The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-02-13
Minor. happenings
of Ire Wcek.


the strike of persons employed 10y the
shipping interests at various Spanish
ports is at an end.
Fifty workmen were killed in st. Pc
tersburg by the caving in of an en-
bankment on the Vienna rail
road. Many were badly injured.
Seven men convicted of taking part
in the riots at Globevillo, Colo, result
ing from the smeltermen's strike, have
been sentenced to serve six months In
Jail.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Servia. 1t includes NJ. Druyes as pre-
mier, M. Pasyes as minister of foreign
AFFAIRS and Gen. Putnik as minister of
war.
Judge Parlange, in the Federal court
at New Orleans, issued an injunction
against the ticket scalpers, to prevent
their cutting rates during the Mardl
Gras.
Henry W. Oliver who has been a
leader in social, business and political
circles in Pittsburg, and many times
a millionaire is dead after short
illness.
Formal application is to be filed by
the states attorney for special grand
Jury to consider criminal indictments
in connection with the Iroquios thea
ter fire in Chicago.
Vice President Dwyer, of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
who went to Kansas City to direct the
strike of carriage drivers, rs been or
dered away by the police.
Advices received at Amsterdam say
that an entire town in the east end OF
Java, Dutch East Indies, is reported to
have been swallowed up by volcanic
eruption and that hundreds of persons
were killed.
The supreme tribunal of the Knights
of Pythias has decclared that the cleo
ton of supreme representatives in
Pennsylvania has been made illegally.
The election was made in subordinate
lodges instead of the grand lodge.
Several other states Will be affected.
James M. Walters, the bellboy who
stole diamonds valued at more than
$40, 900 belonging to Baroness Helena
Radziwill Won Horst from her apart
ments at the Colonial hotel, in San
Francisco, has been brought back from
Minneapolis, where he was arrested.
He admits his guilt.
Frederick Vanderbilt's new steam
yacht, Conqueror, has been launched
at front, Scotland.
The agricultural bill reported to the
houge carries total of $5,71l, 24O, an
increase of $233, 900 over the current
law.
The United States gunboat Don Juan
de Austria, bound from the Philippine
islands to the United States, has arriv-
ed at Suez.
1t has been learned unofficially that
Mr. Swinderin, will probably succeed
Baron Givers as the minister of the
Netherlands at Washington.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has authorized favorable reports
ON bills to ratify the agreements with
the Indians of the Crow reservation in
Montana, and those of the Red Lake
and Pembina reservations in Minnesota
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, or
dered the closing of the Grand opera
house, Madison Square theater, Prin-
cess theater, Vaudeville theater, Hur-
tig g. Seamon's and the theater part of
Huber's museum until certain altera-
tions for safety are made.
More than 500, 900, 900 acres in Routt
and Grand counties, Colorado, have
been thrown open for settlement by
the state land board. Coal lands, ag-
ricultural lands, mineral lands and
tracts of proerties adjacent to towns
in the counties mentioned can now be
secured by those who wish to be along
the route of the Moffatt railroad.
Road Through Reservation.