The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS

Comprehensive Review Of the Import.
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.
A Victoria dispatch says: Jack Carr,
former United States mailcarrier, has
arrived at Departure bay from St.
Michaels. via Dawson, with advices
from Andree, the balloonist.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Odessa says that, owing to the
American war scare, the price of wheat
is rapidly rising there, the stocks being
small.
Two killings and lynching hap
pened in Brownsville, Tex, within
three-quarters of an hour. Sam Cobb,
a deputy sheriff, and his brother,
Felipe Cobb, constable, were shot
down by Carlos Guellen. Guellen was
wounded by Sam Cobb. Later a mob
lynched Cullen.
A bill is to be introduced in the
Maryland legislature, copied after the
pattern of that in Ohio, which provides
that all applicants for marriage licenses
must pass an examination before duly
appointed board of physicians. It also
provides that the salaries of the physi-
clans composing the board shall be
$1,000 year.
Fire at Congress mining camp, Pres
colt, Ariz., destroyed nearly every bus
mess house In what is known as Lower
Town. There was no water, and the
fire spread rapidly. The loss is $40,-
900. James Vidant, proprietor of the
Silver Dollar saloon, and woman of
the town named Gertie Thompson,
alias Graham, were burned to death.
The following utterance was made by
Chandler (Rep. N. H. in a carefully
prepared statement of his position on
the Cuban crisis in the senate Wednes-
day: "The United States ought i'm
mediately to declare war against Spain
and maintain that war until the people
of Cuba are free from SPANS starva-
ton and cruelty and the government is
firmly established as an independent
republic.
In accordance with resolution
passed some time ago by the interna-
tional union, the book and job printers
of San Francisco went on strike Mon
day. The bone of contention is g.
hour day instead of l0-hour day.
About 800 men are out.
European dispatches announce the
butchery in France of an entire family
of six persons by robber named Gail
lard. This human wild beast shot and
killed the husband, wife and two chill.
dren, cut the throat of little girl and
blew out the brains of bed-ridden old
woman.
The steamer La Bretagne has arrived
crew of the British bark Bothnia,
which was wrecked off the Irish coast
on March %. The Bothnia sailed
from Lobos de Afuera, off the coast of
Peru, November 5. When 90 miles of
the Irish coast, on March %, squall
struck the bark, upsetting her.
A seaman belonging to the British
battle-ship Resolute was sentenced to
fortnight's confinement and deprived
of his good conduct badge. for wearing
the shamrock on St. Patrick's day, in
disobedience to orders. A recital OF
the incident created a sensation in the
English commons, and caused an OBJ
iecting Irish member to be removed
from his seat.
Antoine Varicle, of the French Geo.
graphical Society, has arrived in New
York with balloon, with which he
intends to make trip from juneau to
the Klondike. A dozen persons are in
the party. Arthur Tervagne, LII D.,
is president of the expedition and is
also correspondent of Figaro. Varicle.
head of the expedition, is 40 years old
and well-known engineer and invent
or in France. He claims that his
balloon can be steered with ease.
General Carlos Ezeta, the exiled ex-
president of Salvador, has been vindi-
Gated by his people. His vast estates.
the stocks and money confiscated by
the government of President Gutierrez,
after Ezeta was forced to leave his ma
tive land four years ago, have been re-
turned to him, and Ezeta is again
worth more than 81, 100000. The gen.
eral says he will never again interest
himself in Salvadorean politics. He IL
now living in Oakland, Cal.
The committee on interstate and for
eien commerce has favorably reported
Mr.. Tongues bill extending the time
for Abe 4ection of bridge across the
Columbia, by the Oregon & Washing
ton bridge Company, between Washing
ton and Oregon. The committee, how
ever, amended the bill SO that instead
of having two years to begin operation,
the company will have one year. and
instead of four years in which to COM
plete the work, three years is allowed.
all this time to be reckoned from the
date of the passage of the bill by con-
press. This is the bridge it was pro-
posed to build in the vicinity OF La
Camas several years since in connection
with a road to North Yakima. The
site is claimed to be the best on the
Columbia.
Captain Ray, agent of the war de-
partment. who has just returned from
Alaska, says that from his knowledge
of the conditions existing at Fort Yu-
kon, and reliable information from
Dawson, he does not believe there will
be any loss by starvation among the
whites, but the Indians along Porcu-
pine and Juan de Leur are starving.