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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS
BEGIN FIGHT ON RAILROADS

Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 14.-In con
formity with the campaign promises OF
the insurgent Republicans, the state
administration elected last November
upon platform pledging it to drive
the railroads out of California poll
tics, inaugurated it's program of re
form legislation with the introduction
of railroad commission bill stimuli
taneously in the senate and assembly
It's essential provisions are:
Enforcement of the commissions or
ders by contempt provisions.
No arrangement for appeal from the
commissions orders.
Penalties both for railroads who VIC
late the commissions orders or fol
officers and agents who allow such
violations.
Power in the commission to inaugu
rate and establish new rates.
Power in the commission to estab
lish actual rates instead of maximum
rates.
Extensive provisions against dis
elimination.
An anti-pass section.
Right of the commission to establish
a system of accounting for railroads
and authority to inspect this system
at all times.
Permission of the railroads to apply
on July l of each year for changes
in their tariff schedules.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The Canadian Pacific will use tele
phones in train dispatching
Philip F. Malcolm has been nomi
mated by President Taft as collector OF
customs at Portland, Or.
The new Portuguese republic proba
bly, will be remodeled soon, following
the form of the Swiss confederation.
Secret filing of divorce papers in
California will be stopped if bills in
troduced in the legislature last week
are enacted into law.
The postoffice appropriation bill car.
rying $3.50, 100000, has been reported
to the house. The amount is an In
crease of $1O,000,O00 of the last appro'
priatiOn.
Judson Clements has been elected
chairman of the interstate commerce
commission. He succeeds Martin A
Knapp, who has been appointed to the
court of commerce.
Almost $31 100000 worth OF gold
and silver bullion was received at the
United States mint in Denver during
the year 1910, according to an official
report issued recently by Superintend'
ent Downer.
The battleship Arkansas, the largest
warship ever constructed in this coun'
try, was launched Saturday afternoon
from the yards of the New York Ship
building Company at Camden, N. j
Miss Mary Macon, daughter of Repre-
sentative Macon, of Helena, Ark, was
the SPONSOR,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE
FOR NEUTRAL CANAL

Boston, Jan. 15-A statement en-
bodying six reasons why the Panama
canal should be neutralized, bearing
the signatures of men and women
prominent in the United States and
abroad, was made public today. Rich
ard Olney, former secretary Of state;
David Starr Jordan, president of Lee
land Stanford, jr., university; William
Dean Howells. author; Charles P. An
derson, Protestant bishop of Chicago;
William H. F. Faurio, president of
Brown university; Jane Adams. OF
Hull house, Chicago; George B. Holt,
justice of the United States district
court, and George Foster Peabody, the
New York banker. are among the spon.
sors of the document. The first rea.
son, among many is, because the
canal would be safer in war time with.
out Notifications. According to the
statement signed by The Hague con
ference in 1907 unfortified coast places
cannot be bombarded."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
RATE REDUCTION ORDERED
ON WHITE PASS ROAD

Dawson, Y. T., Jan. 16.-An Ottawa
special to the Dawson News says the
Canadian railway commission has or
dered freight and passenger rates on
the Canadian section of the White Pass
railway, which is between Summit and
White Horse, reduced one-third. The
case has been fought before the COM
mission for years.
Frederick Congdon, present M. p,
has been the most active in the fight
against high rates. This was one of
the campaign planks on which he was
elected.
The American interstate commerce
commission was to have co-operated
this winter to secure a reduction OF
rates on the American side of the line
also. because otherwise when a reduc.
ton is made on one side an advance
might be made by the road on the
other side to counter balance the rail.
ways loss. 1t is not known now
whether the order affects river rates.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
TAFT URGES SPEEDY
CANAL FORTIFICATION

