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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Governor Marshall of Indiana, OPP
noses free school books.
The Indian appropriation bill carry
ing So, 900, 900 has been passed by the
house.
Roosevelt rejects proposal to try
to bring the Republican and Progress
sive factions together.
Survivors of the steamer Rosecrans
say 33 men persisted when the vessel
was lost on Peacock spit.
Robbers using motorcycle held up
an expressman on the outskirts OF
Portland, making their escape easily.
Suffragettes announce their inten-
ton of marching from New York to
Washington to present their demands
to congress.
The accounts of the sheriff of Multi
nomath county, Or, balanced to cent
when the books were turned over to
his successor.
Two desperadoes in an automobile
threw brick. through a Chicago jew
elry store window, seized gems worth
$500 and escaped.
Witnesses testified that "profts" of
more than $50, 900, 900 have been made
by the First National bank of New
York City, since its organization with
a capital of $500, 900 in 1868.
A 15-year-old girl was rescued from
a band of gypsies at Los Angeles.
She claimed to have been bought by
the leader of the band from an orphan
asylum in Montana eight years ago.
Mexican rebels exterminated the
garrison and captured the town of
Ayotcingo, only rs miles from Mexico
City, afterwards annihilating the fed
eral requirements sent against
them.
The garrison and inhabitants of
Adrianople are reported to be starv-
ing, and the Bulgarians believe its
capture is certain, through the Turk
ish commander declares he will never
surrender.
The formation of glue trust is be-
lieved to be under way.
Manufacturers and importers are
begging congress to let the present
tariff alone.
President Taft greatly lauds the
genius, persistence and tenacity of the
Jewish people.
Ex-President Castro has taken per-
sonal charge of his legal fight to re-
main in America.
Turks refuse fatty to cede Adrian
ople to Bulgaria and peace negotia-
tions are broken off.
The newly-elected woman mayor of
Warrenton, Or, walked through the
snow to attend her first council meet
ing.
The Supreme court refuses to per-
NIT Union Pacific stockholders to buy
Southern Pacific stock
The Supreme court has ruled that
cotton brokers must stand trial for at
tempting to corner cotton.
A decision of the Supreme court
greatly curtails the power of the
states over railways and express COM
panies.
Women of the allied Balkan states
show utmost fortitude over their
griefs and sufferings resulting from
the war with Turkey.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17

London Paul Nash, United States
consul general at Budapest, died sud-
denly at hotel here. Although it
was apparent that death was due to
natural causes, an inquest will be nec-
essary. Consul General Nash arrived
here only the day before. At the hotel
he asked for quiet room, as he was
suffering from insomnia. He was
found dead there next morning. Nash
was Sc years old and had been in the
diplomatic service at Bangkok, Ven
ice, Vladivostok, Rheims and Buda-
pest.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Estate Valued at So, 300, 600.

San Francisco = Claus Spreckles,
millionaire sugar refner, left real
property amounting to $500, 600 and
personal property in excess of So, $780,
900, of which he devised half to his
widow and half to C. Augustus Spreck-
els and Rudolph Spreckels, younger
sons; John D. and Adolph were cut
out, the will declaring that they had
been in measure provided for prior
to their fathers death. A contest
was Immediately filed and three days
after the widow died the court handed
down decision breaking the will.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Banker and Wife Jailed.

Chicago William T. Kirby, owner
of the defunct Kirby Savings bank,
and his wife, Mrs. Margaret L. Kirby,
were ordered sent to Jail on a con-
tempt charge by United States District
Judge Lands until they turn over
$780, said to be missing from the
assets of the bank. The decision
came at the end of scathing denun-
citation of the participants in what
Judge Lands termed ''fraud and a
frame-up par excellence in perjury"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Fire Put Out With Milk.

Santa Cruz, Cal.-With the water
supply cut off by frozen pipes, the
family of A. D. Houghton, in Cliff
Drive, near Capitola, resorted to pans
of milk in fighting fire that threat
ened to burn the home Monday morn
ing. The flames were extinguished
with small loss.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Apple Men Take Heart.

Hood River, Or. 60 1t is an ill wind
that blows no one good, and the apple
men expect the disastrous freeze that
swept the Southern California orange
district to cause an advance in apple
prices. j. S. Crutchfeld, a Pittsburg
commission man, said that the happen
ing of two things would greatly aid
the marketing of the years fruit.
Zone, he said .'is destructive cy-
clone in the banana belt and the other
a hard freeze in the orange belt"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Fix Office Hours at CAPITOL.

Olympia-Seven state officials and
offcials-elect, including Governor-eleet
Ernest Lister, met in the office of Sec
rotary of State I. M. Howell and de-
cided that until June Is next the Office
hours in the state house shall be from
y a. m. until 5 p. m. The meeting
was called by Secretary of State How
ell, who stated that its purpose was 70
create harmony between the Demo,
cratic executive and the Republics
state officials in so far as the interest,"
of taxpayers are concerned. In this
Governor-elect Lister concurred.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Proposed New County Not Poor.

