The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-06-20
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

BRYAN has been Endorsed by Oregon
democrats.
It is stated on authority OF Frank A.
Day. his private secretary, that Gov
ernor Johnson of Minnesota is not
candidate for reelection.
A calisthenic drill under the direc-
ton of Professor Robert Krohn, phys
ical director of the Portland public
schools, was participated in by 1900
children on Multomah field.
The District of Columbia court of
appeals has confirmed the decision
of the criminal court in refusing to
dismiss John A. Benson, of California,
on habeas corpus proceedings.
The military reservation at Fort
Keogh, Montana having become use
less for military purposes, has been
placed under the control of the interi-
or department for disposition.
Judge Lawlor has denied the motion
made by the attorneys for Abraham
Ruef, Patrick Calhoun and TREY L..
Ford, to dismiss the indictments for
bribery brought against them by the
present grand jury.
A private cable dispatch from Nome
received in San Francisco says that
the whaling steamer William Baylies
had been lost in the ice pack in Ana
dyr bay, Siberia. 1t is believed that
her crew was rescued.
Fire destroyed Maple Bank, his
toric residence on the McCallum es-
tate, used in the early days of the
Esquimalt station as an admirafs
house. The contents were saved by
sailors from ships lying at EsQuimalt
harbor.
Maryland democrats go to Denver
uninstructed.
Damage by recent floods in Texas
is estimated at 100000,
Hearst's gain to date in the New
York ballot box recount Is 1913.
No liquor will be sold in the grading
camps of the Grand Trunk in Canada.
James M. Lynch has been reelected
president of the International Typo
graphical Union.
The Consolidated Bank of Los Ange.
les has been ordered closed. It's con-
dition is bad
Doctors in session at Chicago want
law passed which will punish wives
who foster race suicide.
Cleveland will remain the headquar.
tiers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers for the next twelve years.
J. M. Brown has been chosen demo.
cratic candidate for governor of Geor.
gia by at least $4,000, defeating Hoke
Smith.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines
of Wardner, Idaho, has paid a $4,000
dividend, which makes $4O5, 200 since
January.
Rev. Dr. R. ]. Cooke of Tennessee
has been reelected editor of all the
book publications of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Interment of the remains of Emil
lola with full national honors in the
Pantheon, the French temple of fame,
took place last week.
The board of trustees of Stanford
University has set aside 100000 as a
permanent fund to provide books for
the library of that institution.
Butte has elected nine avowed so.
cialists as delegates to the annual con.
vention of the Western Federation OF
Miners, to be held in Denver in July.
The Cunard Steamship Company is
in the market with an issue of SOC, 600
pounds sterling in ~ per cent mort
gage debenture stock, redeemable be-
tween 1911 and 1920 at 102. The is
sue price is 81.
Two sets of delegates to the nation
al convention at Denver have beer
elected by the democrats of Idaho al
result of breach between the Du
bois and anti Dubois factions over the