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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-04

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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
Wnl. Buchanan Farm
Sold to ]. II. Wiley

Mr.. J. H. Wiley. Of Seattle, was
in town Monday to conclude the
purchase Of the VIM. Buchanan place
in the San Juan valley. near Mad
den's Corners, which Mr.. Buchanan
purchased a few years ago from
August Void. The deal was made
through H. c. Bostick & Co.. of Sc
attic. A considerable amount of
live stock and farm machinery is in
cluded in the transaction. and also
threshing machine and traction
engine. The reported consideration
is said to be S21, 900, Mr.. Buchanan
taking some Seattle property in
part payment. Mr.. Wiley's son,
now in the employ of the Seattle
Electric Company, will have charge
of the place. The new owner plans
to give especial attention to the
breeding of fine horses and dairy
cattle. The grand matron of the
Order of the Eastern Star in this
state, Mrs. Linnie w. James, of
Seattle, is daughter of MIR. Wiley
and both he and his son are members
the of Masonic order.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
Morrill-Erk Wedding

The Post-Intelligencer of last
Sunday contained the following no.
tice of a wedding of interest to
many friends of the contracting
parties in this county. The bride is
a daughter of Peter Kirk. Of Mitch
ell bay. and a sister of Mrs. v. j.
Capron of this place. The groom
was employed for a time at Roche
Harbor. The P-I says:
Zone of the pretty weddings of the
week was that of Miss Clara C. Kirk
and Mr.. Pearl G.. Morrill,, which
took place at the home Of the brides
sister. Mrs. Ralph Charlton. 1850
Sixty-second avenue west, on Thurs
day. February 9, at 8p. M. the Rev.
]. w. White officiating. The bride
wore a handsome gown Of pale blue
satin. The house decorations were
of spring flowers and exceedingly
pretty.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morrill, left for a
wedding trip to Victoria and Van
couver, after which. and a fort
nights visit at Deer Lodge, Roche
Harbor, the home of the brides
father, they will make their home
near Calgary, B. c."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
State Aid law Sustained

Those who are trying to take
control of the state aid road fund
from the state highway department
and place it in the hands of county
commissioners and county engineers
have struck snag which may de-
feat their desires.
It is a provision of the state aid
law which prevents the state levy
ing any tax for county purposes, such
as roads would be. The state SUI
preme court, in a decision sustain
ing the present state aid road law.
held it valid largely from the fact
that the funds were disbursed under
direction of state officers and pre-
sumably in carrying out a policy of
state highways.
There is provision in the consti-
tuition which may meet the difficulty
which gives the legislature power to
grant power to county authorities
to levy taxes for any county purpose,
but this does not entirely reach the
desire of the county enthusiasts be-
cause under it the legislature can
not force an annual levy, in other
words the commissioners can make
the levy or not, just as they please.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17

announcer reference Is WdOc Ill our
Seattle correspondence this week
to the pernicious proposition now
before the legislature, originated
and fostered by organized labor
agitators, which seeks to extort an
enormous annual fund from employ
ers and employees in certain branch
es of industry for the ostensible
purpose Of providing state insurance
and pensions for workmen.
Representative Frits sent a copy
of the bill (House Bill No. 14) to
the president of the Roche Harbor
Lime Company and asked his opin-
ion, as the principal employer of la
Dor in this county, as to its merits.
The matter being of widespread in
terest and the Islander having first
called public attention to it in this
county. Mr.. McMillin has been kind
enough to send us a copy of his
letter to Mr.. Frits, which covers the
question fully and is very strong
argument against the proposed
measure, for a copy of which we are
indebted to. the Manufacturers
Association of Seattle. While con-
ceding that the general principle Of
state insurance and pensions for
workmen is just, Mr.. McMillin re-
CARDS the proposition now before
the legislature as ''inequitable, COM
plicated, burdensome and bad. I"
He says: Il fail to see any justice
in the state caring for the distress,
compensating for the injury or
pensioning the dependents Of one
man simply because he may have
been injured in one class of labor
and denying all consideration to
another possibly much more helpless,
needy and deserving, for no other
reason than that the latter is work.
ing in another class of employment
not recognized by this Bill. To be
equitable, such law should impose
its burdens equally and distribute
its generosity to all alike (having
regard Of course to the fair relation
of the different risks ION the basis
Of their necessities and misfortune.
There is no just reason why the
state should jealously care for q
man who was hurt or killed in q
brewery and refuse to consider the
appeal Of one who lost his limb or
life in operating mower, binder,
a gang plow or q threshing machine
on the farm. The first might be q
single man. the latter q man Of
family. One might be an undesir-
able alien, the other q most valuable
citizen. A hundred illustrations
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
A Wide-awake 0rchardist Urges
FruitgrOwers to Form Organization

