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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
LAST MOVE OF JAPAN
Troops Said to Have Landed
at Possiet Bay.
CONJECTURES AS TO THE REASON
The Japanese May be Preparing to Re-
sist Possible Advance Of the Rus
slams Into Corea-Anti- Foreign Feel
ing in Tien Tsin.


sist a Possible Advance of the Rus
slams Into Corea-Anti-Foreign Feel
ing in Tien Tsin.
TEN TsIN, October SIT is officially
announced 5000 Japanese troops have
arrived close to Possiet Bay near the
Russian frontier. 1t was reported here
that Japanese feet had been sighted
September 20 ten miles south from Shan
Hal Kwan, 200 miles from Picking. Large
bodies of Chinese troops have been
drafted to that district the last few days
to prevent the Japanese landing.
OFFICIALS ARE PUZZLED.
WASHINGTON, October 3. Officials
here, who have been closely watching
the progress of the war in the East, are
puzzled to account for the landing of
5000 Japanese troops at Possiet Bay, as
announced officially from Tien Tsin.
This bay lies directly on the eastern
boundary between Corea and the Rus
sian maritime provinces. It is not be-
lieved any Chinese troops are in the
neighborhood, as the country is too rug
ged and barren to warrant the plan of
marching the troops overland clear across
Corea to join the army marching on
Moukden, and it is considered conceiv-
able that the Japanese are preparing to
resist a possible advance by the Russian
troops from the north into Corea.
PURPOSE OF THE MOVEMENT.
The purpose of the movement reported
from Tien Tsin of the accommodating by
the Japanese feet off the Chinese coast
near Shan Hal Kwan is more reasonable
and apparent. Shan Hal Kwan lies on
the boundary between the Chinese prov
inces of Manchuria and Chi Ii at the
eastern end of the great wall which ira
verses China. It is directly on the rail-
road building from Tien Tsin to Monk
den, and as the line is already in opera
ton between it and Tien Tsin, the town
is place of great strategic advantage.
Should the Japanese effect its capture
and land an army, there would be moth
ing in the way of a rapid advance on
Peking, the capital, and unless the Chi
nese resistance is more formidable than
it has been SO far, the march could be
made in week or ten days.
FEAR FOR PEKING.
SHANGHAI, October 3.-The anti-for-
eign feeling at Picking is increasing hour
ly, and the authorities find it difficult to
repress outbreaks of the Chinese popu-
lation. Leading Chinese representatives
at Peking fear that, if the Japanese
march upon Picking, the capital will be
captured, as the Chinese soldiers gath
cred to defend it are dissatisfied and I'M
reliable. 1t is reported Ii Hung Chang
has received orders not to proceed to
Corea.
ANTI-FOREIGN FEELING.
LONDON, October "a Shanghai cor
respondent of the Central News tele-
graphs: There is no sign in Tien Tsin
that Ii Hung Changes power is waning.
His audiences are we'll attended, and he
has several thousand well-armed troops,
who protect Europeans. Much anxiety
is felt by foreign residents. as the popu-
lace is behaving insolently and becoming
unusually threatening. The removal OF
the treasure and archives from Moukden
made bad impression.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
BLOOD OF WOUNDS.

British Naval Omcer's Account Of the
Horrors of Modern War.
LONDON, October "A British naval
officer attached to the Chinese naval
squadron which was engaged in the fight
off the mouth of Yalu river has written
a letter to the Graphic, which is pub
lished in that paper to-day. In this let
ter the writer gives additional details OF
the fighting, and says:
"On board the warship Chen Yuen
the fighting was awful. The decks and
the space around the guns were strewn
with human fragments. Three OF the
five men working four-ton gun were
blown up by a shell from the Japanese
warship Naniwa Kan. The fourth gun
ner was shot while trying to escape from
the turret, and the fifth stuck to bis
post. This man fred three rounds at
the Naniwa Kan, one shell entering the
engine-room of the Japanese ship and
another smashing her forward bridge.
The Naniwa Kan then hauled off. The
Chinese Admiral rewarded the surviving
gunner with present OF LOCO taels. A
shell glanced from the steel deck OF the
Chen Yuen and went through her tower,
SCATTERING everything within: A Lieu
tenant, who was in the act OF speaking
through the tube leading to the engine
room, was blown into atoms, and his
head was left hanging to the speaking
pipes. Huge fragments of armor and
the teak backing thereof were driven
inboard by the shot, crushing q large
number of sailors into shapeless mass.
A European engineer, who was in the
act of cropping about in an endeavor to
repair steam pipe, was drenched from
head to foot with the blood of an assist
ant, who was disemboweled while stand
ing by his side by shot from the enc
my's ship. The Chen Yuen arrived at
Wei Hal Wei the day after the fight in
the same condition in which she left the
battle. No attempt had been made to
wash the blood from her or to remove
the corpses which strewed her decks"
The writer expresses the opinion that,
if the European rulers could have seen
the decks of the Chen Yuen, they would
have foresworn war henceforth and for
ever.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
Letter Carriers Inspection.

