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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-06
RHODE ISLAND.
Official Count Gives Wilson 27o9
Plurality Over Other Candidates.


Providence L. l., Dec. 5.-Govcrnor
Woodrow Wilson's plurality in Rhode
Island at the last election was 2709 as
shown by the completion Of the official
count, today. by the state returning
board. The President-elect polled 80,
AZ votes, while President Taft re-
eeived 27,703 and Theodore Roosevelt
1G,S7s.
Governor Aram ]. Pothier. Repub-
lican, was elected for fifth term by
a plurality of 14QS The vote for gov
ern0r was: Pothier. 34,t39: Theodore
Francis Green. Democrat, 32,T25; Al
bert II. Humes Progressive, S455.
The total number of votes cast was
S2,445. the largestin the history of the
state. An unusual feature disclosed
BY the official count was the fact that
the Democrats polled more straight
tickets than did the Republicans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-06
Help Dispel Gloom

That's what Rexall Orderlies do,
because they help dispel gloom and
chase blues, help improve your
spirits and make you glad. The
thorough cleansing they give the
bowels-their toning and strength
ening effect upon the bowels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Southampton Eng, instead of Ply
mouth. is to be made. from Jan. /. the
first port of call after leaving New
York, for the steamers Of the Ham
burg American Line.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Reduced RATES ON WOOL
ORDERED BY COMMISSION

Washington, D. C.-Radical reduc-
tons in freight rates on wool, both in
sacks and in bales, transported from
Western points of origin to Eastern
destinations were prescribed by the
Interstate Commerce commission.
The present rate of 81 on wool from
Pacific Coast terminals to Boston and
other points on the Atlantic seaboard
will be continued in effect, notwith-
standing that this rate is materially
higher than the rate from intermedi-
ate points inland. The commission
specifically, declares that this rate of
81 is forced upon railroads by actual
water competition, and that if the
rate were advanced railroads could
not handle wool from coast to coast.
While sustaining the coast rate, the
commission finds that rates from in
terror points are excessive and orders
reductions, but gives the railroads un-
til May l to file new schedules which
comply generally with the terms of it's
decision.
Under this decision, maximum rates
will be paid by points along the east
en- border of Oregon, California and
Washington, the rates diminishing
east and west of that line as neces-
STATED by distance on one side and
water competition on the other.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
BURST MORE LEVEES

Memphis - Three breaks in the
levees on the Mississippi occurred
south of Memphis Sunday. The first
was at 24-mile post, Is miles south of
Helena, Ark. Later in the afternoon
the levee at Laconia, 60 miles below
Helena, went out, and later the levee
gave way at Henrico, near Laconia.
The water is pouring rapidly over
several hundred square miles of rich
farm land.
It is expected Laconia Circle will be
entirely inundated. Probably water
from the two crevasses will join,
flooding the entire southern half of
Phillips county, in which is Helena,
and all of Desha county. The over
flow will find it's way back into the
Mississippi through White river.
Inhabitants of the flooded territory
had ample warning and no loss of life
is expected. Railroads entering
Memphis through Arkansas from the
West, went out of commission.
The Golden lake, north of Memphis,
is holding strong, though government
engineercs say it cannot hold much
longer. A breach at this point means
the inundation of thousands Of acres
Of Arkansas farm lands.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
NINETY ESCAPE DEATH,
Wireless Operator HeroicaIly Stays
at Post Sending Calls for Aid.

Wireless Operator HeroicaIly Stays
at Post Sending Calls for Aid.
Newport, R. NINETY passengers
on the burning steamship Ontario
were snatched from death at 4:30
o'clock Monday morning when the YES
sci made dash for the Rhode Island
shore and managed to land all the pas
sengers and crew just after the fire
broke through the deck. The wireless
operator was the hero of the fire.
Time after time he sent out calls for
aid, and on one occasion he telegraph
ed that he would have to abandon his
post on account of the heat, but he re-
turned soon after.
The first message was picked up at
the Point Judith wireless station at
o o'clock. A few minutes later Sec
ond message was received, stating
that the operator on the steamer
would be obliged to leave his room be-
cause of the heat. Efforts were being
made, it was said, to reach Montauk
Point to beach the steamer. Mean
while the Ontario reached Montauk
and was beached about mile and a
half west of the lifesaving saving
station there. Life savers went out
with breaches buoy, and helped take
off passengers and members of the
crew. A strong surf was running.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Problem In Mathematics.

