\\>L..^lX* FRIDAY HARBOR, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1909

Finest Line of

MEN'S FURNISHINGSIn San Juan

CountyAt Prices That Are Right. Nobby Styles That

Will Appeal to You. Come in andSee This Stock

Full value for your money always

G-- B. IDrig sJENSEN BLK-, SPRING STREET FRIDAY HARBOR^

Big Half-Price SaleAT

New Fall Suits, Coats andSkirts at Half-Price

This Sale, Begun Thursday, November Hth,Will Be Carried on During the Entire Monthof November. Big Specials Are Being Offered

WAIST SPECIALfeline of Net and Silk Waists, reg. $5.00 value, now. .$2-50

adles' Tailored Waists, worth $1.50 to $3.50, your choice 98c

h Line of Ladies' Sweaters to be Sold VeryCheap

teen and Heatherbloom Skirts, big special at..;....../ 98cUnderskirts, regular £6.50 and $7.50 values; special at $4. 95

Ladies' and Misses' Underwearfor Fall i i Mr-

in F"and Winter. Finest quality at lowest prices ever offered

Gety Harbor- Two-piece Suits and Union Suits of all kinds.

pla*oU

tr,Undenvear at this sale and save money. Don't forget thehere are great bargains here for you.

THETOGGERY

Murray Block _iday Harbor, ..... Washington

yDo Not NeglectI The Apple Orchard

Much interest has been manifestedby apple growers throughout the

northwest in the National Apple Show

.held at Spokaue this week for the

second time, the first exhibition hav-

ing been held last year. The idea1 originated with the Spokane County

\ Elorticultural Society and was hearti ily supported by the business tneu of

Spokane. Their motto was: "Clean-er and better fruit and more of it "

|To accomplish this, however, as the

! most intelligent s jpporterH and sta-

! dents of the apple industry perceive,

!it will be necessary to bring about

' radical changes in the manner of cul-tivating apples on this continent.There must be general betterment cfconditions in the commercial orchards. It this not done the UnitedStates and Canada, within a few years,

will probably be forced to import

apples instead of exporting them.in 1896, the total apple crop was

69,070,000 barrels, or 172,675,000bushels. Since then hundreds ofthousand- of acres have been added.and methods of fruit-growing havebeen improved, yet the Governmentreports sbuw that the aggregate crop

in all the States in the Union wasnot more than 25.000,000 barrels, or62.500,000 bushels in 1908.

To understand the decreases in theproduction of apples in the Union inthe last twelve years reference shouldbe made to the statistics copmiied bythe Federal Department of Agricul-ture. Growers produced 60,540,000barrels in 1896, the banner year in

the history of the country. Therewas a decrease of nearly 28,000,000barrels, or more than the eutire crop

of 1908\ in 1897, when the yield

amounted to 41.536.U00. Another'decrease followed in 1898. the yieldI being placed at 23,570 uOO barrels

I ba; in 1899 ani 1900 there were sub' stantial increases, the yields being

,37.560,000 and 47,960.000 barrelsi rpspcjetively. There was a drop of; 20.890,000 barrels in 1901, while

1902 showed an increase of 20,655,---! 000 barrels the crop that year being

estimated at 4 7,625,001) barrels.1 Forty-five million barrels of fruitwere proiuced in 1903, and in 1904the yield was 300,000 barrels greater.Then, iv 1905.it dropped to 23.500,---000 bariela and in 1906 it increased

ito 36,130.000 banels. The crop ofj 1907 ell off to 25.00 C.OOO barrels.

The apple-growing industry ia a

! substantial one: in fact, few enter-

I prites offer surer or more attractive1 profits or more healthful and pleasantj occupation. A small investmentwill secure a beginning, and truat-

i worthy literature can be had readily! from the Depaitu.ent of Agriculturei and the numerous horticultural andi farm journals. There never willbe! an over-production offirst-class stock.If ia, in fact, impossible at the pres-ent time to produce the enormousquantity of gund apples requisite tomeet the demand. This is evidencedby the fact that England, Germany,France. Denmark, Australia and theOrient are already drawing upon theorchards in Washington, Idaho. Ore-gon and British Columbia. Whenthis export trade ia firmly established, as it will be in a few years, thedemands upon the growers will belargely increased. Ihis means moreorchards, and better care of the olderones.

