The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
rom all Parts of the New
and Old World.
r,rrr AND INTERESTING ITEMS
tor.Ive Review of the Import
Comprfh'"
ant happenings of tho Cur
rent Week.

mt Happenings OF tho Cur-
rent Week.
The president has sent to the senate
.bo name of William w. Morrow, Of
r.,;fornia. to be United States circuit
;nlge for the ninth judicial district.
william J. Bryan has accepted an in
ri+ation to speak at Gladstone Park,
ro,r Oregon City, on the 18th of July,
+ba dav before the annual Chautauquan
assembly will open. His subject will
bp "Bimetallism.
From Clark's lens works, Cambridge,
has been shipped in special parlor car
two discs which form the lens for the
GREAT Yerkes telescope, the largest lens
ever made. Every precaution was
taken to insure the safe transportation
oftbe costly lens. They were insured
for their full value, 100000. The lens
represent nearly six years of careful la
Dor
CAPTAIN Miller has information that
the war department has appropriated
$4,000 for transportation fund for the
army post at Spokane, which makes
total Of 1896, 900 this year. The sun
dry civil bill carries $50, more, all
10 be spent this year. The intention is
TO transfer two companies to Spokane,
probably from Fort Sherman. AS fast
As the barracks buildings are built,
other companies will come from Forts
U,1lo WaI1a and Sherman
special to the New York Journl
from Havana says: The opening Of
private letters by Weyler's postoffice
employees has been made the subject of
energetic protests by more than one To-
cal consul The representative of a
leading South American republic went
personally to the palace to complain
that his mail, both official and private,
had been tempered with, while DIR.
Drummer, of the United States marine
hospital service, detailed here as as
sistant sanitary inspector, attached to
the American consulate, received sew
era letters from his wife, the envelopes
(Which had been clipped off at the
postofice before delivery. They were
delivered open, no attempt whatever
having been made to conceal the fact of
violation. Upon the Doctors COM
plant General Lee sent a sharp note
OfpTotest to the captain-general' office.
More than 100, 200 cases of salmon
have been left over from last years
pack at Astoria.
The famous Tombs prison in New
York is to be torn down to give way to
anew and handsome structure.
ClOuse Clodius, aged II, was struck
by lightning and seriously injured at
his home on Mill creek, Walla Walla
county, Wash.
Portland, Or, will celebrate the
Fourth of July this year. Committees
have been appointed and plans dis
cussed to have the finest celebration
ever seen in that city.
Adolph L. Luetgert, a wellknown
sausage manufacturer of Chicago, has
been arrested accused of numbering his
vile and burning her body in acid to
hide the traces of his crime.
The New York Herald's special from
Madrid says no doubt remains that the
Work OF pacifcation in the Philippine
Islands is at standstill. The gravity
Of the situation there has been fully
revealed by correspondent in Manila,
who gives many incidents with dates to
show that the insurgent bands are still
active.
Special reports from the principal
nut and grain centers of California an
h0uce general rainfall, which in few
cases has injured the hay crop and in
Other sections has come too late in the
season to be beneficial. The California
wheat crop will be generally light, but
growing cereals look much better along
ue foothills than on the plains.
Firms and individuals in this coun-
ny interested in trade with Cuba, and
VINO desire peace in the island as soon
%possible, have sent to the secretary
state memorial, setting forth how
uelr business interests are suffering,
ana giving facts about the struggle in
Iuoa, IN the hope that measures may
F devised to terminate the war.
The general traffic manager of the
y H. d n. says that all the railroads
.ap'erested have agreed to put into effect
T Me new grain rate on June 8 next.
HS action will be In accord with the
Jaw passed by the last Washington leg
nf
enV on previous rates. 1t is estimated
4aI the new rate will effect saving
wi the farmers of Eastern Washington
"na OF Northern Idaho of from $780,
WV TO 5000, 900 a year.
:: george Francis Train has reopened
u; IN claim to the city of Omaha, and he
,l'ends TO press it to the last. If he
b b,Is he will be worth $40, 900, 900; il
i fuses, he will be no poorer than he
now now Certain of his friends have in
s ,esrsated the matter, and they are
,b bu'lnced that his cause is just and
r.: 'he claim growing out of the old
~, IiOn Pacific litigation and subsequent
55aaooSeedlngs in which he was legally
Jared lunatic is valid.
A an expedition has just left Philadel-
t fa'a mat has for its object the explora-
P ~; u the country around Mount st.
a ~ Alaska, and possibly the ascent
r.a mat mountain, which for long time
considered the highest in America.
sna5 number of people have been poi
{ ba s9u IN Oakland, Cal, by eating straw
\! bs The physicians declare that
w., strawberries have been in contact
p,o m some poisonous matter used Dy
laso to destroy plant insects. There
Of ~ oeen traces of Paris green in some
We fruit offered for sale.