There is certain instructor In
mathematics In Washington institu.
ton who is beginning to wonder
whether his five-year-old son Is go
ing to inherit his mathematical tenn.
nerament. On one occasion the father
and mother Of this younger, while
visiting a resort near the capital, were
watching the boys and girls swing
tba circle on a merry-go-round. The
father commented upon the sight pre-
sented by one small-sized youngstef
astride huge lion. and. as he did 50.
noticed a serious look on the face OF
his own offspring. who was standing
beside him. why such q solemn ex-
nrassion. Tom?" asked the father. \
was lust wondering" said Tom. who
had had one ride and, having q ticket
for another, wished to use It to the
hast advantage, whether | would get
: longer ride than had on the horse
i the inside circle II ! rode on one
~ the lions on the outside row.
Judge
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
HITS DOLLAR
MARK AT SEATTLE

Seattle-For the first time in two
years, the price of wheat in Seattle
reached the dollar mark Tuesday. Sc
attic millers were paying 81 bushel
for No l. bluestem, and as high as 81
cents was asked for No. club wheat.
Only three times in the last eight
years has wheat passed the dollar
mark in the Seattle market. The
other times were in 1909, when wheat
brought $l.18, and in 1910, when it
sold for SO cents to 81.
The high price of wheat in the Pa
cific Northwest is said to be the result
of the record breaking demand for
flour in the Orient. Although a crop
estimated at 65,OO0,O 900 bushels was
harvested in the Northwest last year,
it is said that less than 10000, 900
bushels remain.
Barley and oats are also soaring.
Barley was quoted at $34.50 ton, the
highest it has ever been in the local
market, and oats sold for $3.50, the
highest since 1909, when the price
was $50 to $39. so.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
ILLINOIS FAvoRs ROOSEVELT.
Primary vots Also Goes for Cbamn
CLARK, Democrat.

LIAR democrat.
Chicago Winners in the Illinois
preferential, advisory and direct nr;-
mary elections, as indicated bv sniff
Client returns to warrant q prediction
are as follows: ''
For president Theodore Roosevelt
Republican; Champ Clark, Democrat
For United States SENATOR v
Sherman. Republican; James Hamil.
ton Lewis, Democrat (uncontested. J
For governor Charles s. Deneen
Republican; Edward F. Dunno Demo.
crat. s.''o
Colonel Roosevelt's state managers
claimed his majority over President
Taft as from 100, 900 to $50. 900. Re-
turns Indicate his vote was nearly five
to two for Taft.
Returns received late at night from
oown-state precincts indicate that
President Taft had carried several
counties there by small majorities.
Presidential delegates were not
named on the ballots, and will be
elected by congressional districts and
at large, the effect of the first vote
being only to serve as a guide to party
officials as indicating party feeling.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
PANAMA HAS VOLCANO.
Whole Village Reported Destroyed by
Sudden ERUPTION,


Mobile, Ala. Thousands of persons
have been killed and whole Indian viii
lagos swept away by the eruption OF
Chiriqui Peak, near Bocas del Terro,
Panama, according to story of Cap
tain Olsvik, of the United Fruit
steamer Fort Morgan, which arrived
here.
Captain Olsvik says the eruption oc-
Cured April 5, early in the morning.
while the Fort Morgan was berthed
near Bocas del Terro, and that he wit
messed flames shooting from the peak.
Reports of the large casualty list
were brought from the immediate
scene to Bocas del Terro by refugees
who escaped the onrushing lava. He
says they watched the eruption April
5, when he put to sea.
Even far out on the gulf, Captain
Olsvik says, he saw evidence of the
disturbed elements. The sea was
affected in many places and the air
was filled with smoke and dust far out
into the gulf.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
crop Disaster Feared.

