The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-07

plan is expected to correct this.
One million dollars worth of sup
plies of all sorts, for Indians under
government control, will be bought by
the commissioner Of Indian affairs at
Chicago this week. The articles to be
purchased include vast quantities Of
drugs, medicines, meats, corn, -four
and hominy, and oats in large quaint.
ties will be needed.
Secretary Carlisle has issued an Or
der to the superintendent of the mint
at Philadelphia to coin $50, 1000 in pen
MES, nickels and dimes for distribution
on the Pacific coast The object is to
introduce these smaller coins in Cali
fornia. The present order was made
at the request of the subtreasury at
San Francisco.
A case of leprosy has been discover
ed in California. The afflicted person
is girl of 10.
Henry Gottharde Won Treitschke,
the German historian, died in Berlin.
He was born in 1874.
Lulu ouuIdN0u uCu1O5 buO IOpOIO
that Mr.. Il. McCalmont is now the sole
owner of Valkyrie III.
Rev. G. o. Brown has given up the
fight and resigned his passionate of the
First Congregational church of San
Francisco.
A German force defeated a large
body of Hottentot rebels in Damarand,
on April 5, killing forty-six of them.
The German loss was small.
During fete at the town of Les
and killed the mayor. The motive for
the crime was political hatred.
A general strike on the lines of the
Union Traction Company has been Or
dered to take effect at once. The ma
tional board has given its consent
John Heinetz, aged about 20, and
James Davis, aged about II, prospect
ors, mining near Delta, Cal, were
drowned while crossing the river in
boat.
A dispatch from Athens says another
conflict has occurred in the HagiOn
Vasileon district of Crete. 1t is alleged
twenty Turks were killed and thirty
wounded.
Altot Rieuff blew out the brains of
his wife, Julia, while she slept at his
side, in their room at the Pease lodg.
ing house, Seattle, and then killed him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
Sir William Robinson, governor of
Hong Kong, telegraphs that there has
been seventy five new cases of buboine
plague and seventy-five deaths from
the disease in Hong Kong the past
week.
Commander Booth Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, while out stunning in
New York, was arrested and taken to
the Elizabeth-street police station.
Bail was fixed at $1,000, which was
furnished by Steve Brodle.
A Pretoria, South Africa, dispatch
says: The sentences of death imposed
upon John Hays Hammond, the
American engineer, Colonel Francis
Rhodes, brother of the former premier
of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, presi-
dent of the chamber of mines, johann
nesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor
of Country Life, of johannesburg, have
been committed.
The announcement is made that M.
Meline had succeeded in forming his
cabinet as follows: M. Meline, pre-
mier and minister of agriculture; M.
Barthou, minister of foreign affairs;
M. Cookery, finance; M. Lebon, colo
MES; M. Vale, commerce.; General
Billet, war; M. Darlan, Justice; Ad-
miral Bernard, marine; M. Lacombe,
public works; M. Rambau, public in
struction
The Old Dominion seamer Wyanoke,
when making for New Port News pier
near Norfolk, Va, struck the PROV OF
the United States steamer Columbia,
living at anchor, and had a hole cut in
the forward part of the starboard side.
She sank in sixty feet of water. All
the Wyanoke's passengers and crew
were saved, but their baggage, and
probably the cargo, was lost. Two fire.
men were badly scalded.
| S1CChy OOAOsy was o6~~~~
visited by fire, and now from 5000 to
4, 600 people arc homeless in city Of
desolation, with no homes to offer and
no food to supply the daily wants
One life was lost. The business por-
ton of the city left standing is less
than would cover a block. The resi-
dence section is confined to what were
formerly the suburbs. Relief parties
are being organized in Denver and
Colorado Springs.
A special to the Denver Times from
Ell Paso, Tex, says the governor OF
Chihuahua has sent regiment OF
troops to MinaViejo to compel the poems
to open the mine and rescue the min
ers. He had the police gather all the
unemployed men in the city streets and
march them to the mine to work. OF
the sixty.one entombed miners fifty
were taken out dead. The disaster was
caused by the encroaching for ore on
the pillars supporting the roof.
The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has
captured and brought into Havana the
} American schooner Competitor, OF Key
West, loaded with arms and ammunl-
ton. In command Of her were Alfredo
Larode, DIR. Bedia and three newspaper
: correspondents, who are held as prison
ers. Some of the filibusters are said &c
have succeeded in jumping overheard
and swimming ashore. Others who
jumped into the sea were drowned.
! The insurgent general Monson, was