The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-02
Mxx7os. HappenLngs
Of the Week

OF tho week
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The American exports to Canada
last year amounted to $166. 900. 900.
Heavy rains are reported to have
done considerable damage to the Val
DEE trail.
"Mark Twain" -dined with Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt Monday eve
ming.
Over seven thousand miles Of rail-
road is being built in the Dominion OF
Canada, at an expenditure OF $780,
OOO,0
A grand jury has been called at
Boise, Idaho, for the first time in
eleven years. It IS understood that
city affairs will be Investigated.
Marshal Field, Jr., who accidental
ly shot himself while examining a re-.
volver a few days ago, died at the
family home in Chicago Monday.
Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, the
authoress, and wife of former Congress
man Francis Burton Harrison, Of New
York, was killed in an automobile ao-
cident on Long Island.
The president has removed from
Office William S. Leib, assistant United
States treasurer at Philadelphia for
Constant and persistent violation Of
the civil law while in office"
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the minister of finance has completed
the budget for the coming year and
that the revenue is estimated at ST.
OF, ZOO, 900 and the expenditures at
$1,000, 900 less than that amount.
The supreme court of the United
States has sustained the ordinances of
the cities of Detroit and San Francis
co, granting exclusive franchises to re-
move the garbage of the two cities
respectively. The ordinances were
held to be in harmony with the rights
of state municipalities to exercise po-
lice control for the protection of the
public health.
New York diamond cutters have Sc
cured an eight hour day, at average
wages of $40 week.
Governor Carter has appointed E. C..
Peters attorney general of Hawaii, vice
Lorin Andrews, resigned.
General Manager Horn of the North
elm Pacific denies the report that he
will resign. Rumor had it that he
would 60 to an Eastern road.
The new police system established
at Panama by an American instruct
or, George Jiminez, on lines similar to
that in operation in New York, has
gone into effect.
Henry White, American ambassador
at Rome, has been elected to represent
this country in conjunction with Min
lister Gummere Of Tangier at the ap-
preaching Morocco conference.
The hearing by the criminal court
at Washington on the demurrer fled in
the Hyde-Dimond case, in which
fraudulent land transactions on the
Pacific coast are charged, has been
postponed for two weeks.
The New York board of trade has
adopted resolutions favoring the abol-
ishment of United States duties on
Philippine products and the repeal of
the new law regulating the shipping
between this country and the Philip
pines.
The government will appeal from
the decision of the appraisers at FRS
co. which would admit Japanese sake
as a manufactured article instead of a
still wine. II the government loses it
will have to refund half q million dol
lars to the importers.
At sitting of the Dominion Fisher
les Commission last week it was stated
that as the Washington Gamers have
refused to maintain a closed season in
1905 the British Gamers would not do
so. Negotiations will probably be
opened to arrange joint closed season
for 1903