The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-01-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
Brief Summary of Less lmportan'
Though not the Less Interesting
Happenings of the Week, From
All Parts of the World.


Falls, Idaho.
Baron Won Manlichre, inventor OF
the Manicure rife, is dead.
The salary of the minister to Pana-
ma has been fixed at SO, 900.
The call for the Prohibition nation
al convention, to be held at Indlanapo-
lis beginning June 80, has been issued.
Albert Won Maybach, former Prus-
sian minister of public works, who
successfully nationalized the Prussian
railroads, is dead, aged 81 years.
Mayor. J. M. May, of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, inventor of farm machinery, is
dead, aged 80 years. He once owned
portion of the city of Cedar Rapids,
but died in poverty.
The caynide mill of the United
States Reduction and Refining Compa-
ny, near Florence, Colo, has been de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss esti-
mated at from SIS, 900 to $125, 900.
Arthur Beaupre, United States min
lister to Colombia, is quoted as saying
there will be no war between the Uni
ted States and that country, but that
the little Panama unpleasantness
would be amicably arranged.
Pursuant to an order issued by the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, 800 hack and carriage drivers of
st. Louis have struck to enforce their
demands for $3.50 per week pay, a
12-hour day, % cents an hour for
overtime and recognition of the union.
The Salt Lake Tribune says con-
tract has been signed by J. J. Burns,
manager of the Chicago & South Shore
railway, and Simon Bamberger, owner
of the Salt Lake q Ogden railroad, for
the extension of the latter road from
Pennington, Utah, to Ogden within a
short time.
Mrs. William H. Croker, of San
Francisco, has given $25, 900 for arch
geological work in Old Mexico. Ex-
cavations are now being made at Cay
ocan, Mexico, under the patronage of
Mrs Croker, by Mrs. leila INITIAL,
member of the archaeological depart
ment of the University of California.
The Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, admi.
raj of the British feet,is dead, He
was born in 1909.
King Christian, of Denmark, who is
now restored to health, has left Aus
tria fore openhagen.
The cruiser Tacoma, built at San
Francisco, has been formally accepted
by the government.
The rgass seed crop of Latah coun.
ty, Idaho, exceeded $4,000 in value
last year, and this will be largely in.
creased during the present year.
c. E. Bacon and A. b. Butler pres
ident and cashier of the Lockport, ILL.,,
bank, which recently failed, have
been indicted on charge of embezzle-
ment
General John G. Black, recently ap-
pointed member of the civil service
commission, has taken the oath of
Office and will at once enter upon his
duties
fDr. Pollock f. Hyatt, who was Uni
ted States Consul at Santiago de Cuba
for five years prior to the outbreak of
the Spanish American war, is dead,
aged So.
The war department has called for
the return of a large amount of defec-
tive cartridges issued during the Span
ish war, and the substitution of sound
cartridges in their place.
Lieutenant commander Harry M.
Hodges has been appointed chief hy-
drographer of the navy, in place of
Commander William H. Sutherland,
assigned to command thee leveland.
The Hamburger Nachrichten says
that Emperor William has invited
James Gordon Bennett, editor of the
New York Herald, to be his guest dur
ing the automobile races at hamburg.
The mines of the Occur d. Alene dis
trict produced 206, 257 ,27S pounds of
lead and 6,021, 145 ounces of silver
during 1908. The total value was
$40, 1915, 46s.S2. The output for the
past year was the largest in the histo-
~ of the district.
Fire at Dawson.
Dawson, Y. t., Jan. 22.-Fire to-
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