The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-05-27
Minor. happenings
Of the Week

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RIB. Selway, one Of the largest
sheep owners in Northern Wyoming
and Southern Montana, has sold his
wool clip of half million pounds for
25 cents pound.
Three quarters of a million people
have already died Of the plague in In
dia this year. according to figures fur
niahed by Indian Secretary Brodrick
in the house of commons.
Dominic I. Murphy, of the District
of Columbia, has been appointed con-
sui at Bordeaux, France, to succeed
Albion W. Tourgee. Mr.. Murphy has
been secretary of the Panama canal
commission.
The Garfield house at New York,
where Lafayette was once guest and
where Robert Fulton lived while the
engine for his pioneer steamboat, the
Claremount, was being built in shop
nearby, has been destroyed by fire.
More than 100 ministers of the Meth
odist Episcopal church on Monday SOL
emnly marched to the Philadelphia
city hall to express to Mayor Weaver
their protest against the pending gas
lease and to congratulate him on the
stand he had taken.
President Roosevelt has issued q
proclamation establishing the Elkhorn
reserve in Montana. The Elkhorn will
be one of the largest reserves in the
West, being about as large as the Bit
ter Root reserve in Idaho, and will
embrace the Crazy mountains.
Orders have been prepared at the
navy department directing Rear Ad-
miral Sigsbee to be ready to proceed
with his squadron for France not later
than June s, to bring to the United
States the remains of John Paus Jones,
recently found in a Paris cemetery.
Kirk La Shelle, the we'll known theat.
rical manager, is dead.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared dividend Of 50 per share, pay
able June 10.
Baptists North and South have de-
cided to effect permanent organiza-
ton Of ajoint conference of the two
churches.
The lower house of the Norwegian
parliament on Thursday unanimously
adopted without debate the bill pro-
viding for the establishment of sepa-
rate Norwegian consular service
It is officially announced that King
Edward has appointed King Alfonso of
Spain a general Of the British army.
The appointment dates from May II,
the birthday of the Spanish king.
DR.. Washington GLADDEN.. at the Con.
gregational church convention at Sioux
City last week said: "Never again
will the Congregational church accept
q gift from John D. Rockefeller. and
as fast as other millionaires are found
to have employed illegal methods they
will be put on the blacklist, from the
members Of which no gifts will be &C
cepted."
It is stated that Gov. John. g..
Brady, of Alaska, has withdrawn from
the directorate of the Alaska mining
concern with which he was connected
and that the use of his name in the ad-
vertising matter has ceesed. The
Washington authorities have been no.
titled to this effect.
The volume of appropriations, new
offices, etc., required to be compiled
after each session of congress, has been
completed for the last session of the
Fifty eighth congress, and the summa-
~ OF the appropriations shows a grand
total Of $500, 184,6S5. The total ap-
preparations for the last session for
1905 were an increase of $39, ola, 259
over the previos session Of that con-
grees for 1905.