WASHINGTON, October 3.-Acting Post
master-General Jones sent letter to
Postmaster Hessing at Chicago to-day
concerning the inspection of letter car
riers in that city next Sunday. He says
that, owing to the work OF the carriers
and the interruption to business, an in
spection on a week day is impracticable,
but says that, as they must under the
law be inspected, such inspection should
be brief and entail as little labor on the
carriers as possible. Mr.. Hessing is dl-
rected to have the inspection take place
at the postoffice and the several stations
without parades or unnecessary demon
STATIONS.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
subject Debated in the Hungarfa
Upper House,.

subject Debated in the Hungarian
Upper House.
fEsTH, October 6.-The Hunga-
49, 49, upper House to-day opened the de-
ta ~'g On bill granting liberty of worship
s ii al Ssects, In the course of the discus
Trs n Oardinal schlauch, Archbishop of
shon nsy wanna, declared the bill, if it
and O ~ become law, would ruin society
and t yne state. The Servian Patriarch
ons vne houmanian and orthodox Bish-
S sster Czaky and the Calvinist Bishop.
ngtasz, warmly supported the nroposed
Niu;ma, which was introduced by the
EI astaster OF Public Education. Baron
n n}SoeVoes declared that the bill was
was tPo oeu by true sense of liberty and
The tIG outcome of the spirit of the age.
S oeoate was adjourned.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
UNDER THE NEW LAW
First Months Receipts of the
Treasury Department.
1T WAS LESS THAN LAST YEAR

But 1t 10 Estimated, However, That for
the Fiscal Year There Will be .
Surplus of Between Fifty and Sixty
Million Dollars.
WASHINGTON, October 2. The first
months receipts of the Treasury Depart
ment, namely for the month of Septem-
Der, under the operation of the new tar
if law were made public yesterday.
The aggregate receipts for the month
were $22, 621 ,288, as compared with $24,-
5S2,75S for September, 1893. As COM
pared with August, 1894, when the re-
ceipts from internal revenue assumed
abnormal proportions because of the
large Withdrawals of whisky in antici-
patton of the increased tax of 20 cents
per gallon, there is in round figures q
decrease of $4,000, 900. According to
the estimates upon which the new tariff
bill was based it was to produce, xclu-
sive of postal revenue, from sugar $43,-
OOO, 900 year, and from the income tax
placed at minimum figure SIS, 0OO, 900
per year. No revenue from either of
those sources is shown in the current re-
ceipts of the month of September, for
the reason that the income tax does not
become operative until January l, 1895,
and three or four months supply of sug-
ar was imported prior to the new law
in anticipation of the ad valorem tax
placed upon it. Upon the basis of the
estimates submitted, and upon which
the tariff bill was framed, the revenue
from the two principal sources-customs
and internal revenue-each was put
down at $179, ZOO, 900 per year. For the
the three months of the present fiscal
year the receipts have been Sol, 848, ia,
against $40 ,379, All for the corresponding
months of 1893. OF the receipts for the
current fiscal year to date, $50, 797, 243
have been from customs or at the rate of
$40, 00O,O 900 a year, and from internal
revenue $58, 44,916 or at the rate of
$232, OOO,O0 a year. These two items
alone show an excess of the total esti-
mate of 1870, 000, 900, upon which the
tariff bill was based, leaving the mis-
cellaneous revenue of $40, 1000, 900 as a
surplus. From present indications, when
revenue from sugar and the income tax
begin to be received and customs and in
ternal revenue receipts assume their
normal conditions, as they are now
gradually doing, a surplus of between
$50. OOO, 900 and $50, 600. 900. at the pres
ent ratio existing between the receipts
and expenditures, is indicated. Even
as the situation is now shown for the cur
rent year to date the expenditures ex-
coed the receipts less than s., 0O0, 900.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
Oue.ttons for Diplomacy.

