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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
HORSES DECREASING IN PARIS.

The number of horses In Paris
steadily decreases under motor compe-
tition, and the horses that remain
have to thank the automobile as we'll
as the efforts Of various societies for
the better treatment they receive. for
to survive in these days they must be
fit. The army authorities take CEN
sus of the number of horses, and the
figures for 1911 show 72,4S8 in Paris.
compared with 96,69S in 1901. This
means that the number Of horses has
decreased 24,210 in ten years. or al
most exactly quarter. The military
authorities are somewhat perturbed
over this fact. It is true that for
transport of war material and provis-
ions automobile traction saves the use
of many horses, but there remain tho
needs Of the cavalry and artillery. The
old standby for trained horses. the
omnibus companies, will soon be Of no
assistance, for autobuses are rapidly
supplanting horsedrawn stages.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
CIRCULAR SAYS COME
BACK NOW OR NEVER

Salt Lake, Utah., Oct. 3.-The Ore
gon Short Line railroad has taken
the offensive for the first time since
the federated shopmen left their
tools last Saturday. A circular let
ter has been issued to the STRIKING
shopmen promising them employ
ment if they returned to work on or
before Wednesday, but stating that
those who did not return then need
never apply for further employment
with the road.
The strikers claim that the shops
are in a crippled condition, and say
that they are in a position to stand
long siege.
Statements at Variance
Chicago, Oct. statements is
sued tonight by railroad officials and
union leaders who are directing the
strike of shop employees on the Har-
riman railroads, including the Illinois
Central, still showed a wide variance
in estimates of the number of men
involved.
Julius Kruttschnitt, director of OPP
Grafton of the Hartman lines, says
only 1000 men left their work on the
Union Pacific lines.
J. A. Franklin, international presl-
dent of the boilermakers, was equally
positive in his assertion that 10000
or more were out.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
A RECORD LAW SUIT.

A suit in which q French woman.
Nine. Cotton, Ia the present plaintiff.
is unique In the annals of ngdrawn-
out cases. This lady Is the legal
heiress of goldsmith who In 1858 lent
the government of Venice 100000
crowns, the present value of which.
with interest. Is estimated at about
$4,0OO,OOO. The heir Of the original
lender was q Frenchmaa, Jean Thier-
~. who died before the loan was re-
paid. There was a lawsuit over his
succession, and Louis XIV. claimed the
estate. and annexed the French por-
ton of it. The suit was stu dragging
on at the time Of the directory. when
Bonaparte forced Venice to repay the
loan. Since then France has been
the custodian Of the Thierry estate.
The government has been sued dozens
Of times, but to no purpose. Now,
Nine. Cotton is suing the government
of Austria and Italy, as well as that
of France, because each In turn has
owned Venice.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
nLISa tEGisLATuRE
IN SPECIAL SESSION,

-
Springfield. ILL.,, Oct 1LThe spe-
ciaI session of the forty-seventh gen.
eral assembly of Illinois, which took
recess late in June, reconvened to-
day.
But one subject of legislation, deep
waterways, was named in Gov. De-
mems call for the special session. No
other subject may be taken up unless
the call is amended.
Gov. Deneen has been urged to en-
large the call to include initiative aud
referendum legislation and an appro-
prtation for the Illinois public utility
commission. 1t is said Gov. Deneen
favors enlarging the call or issuing
another for second special session.
which cannot be called until the pres
ent one adjourns.
The tangle is aggravated by the
fact that the anti-Deneen members
are, opposed to adjourning the special
session until the Lorimer case finally
Is disposed of at Washington.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
THE USE OF THE COMMA.

The point on which most writer's
are at odds with the compositor Is
the comma. says the London Chron-
icle. It is not that he misplaces 1t 50
loutrageously, as in that sentence
which was the cause Of many tears IN
a Berlin newspaper ONCE some years
ago: prince Bismarck walked In on
his head. the well-known cap on his
feet. large. brightly polished top boots
on his forehead, dark cloud In his
hand. the inevitable walking stick In
his eye. a menacing glance"
No. but he is too fond c. this par
ticular punctuation point. He takes q
delight in breaking up the now OF
sentences with his artificial pauses.
We all say: "Why then did you do 1t
in one breath. 1t Is the composit.-
who says, "Why. then. did you do It"
It is possible to be too hard on the
comma. It has its undeniable uses.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
REPUBLICANS PLAN FOR
NATIONAL CONVENTION

