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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
First "Dope Book" Out.

Walla Walla - The first number Of
the "The Dope Book" the monthly
paper started at the state peniten-
tiary, was issued last week. The pur-
pose of the paper is to disseminate
information. On the front page is a
picture of Governor Lister with the
caption, "The man who sent out the
first honor gang from the state peni-
Tertiary"
The paper has Is pages, quarto size,
and contains articles from prisoners,
poetry, jokes about prison life, cuts of
the governor and Warden Drum and no
advertising. A tribute is paid to
Warden Drum in sketch, the publ
cation stating that "Men within real
ize that there is Caesar without and
that there is an appeal for all who
will. The day of skulking and dodg-
ing is passing, and men within are
regaining more of their manhood un-
der this regime
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
PARCEL POST ROBBED AT SEA
Three of Crew of Panama Liner
Accused of Crime.

San Francisco-Systematic pilfering
of valuables from the parcel post has
been uncovered in the arrest of three
members of the crew of the Panama
liner City of Sydney. The men were
captured by a customs guard and much
of the stuff was recovered.
MILFORD Whorton, third cook, was
captured with imported French lace
and dress patterns in his possession.
Then followed the arrest of Rafael
Zuniga, officers mess boy, and Cur
mensina Burrasos, coal passer.
By pass keys, it is charged, the men
gained admittance to the mail cage of
the vessel and distracted valuables
from the parcel post packages. A
large quantity Of loot was recovered
following search of the mems lodg-
ings in this city. They will be prose-
cuted on charge of robbing the mail.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Bible Omitted From Schools.

Portland, Or.-The bible will not be
read in the public schools Of Portland.
With few supporting and many OPP
posing the petition from the Minister
ial association asking that the reading
of the bible, without comment, be in
stalled as a part of the public school
course, the vote Of the board at its
meeting Wednesday night was unani-
mously against granting the petition.
Applause followed the vote and the
crowd which had packed the room
where the meeting was held to consid-
er the matter, quickly dispersed, leav-
ing the board to consider other mat
tiers Of the school administration.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
LANE FAvORs BIG DREDGEs
Senator Would Supplement Build
ING of Columbia River Jetties.

Washington, D. C.-Senator Lane,
while he desires to see the government
hasten construction of the north jetty
ct the mouth of the Columbia river, is
firmly of the opinion that dredging IS
a necessary adjunct in providing and
maintaining an adequate channel, and,
holding that view, he will endeavor in
he next river and harbor bill to Sc
cure. in addition to the jetty appro-
priation, an additional sum sufficient
to build or buy one or more powerful
sea-going dredges, for exclusive work
on the Columbia river bar.
The satisfactory work accomplished
by the dredge Chinook the past sum-
mer has demonstrated the efficiency OF
dredges in deepening the channel at
the mouth Of the Columbia, and If one
or two mammoth dredges, especially
built for that class of work, can be in
stalled by the government Senator
Lane believes 40-foot channel can be
secured and maintained much more
speedily than by waiting for the COM
pletion of the jetty.
Senator Lane points to the Liver
pool and Hamburg channels, both ar
tificial waterways, which today &C.
commodate the largest ships atioat,
and both of which were obtained by
the use of dredges similar to those
needed at the mouth of the Columbia.
The senator says he will do everything
in his power, in cooperating with
other members of the Oregon delega-
ton, to secure a $2,00O,OOO cash ap-
preparation and a continuing contract
authorization for the north jetty, but
he believes congress should not stop at
that. Not only would he have provi-
sion made for big sea-going dredges
for use on the bar, but he would have
additional dredges provided for use on
the channel between Portland and the
mouth of the river.
Senator Lane will also urge upon
the engineers and upon congress the
necessity for constructing dikes along
either side of the channel, so that the
sand and silt taken from the bed OF
the river can be dumped behind the
dikes and be prevented from finding
its way back into the channel. The
made ground behind the dikes would
become valuable for farming, if raised
sufficiently above flood level, he says.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
SELLING WHEAT AT rs CENTS
Highest Mark of Season Is Touched
at Odessa.

