The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-04-09
Minor Happenings
of the Week.

Fred r. Strong, prominent Portland
attorney, is dead.
Postmaster General Payne will go
south for his health.
The new battleship Virginia was
launched at Newport News Tuesday.
Soft coal in Iowa has advanced Tl.20
per ton on account of the strike i'll that
state.
Juneau Metthodists have bought
property and announce that they will
build a $40, 900 church.
The geological survey report for 1902
will show for the third time total
value of commercial mineral products
to be over billion dollars.
Work on the Pacific a. Idaho North
ern railroad extension from Council
into the Thunder Mountain district has
begun and will advance rapidly.
The grand jury in the federal court
at Portland has concluded its work,
having found twenty-one indictments,
including a number against well known
persons.
An inventory of the personal prop
erty of the late millionaire brewer
William J Lenip shows total valua-
ton of 81, 348, 900. The widow inner
its nearly the whole estate.
The Pacific Coast Company will en-
gage in the coal trade at Nome on an
extensive scale. 1t has planned to
handle from Is, 900 to 10000 tons of
sack and bulk coal this season.
Fully reciprocal relations have been
established between the Western Jock
ey Club and the Pacific Jockey Club,
and the two organizations will between
them aim to control all race meetings
held between the Allegheny mountains
and the Pacific coast.
William J. Bryan lost his appeal to
have the sealed letter declared part
of the Bennett will.
1t is stated that the Chicago police
will allow no gambling at Washington
Park race track this season.
The house committee on public lands
has authorized favorable report on
the bill permitting the use of lands in
forest reserves available for agricul-
tural purposes.
The senate has passed a joint resolu-
ton providing for the printing of 49,
900 copies of the record of the North
ern Securities merger case in the gu.
preme court for free distribution.
Burton Norville Harrison, lawyer
of New York, husband of Mrs. Burton
Harrison, the authoress, and father OF
Congressman Harrison, Of New York
city died at Washington Tuesday
night, aged SO years.
The protected cruiser Denver was
given a second government trial fol
speed over the Cape Ann course Fri
day, and again failed to reach hel
contract speed of seventeen knots, hel
average being 1870 knots.
PCtAeAoh Al puhnhdPSy uSdAhS
Pettingill 81 Co., advertising agents OF
Boston, has been filed in the United
States district court. The liabilitie.
are placed at $1,000, 900, while tn,
assets are estimated at about $3.50 900
Favorable action has been tsken b,
the house committee on public lands
on bill providing that no entry shall
be made ON lands released and excluded
from forest reserve unlil sixty day
afler such exclusion proclamation b,
the secretary of the interior.
The st. Louis grand jury called {,
investigate the alleged assault upoI
voters during the Democratic prima
ries, March i2, returned Indictment
against seventeen policemen and JohI
LAWN, a central committeeman. Tn,
record also criticizes Governor Decker,
In view of the fact that J. p. Nor
gan has arranged TO leave for Europ
this week, Wall street is inclined {.
expect an early announcement tina
some sort Of satisfactory arrangement
has been reached between the Unio,
Pacific interests and Hill Morgan in
terests.
ORDER Is RENEWED.