New York, Oct. 3.-After a meet
Ing here between former Gov. John
F. Hill, of Augusta, Me-, acting chair
man, and William Hayward, of New
York city, secretary of the Repub-
lican national committee, a call was
issued for a meeting of the COM
mittee in Washington December II.
At this meeting the claims of va
rious cities for the national conven-
tion will be heard, and the place and
time will be decided. Among others,
Buffalo, st. Louis and Chicago will
be applicants.
1t is necessary for this call to be
issued in time to notify the members
in Hawaii, the Philippine Islands
Alaska and Porto Rico.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
CHROME IRON DEPOSITS
LOCATED IN ALASKA.

Seward, Alaska, Oct. 2.-Some
very extensive deposits of chrome
iron have been found in Red noun
tain, seven miles from Seldovia. w.
A. Beet, a mining engineer, has just
returned from the scene of the find,
after spending the season in investi-
cations on the ore mountain, and is
of the opinion that the chrome iron
is of sufficient high grade and is in
quantity to make it very valuable.
One deposit of pure chrome is four
feet in width and is exposed for a
distance of 400 feet. Slides of coun-
try rock cover this outcrop at either
end. There are several of these out
crops in various sections of the noun
tain.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
EIGHTY-ONE ABANDONED
RAILROADS IN UNITED STATES

Records for 1910 show that in the
United States there are 81 aban-
doned railroads. From Is the rails
have been removed and "a are de-
.scribed as mot in operation" or
operations suspended" says a writ
er in the Railroad Mans Magazine.
By way of example there is the
Hecla & Torch Lake Railroad of
Michigan, which was abandoned in
spite of the fact that it possessed
Is locomotives and 500 cars. 1t was
the property of the Calumet & Hecla
Mining Company, and ran from Cal
umet and Lake Linden, chiefly in con-
nection with the transportation of
ore. Then the time came when there
was not further demand for it's sery-
ices, because there was no more ore,
and SO it shut down.
The Forest City & Gettysburg Rail-
road of Pennsylvania was started by
group of promoters, 80 it is said,
as a try-out of the transportation
financial possibilities of the tract of
country through which it passed. No
stocks or bonds were issued, in which
respect it was probably unique. The
experiment was failure and it's OPP
Grafton was suspended 1t will be re-
constructed and heightened probably.
One of the smallest and perhaps
most improbable railroads in the
United States was the abandoned
Kentucky Northern that ran from
Sincoe, KY, to a junction with the
Louisville & Atlantic railroad, a dis
lance of eight miles. 1t was incor-
porated in May, 1902.
From the first it proved to be a
drain on the pocketbooks of the
stockholders. The surrounding
population seems to have disliked
the line. Not enough passenger
tickets were sold and not enough
freight was shipped to pay for the
keeping of it's one locomotive, it's lone
passenger coach or it's solitary nat
car.
In the year ended June, 1908, it's
operating expenses were $12,333
and it's net earnings $697. About
this time it was concluded that the
wisest plan would be to abandon the
road.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
TWO HUNDRED PERISH IN
FLOOD At AUSTIN. PA.

Austin, Oct. AT 5 o'clock this
morning an estimate based on infor-
nation furnished by officers of the
state constabulary, officials of the
Bayless Pulp & Paper Company and
the chief of police places the total
number dead in the valley as result
of the breaking of the pulp company's
dam here late Saturday afternoon at
200. The work of rescuing corpses
is proceeding slowly. Looting of the
dead has been stopped. The town is
cordoned by guard of state con-
stabulary and none are allowed to
enter without a permit. The prop
erty damage is estimated at $6,000,-
900.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
b. G.. TAX COMMISSION
TO ENCOURAGE CAPITAL.

