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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-11-07
Game Commissioners
To Meet In BeIIingham

State Fish Commissioner L. n.
Darwin is making arrangements Tor
the m .eting of the game commis-
sions of western Washington. repre-
senting nineteen counties. in BEL
lingham on November 18. Each OF
the nineteen counties has three com
misslonere and one warden. and all
have promised to have one or more
representatives present at the con-
ference which will be held in Bel
lingham
Among the subjects to be discus
sed will be the advisability Of form
u!ating a permanent game commits
sion organization. The present
game code also will be digested at
the conferences in order that many
disputed points and apparent incon-
sistencies may be threshed out and
placed in the light of complete un-
derstanding. There have been a
great number of new legal opinions
from the attorney general OF late.
malGng big changes in the old stand
ing Of the code and revolutioniZ-
ing certain phases of the work.
It is regarded as probable. also.
that the game commissioners will
agree to join hands with the COM
mission of Mason county to help in
the fight against t.! Overland Mag
azine's subsidiary company. known
as the Lakeside club. This Seattle
club has more than 900 members
and has purchased large tracts Of
ideal hunting and camping grounds
and locations in Mason county. TIE
citizens and residents Of the count...
including more wealthy men who
have private game preserves are of
the opinion that the Lakeside Club
members will swarm there wholesale
and kill off all the game in the
vicinity at one fell swoop. To pre-
vent this Mason county co2templat-
es defeating the ends of the club
by declaring 180 acres of the land
involved as a county game pre-
serve. which it is entitled to do
under the statutes. This would
render the membership of the club
valueIess and its holdings worthless
for the intended purpose and in
strenuous efforts to defeat the meas
ure the club has retained several
leading lawyers to attempt to pre-
vent the declaring Of the game pre-
serve.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-11-07
Washington Garnishment Law
BY Glen c. Beechler

The recent decision of the SUI
perior court declaring uncon.
stitutional the garnishment ex-
emption law has thrown con-
sternation into the ranks of the
retail merchants and others ex-
tending credit. Should this de-
cision be affirmed by the SUI
preme court of Washington, il
will mean a readjustment OF
credit in general throughout the
state. The legislature, in due
course, will not meet until 1915.
and we would have to await
such time for an additional en-
actment covering the question
Iof garnishment exemption leg
islation. In the meantime the
credit man would have to be
more careful, hoping that the
next legislature would endeav-
or to rectify any error found
by the supreme court.
The garnishment act, as de-
clared unconstitutional, was
passed by the legislature OF
1907. and has stood the test of
the intervening years. In its
essentials, it provides first, that
current wages or salary to the
amount of 500 for personal
services rendered by any per-
son having a dependent family
shall be exempt from garnish-
Inent. But, second, that in case
the garnishment is founded on
a debt for actual necessaries
furnished the defendant, his
family, or dependents, then no
exemption shall be allowed in
excess of $40 out of each weeks
wages or salary for four sue
cessive weeks, and, third, where
a debtor is entitled to choose a
money exemption in lieu OF
some other kind of property he
cannot choose money due or
owing and earned as wages to
make up such amount.
The objections raised to this
act, and which will be urged in
the supreme court, to which the
case has already been appealed,
are of a rather technical nature.
They involve such questions as
class legislation, insufficiency
of the enacting clause, bills en-
bracing more than one subject,
amendments changing the
scope and objects of bill and
other objections hardly peril
nent to this discussion and
which to the lay mind are Of
ten meaningless terms, and
fraught with mis-conceptiOn OF
legal lore.
Suffice it to say that Judge
Tallman in deciding that the
act was unconstitutional held
that debtor could claim ex-
emptions under the general ex-
lemption statutes. This in effect
will practically give to each and
every debtor, who IS a house
holder or head OF family. an
exemption in the amount OF
$3.50; provided, of course, he is
not the possessor of two cows,
with their calves, five swine,
two stands of bees, thirty-six
domestic fowls. and provisions
and fuel for the comfortable
maintenance of such househol-
der and his family for sir
months = etc. In case a house-
holder or head of q family does,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-11-07
Bryan Advocates Free Use OF
The Bible


