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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02

Some of the merchants had been con tempating the tearing down of their frame buildings and building modern structures. But nothing determines . man to this as quiakly as fire.
 It may be sad that the fire last Fri day morning came just at the psycholo- gical moment. It would have hurt at any time. The people had decided to build new town by degrees and at their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02

Fayette has never stopped to think much about the building of water works. The council will take up the
 matter at it's regular meeting Monday
 night. An election on water works bonds will probably be called and ad - vertised at that time. It is not be-
 lieved that there will be the suggestion
 of opposition.
 The town council of Fayette is
 made up from the business men of the town. Most of them suffered in the
 recent fire and have taken firm hold
 on matters, and are moving their town
 up in the scale of progress more than
 100 per cent.
 These officials have made it manda = tory that the town shall be not only rebuilt in six months, but it must be a modern, freproof town Architects and contractors are figuring night and day on plans for new, modern build ings.
 No contracts have yet been let but 1t is not for lack of spirit and deter imitation to rebuild. Some of the larger
 merchants are either trying to enlarge their ground space or secure other ad vantages in location or space for broad CT operations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Special April Sale For The Housekeeper
 Every article here you will need and every ar tice is marked at a reduced price, Reduced prices made Icecream Freezers, Refrgeraors; Soda Fount and dairy supplies.
Wire Goods Bargains

10c Wire Tea Strainers Sc 10c Wire Spout Strainers .5c 10c Wire Bowl Strainers .5c Durable Wire Coat and Hat
 HOOKS ........ ........ 1c Wire Plate Easels 5c Wire Coat Hangers ........ Sc Wire Clothes Lines .......... 19c Wire Steak Broilers ...... 1Oc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Special Sale of Galvanized 
 Ware
The Heaviest Sort at Re
 duced Prices

uuCcU LIlC6S 8-quart Galvanized
 Buckets 15c l0-quart Galvanized
 Buckets ... .19c 12-quart Galvanized
 Buckets .23c No. 0 Galvanized Wash
 Tubs .39c No. 1 Galvanized Wash
 Tubs 49c No. ? Galvanized Wash
 Tubs 59c No. 3 Galvanized Wash
 Tubs .69c Small size Galvanized
 Foot Tubs .25c Medium size Galvanized = Foot Tubs ....... .35c Large size Galvanized
 Foot Tubs 49c 
 202O 2nd Ave. AnAr II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02

The county commissioners with Pro- bate Judge E. P. Goodwin returned last night from a tour of inspection of courthouses in Alabama and Missis- sippi They will submit plans and ask for bids next week. The new building will be modern and much more substantial than the one de- stroyed. The county is out of debt and has a comfortable surplus in the treas ury. The necessary funds for the erec- tion of a good courthouse are availabl z from local citizens who are willing to make whatever loan is asked for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02

It is said that every man who was in business at the time of the fire will resume business at once. While all of them are hurt none of them are en- tirely down and out of the game though the insurance carried in the town was unusually small.
 A permanent fire limit has been es- tablishe6, covering the ten blocks men tioned above. Nothing but brick or stone buildings will be permitted in this ter ritory.
 The total loss is variously estimated at from s4o0.000 to S1 900, coo
 While it is hard for these people to admit it now some of the more cheerful of them try to console themselves and their more needy -neighbors that the fire loss will be looked back to in a few years as the greatest individual and collective blessing that ever came to the town.
 Fayette had just begun to realize some of the advantages of modernism. The discovery and installation of natural gas gave the people taste of modern con- veniences. They had begun to sigh for brick buildings water works, electric lights and street cars. Two or three small brick buildings had been erected. and more would have followed but it would have taken time to put the town on a modern basis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
|FAYETTE KNOWS
 HOW ID PROCEED Will Soon Emerge From
 Heaps of Ashes CONTRACTORS BUSY Temporary Buildings in Streets Are Being Used by Business Men
 Until Brick Stores Can
 Be Erected
By WALTER HARPER

