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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
GREAT BRITAIN is ANSWERED
Knox Insists Foreign Ships Are
Not Menaced by Tolls.

Washington, D. C. = Secretary
Knox's reply to the British protest
against the exemption of American
coastwise shipping from Panama canal
tolls assures the British government
that domestic coastwise trade will
not be permitted to extend operations
into foreign competitive fields.
The reply also gives assurance that
increased tolls will not be laid on for
eign shipping to balance the remission
to American ships. !
If Great Britain is not satisfied with
these points America proposes a spe-
cial commission of adjustment.
The communication is devoted to the
purpose of reducing to the smallest
point and number the issues upon
which the two governments failed to
agree and as to these-only two-lt is
contended that they are entirely sus-
ceptible of adjustment by diplomatic
means and without recourse to arbi-
tration.
If this course should not prove &C
ceptable to the British government, it
is suggested that the whole contro-
versy be referred to special commits
sion of inquiry, provision for which
was made in the unratified Knox
Bryce general arbitration treaty.
That convention was approved by the
senate with an amendment which cur
tailed the power of the special com,
mission of inquiry to merely investl-
gate and report, and refused to permit
the commission to bind either country
to a course of arbitration in its find
ings
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
NEWS OF LAWMAKERS AT OLYMPIA
pf If Proceedings of the Peoples Representatives
at the State Capital Bills introduced, Passed. he9ec'so ~
TO EXEMPT WORKING TOOLS
R;u Aids Farmers and Mechanics
-ProhibitiOnists Active.

OLYMPIA - New bills in the house
include one to have personal property,
such as househould furniture and farm
ers' and mechanics tools, exempt
from taxation, and measure to have
towns and cities at local option cleo
tions vote on whether they want dis
nensaries or not. This measure pro-
noses to do away with saloons as they
now exist, and to have liquor sold IN
the original packages and only one
dispensary to every 10, 200 inhabitants
or fraction thereof.
Registration of every voter IN the
state is provided in a bill introduced
in the upper house of the Washington
legislature by Senator Wilburn Fair
child, of Pierce county.
Once the change has been made,
however, it is not expected to prove
burdensome to country residents, from
whom registration has not been re-
ouired previously, for the following
reasons:
If the person registered uses the
elective franchise he will not have TO
register again until after five elections
have been held, the act of voting con-
shutting re-registration.
He may register before the county
auditor or, if this is not convenient,
with any justice of the peace or notary
public.
The proposed prohibition amend
ment to the state constitution reads:
"On and after the first day of July,
1915, the manufacture, sale, use, gift,
barter, trading or advertising of all
vinuous, malt distilled, alcoholic,
spurious or other intoxicating liquors,
as a beverage, is prohibited in the
state of Washington.
"The above section shall not be
construed to apply to the making and
use of sweet cider and all unfermented
juice of the grape"
Senator Davis introduced the bill at
the request of the w. C. T. U. The
understanding is that the anti-saloon
league may not back this bill at the
present time, preferring to work for a
measure already introduced in the
house.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
=. R. TAKES HAND IN STRIKE
Visits Garment Workers and Rec
ommends Investigation.


New York-Colonel Roosevelt mas
interested himself in the garment
workers strike in this city. In COM
nanv with Miss Madeline Doty ana
Miss Gertrude Barnum, the latter an
organizer of the international Ladies,
Garment Workers union, he visited
several halls in the East Side used by
white goods, kimono and wrapper
workers who are on strike. After his
visit he said that he would confer with
Senator Salant, the only Progressive
state senator, urging him to recon-
mend that an investigating committee
be appointed by the state legislature
to INQUIRE into conditions on the East
Side in the various trades. At one OF
the halls Colonel Roosevelt was taken
at first for factory inspector and was
not cordially greeted. When his
identity was learned, however, the
strikers were ready enough to talk
freely in response to his inquiry as to
how much they earned. One OF the
girls standing nearby announced that
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31

Southern Pacific Derailed By At.
tempt Robbers.