Aieago-Wheat prices suddenly ad-
,'uceo Saturday in a manner that at
e,n. 'eu widespread attention. The
t., e was that damage to the soft win
ns.., uop appeared to have reached
N.Y. lne proportions of disaster.
bnnba.y mlllers from interior points
bot sI b. cash wheat freely and were
that h eastward in confirming reports
Oecto lullofeds of fields that were ex-
bava' W. y 70 produce fine harvest would
Vas W. ~ pe plowed under. The injury,
sest ' q. to be confined to the states
''' VI the Missouri river
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19

the thoroughly terrified fowls scat.
tered wildly in all directions, and one
bewildered hen alighted in the center
OF nearby pond. Bravely the owner
breasted the food to save her favorite
from watery grave, and cleverly on
the instant the watchful marauder, re-
turning at full speed, captured a aec-
ond pullet, which it proceeded to de-
YOUR within full view OF the house.
Nothing short Of destruction will pre-.
vent a chicken-stealing coyote from
persevering in its raids until all the
accessible fowls are gone. An adult
trapped coyote, for example, which es.
capped from us with a collar on. was
caught in another trap within q few
days.
Build Own Homes.
Large wolves do not care to exca,
vate for themselves, and usually in.
habit rocky caves; but coyotes tun.
mel into bank, or on level ground,
wherever badger hole or small wash.
out may offer beginning. Their
dens. in which from four to nine pups
are born, resemble fox-earths, planned,
as rule, with a long main channel,
from which several side branches di.
verge. Few animals are better
equipped by nature to keep their lar.
der well supplied than the omnivorous
coyote. which can make a meal of
grasshoppers or wild plums when un.
successful in the chase It Is gifted
with the cunning of the fox, almost
the speed Of the greyhound and the
cooperative instinct Of the Cape hunt
ing dog. 1t will pounce upon the un.
suspecting jack-rabbit as he squats in
the grass, or overtake him by coursing
in deep snow. At first the hare OBJ.
tains long start by succession Of
spurts, followed by high bounds out Of
the drifts, all its legs Quivering and
crossing each other in mid-air. This
eccentric gait, however, is too exhaust.
ing for the snow white fugitive to
maintain, and when perforce he settles
down in his normal stride, he Is
easily overtaken by the long-legged
pursuer.
0VAAt co. tAO NOyOtO uAuOAOICOAy 1SS
it has been not infrequently lassoed
from horseback, and once from q
mule. Coyotes are most destructive
pests to the sheep-farmer, and the
various means Of protecting sheep
from their ravages have been set out
in a very able bulletin ("Coyotes in
Their Economic Relations" by David
e. Lantz), issued by the United States
department of agriculture. 1t is here
alleged that I'm nearly all the states
west of the Mississippi the sheep in.
dustry has declined and one
Of the principal causes given is losses
from coyotes" Heavy as the toll ur-
questionably Is which the coyote in.
flicts on sheep, it Is, nevertheless, In
considerable when compared with that
levied by grey wolves. and may al
most invariably be traced to the care
lessness or Incidence Of shepherds.
Sheep are run here in bands of thou
sands, attended by single "herder."
and II small, rowing attachments are
overlooked and not brought into the
background" at night, coyotes win
work havoc with these strays.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
sneckels Will Is Valid.

San Francisco The State Supreme
court reversed the decision OF the
lower court by which the Claus
Spreckels will, involving an estate q
sic. 600, 900, was held invalid BY the
Superior court. The decision is VIC
tory for Rudolph and Claus A. Spreck-
els. who. as executors of the estate Of
the elder Spreckels, claimed practical
" the entire estate, less the bequest
Of 81. 500, 900 to the decedent's widow,
Mrs. Ann Christiana Spreckels.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
FEELING AGAINST FOREIGNERS

Mufter'ngs Of Discontent Among Ma
tives Heard in China.
Shanghai Premier Tang Shao Yik.
his suite and members Of the cabinet
plan 70 leave for Pekin soon. Re
ports from all centers in the southern
provinces Indicate considerable un-
easiness, especially among foreign
ers. Republican officials admit that
the situation is grave.
The troops are disconnected because
OF arrears in pay and cannot be dis
banded until the finances are readiust-
ed. They openly blame the combina-
ton OF foreign bankers for the trouble
because of their refusal to give prom
Used assistance.
Considerable evidence of bitterness
against foreigners irrespective of ma
tionality can be discerned among the
leaders, who asserted that the pro-
tracted delay in the recognition of the
republic by the powers and the with
holding Of the loans are liable to stir
up anti-foreign sentiment and entail
serious disturbances for which they
say the powers alone will be response
BILE.
The opinion rapidly is spreading
that the foreign powers have agreed
to concerted action looking to interna-
tional control Of China.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
AMERICAN SHOT
BY llSURRECTOS
Federal Captain Executed Ac-
cording to Mexican Custom.
Law of Flight" Used to Cover As
sassination of Prisoner While
Apparently at Liberty.