That apple-growing in the North-west has passed the experimental stageand is already a factor may be gath-ered from official statements. Morethan 16,000,000 growing trees werereported by horticultural inspectorsin Washington, Oregon and Idaho at

1 the close of the Season of 1908, andof these 6,744,161 bore fruit thatyear. The total crop reached an esti-mated value of $19,000,000 to $20,---000,000. Washington, with 2 935,---824 producing trees, was seventeenthin the list of number of trees and second in productiveness. Oregon had2.825,988 bear ng trees and Idaho re-ported 982.349 trees in fruit. Whenthe oiher trees now growing come intobearing in 1912, it is estimated theyield willbe about 64,000,000 bush-els, or 1,000,000 bushels more than

> the total crop of the United States ini 1908. equal also to the wheat crop ofi the three states that year. Washing*ton had 5,332.097 apole trees at toebeginning of the season, daring which2.500,000 were set oat, with more than3,000.000 contracted for to be plant-ed in 1909. Oregon bad 5,500.000and set out 2,000,000 more, whileIdaho reported 2,500,000.

The apple is the national fruit of

Thinks New Law IsClass Legislation

East Sound. Nov. 15,1909.Editor Islander, —Will you give me space to noticeand refute an erroneous idea whichia in circulation, to the effect thatthe "White Ribbon" women are responsible for the enacta.ent of the newlaw which discriminates between thewhite man and the one who has Indian blood in his veins. I wish tocay here, emphatically, that theWomaug' Christian Temperance Unionhad nothing whatever to do with in-troducing or supporting tuis measure.

The W. C. T. U. stands for thetotal abolition of the liquor traffic,and we contend that the Indiau holdsno better right to protection from thedebasing ettects of the liquor businessthan does the white man.

This law is surely class legislationand as such should not have been enacted. We have many good, respon-sible citizens and taxpayers in ourcounty who are of mixed blood, andthey feel (and rightly) ttat this lawia especially humiliating and and em-barrassing to them. As one said: —"The Jap or Chinaman can enjoyprivileges which are denied to a goodsolid taxpayer."

If it is a privilege to drink thestuff which demoralizes the man androbs hi-* family, then we can see noreason why discrimination should bemade. Some will say it is becausewhiskey makes an Indian crazy.Well, if you willread the daily rec-ord of murder and crime of all kinds,you will have to admit that whiskeymakes the white man crazy, too.

Every argument that can be ad-vanced against the drinking uf intox-icants by Indians, applies with equalforce to the white man.

\u0084., Florence Atkins.

President of the San Juan Co. W.C. T. U.

Big Shipment ofSalmon to New York

The steam schooner Rapid Transittied up at the Friday Harbor PackingCos. dock Sunday and took on a car-go of b,7'JO cases of salmon for NewYork. The Islander last week toou900 cases, making a total of 6,000from this cannery for this shipment.They were taken to Bellingbam andthere transferred to the steamshipMissourian of tne American Hawaiiansteamship line which took on a cargoof about 140,000 cases at the P. A.F. cannery. The Missourian will takethe shipment to Tehauntepec on thewest coast of the Isthmus of Panama,

where they will be transferred by railto Salina Cruze, on the east coast,aud from there by steamer to NewYork. The packing company expectsthem to be delivered to the consigneesin about 60 days It ordinarily takesabout 12 j days to deliver goods fromhere in New York if shipped aroundthe Horn. The company is also mak-ing a shipment of 250 cases to Singa-pore and 250 cases to Penang. Thesego by steamer from Seattle.