Odessa-The wheat market went up
to the highest mark Of the season last
week, local dealers paying 70 cents
for bluestem and white amber and 20
cents for red wheat. The Odessa
pnion Warehouse company purchased
70, 600 bushels and shipped eight cars
from here and its Lauer and Schooner
branch houses on the Milwaukee line
south Of town. The company has
shipped 80 cars of new wheat thus
far, the company handling 10000
bushels at their Lauer branch house
alone.
It has been estimated that the
Odessa territory will ship 1000, 600
bushels this season and from the way
wheat is rolling in at present this
mark may be surpassed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
FRUIT GROWERS WILL MEET
National Authorities to Advise Ap.
ple Show Convention.

Spokane Problems confronting the
furit growers of the Pacific northwest
will be threshed out by the growers
themselves, aided by number of men
of national reputation in their lines,
as large feature of the conference
side of the Sixth National Apple show
and Fruit Products congress to be held
at Spokane, November %. The gen.
eral conference plan considered by
Chairman James S. Ramage and the
board of trustees provides for having
each subject opened by men recognized
as authorities in that line, and there
after to have the growers present dis
cuss the subject informally and in de-
tail. Among the subjects already out
lined for the conferences are: The
standardized pack; utilizing the lower
grade fruits and by-products with
practical demonstrations; storing the
fruit for market;) financing the fruit
crop; cooperative marketing and its
vital necessity to the individual grow
er and to the future of the apple in
dustry.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Sell 1900 Boxes Apples.

Wenatchee Owens Brothers of the
Riverview Orchard company, whose
property is Is miles up the Columbia
from Wenatchee, have sold their big
crop of apples, estimated at IL, 900
boxes, from q acres. The crop con-
sists Of Stayman Winesaps, Winesaps
and Aristo Blacks. Two buyers Sc
cured the crop. s. Diggle, represent
ing j. S. Thomas, big apple man of
London, secured the smaller sizes, 1875
and smaller. j. M. Wade, cash
buyer from the East, who recently To-
Gated here and expects to make this
valley his home, bought the larger
sizes, 113 and larger.
The Owens brothers refuse to give
out the prices received for their fruit,
but state that the deal was for cash
and the price was satisfactory.
Last year this orchard had approx
mately $4,000 boxes from the 81
acres, and even though the prices
were low, it paid handsome revenue.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
MEAT BARONS IN BANQUET
Preacher Warns Rich Against De.
structive Power Of Wealth.

Chicago - Chicago big business"
and Chicago society" were equally
excited Wednesday over the gorgeous
ness Of the hunting breakfast with
which the meat packers convention
ended here and the candor with which
the Rev. Rufus White, one Of the
guests at the breakfast, told his fell
low breakfasters what he thought Of
them.
The function was given in imitation
Of real English hunting breakfast.
It was held in the big banquet hall Of
the Congress hotel, and it cost, it was
estimated, $125.OOO, everything in
cluded.
The breakfasters" wore scarlet
hunting costumes. Scarlet clad mas
tiers Of the hunt served them. Bug
lers, dressed in scarlet, sounded the
tallyho between courses. The banquet
hall had been transformed into q grove
and during the feast scarlet coated
huntsman, on a real black horse,
dashed through it.
Five hundred packers sat down at
the board and Of those 500 there was
hardly one who did not come, more OF
less, under the classification of q
captain Of industry"
To this gathering the Rev. Rufus
White, scheduled to speak on "The
Social Side of Business" addressed
himself as follows:
Gin just the degree that you create
dominant exclusive class of captains
of industry, each captain despotically
ruling thousands Of subordinates from
whom all aspiration and ambition has
been crushed by the hopelessness OF
advancement in just that degree you
have weakened American citizenship.
eff you reduce men to the level OF
mere employees, hopeless of promotion
or of success, you have killed their
citizenship. You have killed their in.
itiative. You have deprived them OF
chance for advancement by perse-
verence, industry and effort.
"Collectivism and combination near
the suppression of the individual
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10

Wheat-Rluestem, 9Oc; forty-fold,
&c; club, 81c; Fife, Soc; red Rus
sian, 79c bushel.

