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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
RETURN OF ANDRADE
VeneZuelans Satisfied With
Boundary Treaty.
MINISTER DECLINED TO TALK
President Crespo's Repub1ic-Law-
yer StOrrow's Views.

No Indications Of Coming Trouble In
President Crespo's Republic-Law-
yer storrow's Views.
New York, Dec. 29.-Senor Jose An
drade, Venezuelan minister to the
United States, accompanied by James
J. Storrow, counsel for Venezuela be-
fore the United States boundary com.
mission, arrived in this city this after
noon on the steamer Caracas and left
for Washington tonight.
When the steamer arrived at her
pier, Mr.. Andrade was met by the
Venezuelan consul and some of the at
taches of the Office. When asked con-
corning the reports which have been
printed in reference to the boundary
treaty being not acceptable to the Ven
ezuelan government, the minister said:
81 have written and telegraphed all
/ have to say, and l understand it has
been published in your papers. can
not say anything more on this ques-
ton"
He was asked if it was true that he
had been empowered by President
Crespo to signify the acceptance of the
treaty, and he replied:
"That is matter | cannot discuss. I"
He said there was no sign of disturb
ance in Venezuela. Everything was
very peaceful, and he did not antici-
pate any trouble when the congress
would meet. When pressed to say
more about the treaty, he showed the
reporters copy of Venezuelan paper,
which he said expressed his views on
the matter.
This newspaper, the Venezuela
Herald, had several articles on the
treaty, and the following is an extract
from one of them:
Minister Andrade is going to Wash
ington and takes with him a copy of
the agreement. It is, in all essential
particulars, the same treaty offered by
Venezuela forty years ago. Under the
fifty-year clause, the only territory
which Great Britain will have is the
settlements between the Esequibo and
Poorran rivers. By the tifty-year
clause we exclude Great Britain from
the Orinoco country and the Cuyni
river, which is the portion of the coun.
| try that Venezuela has been especially
DESTROYS of keeping. Attacks have
been made On the government, but they
are based on no solid argument, and it
surprised US not a little to hear such
rumors concerning the boundary ques-
tion after everything has been settled.
The United States has been the friend
and representative of Venezuela, or to
put it exactly, through it's friend, the
United States, Venezuela has negotiat-
ed the treaty"
Mr. Storrow was also disinclined to
talk of the boundary question, but said
the treaty was satisfactory to Vene-
zuela. He said there were couple of
correspondents who attacked the treaty
in the papers, but to use his own
words, "they went off half cooked. !"
Mr.. Storrow claimed the people are
we'll satisfied with the treaty, and con-
slider it about the best arrangement that
could be made. He said public feeling
toward the Americans was most kind
! ly, and he referred to the letter writ
ten by President Crespo to President
Cleveland thanking him for the inter
est Americans had taken in the Vene-
zuelan matter.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

Paris, Dec. 31.-There is an exhi-
bition at the Volney Club Of 100 real
istio paintings Of Napoleon's Russian
campaign by Varestchagin, being ter.
ribly vivid and impressive lesson of
the horrors of war. Varestchagin had
prepared a catalogue passing severe
Judgment upon Napo1eon's enterprise,
but the committee of the club prohibit
ed the sale of the catalogue. Varest-
chagin became much irritated, and he
will close the exhibition q week earlier
than he intended to.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