New Fish Hatchery

Begins Operations

The new salmon hatchery at Bonneville, Oregoo, said to be the largestin the world, was opened Mondaywith appropriate exercises. It willbe the central hatchery for the Co-lumbia River district and it ia expect-ed to bruve very valuable in maintain-ing the supply of commercial fish inthe Columbia and its tributaries.Governor Benson, State TreasurerSteel. Fish Warden McAllister, ofOregon, and Fish Commissioner Kise-land, of Washington, together withprominent cannerymen of both states,

attended. The hatchery is a modelplaLt, with a capacity of 60,000,---000 eggs, there being now about 20,---000.000 on hand. Nursary and feed-ing ponds are provided for 3.000.000young fish.

Alfred Bmka, of Shaw island, wasa Friday Harbor visitor on Monday.

America. This can hardly betioned hi face of the fact that in ho-tels, restaurants, resorts, trains,steamers and homes the fruit isserved throughout the year. Butwhile there are apples everywhere,apparently, the supply is not suffi-cient to go around.

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San luan mWmli IslanderManchurian Larks

Brought to NorthwestManchurian larks, an entirely new

species of song bird for the Northwest,will be liberated in Oregon nextspring and it is expected they willbe-come domesticated and thrive there.In time they may become one of thebest known specie* of songsters in theNorthwest. Mrs. Fred. D. Fisher,wife of the American Consul at Niu-chwang. Manchuria, who recently ar-rived in Portland with her husband,brought bacK 15 of the birds withher. The birds are about the size ofthe native lark but are the color ofthe wren. The Chinese keep themin cages in their homes, because oftheir ability as songsters.

Ihe lnte Dr. MoCutoheon. of Taco-ma, an ardent lover of all species ofsong birds, believing that the Englishsky-lark would aconotom itself to thissection of the northwest and thrivewell, imported a number of them afew years ago and liberated them ivPierce county near Tacoma. We havebeen informed that they are doingnicely and are multiplying quite rap-idly. There is nothing sweeter tohear in the early morning than thewarble of the song bird, and none canappreciate this better than tbos« whocame frcm the east where there aremillions of them. It is to be hopedthat the time is not far distant untilthese littlesongsters are plentiful allover the northwest.

Schools Will GiveThanksgiving Program

The school has arranged to givetwo programs on Thanksgiving eve.The High school and grammar gradesto combine, in one program and the 4

intermediate and primary rooms inanother. The following ia the pro-gram to be given by the High Schooland the grammar grades:Song Grammar schoolRecitation Amy PfiftnerBilly Club Journal Albert NashDialogue Six Girls

Autumn, Wheat, Corn, Barley, Oats.Rice. Rye

History of Thanksgiving May Stoli-ker

Dialogue, Courtship of Miles StandishMiles Standish, Arthur GrollJohn Alden, Claire Tift

Priscilla, Ima McCrary

Song, Elizabeth McCraryGreta McCrary, Anna McCrary, Ade-

line Nelson, Charlotte WiisocSchool Paper. Evelyn CulverStaff, Vivian Todd, George Douglas,

Frances MullisMonologue

Priscilla, Josephine TuckerIndian, Dell EdwardsMasassoit. Elbert BlancettIndian Chief, Stanley Wortbington

Mary Chilton, Lillian TiftDesire Minton, Olive NewballElizabeth Tilly, Stella NewhallJohn Alden, Clarence HandlesJohn Hawford, Thomas Hansengong, Grammar schoolReading Thanksgiving Proclamation,

Hattie FrancisDecorative Committee

High school, Haftie FrancisChairman

Graoa Perry, Harold Broder, ElzaHarris

Grammar school, Mattie ShelborneChairman

Richard Wotton, Floyd Carter. Mag-

gie Lightheart.

Peter Ohlert DrownedAt Doe Bay

Peter Ohlert, for many years a res-

ident of Olga and Doe Bay. wasdrowned in the cove back of hie son's

home at Doe Bay Thursday afternoon.The littlehouse whe^e he and his son

lived stands quite near the steep bankabout twenty feet above the water and

it is supposed that the old maa, who

was quite feeble, fell down the bank

and was too much stunned by the fall

to aid him-elf or oall for help. Be

was a native of Germany and was 86years old. His son Antone had cared

for him most faithfully and kindly

for many years. Dr. Wright, county

ooroner, was notified by 'phone but

deemed an inquest unnecessary.