LONDON, October 3.-The Standard
correspondent at Paris says: The Poll
tique Coloniale, rejecting the views OF
the Minister of the Colonies, gives, ex-
elusive of the questions of Egypt and
Madagascar, list of eleven outstanding
difficulties between France and England
connected with frontier and similar dis
uutes in various African colonies. Many
Of these have practically been settled,
and none of them would justify rup-
tIre. unless one country was bent upon
picking q quarrel with the other, which,
the paper says, 10 not the case.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
r..,. Rohherx Prevented.

ST.. JOSEPH, No., October 3.-Lee
Zones and oscar faced Charley Frizzle
we're arrested here to-day, charged with
oonsn;racy to rob the Chicago. Rock ISL
ond and Pacific train. They were be-
Sraved by one of their own band. A
masL aco il was planned to rob west
, W. Rock island train and blow it up,
4 necessary. This was postponed ana
T. n;ght finally abandoned, the would
i he robbers learning that the police Wers
after them.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
r.w York,s New Contributes.

ALBANY, N. T., October 1.-The Con-
stitutional Convention has adopted the
new constitution - reported from tho
committee Of the whole by vote Of g
to As. two Republican members voting
With the minority. Il was first decided
10 admit the canal article and the APP
portionment article separately and The
reat az tho document g whoae.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11

New York, October 2.-The power and
mining department of the General Elec-
trio Company has just closed contract
with the Sacramento Electric Light and
Power Company that calls for the trans
mission by electricity from . water
power at Folsom, CAL, of several thou
sand electrical horse power to the city OF
Sacramento to supply light, heat, power,
etc, to an extent that will practically
supersede all the present steam plants
now in operation. This will make the
longest transmission by electricity OF
power in large amounts installed in the
world.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11

SAN Francisco, October Mrs. Ethel
Stockwell, better known as Ethel Bran
don, the actress, was awarded divorce
from L. R. Stockwell in the Superior
Court to-day on the ground Of extreme
cruelty.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
May Remain Open Sundays.

SAN Francisco, October 4.-The sa-
looms of San Jose may hereafter remain
open Sundays. The State Supreme Court
rendered decision to-day in the case Of
the People VS.. Scherrer, declaring that q
county law passed by the Board of Su-
pervisors cannot affect the city of San
JCco
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
Composition in Beer.

SAN Francisco, October 3.-Wlthln
the past two months two plants have
been established in this city for botthng
Eastern beer, and the brewers OF Mil
yankee and st. Louis are endeavorlng
To compete with the local brewers by
sunnIying bottled beer to families, ho-
sals and restaurants at the same price
n rsls dozen as that charged for local beer.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
Am italian Society.

PARIS, October Eight anarchists
were arrested at Marseilles to-day on .
charge of plotting the murder of 6ignor
Durando. the italian Consul, and an at
TEMPT to blow up the Italian consulate.
Letters found in the lodgings of the pris-
oners showed that they were connected
With an italian brotherhood, having
ramiacations in London, Trieste, 0enoa
and other European sentors.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
The Anarchists Active.

LONDON, October IA dispatch to the
Chronicle from Vienna says that an 1tal-
ian anarchist has been arrested at Cairo,
charged with an attempt to murder the
Khedive. It is alleged that he went
from Italy to Cairo for that purpose, and
that the italian police authorities warned
the Italian Consul at Cairo OF his COM
ING. A dagger was found in the posses
sion of the man when he was arrested.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11