North Yakima-Figures compiled by
County Assessor B. F. McCurdy on
valuation of real property in the pro-
posed new county of Sunnyside, which
the residents of the southern end of
Yakima county ask created by the
next Legislature, make a good showing
for the new county.
Within the Is townships lying south
of the Rattlesnake hills and east of
the section line at Zillah, including the
towns of Sunnyside, Granger, Outlook,
Alfalfa, Grandview and Mabton, the
value of real property at the last
assessment, ten months ago, was &c.
722, 585. The valuation of railroads
in the same territory was 81, 487, 545,
making grand total of So, 21O, 100.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Lumber Trust Is EnjOined.

New York governments petit
tion for a permanent injunction
against the Eastern States Retail
Lumber Dealers association, alleged to
be a combination in restraint of trade,
was granted Friday by the Federal
district court The governments petit
ton alleged that the defendants were
engaged in conspiracy in restraint
OF interstate trade, operated through
the instrumentality of blacklists, fines
and expulsion from membership, and
that by trade agreements they arbit-
rarily fixed prices.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Rainy year In Newport District.

Newport = The summary of the
weather for 1912 for the Newport dis
trict as taken from the records of Sid
ney w. Rogers, voluntary observer,
shows that there was an abnormal
rainfall during the year. The mean
temperature was 1875 degrees; with
six days above 80, four in June and
two in July, the highest being 81,
June 26. There were eight days below
zero, the first eight days in January,
the coolest being January Z, when the
thermometer registered "a below.
The precipitation was 1924 inches.
The spring rainfall was much less than
normal and that of July, August and
November very heavy. The snowfall
for the year was So inches, most Of
which fell in January and December.
There were 131 clear and 120 partly
cloudy DAYS.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Buys Washtucna Wheat Land.

Washtucna-J. W. Wolfe, of Walla
Walla, has sold to E. c. Rogers, of
Weston, Oregon, $40 acres of wheat
land located eight miles west of Wash
tucna. This land is all under culti-
walton, $50 acres in winter wheat and
one-third of the crop goes with the
place. Mr.. Rogers paid $22, 400 for
this land and bought with the inten-
ton of coming to Adams county to
farm. He gave in exchange a well
improved dairy ranch three miles from
Weston, Oregon, valued at $40, 900,
paying the difference in cash.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Motor Company Ordered to Sell.

New York = The receivers of the
United States Motors company were
ordered by Federal Judge Hough to
accept the bid of 81, $50, 900 entered
by representatives of the company's
reorganization committee at the fore
closure sale of the property.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
Walla Walla Store Purchased.

Walla Walla-The Farmers Geners
Trading company has taken over to-
John G. Muntinga store and will oper
ate it in the future with John G. NIUE
tinga as manager. The store is CT y
operative, and the promoters say WV
be made into a general merchandls
concern. Ben 3. Harvey, the pres
dent Of the company, is from SpokaDs
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-17
SEATTLE MARKETS

Wheat-Bluestem, SIC per bushel /;
forty-fold, S3c; club, SIC; Fife, soc;
red Russian, 79c.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
Nerves and Worry.
Burlington News.)

DR.. Edwin Ash, a distinguished Eng
fish nerve specialist. addressed an
audience of 200 nurses in London last
week, in which he said that the rules
of health are to eat slowly. to walk
slowly, to dress slowly and to speak
slowly. Nervous disorders are caused
by indigestible and hurried lunches, by
wearing too tight clothing and by
needless worry about details of domes-
tic, professional and business life.
Barristers, journalists, doctors, business
men use up a lot of energy over the
telephone, the London doctor says, and
then they worry over details which ex-
haust their nervous energy simply be-
cause they take themselves too serious
ly. Fully 50 per cent of nervous
specialist S business are professional
and business men of all ages. The nervous
system shuts off nervous force from
the stomach the first thing, and keeps
the brain, heart and lungs going until
the subject approaches collapse. Once
the stomach is upset it does not digest
its meals. Men, always strung up to
the highest pitch, are easily over
worked. The most intelligent are apt
to be neurotic.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

The court for the collection of small
debts in Kansas is working to such
good advantage that it may be copied
by other states. In any case for the
collection of not more than $40 when
the plaintiff swears he can not afford
to employ counsel the judge does the
business for both sides, and the cred
itor generally gets the money. Am
cunts smaller than SO are often han
died in these special courts, and even
80 cents is considered when there is
apparent cause for action. In most of
the states the small disputed bills are
not worth collecting because Of the cost
of trial.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

