The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-16

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An advance of 16 per cent in the
price of glass has been ordered.
The Taft party has left Shanghai on
their return journey from the Philip
pines.
Battling Nelson knocked out Britt
in the eighteenth round Of the fight at
Colma, Cal.
A'violation of a former agreement
by the Grand Trunk Pacific railway
has aroused the antagonism of the Can
adian Pacific, and trouble is looked for
in the future.
George A. Wells, secretary of the
Iowa Grain Dealers Association, from
reports received all over Iowa, esti-
mates that this years corn crop will be
S48, 900, 900 bushels. Storms within
the past ten days have cut the corn
crop 10000, 900.
Two New sockeye salmon hatcheries
have been placed in operation by the
British Columbia government and the
artificial propagation of the principal
commercial salmon taken from the
waters of Puget sound and British Co.
lumbia will be larger this fall than
during any past year.
Two feet wide, six feet across and
ten feet long is the size Of thigh
bone, containing the hip socket, that
has been found imbedded in the bank
of the Willamette river, near Ingram
island, not far from Portland. The
huge bone is supposed to have been
that of a mastodon or a mammoth,
probably the former.
Plans are maturing for great relig-
ious gathering to be. held in New York
November 10 to 81 under the name Of
the Interchurch Conference on Fedora
tion. The meeting will be the first in
the United States to which delegates
have been named officially by the va
rious Protestant denominations, previ-
GUS conferences on missions and other
topics having been unofficial in char
acter.
Great loss of life and property have
been caused by earthquakes in South
ern Italy.
The second annual reunion Of Span
ish war veterans was held at Milwau-
kee last week.
Hezekiah Butterworth, author and
historian, died at Warren, R. l., last
week, aged 70 years.
Three hundred drivers of mail deliv-
cry wagons are on strike at New York.
Automobiles have been pressed into
service.
DR.. David E. Salmon, chief of the
bureau of animal industry, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
upon the appointment of his successor.
The proposition to vote 81, 500, 900
of municipal bonds for the acquisition
of city water supply from Owens
river in Inyo county was carried at
Los Angeles by an overwhelming ma
jority.
Charles P. Neill was unanimously
elected president of the association of
officials Of the bureau Of labor statis-
tics Of America. He is q resident of
Washington city. Commissioners w.
v. Stafford, Of San Francisco, was
elected first vice president.
The Lewis and Clark exposition live
stock show opens September 10 and
will last II days. With q prize list
that totals $40, 900 and with the en-
tries from the best cattle producing re-
gions in the world, it promises to be
an event Of national importance in live
stock Orioles.
Recently a cham exposition" was
opened at Berlin with q bait for pat
ronage IN the shape of promise that
each visitor should have q taste of the
exhibits. Before the end Of the second
day the place was closed because the
visitors had consumed the Il, 900 hams
on exhibition.