The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-20

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Senator Dryden has reintroduced
his revised insurance bill
Secretary Taft publicly charges the
Southern Pacific with delaying canal
work.
The total commerce between France
and the United States for the past
calendar year was $166, 100000.
It is announced that Secretary Shaw
has consented, at President Roose-
velt's request, to remain in the cabi-
net for another year.
Mai. Gen. Lizoviki, who was said
to be under sentence of death by the
fighting section of the Russian social
list revolutionaries, has been killed.
The assassin escaped.
Frank Franz has been inaugurated
governor of Oklahoma territory, sue
ceeding Thomas B. Ferguson. he is
So years old and was a member of the
Rough Riders regiment in the Span
ish- American war.
Representative Lacey, of Iowa, has
introduced bill providing that the
governor Of Alaska shall appoint all
territorial commissioners, who are at
present appointed by the judges.
The Littlefeld publicity bill requir-
ing corporations to make reports an
nually, or whenever the department
of commerce and labor desires, has
been favorably reported by the house
committee on judiciary.
Secretary Bonaparte has approved
the sentence of dismissal imposed by
courtmartial at Annapolis in the case
of Midshipman Trenmor Coffin. on
conviction of hazing, and ordering his
dismissal from the academy.
Albert T. Patrick, the New York
lawyer convicted and awaiting exeou-
ton in Sing Sing prison next week for
tho murder of William Marsh Rice, in
New York city, in September, 1900,
has been reprieved by Gov. Higgins
until March 10. New evidence is al
legged to have been found which casts
doubt on his guilt.
Extreme cold is reported in dis
patches from Fairbanks. Fifty below
is the average, with an occasional so
or 70 below.
The civil marriage of Prince Ferd-
lnand of Bavaria and the Infanta
Maria Teresa, sister Of King Alfonso
of Spain, has been celebrated at Mad.
rid.
Congress will probably direct tina
an inquiry be made as to the methods
Of the st. Louis exposition in the ex-
penditurve of the government appro-
priation.
President Francis, of the st. Louis
exposition, has been decorated by the
German Eemperor with the crown or
der of the first class. Several other
officials of the exposition also receive
minor decorations.
The national baseball commission
has approved the changes in the draft
ing rules, as demanded by the minor
leagues. The most important one is
that which provides that but one
player can be drafted from. q minor
league.
The senate committee on commerce
has ordered favorable report on the
bill prohibiting any steamer carrying
passengers leaving any port unless she
has in her service full complement
of licensed ocffiers and able seamen to
the number of one-half the crew.
The house committee on Indian aft
airs has decided to report favorably
the Curtis bill, which provides for
the winding up of the affairs Of the
five civilized tribes in the Indian ter
ritory and for the disposal of their
lands not yet disposed of.
The new fast mail schedule, which
cut "a hours off the time between New
York and San Francisco via Chicago
and Union and Southern Pacific, has
gone into effect, greatly improving the
Asa0A AdC41t10S VI O6111OIu16 6uO the
Coast generally.
The lease of tho assay Office at Daw-
son, which the Yukon government has
supported for some time, has expired,
and will not be renewed. Gov. Nc
In7es announces that the government
Office at White Horse is the only Office
which the government will maintain
in the territory for the time.
During the year that Gov. Mead has
been in Office he has appointed 681
notaries public and four commission
ers of deeds. The fee for notarial ap-
pointment is SO and that for commits
sioner of deeds is IS, all of which goes
to the library fund.
When the new city administration
of Oakesdale went into Office last week
all cuspidors were carried out of the
city hall as useless. Neither the NAV
or nor any of the five councilmen use
tobacco in any form. They were
elected on the temperance issue and
are all teetotalers.
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