The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-15
Minor Happenings
Of the Week

"Pay-as-you-enter" street cars are to
be given a trial at Portland.
w. S. Cowherd has won the nomina-
ton for governor of Missouri on the
democratic ticket.
The Knights of Columbus selected
Mobile, Ala, as the next national con-
vention city of the order.
Formal notifications of the new
trademark and copyright treaty be-
tween the Japanese government and
the United States have been ex-
changed.
A determined effort is being made
to stamp out betting within ball parks
of the American League. President
Ban Johnson says he will use every
means to check the growing evil.
It is reported in Philadelphia ship
ping circles that the Hamburg-Ameri-
can, the Holland-American and COsmo-
regular service between Philadelphia
and European ports, have been ANAL
gamated.
A special dispatch received at St.
Petersburg from Teheran says the
shah of Persia obtained loan of $780,
900 from the Russian bank, having de-
posted the crown jewels as security.
This money will be used in fitting out
an expedition against Tabriz.
In a statement Governor Hughes an
nounces there is no foundation for the
reports that he might run as an indie
pendent candidate for governor in case
he is not renominated by the repub-
lican state convention, which is to be
held next month at Saratoga.
George A. Pettibone, for years prom
inent in the councils of the Western
Federation of Miners, and charged
with completely in the murder of for
mer Governor Steunenberg of Idaho,
died at Denver last week from the eff
fects of an operation for cancer.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stewart, the not
ed temperance advocate, known all
over the country as Mother Stewart,
died at her home in Hicksville, Ohio,
Friday, aged 80 years. Mrs. Stewart
established the first Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union in Ohio in
1873 and in 1876 she organized the w.
C. T. U. in England.
In the case of the state against J..
P. Bass Publishing Company, publish
ers of the Daily Commercial at Ban
gor, Me-, Chief Justice Emery, of the
Maine supreme court, has handed down
a rescript which affirms the consti-
tutionality of the Maine statute pro-
hibiting the advertising of intoxicat-
ing liquors in Maine publications.
The federal deficit for the month
of July was $24,86S,O00.
The cruiser Milwaukee sailed from
Honolulu for Honduras Saturday.
The Pythian Sisters are holding
their annual convention in Boston this
week.
Richard V. Oulahan is to have
charge of the literary work of the
republican campaign.
Bird S. Coler has announced his
candidacy for governor Of New York
on the democratic ticket.
Four hundred thousand young trout
have been placed in the Clearwater
and tributary streams from the Idaho
state hatchery.
James c. Boynton of the interior
department at Washington has been
appointed to assist in securing ex-
hibits for the A.-Y.-P. Exposition.
Organized labor in Portland is max
ing preparations for the most sue
cessful Labor day celebration ever
held there. Five thousand men will
be in the line of march.
President Roosevelt has directed
the state department to instruct Am
bassador Leishman, at Constantine
pie, to convey to Sultan Abdul Hamid
II. his personal congratulations on the
re-establishment of the constitutional
government in Turkey.
Former State Senator R. A. Booth
OF Oregon; j. H. Booth, ex-reeciver of
the land office at Roseburg, Ore, and
Thomas E. Singleton have been &C
quilted of the charge of conspiracy
to defraud the government of public
lands.
Historians Meet in Berlin.
Berlin Aug 2-Tho infornat jonol