Washington, JAM 14.-President Taft
has sent to congress a special mes.
sage urging the fertilization of the
Panama canal and recommending that
al appropriation of 100000 for the
initiation of the work on the proposed
defenses be made at the present ses-
sion of congress. He forwarded with
the message the report of the special
army and navy board, recommending
fertilization of the canal.
"The canal when completed" said
the president in his message, will af-
ford the only convenient route for
water communication between the At.
lantic and Pacific coasts and virtually
will be a part of the coast line of the
United States. It's assured possession
and control will contribute to our
peace, safety and prosperity as a ma.
ton
I'm my judgment it is the right and
the duty of the United States to for
tify and make capable of defense the
work that will bear so vital a relation
to it's welfare and that is being created
solely by it at an expenditure of enor.
nous sums.
Il have authorized the submission
to the secretary of the treasury of the
revised estimate for the appropriation
referred to in the accompanying letter
of the secretary of war, which esti.
mate is less than the original estimate
by approximately one-third."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
SEEKS BROADER PEACE
TREATY WITH BRlTA'"

Washington. Jan. lit is under
stood that the president has Deen
sounding certain senators and mem
bers Of the committee on foreign reiS
tions to ascertain the possibility lo'
an amendment of the existing arDltr"
ton treaty with Great Britain caiou
lated to broaden the scope Of that COLI
vention.
It is aimed to remove the presen'
prohibition in article against 'no
submission to- arbitration of questlon.
Of vital interest to the two parties :"
involving their honor.
II these soundings reveal cnans.
Of attitude on the part Of the senass
since 1908, when strong ground "e
taken by large majority against a.,
such unlimited arbitration. then ~
British government will be approacnsa
to ascertain II 1t is willing to peg
negotiations looking to the anaenN
ment Of the existing treaty.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
RAILROAD RATE ADVANCES
ARE AGAIN POSTPONE

washington, Jan. 14.-Oflcial an.
nouncement was made by Judge Glen.
ents, acting chairman of the interstate
commerce commission. at the conclu.
sion of arguments on the Eastern
rate case Of the further suspension
Of the proposed advances of rates in
official classification territory from
February to March Is.
The suspension was made volun.
tarily by the carriers in order to at.
ford the commission additional time
to discuss and consider the problems
presented to it.
It is probable there will be a SINH.
lar suspension of the advances in rates
proposed by the carriers in Western
trunk line territory, official announce.
ment Of which will be made at the
arguments Of that case to be heard
next.
In the announcement Judge Glenn.
ents said it was impossible for the
commission fully to consider and
finally to determine the questions pre.
scented In the two cases prior to Feb.
ruary 1, and that, on suggestion Of
the commission, the carriers had con.
scented to suspend the proposed rates
The probability Is that a decision
may be reached about March /.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
FISH COMMISSIONER
CONCLUDE AGREEMENT

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE commits
sioners for the United States and Can
ada, which have been considering the
fishery regulations have reached a de-
dision. The Canadian and Newfound-
land governments undertake to change
the existing regulations to remove the
objections of the United States, thus
making it unnecessary to call on the
board of experts.
The conferences have been going on
since Monday morning and followed
similar conferences by the state de-
partment officials with representatives
of the Gloucester fishing interests.
The formal statement of the outcime
follows:
GAS a result of these conferences an
understanding was reached that, in
stead of calling upon the commission
of experts appointed under the award
to determine the reasonableness of Ger.
tain existing fisheries regulations to
which the United States had objected,
the Canadian and Newfoundland gov
ernments will proceed voluntarily to
make such changes in the existing
regulations as are necessary to remove
the objections of the United States.
1.-The effect of this arrangement is to
make it unnecessary to reassemble
The Hague tribunal to act upon the
report of the experts and eliminates
any further proceedings at The Hague.
All differences that may arise in the
future as to these or any future regu-
lations that cannot be disposed of by
diplomatic negotiations will be re-
ferred to the permanent fixed fisheries
commission to be established in &C.
cordance with the recommendations OF
the award"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
WANT MILL TAX FOR
STATE INSTITUTIONS