Vancouver, B. c., Sept. 3O.-That
the companies act, which levies extra
taxes on provincial companies doing
business in British Columbia, is det-
errent to the commercial develop
ment of the province; that the per-
sonal property tax is unsound IN
principle and should be abolished;
that no higher rate Of taxation should
apply to crown granted lands than
to expense held properties, and that
all taxes should be removed from
outside capital seeking investment in
British Columbia were the features
of the evidence given before the pro-
vincial tax commission at its first
session in Vancouver yesterday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
FRUITMEN DENY REPORTS
OF ORCHARD DETERIORATION

Spokane, Oct. 2.-The department
of agriculture, Washington, D. C.,
dispatches state, is preparing to send
experts to Washington, California
and Oregon to investigate the alleged
deterioration of irrigated orchards i'll
which intensive farming methods
have been followed.
Fruitgrowers of Spokane and vicin-
ity take exception to the statement
that any deterioration has taken
place.
They also deny the truth of the
statement of the department that de-
cline in the value of established or
chards in the three states named has
amounted to millions of dollars.
cit is absurd to say that soil in
this vicinity is being impoverished
by intensive farming methods" said
Secretary G. B. Dresher of Spokane
County Horticultural society today.
"Quite the opposite is true. Most
intelligent orchardists are adding to
the value of their soil by the use of
nitrates and other fertilizers.
''Most of the orchards in this end
of the state are too young to show
any soil impoverishment, were that
taking place. The only orchards that
are going down hill are doing SO
because of careless management
According to the Washington an
nouncement, corps of fruit and soil
experts will spend several months III
the states mentioned to investigate
the effect of irrigation upon the soil.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
A NOVEL INN.

mo intoxicating liquors have been
sold here for seventeen years, and
will not as long as the present owner
is alive" said Mr.. James Blenkhorn.
when applying at Richmond for the
transfer Of the license OF The Lay
ton Arms" at East Layton. Appli-
cant said 1t was simply to keep the
license on They might apply for one
when Mrs. Maynard Proud, the owner,
died. The license was granted. The
property was SO willed to Mrs. May
nard Proud that the license Of the
house had to be kept. Being great
temperance advocate. she refused to
have Intoxicating liquors sold there,
and for seventeen years she has paid
for the magistrates certificate. The
house II now used a Temperance
ho1Ak
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
KING COUNTY IN LEAD
AS STRAWBERRY CENTER

Olympia, Sept. 3O.-During 1911
Washington produced $50 carloads
of strawberries, amounting to 443,-
055 crates, or 10,632,840 quarts.
which netted the grower an average
OF 81 per crate, making the total
value of the crop $SS6,07O, says the
report filed with Gov Hay by F. A.
Huntley, state fruit inspector.
King county easily leads as the
strawberry center of the state, pro-
ducing 397 ,451 crates valued at con-
slderably over quarter of million
dollars. Spokane county was next
with 1920 crates, and Pierce third
with 43,44O crates. Every county in
the state produces strawberries, the
lowest being Wahkiakum, with LOO
crates.
The report shows there are 2,532
acres devoted to strawberries, which
would give return to the growers OF
sooo per acre. Washington imported
oS'ooO crates from Oregon and Cali
Iorhla, but to offset this, exported
'o,Voo crates. These figures show
only the strawberries handled by
dealers.
Gut of the l49 carloads exported
nihs county produced ninety cars
Ilerce fifteen and Spokane ten cars
'asnon island is the principal stra ".
Jerry producing place, that district
'iohe shipping out seventy carloads
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
CHRONOLOGY OF INVENTIONS.

narometers were first made by Tor.
rfcelli in 1912. Bombshels were nrse
made in Holland in 1895. The first
.lmanac was printed In Hungary In
ITO Iron pavements were hrst laid
a I nndon ia 1917. Buckles were nrst
made IN 1880. Brandy was first made
= rance IN 1910. Roller skates were
irvented By Plympton in 1868. Cow
.red carriages were flrst used n Eng
send q 1850. Alcohol was discovered
IS the thirteenth century. Stem wind
a. witches were the invention Of
mol IN 1851. The nrst iron wire wao
drawn ct Nuremberg In 1851.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
Judge Grosscup Again Reconsider

Judge Grosscup Again Reconsiders.
Chicago, Sept. 3O.-Judge Peter
s. Grosscup issued statement last
night in which he said he would
tender his resignation as presiding
Judge of the United States court OF
appeals of this circuit to President
Taft the first week in October. The
Judge said that his determination to
carry out his previously announced
plan to retire has been liked Dy the
failure OF his enemies to make
threatened attack upon his judicial
record.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
rotate Carnival at Waterville

spokane, WASH, Oct. 2.-Resi-
vents OF Waterville, seat of Douglas
q ooullty' WASH, ITO miles west of
apokane, determined to give the hum
s"oer It's proper place in the world s
"siicuitural products, have decided
upon a potato carnival for the latter
part part OF October or early in Novem-
~ el' when growers from all parts OF
e country will be invited to exhibit
Sl7 of the starchy vegetable.
; ;" cash prizes and premiums
KIND will be offered for displays.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
IN MILLION APPLE
TREES IN STATE
,,o1S NEW ACREAGE Is
OCCUPIED BY KING Of
FRUITS.
,...,,ner of Trees Under Three Years
Greatly Exceeds Number OF Great
,ce-Full Crop Means 75,OOO.-
ooo Boxes. Estimated Worth q
Dollar Box.

