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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings Of the World at Large
Told In Brief.
General Resume Of Important Events
Preserved in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

The British coal strike situation
continues to improve.
Eleanor Sears, q Boston heiress,
will play in mems polo game.
Senator Lorimer was vindicated by
a special Investigating committee OF
eight senators.
Two ocean-going vessels will be
built at St. Helens, Or, by the Nc
Cormick interests.
Striking mill workers and /. w. w.
members continue rioting at Aber-
deem, and city officials and police are
powerless.
Sir Edward Gray, in the house of
commons, says England is not acquis-
tive and that the Monroe doctrine is
not worrying her in the least.
After a conference in Cleveland, it
appears almost certain that big
strike of bituminous coal miners will
take place throughout the East.
Charles A. Prouty, chairman of the
Interstate Commerce commission, de-
clares the public have right to re-
ceive notice in advance of any contem-
plated railroad strike.
By purchasing two trucks to show
it's intention and ability to do its own
street oiling, the city of Portland OBJ
tanned bids of $35 mile for that
work, against $50. so previously bid.
The persistent opposition of Genreal
ALBERT is delaying the movement of
Mexican rebels on the City of Mexico.
He has only small force, but keeps
the rebels busy by fighting and STRAIT
egg.
An auto containing six persons
plunged off the approach to the Gala
pooia bridge, near Albany, Or, and
landed bottom-up on q heavy growth
of underbrush. None of the occu-
pants of the car were fatally injured,
and only one received broken bones.
Flood damage grows in Mississippi
and Ohio river valleys.
Governor Hunt, of Arizona, spent 9
night in prison like an ordinary con.
vict, to get a better idea of what pris-
on life means.
San Francisco makes big plans to
welcome Secretary Knox on his return
from his Central American tour.
Alleged bribe-takers in the legis-
lature of New Mexico say they were
scared into signing designations.
Kaiser Wilhelm met with most
enthusiastic welcome on the occasion
of his visit to the king of Italy al
Venice.
An English scientist would turn
coal into gas without taking it from
the mines, using the gas for fuel and
power.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
Corn Planters Warned.

Washington, D. C.-Because Of the
poor corn crop last year, the bureau Of
plant industry Of the department Of
Agriculture has tested samples from
all over the country and found low
average termination. DR.. T. B. Gal
loway, chief of the bureau, advises
the farmers of the country to be par
ticularly careful about their planting
this spring. "We tested nearly 1000
samples. he said, 'sand found that
the average termination was only 81
per cent, whereas it should have been
80 per cent.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
Name Starts Big Fight.

Name Starts Big Fight.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Little Falls
are preparing to take steps to prevent
the railroads calling the town Sopena.
It was suggested that the railroad be
enjoined in a higher court from using
the name, but City Attorney Allen
discouraged this move by showing the
expense that would be involved. The
plan which appears the most feasible
and which will probably be carried
out, is to haul every passenger brake
man into police court who per-
sists in miscalling the name Of the
town.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
WhoIe Battalion Mutinies.

Ell Paso-The recent defeat OF Tue
federal force by rebels at Corraii','
and the chain Of reverses which io, r
lowed were due, it is saic, to mus.u a
Of the Twentieth battalion. Inc Nv -.
tiny developed at the beginning o. o. -. ).
battle, the men protesting agalns' ~. ~
lack Of food and the hard marches ~ :.
presenting other grievances. Inc Incl
mainder Of the command OF Gen ., !,
Sales were compelled to fight 'u..
former comrades, while only l =.
nant Of the force was available lof ~
attack on the rebel position.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
Storm Costs $1,000. 600.

Cheyenne, Wyo. ~ Eleven million
dollars loss in Wyoming live stock
resulted from the recent snowstorms
and cold weather. That Is the amount
given out in statement from the
Office Of the State immigration conn
mission, which has obtained reports
officially from every county ia the
state. In many instances entire herds
of cattle were wiped out and every
section reports heavy loss II sheep.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
Scarlet Fever in Fort.