Ell Paso, Texan American news
paper man who returned from Parral
with 184 American and other foreign
refugees from the battle-swept dis
trict, brought news of the execution OF
Thomas Fountain, of Las Cruces, N.
M, by the rebels.
Fountain was captain of federal
gun under General Pancho Villa.
When Villa retreated last Thursday
night, Fountain removed certain parts
Of the gun and concealed himself in a
private residence. The occupants
were ignorant that they had a guest
in part of the house seldom visited.
The American was driven by hunger
and thirst to reveal his presence, after
II hours of self-imposed torture.
He was armed with revolver, but
made no resistance. He was COM
PEELED to show the rebels where he had
secreted the missing parts of his
rapid-firer. was tried by court martial
and condemned to death, apparently
for having disabled the gun.
American residents made every
effort to secure a modification of the
sentence, but without avail. Finally
American Consul Letcher, at Chihua-
hua, sent to General Salazar what is
believed to have been an appeal from
Washington that his life be spared.
In delivering the missive to messen-
ger, the consul remarked:
"This is the last resort"
In Mexico they have recourse to
what is known as the "law-of flight, :"
under which a prisoner who has been
condemned, but where there exists a
doubt as to the legality of the SEN
tence, is allowed his freedom within
certain limits. The prisoner knows
that his fate is sealed. Even if he
does not walk step, from some unex-
pected quarter the fatal bullet will
come and the report will be made that
he was shot while in flight.
It was thus in Fountains case. He
told the correspondent that there was
no hope, but strolled about the streets
waiting for death.
When his body was brought in it
contained four bullet wounds made by
shots fired from behind.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
IRA BARTON
DEAD, AGED 80
.,5or Of American Red Cross
w. Society Brave to Last.
II Intellect and Ready Wit
'' Mad. Oeath Chamber CHEEKY
to the End.

,.rton D. C. - Miss Clara
w. -. founder of the American Red
'D" and probably the most widely
w. American woman of Ter day,
p'' rridav morning at 9 o'clock in
''' ,.r,e Red Cross, in Glen Echo,
g ,be was 80 years old.
w., Rarton suffered an attack Of
l,s sonia in February, 1911, had a
in s.o and the case became chronic.
.1'p rort last summer to her old home
as o WIN" Mass, and returned to
D.. Echo in feeble health last au-
'su Muscular weakness of the
s..-t developed and for weeks the
's'ii of the great nurse was such
v sl tn cause grave concern. Her Wis
y" uas undimmed almost to the last
w bpr ready wit and quick repartee
W. N.5o her sick room a place of cheer.
With With her when the end came were her
, W.. Stephen Barton, of Boston,
s'd Dr.. ]. B. Hubbell.
~ The great regret of Miss Barton was
.bat her enfeebed condition made it
necessary, ,se for her to suspend work on
s Is autobiography. She had brought
hi. work down only to the beginning
# her public career as Civil war
,nrse A woman whose training fos-
tered tered precision, she left behind vir-
trallv the entire correspondence of her
rblic career, as we'll as other data
hearing upon her International hospi-
ri work and the work which she her
elf began will be completed by other
hands,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
navy May Control Canal.

hss snlngton, d. president Taft
plan to e'lIed to submit to congress-
The ;rs; pace the Panama canal under
nept 4''S0l Ct of the Navy depart
with Il ms descision is in line
strait original object of the admin
ion oon 70 transport fleets quickly
tie co rtan TO ocean. Through giving
tie ADJ; 5oi to the Navy department
be AGO. alinlstration believes this can
Other MY pushed better than in any
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Rebel Defeats Reported.

New York - A telegram received
here from ]. Sanchez Azeona, private
secretary to President Madero, of
Mexico, by Captain S. G. Hopkins, an
agent and personal friend OF the Mex
lean president, reads: Situation is
rapidly growing better. General HUI
erta has gone north with large column
to give battle to the rebels. In More
los there remain only small bodies Of
bandits. Puebla has been pacified.
Perez Castro is captured. Forces OF
Orozco lacking in ammunition and are
trying to keep what they have. +"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Entombed Miner Rescued.