oo,,one Wash, Oct. 2.-Seven
.;os in Eastern Washington have
ndor cultivation 6,s30,SS9 apples
,9517s5 peach, 743,s6S pear, 2O7-
40 cherry, 1S2,931 prune and plum
and 94.S73 apricot trees, according
- ronorts compiled by F. A. Hunt
,or state commissioner of horticul-
lawn Three counties in which the
.ourt is not yet complete will, it is
.otimated. bring the number of ap-
sIo trees to fully 1O,00O,00O, a full
aron from which would mean about
5ooO 900 boxes or more than the
total apple production in the United
States in 1910.
Yakima county reports 642,032
annie trees four or more years old
ond 1.241,739 three years and
Younger: Spokane county, sos, 076
four years and older and 1,299,SO5
three years and younger; Chelan
comfy, 57S,3SS four years and older
and 1,243,193 three years and young
or: Okanogan county, 15S,467 four
Years and older and 6S9,86S three
Years and Younger; Whitman county,
1O6. $50 four years and older and 49,
544 three years and younger; Asotin,
3S.272 four years and older and 3d.
S64 three years and younger; Doug
las county, 1852 four years and old
er and 222,329 three years and
Younger.
Walla Walla, Stevens and Benton
counties have not completed their re-
ports. There are numerous large
commercial apple orchards in the
three districts. One community pro-
iect in Stevens county already has
planted more than $4,000 two and
three years old trees and when COM
pleted there will be 100000 trees
on the $4,000 acres.
Commissioner Huntley reports that
the acreage in the seven counties
mentioned devoted to tree fruits is
as follows: Apples, 1916; peaches.
1880; pears, 6,SSS; cherries, L.
GIG; prunes and plums, 1893, and
apricots, S7S.
Handlers estimate that the orchard
value of the apple crop when the
trees now planted come into bear
ing, will be fully SIS, 100000.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
PLAIN REAsoNs Why THE WINDS
BLOW.

Astronomers and other scientists
have not yet succeeded In ascertain
~ just how far the atmosphere a
our earth extends above the land and
the sea on which It rests, but some q
them hope to some day soon. The
Astronomer Royal Of England, who
has completed his report for the fiscal
year ending May 10, tells some very
interesting things about the varying
densities. attitudes and temperatures
OF the air cushions. air pockets and
air currents surrounding the earth.
IN reference to air currents and
the reasons why tho wind blows, the
report explains that air consists Of
gaseous particles. all trying to ret
away from one another, and that, un-
der certain conditions, they can b
compelled to come closer together By
contraction. or forced to ny further
apart BY expansion. A quart bottle,
for example. holds ~ grains Of air at
the temperature Of 70 degrees. II the
bottle be cooled by surrounding it
With Ice. the air inside contracts.
When this occurs. more air rushes In
through the bottles neck. The quart
Of air now weighs more than a grains.
II the bottle b heated, the air 1t con-
tains expands. Its. tiny particles AZ
further asunder. and many Of them
escape from the bottle altogether.
There 10 still q quart Of air. but It
weighs much less than the original q
grains.
Now. consider the earth and the sea
under the influence of varying degrees
Of the suns heat Where the heat IL
greatest. the air IL made lighter and
expands. Where the heat Is least, the
air Is unexpanded and heavy. Both
the hot and the cold air have weight.
but the cold, being the heavier, II
drawn more effectively down to the
ground. In doing so it drives the light
or air up out of its way, just as lump
Of lead dropped into a pail Of water
forces some of the water upward. II
the earth we're equally warm at every
part, and continued at constant tenn
perature, wind could not exist. 1t
elbows" because of heat and gravita-
ton. In other words, air moves from
the place where its weight or pressure
is most, toward the place where its
weight or pressure Is least.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
hlNG COUNTY TO PAY
FOURTH OF STATE TAX.

olympia, Sept. 30.-Out of the 49,
VoZ'l6l to be raised in taxes for
S'dIe purposes in 1911 King county
VIII pay s1,262,412, or 25 per cent
Vi lhe total in round numbers.
spokane county comes next with
9o.s'So4 and Pierce county is third
with s463,2SS.
~, ohohomish will pay $2O1,397
nitman S199,715, and then comes
!, iahima with $1S6,S57, and Che
mans with $163,376. Up to this
year Chehalis ranked fourth.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
CHANGES ASKED WOULD
SAVE DRYS IN MAINE.

