The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-06-11
Minor Happenings
Of flse Week.

M. Blanc, formerly French minister
of foreign affairs, is dead.
Oregon's building at the worlds fair
is to be dedicated Wednesday, June 10,
Provincial Assessor Hall, Of Vlcto-
ria. has been arrested on charge OF EN-.
bezzlement.
Governor Peabody, of Colorado, has
issued an order suspending martial law
in Las Animas county, the scene OF the
recent labor troubles.
DR.. Horace Ellis, president of the
Idaho state normal sshool, has accepted
the offer of the presidency OF the VIM
,ennes, Indiana, university.
The revenue cutter Bear was cut to
the water line and her foremost carried
away in collision with the schooner
Spokane in fog off Point Reyes.
The contract has been let for the
construction of $4,000 distillery to
be erected at Sapperton, b. Z. This
will be the only big distillery in West
ern Canada.
Walter j. Honeymsn, a well known
business man of Portland, and locally
prominent in municipal reform and
temperance work, died suddenly Fri
day morning. He was 81 years OF age.
A. NJ. Roberts, Of Pierce, Idaho, has
resigned AZ postmaster, because he says
he cannot consistently fill the position
of Democratic representative and Re-
publican postmaster at the same time.
The chief Of the bureau of statistics
of the department of agriculture esti'
mate the total area planted in cotton
in the United States this season at 3D.
$50, 37l acres, an increase of 2 1928, 0l6
acres.
At a meeting of the lord mayor of
London and corporation it was decided
to confer the freedom of the city on
Lord Curzon of Keddleston in recogni-
ton of the ability and zeal he had dis
played as viceroy of India.
War Secretary Arnold Foster, an
swering question in the house of COM
mons, said the government had no in
tention of proposing to parliament the
introduction of a system of conscrip-
ton, as recommended by the royal
commission ON the volunteer and mill
tia forces.
The last section of the second cable
connecting Germany and America has
just been completed.
Oxford university has decided to
confer the degree of doctor of letters
on William Dean Howells, the Ameri-
can author.
Henry G. Frick denies that he is a
candidate for United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
NJ. 8. Quay.
A treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Spain and Portugal.
1t conforms with article 10 of The
Hague convention.
W. j. Bryan controlled the Nebraska
Democratic convention, wrote the plat
form and heads the delegation 10 the
national convention.
Jouu JohustOu, Ouc VI tnt DtSt
known financiers of the West and vice
president and acting head of the Ma
rine National bank of Milwaukee, is
dead.
In the sale at Paris of the Princess
Mathilde's jewels, a pearl necklace,
formerly the property of Queen Sophie,
of Holland, brought l7l,0OO. 1t is
said that the buyer represented the
German empress.
Governor Won Putkalner, of the
Kamaroons, has arrived in Berlin and
reports the recent discovery of extern.
sive petroleum fields near the coast of
the Kamaroons and deposits of coal
and gold in the Adamus region.
Bread riots are imminent at Montre.
al unless the thousands of Italians who
have tiocked in from Europe, New
York, Boston and other large cities
can be fec at once. There are at leas,
400 without money, food or shelter.
The United States army transport
Sheridan has sailed from San Francis
co for Manila via Honolulu and Guam
with 100 cabin passengers and l09 un.
assigned recruits for the infantry, cav.
airy and artillery branches of the ser.
vice. She carried IS, 90 tons of freigh,
Pleiades Libeled.