The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-28
naming just where they stood at the
opening of the season, and were firm in
their demands for cents per pound.

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opening Of the season, and were firm in
their demands for cents per pound.
The secretary of the interior has ap'
proved. as the basis of patent, clear
list embracing 1886. 90 acres within
the Oregon City land district, Or, Sc
lected on account of the grant for the
Oregon & California railroad; 5,185
acres in the Roseburg, Or, district,
selected on account of the grant for the
same road; 8,246.733 acres in the
Walla Wallla, Wash, land district,
on account of the Northern Pacific
grant; Is, 522 acres in the Columbia
district, Wash, on account of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
branch line.
Word has been received of the MUIR
der in Cuba of Walton E. Stale, an
American, for his money.
Tom Linton, Welshman, beat the
bicycle record from the fifth mile up.
ward, in Paris, covering thirty miles
within one hour.
John d. Jones, who stamped to death
in fit of anger Mrs. Mendenhall, at
the Anna, ILL.,, fair last fall, was
hanged at Murphysboro. He protested
repentance.
The Western Federation of Miners
has decided to amalgamate with the
American Federation of Labor, and
will elect delegates to the convention
of the latter body.
DIR. Thomas Rem was shot by his
wife in Chicago. The woman fred five
times. Two bullets entered the doc
tors head and he will probably die.
Jealousy was the cause.
James Dazzle (colored), was taken
from the Jail in ST. Demands parish,
Louisiana, and lynched. He was ar
rested for attempting to outrage a
white woman near the Patterson plan
tation.
Harry Jones and Frank Jefferess,
two convicts at San Quentin, got into
q quarrel during which Jefferess
stabbed Jones with knife, inf1icting
a wound from which Jones died shortly
afterWard.
General Vicuna, the Spanish COM
mander, is dead of yellow fever, at
Corral False. in Matanzas, where he
has been sick for several days past.
His body will be buried in the city of
Matanzas.
Lillian Russell, while riding her
golden wheel near Central Park, New
York, collided with an unknown cycl-
ist, and was thrown to the pavement.
Her costly wheel was smashed and her
ankle was hurt.
Mrs. Louise A. Speetzen, an attrac-
tive and entertaining woman, laughed
herself to death in Oakland, Cal. The
case was a peculiar one, and attracted
the attention of a number of Oakland
physicians, who attended the lady.
The striking firemen of the Armour
packing plant, of Kansas City, who
went out May 6 for increased wages
and fewer hours. have compromised
their affairs and lifted their boycott
against the company's meats and re-
turned to work.
A London dispatch says the British
foreign Office has decided upon the is
sue of supplementary blue book rela-
tive to Venezuela, very shortly. The
forthcoming volume will contain i'm
portant additional historical evidence
in support of the British case.
What is claimed to be the largest
strike ever made in the Ainsworth, B.
c., camp was uncovered on the Termi-
nus, owned by Spokane parties. At
the end of 20O-foot tunnel a 40.foot
ledge was struck of high grade ore, av-
eraging STAT per ton gold and silver.
A Cairo dispatch says death from
cholera is reported among the Egyptian
troops at Tourha. A regular cholera
miasma is broo6ing over Cairo with
the heavy air and the hot winds. The
virulence of the disease is almost I'M
paralleled at such an early stage of WIS.,
| itat ton. The percentage of deaths is 80.
A double murder was committed at
Pyramid Lake Indian reservation, May
l18. Indian Sam Small deliberately
shot his wife and her paramour with a
pistol which he stole from policeman.
The woman died instantly, but the
man, George Meserve, an Indian, is
still alive, though dangerously shot.
In Nahant, Mass, an incipient blaze
from a painters lamp at the summer
cottage once occupied by the poet Long
fellow, on Willow road. was the be-
ginning of fierce fire, which famed
by strong southwest gale, devoured
five handsome summer residences and
contents, entailing loss OF about
$780, 600.
A special from Caracas says: The
Venezeula government has offered to
release the schooner New Day, but the
owners refuse to accept under condi-
tions attached. The English govern
ment will push the claims of the own
ers. This makes new complications in
the relations between England and
Venezuela.
/ The house committee ON public lands
has ordered favorable report on the
bill for the maintenance of schools OF
mines in pubic land states and terri
tories, by granting each state from the
proceeds from the sale of mineral
lands SIS, 900 for the current year and
an annual increase of 1000 per year
for ten years.
The food situation in Crookston,
Mimi, is becoming very serious, the
rise in the Red Lake river having been
very rapid by reason of continuous and