The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-06-04
Minor Happenings
of the Week

The president has sent to the senate
the nomination of Capt. Herbert WINS
low. of the navy, to be a real admiral.
Several amendments looking to the
independence of the Philippines, intro
duced bv Democrats in the house have
been voted down.
Gov. Hughes has signed the bill in
creasing the penalty for extoratlon or
blackmail in the state OF New YORK
from five to fifteen years.
The Wisconsin assembly has concur
red in the bill fixing the penalty for
KIDNAPPING at life imprisonment. The
bill now goes to the governor.
The government has decided to ex-
tend the installation Of submarine sig
nal bells to light vessels and stations
on both coasts and the great lakes.
The contract for the construction OF
the superstructure of the assay office
at New York has been awarded to the
Cramp company of Philadelphia at
$l64, OO0.
President Alcorta of the Argentine
Republic has sent to the chamber of
deputies a project for the irrigation OF
immense tracts of land throughout the
republic.
President Taft has issued an execu-
tive order directing that when national
holidays fall on Sunday, all govern
ment employees entitled to a holiday
should be granted leave on the Mon
day following.
That senators should address one
another in the third person, as ''the
senator from so-and-sO," and not de-
scend to personal pronouns, has been
called to the attention Of the senate by
Vice President Sherman.
Edward I. Nathan, American consul
at Mersina, has returned to that place
and reports that the military are now
controlling Adana and that confidence
is gradually being restored.
Owing to the continued high price Of
wheat, all of the smaller flour mills in
Western Canada shut down last week
and the larger mills at Winnipeg have
decided to run on short time. In On
tario nearly all mills have closed.
1t is reported at Philadelphia that
a contract for 1O5 locomotives has
been placed with the Baldwin Loco
motive works by the Hartman lines.
This is the largest order placed with
the locomotive firm since the panic of
1907.
Give and Bill Newman, holdup
men, were last week at Greenwood, B.
c., sentenced to twenty years in the
p~enitentiary for having held up and
robbed the Great Northern railway
agent at Brideville, B. c., last Decem-
Der.
A resolution calling upon the attor.
ney general to inform congress whether
any steps have been taken to nullify
the consolidation Of the Tennessee Coal
& Iron Company with the United
States Steel Corporation has been
adopted in the house.
In a report on the results of rifle
and pistol firing, excluding the part
in the Philippines, for the target year
of 1908. the department of California
leads with 79.47 as figure of merit;
department of the Colorado second
with 78. SO and department of the
Lakes third with 70. 81.
The United States appellate court,
sitting at San Francisco, has refused
John A. Benson q new hearing of the
case in which he was jointly convicted
with DR.. E. B. Perrin of conspiring to
secure s~ubornation of perjury in con
nection with California timber lands.
Benson aud Perrin were sentenced to
serve a year in prison and to pay q fine
IF a O00 ooch