The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-28
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

Count Tolstoi is seriously i'll in
st. Petersburg.
Louis Hill of the Great Northern is
touring California.
New Mexico has instructed it's dele
gates to vote for Taft.
If Miss Mary Elkins marries the
Duke of Abruzzi she will be made
royal highness.
The house has passed the .$150, 1863, ;
600 pension bill and recommended one
general pension agency.
Public Printer Charles S. Stillings
has rendered his resignation to the
president and it has been accepted.
The democratic state committee OF
New York is almost unanimous that
delegates to the national convention
be sent uninstructed.
The Alaska fish hatchery bill has
been amended so as to provide that
those who have operated hatcheries
for the past five years may receive
title for sites.
Bishop Charles Henry Fowler, pre-
siding officer of the Northern confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, died at New York Friday after
a long illness.
The Kentucky legislature has
passed an anti-poolroom law, which
provides heavy penalty for operating
a poolroom except as bookmaking on
the race courses during the race meet
ing.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that,
convinced that Russia's diplomats
have lost their nerve as a result OF
their country's recent troubles at
home and abroad, the car has de.
termined on a complete reorganiza-
tion of the service.
The directors of the Illinois Central
railroad have voted to authorize the
holding of a special meeting of stock
holders to vote on an increase of sc
per cent in the cOmpany's capital
stock. J. Ogden Armour was elected
a director to succeed Stuyvesant Fish
Various members of the appropria.
ton committee of the German reich.
stag have urged the government to
consent to the use of the war board
of $30,000,000 which is kept in the
Julius tower, at Spandau, for the cur.
rent necessities of the empire in pref
erence to keeping such a great sum
seQuestered while the country Dor.
rows and pays interest to meet it's
deficits.
D. w. Stevens, diplomatic adviser
10 Korea, is on the steamer Nippon on
his way to America.
The president has nominated James
Shoup to be United States marshal
for the first division of Alaska.
The city of Big Timber, Mont, has
been wiped out by fire. Three hun.
dred families are homeless. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
The student affairs committee at
Stanford University has forbidden the
acceptance of liquor advertisements
for college publications.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad Company has issued orders
for all its shops to employ their full
forces. The order affects 5000 men.
DR.. Chin Tao Chen, senior secretary
to the Chinese board of finance, has
come to this country to study the cur
rency question, and will later pursue
similar studies in Europe.
The Notifications bill, which was re-
ported to the house Monday, contains
an item of SITS, 900 for construction of
a torpedo planter for use on Puget
sound and in the vicinity of the Co
lumbia river.
In order that New York city may
buy the Steinway tunnel under the
East river, bills will be introduced in
the legislature allowing purchase of
railroads. The tunnel has been of.
fered for $7,243,sOO.
-Four New Jersey wardens seized in
the cold storage vaults of the Mer.
chants Refrigerating Company, jersey
City, thousands of plovers and grouse
owned by three New York firms. The
fine is $50 a bird, so that penalties
may aggregate $350,O00.
When R. S. Conley of Stapleton. s
l., collected his rents at A, 46 and a
South Prince street, Flushing, early
In December, 1906, he informed one
q his tenants that his only relative
brother, had died a month or go be-
fore and that he was himself a bach.
elor. That same month Cooley himsel,
died. Since then no person has an
peared to collect the rent and the ten.
ants have kept the property in repair
Aiverstone to Visit Seattle.
Victoria, B. c., March 24-Iawvers
mere nave been informed that Lord
Alverstone, the lord chief Justice Of
england, and number of other nota.
bles OF the English bench and bar as
Wen as a number of distinguished
eastern Canadian and American iur