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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
HENEY COMMENTS ON
FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

Sacramento, CAL, Feb. 4.-Declaring
that the trainers of the constitution of
the United States had put up job
on 100000 hungry and weary people,
Francis J. Heney, the noted graft pros
ecutor, spoke strongly in favor of q re-
call measure before a joint committee
of the state Legislature, last night.
1--WE have had very mockery OF
'self-government," he said. "The fathers
worked out this constitution in secret
session. They were not elected to draw
one up at all, but only amend the ar
ticles of federation
.'The constitution was drawn up for
the benefit Of property owners. It had
taken eight years for 100000 people
to drive out a handful of British sol
diers, and then, when their stOmachs
were empty and the spirit OF independ-
ence was low, they accepted this con-
stitution- And We've been hgthing the
money power ever since.''
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
CAPITOL COMMITTEES
REPORT TO LEGISLATURE

Olympia, Feb. 4.-The report of the
state capitol committee to the legisla-
ture sets forth the value of timber and
lands as appraised and estimated by
the state land board at $5,3S2,11S, of
which $4,75b, 1882 represents timber, the
balance being for all other lands. 81
The report also shows that the lands
offered for sale brought more than the
appraised value, although all of them
were not sold, as 1888 acres appraised
at s42,413 brought $44,169.52, while
1,O35 acres appraised at $15,373.10 sold
for $15,638. The committee had an ap-
preparation of $4,000 and has about
SO 900 still on hand. The capitol build
ing fund debt, though, is $S27,O3O.63.
The committee advises against the
sale of the capitol lands at this time,
recommending q bond issue If a new
capitol is wanted at once. and then
asking that the law be changed so as
to permit the abandoning of the old
foundation.
Since the committee was organized
the 1892 acres Of timber and other
lands owned by the state in the CAPT
tol land grant were cruised for $24,-
04O.63. The cruise per acre made by
H. d. McCool, selected to have charge
| OF the work, cost 3.694.QS. or .2908
per acre, the cruisers obtained from
counties cost .076 per acre, or total Of
$243.85, while the cruise made by G. r.
Benson Of the agricultural lands in
Eastern Washington, $500 acres. cost
SOL. so, or .O18 per acre.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
WASHINGTON AT THE
COLUMBUS CORN SHOW

seattle, Feb. 6.-"What Washington
'an produce has been the subject of
easer inquiry at the National Corn
SNOW In session at Columbus, O., all
last week, and the store building, on
vne OF the principal streets, leased for
'ne snow by the Great Northern to dis
pay Washington agricultural and fruit
piouucts, has daily been thronged with
sIowos Nothing like our exhibit"
t .aiu FRED W. Graham, Western indus
uidl commissioner, has ever been
seen IN Columbus, and the room has
b Sven packed day and night. Our ex-
n n.p' OF apples and grain was pro-
a aounceo wonderful by Eastern people,
W" w, representatives being besieged for
aAfofmatlon about fruit and grain lands
a ;A business opportunities here. TAX
=; lug tne West to the people of the East
having good results"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
HOUSE COMMITTEE IN
FAVOR OF COAL LEASES

Washington, Feb. 4.-The judgment
of the house committee on agriculture
is that it has no function to perform in
relation to the report of the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigating committee, re-
ferred to the former committee before
the holiday recess of. congress. The
committee on agriculture made its re-
port to the house. respectfully return
ing the result of the investigation with
the recommendation that the agricul-
tural committee be discharged from its
further consideration.
The report says the committee does
not conceive it to be it's duty within
it's province to review the evidence al
ready taken, "as if it were court Of
appeals, and pass judgment upon the
findings of the joint committee"
"The committee" says the report,
docs believe that it might properly
assume Jurisdiction and present to the
house bills designed to carry into eff
feet the legislative recommendations
of the joint committee. These recon-
mendations are:
"The enactment of a law for the
transfer of the so-called Cunningham
claims and any otner cases involving
claims of the Alaska coal lands to an
appropriate United States court for a
hearing and decision, and law to por-
vide that the government, while re-
tanning ownership in Alaska coal lands,
should grant leases at fair royalty for
a period, limited, but long enough, and
covering areas large enough to justify
The necessary investments which would
be required to secure the opening and
operation of the mines.
'The records of congress-, however.
disclose the fact that bills are now
pending precisely in line with these
recommendations"
| After citing these measures and the
fact that they are under consideration
in other committees, the report de-
clares that it is unnecessary for the
agricultural committee to enter upon
! the same field.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
FAVOR JOINT FIsHWAY
AT DALLES or COLUMBIA