Oregon City, Or An unsuccessful
attempt to derail and rob the San
Francisco Express Of the Southern Pa
cific was made here Saturday night as
the train was approaching Oregon
City.
A pile of ties was thrown across the
tracks at Sixteenth street and Rail-
road avenue 1.-THE tracks,, just within
a few rods of the trestle across Aber-
nethy creek. The train crashed into
the ties at good speed, but only four
of the cars were derailed, the train
travelling more than eight blocks and
across the trestle before stopping COM
pletely or before the cause of the
trouble was learned.
The train carries ten cars, including
one tourist sleeper, four standard Pull
mans, baggage and express cars and
three coaches. Instead Of jumping the
rails the engine scattered the ties,
some of which we're carried in front
of the engine eight blocks. Several
were carried four and five blocks en-
tirely across the trestle.
The train was not damaged when
the four cars left the rails. They
were replaced in quick time. That a
disaster was narrowly averted is DE-
clared by the railway officials. That
the idea Of the would-be robbers was
to derail the train and send it into the
ditch SO feet beneath the trestle the
railway authorities assert.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
START INTERSTATE BRIDGE
Three Bills In House All Favor
Proposition.

Olympia - Three bills, containing
all the provisions necessary for the ap-
preparation by the legislature of
Washington's share of the cost of the
proposed Pacific Highway bridge over
the Columbia between Portland and
Vancouver, were introduced in the
house by Representative Mccoy.
The bills were referred to the ap-
preparations committee. This action
was followed by the appointment of a
joint house and senate committee to
investigate the proposed bridge and to
confer with like committee Of the
Oregon legislature.
The committee comprises Represen-
tatives Kennedy, McArdle and Aagard
and Senators French and Nichols.
They will confer with the Oregon COM
mittee as soon as possible and arrange
date for meeting at Vancouver.
The first bill introduced by Mccoy
authorizes the construction of the
bridge jointly with Oregon, provides
for an appropriation of $3.50, 900 and
creates commission to represent this
state in the planning and building of
the bridge.
The second provides special tax
levy of ] mill during 1913 and 1914 to
cover the cost of this and other Co.
lumbia river bridges.
In the third bill provision is made
for granting power to county commits
sioners to aid in the construction Of
bridges and the acquisition of prop
erty required and providing for the
issuance of bonds to pay the cost.
In the first bill there is granted an
easement over all shore lands adjacent
to the Washington side without rental
or other compensation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
House Kills Direct Election.

Olympia house back-fred on
the adoption of resolution confirming
the congressional act providing for the
direct election of United States sena-
tors. Because of the fact that GER
tilted copy of the proposed constitu-
tional amendment has not been re-
ceived, the house voted to hold the
question in allegiance until the con-
gressional act can get here from
Washington, D. c., copy having
been ordered by telegraph. The
house bill providing for $40, 600, 600
for road building was killed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
To Create Municipal Saloons.

Olympia-In the house bill has
been introduced by Representative
Farnsworth providing for the creation
OF municipal liquor dispensaries. The
plan is to let the people pass on the
question of abolishing all saloons in q
community and creating city saloon,
to be conducted by the city, and be
managed by persons under direction
either of the mayor or chief of police.
The liquor measures are expected to
stir up lively fuss in both branches
and in the committees before final set
Element.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
To !
CAUSE TROUBLE
Republicans May Retaiate
Taft Is Opposed.
Precedent Requires That Appoint
ments Of Outgoing President
be Approved by Opponents.

Washington, D. C.-No one Seem.
to know at this time what dispositio,
the senate will make ultimately of ths
thousands of nominations submittes
this session by President Taft. Gen.
orally, Democratic senators are in f.
vor of preventing confirmation, so that
all the offices affected shall become
vacant March 4, and then be filled Nv
Democrats. But Democratic SENT
ment is not unanimous, and quite /,
few of the present minority and soon.
to-be majority party are disposed b
allow the Republicans to clear up thei,
slate before the Taft administrator
closes.
Several times the Democrats of Tho
senate have caucused on the question
of nominations, yet they have reached
no binding agreement as to policy
rather playing for delay, in the hope
that something may develop to point
the proper course to them. For it is
acknowledged that there are two side,
to the question of holding up Repubi.
can nominations during Republican
administration. For instance, prece.
dent DEGREES that nominations made by
Republican president shall be con.
firmed during his administration, ex.
cept in cases where appointees are per.
sonally Objectionable to some senator
or senators. That was the policy in
the days of Cleveland, and Harrison,
and Mckinley.
But more than this, if the Demo-
Gratis of the present senate, by filibus-
ter or other means, undertake to pre-.
vent the confirmation of all the Taft
appointments, now pending or to be
submitted later this session, they will
arouse Republican senators, and it will
be quite as easy for Republicans in
the next senate to hold up the nomina-
lions of President Wilson, and thus
embarrass the incoming ADMINISTERS
ton. Some Republicans even 60 50
far as to threaten to hold up the Will
son cabinet nominations next March,
unless the Democrats agree to allow
the present senate to vote on Republi-
can nominations now before the SEN
ate. And it is quite within the power
of any senator or group of senators to
hold up even the cabinet appointments.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Taft Keeps Old Custom.