Wheat-Rluestem, 90c; forty-fold,
&c; club, Sic; Fife, SOC; red Rus
sian, 79c bushel.
Wheat-$31 ton.
Oats-$30 ton.
Corn-Whole, $40 ton; cracked,
SAL.
Timothy-$17@19 ton.
Eggs-Select ranch, 39@4Oc dozen.
Poultry-Live hens, 13@16c pound;
old ROSTERS, 10c; spring broilers, 18c;
ducks, 10c; spring ducklings, 1O@12c;
squads, $2@2.25 dozen; geese, 12@
lac; live turkeys, 22@27c.
Ranch butter-23@24c pound.
Apples-Eastern Washington cook
ing, 75c@$1.25 box; do. eating, $3.50
OF; local cooking, 75c@$1.
Cantaloupes-$1@1.25 crate.
Crabapples = Transcendents, 85c
box; apple boxes, So; Siberian, 65M
75c; Hyslops, 75c@$2.
Grapes-Malagas, $1@1.15 crate:
Tokays, $l@1.15; Roseperu, 81: Con-
cords, Soc per 8-pound baskets: Mus
cats, $1.15 crate.
Peaches-Eastern Washington, 3OM
40c box; clings, 45@50c.
Pears-$1.75@ box; local Bartlett.
75c@$1.25; Flemish Beauties, 81. 25m
1.50; d'Anjous, $1.S5@2.
Prunes-40@50c box.
Watermelons-1ac pound.
Honey-New, So. 50@3. rs case.
Dressed beef - Prime beef steers
l4c pound; cows, 13sc; heifers, 12c.
Dressed veal-15c pound.
Dressed hogs = Whole, packing
house, lac pound.
Dressed mutton-Spring lamb. 133c
Beets-New, 75c@$1 sack.
Brussels sprouts-l0c pound.
Cabbage-Local, 1ac pound.
Carrots-Local, 75c@$1 sack.
Caulifiower-$1.75 dozen.
Celery-Local, 50@75c dozen.
Cucumbers-H othouse, 5O@6Oc doz
Eggplant-75c@$1.25 crate.
Garlic-10@12c pound.
Lettuce-Local, 30@4Oc dozen: hot
house, 75@S1 dozen.
Onions-Green, 25@3O dozen: Walla
ket.
Potatoes-Home grown, $2o@2s ton
Yakima Gems, SCOOPS.
Squash-$l. 1902 per 100 pounds.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
'w,r1, OPEN UPPER COLUMBIA
r,o~rment to Spend $50. 900 to
Aid Navigation.

davenport - The Upper Columbia
r;rsr country, which has for years
vainly dreamed Of some Substantial
;-ovement of the Columbia river by
-h;cb its hundreds Of carloads OF
fr,;t. it's thousands of tons OF hay, its
Great tonnage Of ore and its dairy
nroduce might find outlet to market,
viii shortly see work started by the
federal government with an appropri-
.t;on of $3.50, 900, which will enable
navigation to near Kettle Falls.
At Peach, 25 miles north of Daven-
rort il the steamer Yakima and three
drill barges, each 100 feet long, and
men are busy putting ice sheathing
an the barges and otherwise overhaul
mo the outfit that it may resume open
inc of dangerous rapids that have
made navigation impossible. The
work is expected to start about DC
toher / and will be under direction Of
a + NJ. Baker of the United States
engineering department.
Captain C. E. Hansen, pioneer
navigator of the Columbia, will be in
command of the Yakima, which will
tow the barges from place to place.
For survey work and dispatch work 9
30 foot stern-wheel launch has been
ordered. and its arrival is expected
from Seattle any day.
The roaring Spokane rapids, few
miles above Peach, will first be oper.
ated upon, and the work on which the
state of Washington spent about $780,.
600 will be completed. These rapids
are the most dangerous to navigate Of
anv in this section of the Columbis
country, and the completion of the
work will mean that the immense
crops of the fertile country above will
have outlet to railroads many miles
below on which marketing may be
done.
Farmers for 100 miles along the
river, who have been disappointed il
the failure of the Great Northern tc
complete it's project to Marcus, are
now jubilant.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Rival Canal Suggested.

London-The Standard, In .01
editorial, hints that English cap''s ~
represented by Pearson & Son, s %
give Colombia chance to avenge I'M. IN
self against Panama by cons'ia ~ The
an ocean-to-ocean canal by way o. =
Atrato and Cupica rivers. n;s to
sWhat, says the Standard, i.;eut
prevent Colombia, If it mas sum FINN
support from foreign capitalists, . ,.
making this canal itself and tns't he
setting up q formidable rival ,;d II 40
enterprise which is now rap'u
preaching completion"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Car Squeezer Is In Use.