Portland, Ore, Feb. AFTER re-
jecting the recommendation Of the hsh-
ing interests of the lower Columbia
river in favor of longer fishing sea
son for salmon and Recommending that
q fishway be Constructed past the
Dalles. on the Columbia 1t Cello. at 2
cost OF 100000, to be shared jointly
by the states of Oregon and Washing
ton, the Joint COMMITTEES Is the Oregon
and Washington legislatures adjourned
yesterday to carry the results Of their
conference to their respective assem-
blies.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
HARTMAN LINE OVER
RANGE CONTEMPLATED

Portland Ore. Feb. An addltlon
to double-tracking the Union 800
and O.-W. R. & N. in the ,,,
Northwest, the Hartman system WIZ
begin work on the proposed extensions
| in Washington, Oregon, ldano anu
Northern California, according 10 az
vices reaching here from New io.A'
Although it was not made public at Tue
time. it is stated that the execu.iye
committee approved the plans lass
Tuesday. the asme day that an expenui-
ture of s75,OOO,OOO was authorized TO
double track the lines in the west. i
| is expected the expenditures for aodi-
tional construction. work Is to eAteno
over a period of six years.
The work in Washington, II IS re-
ported, will consist in completing the
North Coast road through to the SOUND
thus giving the Hartman system
transverse line across the state OF
Washington. Sections OF the NORTH
Coast are now completed between Spo
kane and North Yakima and WORK con-
Meeting these links is under way. Inc
extension of the North Coast from
North Yakima to Puget Sound has been
surveyed, the line running up the
Naches canyon, past the headworks OF
the Tieton irrigation project, and over
a pass and thence down the CoWlltz
valley to point near Toledo, where
the line bends north to Tacoma.
Aside from this extension, it is re-
ported that the campaign of construc.
ton also includes line across Oregon,
from the Idaho line to the present line
being built to the eastward of klamath
lake, and extensions north and south
from this line, tapping the unopened
and unsettled sections of Eastern ore
gon.
The completion of the North Coast
line across Washington is regarded as
the most important of the new con-
struction projects, however. 1t would
open up the only remaining portion OF
Central Washington that is not thlckiy
settled and would give new and short
line to the Sound from the great agri.
cultural regions east of the Cascades.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
CANNOT GIVE AWAY
THE STREETS
STATE SUPREME COURT HANDS
DOWN AN IMPORTANT
DECISION.
Franchises May Be Granted, But They
Must Not Confer Exclusive Privi-
leges-Court Reviews at Length
Laws Relating to Eminent Domain.

Olympia, Feb. 6.-Under the eminent
domain laws of Washington "a railway
company cannot acquire or occupy any
portion of a public street in a city of
first class either with or without the
consent of the executive authority of
such city," says the supreme court in
a decision handed down Saturday.
But under other laws councils may
grant franchises for such occupancy,
but those franchises are void if they
attempt to give to the railroad exclu-
sive privilege over any portion of any
street. SAt the same time in charter
cities the court says there is no ques-
ton the people have the right by char
ter provision to absolutely prohibit the
council granting any franchise to any
corporation for use of any part of the
streets or alleys.
This decision came up in a case
from Spokane county. The Spokane
council granted a franchise to the Mil
waukee road to use portion of Front
avenue, this part of the street to be
excavated to depth of II to % feet
for a width of about 80 feet and the
sides to be protected by walls and a
fence. The franchise contained pro-
vision it should not take effect until
the railroad company had settled with
owners of property abutting the ave-
nue. for any damage which might result
from the taking of portion of the
or chi 1Cyh hu ho 70 l.
road to fix the damages to be paid
and one property owner, the B. Schade
Brewing Company, applied to the SUI
preme court to review the decision of
the Spokane judge who held the con-
domination proper.
Lengthy Review of Laws.
The court in it's decision reviews at
length the laws with relation to emf
nent domain and the occupancy of
highways by the transportation COM
panies as well as the rights and pow
ers of councils
It says in part: The fact that only
half of this avenue is here sought to
be devoted to a purpose which pre-
vents the use of that portion as a
street is of no consequence in this in
quiry, for this is question of power
and the power which can thus take
such portion can take all.
1--WE believe the application of prin-
ciples of law shown to exist by the
authorities we have reviewed and il
Illustrated are sufficient to demonstrate
that the power is not given to the city
council to grant the exclusive use of a
portion of Front avenue as contem-
plated.
No Respecter of Railways.
1--WE have been cited no authority to
show power in council that any part
of the surface of street could be en-
tirely taken from public use as high
way.
Railways cannot without plain legis-
lative authority get greater right to &C.
cupy permanently portion of street
to obstruct public travel than any
other person or traveller can acquire"
The court then concludes that as the
ordinance is void it follows the rail-
way cannot prosecute the condemna-
ton suit, and the action of the lower
court is reversed and set aside.l
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
X. L. Mccormick Passes On.

