The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
orrrF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
abepsiye Review Of the Import
ant Happenings of the Cur
rent Week.

TLa steamer Elter plying DetWeeh
inland and Alaska ports, reports an
.oo5inIv rough trip down. The ses
eAoN. 49,. worst the crew and officers of
Vs. Fl1er have ever encountered, and.
70 her being without ballast, all
V' n.roI of the vessel was lost, and it
o oas only owing to the vigilance of the
Srs that she was saved from going
.ith q crash on one Of the thousands of
VII Islands in this district. She was
s s-- n remain at sea for Sc hours.
MIA cala while it lasted, was terrific,
Ia ottained a velocity of at least 100
~,,Ios an hour. The vessels propeller
maIoo we're broken and she was COM
.aIlod ia Law over at Nanaimo for
repairs.
At Philadelphia the birthday ami
,.srsarv of George Washington was COM
memorated with appropriate exercises
at tbe Academy of Music, The feature
Of the dav was an address to the stu
5ontsof the university OF Pennsylvania.
delivered by President Mckinley. The
president paid an eloquent tribute to
the memory of the Father OF Our
Country and from his life and deeds
drew lesson as to the duties of the
American people of today. At Chi
cqco ex-President Harrison delivered
an address before the Union League
Climb choosing as his subject, The
Dnties of Wealth" At numerous other
cities the occasion was appropriately
observed. with street parades and liter
airy exercises.
The senate has passed bill to add
two artillery regiments to the strength
Of the army. This measure has been
urged for many months by officials OF
the var DEPARTMENT, who foresaw that
while congress OF late years had taken
measures for the protection of our
coasts by additional appropriations for
extensive work End great guns, 1t had
not provided the men necessary to
operate these engines of war. Should
the house pass the bill, it will enable
the department to carry cut plans it has
long had in view. Criticisms lately
passed upon the state OF the army and
our Notifications have caused increased
activity in military matters, and to
some extent this is responsible for re-
ports arriving from various quarters Of
movements at army posts.
The Bethlehem Company's steel
MILL giving employment to 1000
hands has resumed work, after an idle
ness Of some months.
The Carpenter Steel Company, of
Reading, Pa, is working a double turn
On orders from the navy department for
steel projectiles
W. ]. Scanlan, the once famous
Irish actor, died of paresis in a New
ork insane asylum, where he had
Zen confined for five years.
Luther c, Billings, pay director in
the United States navy, has been found
guilty of falsehood and scandalous con-
duct by court martial at Washington,
and sentenced to dismissal from the
service
Inc Great Commonwealth Develop
Mvllt and Mining Company has applied
10 the Dominion parliament for a rail-
road charter from Edmonton to the
Alaska line by way of Peace, Laird and
Pelly rivers.
Inc board of directors of the Eastern
oregon y Washington Fremen's Asso-
cation have met in WaIla Walla and
selected La Grande as the place for
"O'''Hs the next annual meeting and
tournament of the associations June IA,
Is and l6.
A sweeping reduction OF over So, O0O,-
WV from the amount carried by the
current law is made in the sundry
avn appropriation bill, reported to
Inc house Tuesday, the aggregate ap-
TVpnatlon carried being $44,749,S93.
1Ne total Is sl3,234, 541 less than the
esuIar and suppem entail official esti-
.n" aso made Tor the fiscal year 1899,
anu -, S6l $50 less than the ammonia.
iol NE current nScal year.
Fort Townsend, WASH, dispatch
says, As consequence of the unfa.
,oSole criticism that has followed the
on5 HIIs u the steamer Clara Nevada
S 'Ne trouble that attended the de-
n"-'pfe OF the North Pacific for the
u Nv" carrying goldseekers, Colonel
,ar uoS'lS' collector of customs, has de-
,Ia 1l.neu 10 compel vessels bound fol-
na' "sA" 10 carry only the number Of
mi, allowed by the federal er.
srna'. ne" wharf at Tampico, con.
a1'ed by the Central railroad. under
Sos. s,llDlent supervision, was totally
If ~ : by fire Sunday. The cause
tion = H[e Is unknown. The construc.
Jnl. ', ,o 1ne Wharf was commenced in
sna.,, 1872, and it was to be one of the
lis VI the Spanish-American coast.
s +rnsl' The custom-ho under con.
dsmanO On and nearly completed, was
OOO 81 10 the extent of about $780,.
bonso 1Ne total loss On wharf, custom.
O00 "a ana merchandise is nearly 90
''OOOO; fully insured. w.
The ,aE Sanford B. Dole, president Of
mbl; epuoilc OF Hawaii, was rendered 3
cbsnG G reception at San Francisco at thu
@r]iaI u commerce, and met with q
lar ' "s and fattering recognition ON the
0l the crowds of people.
deal ~ Gage points with a good
toms VI interest to the fact that the ems.
have l ov for this fiscal year at las,
same V nen the receipts for The
The total W. 49, OF the prior fiscal year
have Wal val receipts for this fiscal YEA,
'' reached SIS, oss. 500. '''' "a