The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-06-23
l0IyGS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
1T. Review Of the News OF the
past seven Gays IN This ana
Ali Foreign Lands

oroI o,der has been issued by
donartment to the effect that
tDS W" .t;ra Philippine islander shall be
10 r ,s' in the army of the United
states. =,
r,, Porto Rico invaders will embark
.l ~, +be next 10 days. The entire
Tl'n' ,;on Of the war department will
"'s" ho turned to getting this second
a .,,,r ~ coast expedition under way as
soon as possible
c,.toir Pierson, of the schooner
pn v+h which has arrived in Victoria
nus hu. Cook's inlet, states that the
Npm onor Alton, which sailed from
s sC"rr recently for the North. carry
lawn nrew of six men, is believed to
n lug hqeu lost during the severe gale
which occurred on May ~.
Tho cantain of the schooner Lapwing,
which has Just returned from Alert bay,
.",orts that nine sternwheel steamers
~ .bo Moran feet of eleven, were serl-
O,sly damaged while attempting to
osnss oneep Charlotte sound. The In
inreJ vessels put in at Port Alexander,
where they will be repaired.
Adv;ces from Shanghai to the Frank
,nt Zejtung of Berlin, say news has
boqr received from Manila to the enect
t5ot there is lighting every night
aranrd the town. The insurgents, it
sppms. are trying to capture Manila
and establish an independent govern
mant before the Americans land.
disnatch from Admiral Sampson
dated at Mole St. Nicholas says: Lieu
tenant Blue has Just returned after
dptour of 70 statute miles Of observation
Of the harbor of Santiago. He reports
that the Spanish feet is all there, and
that the Spanish attacked vigorously
the camp at Guantanamo. An outpost
of four marines were killed and their
bodies mutiated, barbarously. Surgeon
Gibbs was killed.
There was a renewal on Sunday Of
the Spanish attacks upon the force OF
marines landed at Guantanamo Friday
night. The fighting is said to have
lasted all through Sunday night, Camp
McCala and Crest hill being attacked
BY greatly superior forces Of the Span
lh. The battleship Texas, gunboat
MarhIehead and collier Abaranda sup
ported the marines by directing fire
upon the coast and particularly the
bushes which all through these en-
counters have served to screen the
movement of the Spaniards.
The steamer Skagit Chief ran against
arOek in the Stickeen river and was
wrecked
The three Philippines expeditions
are to unite at Honolulu and conclude
their voyage in company.
The wal department has no inten-
ton of further increasing the strength
OF the Manila expedition.
TWenty-three vessels, taken since the
war opened, are to be sold under tie
hammer at Key West Monday.
From 10000 to $4,000 troops, con-
Voyed by SIMPSONS batte-ships are ex-
pected to constitute the invading expe-
dltlon to Porto Rico
Mrs A. Hummer, wife of Chief En-
giheer Hummer, of the steamer Wild
Wood, committed suicide at Port Town,
send by jumping off the wharf into the
Sound.
When the Dauntless left Guanta-
hamo bay Monday morning the cable
steamer Adria was graphing for the
hs!tlen cable. The cable is to be
sphced and Sampson will hold it for
ufect communication with Washing
ton.
Immediately upon information from
mu Nhlte House that the war revenue
Clll had been signed by the president,
eeVretary Gage issued a circular ex-
piaihing to the public the proposed
Oono issue. That circular invites sub
sliptlons for $500, OO0,O 900 of 8 pei
cent bonds.
II was formally announced at the
~. wal department Monday morning that
" tIe nrst military expedition had left
AZ. NC! west at daybreak bound for San.
uAso: A large force of transports con.
'e!ed the troops under convoy of q
f. aOns squadron of warships ranging
nn Ull immense battle-ships to the small
MI a: and armed fast sailing yachts.
+ta'of-0eneral Shafter, who commando
c ne expedition, has with him a force Of
p Do olhcers and 1884 enlisted men.
nas. Olar troops make up the greater
tb. .' VI the force, there being only
sb;a0 counter organizations on the
tba eps 1t was difficult to prevail upon
mo, mounted rifemen to leave theiI
Of a behind, but this was matter
laol Necessity 1t is said, owing to thu
shin VI accommodation for horses or
con lp board. The best the department
NV r;u 10 at this time in the way of sup
ernnS:.. the cavalry contingent for tn,
TO- uui''oh was to include among thu
SIPS one squad of the Second United
OFF, 'es cavalry, fully mounted with min,
-'ers and $50 enlisted men.
O,n Minor News Items.
stota INC $4,000 citizens of the United
tricr 'S now in Germany, 1000 are ma
'0uiated students.
vh Timely rains give assurance Of
wheat crop in the state Of Wash;no.o,
a. excess OF 10000, 900 bushels.
MIA sn Columbia lI Cornell, Pennsylva
take 4 nl Wisconsin boat regatta will
~ place on Saratoga lake June 80.
St. Ials Allen, pugilist. was given .
in tho oSe sp Mo-. Is years. sentenc
'0h'tentiary for robbery.