Fort Stevens, Or. - Scarlet fever
has broken out in Hammond and Fort
Stevens. Four children Of Henry
Yeager, q tailor, residing on the res
ervation, are iii and several soldiers
were placed in the post hospital. Or
ders have been issued by Colonel
Stevens prohibiting members Of the
garrison from visiting Hammond pri-
vate families. Strict enforcement Of
this order - urged upon al non-com-
missioned officers. The soldiers will
be placed in camp and the barracks
fumigated.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
Men compromise on Hours.

Men Compromise on Hours.
Philadelphia "A strike among the
textile workers in the Kensington mill
district Of this city has been avoided
by the action Of the Upholstery Weav-
ers' union in accepting q compromise
offered by the mill owners. The men
asked for an increase in wages from
"a to Is cents an hour, reduction in
working hours from 50 to 81 week
and other concessions.
The employers conceded the wage
demand, but would not reduce hours.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-04-05
CHARGE IS ADMITTED.
Editor in Department Of Agriculture
Suppressed Facts.

Editor in Department Of Agriculture
Suppressed Facts.
Washington, D. C.-Joseph A. Ar
mold, editor-in-chief Of the division Of
publications Of the department Of ag-
ricslture, assumed responsibility for
the suppression Of the much-talked-of
report on the feasibility Of retaining
the Florida Everglades. He told the
Moss committee he had recommended
that the report be suppressed and had
voiced that opinion to Secretary Will
son in June, 1910.
''Why did you oppose the publica-
tion Of this report?" asked Chairman
Moss.
Because Of the obvious irreconcil-
able difference Of the engineers Of the
department and the conflict Of opinion
outside the department. answered
Mr.. Arnold. ut was apparent to me
that no report could be issued with the
unanimous approval Of the depart
ment.
II thought that it was time to exer-
else caution and prudence. I recon-
mended, therefore, that no report be
issued at all. A bulletin from the de-
partment should be the last word from
the department and / didn't think it
fair to the people of the country to
give them any bulletin which was not
approved by the department. The
secretary agreed with me. -
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19

brick, owned by the Fifty Associates.
Starting in the Grotto, a decorated
cafe in the lower part of the hotel, the
fire gathered rapid Roadway. In few
minutes the flames leaped through stair
ways and elevator walls to the upper
stories in the Bulfnch street annex.
Employees of the hotel, policemen, fire.
men, sailors from Charlestown navy
yard and citizens hastily gave warning
to sleeping guests in the hotel.
There were many thrilling rescues
through the flame and smoke-filled
Railways. Dozens of women were as
sisted downstairs to places of safety.
Several men and women escaped by
climbing on the roofs of adjoining
buildings and thence making their way
to the street. Fire escapes were lined
with men and women. Hastily raised
ladders were means of rescue for more
than a score of women and men, clad
only in nightclothes were the majority
of the guests rescued.
The narrow streets around the hotel
cramped the firemen in fighting the
blaze. In streets covered with nearly
foot of slush the firemen fought hard to
keep the flames in check. For a time
it was feared that the entire hotel. the
National Lancers hall and the Bulfinch
street fire house adjoining and Bowdoin
hotel and Hotel Rexford adjacent in
Cambridge street would be destroyed.
After two hours the blaze was got
under control, with the annex on
Bulfnch street practically destroyed,
and the main hotel badly damaged by
fire, smoke and water.
Several firemen were injured during
the fire, the most seriously being a
hoseman who fell from a 65-foot
ladder on picket fence in the rear
of the hotel and fractured several
ribs. Captain O'Brien was seriously
hurt when a portion of the roof fell
and buried him. Other firemen were
cut by falling glass.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
Great Growth OF vermont's Mar.
BILE Industry.

