The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-08
Minor Happenings
of the Week

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Gov. Bert M. Fernald and State Audi
tor Charles P. Hatch, both by accla-
nation.
Senator John w. Daniel of Virginia
died suddenly Wednesday last. He
had been in poor health for some
time
The freshman Yale crew defeated
the Harvard freshmen four-oared crew
in their mile row. Time, 5:37h. Har-
wards time was 5:39.
Theodore Roosevelt will be the
guest of the Milwaukee Press Club
September Z, the occasion being the
celebration of the clubs silver jubi-
lee.
A new division will be created in
the general land Office July to pass
upon all contested government land
cases. William ]. Magee of Michigan
will be chief.
William T. Thompson of Nebraska
has been appointed solicitor of the
treasury to succeed Maurice d. O'Con-
nell, resigned. The appointment be-
comes effective October l.
All records were broken for Euro
pean travel in New York June 25,
when eleven great liners sailed with
5,O3S cabin passengers. Ninety per
cent were American tourists.
Gov. Sloan of Arizona has issued a
proclamation fixing September IL as
the date for the election of delegates
to the convention which will frame the
constitution of the new state of Ari-I
zona.
The Venezuelan congress has adj
journed. Among the more important
laws enacted were those giving great
er advantage to foreign mining inter-
ests and encouraging the construction
of artesian wells throughout the coun-
try.
A British Indian law court has de-
clared William Jennings Bryan's PAM
phlet on British rule in India to be a
seditious publication, and the posses
sion or sale of it has been made pun
ishable with II months Imprisonment
and $40 fine.
The insurgents in the Vermont Re-
publican convention were defeated by
a small margin when John A. Mead
was nominated for governor. Mead's
plurality was only three votes. The
convention demanded a non-partisan
tariff commission.
Secretary Nagle of the department
of commerce and labor will visit Sc
attic and Tacoma between July 15 and
20. He will afterward visit Alaska.
Joseph Laubner, F. R. Stewart and
Eve others, reported drowned during
a storm on Cook inlet, were found safe
at Point Possession.
The largest steamships in the world
are soon to be built by the Cunard
Steamship Company. Work will start
on the first one within few weeks.
The new liners will have $4,000 ton
mage, or $4,000 more than the White
Star steamers Olympic and Titanic,
and 10000 tons more than the Lusi-
tania and Mauritania
Harvard cleared up the Thames with
two decisive victories over Yale The
crimson freshmen eight-oared crew
beat the youngsters from New Haven
by three lengths, and the Harvard var
sity four bettered this performance a
little later by rowing away from Yale
in the last eighth mile of surprising
race and finishing four lengths in the
lead.
Asher c. Kinds, parliamentarian OF
the house of representatives, has been
nominated for congress from the First
Maine district, defeating Colonel Fred
Hale, son of Senator Eugene Hale.
Three million dollars in gold dust
has been received by the Fairbanks
banks since the season opened, six
weeks ago. More than $1,000,O00 in
dust has already been shipped to Sc
attic.