whether through the farmers union
or through some grain dealer. The past
year, while the Office was getting a
start, the quotations were furnished to
all and many failed to pay the per-
centage to the union. Next year the
quotations will not be given out except
to those who will agree to recompense
the union.
Farmers assert that thousands of
dollars were saved to them this year
through the maintenance of the union
agency. Quotations we're received
daily from Tacoma, man there acting
as local agent, and by this method the
farmers learned the Coast price and
the local price. Armed with this in
formation they got a better price for
their grain from the dealers. One
man last year was offered SO cents a
bushel by a dealer, but went to the
farmers union Office and got the quo
tation, which was 81 bushel An
hour later the dealer came in and pur-
chased the same wheat he had offered
So cents for at 81.
Local farmers are jubilant over the
benefits they received last year through
their organized efforts. They bought
their grain bags in one lot, forcing
down both the trust and the prison
prices and also got the best of the
warehouse men. The rates of the
warehouses were rs cents ton for
the last three months of the year, but
the farmers finally forced them down
to 80 cents. They did it by uniting in
the plan of stacking their grain in the
field, where they we're not close
enough to an independent warehouse.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Farmers May Roll Grain

Eugene Or. Jan. 18.-In view of the
disastrous results to fall grain from
the recent cold it has been suggested
by some who have come here from the
East that fall wheat fields be rolled
with q heavy roller. It is thought
that where the grain has lifted badly
after the thaw rolling would press the
roots back into the soil and that much
fall wheat now considered loss might
be made to produce fair crop without
replanting. 1t is probable seveal far
mers will try the plan, which has
been successful in Eastern and Middle
states.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
To Rush Abbottsford-H Hope Line

Vancouver, B c., Jan. 15.-Con-
struction of the Victoria, Vancouver
& Eastern railway from Abbotsford TO
Hope, a distance of approximately
fifty miles, will be in full swing WIFI
in the next month, or at least as soon
as the contractor can get his outnes
ON the ground. Information to tnls
effect was secured in connection WIFI
the announcement that the CONTRACT
for the building of this stretch OF tne
road, which is to link the Coast WIN
the Kootenay and Boundary districts,
had been awarded to P. Welcn, u
Spokane.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Worlds Fair at New York in 1913

New York, Jan. 15.-Plans for q
worlds fair to be held in New York
city in 1918 have been launched here.
The proposed exhibition will commem-
crate the three hundredth anniversary
of the settlement Of Manhattan island.
The promoters of the enterprise have
effected preliminary organization
and have taken out articles Of incor-
poration. No site for the fair has yet
been chosen.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Sugar Officials Indicted

New York, Jan. 15.-The federal
grand jury has returned indictments
against Charles L. Heike, secretary of
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany; G. W. Gerbracht, j. r. Brender.
nagel, Henry w. Walker, Jean M.
Voelker and James F. Hallagan, en-
ployes. -Four counts charge false en-
tries OF sugar products and two counts
ailege conspiracy to aefraud the gov.
eminent in weighing sugar imports.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21

The midwinter meeting OF passense.
agents and operating officials Oh '..o
Burlington system was held at Cnica ~
last week. The greater portion OF sno
meeting, attended by more tnan Nv
officials, was devoted to forming piaus
for inducing immigration OF farmoi -
to the far West, where the roau 4
forming settlements, new towns a'N
industries.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Cowen to Succeed Gillian

Olympia, Jan. 15.-While no official
announcement of Gov. Hays intention
has been made, it is current state
house gossip that II. E. Gillian will
retire from the state board of control
February l. E. D. Cowen is to be ap-
pointed his successor. The resignation
of J. II. Brown as secretary Of the
board, will take effect at the same
date.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
AGRICULTURAL ENTRY UPON
COAL LANDS FINDS FAVOR

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE Mondell
bill. which is intended to unlock the
gates of the conserved coal domain by
permitting agricultural entries on coal
lands in the United States, has been
practically agreed to by the house COM
mittee on public lands. The bill ap-
plies to all the coal lands of the coun-
try. The bill does hot apply to
Alaska.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
Gov. HUGHES to Quit Politics

New York, Jan. 18.-The New iuA
Tribune announces positively t:a'
Gov. Hughes will not under any ~
cumstances be candidate for re-oio -
tion, having determined to return
his law practice. Gov. Hughes ~
clined to discuss the report.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21

New Haven, Conn, Jan. )5.-f1ol'
Henry s. Graves, Of Yale, newly ap
pointed national forester, in an lntel.
view, expressed himself in favor q
the policy pursued by Mr.. Pincnoe ~
chief of the forestry service. so 1A
as he knew the rould be no reorganl1a.
ton of the service, he said. His only
policy was the conservation OF 'i'0
public resources
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
from the Ga eat Lakes to n. = .