A great deal of wheat has been sold
in Ellensburg lately.
The city treasurer of Fairhaven has
issued a cali for warrants numbered
from 297O to 1880 inclusive. drawn
upon the general fund, there being
funds on hand with which to pay them.
Buckley citizens are now circulating
q petition for the establishment OF
wagon road from that town to the
Summit mines, and pledges OF assist
ance are said to be numerous.
The aggregate value of real property
in Klickitat county in 1896, as equal
lied by the county. board, is 81, 612. 500.
The population of the county is 800.
The county has fifty-six organized
school districts, with an attendance OF
$3.50 pupils.
The Washington state board OF pilot
commissioners for the Columbia river
and bar have submitted their report to
the governor of vessels bound in and
out of the Columbia river from July /,
1895, to October 8, 1895. It shows
that there were sixty four bound in and
sixty one bound out between these dates.
The city Of Ellensburg has been or
dered by the court to make special
tar levy of four mills year for four
wears to pay the amount Of the judg-
ment in the Lorenzo case, wherein
verdict for damages against the city
was rendered, because OF an accident
resulting from a defective sidewalk.
The Judgment now amounts to about
e10, 200.
Superintendent Barnett. of the ST.
Louis mine, was in Everett the other
day from Silverton. He brought down
FIVE pack horses, and had to make them
swim the Stillaguamish river three
times. It was perilous undertaking,
for the stream was high and swift.
The company has q drilling outfit
ready to put in the mine as soon as the
machinery can be transported by rail,
and then work will be continued all
winter.
Ex.Sheriff James 81. Woolery, Of
King county, has been circulating
petition in Spokane to secure pardon
for Adolph Krug, Seattle's defaulting
treasurer, who was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary. He has been
successful in securing number OF sig-
natures.
The work Of raising the Strum shin-
gle and sawmill, at the mouth OF the
Arkansaw creek, which went into the
Cowlitz river last week, is progressing
slowly, owing to the water falling
slowly and loose sand.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

Salem, Ind, Jan. detective
Sexton and Deputy Jailer Brown, OF
Louisville, KY, received information
that Richard Brooks, an escaped pris-
oner from Louisville, was at the home
of Richard Land, four miles from here.
and went to the house. Land, seeing
the party was armed, ordered his hired
man, John Rippey, to get gun and
repel the attack At this the officers
opened fire and killed Rippey. The
officers gave themselves up and are IN
Jail. Brooks was not at the Lana
home.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

Ssn Francisco, Jan. Fired l..
Wood. a convict in San Quentin prls.
on. who recently inherited fortune OF
$50. 600 from the estate of bis father. a
Chicago millionaire, is insane he
became violent in his cell Monday
night. and had to be forcibly removed
to the receiving hospital. 1t is Thought
his recent good fortune, together with
the constraint attendant upon his con-
finement in the penitentiary, IS the
cause of his insanity.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

Birmingham, Ala, Jan. L. The
Commercial bank, of Selma, Ala,
failed to open today. 1t was estab.
lished in 1880, has paid-up capital OF
ssO0 0oo. and undivided profits OF $780,
ooo The New York correspondent is
the American Exchange National, and
the Chicago correspondent the First
Nat;onal r. M. Nelson, president OF
the Commercial, has for years been
prominent in financial circles. he was
considered conservative banker.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
A village Bank Looted.

st. Louis, Jan. Ia special to the
Post Dispatch from Des Moines, Ia,
SAYS: Word comes from Sully. a
small town near Newton, that robbers
looted the bank at that place last night.
The bank was incorporated in 1891
with a capital of IS, 900. The deposits
were about ST., 900. A. S. Smith is
president and L. A. Sherman cashier.
Details of the robbery are hard to OBJ.
tain, because the town has no tele-
graphic connection. 1t is reported the
robbers entered the bank, blew open
the safe with dynamite and carried
away an amount of cash estimated at
from So, 900 to $40, 00G.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
ireland Overtaxed.

There was a large meeting in Dub.
lin Ireland. presided over by the lord
m.vor. to protest against the overtaxa-
ton of Ireland. as disclosed ny tne
-oval commission on the financial rela-
tions between England and Ireland. A
-anort read at the meeting showed that
Ireland is now oyertaxed to the amount
If &13. 750, 900 annually. Resolutions
ware nassed demanding that the gov
ernment remedy the injustice done 90
Ireland il the matter of taxation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
Taking strikers Places.

Leadyille, Colo. Jan. Two car
loads of Missouri miners arrived tooay
to take the places Of strikers IN the
mines. The newcomers were escorted
to the mines by strong miH.ary
guard. The streets were crowded. Dus'
bevond hostile remarks. there was no
demonstration.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
AN Inyestieation Asked For.

New York, Dec. 80.-Several life
insurance companies have asked Coro-
ner Tuthill to make thorough investi-
CATION as to the cause of the death of
David Blakeley, manager OF Sousa's
band, who expired suddenly in his
office in this city in November last.
The body is to be disinterred in odrer
to determine whether certain sums in
q Chicago accident insurance company
can be collected, Blakely having suf-
ferei a severe bicycle accident some
weeks prior to his death.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
Hundreds Of Cocaine Fiends.