In a discussion of direct primaries
the Bennington Banner observes: eff
the people make the nominations by
direct vote, what legitimate excuse is
there for a convention unless to it is
delegated the duty of preparing and
promulgating the platform. Here, in
Vermont, we have seen how futile con
vention platform is and all who are
able to read, know that it is no differ
ent in Vermont than in other states.
The Banner favors delegating the duty
of making the party platform to the
state, congressional, and county candi-
dates who have been nominated by
that party. If the candidates for
state Office county office and
for Congress were to make the plat
form on which that party was about to
appeal to the voters for support at the
polls, the platform would naturally
be pretty good one. Then after GER
tain candidates were elected to office
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Some of rs not past middle life read
in boyhood with awe that clever bit
of fiction Around the World in so
Days. Such a record was impossible
of accomplishment by any combina-
ton of schedules which could be ar
ranged at the time the book was writ
ten, but at the present time John
Henry Mears, New York Sun cores
pondent, is crossing the Pacific on the
fast mail steamer from Yokohoma to
Vancouver, with a bright prospect of
landing in New York 30 days. 81
hours and 30 minutes from the time
that he turned his face eastward to
girdle the globe. The present record
of flying trip around the world is
80 days, 10 hours and IS minutes.
made by Andre Jaeger-Sehmidt in
1911.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
A CUBIST AUTUMN.
Fall Fashions, 1t Is Said, Are Like
Nightmares.

Fall Fashions, 1t Is Said, Are Like
Nightmares.
Autumn clothes, they say. will make
it appear as though the feminine world
had gone mad.
A recent exhibition of the Dry Goods
Economist in New York city shows
that the ultra swell dressers this fall
will have to go to the apparent ex-
tremest limit If they keep pace with
the new modes.
This fall will be the season of the
fitless fit They whisper also that it
will be the season of the "skirtless
skirt, the boneless corset. the leather
less shoe and the crownless hat"
Colors run the gamut Purple will
be seen superimposed upon orange,
fame OVERLAPPING emerald. Other IA
vorite shades will be cherry. magenta,
peacock, gold, all seen in combinations
fearful to behold.
Beads. even, have gone mad, and
strings of beads are no longer of one
color, but show sections of varied
tints, and metal, glass and semiprecious
stones are mingled in bizarre effects
too odd to describe
Buttons no longer look like buttons,
but resemble Chunks of taffy, bits of
rock candy or half size billiard balls"
Neck ruffies flop upward, outward.
everywhere, in fact, but the way they
are supposed to. Nothing appears as
though it was sewed on straight Moth
ing looks trim and neat.
Fat plaitinSs. bunchings. shirrings.
frills, will make the fat woman
dumpier and the thin woman look
more angular than ever.
Yes. the cubist autumn is before us.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
OUR QUESTION BOX

Kindly tell me of the life of Johns
Hopkins, the founder Of the university
in Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins was born in Anne
Arundel county, Md, May 10, 1895, of
Quaker parents. At II he left the
home farm and went to Baltimore to
engage in the grocery business Five
wears later he was at the head of a
wholesale house with an immense trade,
and in 1917 he retired with a large
fortune, which he increased by bank
ing and railroad operations. In 1873
he gave property worth $4,50O,0OO to
found a free hospital. He also pre-
scented Baltimore with a public park
and gave over $3,O0o,0oO to found the
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
He died Dec "a. 1878.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
Gard PARTY Stunt,

You will be surprised to find it expe-
dites matters at your card party to
have pencils fastened to the corners of
The tables by means of ribbon and Il
thumb tack. About a yard of baby rib
bon is used for each pencil. Tie the
pencil securely to one end and fasten
the other under the corner of the table
with thumb tack. This does not mar
the table, but prevents the pencil from
being carried away or getting lost. At
a card party recently the hostess had
pencils attached to each corner, SO that
there was one for everybody.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

When the Winooski Valley Power
company gets the dam erected at Es-
sex Junction there will be a new lake,
a quarter of a mile wide and two and
a half miles in length, in Chittenden
county, and one of the largest power
plants in New England will be the re-
suit. At present force of $50 men is
engaged on the work, along with about
dozen derricks, ten steam engines, a
private railroad and many other pieces
of apparatus necessary to the accom-
plishment of large work The
Winooski Valley Power company was
organized for the purpose of building
this dam and is a branch of the Ameri-
can Gas company. 1t is therefore af1il-
lated with the Burlington Light &
Power company. When completed, be
tween 5000 and 10000 horse power
will be developed and the Juice = will
be sold to any factory within radius
of 80 miles. Already some of the
granite concerns of Barre have con
tracted for power, and no concern is
felt regarding the utilizing of the pow
er. Figures are not obtainable, but it
is supposed the cost of building the
dam and power house will be in the
.neighborhood of 100000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Chase. J. S.-California Coast Trails.
Two horseback journeys furnished
the material for this book; one from
FL Monte to San Diego, the other from
Ell Monte to the Oregon line-practical-
" covering the entire coast line of
California The author sees with the
eyes of nature lover and has keen
sense of humor which makes his mar
rative the more enjoyable. The book
is well illustrated. To those who know
the country the book viii be especial
~ interesting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
American Statesman Year Book.