Editor Islander: In your issue of
Feb. 10 l read with pleasure your
editorial Fruit Growers Should
Organize This strikes me as being
right to the point and just what the
doctor ordered. For sometime past
| have talked this to the different
covers whom / have met this fall
and winter and without an exception
all were in favor of organizing in
one way or another. If one will
look over the reports of prices re-
ceived by the several Fruit Growers
Unions and then over his own books
he will soon see that there is some
thing very materially wrong with
the methods of marketing fruit in
San Juan county. The vast differ
ence in prices received by the associ-
ations in eastern Washington and
Oregon and by the individual grower
in San Juan county is not due alone
to the difference in the fruit but to
NAAANA OANCO III lLIC I1lCIk1OOS VI HdCh.
ing. selling and shipping. The fruit
exhibited at the apple shows at Van
couver and Spokane is not so far
superior to that grown in San Juan
county as some people think; in fact
it is superior in color only. and do
not hesitate to say that were the
better gardes of San Juan county
fruit packed and marketed in the
same way as the Northwestern Fruit
Growers Association packs and
markets its output our fruit would
bring as good prices as the associa-
ton report for 1910 show that its
members received for theirs, varieties
considered.
Now / should dislike to think that
those people are any smarter than
we, or that we are so blind that we
cannot see the advantages to be
obtained from organization. Had
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17

1.-The needed ability as an organizer
/ would start out and visit every
grower in the county and show him
so plainly the benefits to he derived
from organization that he would be
as anxious as l for it. But un-
fortunately have not the ability to
put in words what think and feel
on the subject. But there are plen-
ty of men in the county who have;
plenty Of men who are both capable
and honest, who, if put at the head
of Fruit Growers Union, would.
with the help of all the growers.
put the fruit industry On a basis
that would be profitable to all con-
cerned. We all complain about the
prices received for our fruit. yet
we sit down and make no effort to
better the conditions under which
we sell. We take what the COM
mission man sends us, cuss him, and
send him more fruit, and just so
long as we continue to do as we
have been and are doing, just so long
will we receive the prices we now get.
So let us get together and organize.
Won't some one help to make the
start? Won't some three. four or
five men announce their willingness
to take a hand in this matter that
in some way we can hold meeting
and make start? Don't let US get
caught this way another year.
Come somebody, everybody, let us
get started on the right track and
get something for our fruit and
show the commission men that they
cannot always send us a bill for the
freight in return for what we send
them. Come on, who will help?
Now is. the accepted time.
Yours For a Fruit Growers Union,
7. D. Van SAINT.
Olga, Feb. 13. 1911.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17

A number of launches have been
reported to the collector Of customs
of late for failure to carry ready
for immediate use the means of
promptly and effectually extinguish-
ing burning gasoline" as required
by the new law for the regulation
Of motor boats. Some owners Of
small launches have misunderstood
Sec. 6 Of the motor boat act and
have been under the impression that
it applies only to boats more than
sixty-five feet in length, but that is
not true. The regulations require
that AL motor boats irrespective
OF lenght, must be SO equipped.
Besides the usual five extinguishers,
flour or sand will serve the<purpose.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
House Bill No. II Unfair Both
to Employersand Employees