The demand in America for marble is
showing material increase each year,
especially in the building and electrical
trades. The Vermont output has
doubled during the past eight years,
while for building purposes the sales
have nearly quintupled during the same
period, due in part to the growing
scarcity and increased cost of interior
finishing woods.
George H. Perkins, State Geologist
of Vermont, says, Formerly by far
the larger part of Vermont marble was
sold in the form of monuments and in
terror finish, while the sales of building
marble for exterior work were quite in
significant, but during the last few
years there has been a great change
and now nearly as much marble goes
into buildings of various sorts as issued
for any other purposes. This change
is best shown by a few figures. In
1900 and 1908, sales were as follows:
1900 Total $2,2lS, 592
1908 4,679, 1855
1t is matter of record that marble
sells today for practically the same
price as it did 40 years ago although the
adoption of labor saving equipment in
marble quarries and mills has materially
reduced the cost of producing and
finishing for the market so that the
profits have CORRESPONDENCE increased.
Vermont marble, which is admittedly
the finest in quality of any produced in
America, is today being shipped to al
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19

The death of John Bigelow in his
ninety-f fourth year closes the life of an
extraordinary man. And his soul goes
marching on.
Up to the week of his death Bigelow
took hearty interest in all political and
social happenings that were of import to
the world. He was humanist.
Bigelow was just eight years younger
than Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln
died, Bigelow was 4S.
Herbert Spencer once said that the
majority of Englishmen who live to be
more than 70 have softening of the
brain. And then he explained that the
reason they had softening of the brain
was because they did not use their
brains.
The brain is an organ, and the only
way to exercise it is by thinking pleas
urable thinking - and an interest in
what the world is saying and doing,
with the proper expression of your own
thoughts, is eminently hygienic.
Litizia Rothschild, the mother of ten
great Rothschilds, lived to be 100, and
when she was SO she did not hesitate to
express her disapprobation of some of
the policies followed out in a political
way by Nathan, her brilliant son.
Caroline Herschel, musician, astrono-
mer, student, school teacher, also made
the century run.
Bishop Bowman of England is 92.
John Tenniel, famous cartoonist, is 80,
and at work.
Lord Strathcona, otherwise Donald G.
Smith, is 80, and the other day he quoted
Sir Humphrey Davy, who, when asked
what was his greatest discovery, replied
"Michael Faraday." Continuing, he
said that his own greatest achievement
was the discovery of James j. Hill,
"who would yet make mark for him.
self"
Sir Charles Upper and Clara Barton
are both in their ninety-first yesr.
Alfred Russell Wallace is in his eighty.
ninth year, and not long ago refused to
buy horse that was II years old, stat
ing that he wanted colt, so he could
break it, and it would last him the rest
of his life.
DIR. Robert Collier, former Senator
Davis and John Buckner are each 81,
and still stirring up the animals.
| Levi P. Morton is sc, and is out with
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19

by an automobile, sustaining injuries
which may prove fatal.
The automobile is owned by Lewis X.
Liggett, of 372 Chestnut Hill avenue,
Brookline, and was operated by H. r.
Hutchinson, of 14OO Beacon street,
Brookline.
Miss Hayden was struck about $3.50
and Hutchinson stopped the car, picked
her up and raced to the Beaconfeld
Pharmacy, 1921 Beacon street, Brook
line.
DR.. Everett Jones, of 1858 Beacon
street was summoned and ordered the
woman removed to the Massachusetts
General Hospital. At the hospital it
was found she had received acerated
wound of the scalp, conclusion of the
brain, probable fractured skull and
probable internal injuries.
She is unconscious and the police are
endeavoring to identify her. In hei
pocket was found a book, the property
of a credit house, with the name
MARY Hayden" written in it. Nc
arrests have been made. Boston
Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19

an article in favor of the National Re-
serve Association, saying that he never
wants to live to see another financial
panic.
Dozens of men can be named between
80 and 80 who are taking a very practi-
cal interest in the world of politics,
business, and literature.
The five great insurance companies re-
port an average of 81 deaths where a
hundred were due to shuttle off the
mortal coil.
Undoubtedly the greatest factor in
longevity is an active interest in human
affairs.
The fear of death, as a philosophic
proposition, has passed from the world.
We have no sorrow for the dead, and
science has shown US that pain is an
attribute of life and that the dying have
neither pain nor fear.
The orthodox religion, which was de-
vised to give men comfort, gave them
just the opposite thing. Happily, the
devil is joke, and the tears of pity
have put out the fires of hell.
Life is beautiful, and for all we know
death is just as good. And death,
science shows, is in itself form of life.
The man who lives well is the one who
is willing to go or stay. And the man
who is willing to go or stay stays quite
while. Ebert Hubbard, in the New
York American.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
JOY RIDE VICTIMS.
Bodies of Two Mem bers of Tren-
ton Party Are Under Ice.