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 30.-The co.
caine habit has taken such hold on
many residents OF Manchester that steps
are being taken to obtain the restriction
of the sale of the drug. The evil had
it's inception when local druggist
wear ago made preparation OF cocaine
and menthol which could be used as
snuff. 1t was intended az . specific for
asthma, but the prescription was passed
around, and now hundreds OF persons
have become slaves to the mu6.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
An Immense Blast Fired.

San Diego. Dec. 30.-The Southern
California Mountain Water Company
fred the largest blast at Morena made
in the history of the state. The
amount of rock disloged was $50, 900
tons. Giant and black powder was
used. All the deposits Of powder
which were placed in tunnels at differ
emit levels in the hills were connected
by electric wires, which completed
circuit
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns of the
Thriving Sister States
Oregon.

A project is on foot in Brownsville
to have a free reading-room.
Stockbuyers are paying $12 to SIT for
2-year- old steers, and SID for COWS, in
Grant county.
Cattle on the range in Grant county
are looking thinner than ever ut this
time Of the year.
Empire City's town treasurer holds
400 town funds, and the city boasts
of no Indebtedness.
The colored miners at Beaver Hill,
in Coos county, are organizing lodge,
supposedly of Masonry.
There are about thirty taxpayers in
Wallowa county, who pay taxes ON
property valued at over So, 900 each.
Elgin has shipped 1877 carloads Of
grain, stock. wool, lumber and ties in
the last ten months valued at $105, 900.
Strange as it may seem in midwinter
the bunchgrass is growing on Grant
county's hills, says the Canyon City
News.
Mr.. Herrick expects to have work
begun on his cannery at The Dalles in
a few weeks, to put it in shape for the
spring run of salmon.
S. B. Edison, representing Edison
Bros, of Gazelle. CAL. who has been
in Lana county for some time buying
cattle, will ship about $50 head, eight
carloads, to Gazelle. The cattle are
mostly 3-year-old steers.
In answer to request from the Mil
ton board of trade for a conference
upon the question of dividing Umatilla
county, the Pendleton chamber of COM
MERGE has written that the question OF
division is one for the people of the
county; but that, as an association, it
is opposed to division.
Last summer P. Boiler, who lives in
Springfield precinct, in Lane county,
raised several hundred bushels OF
canary seed, and sold it in Portland,
Salem and Eugene He received A
cents per pound for the seed. 1t is
better than the canary seed raised In
California and the other states, weigh
luX IAOAO W eAO OuoAAOA'
An old couple, while on their way
to The Dalles last week in two-horse
hack, were upset in snowdrift on
steep grade on Ten-Mile, and went
rolling down the hill. A young man
went to their assistance tried to get the
horses out of the drift, and the horses
and hack went tumbling after. For
tunately, no one was seriously hurt,
nor was much damage done to the rig.
Harold Parker has returned to Baker
City from Omaha, after an absence OF
several months. Last spring Mr..
Parker left Huntington with $4,000
sheep. the property Of Gutnerie, Foss
& Co., of Omaha, to be driven over
land to Clarks, station near the me-
tropolis of Nebraska. Although it
took Mr.. Parker four months or more
to make the drive, he was SO successful
that he lost but ninety sheep.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

An occult temple will be built IN San
Francisco by theosophlsts' ano lunos
have already been subscribed.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07

Bombay, Dsc. S0.-The bubonic
plague is increasing, there having been
2. 094 cases and ,494 deaths from that
cause up to date. The exodus from
the city continues, and the natives are
threatened with malarial law unless
they conform with the sanitary regu.
lations.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
A Bic Cruiser Floated.

