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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
SIX Lives Were Lost.

Detroit, Sept. 1O.-Six young men
were drowned in a yacht near Wind
mill point, on Lake st. Clair, late this
afternoon. The dead are: Thomas
Fritz, H. Gerteis, Grant hurry, Thomas
Newcome, Charles Rice, Jay Ilandey.
A party of 10 chartered the yacht
Blanche and went up the lake on sail.
When near the mouth of Fox creek,
and nearly off Windmill point, several
of the party crawled out on the boom
and commenced to rock the craft, which
being heavily ballasted, lurched and
capsized, going to the bottom The SIX
men who were in the cockpit we're
drowned. The three youngsters who
caused the disaster and one other were
saved by boat which pulled out from
shore.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
PANIC IN A THEATER.
San Francisco Orpheum Patrons Have
Close Call With Fire.

San Francisco Orpheum Patrons Have
Close Call With Fire.
San Francisco. Sept. 8.-Fire in the
Orpheum theater just before the close
of the performance last night created
much excitement and panic attended
with loss of life was narrowly averted.
The casualties were confined to slight
injuries to few persons.
In the theater there is an electrical
apparatus known as the cinematOgraph
by which pictures are thrown on a
white ground on the stage. 1t is oper-
ated from a small closet built on the
front of the gallery. The sides of the
closet we're of muslin. This material
caught fire and began dropping on the
heads of the audience below. A cry of
''fire" was raised, and rush for the
exits Was made. One man pushed his
arm through glass door and was badly
cut. An elderly lady was thrown down
and trodden on, but was revived and
taken away by her daughter. A man
jumped from a secondstory window
and his head was cut in several places.
The fire was extinguished before it
spread. Within few minutes the ex-
citement had subsidized and the per-
Torrance was continued to the end OF
the programme with the exception OF
the cinematograph pictures.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
NORTHWEST BREVlTIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All tho Cities and Towns u
the Thriving Sister States
-waahireton.
The hay crop Of Kittitas county for
this year is estimated, by those who are
said to know, at So, 900 tons.
Congressman James Hamilton Lewis
arrived in Spokane, from Washington,
last week, on his way to the Sound.
There are So, 900 sheep owned In Kit
titas county. Besides this number,
many bands summer there on the noun.
tain ranges.
A party of prospectors from Seattle
are reported to have made rich strike
in the Olympics about 10 miles from
Duckabush.
A telephone line is to be erected at
once from Oakesdale to Thornton, Sun
set and st. John. Work will begin az
soon as the material can be had.
A Tacoma carpenter, while walking
in his sleep. fell from two-story win
dow to the ground. Nothing but his
nap and little skin were broken.
Salmon for the interior and transcon-
tinental shipment have begun to arrive
in Tacoma from lower Puget sound cam
nd 70 10 20
coon be brisk.
The firm of Balfour, Guthrie & Co.,
for the first time in the history of the
crop hop industry in Yakima county. is
buying in that county this year. The
firm recently bought 1900 bales on
10-cent basis.
Two wagon-loads of immigrants
passed through Walla Walla on their
way to Centralia. They started from
Kansas on the goth Of April and have
been travelling ever since.
Whitman county warrants have re-
Gently advanced from 95 to SO cents.
As these warrants only draw per cent
interest, the price offered is considered
good, and as speaking well for the
county.
Governor Rogers has signed and for
warded to Warden Catron the discharges
of nine prisoners in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla, whose terms expire Sep
TENDER z. Only two Of these will have
their civil rights restored.
Scarcity of hoppickers has caused
growers in North Yakima to offer 81
per box, the highest price for many
seasons Quite number Of pickers
have gone to the yards to the south,
but the demand is still heavy.
Fruit has been shipped from Wen
atchee at the rate of a carload a day for
the last few weeks. The shipments
consist mostly of tomatoes, pears,
peaches, watermelens and apples. The
marketing of tomatoes has ceased al-
most entirely at present, owing to de-
preciated prices, and, as consequence,
hundreds Of bushels will rot on the
vines, as the hot weather has ripened
them very fast.
The board of regents of the state agri-
cultural college, at Pullman, being un-
able to come to terms with the Pullman
city council for furnishing water for the
college, has voted to have system of
water works put in at the college.
The first letter mail to be dispatched
from this country to the Klondike re-
gion, under the reciprocal arrangement
with Canada effected by establishing an
international exchange between Dyea
and Dawson City, will be forwarded
from Seattle by steamer leaving there
September II. From that time forward
letter mail will 60 over the new service
regularly once month.
Oregon.
A plan is on foot in Pendleton to
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Mutilated Corpse in a Lonely Wood.

