The San Juan Islander from Friday Harbor, Washington • Page 2

The San Juan Islander O. H. ri'LVKR, FRIDAY HARBOR WASH. i Minor Happenings of the Week Two feet of snow fell at Skagway August 26. The shah of Persia is visiting the oazr of Russia.

It is stated that fully 20.000 Americans have visited Yellowstone part this season. James R. Keene's Sysonby won the $20,000 Century stakes at Sheepshead Bay track last week. Jules Boufve, former chancellor of the French embassy at Washington, has been appointed consul at Panama. Gen.

Eaksankoff, commander of the military district of Odessa, has been placed on the retired list as a resuslt of the disorders last June. The extra foroe employed in the San Frranoisoo mint for the past two years coining money for the Philippines, has been dismissed for lack of work. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says the three battleships now in oourse of construction oannot be completed because their engines have been found too big for their hulls. One thousand Russian sailors who participated in the mutinous disorders at Libau and in the Blaok sea will be transferred to the army and be sent to the far East to serve in the army of occupation.

The total assessed valuation of Chicago real estate, as returned by the board of review for 1905 is an inorease of $41,82,586 over the reviewers' figures for the previous year. The full cash valuation is five times the assessed valuation. Secretary Bonaparte has issued an order convening a courtmartial to meet at Mare Island navy yard, September 15, for the trial of Commander Lucien Young and Ensign Charles T. Wade on charges growing out of the explosion on board the gunboat Bennington. The battleship Vermont was successfully launched at Quincy, Thursday.

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and Mrs. Wood have sailed on the steamship Teutonic for Liverpool. Several Philadelphia officials have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to make false election returns.

E. E. Lytle, who has been president of the Columbia Southern railway since its organization, has resigned. The United States Steel Company has decided te maintain the price of steel rails to customers for 1906 at $28 a ton. Bjornsterne Bjornson's latest drama, "Daglannet" was produced for the first time at Christiania last week with great success.

Trading in puts and calls is to be reestablished by the Chioago board of trade. By a vote of the members of the exchange the resumption of the old form of trading was decided upon a few days ago. An amalgamation of the lumber intended principally to operate in the Redwood districts on the Pacific coast, was effected at Detroit, last week, and the Pacific Lumber Company was organized with a capitaliaztion of $10,000,000. The heirs of A. H.

Johnson who died leaving an estate valued at $750,000, but which was heavily encumbered, have begun an aotion against William M. Ladd, banker and one of the wealthiest men in Portland, to have him removed as administrator of the estate, and the heirs also demand a final accounting. NEW EQUIPMENT. Great Northern to Spend Large Sum on Coast Trains. St.

Paul, Sept. J. Hill proposes to spend upwards of a million dollars in improving the passenger servioejof the Great Northern railway. The greater part of the present equipment of the road is to be replaoed with oars of the most approved plan. Already a large order has been plaoed, principally for observation oars.

These oars will be of ample proportions and will be of the combination type now being used on all soenic roads. Howard James computes the coat of these oars at three-quarters of a million dollars. In addition to this large order the road will place another order in December for eight oomplete trains exactly alike. These trains will run between St. Paul and Seattle.

Com Storage for Isthmus. Washington, Sept. Shonts, of the isthmian oanal commission, has returned after a trip to Oyster Bay and to New York, where he looked into the details of establishing oold storage facilities on the isthmus The plan includes refrigerators on the a big oold storage warehouse at Colon and ten refrigeriator oars which are being built at Ghioago to transport zood supplies to Panama, stopping and delivering orders at any of the labor camps along the way. Foodstuffs will be sent from the United States in five days and delivered on short notice without any danger of spoiling, said jut. Shonts.