Olympia. Jan. 14.-An earnest en-
deavor is to be made to pass mill tax
law for the benefit of the states edu-
cational institutions, which will care
for the institutions instead of their
having to depend each biennium upon
the legislature to appropriate the de-
sired sums.
McQuesten of Pierce, chairman of
the educational committee of the
house, is heartily in favor of the pro-
posed bill, which provides for state
tax levy of one mill for the mainten-
ance of the higher institutions of
learning.
Mr.. McQuesten has investigated the
probable amount to be realized from
such a tax and finds that it will reach
something like s1,S56,0O0 for the ensu-
ing two years, based upon the property
valuation as shown during the last
two years.
The total sum asked for the mainte-
nance of the higher educational insti-
tutions is little over 100000, but
MC<kuCSICA UCllCtC IAdI tAC quill
can be shaded"
There is feeling on the part of
many legislators that a law of this
kind should be enacted, not only for
the direct benefit to the educational
institutions, but the further reason
that it would take off the hands of
the legislators considerable work and
worry in providing for the appropria.
tons asked every two years.
Kansas Could Vote by Mail.
Topeka, Jan. Ia. Senator Fred
Quincy of Salina arrived Thursday
with a bill to change the law by
which railroad employees away from
home on election day are permitted to
vote the state ticket by mail. Senator
Quincy's bill provides that any one
who is in the state, but away from his
voting place on election day, may vote
his ticket by mail.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
EIGHT HOURS A DAY
FOR WOMEN WORKERS

Snokane. Jan. 14.-Capitals OF Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho and the province
of British Columbia will be visited by
Mrs. Mary Arkwright Hutton OF Spo-
kane. president of the Equal Suffrage
League of Washington, in the interest
of bills providing for a day OF eight
hours and not more than six days
work a week for women.
81 shall also attend the conven-
ton of women from Washington, Ida
no. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah,
where equal suffrage is a law" said
Mrs. Hutton, just before starting for
Tacoma, "but expect to pass at least
two weeks in Olympia to support the
eight hour bill in the interest OF work
ing women. l may also take part IN
other matters of legislation in the In
terest of women"
Mrs. Hutton believes that sufficient
pressure can be brought to bear upon
members of the legislature OF Wash
ington to pass law for the protection
of women, saying that 100000 women
voters were added to the list in this
state when Governor Hay attached his
signature to the official returns OF the
recent election.
"Of course, none of us knows what
the result will be in Washington,
Msr. Hutton added, "but it would ap-
pear that the women have strength to
insist upon the adoption of almost any
kind of reasonable measure for their
protection against the greed of employ
ers, some of whom work their girls
and women clerks from 10 to IL hours
and frequently seven days week.
Il expect to have conferences with
leaders of the movement in Tacoma
some time this week. Women from
Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming will be assembled there and
an expression of opinion will be forth
coming and a plan of action mapped
out before the convention comes to a
close"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
WANT THE FACTS AS
TO THE TARIFF
TRUTH MUST BE THE BASIS OF
ANY GOOD OR PERMANENT
REVISION.
National Tariff Commission Associa'
tion Hears speeches-Facts Neees-
.arv First and Then Impartial Ap-
plication Of Findings Of Fact to
Schedules Concerned Separately.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Only when q
permanent tariff commission shall
have been created and empowered to
secure facts on production and con-
sumption and attendant phases Of the
tariff will the voters of the country
be able to decide clearly whether they
want the Republican principle of pro-
lection or the Democratic doctrine OF
a tariff for revenue only. according to
Representative Irvine L. Lenroot, OF
Wisconsin, who spoke at the morning
session of the convention of the Ma
tional Tariff Commission Association.
Facts Essential.
He said in part:
"The facts to be ascertained are
necessary for the proper framing OF
tariff bill on either theory.
"If the prospective tariff cannot
stand an honest investigation OF facts,
then it ought to be wiped out at once
and forever.
"But it has nothing to fear. IT, in.
stead of the log-rolling, lobbying, Sc
cret session methods of the past there
shall be substituted findings af fact by
tariff commission and the application
of those facts to schedules considered
separately, then the prospective tarif1
system will not only become more
firmly entrenched in this country, but
tariff bills will be honestly made"
All Want knowledge.
"Free trade in facts" was the prin.
ciple laid down by Representative
James Francis Burke, of Pennsylvania.
1.-THE best way" he said, Ito protect
protection is to have free trade in
facts. l am in favor of throwing open
our intellectual ports of entry to all
the knowledge we can gain abroad.
and am in favor of providing scien-
tific methods for the development of
facts and the spread of intelligence
on this subject throughout the coun-
try"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
Washington State
News Items

