The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-02-06
Minor. happenings
of fire Week.

The president was among the nota-
BILE guests at the annual dinner OF the
Gridiron club at Washington.
Seward is the name of new post
office established at Resurrection bay.
Lillien Gordon is the postruistress.
The Valdez office is now third class
office. G. N Cary has been appointed
postmaster with salary of 81 900.
The taxes for 1908 on real estate and
personal property of the town of Val
dez amount to 1915. The assessment
was one per cent.
The house has stricken from the urg
ent deficiency bill the provision for the
payment of second mileage for the reg
ular session of congress.
United States per cent bonds have
come TO maturity and have been strick
EN- from the New York stock exchange
list and will no longer be quoted.
A movement is now on foot to or
ganize the pioneers of the Seward pc
ninsula. The order will take in all
men who arrived on the peninsula not
later than 1899.
Encouraging reports come from the
tin ledge struck last fall on Lost river,
in the York district, and the Shismarff
district is also reportedt to be rich. A
lot of development work will likely be
done there this summer
The Danish Atlantic Islands Associ
alton has been formed at Copenhagen
with the object of arousing the nations
interest in its outlying possessions and
preventing the dimunition by sale or
otherwise of territory under Danish
sovereignty.
The reported massacre of British
expedition under the auspices of the
East African syndicate 10y Turk hama
tribesmen, in the neighborhood of Ru-
dolph lake, announcement of which
was made Jan. pa, now proves to have
been incorrect.
Probably the highest price ever paid
for an undeveloped property in Arizo-
ma was paid for the transfer of the
Shattuck Costello group of copper
mines from their Bisbee owners to
Eastern capitalists from the Lake SUI
perior copper belt for consideration
of 81 ,1O0, 900.
This week practically all the shingle
mills on the Menominee river in North
ern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula
will resume operations after being
shut down three months. This action
was the result of decision by the
shingle weavers union to accept the
wage scale offered by the Northwest
ern Sbingle Manufacturer Associa-
ton.
The Maryland legislature is dead
locked over the election of a senator.
Chancellor Won Buelow, as the rep
resentative of Emperor William, gave
dinner to 100 princes, diplomats and
cabinet ministers.
f. G. NJ. Rand has been awarded a
verdict against Russell Sage for ser
vice in connection with Sage's trustee
ship of the Hastings and Dakota land
grant. Rand sued for $l5, 900.
Judge Grosscup, in the United States
district court at Chicago, has decided
against the city of Chicago in the 20
cent gas cases. He declared that the
state did not delegate to the city the
power to regulate the price of gas.
The Dupont Powder Company has
secured practical control of the manu-
facture of powder ON the Pacific coast
through the absorption of the Cahfor-
mia Vigorale Company. The consider
alton is stated 10 have been $500, 900.
A New York financial agency an
nounces that Charles M. Schwab and
his associates have reached an agree
ment with the members of the Sheldon
syndicate and the Commonwealth
Trust Company for the reorganization
of the United States Shipbuilding
Company.
Ex-Gov. Mcconnell, of Idaho, ex-
poets to order two-stamp mill for the
True Fissure group of mines in the
Rhodes Peak district, near the Mon
tana line, in which he has recently
bought controlling interest. He will
construct trail TO the mine from the
Lolo trail.
Thomas Ii. Shevlin, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Minnesota,
and prominent lumberman has been
sued in the district court at Minneapo-
lis by his brother, Edwin G. Shevlin,
who charges fraud and deceit, and
seeks to have the transfer of 800 shares
of INN bar cnnnanv stock sat arido