acoma, Feb. 6.-Robert Laird Nc
a. nick' secretary of the Weyerhaeus-
No., ,noer Company and president Of q
non OF banks and prominent bust
sS companies in Tacoma and West
s Gu washington, died in Sacramento
sus ruay morning, following two days Of
pr;N Iiing from an acute attack Of
fons hts disease. He had gone to Cali
st. .nia Tor his health when fatally
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10

a He Montauk tribe Of Indians
is officially and legally dead. 1t
Is SO writ in the records, and
the waves beating against the
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10

Washington, Feb. Favorable &C
ton OF the houes on the Canadian re
cIproc1ty agreement was assured last
night when the caucus OF Democratic
representatives formally pledged the
party to vote for the agreement.
The resolution indorsing the Cana
dian agreement was carried, 80 to %
On motion Of Mr.. Clark of Missouri
the action of the caucus was made
unanimous.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-02-10
princeton Wants Wheeler.

San Francisco, Feb. 4.-Pres1dent
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Of the Univer-
|sity OF California, is talked Of as q
successor to- Woodrow Wilson. ct
Princeton, according to private advicef
received here. Mr.. Wheeler makes e
perfunctory denial Of the report. but +
is believed he is considering the offer.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
WE ARE FOR J. E. RANSDELL


Both the St. Mary Banner and
the Waterman of last Saturday
take exceptions to our announce.
ment that we would support Mr.
Ransdell in his candidacy for the
U. S. Senate, because he had been
"largely instrumental in our get
ing the Federal appropriation of
$500, 10000 for the construction
Of a ship channel at the mouth of
he Atchafalaya River" contend
ing that we were distorting the
record and depriving Senator
Foster of the credit they claim is
solely his.
Now we do not wish to deprive
Senator Foster Of any credit due
him for his efforts on behalf Of
this appropriation. On the con-
trary Tdwn-Progress gave dis
tinct prominence to Senator Fos-
ter's success in having passed in
the Senate the resolution which
set aside the appropriation for
this project, expressing the thanks
of this community in a large type
line across the entire front page
of our paper, at the time it was
learned the appropriation had
been made.
However, we are not willing to
accord to Senator Foster the
SOLE credit for this result, for
had not the whole subject been
thoroughly considered by the
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Of the House. of which Congress-
man Ransdell is member. and
in which capacity he rendered
our delegations marked service
in getting their claims before this
committee, there would probably
have been but little use in offer
ing in the Senate a resolution
calling for the appropriation.
Senator Foster did his duty
and 80 did Congressman Rams
lell; but we do not consider the
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
HOW TO REACH GROUNDS.

Any shrsvspert Citizen Will Gladly In.
form Any Visitor About the Routes.
Nobody need have any difficulty find.
ing the Louisiana State Fair grounds.
which are southwest Of the city proper.
The Fair grounds fence on the north
side Is on the city line.
Any Shreveport citizens will take
pleasure In informing any visitors
about the routes to the Fair grounds,
which are easily reached. All that is
needed Is the asking. A bureau of in
formation will be conducted in the
lobby Of the city hall, just thre..
blocks from the Union depot, where
every stranger may visit for any infor-
nation desired about the city or Fair
grounds. The bureau will be there
for the special benefit Of visitors to
the city during Fair week.
Persons arriving at the Union depot
on railroad trains need not leave the
depot In order to catch q CONVEYANCE
to the Fair grounds. if they do not
choose to do 90. for the Katy railroad
will operate shuttle trains from the
depot to the Fair grounds These
trains, as heretofore. will leave the
depot every fifteen minutes.
Street cars will run to the grounds
regularly. They will run just q few
minutes apart. There will be plenty
of cars to accommodate the crowds,
the traction company having added
equipment in order to handle the Wis
itors and citizens attending the Fair.
Special announcements will be made
before the opening Of the Fair. Oct. 81.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
Averts Awful Tragedy.

Timely advice given Mrs. c.
Willoughby, Of Marengo, Mis-,
(R. No. y prevented a dreadful
tragedy and saved two lives. Doc
tors had said her frightful cough
was a Consumption" cough and
could do little to help her. After
many remedies failed. her aunt
urged her to take DR.. Kings New
Discovery. 81 have been using
it for some time" she wrote "and
the awful cough has almost gone.
It also saved my little boy when
taken with a severe bronchial
trouble" This matchless medi-
cine has no equal for throat and
lung troubles. Price soc and ST..
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by
all druggists.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
performance of these duties quit