Centralia city council has had under
consideration the question of expend-
ing 100000 for a municipal water
plant.
A club composed of Orientals and
Americans, to be known as the Orient
and Occident Club, has been organized
in Seattle to promote closer relations
with the Far East.
Owing to rapid growth at the state
university of the department OF ora
tory, it has been separated from the
department of rhetoric. under the d.
rection of Prof. Daggy.
The new union passenger station for
the Hartman and Milwaukee lines at
Seattle will be formally opened March
Is, according to Assistant General
Manager Campbell.
DR.. E. L. Kimball of Spokane has
been elected president of the state
board of health. DR.. E. E. Heg was
reelected secretary. The report of
DR.. Heg was submitted to the board.
The Bellingham Real Estate Mems
Association has pledged fund OF $1O,-
600 which is to be used in conjunction
with the Chamber of Commerce in ad-
yertising Whatcom county in the East
ern states.
The Seattle Rotary Club has unani-
mously endorsed by good roads bills
prepared by Geo. F. Cotterill, which
provides for trunk highway system
through the state and the employment
of all convict labor on all state roads.
The past year has been the most
successful one in the history of the
Seattle Y. M C. A. The present mem
bership is 1910, a gain of 562 over
1909. Total receipts for the year reach
ed the sum of 100000, coming within
xo, 900 of meeting the associations ex'
penses.
Balfour, Guthrie & Co. have taken
options on forty acres of land west OF
Bellingham, upon which they propose
to erect the largest cement plant In the
world. The forty acres is composed
principally of tide lands and will be-
come the site of extensive docks and
| warehouses.
Condemning Gov. Hays proposed in
dustrial compensation bill on the
ground that it would injure industries
and discourage others from locating in
Washington, the legislative committee
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
voted unanimously to go on record
against the measure.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
CROP INCREASE AHEAD OF
POPULATION, SAYS REPORT

Washington, Jan. 14.-Agriculture as
a means of maintaining population in
this country is discussed by Victor H.
Olmstead, chief of the bureau of sta
tistics of the department of agricul-
ture, in his annual report.
frequent assertions that the fer
tility of the soils is washing into the
streams" says the report, land that
the productivity of cultivated land is
diminishing, are misleading the public
into the belief that the agriculture of
this country is decadent and that there
is life in the old formula that popula-
ton must tend to increase at greater
rate than subsistence"
The mean production per acre of
wheat increased in a greater degree
than the normal increase of popula-
ton in rs states from 1885 to 1895, and
from 1896 to 1905, according to the re-
port, and in the case of corn increased
production per acre has exceeded the
normal increase of population in IA
states, while very nearly the required
increased production was made by five
other states.
With regard to oats and barley and
potato production, increases over pop
ulation also are noted.
1.-THE ability of the soil and the agri-
cultural arts and sciences" concludes
the report, ito produce crops at a rate
of increase greater than either the
normal rate Of increase of population
or the normal as temporarily influ-
enced by immigration has been proved
times innumerable by the department
OF agriculture, by the experiment sta
tons and by the intelligent farmers
all over the country"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
ATTACK SALE OF
UNIVERSITY LAND

Olympia, Jan. 14-Suit has been
filed to have set aside the title to the
Chambers donation claim tract, near
Tacoma, comprising 800 acres. This
land passed into the hands of the uni
versity in 1866. About six years ago
the land commissioner sold it to the
Hewitt Land Co., without the consent
of the university. The board of re-
gents have asked that the sale be set
aside.
3. c. Legislature convenes.
Victoria, Jan. 14.-The British Co
lumbia legislature has opened with
the usual ceremonies, officers of the
army, navy and militia, including OFF,
GERS of the Canadian cruiser Rainbow,
attending. The program for the ses-
sion includes the passage of legisla-
ton conserving all the national re-
sources of British Columbia, timber
lands, fisheries, mines, etc., and the
formation of a new railway depart
ment, to which a new minister will be
appointed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
WANT PROGRESSIVE
LAWS BEFORE ELECTION

