The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-04-02
Minor. Happenings
of tie Week.


The Nome gold output for the winter
will b eat all previous winters.
A franchise has been asked for a
street railway at Lewiston, Idaho.
Vancouver island is to be connected
with the mainland by telephone.
A wild man, supposed to be Rus
sian exile, has been captured near
Nome.
Marshal Shoup, of Alaska, has re-
turned from Washington. He says the
delegate bill will surely pass.
The French chamber of deputies has
passed the government bill for the sup
preston of teaching by religious orders.
The senate committee on judiciary
has ordered favorable report on the
bill providing for the protection of the
president.
King Leopold has submitted a de-
tailed denial of charges of cruelty
practiced by Belgians upon natives of
the Congo Free State.
Excitement is running high i'll the
neigh borhOod of Culdesac, Idaho, over
big strike reported to have been made
in the Silent Friend group.
Terry McGovem will make his re-
entry into the ring on April 4, when
he meets Jimmy Briggs before the
Portland Athletic Club, at Portland,
Maine,
The Columbia river cannars predict
the largest product in the history of
the industry this year. Practically all
of the plants have been enlarged and
fish packing promises to become an i'm
mense industry.
Heavy rains in California threaten
great damage by flood over large
area. Conditions in the flooded dis
tricts of Michigan and Idniana are i'm
proving, after the loss of a number Of
lives and millions of dollars worth of
property.
The senate has passed the Indian APP
preparation OIL.
President Roosevelt will press the
button to start the st. Louis fair.
Billiards., followed by floods, have
done much damage in Mississippi Val
ley states.
The house has again refused to order
an investigation of the postoffice de-
partment.
Disagreement between miners and
operators in Iowa may lead to tsrike
in that district.
A special series of postage stamps to
commemorate the Louisiana Purchase
exposition will be issued.
The cod fishing schooner Mary and
Ida was wrecked at Unga island, Alas
ka, but the crew We're saved.
Eighteen Minneapolis -four mills
have again shut down ON account of
the oopr condition of the -four trade.
A new bank is to be established at
Troy, Idaho, with capital Of $25, 900,
most of which will be subscribed by
citizens.
The Paris correctional tribunal has
sentenced Mas and Moranne to three
years imprisonment each for perjury
in the Fair will case.
The house has passed the postoffice
appropriation bill, restoring the clause,
heretofore stricken out, providing pay
for rural mail carriers
Senator Proctor's bill to establish
four permanent military camp grounds
has been reported favorably from the
senate committee on military affairs.
Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett
fought twenty rounds at San Francisco
Friday night. Up to the seventeenth
round Young Corbett thad the best of
it, but Britt finished stronger and got
the decision.
Mrs. Anita Kelly, of New York, has
been awarded verdict at Los Angeles
OF $500 and costs against a Santa
Barbara hotel company for the loss OF
a limb in an elevator accident in July
1908. She sued yor $50, 900.