The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-06-25
Minor Happenings
of the Week


President Taft has received at the
White House the new minister from
Switzerland, DR.. Paul Ritter.
Oscar Straus, recently appointed
American ambassador to Turkey, will
sail July for Constantinople.
Publishers of So Iowa daily news
naners meeting in Dfs Moines have
formed the association of Iowa Dallles.
An arbitration treaty between Brazil
and Cuba has been signed at Washing
ton. 1t follows the lines of the Hague
treaty.
Negotiations regarding the regula-
ton and administration of the Russian
railroad zone n Manchuria have begun
at Pekin.
The senate Friday voted down Sena-
tor Browns amendment, placing print
paper on the free list of the tariff bill,
30 to 81.
The report that the German naval
league has expressed desire for the
regular dispatch of German warships
to American ports is officially denied.
Ambassador Leishman has presented
his letters of recall to the Turkish
government. He will soon go to Rome
as American ambassador.
The porte has requested Great Bri
tain, France, Russia and Italy, the
protecting powers of the Island of
Crete, to reconsider their decision to
evacuate this territory July 81 next.
After two years spent in prison at
Eureka, Gal, John Hayes has been
acquitted by jury on charge of
completely inc the murder of two men
during a longshoremen' s strike in 1907.
In effort to check ALLEGED pecula
tions of conductors, the arrangements
of the Milwaukee and the Northwest
ern roads are preparing to place train
auditors throughout their systems.
Thomas Cader Powell has been con-
firmed as United States marshal at
Nome, and Peter D. Overfeld as fed
raj judge at Nome. This disposes Of
all the important Alaska appointmets.
The old oil and gas pipe line regula-
tions in Oklahoma have been amended
by Secretary Ballinger by eliminating
the common carrier and the sO-called
confiscatory clauses, at the request of
the OIL ana gas companies.
Real estate men in Des Moines Iowa
have organized an independent alb
stracting company. The company
will issue certificates to prospective
purchasers guaranteeing clear and un-
incumbered titles
According to he Illinois supreme
court man who keeps a saloon open
on Sunday is not a fit person to be a
citizen of the United States. For this
cause naturalization papers were re-
fused Lewis Harsky, of East St Louis
1t is reported that DR.. Jameson has
decided to retire from public life at
the Cape now that the union of South
Africa is at hand. DR.. Jameson will
in all probability live at Rhodesia,
representing the Chartered Company
there, after having paid a visit to
England.
Rev. Ulysses Grant Pierce, D. D. -,
pastor of All Souls Unitarian church
of Washington, has been designated
by senate resolution to act as chap
lain. Mr.. Pierce was pastor of the
church which the president attends,
and succeeds the late Rev. Edward
Everett Hale.
President Taft, after a conference
with John Mitchell, Samuel Gompers,
John Hays Hammond, Prof. j. w.
jerks and R. M. Easley, accepted an
invitation to address the national con-
ference at Washington in January to
aid uniform legislation by states on
pure food, child labor and other sub