WASHINGTON NEWS Harrington's new electric light plant is in operation. Dunkards have dedicated their new ohurch at Wenatohee. Puyallup has formally taken possession of her water and light plant. The Dolphin arrived at Seattle Saturday with $750,000 gold and 83 passengers. Monte Cristo, up in the mountains above Everett, had its first fall of snow last week, eight inohes of the "beautiful" having fallen on the townsite.

The town of Granger, six or seven weeks old, will build a school house immediately, and will have about 75 children to begin with. A Presbyterian ohurch will also be built at onoe. Fish Commissioner Kershaw is hatching 30,000 ohinook salmon in the aquarium hatchery in his office. The fry will be out within a few days and when large enough will be distributed in streams tributary to Puget sound. United States marine inspectors at Seattle have revoked the license of Edward Benson, a marine engineer, because he reported for duty in a state of intoxication, and will punish future offenses of this kind in a similar manner.

D. C. Botting, of Blaok Diamond, named to succeed C. F. Owen as state inspector of ooal mines, has assumed the duties of his office.

Mr. Botting has been at Blaok Diamond twelve years and is familiar with the mining situation in the state. The Northwestern hotel and the general merchandise stock of August Engle, at Dayton, were destroyed by fire which started at 2 o'olook, a. m. The stock and building were valued at insurance $10,000.

Several small residences in the vicinity were also destroyed. The South Bend city counoil has decided to purchase a gasoline fire pump, which will cost, including a scow on wbioh the engine is to be placed, about $2,000. The apparatus will be used as a fireboat, nearly all the business portion of the city being within reach from the water front. The Sobey Manufacturing Company has begun the erection of a new shingle mill at Ballard. Since statehood, Novembei 11, 1889, to September 1, there have been 5,807 cases filed in the state supreme court.

Seattle bank clearances for August show a gain of nearly $7,000,000 over the corresponding period of last year, equivalent to 36 per cent. The steamer Hyades, sailing from Puget Sound ports, carries 6,000 tons of forage for the government, a lot of telegraph poles and a corgo of merchandise for Manila. The King county commissioners have set October 7 as the date of the election at whioh Kirkland is to vote on the question of incorporation as a municipality. The commandant of the military Department of the Columbia has been advised by the acting secretary of state that the German warship Falke will visit Bremerton, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia between this date and September 15, and arrive at Portland September 18. A new trail is being located from Discovery bay to the Iron Mountain copper mines in Clallam county, a route having been discovered which makes it possible to continue packing during the entire winter, thus enabling tunnel work at the mines to be continued without let-up.

Mayor Schmitz Renomlnated. San Francisco, Sept. Eugene A. Sobmitz has been unanimously renominated for mayor by the Union Labor party for the third time. SEATTLE MARKET REPORT The following prices are offered to the producer by the local dealers for delivery in round lots f.

o. b. Seattle, and are subject to change without notice: per ton; barley, $23; wheat, chicken feed, bran, $19; shorts, $20; corn, $26. Washington, $14.50 per ton Puget sound alfalfa, fresh ranch, O. ness, par lb; old roosters, ducks, geese, springs, 150.

Washington, 210 per lb; Western Washington, dirty or timber stained, 20c. Live wethers, per lb; ewes, hogs, steers, cows, calves, lambs, $2.50 per head. Tacoma Quotations olub, 68o; blaestem, 71o; red, 640. rolled oats, Hay, Alfalfa, bar, timothy, mixed, clover, 18.60; alfalfa, Fresh beef, steer beef, wethers, 8c; spring lambs, 9o; ewes, pock, trimmed, shoats, each; veal, dressed, dressed, 38e; ohickens, dressed, spring, 20o; duoks, dressed, 15c; geese, dressed, lde. lie; ducks, lie; geese, lie; spring ohiokens, creamery, Mo; ranch, Eastern, freth, Washington ranch, Mo.

TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH FORMALLY EXECUTED Portsmouth, N. Sept. treaty of Portsmouth was signed shortly before 4 o'olook this afternoon in the conference room of the navy yard. The firing of a national salute of nineteen guns was the signal whioh told the people of Portsmouth, Kittery and Newoastle that the peace of Portsmouth was an accomplished fact, and the bells of the three towns were soon pealing forth a joyful refrain. For 47 minutes those outside the conference room anxiously awaited the signal.

Suddenly an orderly dashed up to the entrance to khe peaoe building and waved his hand to the gunner a few feet away, and the opening shot of the salute rang out on the clear air of the soft September afternoon, proclaiming peaoe between Russia and Japan. Three o'olook was the hour set for the final session of the oonferenoe. An hour before that time a heavy thunderstorm was in progress. But as Mr. Witte and Baron de Rosen left the hotel in an automobile at 2:15 o'olook for the navy yard the rain stopped.

When Baron Homura and Mr. Takahira entered their automobile twenty minutes later the sun suddenly shone, whioh brought forth the remark from Baron Komura: "It is a good omen for peaoe." This remark was cheered by the crowd that gathered to see the Japanese depart. It was 3:45 when the plenipotentiaries entered the conference room from their respective offices. Almost immediately the copies of the treaty were laid before them and their signatures affixed. Baron Rosen Speaks.

Baron de Rosen was the first to break the silenoe. Rising from his seat the ambassador said a few words whioh one had only to hear to know that they came from his heart. He began by saying that he wished on oehalf of Mr. Witte, Russia's plenipotentiary, and in his own name, to say a few words. "We have just signed," continued the ambassador, "an aot whioh will have forever a place in the annals of history.

It is not for us, aotive participants in the conclusion of this treaty, to pass judgment on its import and significance. As negotiators on behalf of the empire of Russia, as well as the empire of Japan we may with tranquil conscience say that we have done all that was in our power in order to bring about the peaoe for whioh the whole oivilized world was longing. "As plenipotentiaries of Russia we fulfill a most admirable duty in acknowledging that in negotiating with our hitherto adversaries, and from this hour our friends, we have been dealing with true and thorough gentlemen, to whom we are happy to express our high esteem and personal regard. We earnestly hope that friendly relations between the two empires will henoeforth be firmly established and we trust that his exoellenoy, Baron Komura, as minister of foreign affairs, and one of the leading statesmen of his country, will apply to the strengthening of these relations the wide experience and wise statesmanship he so comprehensively displayed during these negotiations whioh have been so comprehensively Baron Komura Replies. Baron Komura replied that he shared entirely the views of Baron de Rosen.

The treaty of peace whioh they had-signed was in the interest of humanity and civilization, and he was happy to believe that it would bring about a firm and lasting peaoe between two neighboring empires. He added that it would always be pleasant for him to recall that throughout the long and serious negotiatiions whioh they had now left behind, he and his colleagues invariably received from the Russian plenipotentiaries the highest courtesy and consideration, and finally he begged to assure the Russian plenipotentiaries that it would be bis duty as well as his pleasure to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in a treaty of peace and amity. At the conclusion of Baron Komura's remarks, Mr. Witte arose and said he desired to see Baron de Rosen and the Japanese plenipotentiaries alone for a few moments. The four retired to the Russian offioe and were oloseted for ten minutes.

What transpired in that final conference of the plenipotentiaries the world may never know. The plenipotentiaries refused to discuss it even with their secretaries. TREATY PROVISIONS The peaoe treaty opens with a preamble reciting that hit majesty, the emperor, and autocrat of all the Russias, and majesty, the emperor of Japan, desiring to dose the war and having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and furnished them with full powers, whioh were found to be in form, have come to an agreement on a treaty of peaoe and arranged at follows: Article 1. Stipulates for the reestablishment of peaoe and friendship between the sovereigns of the two empires and between the subjeots of Russia and Japan, respectively. Artiole S.