Cashmere The union has obtained
machine called portable car squeez-
er, an apparatus used in the car after
it has been loaded to squeeze the boxes
back into the car, making a tight load.
When the bulkhead is placed in the
car there is practically no danger Of
the load lcosening up in transit or
breaking loose the bulkhead and shift
ing the load. This is the only appar-
atus Of the kind in the Wenatchee val
ley and will soon pay for itself in safe
guarding from loss or damage by
reason Of a shift load.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Bear Is Killed BY Woman.

Forest Grove, Or.-It is rather un-
usual and daring to attack bear with
2 22-short rifle, yet this is what Mrs.
G. A. Hoyt, on the Wilson Rice road,
did last week. Mrs. Hoyt was walk
ing along the county road with q collie
dog, looking for cows, when she heard
q rustling noise in the bushes nearby.
A good sized yearling bear ran out Of
the brush and clambered up fir tree.
The woman killed the animal with the
first shot. Mrs. Hoyt carried the car
cass, which weighed more than 100
pounds, half q mile to her home.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
False Entries Condoned.

Washington, D. C.-President Will
son pardoned Charles Isaacs, sentenced
at Fort Dodge, Ia, June 20 last to five
years in the penitentiary for making
false entries in the books of the Forest
City (Iowa) National bank, of which
he was cashier. Strict compliance
with the law by Isaacs, it is declared,
would have wrecked the bank by d.
vulging its condition to the public,
whereas the false entries, covering up
excessive loans to stakeholder of the
Institution until he could realize on
land transactions, resulted in no loss.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Water Let Into Locks.

Panama - Admission Of water for
the first time into the Gatum locks of
the canal was accomplished Saturday,
and one of the dredges was passed
through into Gatun Lake. The fill
ing of the locks at this time is largely
in the nature of test of the lock and
operating machinery.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Elk Kills Self in Fence.

Walla Walla One of the elk freed
this spring by the county commission
ers killed himself when he attempted
to jump a wire fence on the John
Webb farm south of College place
The animals feet became entangled in
the wire, throwing him violently to
the ground. Mr.. Webb was permitted
to dress and use the meat. The ami
mails which were freed are becoming
tanned.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Farmers Against Road Bonds.

Walla Walla Twenty-six farmers,
representing the farmers union Of
Walla Walla, Columbia and Garfield
counties, at their convention at Day
ton, voted unanimously against bond
ing Walla Walla county for good
roads, though they favored good roads.
They claimed the right type Of road
has not been determined, and that the
cost would be greater than the benefit
for the farmers.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Yakima Valley Has Pheasants.

Yakima Valley Has Pheasants.
Sunnyside- Several years ago the
commissioners of Yakima county set
free in various settled parts of the
county stock of China pheasants.
These have been carefully protected
by the game warden and have multi
piled rapidly. Last year an open sea-
son for hunting pheasants was granted
from October to Is, and the not
hunters had great sport in bagging the
game. The same privilege is granted
this year, and it is confidently expect
ed that there will be something doing
on and after October 1.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

A snlit is likely in the ranks Of the
Woodmen of the World.
Methodists in conference at Eugene
Or. pledge loyalty to state schools
Thousands attended the opening OF
the Frontier Days celebration at
Walla Walla, Wash.
New postmasters were aPpointe1 Wy
the President for klamath Falls, Or.,
and Prescott, Wash.
Senator Works demands that Amer
;cans in Mexico be protected, by
armed force if necessary.
II ia announced that the first base
hall game of the worlds series will be
nlaved in New York October z.
There is persistent talk in Washing
ton and elsewhere Of Colonel Roose-
velt's return to the Republican party.
The French premier advocates ply
steal training in the public schools
that the nation may develope more
athletes.
The schooner Transit is a total
wreck at Point Barrow, Alaska, where
she was driven ashore by the ice. The
crew escaped.
Masked robbers stole the engine and
two express cars from train in Ala
bama, the sheriff pursuing them on
switch engine.
Senator Lane introduced bill for a
Federal office building in Portland,
Or. not less than six stories in height
and costing 81, 600, 900.
The American Federation of Labor
has formally thanked President Wilson
for his appointment of William B.
Wilson as secretary of labor.
The l. w. w. convention in Chicago
is much perturbed over the arrest of
nine of their number for murder dur
ing the hoppickers' riots at Wheat
land, Cal.
President Wilson believes his plan
of moral suasion towards Mexico has
won, the two main contentious being
that constitutional election should be
held and that Huerta should not be a
candidate.
Professional jealousy is said to be
the cause for the designations of two
of the physicians who had been select
ed as judges of the better babies con-
test at the Washington State fair, at
North Yakima, and outside aid may
be necessary.
Snow has fallen in the Wenaha for
est reserve, in Eastern Washington,
the earliest in Is years.
Destructive storms swept Maryland,
causing great property damage and
killing several persons.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
train wreck on the Great Northern
road near Everett, Wash.
The funeral of the late Mayor Gay
nor, of New York City, was the larg-
est ever held in that city.
Mexican rebels blew up passenger
train, killing about so persons, many
of them federal soldiers, and then
looted the wreck and robbed the re-
naming passengers.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
GATIJy LOCKS
ARE OPENED
Seagoing Tug Passes Through
! Big Chambers.
Gates Swing With Smoothness and
Precision Crowds Cheer Sue.
cess Of Work.