Fayette. April 1.-(Special)-I am writing this letter In the midst of q charred and desolate city. Bare. crum- bling chimneys and twisted timbers scar the view over a large area.
 One week ago yesterday morning the entire business section of Fayette was completely destroyed by fire. More than 50 business houses and four residences were destroyed. Every store in the town with the exception of a small negro store and the oil mill commis- sary was burned.
 The county courthouse, the county newspaper, the hotel and the Fayette county bank are in ashes The news paper came out on time this week, printed elsewhere. A new plant will be put in as soon as possible. Temporary offices are being planked up in the streets for the county officials. Patrons of the hotels are being taken care of in residences building has been tenn porarily rented for the accommodation of the travelling public.
 The bank Is doing business in an old buggy house that has been rolled into the street
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23
REDEWILL PIANO CLUB
The Best Xmas Gift You can afford one S1.75
 per week. ..

t2na he had covered six hundred miles 1 in the mountainous country. had changed horses which he had stolen eighteen times, and had slipped by posses. securing the country for him and had done almost without food OF sleep. according to the story he told last night
 lowell $ thirty years old. is uncom- monly good looking. and doesn't look
 L" be a man of hardened criminal
 tendencies. He said he was born in
 Texas, and early adopted the wander iEg habit. and the carefree life of the cowboy. working for years through the plains Of Texas. Arizona. Wyoming
 and Montana. He has been foreman "n some of the big ranches Of these
 states. and has had the care and trust
 oi thousands Of cattle. and the em-
 Tl"Ement of many hands H. claims
 c. b" particular victim Of unrortu-
 IitE circumstances, and says he Was
 'railroaded" tn the Montana pcnitcu-
 uary for seven years for implication
 iE a horse stealing affair And con
 e,dering the fact that I once wore the
 stripes, I knew. the chance of staying and trying to get justice was hazard "us. when Erannin was killed. SO II fed
 According to lowell. Brannin was splendid boy" who had come into that country from OllahOma-and was Iart Mexican by blood: but Brannin. | he says. being over-zealous with his 1 new office of deputy sheriff had made | tasty plays with his gun on several | men in that county. and it was this. | h" said, that caused the shooting af- ! fray November 10th. in which tho young officer was fatally shot.
 lowell had been traced to Prescott. ! from which place he came to Phoenix | several days ago and until arrested | I thursday had worked for the Barber Asphalt Paving company by tie name o' Dalton l. Sparks. He denied yes. terday that he has d brother in Phoe- nix, as had been stated He has rel | atiVes in New Mexico and has two uncics. Clabe Merchant at Abilene. Texas, and John Merchant at Belle vile. Texas
 The reward which had been offered by Q. A. Fallang. sheriff of Big Tim Der, Mont, of 5000 will so to the local officers. Chief Moore and Police man Hosmer. and to an officer iii Montana for information which as- sisted in the mans arrest.
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23

Mel F. lowell. alias Dalton Sparks. the man arrested Thursday by Officer Hosmer. charged with kill ing Joe Brannin in Melville. Montana. November I6th. yesterday evening ad- niitted being implicated in the fatal shooting of the Montana deputy Sher- iff. He said. however. it was only after the sheriff had fired five times at him that resistance WaS offered He stated that another man. arrested and held in Montana participated in the fraV-and that whether he OF the ether man shot Brannin. il was justi- liable
 lowell escaped arrest and afte. riding hundreds of miles on horseback at night with a snow bank often fog d pillow and with little to eat. with lardships undergone in his past thirty oaNs which many a brave man would finch under. his dash for liberty was brought to an end Thursday whes. Policeman HoSmcr arrested him in Phoenix ealing for his mail. During his flight from the officers in Mon
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23
Finances and Markets

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Goulds and Lehigh Valley attracted most atten- tion today in the stock market. Le- high advanced three points to 1S6%4 the highest on record, this through d belief that an extra distribution will he made soon to shareholders. Later. profit taking reduced the gain some what. Among the Goulds trading was heavy. Wabash 4s developed q good demand and rose nearly three points to 55l2, compared with 30 early in the week. Preferred also advanced Denver x Rio Grande was weak at the start. but later made substantial gains. The market showed the usual symptoms before triple holiday. Trading was on a small scale and final changes in most issues were in- consequential. Some copper stocks declined after the recent brisk ad- vance. There was no sign of strength m the money market such as ap- pears abroad. Banks this week re- celNed more than eleven millions from The interior. Estimates on tomorrow's bank statement indicate gain in the cash Preserves here of nine millions Bonds were irregular. Total sales. par value. S3.S39,000. Government bonds unchanged for the week.
 Stocks.
 AmalGamated. 661s; Smelling. 745s: Atchison, l06; St. Paul. llO2s: New York Central. lo51.; PennsyIvania. l2212; Reading. 152%s: Southern Pa ellie, l25%s: Union Pacific. I74as: Steel. GS+s; do preferred. llla.
 Silver, 54Iac
 NEW YORK. Dec. 22-COpper was Puiet: spot futures. $13.S7lA lAmI412Ia. AfriNals. l24j tons. Exports this month, 2I.755. Lead. $4.4OM4 5O. uuiet
 Dallas. Texas, is to have new S".Ooo.oO0 union passenger station.
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23
A TRAVELLERS SAMPLES.