might be given to show the injustice
of this scheme.
''The manifest object and purpose
of this Bill is to provide we'll for the
representatives of organized labor,
and to disqualify the much larger
body of unorganized labor. Why
should a painter who falls from a
ladder while painting barn be pro-
tected and farm hand, who falls
from ladder while picking apples
be denied? Both may work for the
same master and each may sustain
the same broken leg. There is
nothing in this Bill for the farmer
and nothing for anyone unless he
works in some of the lines where
we know organized labor generally
predominates or controls. The Bill
even compels the appointment of
one of the three salaried commits
sioners from the ranks Of organized
labor. Why should not unorganized
labor, or employers of some other
class of people, be equally favored
and desiganted? An honest, compe-
tent man should be the only qualifi-
cations recognized by law for such
appointments. The object is clearly
to 'spack the jury" in advance.
Perhaps the next Bill would demand
all three of the commissionships
from the same source.
The Bill itself declares that "The
welfare Of the state depends upon
its industries and even more upon
the welfare of its wage workers. ;"
This means the whole state
everybody. If so, all property
should contribute in the same pro-
portion, and in the same way as all
other taxes are raised, for the uni
versal good. The Bill puts the
whole burden upon the industries
upon which it declares "the welfare
Of the state depends" Why should
not the burden be put upon the
whole state including the industries,
and not compel the industries to
carry the just burden of the whole
people?
The schedule Of contribution is
most glaringly inequitable and was
evidently prepared either by theor-
lists, by those interested in the sche-
dule, or by both. To illustrate: all
quarries are iL the same class and
contribute equally. Every practical
man knows that the risks and num-
Der Of of conseqent accidents in one
quarry will double discount those in
another. The natural conditions.
the character Of the stone, the topog-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
Dairy Products Of State

L. Davies, state dairy and food
commissioner. gives the following
figures concerning the dairy pro-
ducts Of Washington.
Butter, November l, 1909, $685.
600 pounds, valued at So .205, ,644.21.
Cheese, same period, 204. .983 pounds;
valueud at $32, ,75O.13. Condensed
milk was 121, ,272. 1926 pounds whole
milk, making 1,195 1893 cases Of
finished product. valued at A,185,-
23O. 4.
From November /, 1909, to No
vembefl, 1910, there were $500, ,522
pounds made with four large
creameries yet to hear from) valued
at So, ,3O8 1896 go; condensed milk.
lis, ,7O1, 900 pounds milk. 16S 1874
cases, valued at $4. .13, 1927, with
some more to hear from.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17

The danger of forest fires in the
Cascade mountains and in Western
Washington, along the lines of the
Great Northern Railway, will not be
so grave next fall because oil bur-
ners will be installed in lis locomo-
tives. State officials and govern
ment rangers in the forestry service
have recommended such change
to all railways. The Great North
rem is the first to respond in the
state. A 100000 gallon storage
plant will be erected at Everett for
the crude oil to be landed there from
vessels from California. This inno-
walton will mean great deal in a
protective way to the states timber
resources. as 100000. 900 feet were
destroyed by fire last year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17

Three million Chinese are starv-
ing. The appeal for aid from across
the Pacific has found ready response
in this country. The Seattle Com
mercial Club has taken the lead in
lining up the Northwest. The Red
Cross Society is cooperating and the
federal government will lend the
transport Buford to carry relief
across the seas. According to ad-
vices from Minister Calhoun, food
stuffs and clothing are needed. The
associated Chambers of Commerce
Of the Pacific Coast have seconded
the appeal, so there is every assur-
ance that large quantities of provis-
ions will be forwarded in the near
future. Those desiring to contri-
butte can do so by communicating
with the Seattle Commercial Club.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-17
Various Matters Of
Northwestern Interest
SPECIAL Correspondence

