The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-09-30
Minor Happenings
of the Week

Montreal is to have a winter carni-
val. but no ice palace, this year.
For first eight months of the calen-
dar year, trade balance against the
United States was $1,000,O00.
Uruguay is planning to spend $13.-
Ouu,O0O in Improvements and extern
sions of port works in the harbor of
Montevideo.
John B. Ryan, son of Thomas F.
Ryan, the multi-mlllionaire, has offered
to equip a fleet of airships for the
government.
Gen. Samuel C. Lawrence, of Med
ford, Mass, holding the highest office
in Free Masonry in the world, has re-
signed. No reason is assigned
At a meeting of the Canadian cabi-
net recently it was decided that
Thanksgiving day should be celebrated
this fall on Monday, October 81.
George E. Roberts, the newly ap-
pointed director of the mint, says bank
ing situation in the West is much i'm
proved and no cause for anxiety exists
on that score.
new counterfeit $40 note is at
large. 1t is poorly executed and is
drawn on the Home National Bank of
Staunton, Tex, series OF 19O2-l9OS,
check letter D.
Another death blow aimed at the
hobble skirt has been dealt. Women
wearing ,nese fashions will not be per-
mitted to attend services in the RO-
man Catholic churches in Paris.
The great feat of crossing the snow
capped Alpine barrier between Swift
zerland and Italy in a heavier-than-air
machine, was last week accomplished
by Georges Chavez, the young Peru
Wan aviator.
The final returns of the elections for
members of the new parliament of the
Union of South Africa show that the
house will be composed of 67 Nation
alists (native whites), 81 UniOnists
(British), Laborites and Ii Indepen-
dents.
Four new exchanges admitted into
the National Association of Live Stock
Exchanges in the last year were re-
ported at the twenty-second annual
convention of the association at East
st. Louis. The new members are
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Portland, Ore,
and Jersey City.
Shareholders of Standard Oil Com
penny received $6.O0O,0O0 in dividends
last week The next dividend will
up to s4O,OOO,OOO, of which John D.
Rockefeller, as holder of about %
per cent of the stock, will receive $10,-
100000.
A carload of luscious peaches,
grapes, oranges and other varieties of
fruit for which California is famous
was distributed free to all corners Fri
day as a feature of the celebration of
California Day at the Ohio Valley Ex-
position at Cincinnati.
The population of Baltimore is $685.
4S5, making Cleveland the sixth and
Baltimore the seventh largest cities in
the United States, according to bull
letin issued by the census bureau to-
day. Baltimore's gain is 49,528, an in
crease of 81 per cent since 1900.
Rumor has again been revived that
Grand Trunk will purchase Chicago
Great Western. Grand Trunk directors
have already authorized the purchase,
so the story goes, if satisfactory terms
can be arranged, and President Hayes
and President FELTON, have been hold
ing conferences on the matter.
President McAdoo of the Hudson &
Manhattan Railroad Company, has pro-
posed to the public service commits
sion to build within two years tunnel
from the new Pennsylvania terminal to
the Hudson terminal station at Dey
street. The proposed line would be
constructed on city credit and the city
would participate in the net earnings.