\ travelling salesman who sells post cards and Christmas cards in the West, came into our store yesterday and said: 'I have got a lot of sam pie Christmas cards and booklets in my sample books that I can't use fur ther. it's so late in the season. Look
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23

them over and make me an offer"
 The booklets and cards were clean, and desirable and we bought them, and offer them to you today at 5c. 10c. l5c. 20c. 25c and 4oc each IT you have not found just what you want in booklets. come in and look these oyer
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23
Suspect Sparks Is Mel. B.
 lowell Of Montana
STORY OF THE HOMICIDE
Prisoner Tells of Killing of Deputy Sheriff in Big Timber, Montana, But Claims Justification and Hard Luck.

BIG TIMBER. Mont. Dee. 22.-It is b.urNcd Dalton l. Sparks. Under ar rest al Phoenix is Mel lowell. an out laN with a price on his head. who is 1.anted for the murder of Deputy Shcriff Joseph Brannin. in Melville. November lG lowell shot BrInnin as the officer was attempting to ar rest a man named Jackson for cattle luStlinS.
Arizona republican., 1911-12-23

Dallas. Texas, is to have new 'i, 'i,Ooo.oO0 union passenger station.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
THE POTATO DUEL.
i.auahabis Battle Between Bad MAD
and a Preacher.

Not all the duels fought in Ken
t,1ckv have been bloody or even dan
eerous. Many years ago Bill Bow
man, a noted circuit preacher ana I !.
muscular Christian, once employees
unique weapons with effectiveness.
At one Of his meetings local
desperate had created a disturbance
and on being publicly rebnked BY
Bowman sent him a challenge to
fght. Bowman as the challenged
party had, Of course, the choice OF
weapons. He selected half bushel
of Irish potatoes as big as his list
for each man and stipulated that
his opponent must stand fifteen
PAGES distant and that only one pc
tato at a time should be taken from
the measure. The desperate was
furious at being thus insulted and
made an indignant protest, but
Bowman reminded him that the
challenged man had a right to
choose his own weapons and threat
ened to denounce the chad man
as a coward if he failed to come to
time. As there was no way out but
to fight the desperate reluctantly
consented.
The fight took place on the out
skirts of the town. Everybody was
present to see the fun. The sec
onds arranged the two men in po-
sition, by the side Of each being a
half bushel measure filed with po-
tatoes hard as bricks.
Bowman threw the first potato.
It struck his opponent and flew into
hundred pieces. A yell of delight
went up from the crowd That dis
concerted the bad man, and his po-
tato flew wide of the mark. Bow
man watched his chance. Every
time the desperate stopped for a
potato another potato took him in
the side. The sixth potato took
him in the short ribs, knocking the
wind completely out Of him and
doubling him up on the grass.
The people were almost crazy
with laughter, but Bowman looked
as sober as if he had just finished
funeral service. The bad man
was taken home and put to bed,
and there he remained for more
than a week before he recovered
from the effect Of his potato duel.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
MITCHELL BAY

Peter Kirk Jr. has purchased a
new horse in Seattle.
A number Of signs of spring have
been seen in the woods here.
Miss Gladys Bridges is visiting
with friends on Lopez this week.
Mr.. Walters and Mr.. Peterson
have returned home from fishing
trip.
A few Of the people from here
attended the masquerade ball at
Friday Harbor Thursday evening
A number of young people attend
ed dance at Roche Harbor Satur-
day night and all report a good
time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
Some Hints on
| Spraying Outfits