Seattle Febr. Is. This year s
spring colonist travel from the East
is expected to be heavier than ever.
More concessions in the way OF re-
duced rates have been granted tnan
ever before. This fact coupled with
the exhibit cars which all transcon-
tinental railroads have been sending
through the East tends to stlmu-
late interest in the Northwest. 1he
colonist rates go into effect Marcn
10 and last for a period OF thirty
days from all points in the east to
all Pacific coast terminals.
Employees and employers are uni
ted in their opposition to the pro-
posed compensation bill for injured
workingmen and women now before
the state legislature. The first inn
portant feature of this measure is
considered sufficiently unjust to con-
denim the whole. In this it is pro-
vided that a fund for "first aid
shall be raised by each employer of
labor paying 2 cents day for each
of his employees and each of said
employees paying 2 cents a day from
his or her wages. It is estimated
that such contributions would yield
from the start an annual fund Of
$2,OOO,OOO, and that fully IS per
cent of this would be spent in adj
ministration, leaving but Is per cent
be to applied to relief. The injus-
tice of this is so manifest to all
classes and the certainty of creating
an immense political machine so ap-
parent that it should drag the whole
measure down to defeat.
The eight hour bill for women
does not seem to create any consid-
erabe amount of enthusiasm because
the pc: sons proposed to be benefited
did not originate the measure. The
fact is most working women ere
against it, because they realize that
it will cut deep into their earning
power. There is no great amount
of dissatisfaction with the ten hour
law now in force and the new mea-
sure is being agitated solely by per-
sons who hope to make political
capital out of it. Washington fruit
districts and many industries de-
pending on female labor would
suffer should this bill receive favor
able action.
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15

and that age of the world in which
Peter the Hermit, appealing to the
followers Of the cross, raised a great
army of crusaders for the rescue of
the tomb Of Christ from the Saracens
and this link is the Masonic order
Of knights Templar. If, therefore,
Italy should carry out the policy at
tributed to her, its contamination
would be a modern manifestation Of
a chivalry which a cynical world had
assumed was a thing Of the forgotten
past. But with the true touch of
modern business and practical states
manship. Italy, il she does engage in
this undertaking, viii not be governed
SO much by motives of chivalry as by
the plain dictates of judgment. So
long as king and pope continue to
quarrel over the sovereignty of Rome.
neither will command the loyalty of
the Italian people that both of them
desire and need.
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15
BELIEF.

There came n woman singing down the
lane;
Her hair was grey, and yet her voice
was young
AS springs new leaves. About her
figure hung
\ tawny garment beautiful and strange
And as she neared me her two eyes
did seem
Pupils to pain; yet laughter was her
mouth.
Her hands a distaff held and only that
No thread or twisted strands about 1t
wound.
And she did sing n melody profound
To point of weeping. This. in part
her strain:
Z am Belief-Old Abe and Youth in
one:
Proud mother to that Immortality
Men worship, ere the tree Of Life de-
Gays;
My banner is Of Song. Of Hope deferred;
Ny garment. invitation to the saints.
Ny distaff. thoughts that twist them
selves about
Into n rope Of Faith. I may he Truth
l can not tell; look in these eyes and
guess;
Hear thou my voice. vince at these
age old looks
Wear thou my smile" Then did she
disappear
Leaving me. doubter. skeptic. wonder
Sensed.
Thinking of man and God. of earth and
sky.
OF limitation and the illimitable
And as l puzzled. came her voice once
more.
Her banner urging man from out the
clOd
To heights beyond: 4 am Belief. Be
lief
may be Truth. and yet I can not tell"
All full amazed. bowed l nv head to.
earth
The while her footsteps pounded in
my heart
Mary Byerley. in Lippincott's Mag
aZine
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15

morning prayer and sermon at Il
o'clock subject, That They Might
Have Life" At the latter service the
following musical numbers will be
given by the quartet choir under
direction Of Mr. Harry Cassidy: Or
gan. Choral Prelude. (Moore); Te
Deum in Il Minor, (Buck); Jubilatc
(SchuberD; Offertory solo, The Good
Shepherd" Wandewater) sung by
Mrs. Battin; Postlude, Mendelssohn
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. j.
Harvey Deere, ID. D., pastor, Mr.
j. NJ. Clinton, international secretary
Of the Y. NJ. g. \. in China. will &C
cupy the pupil at 1900 o'clock. He
has been connected with the work
there for seven years. He has known
the leader Of the revolution which
is now on in that great country. He
is thoroughly converSant with affairs.
political and religious, in the Orient
His message will be worth while At
$50 the pastor will preach the first
sermon in the series on Genesis
Down to Date" the subject being The
First Man" The Sunday school
meets for bible study at 9:45 a. m
The y. Y. L. L. meets for worship
at $50 p. m. The church is located
on the corner of Third avenue and
Monroe street WELCOME.
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15

