The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-04-16
Minor. Happenings
of fhe Week.

Mrs. Roosevelt has gone to Groton.
Mass. for visit with her sons.
Reports from Kodiak island, Alaska,
are to the effect that stock has win
tered well.
The navy department is preparing
toe AIRY out plans for cOaling station
on Kiska island.
1t is stated that the Buriats, Buddhist
inhabitants of the Transbaikal, are
likely 40 rebel against Russian rule.
The strike on the Panama railroad
has been ended, most of the laborers
returning to work under old conditions
ID. Ashton, QUE of Golfers war
photographers and correspondents, has
returned from Japan disguised with
the censorship.
Five persons were killed and over
twenty were mangled and seriously in
iured in street car accident at Santa
Barbara, Cal.
The Nez Perce, Idaho, Fair has been
incorporated with capital of $780,
900. A 6O-acre tract has been secured
and work will begin on the grounds as
soon as the weather settles.
The 1000 cattle butchers employed
by Swift e. Co, at Chicago, have been
ordered on strike to enforce certain de-
mands made by the butchers union
which the company refused to concede.
Japan has placed contracts with
Clyde shipbuilding firms for the con-
struction of two battleships to exceed
in power any now afioat. They cannot
be delivered before the termination of
hostilities.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
senate the nominations of A. N ke-
poikai as judge of the second circuit
for the territory of Hawaii and j. r.
Parsons, Jr., of New York as consul
general to Mexico.
Congressman Hepburn, of the Eighth
Iowa district, has been renominated.
King Christian of Denmark celebrat-
ed his eighty sixth birthday Friday,
April 8.
ID j. Tarpley, Salem, Or, law
yer, has been indicted on account of
alleged completely in land frauds.
The Minneapolis board of education
has issued an edict in favor of short
skirts for teachers while in school
rooms.
Mayor Spring, of Fairbanks, ssys
the gold output of that district will
be close around a million dollars for
the season.
The census Bureaus estimate for
1908 places the population of the
United States, exclusive of Alaska and
insular possessions, at 10, 900,3S
In the senate Thursday afternoon
was devoted to eulogies of the late
Senator Marcus A. Hanna. Senator
Foraker was the principal speaker.
The bomb which narrowly missed
King Alfonso of Spain" Thursday, has
been discovered to have been a gas
main explosion nearly half mile
away.
Former President Cleveland, in an
interview, expresses satisfaction and
relief in the movement in favor of
Judge Parker as Democratic presiden-
tial candidate.
Former Secretary of the Navy John
ID. Long will serve as president of the
new $S, 900, 900 trade school in Boston,
made possible by the will of the late
Arioch Wentworth.
The Minneapolis Journal has inaug-
urated Seeing Minneapolis" auto
mobile with a capacity of twelve
seats. The initial run was made last
week. The Journal expects to have
ten such cars in operation by the end
of the season.
The London Daily Mail says there is
reason to believe that in the forthcom-
ing budget Austen Chamberlain, the
chancellor of the exhcequer, will pro-
pose an import duty ON petroleum and
petroleum products, probably a penny
pea gallon.
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