performance Of these duties quite
so much a cause for everlasting
gratitude from the people, as they
are acts Of appreciation on the
part Of public servants to the peo-
pie, for the honors bestowed upon
them. All such acts of represen-
tatives of the people are receipts
for value received from the peo-
pie and not promises to pay
signed by the people.
There is no denying the fact
that Mr.. Ransdell is particularly
well. posted on all matters con-
cernlng the waterways of this
country for he has made a study
of the subject and has been ac-
lively engaged in impressing
upon the people the urgent neces-
sity for their improvement and
maintenance, his energy in these
matters having gained for him
the presidency of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress, an
organization that has, through
agitation of the subject, been
chiefly responsible for the fact
that we now have ANNUAL ap-
preparations for Rivers and Har-
bors instead of TRIENNIAL ap-
preparations, and that these ap-
preparations have now reached
figure exceeding O.0OO,0OO.O0.
We believe that the improve
ment of the waterways of this
section of the State is the para
amount question to-day. We be-
lieve that Mr.. Ransdell is the
man best fitted to represent us in
this special respect, and consid-
ering the fact that he is a friend
to all of our industries our COM
merce and our agricultural inter-
ests we see no reason why he
should not be advanced in the
service of his people.
In electing Mr.. Ransdell to
membership in the higher branch
Of our national assembly we feel
convinced that the people will
make no mistake and that he will
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO
PLOW?

There are thousands of farm
ers all over the land who would
say in reply to this question
"Of course we do. for we have
been blowing all our lives, ano
ought to know how to do it.
And yet how many of them have
ever given serious study to the
art of plowing7 Hundreds OF
them write asking about deeT
blowing and wanting to know il
they should pillow so many inches
or should subsoil further.
Now the mere matter Of depth
is not all there is in good pillow
ing. Soils differ greatly in re-
gard to the depth they should be
plowed. On the rolling red-clay
hills of the Southern Piedmont
one can hardly pillow and subsoil
too deep, for the deeper these
hills Are broken the less tendency
there is to wish, for there is deep
body Of loose soil to take up and
hold the water.
Then there are level clay loan
soils that need drainage, and if
we pillow these lands and run a
subsoiler below the breaking
plow, the subsOil will simply set
tie back as before and little good
will be done by the deep break
ing until the field is under
drained.
Then again. all over the South
ern Costal Plain there are deep
sandy soils. Now, to break these
very deep and subsoil them would
not only be a waste Of labor but
an actual damage to the soil, for
in such land we should endeavor
to get sort of hard-pan formed
below the blowing in order to
make the soil hold water and plant
foods. On such soils line APP
piled to the surface and merely
narrowed in will settle down and
form just such a retentive layer
below.
Hence, in the matter of depth of
blowing one must take the char
acter of the soil into considera-
ton, and what would be deep
enough blowing on sandy soil
would be shallow blowing on
red-clay hill. Where there is no
clay in reach of good turning
pillow, l would assume that six
inches is deep enough to pillow
that soil, while on red-clay hill
l would turn 8 inches and run
the subsoiler in the fall as deep
again in the burrows. giving a
loose bed Is inches deep.
Then, when this blowing settles
and the cultivationv is frequent
and shallow there is formed a
means for the capillary moisture
to rise freely.-The Progressive
Farmer.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
Your Grocer
Likes His Cup Of
French Market Coffee!

Perhaps he drank it in New Orleans before
the war.
Perhaps his father had always stopped at
the old French Market, when he was in New
Orleans, to sip cup of that delicious beverage.
Or his grandfather may have heard how well
General Andrew Jackson liked this famous blend.
Everywhere in the history of this most his
torcally interesting of all American cities-New
Orleans-vou find references to this marvellous
coffee with history
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-14
GOOD ROADS AT LITTLE
COST,

Now a macadam road is the roaf
that should be built wherever
there is heavy travel and a pop
ulous and prosperous community
but to suppose that it is the only
good road, or that macadamizinp
the roads is the only way to i'm
prove them, is a delusion pure
and simple
Sand and clay are available all
over the South, and when a CON-
munity can combine them, and
by the use Of grader and the
split-log drag make a good road
and keep it good, there is no rea-
son why it should be content to
wallow in mud-holes and bump
over chugs and ruts every time
a load of produce is taken to
town.
Even where the sand-clay con-
struction is not practicable at
once. the split-dog drag jude
iot,sly used would do wonders.
and it would be but a little JOB
for most farmers to make these
drags and to keep the roads in
front of their premises in good
shape. It would be a paying prop
osition, too, and we recommend
the experiment to oil farmers who
really want better roads, as we'll
as to all road commissioners orl
overseers who are DESTROYS of get
ing out of the old way of wasting |
labor on the road and Of making
that are really worthy
worthy Of the name-The Pro-
gressive Farmer.