.There never was q time
when the people needed the in
spiration Of the Bible more
than they do at present, said
Secretary Bryan in addressing
the delegates to the Women's
Home Missionary society Of the,
Methodist Episcopal church.
.And," the secretary added,
.there is not I community.
which cannot be purified. re-
deemed and improved by q bet
ter knowledge and large appli-
cation Of the Bible 70 daily
life. s.ss
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-11-07
School Notes OF
San Juan County

- suS ~Aio0J 00IUOx k1JBu
School.
By addressing the Morris SELF Co.
OF Chicago. teachers may &c cure
gratis a quantity of liberty bell
medals highly suitable for award ia
the grades. They are made Of
bronze, very attractive and no ad-
vertising appears on them.
According to the regulations Of
the state board of education, teach
ers must require from parents and
guardians of pupils either in person
or by written note in case Of alb
sence. tardiness or dismissal before
the close of school. No excuse
shall pe deemed valid except that Of
sickness.
The university OF Wisconsin will
furnish the following bulletins upon
receipt Of price: Teaching The Man
ual Arts. ten cents: The High
School Course in Agriculture. ten
cents.
those interested in Fairgrounds
can secure several valuable bulletins
by addressing the Playground Asso-
citation of America. New York. Al
so. the department of Indian affairs
at Washington. D. G. will furnish
upon application list of pc pular
pamphlets for gratuitous distribu-
tion.
Applicants for eighth grade di-
plomas hereafter will be required
to write upon and pass a credifable
examination in agriculture. domes-
tic science. or ! annual training. In
this county it is probable that agri-
culture will be the most popular.
First Principles Of AgricHlture'"
by Golf and Mayne is the text re-
commended in San Juan county.
At the Washington Agricultural
and Industrial contest held at Spo-
kane last week, San Juan county
carried off three prizes; first for
squash, first for field peas and
third for buttoDhole work Both
of the first prizes were won by
members of the Friday Harbor
High School. Juanita Murray exhib-
ed the squash and Richard Walton
the field peas. Since there were on
ly seventy-five first prizes to be
awarded and four hundred and ten
high schools in the State. we have
done we'll to land two first prizes.
Mr.. Wotton will receive SIS worth
of fruit trees, Miss Murray $40
prize and Blanche Porter. winner Of
third prize in display buttonhole, q
silver cake fork. &
Last Friday evening Mrs. r. Wills
Smith, dramatic reader, gave de-
lightful evenings enter tainment at
the high school auditorium. This
is the first number Of the lyceum
cource of several entertainments.
The character Of Mrs. Smiths work
was SO pleasing that she will be re-
called later in the season for q sec
ond recital. Her readinds were pro-
,nounced the best ever heard here.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-11-07

however, have these numerous
possessions, then he would, in
order to continue to hold them.
have to waive his right to the
$3.50. But in case he did not
possess them or in case he did
and was willing to surrender
them then he could claim a
money exemption of $3.50 in
case he was fortunate enough
to possess that amount.
The garnishment law, as can
be observed from the third pro-
vision above set out, attempted
to provide that wages could not
be claimed to make up this
$3.50. But according to the de-
cision holding the garnishment
act unconstitutional, a debtor,
who is the head of a family, can
now make use of any money
due him as wages or salary to
make up the amount.
An erroneous impression
seems to have been spread by
a subsequent decision of one of
the justice courts, holding that
the garnishment law passed by
the legislature of 1901 is in
force and effect, since the su-
perior court has declared the
present law of 1907 to be un-
constitutional. The law of
1901 is virtually the same, ex-
cept in some minor details, as
the law of 1907. 1t is subject
to absolutely the same technical
objections as the latter act, and
the whole fabric of our garnish-
ment legislation must rise or
fall on the constitutionality of
the act of 1907, which Judge
Tallman declared to be uncon-
stitutional.
Absolutely the only relief, as
matters now stand, and until
the supreme court passes on the
constitutionality of the garnish-
ment act, is that the credit man
will either have to curtail his
credits or else oblige the per-
sons asking it to furnish valid
and subsisting security. This
naturally places the credit man
between the horns of a dilema,
and renders his situation both
embarrassing and perilous. II
the supreme court in its wis
dom reverses the superior
court and upholds the const-
tutionality of the act, business
will continue to flow along IN
it's accustomed channels; other
wise our only hope lies in the
doubtful action of a state leg
islature.
Under the law in its present
chaotic state, and until it is fin
ally settled and determined. an
unscrupulous, dishonest or
careless debtor may and in
many instances will make use
of his exemption privileges to
defraud honest tradesmen. Of
ten the elementary principles
of humanity compel an exten-
sion of credit in order to pre-
vent suffering and to alleviate
human woes. But the exemp-
ton statutes should be SO franz
ed and maintained as to furnish
mutual protection to both deb
| for and creditor, and to compel
all TO pay their honest debts
Trade Register.
q -. .&;.. I. ,,s.nrosonfinr The state
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
BUGENICS HALT MATRIMONY

