The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-05

VI AuunISIdutS. "A SouoTdl COuSulUdGlOu
on the subject of immigration and the
class of immigrants will be held with
the government inspectors at Ellis isl
and with view to learning more
about the workings of the existing
laws. 1t is generally conceded that if
any immigration law is passed by the
present congress it will be the Lodge
bill now pending before the senate,
which provides for strict educational
test, in addition to the restriction of
present laws.
A man and boy 20 years old, were
lynched by mob in Wichita, Kan.
for bank robbery and murder.
Gold has been discovered in City
Creek canyon, within the city limits of
Salt Lake City. Assays are reported
running as high as $500 in gold and
$40 in silver per ton.
Senator Dubois says the silver Re-
publicans of the Northwest will per-
NIT no tariff legislation in this con-
gress or any other that does not recog-
nize free silver, and the same issue
will be raised in the St. Louis conven-
ton.
Five hundred photographers struck
in New York to enforce the recogni-
ton of their organization and the abo-
lition of the piecework system. The
action of the New York branch is ex-
pected to precipitate strikes forthwith
in all large cities.
Rolla o. Heikes, of Dayton, o.,
champion target shot of the world,
made another Sensational record in an
exhibition in Indianapolis. He broke
100 targets, continuous shooting, in 4
minutes and 20 seconds, which makes
new worlds record.
A movement of ice in the Mississippi
carried away $50 feet of the draw span
OF the government bridge in Daven-
port, Ia, which was supported by
trestle work, while undergoing repairs.
The bridge was heavy double-decker
used by the Rock Island railway.
The withdrawal of Commander and
Mrs. Booth from the Salvation Army
has created a commotion in the Phila-
delphia branch of the army. The SOL
diers are aroused and talk of enlisting
in big secession from European head
quarters is heard in every Salvation
hall in THAT city.
In a fit of rage Jacob Dietzel, of Chi
cago, aged IS, shot his daughter, Mrs.
Henry Obner, and then himself, inf1ict-
ing fatal wounds. He was once in
prosperous circumstances, but of late
has been dependent upon his children
for support, and their frequent COM
plants, it is said, were the cause of
the crime.
1t is reported in Constantinople that
| February IA, the first day of the Ram
adam festival, the Turks surrounded the
Armenian quarter in Marsovan and Or
dered the Armenians to accept Islam.
Five hundred of them agreed to do so,
but $50 recalcitrants were killed. A
fresh series of massacres is reported in
the Sivas and Kharpoot districts.
The Paris Politique Coloniale pub
fishes an alleged telegram from the
French consular agent in Brazil, re-
porting that conflicts have taken place
in the disputed territory of Amapa, be-
tween French Guiana and Brazil. 1t
is added the French troops half de-
stroyed Amapa after losing 100 killed
and wounded, including four officers.
Clyde Fogle, a member of the Junior
class in the university of Oregon, has
received the second prize offered by the
American Institute of Sacred Litera-
ture for excellence in New Testament
Greek. All the colleges of the world
were represented in this competition.
Mr.. Fogle has received all his instruc.
ton in Greek in the University Of
Oregon. The value of the prize is $50.
George Grant, a pioneer resident OF
Grass Valley, CAL, 70 years of age,
was blown up by giant powder. He
was using the powder to blow up some
willows and leaned over to see why it
did not go off, when he got the full
charge in the face. One eye was
blown out and the other badly injured,
his lip was terribly lacerated and his
left arm badly injured. He will prob
ably survive.
Havana adyices aver that the Cubans
will retaliate on the Spaniards for
their slaughter of suspects by using
dynamite. A manifesto signed by the
Cuban revolutionary party has been
found scattered through Havana set
ting forth that from five to ten of the
suspects confined in the Caballas were
being shot nightly, and that the Gu
bans would retaliate by destroying
Spanish residences and places of bust
ness by dynamite.
United States District Attorney Il.
V. johnson has filed a suit in the
United States court against the Union
Pacific Railroad Company and about
2,OOO holding lands under titles OBJ
tanned from that company, asking for
the cancellation of patents to about
10, 900 acres, or the payment to the
United States of So, 900, 900. The land
comprises portions of the business Sec
tion of Denver, Greeley, Fort Collins
and Loveland, Colo. 1t is alleged that
the lands in question have been ex.
empted from the original patents AT
they were already subject to claims
under the homestead and pre-emptlor
laws.