The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1891-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.
The Iadiana Senate has passed a
sMnsping measure against trusts.

The Iadiana Senate has passed a
.sw.sping measure against trusts.
AShistory of Sitting Bull ard the re-
cent Indian war is already on sale.
Chicagoans have put $227 800 into 49,
600 acres of GeOrgia's timber land.
The Philadelphia harbor improvement
receives $30O,0 900 in the sundry civil BILL
Brazil levies an export tax of 81 per
cent. upon rubber shipped to the United
States.
The Behring Sea negotiations accord
ing to ondon reports promise favorable
conclusion.
The outgoing Treasurer of Texas has
handled S90,00O,00J of public money
without a mistake.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
decided as valid the law fixing railroad
fare at 2 cents mile.
Jay Gould has been offered an oppor-
tunitv to buy the Baltimore and Ohio,
Baltim re financier saws.
--Erance has practically accepted Presi-
dent Harrison's invitation to exhibit at
the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Prominent business men of the coun
try say tie Brazi}ia'i ''4'iy will stlmu-
late American manufactures.
A Nebraska judy decides that mort
cages given on United States claims be-
fore filing final apers are valid.
A large BODY of crvolite is reported as
having been discovered near Cheyenne
Mountain adjacent to Colorado City, Col.
Alabama is enacting law that will
give the generous sum If $12, 900 dnnu-
ally to ex-Confederate veterans and their
widows.
Railroads III Nebraska refuse to longer
carry Supplies free to the drought suffer
ers, owing to hostile legislation III the
Legislature.
The Worlds Fair people talk of pro-
viding movable sidewalks through the
buildings to save visitors the labor of
waking aroma.
The government will sue several large
lumber firms for timber depredatiOns in
the Rainy Lake and River country #
North Minnesota.
To mine for precious ores in Alaska
the Silver Queen Mining Company has
been organized at Hartford, Wis, with
81 ,360, 900 capital stock.
The gold excitement at Florisant, Col,
is diving out. An analysis shows the
metal to be copper, with about 90 cents
worth of gold to the ton.
Molly Magnetism has appeared slightly
again in the Pennsylvania mining dis
tricts. and an active and untiring vigil
lance committee is demanded.
A bill has been introduced in the Mich
igan Legislature which prohibits private
banks from being designated as banks at
ALL They are to be known as brokers.
Twenty five million doll rs worth of
property will be sold in New York in
March for unpaid taxes and assessments
running back over a quarter of CEN
tury.
The Alliance legislators of Kansas will
pass their bill to tax bonds and mort
cages. by which all mortgages must be
assessed at their actual value and so
stamped when assessed.
Nea foundland's Governor announces
that negotiations for reciprocal relations
with the United States have been con-
cluded and on Y await the Endorsement
of the British government.
The people of Richmond, Va, are
making an earnest effort to secure the
removal of the remains of Jefferson Da-
Wis to that city, proposing to erect above
h 5 grave grand monument.
The Minnesota Senate has passed by a
vote of 40 to Z bill prohibiting prize
fighting, sparring matches and fistic con-
tests of every nature. 1t also makes it
Ion, fny 70
fish challenges.
The government proposes to buy that
portion of the Navajo reservation which
the miners claim contains valuable min
erals Miners in Arizona and New Mex
leo claim that wonderful mineral deposits
exist within the reservation, and have
long tried to secure a foothold there.
The Sub-Judiciary Committee has
found Judge Alex Boorman of the West
ern District of Louisiana guilty of one of
the charges preferred against him by
Congressman Boatner, relating to his
personal use of moneys paid into the
registry office of h s court. Boorman
will probably be impeached.
The only change made by the Senate
Committee on appropriations in the dip
lomatic and consular appropriation bill
was the division of the Central Ameri-
can mission into two missions, with sal
aries of $4,000 for each Minister and an
increase OF the Mexican mission from the
second to the first grade.
4 move is being made for Congress to
purchase the Townsend library of ma
tional records. These records are gath
erings from newspapers, magazine and
other periodicals and from official docu-
ments of all sorts all the obtainable facts
or statements bearing directly or indi-
rectly on the various phases OF the strug-
gle for the Union.
The House Committee on Foreign At
fairs has agreed, though not unanimous
", to report to the House with some