The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-05-05
Minor Happenings
of the Week

ported to the house, carries 500, 1874,
2I5.
The volcano of Stromboli, on the
island of Sicily, after period of
quiet, is resuming activity and is emit
ting smoke and solid rock.
The United States cruisers Chatta-
nooga and Galveston have arrived at
Manila for an overhauling prepare
tory to joining the feet at Shanghai.
Imperial Potentate Henry Collins,
Of the Mystic Shriners, has declined
to rescind his order calling off the
convention which was to have been
held at Los Angeles May 7th. The
meeting will be held in Chicago.
The government has introduced in
the German reichstag project for a
law obliging automobiles to pay life
annuities to those dependent on per-
SONS killed by their motor cars or to
persons permanently injured by such
accidents.
Custer proceedings have been fled
in the circuit court at Toledo, O.,
against the Standard Oil Company.
Seventeen affidavits were filed asking
that the allied companies franchises
be dissolved, and that trustees be ap-
pointed for the creditors and stock
holders.
Sir Elizar Taschereau, chief justice
of Canada, has resigned his seat on
the supreme court bench on account
of ill health. It is generally under
stood that Charles Fitzpatrick, now
minister of justice, will succeed him
and that A. B. Aylesworth will have
the portfolio of minister of justice.
Gov. Hoggatt, of Alaska, sailed on
the Humboldt Wednesday. He will
take the oath of Office on arrival at
Juneau.
The guess Of Speaker Cannon, as ex-
pressed in reply to a question, is that
congress will adjourn sometime be-
tween June Is and August /.
At the Olympic games at Athens,
Sheridan, of New York, won the
championship discus throw, and Dan
iels, of New York, won the 100 metre
swimming race.
The agricultural appropriation bill
will 60 from the committee to the
house without the usual item of $500,
600 for the purchase of garden seeds
for distribution.
The wedding of Miss Mary McKen-
ma, daughter of Justice McKenna, OF
the federal supreme court, and Dav-
export Brown, of Boston, occurred al
Washington last week.
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the
American embassy at st. Petersburg
and 'Lurine Spreckels, daughter of
Claus A. Spreckels, of San Francisco,
were married at Paris last week.
Two parties of Grand Trunk Pacific
engineers are Quitting at Ashcroft,
B. c., for the North and expect to
leave with pack trains in few days.
It Is supposed that they will work east
and west from Fort George.
The summer service of the Canadian
Pacific overland trains will be estab-
lished May 6, when the Imperial Linn
tied will be put on for the season
This gives the Canadian Pacific an ad-
ditional passenger train to Pacific
Coast terminals.
For the month of March, 1906, the
collections of internal revenue amount
ed to $50, 495, 800, a gain over March,
1905, Of $1,1OS7,61. For the nine
months Of the present fiscal year the
receipts amounted to $1S7, 49,, 37l, an
increase over the corresponding period
last year of 11,421, 1876.
In the federal court at Wichita.
Kan. Thursday, District Attorney
Bone announced that the cases of the
twenty men under Indictment fol
fencing government land in Western
Kansas would be dismissed il the de-
PENDANTS would remove the fences
within sixty days. The defendants al
agreed to do so.
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