The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-11-09
LATER NEWS.
The Shamrock has sailed for homo


Vice-President Hobart's days of pub.
hc service are said to be over.
A lone highwayman held up six neo.
pie ~ one time near Pendleton, Or.
IL was reported in London that one
u the troopships which sailed for the
cape last week had been lost at sea. .
The Russian minister of finance as.
serts that his country is better in con-
dltion than either France or England.
The disaster to the British at LADY.
smith was caused by mules running
away with all the reserve ammunition.
The receipts for the Jeffries- sharkey
prlzehght in New York were the largest
TOR any sporting or dramatic event in
history.
The transport Hancock since her
remodeling at San Francisco can Law
claim to being the finest troopship in
the world.
One OF the greatest financial combi.
nations OF the century is now forming.
1t will control all the telephones and
telegraph lines.
Inspector-Genera Breckinridge Oh,
the United States army, is in San
Francisco, where he will remain some
time on official business.
Announcement is made at San Fran
cisco that the Pacific Coast Biscuit
Company is a 60. 1t is otherwise
known as the cracker trust.
Germany cannot trade for England's
interests in Samoa without the ap-
proval and consent of Uncle Sam.
Negotiations to that end are now on.
Wireless telegraphy is to be used in
the Samoas. 1t costs much less and
will be more practicable than the cable
system, in view Of the coral growth in
tho sea.
Senator Allison says President Nc
Kinley has no authority to order with.
drawal of the army and navy from the
Philippines. 1t would require spe-
cial act of congress to do this.
President Schurman, of the Philip
pine commission, says that we did not
acquire entire control of the sultan of
Sulu's domain in the war with Spain
and we have only an external protec-
torate.
The international commercial con-
gress in their resolutions adopted at
Philadelphia favor lasting peace among
nations, assimilation of trademark
laws, parcel post system, international
bureau of statistics and inter-oceanic
canal.
General Funston, of the Twentieth
Kansas, was charged in the San Fran
cisco Monitor, Catholic paper, with
taking two magnificent chalices from
Philippine churches. He has brought
suit against that paper and against
Archbishop Ireland for criminal libel.
Captain Geary, who was killed at
Malabon, October 16, was a native of
Oregon.
Boer losses at Ladysmith are esti-
mated at between 900 and 1000 killed
and wounded.
Oregon salmon eggs are being sent to
Australian waters where they are ex-
pected to thrive.
England has called out more reserve
and within 10 days men to replace the
captured forces will sail for South
Africa.
The state will pay the Iowans' fares
home. Three special sleeping-car
trains and subsistence will be fur
nished them.
The Pullman Wagner Company has
80 pulled it's strings that even indepen-
dent railway lines will turn their sleep
ing cars over to the combine.
Cable advices to the war department
indicate that General Young's column
is pressing on toward San Jose, though
progress is difficult on account of wet
weather.
The Washington regiment has been
mustered out. About 800 men, includ-
ing the Seattle companies, left by
steamer for home. The others go
north by rail.
Although all regiments have their
full quota, recruiting will be continued
for the Philippines. Men will
needed each month to fill vacancies
casualties and discharges.
Colonel Wholley, of the Washington
volunteer infantry, has been appointed
major of the Forty-first volunteer in
fantry and has been ordered to join
that regiment for service in the Philip
pines.
A party of students from the Univer-
sity Of Chicago will 60 to the Ken
tuoky mountains, where the recent
feuds have occurred, to study simple
frontier life vs. retained by the noun
tainiers.
A Lima, Peru, dispatch says Du-
rand's revolutionary forces are being
closely pursued by the government
troops. and according to Official dis
matches, the situation of the leader OF
Peru's latest revolution seems TO be
precarious.
An elastic bank note currency with
the gold standard enacted into law Is
what Secretary Gage will ask for IN
his annual report. He viii recommend
enactment Of Q law for the issue OF
bank notes against deposits OF bonds
and Qreenbacks, and allowing banks 70
issue notes against their assets under
certain restrictions.
charter has been issued BY the
state department Of Pennsyivania 70
ehe sharon Steel Company, OF Sharon