In speaking Of the matter Of
cugenies, especially as applied to the
matter Of requiring complete bills of
health and freedom from trausmissible
tendencies toward disease. VIC have
frequently suggested that too much
rigor in that sort OF thing is practi
cally certain to bring immoralities
that may be worse than the trouble
sought to cure. When young people
who are strongly determined TO mate
are deprived Of the opportunity Of
legal and proper marriage. they arc
in many cases pretty apt to mate out
side of legal marriage; and where the
eugenics prohibitions would create n
considerable body Of population barred
from regular matrimony, but deter.
mined TO mate. the scandal Of such
matings would presently pass away,
and the community would look upon
such irregularities with far less aver
sion than now. and might perhaps
even come TO look upon them with
toleration. For much is tolerated IN
matters of that kind where laws con
corning them and community condi-
tions make liberation practically oh.
ligatory.
An illustration of the suggestion re.
ferred TO comes from PENNSYLVANIA.
The Legislature of that State re-
Gently enacted what is called ecu
gencs marriage law That law re-
quires that applicants for licenses must
show clean bills of health, freedom
from disease and hereditary taimts,
and that, among other things, they
must be able TO remember the maiden
names Of their mothers. The report
comes that in consequence of this,
many of the applicants for Licenses do
not remember the things required in
the application, and have TO go TO
their relatives 70 get the information.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
of the many queer turns in American
po1ifirs -
SCHOOL POPULATION GAIN.

The gain of school population shown
IN this city by the school census just
taken is 3S6, compared with the fig
urcs Of last year; the respective fig
urcs of school population being 29,6lS
last year and 24,004 this year, On the
usual ratio Of figuring total popula
tion, this would give the city about
10000 inhabitants, which is u reason
ably satisfactory figure.
Salt Lake City is great center for
all the mining and stock raising in.
terests OF this iutermountain region.
Hundreds Of men engaged in mining
aud in livestock interests of various
kinds locate their families in this city,
both for the convenience of their bus
incss and for the advantages of the
schools here. These schools comprise
a great asset to Salt Lake City, and
will be continuously increasing asset
from year 10 year.
Ii is OF immense Importance to Salt
Lake that the miners and stock rals-
ing men all through this inter-moun-
tain country select this place as their
homes and their headquarters. And
the more advantages of this kind Salt
Lake City can present, the more GER
tain will be its future, and the more
rapid its growth in population and
business strength.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
IT'S A "RoTTEN SYSTEM. ,

