The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-30

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decided that the local forces are toe
weak to make further attacks npon the
Matabeles.
The officers of the Chartered South
Africa Company in London are persist
emily representing that the situation al
Buluwayo is not as serious as repre-.
sented in non-oficial dispatches, and
that the town is not in any real dan.
ger. The chartered company announce
that the officials of Buluwayo are con.
fident that they can hold the town, and
that the town of Salisbury is also safe,
and is organizing its defensive forces.
The national arbitration conference
will hold a two days session in Wash.
ington, d. c., during the coming week.
Between 800 and 400 written accept.
ances of the invitations to attend the
conference have been received from
governors of states, judges, publicists,
lawyers, leading business men, minis
tiers of religion, philanthropists, educa.
tors and other prominent Christians.
They represent in all thirty eight
states.
The trial of Scott Jackson for the
murder of Pearl Bryan has com.
menced at Newport. The speed made
in securing jury astonished the court
and the counsel on both sides.
A dispatch from Panama says: Some
fears are entertained here that trouble
will occur when the elections for
deputies take place. The members of
the liberal party will vote for the first
time since 1885.
A dispatch from Ottawa to the Lon
don Times says: Sir Mackenzie
Bowel, the premier, has announced
the resignation of the ministers will be
handed in in a few days. 1t is expect
ed Sir Charles Upper will be the new
premier.
Estrada Palma, president of the Gu
ban junta, issued an address to the peo-
pie of the United States, in which he
declares that the introduction now of
reforms in Cuba by the Spanish gov
eminent will have no effect upon the
revolution.
The schooner Prosper, Captain
Hulm, returned to San Francisco to
have leak repaired. She statred for
Cooks inlet on April with a number
of goldhunters, and was about 800
miles up the coast when a leak was
sprung forward, On the evening of
April II.
Tho bouco r,,;++oo m, mil 70 ~,
affairs have decided to report resolu-
tion authorizing the speaker to appoint
committee of five members to investi-
gate the charges of mismanagement
of the soldiers home at Leavenworth,
Kan, made by Representative Blue of
that state.
While leaving work at lock 9, a
skiff which contained nine men, up
set and three were drowned at
Charleston, w. Va. The dead are:
Henry Mahan, colored, of Gallipolis,
O.; Richard Dickinson, colored, former
home unknown; Jordan, white, Is
years old. The other six swan ashore.
A movement is on foot in Chicago
for the purpose of crystallizing public
opinion against an exclusive arbitration
treaty with Great Britain. The meas
ure is being vigorously pushed by many
prominent citizens who desire chat ar
bitration treaties shall be made with
every nation, instead of England
alone.
The committee on text books of the
board of education. of Omaha, Neb.,
has determined to introduce book of
Bible selections into the public schools.
A majority of the school board is in
favor of the movement. The commit
tee will submit its report at the next
regular meeting, and it's adoption is
regarded as a certainty.
Colonel Caleb Dorsey, of Oakdale,
Cal, wealthy and. prominent mine
owner and rancher, was shot and killed
at the Dorsey mine, II miles from Co.
lumbia, at o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, by his mining partner, J. T. New
conner, over a dispute that ensued upon
Dorsey's charging Newcomer with
cleaning up and misappropriating the
amalgam without the coloneps knowl-
edge.
Chief Washable and the principal
men of the Shoshone tribe and Chief
Sharp Nose and the leading men of
the Arapahoes have just closed their
council with Indian Inspector Nc
Laughlin regarding the purchase by
the government of the Big Horn hot
springs. The two tribes have agreed
to accept $50, for the territory five
miles by ten, embracing the springs.
Wesley Dawes and G. 8. Givens, of
Jefferson county, Tenn. accused OF
the murder of Owens wife, have been
lodged in the Knox county Jail for safe
keeping, as violence was feared unless
the prisoners were removed from the
scene of the crime. Dawes is nephew
of Givens, and has made confession
of the murder, stating that he had Leen
persuaded to do it by his uncle, who
had tired of his wife and was infatu-
ated with another woman. The deed
was committed with double barreled
shotgun while Mrs. Givens was at her
window sewing, having been enticed
there by her husband.
The New York Herald says :
Through special correspondence, news
of important executions in San Domin.
90 has reached the United States. The
minister of war, General Ramon Cas-
tillo, and Jose Estay, governor of the
province of Macoris, were executed at