American Statesman Year Book.
This volume in the first two parts
covers practically the same ground as
the Statesman S year book, giving,
however, to the United States twice as
much space. Part 3, Records and Sta
tistics, contains general, athletic and
sporting events, annual and special
government reports, a political review.
information on societies and organiza-
tons, and world statistics combining
some of the features of the American
year book and the World Almanac.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

The cordial welcome that Brattleno-
TO gave the Greenfield tap and die
workers this morning on the occasion
of their second annual outing is indi-
catiye of an intercommunity spirit
that might well be encouraged Neigh
bors in location, Brattleboro and
Greenfield should become neighbors in
spirit also, working shoulder to shout
der in support of all causes that make
for the betterment of this section of
the Connecticut valley.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
At the LibrarU
New Books
New Books

American Association for Highway I'm
provement.
The official good roads year book of
the United States. for 1913. A wade
mecum of information about roads and
road Improvement in the United
States, containing legislation and off
cials in the different states, suggested
state aid bills, types of roads, method
Of financing road work, use Of convict
labor, patents issued in 1912, general
treatises and state documents, associa-
tions, etc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night, and it solicits the
co operation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt report should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person. by
telephone or postal card, thus enabling
the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
Mills, E. Am Beaver World.

An interesting study of the beaver,
based on observations during nearly
30 years in all parts of the United
States and in Mexico, Canada and Alas
ka, during which the author has seen
many colonies at work, building
houses, digging canals and repairing
and building dams. He regards them
as the most intelligent of all animals
and possessed of a faculty very like
reason.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

1t is safe bet that the men from
Concord, Vermont, who were fined 1928
for catching ~ trout under five inches
in length in northern New Hampshire
wont repeat their performance against
the law. There was one quality which
is often commended which these men
displayed The catching Of 127 short
trout demonstrates beyond question
that they are patient cusses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Can YOU tell me how many patents
have been issued to women?
\ report made in 1910 showed that
since the beginning of the patent sys-
tenn 1896 patents had been granted to
women, of which number 1855 were
issued prior to 1855, 1926 between 1883
and 1895 and 1915 between 1895 and
1910.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
Work for Men and Women.

After all, you know, there is room
for both men and women in this
world. Men have their work 10 do
and women have theirs. 1t is the
Woman's work to provide for the inner
man and it is the mans to provide for
the outer woman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
Member of the Associated Press.
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1913.

After reading the various newspaper
comments on the report of the com
mission which investigated the tele-
phone situation in Vermont we are in
doubt as to whether it is being damned
with faint praise or praised with
faint damns
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

For out of door dining on the club
veranda a hat of this description is
enchanting. The material used is shirr-
ed white lace placed over a wire
frame. Pink roses and wiStaria in deli
cate lavender are massed at the sides.
Streamers of wistaria velvet ribbon
fall at the back.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Bjornson, Bjornstjerne-Plays transIat-
ed by E. Bjorkman.
Contains: The Gauntlet, Beyond Our
Power, The New System. The first ap-
pearance in English of three interest
ing plays by Bjornson which are in
tensely modern in spirit, treating of
social and business problems from their
ethical aspects. VIII interest every one
interested in reading the modern dra-
matists.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26
innocent.

A New York man who tried to see a
woman in a hobble skirt ascend q
stairway fell in front of train. 1t is
always the innocent bystander who is
hurt.-University Missourian.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Brooks, John Standardization Syn
dicalism: The l. w. w.
\ highly interesting. sound and sane.
yet sympathetic exposition of syndl-
calism in the United States, with a
survey of the general socialistic move
ment and of the European origins of
syndicalism.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

they would expose themselves to con-
tempt and dirision if they refused to
stand by the platform which they
themselves had made
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Franek, Harry Alverson-Zone Police
man S.
Most entertaining account of life
in the Canal Zone as experienced by
the author of 4 Vagabond Journey
Around the World, who as a policeman
came into touch with all phases of the
work on the canal and with the many
peoples living in the zone
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

seen in the illustration, is coiled close
under a walking derby, her gloves are
heavy dogskin, and monocle on q
black ribbon swings over neat ascot
ito
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Happy is the man that bottles up
little sunshine to keep for a rainy day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-26

Stroller Costume For Fail Wear.
The girl about town is going to be
very trim next fall in a natty tailored
suit of dark blue serge. Her hair as