The word that comes from Vene-
zuela indicates the triumph of Presi-
| dent Gomez over the uprising fomented
| by Cipriano Castro, the former dicta-
tor Of that unhappy country The
world is gratifiod to read of this sue
cess of General Gomez, and will be
even more gratified when the final
news comes, which it hopes for, that
| the Castro insurgents have been cap
tured or dispersed, and that Castro
himself has been given the short shrift
! that he has so often given to others. by
being put up against wall and shot
to death
General Hernandez of Venezuela, who
is In this country, speaks in the ut
most contempt both of Gomez and Of
Castro. He says that so far as the
people of Venezuela are concerned,
they are equally in hard case whether
Gomez OF Castro wins; that what the
country wants is not a succession of
dlctators or any change in the dicta
tors, ''but a change in the whole rot.
ten system. In this undoubtedly
General Hernandez hits the nail square
ly on the head The trouble In Vene-
zuela, and the trouble in good many
other Spanish-American countries, is
that the people are as bady off with
one dictator as another. The people
IN these countries are not used to ac-
tual republican government, even
hoir
ly republican. But the real govern
ment which they too often have is
personal government, in which the in
terests of the people are entirely sub
ordinated to the ambitions, avarice, and
general greed of some plotting scamp
Of demagogue, who is, able for the
time being to overcome his rivals, and
either kill or Danish them; and al
though that sort Of thing goes on year
after year, and generally in the name
Of popular rule, it is in fact nothing
more than chaos, illuminated from time
to time by an occasional dictatorship
that through either the personal quail
ties of the dictator or because he sees
the advantages of treating the people
decontly, the people get rest and are
able to have a few years of quiet
and comfort
The condition so aptly described by
General Hernandes is pretty fair de-
scription Of Mexico also, from the time
of its liberation from Spanish rule
There has been succession Of dicta-
tors, with practically no popular rule
The consequence is that Mexico was
fortunate in the accession Of Porfirio
Diaz to power. for he, though die
tator, ruled under republican forms
and had the interest of his country and
his people at heart Under him Mex.
lea attained progress and a prom
inence that il never had before. and
| that it is not likely 10 have again nm
Til some other strong man takes the
helm and putting down all rivals, sup
presses the fomcnting chaos that is
too prone TO permeate throughout the
body of the people.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
GOVERNOR o'NEAL APPOINTS.

The Governor Of Alabama has ap.
pointed Henry D. Clayton to the
vacancy in the Z. S. Senate created
by the death OF Joseph +. Johnston.
and now tho question will come on
seating him. The Democratic ma
.iority viii probably vote him in, as he
is badly needed to strengthen the
party vote, though the Constitution
as amended in this particular express
y says that when vacancy happens
the Governor shall issue writs of cleo
tion so that the voters may Gil the
vacancy. Since, however. the Alabama
Legislature has passed no statute lay
ing down the procedure to be had,
much delay and expense would be in
CURED in special session OF the
Legislature, and the Governor took q
short cut, being no doubt assured that
the Z. S. Senate would seat his ap-
pointee, the party urgency being SO
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
TIE SALT TRIBUNE MORNING. AUGUST 81 1913

or invent names and answers to fit the
case
The outcome of all this is that in
Philadelphia only about fifty licenses
day are now being issued, which is
less than half tho usual number, But
docs any one believe that the sudden
stoppage of more than 80 per cent in
matings between young men and
women has actually occurred! We find
it impossible so TO believe; and while
il is too early TO obtain sufficient proof
of the irregular matiugs that would
naturally be expected under the cir
cumstanccs and from the returns had,
the probability that proof Of such ir'
regular matines will develop later on
is extremely likely. 1t is always
well when enacting reforms like this
for legislative bodies to observe great
caution and 90 slow, lest the evils
which they bring on turn out to he far
worse than The evils that they would
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
FOR THE CONCRETE ROAD.

All friends of good roads will be en-.
couraged and gratificd at the action
of the Davis County Commissioners on
Monday, in their voting to levy a spe-
cial five-mill road tax throughout
that county for the purpose OF max
Ing concrete road northward and
southwark to the boundaries, to COM
tween this city and Ogden, Such a
road as that has been badly needed !;
properly laid, with perfect foundation,
sufficient drainage, expertly shaped
plans and heavy enough body, that
road ought to be lasting one, one
worth while, smooth Of surface and
Of even grade. There being no great
elevations between here and Ogden, II
will be cue of the finest roads any
where in the United States, and will
for many wears to come be of i'm
mense service to the farmers in mar
keting their products, both in this city
and in Ogden. The levy will furnish
something more than $4,000 in ready
cash taxes, and will release also $4,000
from the State road fund and $4,000
from the County road fund, these addi-
tions making a total Of $4,000 fur
nished chiefly by Davis county for
this road
1t is q liberal provision, and doubt
less Salt Lake county and Weber
county will take steps at once to meet
this broadminded provision Of the
Commissioners OF Davis county, and
then the work can begin at once, and
reasonable hopes may be INDUCED in
that by next year the road will be
completed and will be q public high,
way of which the whole State will be
proud; while the immediate advan~
tages Of it will be reaped first by the
farmers Of Davis county, and next by
the inhabitants of Salt Lake City and
Ogden; while the automobile men will
enjoy it as the greatest automobile
highway anywhere to be found.
1t is understood that the road will
be sixteen feet wide, that it will have
thoroughly sound foundation, and
that it will be graded over the wet
and crumbly places high enough to
keep 1t always in first-class condition.
It is a great work. well begun.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
HIS IRRITATING ACTS.