His majesty, the emperor of Russia, reoognises the preponderant interest from politioal, military and eoonomio points of view of Japan in the empire of Korea and stipulates that Russia will not oppose any measures for its government, proeotion or control that Japan will deem necessary to take In Korea in conjunction with the Korean government, but Russian subjeots and Russian enterprises are to enjoy the same status as the subjects and enterprises of other countries. Artiole S. It is mutually agreed that the territory of Manchuria be simultaneously evacuated by both Russian and Japanese troops. Both countries being concerned in this evacuation, their situation should be absolutely identioal. All rights acquired by private persons and oompanies shall remain intact.

Article 4. The rights possessed by Russia in conformity with the lease by Russia of Port Arthur and Dalny, together with the lands and waters adjacent, shall pass over in their entirety to Japan, but the properties and rights of Russian subjects are to be safeguarded and respected. Article 5. The government of Russia and Japan engage themselves reciprocally not to put any obstacles to the general measures (which shall be alike for all nations) that China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Article 6.

The Manohurian railway shall be operated jointly between Russia and Japan at Kouang- oheng- Tse. The two branoh lines shall be employed only for oommexoial and industrial purposes. In view of Russia keeping her branoh line with all rights acquired by her convention with China for the construction of that railway, Japan acquires the mines in oonneotion with suoh branoh lines which fall to her. However, the rights of private parties or private enterprise are to be respected. Both parties to this treaty remain absolutely free to undertake what they deem fit on expropriated grounds.

Article 7. Russia and Japan engage themselves to make a conjunction of the two branoh lines which they own at Eouang-Tsoheng-Tse. Article 8. It is agreed that the branoh lines of the Mancburian railway shall be worked with a view to assure commercial traffic between them without obstruction. Article 9.

Russia cedes to Japan the southern part ef Sakhalin island as far north as the fiftieth degree of north latitude, together with the islands depending thereon. The right of free navigation is assured in the bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10. This article recites the situation of Russian subjects on the southern part of Sakhalin island, and stipulates that Russian colonists th-re shall be free and shall have the right to remain without changing their nationality. Per contra, the Japanese government shall have the right to foroe Russian convicts to leave the territory whioh is ceded to her.

11. Russia engages herself to make an agreement with Japan giving to Japanese subjects the right to fish in Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering sea. Article 12. The two high contracting parties engage themselves to renew the commercial treaty existing between the two governments prior to the war in all its vigor, with slight modifications in details and with a most favored nation clause. Article 13.

Russia and Japan reoiprooally engage to restitute their prisoners of war on paying the real cost of keeping the same, suoh claim for cost to be supported by documents. Article 14. This peaoe treaty shall be drawn up in two languages, French and English, the Frenoh text being evidence for the Russians and the English text for the Japanese. In oase if difficulty of interpretation, the Frenoh document to be final evidence. Article 15.

The ratification of this treaty shall be countersigned by the sovereigns of the two nations within fifty days after its signature. The Frenoh and American embassies shall be intermediaries between the Japanese and Russian governments -to announce by telegraph the ratification of the treaty. Two additional artioles are agreed to, as follows: Artiole 1. The evacuation of Manchuria by both armies shall be oomplete within eighteen months from the signing of the treaty, beginning with the retirement of troeps of the line. At the expiration of the eighteen months the two partita will only be able to leave at guards for the railway fifteen soldiers per kilometer.

Artiole 2. The boundary whioh limits the parts owned respectively by Russia and Japan in the Sakhalin island shall be definitely marked off on the spot by a special limit of graphic commission. Perkins Sells Everett Herald. Everett, Sept Everett Daily Herald, Everett's only evening newtpaper, bat been told by 8. A.

Perkins, of Taooma, to J. B. Beat and of Everett The new company organised to publish the paper isoompoted entirely of local people. It it known at Daily Herald The new owners have taken potsoestien of the paper. The price paid for the paper and building it stated to hare been ALLIANCE IS DtNICO.