At this season of the year many
people are, thinking Of purchasing
spraying outfits, and a few comments
along that line are therefore timely,
says A. L. Melander, Entomologist,
Washington State College, Pullman
A single Bordeaux nozzle uses
about two and one half gallons OF
spray per minute at a pressure OF
200 pounds. Two nozzles, therefore,
will use about five gallons per
minute. If you have two leads Of
hose and two rozzles each your
pump must supply 10 gallons or it
will be wasteful.
Most pumps on the market cannot
supply 10 gallons per minute and
keep the pressure above 200 pounds.
In order to have this capacity a
two horsepower engine is needed
/ have had no difficulty in throwing
10 gallons of spray at ESQ pounds
pressure with two horsepower
Fairba n k s-Morse "Jack-of-all-
trade" enigne, but there are other
two horsepower engines on the mar
ket which do not develop sufficient
power for this purpose.
If you intend to use two leads OF
hose with single nozzle you can
get small size pump and possibly
a one-horsepower engine would do.
You will find that most pumps on
the market have a capacity of seven
or eight gallons per minute. Some
of them are even equipped with
three-horsepower engines in order
to do this work well.
A pump throwing eight gallons is
large enough for three nozzles only
unless you wish to shut down the
nozzles. 1t seems to me that it is
not economy to use two nozzles to
one man and single nozzle to the
second sprayer. If you intend to
use two lines of hose you will find
your spraying can be done cheapest
by letting each lead carry two noz-
zles. If you want to get a small
pump that has capacity for two noz-
zles | would suggest putting both
nozzles on single lead and in that
way dispense with the services of
one man.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
DEER HARB0R

Oberlin Loos made trip to That
cher Wednesday.
Gertie and Will Norton were Or
cas- visitors Sunday.
D. Murray has been making i'm
provements on his farm.
j. Lawson entertained few of
his friends last Sunday evening.
The British tug Cornelia Cook lay
at anchor in Deer Harbor Wednes-
day.
F. Marion returned from few
weeks visit in Bellingham Wednes-
day.
j. Lavender and F. Thelwell were
visitors at the Loos home Sunday
evening.
A number of people from here
attended the dance at West Sound
Wednesday night.
A number of the Changers from
here attended the Grange meeting
at West Sound Saturday night.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
SUMMONS FOR pUBLIcAY,o,
No. III

No. I2I
In the Superior Court Of the STATE oe ~
ton. for San Juan County. "aa2
Rhoda McI.achlan and Cora Hover NJ
Thomas MacMahOn, also all Other
or sartfes unknown Claiming am ons
title. lien or interest in the real ..snt
descnbed In the complaint herein S'
PENDANTS. EH IT.
The state o. Washington to the sa,a ,,
Mac Nahon, also all other De, sons mr. IN. mo-
known cia,fninx an. lght, title, lien or inc
in the real estate described in M. n ml1]
he, e,n, defendants: sompi}
You are hereby summoned to apnso
sixty (6o) days after the date of the 6rs. wy
cation OF this Summons, to-wit WITH. ps
(6o) days after the 28th day of October IN
defend the above entitled action in ,b ts'a q
entitled Court and answer the compliant Nm
plaintiffs and serve copy OF your ausvve .u
the undersigned, attorneys for plaintiffs q,
once below stated, and in case of your I'M
so to do. judgment will be rendered aga,r ~
according to the demand of the coms1
(Which has been filed with the Clerk ~
COURT The object of the above entitled ~
is to remove from plain ifs title to The ny
ing described premises any claim or INV
therein by defendants which claim mr. inv; ,,,'ea
Is cloud upon the title to said properS !
wit; p''peiN
The North half (Nz) of the Southeast or,.
- e. a OF the Southwest quarter Is. W III
Section Two (2), in Township Thirty onrN !.
North of Range Two (a) West in sa u1 y
County, Washington. "
SMITH & COLE
Attorneys for Plaini
P. o. Address 4oS Boston Block. Seattls '' ny
County, Washington. ny
Date OF first publication. October 2S, 1910
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
The Point of View,

'sNo newspaper in the placer" ex-
claimed the tourist, really Mortified.
FWhy, what a way to live! You
never know what is going on in the
rest of the world"
ooh, WELL" returned the old inn
keeper, resuming her knitting,
which she had laid aside for mo-
ment to answer the sojourner's
questions, cts about as broad as
it's long, amt it?
''The rest O. the worlds no better
off, They don't know what's going
on here. Ye told me yerself as how
We hadn't SO much as heard o. the
name O this place fore We landed
here by accident, and we ALPS known
about it all our lives through.
'I'd like to know what ye call
that, now outh's Companion.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
A Stone With a History.