from the Cheat Lakes to n. ~
1.-THE unanimous opinion ny :. euf.
sissippi valley recognizes = th me Mis-
way as q commercial neces.;. s'e Water.
lieves, with reason, thai !, Nbs.
which is already oficiallv tne me Cost,
be trivial when compai ed v w;.s will
benefits conferred. Tran.NMols'Ih the
facilities create traffic. portation
1.-The failure to develon ~.
ways, together with adeouats water.
ais and connections by rail, les ssrnin-
the railroads complete mono Moves to
ley" '''pp' val.
Ask Voters for Help
The former forester then call.
every man OF good will" to upon
clear to his representatives in oo, make
his firm intention to hold ther burgess
ally responsible for safeguard;pre fsoa'
rights and property of the peo uS the i,
In such action, says Mr.. p;p"s
lies the remedy. ohot,
1.-The first great immediate d,n..
that the water powers will ha eef Is
the second is that the coal lands 4Us !,;
be lost. !" The statement cono,u VIII
But these specific dangers Of nnS,s
loss are merely parts of the real i is0u
between the special interests and issues ~
rest of us. That issue is whether t ,le
country shall be managed by men ' fas
human welfare, or by money for profit IT.
1t is tremendous issue far ., oo.
than any mans personal FEELINGS u"'er
personal fortunes. It lies hatwo. VI
the people and their representat; vsa
ON one side and the interests and tI".
representatives on the other side Nv
tween progress and reaction: betwo w.
special privileges and a square dea sD
I repeat that the supreme test is "a.
welfare of the plain people T. ~
time to apply it. - 40
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
PRESIDENT TAFT SENDS
SECOND SPECIAL MESSAGE

blem of the disposition of these lands
under such conditions as to invite the
private capital necessary for their
development on the one hand, ana the
maintenance of restrictions necessary
to prevent monopoly and abuse from
absolute ownership on the other. -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21
House Passes Statehood Bill

washington, Jan. 18.-The house
yesterday passed by a viva voce vote
q Dill giving separate statehood to the
'eifi'orles OF New Mexico and Arizona
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-21

Washington. Jan. 15.-President
Taft sent to congress yesterday special
messasge urging immediate conisdera-
tien of conservation legislation without
waiting for the result Of the investiga-
tion of the charges against Secretary
Balilnger. The president states that
his proposals are really an epitome of
the recommendations made by Balm
ger in his annual report, and says that
bills prepared by Ballinger incorporate
his ideas of what should be done.
The message says that the early idea
in this country was to give away all
the public lands, and states:
''There has developed in recent
years deep concern in the public
mind respecting the preservation and
proper use of natural resources. The
problem is how to save and how to
utilize, how to conserve and still de-
velop, for no sane person can contend
that it is for the common good to hold
that natures blessings are only for un-
born generations. Among the most
noteworthy reforms initiated by my
distinguished predecessor were the
vigorous prosecution Of land frauds
and the bringing to public attention
of the necessity for preserving the re-
naming public domain from further
spoliation.
The president declared that, since
Secretary Ballinger had been in office,
Withdrawals of water power sites had
been made on 102 streams. covering
% per cent more streams than were
covered prior to that date.
''The present statutes, except so far
as they dispose of the precious metal
and purely agricultural lands, are not
adapted to carry out the modern view
of the best dispoition of public lands
to private ownership under conditions
Offering, on one hand. sufficient in
ducement to private capital to take
them over, and for proper development
on the other, which shall secure to
the public that character of control
which will prevent monopoly or mis-
use,' declared President Taft.
More Power For Secretary
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
GIRL, RUN DOWN BY AUTO,
in CRITICAL CONDITION.
Shows Slight Improvement, but
Recovery Is Still Doubtful.