No Agreement Between Great Northera and Grain Trunk. St. Paul, Sept. I. fFarrington, second vice president of the Great Northern railway, denies the rumor that James J.

Hill has made an alliance with the Grand Trunk Pacific. This, he says, is an old fabrication. Several months ago a similar rumor was ourrent in St. Paul, and it was thought to have originated from the promoters of the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon company. The Great Northern is the lessee of this property, and under the bill reoently up in the Canadian parliament has obtained the right to purchase it.

Hence it would not be unreasonable to suppose that in the event of the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon being extended to the north, to form a couneotion with the Grand Trunk Paoifio at a point near Fort MoLeod, the Great Northern would seek an intimate traffic agreement with the promoters of the extension, especially as the mileage of the proposed extension is said less to Vancouver oity than to the proposed terminus of the Grand Trunk Paoifio. Mr. Farrington says that under no oiroumstanoes will Mr. Hill build north of Vancouver. Suoh being the case it does not seem reasonable to suppose that the Grand Trunk Pacific would go into an alliance with Mr.

Hill, unless it abandoned the construction of that portion of its lines west of Fort MoLeod. With Vancouver as a terminus, Mr. Hill could oontrol the grain situation of the British Northwest. It would be all shipped to Vancouver, thence to Seattle, whenoe it would be consigned to the Orient in the Hill ships. If there is any truth in the rumor, in spite of the denial of the official of the road, it would seem that the move of Mr.

Hill is a hostile movement against the Canadian road rather than an alliance. MIKADO SENDS THANKS TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Oyster Bay, Sept. Roosevelt has reoieved from the emperor of Japan thanks for his "disinterested and unremitting efforts in the interests of peaoe and humanity" and an expression of the Japanese emperor's grateful appreciation of the "disinterested part" the president has taken in the establishment of peaoe in the far East. The oablegram, whioh was received from the'emperor personally, follows: "The President: I have received with great gratification your message of congratulation, conveyed through our plenipotentiary and thank you for it To your disinterested and unremitting efforts in the interests of peaoe and humanity I attach the high value whioh is their due, and assure you of. my grateful appreciation of the disinterested part you have taken in the establishment of peace based upon principles essential to the permanent welfare and tranquility of the far East.

"MUTSIHITO." The cablegram from the Japanese emperor puts an end to the rumors that the emperor was dissatisfied with the terms finally oonoluded by the plenipotentiaries. The concluding sentence of the cablegram is especially significant. It evidently voices the belief of the Japanese emperor that the treaty just oonoluded at Portsmouth will be for a permanent peaoe. RIGHTS ON RESERVES. Federal Courts Must Try Violations of Law Thereon.

Olympia, Sept. view of conflicts which have arisen between the state and federal authorities respecting jurisdiotional rights on government reserves within this state, the attorney general, in a letter to F. R. Kersbaw, fish commissioner and game warden, defines what the state authorities hold in respect to the enforcement of state game laws on reserves. In Kiteap county recently a soldier in charge of a target range wan arrested by a deputy game warden for shooting "birds out of season.

Federal authorities contested the right of the state to make such arrest. The attorney general holds that as the offense was committed on a government reserve, over whioh the state had specifically waived jurisdiction, the state cannot try the offender, but he may be tried in the federal oourts for violation of the state law under a special act of congress. OSCAR REMAINS FIRM. Denied That He Has Changed His Mind as to Norway Throne. Stockholm, Sept.

semi-offioial Dagblad in strong terms denies that King Osoar has ohanged his mind, and that he is still in opposition to any prinoe of the house of Bernadotte asoending the Norwegian throne. King Osoar, the paper says, has expressed himself as being deeply wounded at the reports that he is in favor of the oandldaoy of a Swedish prinoe, despite repeated statements to the oontrary. TIRE -AT ADRIANOPLC. names Destroyed Seven Thousand Houses Constantinople, Bept. at Adrianople Saturday oanaed enormoos damage.