,aaado- ------------------ ---------------
Assistant Commissioner Armstrong,
who for all practical purposes is the
Commissioner during this administra-
ton, says that the commission which is
now at work on the Puyallup reservation
Is doing good work in his opinion. He
was there not long ago and looked the
field over. He says that when the COM
mission reports its action will be unop-
posed and the lands will be sold. The
first report will relate almost entirely to
the lands held in common by the Indians
and not to those held in severalty. Gem
eral Armstrong says that after these
common lands are disposed OF, the com,
mission will take up the individual
lands, which the Indians desire to sell,
and they will be sold under the direction
of the government. Asked If anything
whatever would be done with the con-
tracts, General Armstrong replied:
"Nothing. They are invalid. Every.
body knows they are of no account. II
they are tested in the courts, it will make
no difference. When the court dismissed
the Injunction against the commission.
that settled the contracts. They will
have no standing in court. Why would
these fellows be trying to secure leglsla-
ton to legalize them If they did not
know they were worthless without such
legislation?"
It will be seen that the Indian Office
lie dead set against the men with the
contracts.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-11
THEPUYALLUP MIDDLE
No Settlement Except in the
Manner Now Employed.
INDIAN BUREAU Is DETERMINED
It 10 Said That It's Omcsrs Want the
Contracts Made With the Indians
n~3

It 10 Said That It's Omcsrs Want the
Contracts Made With the Indians
Ruled Out ~ Invalid-Ths Commis-
sion Doing Good Work.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-Notwith-
standing the hard fight made by Repre-
sentative Doolittle and other members
of the Washington delegation, the prob
abilities are that there will be no settle
ment of the Puyallup Indian reserva-
ton middle and sale of the lands except
in the manner which is now being en-
ployed. The great fight which has been
made to have something done which will
give the men who made contracts with
the Indians an opportunity to test their
validity will probably fail. From the
very first there has been . disposition
on the part of the Indian Office to have
these contracts ruled out as invalid and
make the men who made the contracts
with the Indians lose what they have
paid them. This disposition originated
with Agent Eells, who has for 80 many
years been agent for the Puyallups, and
permeatee the entire Indian office. The
contracts were probably made in opposi-
ton to the wishes of Mr.. Eells, and he
intends, if he can, to make the contract
ors lose. Ever since Washington was
admitted the delegation in Congress has
been trying to have the lands opened
under some regulations that will give
the contractors an opportunity to get the
lands or their money back, but it has
always been q failure. The nearest q
bill of that kind came to passing was in
the Fifty-frst Congress, when Repre-
sentative Wilson slipped through in .
right-of-way bill clause which would
have settled the whole affair. Cockrell
of Missouri caught it up in the Senate
and made q tremendous buster, and
Allen and Squire, who were not as famil-
lar with Senatorial ways as they have
since become, allowed the clause to be
stricken out, something that would not
happen again. Now the difficulty is in
getting something through the House.
In the last session of Congress Doolittle
tried the House and Squire the Senate,
but the more that has been done the
more opposition is found. This oppose
ton comes from the Indian bureau,
which is very much opposed to the set
Element of the Puyallup lands on any
other basis except to eschew all contracts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
HEIR TO A BIG ESTATE.
Mrs. George P. Brown May Get a Slice
of English Property.

Mrs. George p. Brown, of Irvington, has
recently returned from Cincinnati. where
she was called by the sudden death of her
father. John r. G. Bears. Mr.. Bears dis
covered but a short time before his death
that he was entitled TO considerable prop
erty in England. AT his advanced years the
excitement and strain involved in contesting
his claim was too great a tax on his
strength, already impaired by heart trouble.
Four children survive Mr.. Bears, one of
whom is Mrs. Brown, of %Irvington. Upon
Investigation the estate in England, it is
claimed, proves to be valued at several mil
lion dollars. The suit is being conducted by
barrister Jenkins, of Halifax, N. S., who
not long since visited Mr.. Bears and Sc
cured his deposition personally. The con-
tested property formerly belonged to the
late Frederick Bridgeson Windsor, of Lam
cashire, England, of whom John Bears was
a direct descendant. If the Bears heirs do
not win the suit, which, however, in all
probability they will gain, the property goes
to an English charitable institution.
The story of Mr.. Bears'S life as told by
teresting one. Born in Halifax, N. $, he
set out TO seek his fortune at the age of
twelve. In company with four other boys
he embarked for the United States, and
after many experiences, at the age of twen-
w settled in Cincinnati. In this manner
family ties were broken, and 1t was not I'M
til a few months before his death that Mr..
Bears was aware that If possessed Of his
due he was a millionaire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
MUTINY IN THE ARMY.
A Truly Alarming Case from the Mil
itary Station at ElwOOd.

