The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-16


the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar
Company, held in San Francisco, Ru-
dolph Spreckles submitted an interest
ing report. 1t showed there is every
promise that the worlds product of
sugar this year will be 1,0O0,O 900 tons
short of the supply of several years
past, which explained why sugar is
selling for Az cents pound against 8
cents last year. The estimated profits
of the company on this years yield is
upward of $500 900.
News has been received that / 800
immigrants are about to leave Naples
for the United States.
Governor McGraw of Washington,
has issued proclamation designating
April "a as Arbor day for the year 1895.
Two masked men entered the saloon
of Charles Wirklia, in Astoria, and
robbed the crap game Of the bank roll,
amounting to $500.
An explosion occurred in the engine
room of the Murphy Varnish works, in
Chicago. Several men were seriously
hurt and two fatally.
Count Mattel. the discoverer of the
system of medicine which bears his
name, died in Bologne. The system
was development of homeopathy.
Philip Heppner, a well-known ware
houseman of Arlington, Or. 4, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the brain with 38-caliber revolver.
The expedition Of the Russian Geo.
graphical Society, equipped for the ex-
ploration of the Irkutsk region of ST.
IBERIA, has started, and will be absent
three years.
W. 81. M. Christie, astronomer royal,
will leave London in July next, and
pass through British Columbia en- route
to Japan in order to witness the eclipse
there in the autumn.
The first report of the battle at
Mount MORAN, April Q, stated that the
Italians lost 100 killed and wounded.
Now it is admitted that ten officers and
800 men were killed.
Canada has taken official action in
the present outlook is that all Crees in
the United States will be deported
within the next four weeks.
Charles Parkin and Patrick Cordi.
gan, two members of a wrecking crew,
were struck by fast freight train on
the Pennsylvania road near Downing
ton, Pa, and instantly killed.
The New York Assembly has passed
the bill limiting the hours Of labor of
women and children to sixty hours per
week, and puts all establishments un-
der control of the board of health.
The secretary of the treasury has
asked for an appropriation of So. 900 to
be expended under the direction Of the
United States marshal Of Alaska for
the repair of public buildings in AL.
aska.
The navy department has received
report from Passed Assistant Engineer
W. P. Arnold, that the black plague
has made its appearance in Hong Kong,
but that the fact is being concealed for
business reasons.
The board of health of San Francisco
has been notified that a Chinese pas
senger on the Gaelic died at Yoko-
hama March 81 of the plague. The
steamer sailed for San Francisco the
same day. She will be quarantined
on her arrival.
The Northern Pacific Office in Spo.
kane has advices that general ad
vance in freight rates to the coast over
the transcontinental lines Of about %
per cent will be made in q few weeks.
The statement comes from unquestion-
ed authority.
James l. Dozier, on his preliminary
examination on a charge of killing
Frank Kelly at Butteville, Or, on
March 81, was acquitted in Justice
Johnson's court in Salem. The evil
dence proved that the shooting was in
self defense.
At the city election in Cimmaron.
Kan, Mrs. G. A. Curtis was elected
mayor by small majority over DR..
Lawrence. The election board is oom-
posed Of women, who were out in full
force. Mrs. Curtis is over so years of
age and is quite wealthy.
A French resident of Cuba writing
to London paper says that band of
volunteers, Infatuated by the resolu-
tions of the American senate, shot six
sons of an American farmer at CAST
CUES. The United States consul gem
earl is inquiring into the matter.
The instructions to United States
revenue vessels for the patrol Of the
seal waters during the coming season
have been completed by the treasury
department, and will shortly be issued
to the captains of the vessels. They
are substantially the same rs those OF
last year.
A terrific explosion, entailing the loss
of seven lives and the wounding OF
several others, occurred in the canyon,
four miles from Ogden, Utah. The
men were employed by the Pioneer
Dam Copmany, and were about to pre-
pare blast, when premature explo.
sion occurred.
The steamer Empress of Japan, from
Yokohama, brings word that Mount
Kirishima was in eruption March Is.
M. Lievre, of the French warship Far
fait, was ascending the mountain when
the crater broke forth, and was seri-
ously wounded, his guide being in