MuC1l8CGQ COIPSO An - A/~"cAy 'OO~A'
Washington, Sept. 8.-The little vii
lage of Laurel, Nd, 10 miles from
Washington, is much excited over q
murder mystery. A boy hunting in
the woods near the village this morn
ing found nude human body. The
coroner of the county was notified and
went to the place. He found that the
BODY was that Of a woman in such an
advanced state of decomposition as to
make identification very difficult if not
impossible. The head had been COM
pletely severed from the body, as had
also the left hand and the left foot.
The hand and foot were missing, but
the head lay short distance from the
body.
Il was impossible to estimate the age
Of the woman correctly, but she seemed
to have been under so. The nails OF
the right hand seemed to have been
we'll cared for and indicated that the
woman had not been accustomed to
hard work.
AS far as learned no woman is miss
ing in that locality, and the oficlals
have no clue % to the murderer.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

About 500 western cities have the
curfew ordinaqce.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
Passengers Protected.

SEATTLE. WASH, Auu, 23-United
States Inspector of Hulls w. J. Bryant is
determined that Alaskan bound vessels
must exercise every precaution necessary
to insure the SAFETY and comfort of pas
sengers. He again exercised his author
ity to that end tonight. The schooner
Moonlight had fully expected to have
sailed last night for Skaguay, but delay in
receiving freight prevented it. Early this
evening she was all ready to leave port
with sixty passengers and more than that
number of tons OF freight, but another
and unIooked-for delay turned up.
Inspector Bryant appeared on the scene
and decided that the schooner was over
loaded, both as to passengers and freight.
He ordered the deck cleared Of considera-
bic lumber and further decided that the
number of passengers must be reducsd.
AS consequence the Moonlight will not
depart until tomorrow, and in the mean
time there will be a adjustment of con-
ditions. The tug Colman will tow her
north, and will also carry four women
passengers. The Inspector also ordered
an improvement in the accom- modations
for the women,
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

fully as safe for him TO return to his East
ern home Gnd spend The winter in the
bosom Of his family and then go north in
the spring. This passenger with three
other young men from the State of In
diana bought tickets and tirst-class pass
age at Chicago for Dawson City, and
thought they had secured their berths in
stateroom and one in 6. These were To-
Gated by means of diagram OF the boat,
which they presumed was one of the
usual sea-going ships. The four men paid
for transportation from Chicago the round
sum of 500. and they went on the COM
pany plan, their goods and supplies being
mixed. On reaching this city and board
ing the steamer they found the plans so
changed that their stateroom reservations
had been lost in the shuttle and they were
compelled to sleep D where they could-on
the floor or deck as best suited them.
When the m lssion station was reached
the passengers had become somewhat &c.
quain;ed with the boats alleged unsea-
wortniness, and the only one of this par
ticular party who had money with him de-
termined to return. Their other funds,
$500, were in exchange on Dawson City.
The prodigal says undoubtedly others
would give up the trip If they were not
'in the same boat"
Arriving here to-day Mr.. Zins applied
at the office of the company sending
out the Eliza Anderson and other craft
and demanded the return of his m oney
which was Immediately turned over to him
on his intimation that he was prepared to
49,
check for $25l so, less $50 for carfare to
Chicago, and departed tonight for the
East.
For several days there have been ru-
mors floating around that the steamer
Mexico. which sunk in Dixons entrance
on August 5, had risen TO the surface and
was floating. This is denied by the Rosa
lie people, who say they passed near where
the Mexico sank on their down trip and
saw nothing of her.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
THE RUSH FOR GOLD.

