The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-12-31
Minor Happenings
of the Week


Vancouver plans the pavement of
thirty more blocks the coming year.
Portland will pave over a hundred
miles of streets the coming year.
The senate, before the holiday ad-
iournment. confirmed the nomination
of Robert Bacon, of New York, to be
ambassador to France.
William M. Ampt, attorney and
known as Citizen" Ampt, who died a
few days ago, bequeathed $15O,O00 to
the city of Cincinnati for concerts for
the people.
It is announced at Paris that over
100000 has already been subscribed
to fund of $1,O00,000 to be used for
prizes and expenses in great aviation
meet to be held in France next year.
Chairman Tawney, of the house ap-
propriations committee, gives it out
that the Panama canal will be COM
pleted January 1, 1915, at a cost of
$375,OOO,OO0.
The report that Herbert Gladstone,
secretary of state for home affairs,
would be appointed governor general
of United Southern Africa, has been
officially confirmed.
Counsel for the government and the
Standard Oil Company have agreed on
the date to be fixed for the hearing of
the appeal, which, it is said unofficial
ly, is for early in March.
United States Senator A. J. McLau-
rim died suddenly at his home in Bran
don, Miss. Death was due to an at
tack of heart disease and came with
out the slightest warning.
Union men throughout the United
States have been asked to contribute
10 cents each toward the $1,OOO,OOO
war fund being raised to oppose the
open shop policy of the United States
Steel Corporation.
The Indian cotton crop this year is
estimated at IS per cent. of normal.
The total amount is 100000 bales of
400 pounds each, giving an available
balance for export of 100000
pounds.
The battleship Utah, largest war
ship of her class ever built in the
United States, was launched by the
New York Shipbuilding Company at
Camden, N. j., Thursday. The sponsor
was Miss Mary Alice Spry, daughter
of the governor Of Utah.
The merger of the Utah Copper Com
pany and the Boston Consolidated Cop
per Company has been finally effect
ed, according to a statement issued by
Samuel Untermyer, representing the
two companies.
The exhibit of the agricultural
products of Tanana, Alaska, which has
been shown recently at New York by
Falcon Joslyn, has been sent by Mr.
Joslyn to Washington, and is to be in
stalled in the rooms of the house COM
mittee on territories.
The French Academy of Sciences
has announced that gold medals for
aeronaughtic achievements will be
awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright,
Bleriot, Firmin, Count De Lambert,
Latham, Santos Dumont, De La Vaulx,
Voisin and Count Zeppelin.
The British house of lords, the final
court of appeal in that country, has de.
cided that trades union may not
make compulsory levies upon it's mem.
bers to provide pay for it's parliamen.
tary representatives. In declaring such
levies illegal the second chamber sus
tains the decisions of the appeal court
handed down a year ago.
June is set as the time for the com
pletion of the Hartman road into the
Deschutes Galley in Central Oregon
Twohy Bros, general contractors fol-
that road, are authority for the date
1t is the general belief the Deschutes
railroad will be the first completed to
Redmond. The Oregon Central, the
Hill line, will not be far behind.