The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-06-04
cessity requires and appropriations are
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forthcoming.
Ernest Brownell, high school stu
dent. II years old, was shot and killed
in Greeley, Colo, by Bode Foster.
Brownell had attended a rehearsal
after which he went to Fosters house
having arranged with Mrs. Foster tc
sleep there. Foster did not know this,
and when he heard the noise at the
door he fred at the intruder, supposine
burglar was TRYING to enter.
Personal payment of pensions has
been revoked by congress, and here
after, pension checks must be trans.
mitted by mail direct to the address OF
the pensioner. The authority of pen.
sion agents and their clerks to admin.
lister oaths in the execution of pension
vouchers has also been revoked. This
duty may be performed by justices of
the peace, notaries public, fourth class
postmasters or any officer having au-
thorisy to administer oaths for general
purposes. No federal officers are per-
United to charge fees for the execution
of pension purposes, except fourth class
postmasters, who may receive % cents
for the service.
Petitions are being sent from all the
towns of South Africa to the govern
ment Of the South African republic in
favor of leniency to the reform pris-
oners.
Mrs. Mark Frost, the wife of a
prominent farmer, residing at Cleve-
land, Mo, drowned her two children
and herself last evening. No cause is
known.
At Denver, Colo, A. B. Hughes
rode mile unpaced in 1904 1-5, max.
ing new worlds amateur bicycle rec
ord. The greatest previous record was
2:05 1-5, by Clark, of Denver.
A storm struck Cairo, Ill. There
was terrific wind and lain. The opera
house and union depot were unroofed.
The ferryboat Kathrine capsized in the
Ohio river and nearly all on board
were drowned.
Owing to the fact that congress has
decided to transform the battlefield of
Shiloh into national park, the officers
Of the Shiloh Battlefield Association
have rendered their designations for the
purpose of discontuing their associa-
ton.
A Valparaiso dispatch says: The
supervisors of accounts have discovered
that the telegraph of the government
has been defrauded of more than lO0,-
900 pesos, and it is thought that a
closer investigation will bring more
roguery to light.
James Ellington was hanged in
Boise, Idaho, for the murder of Charles
Briggs. December 80. 1894, Ellington
shot Charles Briggs in front of the
latter's home in Boise. Ellington met
his victim, passed and then tunred and
shot him in the back.
Captain John Wilson, the hero of
Lookout mountain, who has been suffer
ing from cancer on his face, died at
his home at Station camp, Kentucky,
aged "a. He was the man who first
planted the federal flag on the summit
of Lookout mountain.
A Havana dispatch says: The local
guerilla force of San Antonio de los
Benes has killed nine insurgents with
side arms, besides the leader Collaozo.
General Seraflno has fought the insur-
gents near San Cristobal, Pinar del
Rio. They had eight killed and car
ried off many wounded.
G. B. Palmer, farmer living near
Atwater, Cal, walked into his stable
and slapped horse on the back. The
horse kicked him, one hoof landing
squarely on his chest, the other on his
ear. Palmer died, suffering untold
agonies for many hours. He was 80
years old, well known and generally
respected.
The state department at Washington
is officially informed that all contracts
for Cuban leaf tobacco entered into be-
fore the publication of the order of
Captain. General Weyler, prohibiting
it's expectation, will be respected. Citi-
zens of the United States proving them
selves bona fide owners of such tobacco
prior to the PRONUNCIATION Of the order,
will be permitted to export the same as
heretofore.
General Wheaton, who has just re-
turned to Denver from Arizona, says
that if the arrangement now under con-
sideration by the state department at
Washington can be concluded, the
depredations Of Apaches in Arizona
will be quickly stopped. 1t is pro-
posed to let the federal troops in pur-
suit of the redskins cross the line into
Mexico and give the Mexican troops
the right to cross the line into Arizona.
Nine four-horse teams, loaded with
Yakima wool, sheared within four
miles of a Northern Pacific railroad
station, passed through Goldendale re-
Gently en- route to The Dalles to save
freight. Prominent sheepraisers say
that, unless the Northern Pacific comes
to time, there will be 1000, 900
| pounds of Yakima wool hauled to The
Dalles, as there is a saving to the
| grower. There are now being sheared
| 100, 900 sheep near Goldendale The
| entire clip will be marketed in The
Dalles.
Col. R. P. Mckinney, prominent
politician and agriculturist, of San
Jose. has been murdered. Mckinney g
body, with bullet in the head, was
found in an clubhouse on his ranch,
near Campbell's Station, six miles
from San Jose, in the township OF Los
Gatos. A neighbor named Page found