Seven thousand houses wen destroyed in the Greek, Armenian, Bulgarian and Jewish sections. There were many With the ezeeption of the Oatholio ohureh, the mosques, the sohools, a convent and the telegraph offices, few tmlldings were mm HID IIBTIICT TROUBLES NOW BEYOND CONTROL Streets of City Unsafe for Sms Ow eriess to Cope With i he tUa tlon-OreatPi, St. Petersburg, Sept. 7 vice, from the "Black town" that is still burning and also the 21 Blakban and unto. The losses amount to of roubles.

Baku is overly dense olouds of smoke and the fliT of burning buildings illuminated oity all night long. mi th St. Petersburg, Sept 7 from Baku received up to the filing this dispatch is of the gioo ai( 2 character. The Armenian and Tarter warring factions now appear to be tirely beyond oontrol. The streets nf Baku seem to be unsafe for the inhah itants and the force of troops to be in" adequate to restrain the anarchical tendencies of the combattants in the surrounding region.

According to reliable reoorts the troops have been forced to withdraw from the suburb of Balakhan, where Tuesday the rioters set fire to the oil works, and that place is now in the hands of the Tartars, who have completed the work of destruction, and who, it is said, massacred the inhabitants who did not acoompany the troops in their retirement. Telephone and railroad communication between Baku and the suburban oil centers is cut, and late last night it was reported that the wires into Baku were cat. Soldiers Use Artillery. Thd viceroy of the Caucasus hag despatched reinforcements of troops from Tiflis, but owing to the conditions throughout the southern part of the Caucasus with these reinforcements the troops will be inadequate to cope with the situation. In the suburban region the fighting is desperate and the soldiers are using artillery.

Representatives of the oil industry here are utterly despondent, and they declare that on the basis of the telegrams so far received more than half of the industry in the Baku region hat been wiped out and that the fire is making rapid headway into the remainder of the oil territory. Question of Life and Death. The Baku representative of a prominent company has telegraphed to his St. Petersburg headquarters: "It is no longer a question of saving our property, but one of getting put alive." A press dispaoth from Baku, approved by the censor, says: "The rival factions are concentrating in their quarters here. The situation is exceedingly tense.

Murders are frequent. Cannonading is beard from time to time. The patrols have been fired upon, and the Armenians are surrounded by armed villagers, apparently Tartars, and the cannonading there is increasing. Energetic measures and heavy reinforcement of troops are immediately necessary." Other advioes state that a hot fight is going on between Armenians and Tartars at Bibleat and that great fires are still raging at Sabunto and Nornani, fed by the immense tanks of naptha, of which there are 1,600 in that region, and that the conflagration at Baku, where up to last evening the tanks of the society of Baku were steadily increasing. these conditions, fighting going on in the streets and the hurricane blowing.

the advices say it will be almost impossible to extinguish the fires. Oilmen who assembled at St. Fetenburg yesterday formulated measunj which they deemed imperative ana whioh they presented to Financial Minister Kokovsoff. These which probably will be laid before emperor, after detailing the leading up to the present that the oil works be Burronndea; troops, and that the warring element namely, the Armenians and on, be entirely excluded region. The oil men declare IhrtJJ do not hold the workmen wip-jj and that the regretable not caused by the workingmenj meat, whioh is economic but that their causes are in we continued general disorder whion reigned to the region owing rivalry among the races.

SURVEYING RIVER CHANNEL- Engineers Start Preliminary iB Columbia River at Walla Walla, Sept. eminent surveyors and arrived at Wallula commenced a rfre fixed channel in the ColnfflJUJ rf from toCeUlo, a jpjj.fc,; nearly 100 miles. The done in connection with we neat projeot for opening HP Mile rapids for navigation. i the river will probably wquu" months. 7 flbWl BelHngham, Sept.

io I county, after into the Union, honrttmlheta for yeaw, a ialand. whither benoll'.