The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-05-20
Minor Happenings
of the Week

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The Massachusetts legislature has
defeated a resolution to approve the
income tax amendment.
Chattanooga has been selected as
the 1911 meeting place Of railway
special agents and police.
T. Augustus Heinze was acquitted of
misapplieation of the funds OF the Mer-
camille National bank while he was
president, after trial of three weeks.
A Seward. Alaska. dispatch says the
Beatsen Bonanza copper mine on La
tcache island, has been sold to the
Gaggeaheims for S4,ooo,ooe one-foarth
IN cash.
The Chicago Telephone Company
says it has 215.ooo telephones in Chi
cage, and is adding new telephones at
the rate of $4,000 annually. connecting
with 5.ooo,oee outside telephones.
President Taft is quoted as favoring
two worlds fairs in 1915 to celebrate
the opening of the Panama canal, one
In San Francisco and the other on the
Atlantic coast.
Construction of the first steam rail-
road in Hawaii is authorized in a
bill reported favorably to the house
today by the territories comittee. The
road will be IS miles long.
Francis ]. Heney announces that he
will settle in New York city and build
up law practice. Report has it that
Gov. Hughes will appoint him special
investigator of legislative corruption
in the Empire State.
The general pension appropriation
bill passed by the senate carries $780,
100000, or $5,O0O,0O0 less than last
year The provision in the house bill
abolishing pension agencies was elimi-
mated by the senate.
At a meeting of Willamette Valley
fruit growers at Albany, Ore, recently.
a uniform label and pack were adopted
for Willamette Valley fruit. Apples
bearing this label will be inspected
before shipment.
The expulsion of Jews residing il
legally in Kiev, Russia, has been re
sumed. In some instances a delay
has been granted to permit a settle
ment of their affairs, but all of those
marked for expulsion must leave the
city before June IA.
According to New York dispatch
papers transferring the Senator Clark
copper properties to the Amalgamated
Copper Company will probably be
signed within day or two. The prop
critics consist of copper mines in Butte
and the Butte Reduction Works.
An amendment to the New York
state constitution which would permit
the election only of the governor and
lieutenant-governor and providing that
the governor shall appoint as a cabinet
the state officers now elected, has been
introduced by Senator Travis.
With the idea of cultivating more
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respondents and news agencies at st.
Petersburg, the Russian government
has established press bureau as a
department of the foreign Office
Ice has gone out of the Yukon river
at Dawson.
The reviewing officer of the Memoir
ial Day parade at New York May 80
will be President Taft In the parade
besides the Grand Army posts will be
regiments of regulars, sailors and mar
ines, National Guard organizations, Ma
val Militia, and semi-military and civic
societies.
The new 100000 power plant of the
British Columbia Street Railway, at
Vancouver, B. c., has been completed
and is now supplying the electric
power for the lighting of the city of
Vancouver and the street railway sys-
tenn and the interurban roads connect
ing with Westminster.