The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-08
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

There will be no reduction in steel
prices.
General Miguel r. Davis has been
elected president of Honduras.
Owing to the hard times thousands
of men are enlisting in the United
States army.
The Interstate Telephone Company
of Lewiston, Idaho, will spend $4,000
installing an up-to-date system.
A giant pine trees, seven and one
half feet in diameter and 100 feet in
length, has been felled at Clifford,
Idaho.
DR.. Leander Jameson, premier and
secretary for native affairs of Cape
Colony, has resigned, owing to his de-
feat in the parliamentary elections.
Miners at the Coal Creek mine,
owned by the Crows Nest Pass Coal
company, went on strike Saturday
Other mines of the company may be
closed.
Governor Hoggatt of Alaska and 9TH
ers plan to introduce a bill into con-
gress declaring for strict saloon IL
cense of $1,000 for each city in the
territory.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
has made a division point in Idaho,
twenty-three miles from Wallace and
one mile from Pinchot, new post
office station.
In Washington, D. c., Friday night
thirty members of congress from the
western states were guests of the A.
Y.-P. exposition management and all
pledged their support to the exposi-
ton.
Mrs. Josef Hoffman, wife of the eel
ebrated pianist, who lost her opera
bag, containing $4,000 in money and
Jewels, while attending a recital at
San Francisco, Thursday night, has
recovered the treasure, the bag being
found in hall.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill has passed the house. The total
amount carried by it is $23 1854, $50,
or $4,000 less than was reported by
the committee. The largest single re-
duction was that of 100000 in the
clothing fund of the army.
The senate has passed the bill intro
d,,cod NV Copofor Samuel TT pi1oc for
the construction of revenue cutter
for the Pacific coast to cost $250,000.
Plate mills Nos. 1 and 2 of the Hli-
nois Steel Company resumed work
Monday and furnish employment for
$500 men. The mills were closed two
weeks ago for repairs.
New strikes continue to be made
on the third beach at Nome.
Next September Lord Strathcona,
Canadian high commissioner in Eng
land, will visit New Westminster,
B. C.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of
the Christian Science church, has
lived for 10 years, to the Chestnut
Till section of Brookhne, a suburb of
Boston.
The Dominion government has de-
cided to loan sum of approximately
100000 to the farmers of the new
provinces of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan. whose crops were a failure, to
purchase seed again.
The first Perkins medal awarded
for achievement in applied chemistry
was last night presented to J. B. R.
Herreshoff, chemist of New York,
in recognition of the improved meth
DDS he has introduced for refining
copper.
1t is announced at Rome that the
emperor of Germany will make a
cruise in the Mediterranean in the
latter part of March and that King
Edward will make similar cruise in
April. both monarchs visiting Sicily
and Florence.
The first shipment through the Sa-
bine Canal, the last cut in which was
made by the government Saturday,
was of export lumber for England.
Congress has expended $3.50, 800 on
this canal. 1t is Is miles long. con-
Meeting the Sabine and Neches rivers.
Dredging began January II, 1906.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com.
pany has entered suit against the town
OF Herrin, ILL.,, for 100000, on the
grounds of interfering with traffic. A
Herrin police magistrate recently as.
sessed fine against the railroad for
shipping into the place beer and whis.
Ky after the city had become anti.
saloon.
Rose Planting Day Named.
Portland, Ore, Feb. 3.-Febrlary %
has been selected in Portland as sRose
Planting Day." Five thousand bushes
will be placed in the city's parks by
an act of the council, while at least
$4,000 more will be put out in the