The order of holding the Presidency was
arranged alphabetically and commenced
with Costa Rica.
After the plan was drawn up and
agreed upon by he five Presidents, Presi-
dent Barrios OF Guatemala declared him
self Dictator, and there IS therefore no
congress in Guatemala 10 ratify the plan.
Then Senior Barrios was anxious that he
should be the first President, and he made
overtures to Costa Rica with view to OBJ
tanning the consent of the President OF
that republic to his plan for personal
power.
About this time Nicaragua began to
find out that the sboe pinched her foot.
The Diet holds its sessions in Managua.
She reasoned thatif the pan went through
the sessions of the proposed congress
would be held at San Jose. Therefore she
expressed desire that the session sh ould
be held in Managua. In the meantime
Costa Rica was finding objections to the
scheme.
THE result of the discussion of the mat
ter is that there is no prospect of union,
at least on the basis of the plan drawn up
e. month or so ago. l would not be sur
prised any day to hear of the dissolution
of the Diet That body was formed for
the purpose of keeping in power the men
now holding presidencies. When there
was revolution in Honduras President
Zelsya of Nicaragua dispatched a body OF
men to that republic TO aid in the sup
preston of the insurrection and Honduras
returned the favor. President Zelaya has
gained for him self the i'll will OF the prop
erry-owners in Nicaragua, in fact several
thousand of them are now in Costa Rica
waiting a chance to return to their homes
and aid others who object to Zelaya's rul e
in overthrowing that Government.
"Zelaya is said to fear that some day
a revolution will be successful and it is q
matter of gossip in Nicaragua, so l am in
formed, that he has bought house in
Europe and placed a half million in
European properties so that it will be
handy in case he should be deposed."
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
THOMAS O'SHAY'S LUCK.
A Former Boatswain of the WolCott
Locates a Claim and Sells 1t
for $4,000.

PORT TOWNSEND. WASH, Aug. 23.-
The United States cutter Richard Rush,
returning from the north Saturday night
on a special mission, brought letter to
this city telling of the good fortune OF
Thomas O'Shay, for many years resi-
dent here. While employed as boat
swain iE the revenue service O'Shay's en-
listment board the United States stes mer
Wolcott expired. While that vessel was
detached TO the Customs Collector of
Alaska, from Sitka early last spring ne
went into the Klondike dIggings. He
succeeded in finding and locating a claim,
which, while not immensely rich, paid
him good wages for his work. 1t was the
insane rush of excited men following the
return OF the steamers Albion and Port
land that made Tommy's fortune.
Among the first-comers O'Shay found
purchaser for his claim, receiving. ac-
cording 10 the letter. $40 0C0. This amount
he has laid by and is working for $40
day. He will come out in the spring and
with his advent on the Sound IL is SAID
thai fair damsel OF Port Townsend will
become the wife of $40, 900 husband from
tie wilds OF Alaska.
A party OF famous botanists, including
Professor John Muir of Martinez. CAL,
after whom the worlds greatest glacier in
Alaska is named, Professor c. S. Sargent
of Brooklyn, n. Y, and Professor w. NJ.
Candy of the Smithsonian Institution,
left here this morning on the Queen for
Alaska. The party will visit the Stickeen
River, on the banks OF which Muir some
years ago discovered a remarkable tree,
which the three will classify and If pos
sible dig I'D roots and all and bring it back
tn civilization
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
AGENT KREBES
NOW ABSENT
Legal Representative
of the Southern Pa
Cific in Kentucky.
Desperate Chances Said to Be
Taken by the Railroad
Corporation.
In Dodging a Summons the Conn.,
pany Violates Provisions
In Its Charter.

