The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-09-16
Minor Happenings
of the Week

$3.50
An arbitration between France and
Argentina has been signed.
Portland is holding food and indus
trial exposition this week.
Twenty students of Stanford univer-
sity are dieting on dried fruits as
government experiment.
The Treadwell Gold Mining Co. an
nounces that it will build a concen-
trate plant at juneau.
Geo. Roberts, of Chicago, has been
appointed director of the mint to sue
coed A. Piatt Andrews, recently made
an assistant secretary of the treasury.
1t is reported the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad is to double track It's
line from Denver to Salt Lake City at
a cost of S12,000,000.
A call for the first meeting in two
months of President Taft's cabinet
has been sent out and the members
will report in Washington on Septem-
Der "a.
Francis J. Heney, at present prac-
ticing New York attorney, has taken
the stump against James A. Tawney,
candidate for congress in the first Min
nesota district.
At a meeting of the Astoria Motor
boat Club last week arrangements
were made to hold a race for the inter
national motorboat championship dur
ing the annual regatta at Astoria next
year.
Bonn, Germany, has been selected as
the next meeting place of the Interna-
tional Union for Cooperation in Solar
Research, which has closed it's confer
ence at Carnegie observatory on Mount
Wilson.
Twenty-one new members on the
faculty roll, four new buildings on the
campus and much equipment for the
laboratories and classrooms have been
added at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege at Corvallis.
The strike of Illinois coal miners,
which has lasted twenty-three weeks,
ended Thursday when a committee of
the Illinois Coal Operators Associa-
ton signed an agreement adopting
a ware scale outlined by tA~ ksoria
miners convention. s
BY vote larger than the combined
votes of her two male opponents, Mary
M. Archibald, widow supporting sew
eral small children, was nominated at
the primaries for treasurer of Ashland
county, Wisconsin. Her nomination is
equivalent to her election.
At Warren, Pa, the special grand
jury called to investigate charges
against former Congressman Joseph c..
Sibley, and four co-defendants in con-
nection with Sibley's nomination as
the republican candidate for congress,
returned true bills against each of the
defendants.
More diamonds and other precious
stones and luxuries came into the
OulL0u 0CdIcS QuTluS August tudu III
any similar period in the last three
years. Imports of precious stones for
the month amounted to $1,000,000 in
excess of August, 1909, and 100000
IN excess of the same month in 1908.
With the adoption of a joint
resolution urging congress to name San
Francisco as the site for the exposition
of 1915 which will commemorate the
opening of the Panama canal, the spec
ial session of the legislature called to
provide way for the raising of $10,-
100000 for the protest adjourned Fri.
day.
Joseph A. Holmes, formerly chief OF
the technologic branch of the geologi-
cal survey, has taken oath of Office as
director of the new bureau of mines.
The s2,O00,OOO power plant of the
.>orthern Light, Power & Coal Com.
pany at Dawson has been completed
and is now furnishing power for near.
by dredges.