At. st. Barnabas's Hospital today 1t
was stated hat there was a slight i'm
provement in the condition of 10-year-
old May Wright. of Woodruff avenue,
Lyons Farms. who was run over by
an automobile at Clinton and Elizabeth
yesterday afternoon. She is
still in a serious condition. however,
and the hospital authorities would not
say that she is out of danger.
Among the callers at the hospital to.
day was the mother. She remained at
the bedside until the attendants led her
away. William Fl. Van Wrinkle. of 10
Broad street. was driving the car which
ran down the child. In the machine
with him were County Counsel Mum.
Joseph Harlan and Mr.. Harlan's son.
1t is stated, and not denied. that Van
Wrinkle. in order to avoid the congestion
of traffic at this point took the wrong
side OF the street. The rattle police
man was st dinner and drivers of
vehicles did much as they pleased.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
BODIES OF I42 FIRE
VICTIMS FOUND IN
WESTERN FORESTS
Rangers Will No Longer Risk
Their Lives to Save Burn
ing TIMBER.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 25.-The
mystery of the bodies hat are. being
found in the st. Joe county of Idaho
probably will be cleared up today when
the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound railroad runs it's first passenger
train to Avery. One hundred n six
men living in the st. Joe valley are
missing. Twenty-Five bodies, supposed
to be settlers. were found yesterday.
Several days ago twenty bodies were
discovered scattered over an area of
over a mile. and it was assumed they
were forest employees, Supervisor
Weigle including them in his list OF
dead employees. Last night, however,
he declared they were not rangers.
Add the number of dead rangers
seventy-four, the forty-four bodies
found near Avery, the ten Japanese
who persisted near Avery, and the
various known dead in Washington,
Idaho and Montana, and the total is
142. This is without taking into ac-
count the 1856 rangers imprisoned on
the head-waters of the st. Joe.
The appalling loss of life among the
forest employees has taken the heart
out of the surviving foresters, and an
order has been issued not to risk life
to save timber. The little fires are
being extinguished, but the great fires,
to fight which might result in more
loss of life, will be allowed to burn
themselves out or until the rain ex-
tinguishes them.
Flames still Hungry.
Infthe Occur d'Alene mining country
the fires have exhausted their fuel, as
also they have done in the Pend
d'Reille valley. In the Clearwater
country and in the thickest timber of
the Occur d'Alene National forest,
however, the flames are hungry and
active as ever.
No lumberman or forester VIII give
an estimate of the timber losses. Even
after the fires are out it will be diff
cult to reckon the cost. 1t is believed.
however, hat the present fires are the
most expensive the United States has
ever known. An expert railroad
builder estimated the loss of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railroad at 81 SOC, 900.
The Spokane Chamber of Commerce
has begun the raising of a large relief
fund. :
There are $50 mel in the
mountains between Lolo Pass and st.
Mary's, n Major Fem has sent three
guides to pilot them out.
Conditions in the Clearwater reserve
are hopeless, and Major Fem has re-
ceived instructions from the forestry
headquarters in Missoula to recall all
the fre-fighters from the interior of
the stricken region and set them to
work on the outskirts of the fire zone.
The message said:
Save the lives of the men and let
the timber go.''
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
CHECKS FOR S1,467.27
PICKED UP in STREET,

Clerk Walter O'Hara, of the Hudson
County Board of Freeholders, received
today eight checks approved by the
board and a~ggregating $1.467.27. These
were found lying in the street by
Henry w. Medenbach, a machinist. of
406 Bank street, this city, as he was
alighting from a car near Elliot street,
Jersey City.
The checks were folded in a leather
wallet and were for various amounts.
the largest being made payable to the
L. w. Kelly Company. a contracting
firm, which erected the new Tubercu-
losis Hospital at Snake Hill. Mr..
Medenbach reported his find at the
STAR office and was instructed to
turn the wallet over to Clerk O'Hara.
The finder is a brother of Policeman
Nicholas M~edenbach. of the First pre-
cinet.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
EIGHT KNOWN DEAD
IN REAR-END CRASH
OF G.. I R. TRAINS
Others Injured, Several Proba-
bly, Fatally, in Michi-
gan Accident.

DURAND, Mich, Aug. 25.-Probably
| eight persons were killed and eight in
jured, three probably fatally, when
Grand Trunk train No. 4 crashed into
the rear of train Nc. IA, stalled on the
track two miles east OF Durand, late
last night
The engine OF No. 4 ploughed it's way
three-quarters of the way through the
sleeping car Nebraska, the last car in
train No. IA, catching eighteen persons
asleep in the coach. The fre-box of
tho colliding engine then dropepd out.
and the death coach In a few minutes
was blazing from end to end.
As the flames ate their way through
the splintered timbers of the coach the
cries of the injured ceased and the
odor OF burning flesh deferred the pas
sengers of the unchanged cars and
the farmers who had hurried from
their homes to assist in the work of
rescue.
Had Trouble with Brakes.
The two trains were sections Of the
Montreal and Boston express and left
Chicago yesterday afternoon. No. IA,
the first section, passed through Du-
1 ait al LVsVA ~ II Ill y 4 ct
The engine of No. IA was having trou-
BILE with its airbrakes and two miles
out of this city Engineer Mitchell
stopped the train and, With his fire
man, got underneath the engine to
make repairs.
Brakeman G. r. Graham, of Detroit,
was sent back to- place a torpedo on
the track and flag the expected second
cnotfop. hfff No A n a !, rttchtpn ON M
a speed of forty miles an hour and
ripped it's way through the Pullman
car.
The shock of the collision sent the
whole standing train a little forward,
and Engineer Mitchell n his fireman,
underneath the stalled engine, were
badly hurt.
Brakeman Graham declares that he
placed the torpedo a mile from the rear
of No. IA, but that No. 4 paid no at
tention to it. Engineer Spencer's story
is different.
1--WE were almost upon No. IA when
we struck the torpedo" he says. 81
heard it all right, but there wasn't
time to stop. I damned on the brakes
and called to Nelson, my fireman, to
jump.
II made a flying leap n landed in
the ditch. Nelson didn't get away
fast enough and was caught. Both my
ankles were crushed and l couldn't
move.
Il tell you, the tail lights Of IA were
not going. and the torpedo was placed
so close to the rear of IA that | didn't
have time to stop
The crew of No. IA, except the engine
crew, are said to have been hired dur
ing the recent strike and retained after
the settlement.