The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-05-02
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

New York has organized a crusade
against the house fly.
President Roosevelt has signed the
employers liability bill.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
clared the state local option law valid.
Manager Vorys claims that Taft
will get 500 votes on the first ballot.
The Seaside Lumber Company's
plant near Astoria, Oregon, has been
destroyed by fire, loss $4,000.
The first national congress of wo-
men in Italy has opened at Rome.
Queen Helena is one of the sponsors.
Roman Catholics are to raise a
million dollar fund in the furtherance
of home missions and church extern
sion in the United States.
By an overwhelming majority the
house refused to suspend the rules
and pass the bill to allow importation
of foreign white labOrerS into Hawaii.
The Russian government, according
to London trade journal, has ordered
five warships, each one to be larger
than the Dreadnaught, from firm OF
Clyde shipbuilders.
According to a Vancouver, B. c..
dispatch only seven plants will be op
Grated this year out of SO salmon can
neries on the Fraser river. A poor
run of salmon is expected.
The $25O,OOO plant which the Alaska
Fish and Cold Storage Company, OF
Boston, has under construction al
Kems, on Wrangel Narrows, is ex
pected to be ready for operation by
July.
The Nebraska state lumber dealers
association has been perpetually en-
joined by the state supreme court
and restrained from all operations cal
culated to eliminate competition in the
sale of building materials.
The Illinois democracy in conven
ton adopted the unit rule and in
struted it's delegates to the national
convention at Denver to vote for Will
liam J. Bryan and to use all honor
able means to secure his nomination
By a party vote, 155 to IS, the house
passed the oil land bill, introduced by
Smith of California, last week. The
bill provides new procedure in the
entry of public lands supposed to con
tain oil, and was designed by the
chamber of commerce of Los Angeles.
Federal Judge Kohlsaat has issued q
temporary Injunction restraining ex
press companies from issuing franks Of
any kind. The decision is the first Of
it's kind since the express and sleeping
car companies and pipe lines came un
der the Hepburn act, and thereby un
der federal supervision as common car
riers.
The Japanese training squadron has
arrived at Manila.
Henry Chadwick, known throughout
the country as the Father of Base
ball." died in Brooklyn Monday.
An official statement has been is,
sued at St. Petersburg that all rumors
of plot against the car are ground
less.
Governor Hughes is being encour.
aged in his fight against gambling by
many of the most influential men in
New York state.
T. P. Morrissey, member of Mercury
Athletic club of YOnkers, N. Y, won
the great American marathon run
from Ahland to Boton-25 miles.
John ]. Hayes, of the Irish American
club, New York, was second, and Rob.
ert A. Fowler, of the Cambridgeport
gymnasium, was third.
The senate committee on pensions
has voted unanimously against abolish.
Ing the pension agents throughout the
country and the establishment of one
big bureau in Washington, where all
business should be transacted. The
senate committee has voted to
provide $12,O0O,OOO to make eff
fective the widows pension bill re
Gently signed by Roosevelt. This
makes total of 1852 ZOO, 900 in the
pension bill