Washington, D. C. - White house
officials announce that President Taft
expects to observe one of the ancient
customs of the Inauguration, abandon
ed by his predecessor, and will ride
back up Pennsylvania avenue from the
Capitol to the White house with his
successor. This custom was broken
by Colonel Roosevelt four years ago
when he hurried from the Capitol to
the Union railroad station to catch a
train for Oyster Bay. leaving Mr.. Taft
to make the journey back up the ave-
nue. with Mrs. Taft at his side.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Serum Held at One Million.

Berlin-That DR.. friedman wants
81, 200, 900 for the American rights to
his tuberculosis serum, is the state
ment made here. German physicians
strongly condemn what they call his
"non-ethical attitude" They 60 50
far as to say that he is more concerned
in.t the monetary than in the humanl-
tartan aspect Of his discovery. Dr.
Friedman has so far failed to carry
out his promise of submitting a cult
ure to the government. He denies
that mercenary motives govern MS
action.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Mexican rebels fired on United
States troops along the Texas border.
Indications are that the cotton tarln
will be made even lover than at nrst
intended.
We. Corey, ex-head of the Steel
trust. saws steel prices were fixed at
Gary dinners.
J.P. Morgan says he favors com
bination under supervision rather than
open competition.
Prominent railroad men admit that
free passes are still used to influence
freight shipments.
The British government will leave
the SURFACE question open in the
house of commons.
Not only will the inaugural ball be
dispensed with, but it has been decld-
ed to dispense with the official recep-
ton also.
Jews throughout the East have con-
triubted over 100000 towards the
support of the Hebrew Union college
at Cincinnati.
Postal inspectors have unearthed an
illicit brokerage in stolen postage
stamps amounting to several millions
of dollars yearly.
The walls of an implement building
at Mckinney, Tex, collapsed and fell
on an adjoining department store, kill
ing eight and injuring Is.
After being deadlocked since jan
uary 2, the West Virginia legislature
has elected Samuel V. Woods, Dem
ocrat, as president of the upper house.
Cipriano Castro, enraged at tele-
grams showing that he ordered the
killing of certain of his opponents, or
ders inspection officials from his
rooms.
The mayor of Tacoma refused to sit
at the table with DR.. Cook, the al
legged discoverer of the North Pole, at
a banquet given by the commercial
club of that city.
The Turkish people repudiated the
peace agreement made by their lead
ers with the Balkan allies, shot the
principal minister, and declare they
will hold Adrianople or perish in the
attempt.
Heavy SHOWS are again falling in the
Cascade mountains and transconti-
mental roads fear another blockade.
Governor Wilson has introduced in
the state legislature of New Jersey
seven bills for the regulation of
trusts.
Secretary Knox declares foreign
shipping is not menaced by the pro-
posed Panama canal tolls, and wishes
to leave the matter to a special adjust
ment commission.
A Chicago detective was killed in a
fight with much-wanted auto bandit
whom he had trapped.
Portland's city Jail is so crowded
there are not enough hunks, so the
prisoners sleep by turns.
Inquiry into the alleged Telephone
trust has been turned over to the In
terstate Commerce commission.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
SEATTLE MARKETS