August, Sept. 3O.-Applications
for corrections in the returns in the
state election of September II from
Limestone, Westfield, Athens and
Martinicus plantations, which, If
finally allowed, would change the
Eyes" plurality of rs, as officially
tabulated, to a plurality OF 75S
against the repeal of constitutional
prohibition, were made yesterday at
q meeting Of the governor and coun-
Gill;
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
Bids for sunnyside Excavation

Washington, Oct. 2.-,-The secre-
tary of the interior is asking for
proposals for the excavation and back
filling of trenches and the construc-
ton of wood. stave pipe and other
structures in the vicinity of Mabton.
Wash, in connection with the Sunny
side unit of the Yakima irrigation
project The bids will be opened on
October 16, at the Office of the recla-
nation service at Sunnyside.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
HARTMAN SHOPMEN
OBEYSTR|KE ORDER
APPROXIMATELY 10000 DROP
TOOLS, AFFECTING TRAFFIC
GENERALLY.
In Middle West and South Railway
Employees Quit Almost as Man
Officials Of Companies Involved De-
clare WalkOut Unwarranted and
Say Will Maintain Schedules.

Chicago, Oct. 1.-The threatened
strike of the shopmen on the Harri-
man lines to enforce recognition OF
the newly-organized federation of
shop-workers became a reality yester-
day. The number of men who quit
in the fifteen states affected was esti-
mated at between 10000 and 10000
by the union men, although Julius
Kruttschnitt, vice president of the
Hartman lines, tonight said the num-
Der was much smaller.
Reports from most of the points
indicated that the men walked out
without demonstrations and no riot
ing was reported. Traffic was con-
tinued without interruption and the
railroad heads say that the shop
mems strike, even if it is extended,
will not interfere with transporta-
ton.
Response to Order General
The response to the strike order
was general through the Middle West
and in the South. The men had re-
ceived notices from the international
presidents of the five crafts directly
involved, and when the hour came
the men laid down their tools and
left.
At New Orleans, where the strike
already had extended from a strike
of the Illinois Central Clerks, and
the men have been out several days
two men received jail sentences for
violation of federal injunction re-
straining them from interfering with
the company's property. In the far
West, it is said by railroad officials.
only small percentage of workmen
responded to the strike call. Vice
President Kruttschnitt issued this
statement:
Forces Already Reduced.
cat many of the intermediate
points on the Union and Southern
Pacific shop forces were laid off to
reduce working time and effect a re-
duction of expenses. At other points
no men at all went out, and at some
points only one or two. At the gen.
eral shops, so far as heard from, the
situation was as follows:
Omaha general shops, 20 per
cent.
cat Sacramento, 25 per cent.
cat Oakland, II per cent.
Train schedules on all lines are
normal and the maintenance of regu-
lar schedules will in no manner be
interfered with"
Six Glasses of Strikers
The men involved arc divided into
the following groups, say union lead.
ers:
Machinists, 1000; boilermakers
1000; blacksmiths, 5000; carmen
II 900; clerks, 1000; miscellaneous
workers, 1000.
w. L. Park, vice president and
general manager of the Illinois Cen
trail, issued circular to employees
of the road last night, characterizing
the demands of the men as radical
relating the story of the negotiations
and charging that the contracts be-
tween the men and the unions have
not been abrogated by the necessary
thirty days notice.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06
Fowler Quifs Eight

Emigrant Gap. CAL, Oct 2.Avia-
tor Robert G. Fowler has abandoned
his transcontinental flight owing to
the fact that his engine will not carry
him over the Sierras. He made two
unsuccessful attempts Saturday.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-06

Washington, Sept. 30.-Two and
half million dollars was on deposit
in postal savings banks on August
81, according to official computations.
There was an increase Of $1,000, 900
during August.