It seems that "relief' is felt in
Washington because John Lind was
allowed peaceably to 20 to Mexico
City, They must have queer notions
down in Washington about Huerta
II there was any one thing on earth
that was absolutely assured, it was
the safety of Mr. Lind in all his mis-
sion so far as Huerta could assure
it, And the courtesy with which be
will be treated is standing reproacb
to all unworthy suspicion.
Huerta took pains to wire that John
Lind would be persona non grata in
Mexico; but President Wilson persisted
in sending him which is an intru-
sion that he would hardly be guilty Of
toward any government which is really
able to defend itself However. Huerta
may like Lind better after be gets ac-
quainted with him. But it must grit
the Mexican authorities to sec with
what punctilious courtesy President
Wilson makes inquiry of European
governments whether his proposed dip.
lomatic appointees viii be acceptable
or not, apd calmly ignores Mexico s pro
test against Lind. and sends him any
how. But If Mexico is an independent
nation, why ism I its protest Just as
effcctual as would be that Of any Of
the independent nations? President Viii
son keeps doing things like this. aud
then wonders at Mexico irritation and
charges that iusidious Influences are
at work to bring ON war between this
country and Mexico
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13
RAILROADS WANT MORE PAY.

The Glover Leaf railroad system has
days it will refuse 10 carry L. s. mails,
this because of the insutficicncv Of the
pay for that service. The railroads gen.
orally have been making the same com
plant Of insufficient pay and it is
likely that the Glover Leaf roads have
taken this initiative in behalf Of all.
though their contract with the GOV
ernmcnt has yet two years TO run. But
because of the immense addition TO
tho bulk Of the mails caused by the
parcel post system it is claimed that
the burden has become too heavy to
be borne in view of tho fact that the
L. s. Supreme Court has uniformly
held in all litigation OF this sort tina;
required service shall not be confisca-
tory or violatiyc % fair remuneration
the railroads can fairly hope for victory
If they can establish AS fact that
the rates arc not fair
The "Clover Leaf railroad re-
fuses to carry the L. s. mails at the
old rate of compensation. This win
raise the whole question as between
the Government and the railroads :
and il is high time this were done
for the public is tired of hearing loud
and long protests which amount 10
nothing as long as the roads do in
fact carry the mails. As long as they
do the work. they may "protest and
be bowed - so far as the short pay is
concerned.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13

The leuity shown to the three Ger
man army Officers who sold army Sc
ercts to the Krupps Indicates that in
military opinion TO convey military Sc
ercts to the krupps is about the same
thing "a letting one hand know what
the other is about TO do. The Krupps
arc strictly lin it. in the German
military sCnSp
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13

II is reported that the International
Association Of Hotel Stewards propose
20 found college Of cooking in
Muucic, Indiana But why in Muncio +?
VIII rot in Salt Lake. where the good
things Of life arc abundant, aud where
the East and tho West can meet in =
gastronomcal rivalry which Will re-
iain the good things OF both
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-13

Rochester (N. VI Democrat and
Chronicle: The Frawley committee
promises important disclosures re
fleciing on the Governor The Cover
nor promises important disclosures -
reflecting oh State officials associated
With Tammany. All of which is 90
ing to make grist for the Republican
campaign mill next fall