Denver, Jan. 1.-THE Post says:
Democratic legislators with progressive
ideas are organizing flying wedge for
the purpose of blocking the election OF
a United States senator to succeed the
late Charles J. Hughes until platform
pledges of the party have been enact
ed into law-recall, headless ballot,
guaranty of bank deposits, public ser.
vice, registration, anti-pass and rate.
making bills.
Sixteen members of the Democratic
majority holding out can turn the
trick, and it is claimed that more than
half the number required have been
mustered" says the Post.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
DOUBLING VARIOUS
CROP YIELDS
AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS SHOW
WHAT CAN BE DONE
FOR CROPS.
Increases Out Of All Proportion to
Amount Of Time and Labor Elk
pended-Governme Report Says
Crop Increase Is Ahead Of PopuIa.
ton.

Champaign, ILL.,, Jan. 14.-Experts
of the college of agriculture at the
University of Illinois are working out
tabulations of the crop experiments
conducted in 1910 and are showing
some results that promise to astonish
grain growers and grain consumers.
In some cases the yield has been
doubled and trebled, and even more.
Of the figures completed these exhib-
it's are notable:
In southern Illinois, plot without
any treatment yielded ~ bushels of
corn to the acre; one treated with
manure, 40 bushels; and one treated
with manure and phosphate, 81 BUSH
els; seed, date of planting and cult
walton all being the same.
On the same field plot without
treatment gave 2.5 tons of clover per
acre; one treated with lime 3.5, one
with lime and phosphate SO.
On field at 0din, ILL.,, the untreated
plot gave 26 bushels of corn to the
acre; one with the old crop residue
proved in, 81 bushels; one with the
residue and lime, 80 bushels; one
with the residues, lime and phosphate,
as bushels, and one with the residues,
lime, phosphate and potassium, 81
bushels.
On the same field an untreated plot
gave bushels of wheat to the acre
CSC pounds per busheD; treated with
lime, % bushels, and with lime and
phosphate, 80 bushels.
On a field at Virginia, ILL.,, in the
middle of the corn belt, on plots un-
dergoing three-year rotation, the plot
with old crop residues plowed in gave
Is bushels of corn per acre; one
treated with manure, sc bushels; one
treated with crop residues and phos-
plate, 100 bushels, and one treated
with manure and phosphate, 101 bush
els.
In the hills of Johnson county an
untreated plot gave one-fourth ton OF
clover to the acre; treated with crop
residues and lime, Las tons; with crop
residues, lime and phosphate, 1856
tons, and>with residues, lime, phos-
rhate and potassium, 2.19 tons.
On the same field an untreated plot
gave 81 bushels of corn; like plot
lying just alongside and treated with
lime, phosphate and potassium gave
| SO bushels.
When the tabulations are completed
they will furnish nearly 100 crop tests,
all illustrating the desirability of sup
plying the diminished crop foods, even
in the soils of Illinois.
J. E. Readheimer, superintendent of
soil experiment fields, said:
"In the corn experiment at Odin, it
took no more work to plant and cult
vate that 82-bushel plot than the e.
bushel one. Similar conditions rela-
lively may be found in nearly all the
corn fields of this state"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
BILL PROVIDES TOLL
RATES FOR PANAMA CANAL

Washington, Jan. 14.-A bill to pro.
vide for the operation of the Panama
canal regarding the charges for its use,
and authorizing the establishment of
dry docks and warehouses, with ample
facilities for furnishing supplies to
craft, was introduced today by Repre-
sentative Mann of Illinois, chairman
OF the house interstate commerce com
mittee.
The measure authorizes the presi-
dent to prescribe and from time to
time readjust charges for the use of
the canal. These are to be based on
displacement, cargo or other tonnage,
and be not more than $3.50 nor less
than SO cents per net ton, registered
tonnage.
The rate is not to be less than the
estimated proportionate cost Of the
actual operation Of the canal, subject,
however. to the United States-Panama
treaty OF November IS, 1903, and the
right Of the United States to pass it's
own vessels, troops, materials, mer-
cnandise and supplies without payment
of any charges.
The president is given the right to
prescribe that any coastwise vessel.
wholly or partly owned by railroad
or road-holding company. or controlled
BY railroad or by any interests seek
Ing to avoid or reduce competition Of
ocean traffic between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. shall pay the highest
rates.