Globe, Ariz.-Henry Perman was
rescued from the Manitou mine, 20
miles from Globe, after having been
entombed 81 hours During the en-
tire time he was imprisoned, because
Of a cave-in, Perman stood in four
feet of water at the bottom of 13O-
foot shaft. He was sustained by food
sent down by a pipe. When he was
rescued his physical condition was said
by doctors to have been remarkable,
as apparently he suffered no i'll effects.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Excursionists Die in Nile.

Cairo, Egypt Many passengers
were drowned by the sinking Of Nile
excursion steamboat after collision
with another steamboat near the great
dam on the river, about 10 miles to
the northwest of Cairo, and q few
miles from Kalyub.
The bodies Of Is victims of the col
lision have been recovered. The
steamboat had 300 passengers on
board, who had taken advantage OF
the Easter holiday to make a trip to
the river dam. On the return journey
up stream, and not far from the dam,
the excursion boat collided with an
other steamboat and sank almost i'm
mediately.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
French Military Costly.

Paris-Practical expression is given
in the French budget for 1913, intro
duced into the chamber of deputies, to
the remarkable wave of patriotism
now sweeping over France. The esti-
mates provide for Sic, 700, 900 more
than ia 1912 for national defense. 1t
was intimated that in 1918 the total
expenditure will be 1892, 933, 600,
or an Increase Of $50, $40, 400 over
1912.
OF the total amount, S., 200, 600
goes to social reform, more espe-
cially for old age persons.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
TAFT WINS REPUBLICAN
PRIMARIES BY BIG LEAD.

Returns from all states which have
held their primary nominating cleo
lions up to the present date give Taft
a total vote of 319 delegates; Roose-
welt, 1903: La Toilette, So; Cummins,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
O.-W. r. & N. Must Pay Fine

Olympia, Wash Holding that the
O.-W. r. & N. has forfeited its right
to appeal from the commissions rul-
ing, the Supreme court affirmed the
Whitman County Superior court and
the railroad company must pay the
81, 900 penalty imposed for failure to
comply with the order of the public
service commission requiring it to
erect q station at Hay, Whitman
county. The station was built four
months after the time specified.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Troops Going to Border.

San Francisco The famous Eight
ing'' Fourteenth cavalry, $50 men,
by Major G. 81. Cannon.
arrived here from Manila by the trans
port Sheridan, and will entrain imme-
diately for the Mexican border. The
regiment will be quartered at Forts
Clark and Mcintosh, Tex.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
AnpraIsino Its Value.

Tbe rreat emotional actress was u
boring under intense excitement
.My diamond tiara has Deem
stoleni. she exclaimed.
.TIow much Is it WORTH" asked the
press agent callously
s.That Is up to you. replied tne =.
= 4. 1T ought to be worth g IeassSa
column. Puck
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
COLD SHOULDER FOR COAST
navy Department to Send No More
6atteships Till Canal is Built.

t'i'~i't " SSUO W.
6attleships Till Canal is Built.
Washington, D. C.-The Navy de-
paflment will send no more battle
sllps to the Pacific Coast until after
MT me completion of the Panama canal.
luis announcement was made by As
sstant Secretary Winthrop to Repre-
seulatlVe Humphrey, who called to
~ wye lne department to recommend
~e building of an additional SUBJ
uaIine on the Pacific Coast, or for a
station nl on the West Coast.
v, ",l1tnrop also said the department
n ~Uuiu not urge the construction of
c ,'.e submarines for stations on the
S s0as' and otherwise indicated that the
many way.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
o"ners Want Mediation.

BOUNCED .tesrsourg = 1t is officially an
poposssl.' mat the powers have made
nOple m "; u mediation to Constanti-
end the WI a view to bringing to an
Over IVA; war between Turkey and Italy
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-19
Wheat Prices Take Jump.
Walla Walla, Wash. - 1t is learnet

Walla Walla, Wash. - It is learned
here that the Jones-Scott company,
the most extensive grain buyers in
Eastern Washington, with Offices in
Tacoma and Seattle, Saturday pur-
chased approximately $50, 600 bushels
of bluestem wheat at the heretofore
unheard-of price this season of SO
cents track. Some Of this wheat was
sold in Portland at $1.01 track, Port
land, but most Of it was disposed of
in Tacoma at $1.O2. About 10 per
cent of last years crop is still in the
country.