The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
ETEyT5 OF THE DAY
-.;tome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rrpSg TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,.,.re.tinc Collection Of Items From
,a Two HemisPheres Presented
in Condensed Form.

IN a Condensed Form.
~.rsmer Caranza, from Rotter.
NV !. rarortcd lost of Cape Abjoa.
c.-'' ,apnbars Of the crew were saved
81 fffeea are missing.
,,.,.oa Officer Bratton was badly
,t.,r5ila irving % capture two bur-
s- ,. N q store in Tacoma. He fired
E' .ro burglar, when another, who was
q, .a5irc opened ire and shoe Bratton
va N the back of the head. He
will will probably die.
r35;a Chandler, about II years old,
4rovufd in Portneuf river, in Po-
".1Io Td2ho. He threw his hat on
. .%o 800 and tried to get the dog to get
:. and falling in this, he went ON the
=. -. and broke through into deep water.
rbs river was dragged and the body
fmpd in about an hour.
ore Of the last official acts of Mayor
p,ier Of les Angeles, Cal, will be to
attach his signature to an ordinance
r,akipg expectorations upon the side
,r.Iks If public streets. entrances to
,,bIic bindings or the floors Of street
o,r, q misdemeanor, punishable by
eitber fine or Imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen of the secret service at
Washington. has issued a circular
warming against 9 new counterfeit $40
national banknote on the Union Ma
rionsl bank Of Detroit The note is
the product of the same hand which
nrodnced 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
broher.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 a 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
TO the state department upon the open
ing Of the new Japanese steamship line
between Yokohama and Australia.
The president has extended the civil
service rules so as to include all officers
and employees in the federal peniten-
uary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
though 1t Is to apply to all such gov
eminent institutions and to all peni-
tennaries hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment. Attorney
General Harmon is subjecting the re-
cent civil service schedule as affecting
ne department of justice to rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
10 overcome a defect in the rules pro-
malgated and further amendments on
similar lines may be expected.
RaulcsI changes IN the procedure of
ue pension office have been made. All
u'lHS Tor increase, save IL extraordi-
lazy cases, hereafter will be sent direct
"lae medical division of the bureau,
sNnout having to be passed upon by
Ie BOARD Of review. This action is
''Aen On the ground that the bulk of
Increase cases involve only medical &C.
uOu. Hereafter there will be no ne
veS'ity Tor cases before the board of re-
. 4'" Oelng passed upon by three or
y1' examiners Commissioner Muir
p1' HaS liked the number of examiners,
NV must review each claim at once.
1ne Mexican government, recognize
~ Tue increasing Importance of it's
s-' 'OdSF commerce, is determined to
b.t pV'8 the harbors. Arrangements
sr r.' Oeen made to raise considerable
/; oa 1O' lnls work, in addition to the
cc,,vuV'VOO for the improvement of
s. as'lacoalcos and Salina Cruxz, the
br.S S.u ahd western termini of the Te-
H. L''pec road. The move to improve
bs I " Is also caused, it is said, by
w., i"pialty of railroad building to-
viii N 'ne Mexican Pacific coast, which
l.,.. Open fertile country and develop a
I'M 81 " yOmmerce through the ports be-
Na., '"iAe instituted at Georgetown.
nsa a''' has thrown out of work 200
f,s "nu promises to embrace the en-
h,as "a snoe factories of the town. A
o. the strike. wages WAS 'ne cause
had instructors of the Siberian rail-
tb,on nave undertaken to build line
POINT ~ Mantchuria, starting from a
load ~, " the river where the Siberian
te,m; s'ins the trans-Baikelia line and
The m9lg at Mikolskaya, Russia.
hu,, MINISTERIAL press of st. Peters
usfo , out that this line will
III ci ~ussla the intermediary of peace
Asia -'ilation between Europe and
hila ,ios has been posted at all the
ellisr;alp & Reading coal and iron
sta nUm, numbering forty, and also
hat lumber wl of Individual collieries.
Week work T would be suspended for {. a
viii he twenty thousand men and bows
aou rs executive committee of the
il Indi @y conference with headquarters
acaI Itl a Ind, are sending out
Who ip 10 all commercial organizations s ons
fsrsnCe q. to send delegates to the con.
900 deleoaa.'l is now believed that about
'eS Will be in attendance.