! tive pwoer department on :. p is in
awful condition on account Of strike
and that railroad is sending out en-
gines to draw trains that imperil lives
of travelling public. Had letter from
ella Bend before leaving Phoenix con-
tanning much information and advised
that complaint be filed with inter
state commerce commission. 1t is an
outrage that Arizona railroad commits
sion has not done something to pro-
tect public. O'NEILL."
one Of the local democratic papers
quotes the foregoing as a telegram
received by it from Mr.. f. b. O'Nein,
who is understood to be a candidate
for United States senator.
This telegram gives a hint Of the
lengths to which a professional poll
tician will go in a wild endeavor to
catch votes.
There is a strike of the union shop
men on the Southern Pacific. O'Nein
is a member of the bar, and is pre-
sumed to have some acquaintance
with the law. We cannot presume
that he is ignorant of the fact that
the Arizona railway commission is
absolutely without power or authority
to interfere in this strike The COM
mission can neither force the men to
go back to work, nor force the COM
pany to concede anything to the
strikers. The commission has no more
authority in the premises than has
O'Neill himself. Neither has the
interstate commerce commission any
to interfere in strikes.
But this is the era of the dcma-
gogue.
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15

officer told me that it was pretty
well established that the magazine
explosion aboard the lena was due To-
the butt Of a cigarette
No officer likes to admit publicly
that such gross carelessness can eX-
list aboard a modern warship. but
human nature is far from perfect. and
To its shortcomings we can usually
look for an explanation of such ac-
cidents Just what happened in the
latest case. il is fair To assume. will
never be Known. But if there was
any way II solving the mystery |
would be willing to wager that some
man aboard that ship committed a
tragic act Of carelessness. The only
other explanation. to my mind. is that
it was done by design. and that is
almost unthinkablo." - Washington
Letter to the Brooklyn Eagle
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15
A FAMILY OF STEEL MAKER.

As BELTS their name. the Names
MAINS form n many sided family
There are five brothers i'm the firm of
Gebruder Mannesmann, of Remscheid,
in Westphalia. where the jointless
steel tubes are made which have given
them worldwide reputation. Rein
hard, the oldest of them, is barely so.
and Otto. the youngest. is just over
80. The hobby of one is finance: of
another the technical side Of the iron
and steel industry; of a third the per-
fecting of inventions ranging from in
candescent gass mantles to the Man
nesmann boot, which has separate
chambers for each toe, like the fingers
of a glove. and is in demand for the
treatment Of certain foot Diseases
From the London Chronicle.
Arizona republican., 1911-10-15
VENERABLE JURIST
HAS PASSED AWAY
John M. Harlan, Rich in Years and
in Honor, Goes to His Reward.

WASHINGTON. d. G. oct IL
Associate Justice John NJ Harlan. the
Oldest member of the United States
supreme court. long conspicuous IN
Kentucky politics. once a candidate
for the republican nomination for vice
president Of the United States. the
foremost constitutional authority and
prominent in the councils of the
Presbyterian church. died at his home
here after a brief illness of acute
bronchitis He was seventy eight last
June.
Goodbye. | am sorry I kept You
all waiting 50 long" We're Harlan's
last words. The funeral will be Tues
day but the place of interment is un-
determined. Gossip about a successor
has already begun.
some believe Harlan's successor
will come from the cabinet Attorney
General Wickcrsham. Secretary Of
state Knox and the secretary of com
merce and labor being mentioned.
Among lawyers Of progressive ten
denotes Senators Kenyon Of Iowa. and
Borah Of Idaho are mentioned. An
other group is responsible for the
suggestion that there should be an
other democrat. The names thus
mentioned were: Solicitor General
Lehman. Lawrence Maxwell Of Gin
District Judge Gordon Russell
Of Texas, Senator Sutherland Of Utah.
the leading constitutional lawyer Of
the state Judge Francis J. Swayze
Of New Jersey also figured in the
gOSsip.