Panama-The most important ste,
thus far toward the operation Of tba
Panama canal took place Saturd.,
when the seagoing tugboat Gatpn
drawing 12a feet Of water, was passed
successfully through the Gatun locks
This was the first attempt made :.
operate the locks on the canal. and tbo
result was highly pleasing to Colonel
Goethals, chairman Of the Canal com.
mission, and canal officials generally
All day long hundreds of persons.
men, women and children-witbstood
the burning rays of the tropic sun tn
see the act of passing the first vessel
from sea level to the level of Gatun
lake, which had reached a height of
little over IS feet, or within 20 feet n
its normal level.
The operations were conducted with
great care and everything went
through according to schedule. The
three chambers, upper, middle and
lower, on the west side of the locks
were used on this occasion. The men
worked far into the previous night
making everything ready for the oper.
alton. The upper lock filled in the
forenoon, and in the afternoon the wa.
ter was admitted to the middle and
lower locks, but it was not until 4:45
p m. that the water in the lower lock
had reached the level of that in the
sea channel outside.
At that hour the sea gate was
swung and a moment later the tug.
which had been in readiness all day.
approached the channel and turned its
head toward the entrance.
As the vessel passed inside the low.
er lock chamber a mighty cheer went
up from the assembled thousands that
lined the lock walls, the tugs whistle
was blown loud and long and all the
whistles in the neighborhood Joined
in. The Gatun was in charge of Cap
tain Stewart.
Among the party on board were Co..
onel William L. Sibert, division en-.
gineer of the Atlantic division of the
canal, under whose supervision the
Gatun locks were built; Colonel Harry
F. Hodges, assistant chief engineer
and designer of the canal locks and
the operating machinery, and Major ].
P. Gervey, who has had personal
charge of the masonry constructor Of
the locks. Colonel Goethals was on
hand all day, but did not make the
trip.
The tug, gaily decorted, in the
roomy lock chambers appeared Ikea
toy boat in tub. It's navigation was
personally supervised by W. G. Com
Der, head Of the dredging operations
of the canal. The vessel was raised
to the middle level at 5:45 p. m. and
passed into the upper chamber at 6:lO
p. m.
Then at GAP p. m. the last gate
was swung, and, although the troplc
night had fallen, the waiting crowd
remained and watched the tug sail OUT
on the placid waters of Gatun lake.
The rousing demonstration OF the
early afternoon then was repeated:
The massive 50O-ton leaves OF the
lock gates performed their functions
perfectly, working like a wellolleo
door
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Sell $50, 900 Bushels Wheat.

Waitsburg- About 100, 900 bushels
OF wheat have been sold here within 3
week, causing considerable stimula-
ton to business. A Seattle Arm 3
said to have secured 18, 900 sacks of
club wheat.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
Improve Odessa Flour Mill.

Odessa - Odessa's 300-barrel flour
mill, which has been shut down since
May l, during the installation of mod
ern machinery throughout, is now re-
ceiving its finishing touches and will
resume in a few days.
Orders have been coming in during
the summer until Manager Minch has
been obliged to refuse shipment to the
Coast, so as not to exhaust the supply
on hand for local consumers. This
mill, the largest of Odessa's enter.
prises, will run day and night after
October l, and will give employment
to 20 men.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-10-10
5000 Tons Of Rye Destroyed.

Paris Ninety thousand tons Of rye
was destroyed by the recent floods in
French Indo- China, according to an
of1cial dispatch received here.