Wheat-Bluestem, 92c per bushel
forty-fold, SIC; club, SEC; Fife, 85c;
red Russian, 85c.
Oats-$27 per ton.
Barley-$24 per ton.
Yellow corn-Sacked, $29 per ton
mixed corn, sacked, $3.50.
Millstuff - Bran, $25 ton; shorts,
$27 per ton; middlings, $34; alfalfa
meal, $22; oil meal, $40; scratch,
$3S.
Hay-Eastern Washington timothy,
$19@2O per ton; wheat hay, $1S; al
falfa, $13@14; mixed hay, Sl7M18:
straw, S9@1O.
Eggs-Select ranch, 27c dozen.
Poultry-Live hens, 15@16c pound /;
old ROSTERS, 1Oc; this years chickens,
16@18c; ducklings, 1Sc; SQUADS, So
dozen; guinea fowl, live, $7@9 dozen.
Ranch Butter-32@33c pound.
Apples-New, 50c@s1. SO per box.
Cranberries-S10@11.5 SO barrel.
Pears-Fancy Eastern Washington,
$1.50@1.75 box.
Honey-New, So. 5O@3.75 per case.
al Dressed beef - Prime beef steers,
13@13ac pound; dressed cows, 123c;
heifers, Nos. l and 2, 13c.
Dressed veal-14c pound.
Dressed pork-12c pound.
Dressed mutton-Ewes, lie pound
wethers, 12c; spring lamb, 13@13ac.
Vegetables = Almonds, 18@19c
pound; artichokes, $4,000. go dozen
beets, 81 sack; bell peppers, 10000
pound; Brussels sprouts, &c pound
cabbage, $1@1.25; red, &c pound; car.
rots, 75c@$1 sack; caulifiower, $3.50
crate; celery, California, 81 dozen
$5.50@6 per crate; eggplant, Csc
pound; garlic, 8@10c; horseradish,
S@10c; lettuce, dollhouse, $1@1. 25
box; California, $2.5O@3 per case;
onions, California, S1@1.20 per sack
Fanno, s1.50; green, 3Oc per doz
Oregon, $1.25 per sack; parsley, SOC
dozen; potatoes, on track, $11@14 pei
ton; sweet, California, 2a@ 34t
pound; radishes, California, soc pc,
dozen; rhubarb, 12a@15c; squash
Hubbard, $1.75@2; tomatoes, fancy,
4-basket, $3.50 per box; dollhouse,
$1.25@2 per box; turnips, new, s1@
LIS per sack; yellow, SLIPS; wal
nuts, 17A@18c pound.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
RIVALRY HIT ARSON TRUST
Independent" Operators Did Good
Business.

New York-Competition has hurt
the arson business in New York City.
The grand jury which has indicted sew
eral property owners and insurance ad-
justers, alleged to be members of the
so-called carson trust" has learned
that a large group of independent
operators is responsible for nearly as
many fires as is the trust" itself.
Isidor Stein, "Izzy the Painter" who
has been the chief source of informa-
ton regarding recent incendiarism
here, promised to give the district at
torney the names of the principl Gin
dependents.
Abraham Schlichten, one of those
indicted, entered plea of guilty. He
begged for mercy and promised to tell
the names of 80 persons not yet ar
rested who had allowed members of
the trust" to set fires in their build
ings and who received part of the pro-
ceeds.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
NEW LINE TO BE SHORT CUT
Hartman to Clip AIS Miles From
Sp0kane-LOs Angeles Run.

Los Angeles-Fully Ats miles will
be clipped from the distance between
Los Angeles and Spokane by the pro-
posed railroad to be built by the Har-
riman interests in the north.
Los Angeles officials of the Southern
Pacific railroad declare that the sur
vey for the new road has been practi-
cally completed. The length will be
ITO miles. This is only 100 miles
longer than the shortest route between
Spokane and San Francisco.
According to the latest information,
the proposed line will extend from
Spokane to Lewiston, along the Snake
river to the Oregon Short Line, from
Nampa to Winnemucca, to Hazen, to
Owenyo, to Mojave, thence to Los
Angeles.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Liners Keep Company.

New York - La Savoie, of the
French line, and the Campania, OF the
Cunard line, arrived at about the same
hour Sunday, after voyages across the
Atlantic in which they were almost a.
ways in sight Of each other. The pas
sengers exchanged many wireless
greetings and a few bet with those
aboard the companion vessel as 70
which would reach the pier first. Inc
Campania won by less than al
hour.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Banker Gives Warning.

