The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-10-20
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened in the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
,,s,e Review OF tho News OF the
Past Seven Days In This ana
ALI Foreign Lands.


ALI Foreign Lands.
rb;rtv-sjx deaths and 47O cases OF
lDm iaver are reported in Mississippi
to date
Cuban sugar planters refuse to resume
onerations unless guaranteed proper
protection
Tho OREGON and Washington recruits
ho have been encamped in San Fian-
';a.o or some time are to be sent to
Manila.
All tbe furloughed soldiers of the
va.L;ncton battalion and battery A,
",oaon volunteers, have reported for
I,,r and will be mustered out.
Tho health of the United States
.,oons now in the province of Santiago
Las considerably improved, not more
,bon 10 per cent now being on the sIck
list
An association, to be known as the
1nmbar Manufacturers of the Pacific
Coast has been formed, and has adj
vsnced the price of lumber from $3.50
ns1O to sll per thousand, cargo de-
liyered
proposaIs for the cession of Porto
Rico and Guam islands to the United
States and providing for the independ-
oncp Of Cuba will be discussed by the
rooco commission in Paris at it's next
session.
The American commissioners have
notified the Spanish authorities In
Havana that the United States will
assme entire control, military and gov
ernmental. of Cuba December 1. The
same control will be exercised in Porto
Rico October Is.
A meeting of Importance, it is said,
will be held in few days in some
Havana province, of all the command
els of the Cuban army. Gen. Maxine
Gomez will preside The meeting will
have significance as deciding the
future policy of the Cuban army on the
island.
The great strike at Paris may be ex-
tended, and pressure is being put on
unions not affected to join in the move
ment. Forty thousand men are now
out. Violence has already been resort
ed to in q few cases to cause men still
working to come out The streets of
Paris are taking on the appearance of
amilitary camp. The soldiers sympa-
tlize with the strikers.
The asnual report of the commits
slOner of Indian affairs, William /.
Jones, shows a general advancement in
the condition of the nations wards. "
Education, the greatest factor in solv-
Ing the status of the Indians, is being
pushed forward in the service, and now
there are l47 well-equipped boarding
schools and an equal number of day
schools engaged in the education of 49,
S51 pupils.
Kansas negro soldiers stationed at
Santiago will be allowed to vote in the
state election.
colonel Tyson, with detachment OF
i'V men and So officers. has left Brook.
lyn Tor San Juan de Porto Rico.
An attempt to compromise the Leech
lake trouble resulted in failure. as the
Indians refused to join in the confer.
ence.
secretary Day says the Paris negotia.
uohs Will soon be ended, and the peace
commission will finish its work before
congress meets.
Inc yellow fever epidemic in Louisi.
ana is said to be of mild type, and
Tie state board of health has decided
/" name it "yellowoid.
secretary Alger has sent an answer
the war investigating committee,
WHICH, IN the words of one of the com.
~lSsloners. docs not answer"
Madrid dispatch says evacuation
VIII be rushed, and Spaniards will be
vU' Vi Porto Rico by next week, and
Vu' VI Cuba by the end of November.
resident Mckinley and party have
sOne 10 Omaha, where they will bt
s;o OF tie Trans-Mississippi EXPOSE
.On and participate in the peace jubi
Ihomas Greenwald, a private in bat
sbo. J. oi the Seventh artillery, was
.no' and Instantly killed while trvins
De- escape from Fort Slocum, near New
Inc members of the United State,
O.o, ua'ion commission gave an elab
g. .0 luncheon to the members of the
~ ran,sll evacuation commission at til,
MOTEL Trocha Havana.
lhe French government is prepar;n,
mda an emergency and has issued specia
tou uefs to the garrisons of numerou
ato,n nS near the capital to send immedi
~ Farls 500 infantry each.
;n. news has been received of tie find
g. o NJ gOid quartz at Skagway, goin,
lors, GO 10 The ton. Although the exac
TO h. is not made known, it is sait
tho q "''hln very short distance O
ne Gateway city.
Minor News Items.
can aoS Cotton, the noted Ameri
SOM ueh'iSt who died in ROTTERDAM
OOo y, 'lme ago, had pulled over 900.
and w. IN the course of his practice
in. was Was the first dentist to use "lauob