The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-12-10
Minor Happenings
of the Week


! Pierpont Morgan has secured con-
troll of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company. the largest in the United
States.
voluntary increase of 10 per cent.
to 10000 men has been announced by
the Dunbar Furnace Company, operat-
ing coke ovens in the Connellsville,
Pa, district.
The announcement has been made
nv Judge R. H. Lovett, Harrimans sue
cessor, that Union Pacific trains will
probably be running to Puget Sound
January l.
The steamer Empress of China few
DAYS ago brought 116 barrels of eggs
from Shanghai to Victoria. This is
the first shipment of this kind to Amer
lea. Shanghai dealers hope to build
up trade in this product.
Rev. Ernest V. Shayler, nine years
pastor of Grace Episcopal church OF
Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, has an
nounced his acceptance of an offer to
become pastor of st. Marks Episcopal
church of Seattle, Wash.
T. w. Paterson, a prominent Victo-
ria railroad man connected with the
Victoria and Sidney railroad, has been
appointed lieutenant governor of Brit
ish Columbia to relieve Hon. James
Dunsmuir, who recently resigned.
It has been announced by the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railroad Com
pany that stockholders would be offer
ed the privilege of subs cription to the
new stock issue at par to the amount
of 25 per cent of their holdings. The
new issue of stock amounts to about
$25 100000
More than 1000 leases for the land
of Nez Perez Indians, near Lewiston,
Idaho, were closed during November,
and more than 100000 paid to the red
men by the white farmers who are
leasing and cultivating the land. In
some cases the rent is as high as $3.50
a year per acre for the best land.
Removal of Bird S. Coler from the
presidency of the borough of Brook
Ign is asked of Governor Hughes by
the commissioner of accounts in a
communication accompanying charges
against President Coler submitted to
the governor. Incompetency, malad-
ministration and misconduct in Office
and serious waste of the public funds
were the accusations in the report.
According to Los Angeles dispatch
Owens river water will be flowing
through the $50 miles of aqueduct to
Los Angeles by May 1, 1912, year
ahead of the scheduled time for COM
pletion. The great municipal water
supply project will be accomplished
for much less than the $23,O00,000 ex-
penditure authorized by the people two
years ago.
Hiram J. Slifer, until recently gen.
eral manager and assistant to the
president of the Panama railroad, has
been appointed general manager of the
Chicago Great Western railroad, eff
fective at once. The Great Western
has had no general manager since it's
reorganization under President S. M.
FELTON, on September l.
Estimating the total cost of the 18TH
milan canal when finally opened for
traffic at $5OO,OOO,OOO, Representative
Shirley, of Kentucky, chairman of the
subcommittee on Notifications of the
house committee on appropriations, de-
clared he would urge upon congress
the necessity for building Notifications
on both ends of the waterway while
other work was progressing on the
canal.
The combined resources of ali the
banks of the United States reach to-
tai of more than $21 ,O0O, 100000, or
about one-fifth of the entire wealth of
the country, according to the special
reports compiled for the use of the Ma
tional Monetary commission. This re.
port, comprising returns from 22,5OO
banks and trust companies, shows that
the actual cash held by these institu-
lions amounts to about 81, SOC, OOO, 900,
while their bond holdings are more
than $4,000, zoo, 900.