The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-06-13
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

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. Its con-
dition is bad.
Doctors IN session at Chicago want
a law passed which will punish wives
who foster race suicide.
Cleveland will remain the headQuar-
ters 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 $4,000
dividend, which makes $405,OOO since
January.
Rev. DR.. R. j. 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 $1,000
pounds sterling in AZ 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 been
elected by the democrats of Idaho as
a result of breach between the Du
bois and anti-Dubois factions over the
Mormon question.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra and
Princess Victoria started for Reval
emperor of Russia. The party sailed
from Port Victoria on the royal yacht
Victoria and Albert.
The twenty-second wedding ami
versary of ex-President and Mrs. Gro
yer Cleveland was quietly celebrated
at their home at Princeton June 2. A
wedding cake was presented to the
Clevelands by Princeton friends.
Four days Fl hours and IS minutes
is the Mauretaina's new record from
Queenstown to New York.
Women's hats in England will be
featherless after December 81, if the
bill Lord Avebury has introduced in
parliament passes. His bill, following
the example set by New York state,
makes all plumes, except ostrich, elder,
duck and wild birds used for food, con
traband
Celt, 3-year-old colt owned by
James R. Keene, won the twenty-sec.
ond running of the Brooklyn handicap
He did it easily, but at the same time
made new record for the race and
the Gravesend track, stepping the dis.
lance, one mile and quarter, in
2:042-5.
John c. Harley, receiver of Zion
City, has announced to Judge Davis
OF the federal court that the financial
troubles of the community founded by
John Alexander Dowie have been set.
tied and it's receivership affairs
closed. He therefore presented his
resignation.
The monthly statement of the gov.
eminent receipts and expenditures
shows deficit for the month of May
1908, of $11,958,991. For the eleven
months of the current fiscal year the
receipts are shown to have aggregat
ed S546, $50 and the disbursements
S61O,O10,755, leaving a deficit for the
eleven months of $63,6O3.605.
Miss Helen Rogers to Wed.