The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-21
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

The Ohio senate passed the bill
abolishing capital punishment.
Ex-Governor Myron T. Herrick OF
Cleveland has announced that he is
not a candidate for United States SEN
ator to succeed Senator Foraker OF
Ohio.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has declared a quarterly dividend
of l IA per cent, payable in the stock.
This is the same action as was taken
on the preceding quarter.
The Bavarian government has or
dered the immediate expulsion of a
number of American Mormon mission
aries whose present is regarded as
being dangerous to public order.
General D'Amade, commander of the
French forces in Morocco, has received
letters from Mulai Hafid, the so-called
sultan of the South, and the leaders
of his army asking that hostilities be
suspended pending an arrangement
for peace.
Representative Scott of Kansas,
chairman of the house committee on
agriculture, has introduced a resolu-
ton providing for an investigation by
the government as to the causes OF
the fluctuations in the prices of wheat,
corn and other grains.
Members of fraternities and sorori-
ties commonly known as Greek letter
societies will not be allowed to attend
high schools in Chicago after the end
of the present year, according to a
ruling adopted by the Chicago board
of education. The vote was 16 to 3
in favor of the rule.
A favorable report has been ordered
by the house committee on lands of
the bill which makes available under
the Carey act additional lands within
the state of Idaho. The committee
amended the bill so that it provides
for two million acres of land instead
of one and includes the state of Wy
oming.
The third floors of sixteen of Mil
waukee's public schools have been
ordered vacated by Building Inspector
Edward v. Koch, because of the alb
sence of fire escapes.
Chief Justice Williams, of the Okla
hOma supreme court, has handed down
four opinions in which the question Of
jurisdiction between the state and fed
eral courts was settled in favor of the
state courts.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Com
pany has ordered work resumed on its
new plant at AliQuippa, which was
stopped last fall. The company re-
ports gratifying increase in orders
and the belief is that steady improve
ment will continue.
The United States troops that have
been in Goldfield for three months
evacuated camp Saturday and turned
the responsibility of maintaining peace
in the Goldfield district over to the
local police authorities and the Ne
vada state police.
Delegate Gale has introduced a bill
authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to grant leases of certain Alas
ka islands for term of five years to
those who desire to conduct fox farms
or other fur industries upon them. The
rental is left to the discretion of the
department.
Last week the CRANKY company of
Grand Forks, B. c., broke all previous
records for shipping ore in one week,
sending out more than $4,000 tons
from the Phoenix mines of the COM
pany. But this week that big total
is again put in the shade, with an out
put of 1868 tons of ore, or an aver
age per day of $3.50 tons.
When the supreme court of the In
dependent Order of Foresters meets
In Toronto in June it will ratify an
increase in rates and recalling of
charges to members dating to 1899
that will materially affect 100000
members of the order. Those who
cannot pay the increased rate will
have the face value of their policy
correspondence decreased.