The Odd Fellows will hold their

annual Thanksgiving Service on Sun-

day morning at the M. E. Church

here. Rev. S. G. Jones will deliverthe address.

ISO. 43

Demand for SalmonOn The Increase

The following, taken from the No-vember number of the Pacific Fisher-man, will no doubt Drove of interestto most of our readers in that it givesa very clear idea of the salmon situ-ation as it stands today. It seemsthat in spite of the immense pack of1909 there is likely to be a markedshortage in the supnly of canned sal-mon and packets are by no means ly-ing awake nights in order to figureoat how to dispose of the season'soutput. The Paciflu Fisherman says:

"Never in the history of the sal-mon packing industry has there beensuch a spectacular clean-up on a largopack of salmon as in the few monthsintervening since opening prices werenamed on the 1909 pack. The situ-ation is one almost startling in itsrevelation of the marvelous expansionof the canned salmou markets of theUnited States and the United King-

dom.It should be considered that the

paok this year was no ordinary pack.In Alaska, while not abnormal, theproduction was that of a good averageyear, and about the usual amount ofRed salmon was offered for sale asin past years. On Puget Sound how-ever, the pack was one of the largestin history, if not the largest, and thematter of a million oases more onPuget Sound than usual, was no smallitem. In fact, it was sufficient tocause some apprehension in marketcircles earlier iv the year and causeconsiderable conservatism in the mak-ing of prices.

With an aggregate pack on the Pa-cific Coast, then, at least a millioncases larger than for four years, whathas been the effect on the market?Has canned salmon been a drug onthe market, as some people mightCave supposed?

It has not.The clean-up is nearer at this ear-

ly date of being absolute than anyother year in history. Alaska Reds,at opening prices, went like wild-fire.It has been impossible for some timeto buy this grade from either first orsecond hands at any price, aud thosejobbers who did not get their stocksin the first rush are up against theproposition of doing without Alaska 'Reds betw«en now and next Septem-ber, when another pack becomes avail-able. And if they don't buy earlynext September, they probably willwait another year.

How about the tremendous pack ofSockeyes which seven or eight monthsago seemed to hang over the marketlike a sword suspended by a hair?Ask the packers. They will tell yon

that they are most of them all soldout. Those who have vny left arenot listening to anything short of$1.45, and are not anxious to sell atthat, as they know that next year theywill probably get 51.60. Bat thegrade is well cleaned out with tJe ex-ception of the holdings uf one largeinterest, and it is understood that itis as easy to buy gold dollars for fifty

cents as it is to buy Sockeyes under-neath the price that they are asking.Moreover, they are in position to holduntil the lean years when the Sock-eyes willbe dearer by twenty centsa dozen —in fact, they prefer to.

Allavailable Medium-Reds and. Co-hoes have been sold oat this longtime, and while they are still busypacking this grade, orders are bookedfor more than will be produced,lv fact the readiness with which thisgrade has moved at the price, and theabundance of the fall ran, bus mademany packers regret that they wereso hasty in tilling sarplati cans withPinks.

Pink salmon, on the other hand,are not so slow. They have beenmoving oat slowly, and the last twoweeks has brought one of those unex-pected sports in the market that ha*reduced the snrplas materially. Onelarge producer reports that he is en-tirely sold out,and others report onlysmall reserves. Present indicationsare that the carry-over of last year

and the normal production of thisyear willbe cleaned in advance of anew pack.

Columbia Rivers of the 1909 pro-

duction have long been a thine of the

past, and the few Chums that remainare rapidly being absorbed.

With these few points*in mind, itwill be readily determined that theindustry has now developed to whereit is not a question of how to sellmore salmon.but how to pack more.'*

Dr. 0. O. Reed, of East Sound, was.a visitor in the Harbor, Wednesday, '

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