Washington, D. C.-That it. is not
unreasonable but wholly in accordance
with past experience to expect "for
some time in the future financial
panic similar to the one in 1907" was
the declaration Of Representative
Glass, of Virginia, chairman of the
subcommittee of the house committee
on banking and currency, in an address
at the convention of the national
chamber of commerce. No one could
tell, he said, when one would come.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Homes of 12O, 900 to Go.

Paris-The problem of finding &C
commodation for 12o, 900 people, who
are to be evicted from their dwellings
owing to the sale of the Anticipated
Notifications of Paris to city authori-
ties by the French government, is now
before the Municipal council for solu-
ton. The space occupied by the 81
mile wall encircling Paris and the
firing zone," 500 yards in width,
facing it, is to be converted into pub
lie parks. This space is now covered
by many thousand ramshackle houses,
occupied by the poorer working people.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Fifty Carried on Ice Floe.

Little Sturgeon, Wis.-Fifty fisher
men, more than half the male popula-
ton of this village, were swept out in
Lake Michigan Friday night when a
large foe of ice from which they were
fishing cracked and fioated away from
the shore. Some of the men were res
cued in small boats, some swan to
shore and two remained on the foe all
night.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
SENATE KILLS JUNKET BILL
Measure Passed by House Gets
Little Consideration.

Olympia-The senate crushed the
So, 500 junketing trip around the state
bv the entire legislature, to inspect
state institutions, which the lower
house had decided on at a previous
session.
The senate first made fun of,
laughed at and derided the plan; then
attempted to sidetrack it as unworthy
of the serious consideration Of forty
two solons; then as committee OF
the whole INDUCED in twenty minutes
of what seemed horseplay over the
proposed jaunt, and finally expressed
the unanimity of its opposition to the
idea by turning it down without one
single dissenting vote.
Senator Peder Jensen, of Pierce,
and Senator Frank Jackson, of King,
who believed that benefit could be de-
rived from such trip, saw the hope
lessness of advocating the plan further
and declined to vote against the re-
lection.
Not satisfied with turning down one
suggestion made by the house, the
senate thereupon proceeded to express
its disapproval also of the plan to hire
two lawyers at $1,000 each to aid the
members in drawing up bills and pass
ing upon their constitutionality, but
in the end agreed upon compromise,
by vote of Is to Is, to appropriate
$1,000 to permit the attorney general
to hire further assistants if he is
swamped by too many proposed meas
ures and laws submitted to him for
OniniOn.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Naval Militia Helped.

Washington, D. C.-The Naval mil
tia would be put upon new footing
by a bill passed Friday by the senate.
1t provides for the treatment of the
Naval militia as part of the regular
navy, in the same way that the Ma
tional guard is now related to the reg
ular army. Enlistments in the Naval
militia would make its members SUBJ
ject toscall by the president in time of
war. The bill has been strongly in
dorsed by the War department.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Woman Would Ship Self.

Elgin, nl.-Perplexities which have
arisen in the Elgin postoffice since the
beginning OF the parcel post services
were overshadowed when Postmaster
Hemmens received q letter from Mrs.
Mary Phillips, of Elgin, asking what
the rate would be to ship herself to
Washington, D. C.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31

she received $40 a week. Of this,
she said, $1.20 was spent weekly for
carfare to and from her home in Yon-
kers.
Another girl said she received $3.5
a week, and that in order to "make
both ends meet" it was necessary for
her to walk to and from her place of
employment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31
Turkey Gets $40, ooo, 900 Advance.

London The Constantinople CORES.
pondent Of the Daily Telegraph learns
that q contract has been signed, under e.,
which the Ottoman government wiz
obtain an advance Of $40, 200, 600, U
be reimbursed out of the loan in con.
nection with the new concession 1oi
the Metropolitan Railways Of Constan,
tinople.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31

Chicago = Three confessions were
obtained by Assistant States Attor-
ney Johnson in the Investigation of
the so-called carson trust" Two
who confessed are business men, who
told the prosecutor that because of
business reverses, they consented to
have their places fired when public adj
justers pointed out to them how easy
it would be to collect the insurance.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-31

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