The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-02
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The Nevada legislature has passed a
direct primary law modelled after those
of Oregon and California.
Upon invitation of the country life
commission conference of governors
will be held at Spokane April Is.
President Taft has nominated Robert
T. Devlin to be United States attorney
for the Northern district of California
The first German academy OF avla-
ton has been founded at Munich under
the auspices of the Bavarian AutOmo-
bile Club.
The 2 cent postage rate recently
made effective between Great Britain
and the United States, has been extend
ed to Hawaii.
Charles Dewey Hilles, of Dobbs Fer
ry, N. Y, has been appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury to succeed
Beekman Winthrop.
Advices from Vienna state that Rus
STA has announced formally to Austria
her acceptance of Austrias annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina
New York tailors have decreed that
cloud" clothes for men must go. The
sOmber hues and high class goods will
be the only strictly proper" thing.
A large Oklahoma horse purchased
for the army is training at Fort Reno
for President Taft The animal will
be shipped to Washington in few
days.
Members of four national societies
of engineers have joined hands in IA
vor of conservation of national re-
sources They represent civil, mining
and electrical engineering.
The attorney general has asked Wade
present position of assistant to the at
torney general and Mr. Ellis has agreed
to do so.
The coal miners of Southern Alberta
and Southeastern British Columbia and
operators have reached a conclusion
and there will be no strike. The min
ers get higher wages and better hours.
A message has been resolved at Daw.
son announcing that Explorer Stefans-
son is fast in the ice foes at Flaxman
island and will be forced to remain
there for some time.
After scene of unprecedented en-
thusiasm, the German reichstag, with
out debate voted in favor of the entire
government naval estimate, which in
cludes the construction of three dread
naughts
Another attempt is to be made to OBJ
tain the approval of congress to the
transfer of jurisdiction over the Hetch-
Hetchy valley, in the Yosemite Ma
tional park, from the federal govern
ment to the city of San Francisco for
municipal water purposes.
Gov. Gillet's last message to the
Thirty-eighth California legislature
was the announcement that he had
picked the Wright primary bill out of
its place in the stack of measures on
his desk, and by affixing his signature
promptly to that act had made it a law.
The J. P. Morgan Company, the
First National Bank and the National
City Bank, who are acting as agents
for the Pacific Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company, have disposed of $16,-
500, 900 worth of bonds. sent them for
sale. The money accruing will be used
for extension of Pacific Coast system.
A revised list of landings on the
Missouri river, compiled from recent
government surveys, show that the dis
lance from the mouth to Fort Benton.
Mont, is 1888 miles. Government
surveys made in 1878 showed the length
OF the river at that time 3,112 miles
This indicates that the Missouri river
has shortened itself 829 miles.