Word comes from Elwood that three lead
ing members of the Elwood guards are to
be courtmartialed because OF insubordina-
ton. The affair is said to be the culmina-
ton OF previous MISUNDERSTANDING and
threatens a disruption OF the company. The
wrangle. it appears. resulted in a refusal
TO obey orders OF the three members ABOVE
referred to, who are to be made an ex-
ample of. Capt. w. +. Van Arsdal was re-
ported as coming here yesterday 10 see
General Mckee or Colonel Ross, but these
officers say he has not yet put in an ap-
pearance. and disclaim any knowledge OF
the reported trouble. Nothing is known OF
II at the Adjutant-generaTs office. 1t may
reach the proper military authorities early
this week.
Adam r. Wise, OF Plymouth, has been
elected captain OF Company ID. Third Regi-
ment-
James X. Houghton. of Plymouth. has
been elected first lieutenant of Company d,
Third Regiment.
W. T. Chrisman. OF Ply mouth, has re-
signed as second lieutenant OF Company
d. Third Regiment.
Company l.. First Infantry. Greencastla,
has been remustered with sixty-one men.
The following are the officers: Captain,
j. r. Fee: first lieutenant. T.. q. Frye: sec
Ond lieutenant. Wilbur F.. Starr.
The unassigned company at oxford has
elected T.. :. Schenkenberg captain, Adrian
Stewart first lieutenant, Victor w. PadgeJt
second lieutenant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
OBITUARY.


ROBERT ENNIS-The sorrow that has
come to Chas. w. and Mabel Ennis i'm
losing the visible presence of their little
son is shared by relatives and many SYM
pathizing friends. The little Robert was a
child of great beauty, and the outward
loveliness was a fit setting for the spirit.
A wonderful capacity for giving and re-
ceiving love was his rich inheritance. His
life unfolded in the sunshine of a happy
home. and all the joy and love gathered
in those four short years he gave back
in full measure to the parents and sister,
whose united love watched over him. Thai
such promise of a useful and beautiful
life on earth should be unfulflled is the
mystery which we annot comprehend.
His parents now feel isolated in the lone
illness of sorrow, but they are embodied
by a sympathy which is worldwide and
universal. The sorrow Of David, the an
guish Of the uncontrolled heart of Rachel,
the same mystery, the same sadness, SO
long before those words of promise:
blessed are they that mourn" were spo-
ken from the Judeen hillside. Bound to-
gether more closely by sorrow than by
Joy, mankind looks through the mist of
tears toward the real life that must fol-
low the anxieties, the accidents. the full
ailments OF this, at best, short stay upon
earth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
SUMNER PRICES FOR ICE.
The Winter Crop a Failure-The Stocks
oil Hand.

While the Ice crop in the district has been
a failure. dealers generally believe that
there will be little advance in prices the
coming summer, except to the larger con-
sumers. The little ice that was cut on
the canal and ponds averaged but four
inches, and it is estimated that not one
third Of last winters supply was harvested
this winter. The Indianapolis Ice Com
pany did not secure half as much ice as
it did last winter, and the manager of the
City Ice Company states that he put up
less than three thousand tons. The Polar
Ice Company expects to turn out about
eighty tons a day when the season begins.
This company manufacturers artificial Ice,
and will sell the article at 30 cents n hun
dred. The Capital City Ice Company re-
ports an utter failure of the lake ice crop.
This company has not yet set the price for
the summer, but is selling now at last
years prices. The John Hit Ice Company
has 10000 tons of ice in storage at LaPorte.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

Yesterday Homer Raymond, aged four
teen. colored. was brought to the police sta
ton for safe keeping, as he is Of unbalanced
mind. He was found on the Big Four
tracks near Pendleton pike. Several times
he had thrown himself in front of fast ap-
preaching trains, but was IN each case
rescued by bystanders and the railroad flag
man. At the police station he gave a dis
connected story. He said he lived in Mum
Gle and mad tramped TO this city and was
returning i'm the same manner. The police
were Informed that Raymond lived in the
western part of the city and they ara in
VeStigating.