Cronstadt, Dec. 30.-The armored
cruiser Rossia, of IL, 1870 tons displace-
ment, the largest vessel in the Russian
navy. which ran on .sandbank in the
beginning Of November and has been
frozen in ever since, has been foated
after ffty-one days Of incessant labor
with steam icebreakers.
The herald., 1897-01-05
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Sir Edward Clarke, the eminent Eng
lish barrister. is said to have an income
Of 100000 a year from his law practice.
His fee for defending Mrs. Castle, the
wealthy Californian who was accused
of shoplifting, was $4,000.
One of the most eminent colored men
in the south is the Rev. DR.. J. W. E.
Bowen. professor of theology at Gam
mon university Atlanta. He was born
in New Orleans. but was educated a
the north and holds the degree of Phi. D.
Coils p. Huntington some time ago
built q, palatiai residence on Fifth av-
nnue at cost of s., 500, coo. But his fam
lily has never moved into it or account
Of a superstition of Mr. Huntington s
that its occupancy would be speedily
followed by his death.
Queen Victora's coronatio ring is
never out of her sight and is worn by
her every evening. II is a band of gold
by white briliants. A coronation ring
is supposed to symbolic the wedding of
the sovereign with the nation.
In the course Of debate in the house
the other day a member declared that
1he saloons of the District of Columbia
were models. Congressman Morse waved
a letter on high and asked that 1t be
read in refutation of the previous
speakers statement. "Do you regard
that as evidence?' asked Meredith of
Virginia. II do" answered Morse.
Yes" said Meredith. its the kind of
evidence you used to burn witches on
in Massachusetts"
The herald., 1897-01-05
MAYOR sNYDERs MESSAGE

Mayor NJ. p. Snyder delivered his first
message to the council yesterday. 1t is
a clear. forcible andjlogical presentation
of his views upon the present and fu-
t,ire requirements of the municipality,
and no douut the people will endorse
every one of his communications. 1t is
encouraging to see the new mayor begin
his administrat ton with an eye single
to the best good of the community, and
the public may be sure that the line laid
down in his first official communication
will be carefully followed all during his
administration.
1t will be observed that while the mayor
demands that great economy shall be
practiced in all the departments, and in
voting appropriations for public i'm
provements, a broad, liberal ard compre-
hensive policy of expenditure of public
funds should be adopted, to the end that
the needs of the people may be ade-
quately supplied. The mayor fully real
ICES that Los Angeles is rapidly becom-
ing great commercial and financial
center. and that to encourage further
Industrial and trade expansion the city
must not hold back in making such pub
lie improvements as shall be required to
meet the new conditions which increased
population and growth in the volume OF
trade and traffic create
1t will be observed that the mayor
vigorously attacks the position of the
water company where it claims more
than its franchise CT business principles
sanctions; and that he also points out
how the grantors of the original charter
of the water company could not have
contemplated the granting of authority
to apply the same schedule of charges
for supplying a city of 100, 900 population
as city of less than 5000 people. Upon
this point the position of the mayor is
impregnable, and if his policy is car
ried into active application the city will
have very much larger supply of water
at very much less cost to consumers
than now prevails.
Mayor Snyder is equally desirous that
the other departments shall be entirely
efficient, but without extravaeant ex
penditure of money, and if the council
shall act upon his recommendations
throughout in legislating. in making an
preparations and in the conduct geuer-
ally of that branch of the government
the city will 60 forward upon safe and
solid lines.
The herald., 1897-01-05

survey and secure the necessary data
to base estimates of what the cost viii
be to furnish the city with an adequate
supply of pure water. Not that the ques-
tion Of the cost of plant enters so large
ly into the enterprise, but that being the
preliminary step, it must be taken with
out delay
And while the surveys and other pre-
liminary work is progressing, the engi-
neer in charge will be expected to inves-
tigate the condition of the present plant
and ascertain which portion Of it, if any,
can be utilized in constructing new
plant. and what value 1t would have to
the city to be so utilized. No doubt the
present plant could be used to some ad-
vantage in constructing new system.
and to the extent that it can be used it
would have a value, but what that value
is cannot be known until surveys and es-
Inmates are made.
But, anyway it is the sentiment OF the
public that the council should not delay
the work, and unless steps are taken at
once to commence the surveys and what
ever other preliminary work that shall
be necessary to the adoption of a system,
the public will but feel that its conf
dence in the council has not been mis-
placed. In fact. the people will be bet
ter satisfied if the council starts the in
water company will be in evidence in
he council chamber when the question
s taken up. but that is all the more
reason why there should be no delay.
The herald., 1897-01-05