Trenton, N. j., January 13. When
darkness fell upon the scene where
three young women and two men of a
10y riding" automobile party plunged
to their death in the artificial waterway
connected with power plant above
this city early today, two of the victims
wers still beneath the ice that covers
the water. These bodies were re-
covered during the day:
Donald Reed, son of former State
Supreme Court Justice Alfred Reed of
Trenton.
Margaret Tindall, Trenton.
Helen Mulvey, Trenton, formerly Of
New Haven, Conn.
The bodies still in the water are:
Chester A. Van Clees, an automobile
saleman of this city.
Annie Shohosky. Trenton.
Frederick M. Foster, the driver of the
machine and member of a well-known
family of this city, who had narrow
escape from death, is at the home of his
father here in a serious condition from
exposure and shock.
All concerned in the accident were be-
tween the ages of II and "a years, the
Mulvey girl being the youngest
Young Foster and his companions
met the girls and after driving about
Trenton induced them to take a ride
into the country.
Young Foster made statement to-
night as to what had happened. He
was familiar with the road, he said, and
knew the curve at the point where the
accident occurred. AS he reached the
bend, he continued, the machine began
to skid, and he put on the brake. The
machine kept on, however, plunged
over bank, broke through the ice and
became submerged in the water.
Foster said he climbed out of the auto
mobile and got on top of the ice. He
waited what he thought was three or
four minutes, hoping to see the others
come to the surface, but they did not
do so. He got to the shore, he said, and
ran to the roadhouse and told what had
happened
The young man had both his hands
and feet frosted. His physicians are
not sure that pneumonia will not set in.
The automobile was lifted out of the
water late this afternoon by means of a
derrick. A peculiar thing about the
accident is that the automobile was so
located in the water as to indicate that
it had gone in backward. This is ex-
planned on theory that when it struck
the ice it slid around. Brooklyn Eagle
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
PASADENA HOTEL. BURNS.
Main Structure Entirely Destroyer
Loss will Reach S25O,OOO.

Pasadena, Calf, Jan Is. Fire of
unknown origin early today destroyed
the Pasadena hotel, favorite winter
home of many wealthy fasteners.
Loss will reach $3.50, 900. The entire
main structure was destroyed and the
flames finished their work on the north
wing, newly opened this season. No
lives were lost.
Practically every room in the hotel
was occupied and when the fire started
bellboys and elevator men, under the
direction of Manager Wilson, rushed
from door to door aided, by the oper-
ator at the telephone switchboard, who
sat at her desk calling room after room
until every guest in the hotel was
awake.
A heroic rescue of the siX-year-old
child of Mrs. George Cherry of San
Francisco was made by bellboys who
fought their way through dense and
suffocating smoke to the room where
the child lay. The destroyed building
was the first big tourist hotel to be
erected in Pasadena. 1t was built in
1888 and for many years was the favor
ed winter home of many wealthy east
erners. 1t was three stories high and
contained 155 rooms.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Struck by Auto. Edwards CIings
to Hood and Lamp


o. w. Edwards, 35 years old, freight
agent at the Long Island Railroad de-
pot, Long Island City station, had a
narrow escape from serious injury or
death Thursday morning when he was
struck by an automobile while on his
way to work.
He was crossing Fulton street, at
Flushing avenue, when the accident oc-
Cured. Just as he was in the middle of
the thoroughfare an automobile owned
and driven by DR.. Russell of Setauket,
L. l., came along at rapid clip. Mel
Their saw the other until it was too late
to avoid the accident and the car hit
Edwards with considerable force.
Edwards, who is of an athletic build,
jumped just before the car struck him,
and as he did so caught hold of one of
the lamps with one hand, and hung to
a portion of the hood with the other.
The street was slippery and the ma
chine went nearly a block before it
could be stopped.
DIR. Russell then helped Edwards into
the machine and at his request took him
to the home of his cousin, Robert j..
Mcmahon. Second avenue, near Flush
ing. The physician there made an ex-
animation of the injured man and found
him to be suffering only from shock and
minor contuslons. Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
HELD FOR MURDER.
Chauffeur Ran Down Wife Of
missioner McChord.

