The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-01
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

Prohibition is live issue in Texas
this year.
Hawaiians plan the formation OF a
naval reserve force.
Right Rev. David H. Greer, of New
York, has been appointed to succeed
Bishop Potter, deceased.
President Roosevelt has returned to
Oyster Bay after delivering his adj
dress before the naval school at New
port
The German car in the New York to
Paris race has arrived at Eytdkuhnen,
East Prussia, $50 miles ahead of the
Thomas car.
Exasperated over the poor telephone
service. Mayor w. H. Keary, of New
Westminster, has ordered phones out
of all city offices.
Admiral Rojestvensky denies that he
is dead. A dispatch has been received
to that effect in Berlin. 1t was another
Rojestvensky who died.
Eight cadets in the United States
military academy at West Point have
been sent to their homes as a result
of hazing members of the fourth class.
Seth Bullock, the famous frontier
peace officer, now located at Colorado
Springs, Col, will accompany Presi-
dent Roosevelt on his African trip next
year.
Dispatches received at the office of
the Japanese minister of communica-
tons state that general strike among
all the employees of the Manchurian
railway is threatened. A recent reduc-
ton in wages is said to be responsible.
The Atlantic fleet reached Honolulu
Friday.
Rain has checked serious forest
fires in Maine.
The new battleship Montana has
been accepted by the navy department.
Captain Alfred Reynolds is in charge.
The new Ohio initiative and refer
The business portion and several
residences at Cottonwood, Idaho, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss esti-
mated at 100000; insurance 100000.
endum law has been to be cOnstitu-
tional by Judge Chapman in common
pleas court at Cleveland. The test
case will be carried to the state SUI
preme court for final decision.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, who
commanded the Inflated Russian fleet
which was annihilated by the Japan
csc in the Sea of Japan in May, 1905,
is dead The affection resulted from
injuries received by the admiral in
the battle of the Sea of Japan.
Canadian Pacific shop employees
have gained decided victory, though
not all the points contended for, in
the decision of the Cancellation board
which has been investigating matters
in dispute. The principal point gained
is nine-hour day, with no reduction
in wages.
Checks aggregating $4,000 have
been sent to Vancouver, B. c., from
Ottawa in payment of the Chinese
claims as settled by Mackenzie King,
the commissioner who inquired into
the damage done by rioters in the
anti Oriental demonstrations of last
September.
The Chinese government has decid-
ed to appoint Tang Shao vi, governor
of Mukden province and former presi-
dent of the board of foreign affairs,
as high commissioner to visit Wash
ington for the purpose of thanking the
United States government for remit
ting portion of what is known as the
Chinese Boxer indemnity.
President Samuel Gompers, Secre-
tary Morrison and John Mitchell, of
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, have been cited
to answer at Washington September 8
next to a charge of contempt in VIC
lating court Injunction forbidding
them from continuing q boycott
against the Buck Stove and Range
Company.