9:s5-The famous German band.
s:46-The terrible earthquake and vol
cano.
robats.
1o:1o-The ballet of the shapeiy waiter
girls.
lo:1s-The horse race and burlesoue
lo:S5.The marvellous flying ballet from
the Folies Bergeres Paris.
lo;45"The break of day in Brownie
Frank Deshon, Ida Mule, Marie Ce.
leste. Ida Brooks. Sol Solomon, Charles
Hagan, Robert Cummings and other
weli-known burlesque artists will be in
the cast of 100 people. Palmer Cox, the
famous Brownie man." will personally
direct the big production.
HAZARDS PAVILION.-The Corps
de Ballet Of the Forever Devils Auction,
which Will be presented al Hazards pa
viiion Wednesday and Thursday even
ings and a Thursday matinee, has al
ways been special feature with the at
traction, and each season has seen the
gathering together of q comely lot of
clever coryphees, secundos and baller-
mas, whose bright appearance, pretty
faces and graceful gyratfons have prov
en- one of the pleasant features of this
popular entertainment.
This season Manager Charles H. Yale
promises quite a number of new faces
in the terpsichorean contingent, as well
as new and novel ballet features, re-
plete with brilliant costuming, which,
for originality in design and coloring,
surpass anything yet presented in this
line. Emilia Bartoletti. Adele Amore
and Maria Tregato have been engaged
by Manager Yale as principal dancers
for this season.
The herald., 1897-01-05

assistants and laborers. its wine cellar
and its two graduating students.
The mountain was in labor and
brought forth a ridiculous mouse.
Los Angeles county has about 10000
children. If each of these cost $40, 900 a
year, as each of the two seniors in the
Berkeley agricultural college cost each
year it would require FOUR HUN
DRIED MILLION dollars (s40o, 900 O00)
for our county education each year. 1t
is good thing for our solvency that this
agricultural concern has no more than
two seniors
The herald., 1897-01-05
DUTY OF THE CITY COUNCIL

The Herald desires to remind the COM
moa council that the people of Los An
seles expect it to move Immediately IN
the matter of cons tructng al adequate
water system plart under municipa
ownership. That question was the issue
at the election, and it was endorsed by
an overwhelming majority. There is.
therefore, no occasion fol delay to get
Instructions from the public. The peo
pie have already not only given their an
proval, but demand that steps he taken
at once to do the initial work.
The council will dispease the people
very much If it does not inaugurate Il
The herald., 1897-01-05
HARD ON THE JINGOES

The Cuban question has taken on a
phase which is likely to involve Mr.. Nc
Kinley in a good deal of trouble. 1t is
reported that not only Spain but several
other European powers, have intimated
in an indirect and unofficial way. that
| 1t twould be considered very bad form and
not at all pleasing for the secretary of
state of the next administration to have
record on the Cuban question in any
way hostile to Spain's colonial policy.
These hints from foreign nations come
in the most innocent and Indifferent sort
of way, but they mean a good deal all
the same.
The true inwardness of what Spain
more particularly is after will be better
understood when it is remembered that
every prominent Republican, from John
Sherman down, has at one time or an
other indulged in the widest jingoism
over Cuba for political effect. During
the ten years war, 1858 to 1878, Sherman
and all the other prominent Republicans.
were vehement in their demands for the
recognition of Cuban independence to
please the people, and since the present
rebellion was started. every prominent
Republican has been doing the lingo act.
We. in this country. know very well
how much politics there is in the Cuban
business. and no doubt foreign diplo-
mats know all about it, too, but it is
good diplomacy to take seriously what
our jingoes have said and make the most
of it; and it is good diplomacy, too. to
hint that the relations between foreign
nations and the United States would be
very much closer and more firmly i'm
bedded in international good feeling dur
ing Mr.. McKinley's administr tration If
jngo cyclone were not secretary of
state
Whether ii is the purpose of the powers
to force Mckinley to pick up an obscure
and second-rate man for the state de-
partment they alone know, but one thing
10 'CiS SSi tain, anu lIldt is, MT. Mchln-
ley Will have to throw all the jngoes
overheard, or put an affront upon other
nations. But anyway, the new president
will be confronted by a problem which
no other president has had to deal with
ard it is one crowded full of perplexi-
ties. the more so because the party
would go broke on brains if the jngoes
We're eliminated.
The herald., 1897-01-05
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibiiity for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)