The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
ETEJTS OF THE DAY
ro;tome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rrRSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,.tsre.ting Collection Of Items FROM
,a Two Hemispheres Presented
in Condensed Form.

in Condensed Form.
e+csn7er Jaranza, from Rotter.
: rano~tcd lost of Cape Abjoa.
Vs. Vs. members Of the crew were saved
and ffteea are missing.
p,4co Officer Bratton was badly
,.,rbiie irving 20 capture two bur-
. store in Tacoma. He fired
s .-re burglar, when another, who was
.t.5irr opened fire and shot Bratton
, n~ in the back of the head. He
will probably die,
Eddie Chandler, about / years old,
nc drowned in Porneuf river, in Po-
'".sIIo Idaho. He threw his hat on
,5s ice and tried to get the dog to get
: end failing in this, he went on the
10 and broke through into deep water.
The river was dragged and the body
fmnd in about an hour.
0na Of the last official acts of Mayor
Rader Of Les Angeles, Cal, will be to
ona,h his signature to an ordinance
making expectoratiOns upon the side
walks Of public streets. entrances to
,pbHc buildings or the floors of street
ears misdemeanor. punishable by
either fire or imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen of the secret service at
Washington, has issued circular
warning against new counterfeit $40
national banknote on the Union Ma.
tionsl bank Of Detroit. The note is
tbe product of the same hand which
PRODUCED the recent counterfeit on the
National Bank of Commerce of New
York One distinguishable feature is
that the back of the note is upside
down.
Miss Celia Strahm was killed by her
brother.in-law, Eden Buroker, at
Dixie, eighteen miles west of Walla
Walla. Miss Strahm was visiting the
family, and after the family had re-
tired she went out of the door, and
upon returning the noise awakened
Buroker, who drew pistol from under
bis pillow and shot Miss Strahm. He
mistOok her for an enemy, whom he
had heard was intent on doing him
harm.
Japan has a larger carrying trade on
the Pacific than the United States, and
Americans who are near enough to
watch the shifting scenes in this new
and rapidly developing contest for COM
mercial supremacy find little matter for
pride in present tendencies. This is
the statement Of United States Consul
Bell, Of Sydney, contained in his report
tOthe state department. upon the open
ing OF the new japanese steamship line
between Yokohama ard Australia.
The president has extended the civil
service rules SO as to include all officers
and employees in the federal peniten-
tary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. :,
though it is to apply to all such gov
eminent institutions and to all peni-
fentlaries hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment. Attorney
GENERAL Harmon is subjecting the re-
cent civil service schedule as affecting
The department. of justice to a rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
"OVercome defect in the rules pro-
nulgated and further amendments on
similar lines may be expected.
Radical changes IN the procedure of
nepenslon Office have been made. All
tlalms for increase, save in extraordi.
lSly cases hereafter will be sent direct
"tae medical division of the bureau,
Stlout having to be passed upon by
'nV board of review. This action is
"Aen on the ground that the bulk of
..'fVase cases involve only medical &C.
uOu. Hereafter there will be no me-
'.ssi'y Tor cases before the board of re-
new beng passed upon by three or
WI examiners. Commissioner Muir
fu' nas liked the number of examiners,
woo must review each claim at once.
Inc Mexican government, recoeniz.
s Tue increasing Importance of its
rs'' oOaSt commerce, is determined to
b.aF tV'e the harbors. Arrangements
-'' Deen made to raise a considerable
=, :u lof this work, in addition to the
rc''vOV'VVO for the improvement of
'A@coalcos and Salina Cruxz, the
Wi and western termini of the Te-
~ au'Fpec road. The move to improve
A. lafoors is also caused, it is said, by
rs,s iapialty of railroad building to-
viii Tue Mexican Pacific coast, which
l,r ~ Open fertile country and develop q
hs 81 w tVmmerce through the ports be-
" = ulke instituted at GEORGETOWN.
msa ''' mas thrown out of work 200
h,s quo; "nu promises to embrace the en-.
h,as 80 snoe factories of the town. A
Of ,ba cut in wages was the cause
sss constructors of the Siberian rail
b,o. lave undertaken to build a line
Point or - nuria, starting from q
iosd ' y; "a the river where the Siberian
term;sr 'ius the trans-Baikelia line and
qbs mating at Mikolskaya, Russia.
bo,, MINISTERIAL press of ST. Peters.
pas s POINTS out that this line will
III ciu sussla the intermediary of peace
Asia 'ilatlon between Europe and
pils ,'Se has been posted at all the
eIi saelphia & Reading coal and iron
IT. nD numbering forty, and also
Tat lumber w of individual collieries.
Week "U TX would be suspended for q
viii :. twenty thousand mem and how.
aOns,. executive committee of The
il Insisy conference with headouratar err
scalI dt, a n3lpis Ind, are sending out
Who ip ~ all commercial organizations on.
ference s'd d, to send delegates to the CON.
300 Delegate - is now believed that about