FRANKFORT, KY, Aug. 21.-Charles
F. Frebes, agent for the Southern Pacific
Railroad, is absent from the State with
out leaving q legal representative on
whom notice can he served and has
abandoned the Office required to be kept
as provided in the charter.
Several weeks ago notice was sent to the
Southern Pacific Company, directed TO
Krebes. who is reported to the Secretary
of State as the authorized agent in this
State, requesting an official report to the
State Board of Valuation and Assessment
of all the property owned by the COM
pany. No reply was made, and the Audi
tor sent summons to Sheriff Planz OF
Louisville, directing him to serve notice
on Krebes. The Sheriff called at the Office
designated by the Southern Pacific Com
pany in the Secretary of States office, but
was told that Krebes had gone to Chicago.
Kreb hes did not leave his address or des-
ignate any one upon which notice could
be served. The Board CT Valuation and
Assessment is much surprised at the ac-
ton of the Southern Pacific Company,
and evidently believes the company is
preparing to abandon the charter, and at
any rate Is taxing desperate Chances. IL
is believed that krebe left at the instance
of the Pacific Company TO avoid summons.
and unless the road re.establishes its Office
it will forfeit its charter.
Auditor Stone, secretary of the Board Of
Valuation and Assessment, said:
1--WE sent out the notices to Mr.. Krebes,
and on receiving no response authorized
Sheriff Planz to serve the summons, but
he has been unable to locate Krebes. The
Southern Pacific Company is either pre-
pairing to incorporate in another State and
abandon the charter or they are playing a
very reckless game in failing to keep an
Office in Louisville. The company must
know the plain provisions of the charter
require this. They further know that
there are other ways in which processes
may be had on them"
Attorneys Humphrey and Davie, for the
Southern Pacific Company. fl ed briefs In
the cases of the State aggregating $140, coo
penalties for failing to report. The COM
pany takes the ground that they own no
property in this State and are not required
to report, and further, that they are not
liable for more than one years penalty
on the ground of limitation.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
Mcrs From This Port.

With the departure of the gasoline
schooner Bessie K it was thought that the
rush for the Klondike was about over un-
til next spring. Other vessels are being
consta ntly added to the list, however, and
if the rush continues there will soon be
not a disengaged vessel of the necessary
draft in port.
The steam schooner Navarro is an
nounced to sail tomorrow and will tow
The stern W heeler Thomas Dwyer as far as
st. Michael. At that point the passengers
and baggage will be transferred and the
Dwyer will proceed up the Yukon alone.
There will be seventy five passengers by
the Navarro, and as the Dwyer only dra ws
eighteen inches OF water the miners con-
slider they will have no difficulty in reach
ing Dawson City before the river freezes
over.
The steam schooner Noyo is to make
another trip to ST. Michael. and she will
get away the latter part of the week. She
may tow up the gasoline schooner Chetco,
but the chances are the latter will 90 up
on her own account. NJ. Mcintosh OF Sc
attic is at the head OF the Chetco expedi-
ton, and he expects to be able TO take his
vessel up the river to the gold fields direct
from this port.
The topmast schooner La Ninfa is al
most ready for start for Copper River.
AS the Indians are averse to any prospect
ing IN the tr. butaries of the river, each
one of the fifty prospectors is going up to
the winter quarters armed to the teeth,
and il the Indians attempt to turn them
back there will be trouble. They will
carry supplies for fourteen months, and
will also take along two steam launches
and TWO whaieboats. They will make
their home during the winter on the La
Ninfa, and all expect to discover as rich a
field as klondike.
Besides these boats the schooners Ber-
wick and Laura D are being fitted out and
will get away next week.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
INDIANS CALLED DOWN.
After Widening the Trail Cold
Seekers Compelled Packers to
Keep Their Contract.

VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 23.-J. Fleming
the steamer Capilano promised to help
the Indians W den the White Pass trail if
they would pack our baggage at Is cents
pound. We widened tn. trail. when the
Indians refused to pack for less than 30
cents. We took our guns out and sur.
rounded them, some of US being pretty
desperate. Several were going to shoot.
when the Indians threw up their arms,
shouting that they would take it through
for nothing. We gave them SIS hun
dred. All of US shot the rapids in the
canyon. 1t was a most terrible expert
ence with the coffin boats built here.
There will be dozens drowned here and
never heard of again"
The steamer Queen, north bound to-day,
left fifteen passengers, thirty tons Of
freight and four horses here for lack OF
room.
The steamer Eugene has arrived at Port
Angeles from Portland. She is to be con-
veyed 10 ST. Michael by the Bristol and
will go up the Yukon with the Bristols
freight and passengers. The Bristol is
expected down tomorrow.
F. M. Yorke goes to the Stickeen River
tomorrow on the steamer Thistle with
machinery for boat to be built on Teslin
Lake this winter for use on the Yukon.
This is the first step toward establishing
the Stickeen-Teslin route. Early next
week Jennings. a Dominion Government
engineer, will go to the Siickeen on
the Government steamer Quadra. He
will survey a route for railway between
Glencoe on the Stickeen and Teslin Lake
A charter tor a railway was granted by
the provincial Legislature last winter and
subsidy of 120 acres per mile. It is ex-
pected that the Dominion Government
will supplement this with a cash subsidy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
AFTER THE CONSFi7A7OHS,
Judge Dillon Considers Mrs. <ngeN
the Ignorant Dupe of Some
Designing Roscais.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Aug. 23-Judge
John Dillon, counsel Tor the Goulds IN the
suit brought by Mrs. Angel to establish
her dover right in the Gould estate by
reason of her alleged marriage with Jay
Gould, will prosecute the conspirators
who induced Mrs. Angel to assist their
pot. Judge Dillon said tonight:
Mrs. AngelPs suit gave us much trou-
BILE, although it was swindle from first
to last. The first thing to be proved about
the case was that Gould had never met
Mrs Angel. BY means OF long and
wearisome examination OF Gould's own
private correspondence we discovered thai
he had not been in the vicinity of Kouse's
Point during the fall of 1858, the time of
the alleged marriage.
''Mrs. Angel assigned half of her claim
to Mrs. Cody of Denver. and it is ostensi-
bly, Mrs. Cody who is prosecuting il. Mrs.
Cody is a rather mysterious character. l
have never seen her, but believe some one
is at the back of her, although the iden-
tity of that some one is a mystery which
has not yet been unraveled.
"I consider Mrs. Angell an ignorant
dupe of some designing rascals, who have
taken this means of extortIng money from
the Gould family. Mrs. Cody and Mrs.
Angel would very likely prefer that :heir
proceedings against the Gould family
should drop just where they are, but we
shall continue the case until we obtain a
record udgment that will prove to all the
world what an outrage this SUIT has been.
1t is more than likely that we shall begin
a criminal action against ONE of the con-
spirators and bring them before the Grand
Jury on a charge OF blackmai. Mrs.
Angell's imbeciIty may be her protecuon,
but some of the principals in the plot may
receive the punishment they deserve.
mo George Gould will never go to see
Mrs. Angel. The very idea that an hon.
orable man would consider any propos!-
ton that came from a traducer of his
fathers memory is prep s erous.'
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

will also run in to Seattle to take on pas
sengers for Dawson. Tomorrow night
the Rosalie will again set out for Dyea
and Skaguay, and on Wednesday the bark
Shirley. They will be followed on Thurs
day by the Willamette and Utopia and the
City of Topeka on Friday. The following
day the barkentine Blakeey will sail and
on Sunday the City of Kingston. All
will have a full complement of passen-
gers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
TO SAIL NORTHWARD.
Promise of Another Busy Week In
the Transportation OF Gold
HuntarG

Hunters.
SEATTLE, WASH, Aug. 23.-This prom
ises to be another busy week in the trans
portation of passengers and freight to
Alaska, with the Upper Yukon gold fields
as the ultimate destination. Several ves-
sells will return from Dyea and Skaguay,
while the steamer Portland is looked for
any time after Thursday. She will come
from 81. Michael, where returning Klon-
dikers are transferred from Yukon River
boats. 1t is not generally believed here
that she will bring any great amount OF
gold on this trip. The greatest returns
are expected on the next trip down of the
Portland, about the middle OF October
Tonight number of the passengers left
on the City OF Seattle for Victoria, where
they will be tran sferred to- o-morrow to the
Bristol. which sails for st. Michael. Later
in the week the Noyo from San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
Deadly Boiter Erplosion.

CAIRO, ILL, Aug. :3-Three men were
instantly killed and eight injured by the
explosion OF boiler at the trickyard OF
w. r. Halliday shortly after IA NJ The
dead are: Ruley Bradley, engineer; Gid
con r cks, Henry Schiller. All the killed
and injured were negroes except Schiller.
None of the injured will Gie. The cause
OF the explosion is unknown