Louisville, KY, Jan.I11. That E. H..
Morrison, a chauffeur, was guilty of
murder was the verdict of coroner's
jury here Monday, when ten witnesses
testified that Morrison was following a
zig-zag course on the wrong side of the
street and exceeding the speed limit
when he ran down Mrs. Charles C. Nc
Chord, wife of the interstate commerce
commissioner, and Miss Ida B. Fennell,
in this city two weeks ago. Miss Fen
nell died several days later as a result
of her injuries. Mrs. McChord was not
seriously hurt. The chauffeur was held
for the grand jury. Barre Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
FRIDAY, JANUARY I9, 1912.
The Chinese Situation.

Few international situations have
been more suggestive to the historical
and social student than that which is
now developing in China. When it is
remembered that in China and vicinity
a quarter of the human race is engaged
in democratic uprising, which involves
self government, parliamentary institu-
lions, public education on a broad and
comprehensive scale, and the organiza-
ton of the empire on European lines of
industry and military equipment, the
momentous character of the struggle in
China can be partially appreciated
Whether the present movement eventu-
ates in a republic finally or not, parlia-
mentary institutions in China are abso-
lutely assured.
This transformation was brought
about chiefly by the force of the appeal
to the mind. China's contact with the
mind of the western world has brought
about the change, and while her disas-
trous war with Japan and her expert
ence, costly and Illuminating as it was
with the allies after the Boxer uprising,
helped to fix certain things in the
Chinese mind, it would be absurd to as
cribe the parliamentary skill which the
Chinese have shown in their national as
semblies and their wisdom with respect
to foreign life and property in the pres
ent contest to those occurrences. Re-
cent reports from observers of the
Chinese in their discussions while in
national assembly tell story of self
control, of discrimination, of tact and
patience, which would do credit to any
parliamentary assembly in the world.
Such a nation may well be watched and
its friendship coveted
The mind fairly reels when we think
of the millions of China industrially
organized on the western model, begin
ming, not with obsolete but with the
newest machinery, the mechanical and
other advantages of the twentieth cen
fury, unhampered by investment in
machinery and plants which must decay,
and filled with the fresh enthusiasm of
a recently achieved nationality. -Bos-
ton Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
Shot His Victim from Gray Auto
mobile.

New York, Jan. IA gray automo-
bile rolled up the Bowery at a snail's
pace early today and came almost to a
stop at the corner of Delaney street,
while one of the five passengers leaned
over the door of the car and waved a
revolver. Singing out one of a crowd
of belated merrymakers, he took care
full aim and fired, MORALLY wounding his
man, Joseph Harris, clerk. The po-
lice declare that it is part of a gambl-
ing war. There is no clue to the iden-
tity of the assailants or the machine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19

Boston, Jan. l6. Fire this morning
partially destroyed the Revere House,
one of Boston's oldest and most noted
hotels. Over 200 guests got out safely,
but there were many narrow escapes.
Although it was believed that several
lives had been lost, search of the build
ing failed TO reveal any bodies.
The hotel was the best in Boston in
the days when the West End was an
exclusive residential section, and it had
sheltered such famous guests as the
Prince of Wales, later King Edward
VII, Daniel Webster, Jenny Lind and
the Emperor Don Pedro of Brazil. 1t
was five story. structure, stone and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
Dies of Lookjaw Following Ice
Cut.

Victor Chatra, an Austrian by birth
and supposed to have had his home in
Hartford, CT, died January II at the
Lynn Hospital of lockjaw that he con-
tracted from cuts on his face. Trying
to get out of the way of speeding
automobile, he slipped and fell on the
ice, cutting his face badly. Boston
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-19
GIRL RUN DOWN BY MOTOR
Mary Hayden Seriously Injured
in Brookline Accident.

While crossing Beacon street, near
Westbourne terrace, Brookline, few
evenings ago, young woman, believed
to be Mary Hayden, was knocked down