The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-01-07
EyEyT5 OF THE DAY
ro;tome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rrRSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,.ro,tinr Collection of Items From
,be Two HemisPheres Presented
ina Condensed Form.


,a Condensed Form.
...arner Jaranza, from Rotter.
l.. ra7orrcd lost off Cape Abjoa.
c c+ members Of the crew were saved
and fHeea are missing.
r.,..a Officer Bratton was badly
,i.,rai,e irving % capture two bur-
s,ore in Tacoma. He fired
E.''no burglar, when another, who was
...5ir. opened fire and shoe Bratton
W. 'aa IN tbe back of the head. He
will probably die.
Eddie Chandler, about / years old,
4ro,,nad in Portneuf river, in Po-
'at.Io Idaho. He threw his hat on
.,,a zoe and tried to get the dog to get
:. and falling in this, he went on the
i.a ar3 broke through into deep water.
rba river was dragged and the body
t,nrd in about an hour.
one If the last official acts of Mayor
p,dar Of les Angeles, Cal, will be to
attach his signature to an ordinance
a,oting pxpect0ratiOns upon the side
,r.lks Of public streets. entrances to
,nbIic buildings or the floors of street
ears 2 misdemeanor. punishable by
either fine or imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen of the secret service at
Washington. has issued a circular
Warming against q new counterfeit $40
national banknote on the Union Ma
rionsl bank Of Detroit. The note is
the product of the same hand which
rroduced 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
brOther.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 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-
tary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
though it Is to apply to all such gov
eminent Institutions and to all peni-
tenuarles hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment Attorney
General Harmon is subjecting the re.
cent civil service schedule as affecting
The department. of justice to a rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
WOvercome defect in the rules pro-
Muigated and further amendments on
similar lines may be expected.
Radical changes IN the procedure of
me pension Office have been made. All
clalms Tor increase, save in extraordi-
1aly cases, hereafter will be sent direct
" tae medical division of the bureau,
without having to be passed upon by
ne board of review. This action is
'"Aen On the ground that the bulk of
increase cases involve only medical &C.
uVu Hereafter there will be no ne
V9'slty Tor cases before the board of re-
,'s" oelng passed upon by three or
'Uuf examiners. Commissioner Muir
~! mas liked the number of examiners,
WIZ must review each claim at once.
1n8 Mexican government, recognize.
s Tue increasing Importance of it's
"VS' coast commerce, is determined to
-~o'e the harbors. Arrangements
ave Oeen made TO raise considerable
t:1 ior this work, in addition to the
CC'uOVOOU for the improvement of
a,a'1Seoalcos and Salina Cruxz, the
.s''fu and western termini of the Te-
~ aI'3pec road. The move to improve
u. 4'i uors Is also caused, it is said, by
Val '"piolty of railroad building to-
viii v%ru the Mexican Pacific coast, which
l,, ~ open fertile country and develop a
lo, ~ ~ Tommerce through the ports be-
Ma. 'uiAe instituted at Georgetown,
non Nor ndS thrown out of work 200
~ ' "nu promises to embrace the en-.
b,.Sl N snoe factories of the town. A
Of J "a cut in wages was the cause
" 'ne strike
r.a constructors of the Siberian rail.
b,ou nave undertaken to build a line
miOt sn Mantchuria, starting from a
fm5 VI the river where the Siberian
,e,m;n 1us the trans-Baikelia line and
Tbs na'!hg at Mikolskaya, Russia.
b,, MINISTERIAL press of St Peters.
usto pOlhts out that this line will
hi o; russia the intermediary of peace.
Asia '''Il2atlon between Europe and
Pb1 o'5oe has been posted at all the
plFoe;i phla q Reading coal and iron
sta ne" numbering forty, and also
that nioer of individual collieries,
Week "U u would be suspended for a
will he twenty thousand men and bows
nOnato executive committee of the
IN hay conference with headquarters
scsll =" naspolis, Ind, are sending on,
Who int " al commercial organizations
terenca TO send delegates to the con,
600 delo II Is now believed that abou,
gates will be in attendance.