A stone with remarkable his
tory is kept at the British naval
Offices in Portsmouth. In the fif-
ties of the last century it saved a
vessel Of the queens navy. The
frigate Pique ran ashore on the
japanese coast, but was reAoated in
what was thought to be an undam-
aged condition. It proceeded to
Portsmouth and was locked, when
it was found that the stone had i'm
bedded itself firmly in the planks
of the ships bottom. The stone
prevented leakage, and had it drop
ped from its position during the
homeward run there is little doubt
that the Pique would have been
lost.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
The Science. Of BOTANY.

Botany is generally understood to
have originated with Aristotle,
about BIZ B. C. But it was not
until the fifteenth century that the
science began to assume anything
like it's modern aspect. But the
real founder of modern botany was
the justly celebrated Linnaeus, who
in 1885 made known his system
which has ever since been recogniz-
ed as the foundation of the science.
Aristotle merely started the in
quiries which received their full an
swers in the great Linnaeus.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
STARS AND LIGHT YEARS.
a Peep Into the Eternity Ct sPsee
That Surrounds u&

While it is interesting to know
the distance of some of the stars IN
miles. when stated in that way the
numbers are so large that they ire
quently convey very indistinct con-
ceptions to the mind. For this rea-
son it is customary to estimate
stars distances in eight years. a
light year is the distance that light,
moving at the rate OF l86,3cO mules
per second, travels III one year.
This amounts in round numbers to
$3.50, 900, 100000 miles. The dis
lance Of Alpha Centaur Is Ass light
wears; that of Sirius, the dog star,
is almost exactly twice as great, or
SO light years-in other words,
light requires 8.6 years to come to
us from Sirius. And these are
among the very nearest Of the stars.
Some whose parallaxes have been
rather estimated than measured APP
peared to be situated at distance
which light could not traverse in
less than one or two centuries. The
great star Arcturus, for instance,
has a parallax of only eighteen
thousandths of second. Its dis
lance must in that case be about
181 light years, or more than a
thousand million million miles.
And if its distance is so great, then,
since light varies inversely as the
square of the distance from its
source, it can be shown that Are
turus must actually give forth 5000
or 5000 times as much light as the
sun yields
Yet Arcturus is evidently much
nearer than the vast majority Of the
stars are. Not one in a million is
known to have a parallax large
enough even to be intelligently
guessed at. There may be stars
whose light requires thousands in
stead of hundreds of years to cross
the pace separating them from US.
We thus see that only few
points on the nearer shores of the
starry universe lie within reach Of
our measurements, here and there
a jutting headland, while behind
stretches the vast expanse over
which the hundreds of millions of
stars known to exist are scattered.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-24
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Mrs. Ganson was the guest ct
Mrs. Peter Sunday.
Mr.. Mathesius is building an ad-
dition to his residence.
Miss D. Foster is the guest OF
Miss f.. Peter this week.
c.. F. McLennan has been building
a fine chicken house this week.
]. Gore is about again though not
strong enough to feel like working.
Mr.. Woodland and Mr.. Walrath
were the guests of Mr.. Graves Sun
day.
Quite a number of Orcas farmers
have been doing considerable clear
ing this spring.
A. r. Graves is clearing ground
for growing small fruits. which
business he is going into somewhat
extensively.
Quite a number of the Orcas
young people attended the Woodman
dance given at West Sound Wednes-
day and all report good lime.
An informal dance was given in
the w. I. |. hall Saturday evening
last and a very enjoyable time is re-
ported. The music was furnished
by an Edison monograph.
The dance to be given for the
raising Of the funds for the benefit
of the school, will be given the 4th OF
March and all are cordially invited.
The farce that was to have been
given the same night has been post
poned as it was thought it would in
terfere with the dance, which in this
district seems to take the prefer
ence.