The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-14
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oossagner train on the Burlington
..-,noJ = trestle near Omaha, and five
yaanIa were injured, one fatally.
william Dobbs, of Union, Or, has
lived the Maui prize for raising the
i i,r5ost table beet for 1895. The con-
.asf was open to all growers in the
United States and Canada. The prize
oonsisted of a $50 draft. The beet
weighed seventeen pounds.
Some boys while hunting near Peta-
lnna Cal, shot a pigeon on a tree,
and the bird dropped with a broken
wing A message tied to the birds
zinc nroved that it came from Walla
W,Ija, Wash, four days previous.
The mite was addressed to San Fran
cisco firm
Jmportant papers showing the
amount due the Pacific roads sinking
fnrd. on account Of subsidies paid the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have
gnparentIy been lost. The senate
adopted a resolution calling for them.
The acting secretary has replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river salmon packers
held meeting in Astoria for the pur-
pose of fixing the price to be paid for
salmon during the coming season. 1t
WAS decided to offer cents pound,
and a communication to that effect was
sent to the Fishermen's Protective
Union. The union met later, but no
action was taken in the matter of the
Gamers proposition.
A thousand warning Poles, in Bay
CITY, Mich, were determined that Fa
tber Bogacki should not officiate as
their priest. They attacked the par
sonage of st. Stanislaus' church, and
sormed it for over an hour. They de-
molshed the edifice and one man was
shot and several others wounded with
clubs The priest finally surrendered,
and the police quelled the riot.
Chicago paper says that President
elect Mckinley will select Colonel John
Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to
Great Britain. Colonel Hay has been
secretary of the legation at Paris,
Vienna and Madrid and was often
charge d'affaires ad interim at each of
these capitals. In Hayes adminstra-
ton he was first assistant secretary of
state. Hay was one of President Lin
elOn's secretaries.
Sir Charles Upper at a dinner in
London is quoted as saying: 81 feel
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti-
tutOns. | feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for
life, property and liberty. Canadians
are greatly f1attered at the desire of
The United States to possess Canada,
bat so deep is their loyalty and so
united are the Canadians that the ques-
ton Is impossible. " The speech of the
A-premier was received with great ap-
pause
In answer to Senator Mitchell's reso-
iutlon on the Yaquina and other i'm
pFOyements in Oregon, the secretary of
war has reported that the matter had
Oeen referred to Captain Fisk, and that
considerable correspondence had ensued.
captain Fisk is endeavoring to ascer-
TAIN the best method of proceeding
win WIN the project. The work on the
willamette river has been ordered, and
uie 1amhll locks are in the condition
u lhe laqulna project. Evidently
'ueft mas been delay in the matter,
"Hlch may be continued for some time.
Inc Pacific cable conference will
meet within fortnight in London to
asn The report already agreed upon. It
: %nll-ofhclally stated that the report
unanimously recommends that a cable
V oulit, as 1t is practically feasible
a auu commercially and politically neces-
;!' There Is some difference of opin-
wi feSardlng the relative share of ex-
s ss1St 10 be borne by Great Britain
a a The colonies concerned, but the del
,s Sa'tS nave agreed finally to recommend
r .a' TESS be paid by Great Britain and
a-O'e oy the colonies than originally
f .aS necessary. The sum asked
oo ,-I ofeat Britain is understood to be
'iuefed financially feasible by Secre-
~fy Chamberlain.
II - +t Oand OF masked regulators went
m;I [-' mouse OF c. W. Reddick, a few
e.T es west of Newport, Idaho, and
him him. j, INN to the door. They seized
Sa.. dragged l. him outside, took him a
hin, Instance from the house and gave
so1 terrible beating with horsewhips
Tba switches n His condition is critical.
monos legged offense of Reddick was i'm:
OH attentions to married woman
'ne neighborhood
has. ~ Stated that c. P. Huntington
aati, oorps OF engineers in the field
load preliminary survey for rail-
o,uz 4 ~ Fort Alvarado, south of Vera
The ~ W the port of Salina Cruz on
sIvsn aOillc' and that, if he can secure
gOyern'Ss eouS routes, he will ask the
mr nlnent for concession for the
aect fOse OF operating the line in con-
ins ar M WIN Pacific Mail steamers, do
H. "sy with the Panama route.
at in New N York Herald's correspond
sord thu M "a Nicaragua, sends
eject mat u the government is about to
debts co forced loan of $500, 900 to paw
isratioUnu by the present admin
hbite1a u in Jamaica have pro-
ColOmfh.ul We Importation of cattle from
aggestadd' !, BY way of retaliation it is
Issue Ga mat the government should
Of labo uecree against the importation ~,
whom s are from Jamaica, ma ma S''e Of
canal. ''e now at work on the Panama