The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-03-02
OF RECENT OCCURRENCE.
The government has sent 4, 600. 600
postage stamps to Porto Rico, for use
I'm the postal system there.

The government has sent 4, 600. 600
postage stamps to Porto Rico, for use
IN the postal system there.
Representatives of the Kickapoo tribe
OF Indians are in Mexico trying t., ge,
a concession of land from the govern.
ment for settlement. The tribe de.
sires to move to that country.
A large sale of steers took place al
San Antonio, Tex, on the 22d. The
George B. Lovington Co. sold 5000 9.
year-olds and IL, 900 yearlings to an.
other company. The price paid for
the lot was 1916, 900.
The pine timber lands OF Southwest
Virginia. East Tennessee and North.
western North Carolina have been
monopolized by Canadian and New
England capitalists. The syndicate
represents 5000, 600.
The Nicaraguan government having
placed too close censorship on United
States cable messages. and failing to
listen to protests from this country,
President Mckinley has dispatche ed
the cruiser Detroit to Greyto wn to de.
mand an explanation
There is great activity in the iron
industry, and many orders have been
refused. An order for $4,000 tons OF
steel rails for China will be sent
abroad, as American mills have con.
tracts for six months ahead.
The west-bound Burlington fast mai
recently beat all records between Chi.
cago and Omaha. The distance is 5Os
miles, and the actual running time
was eight hours and A minutes. The
train made 100 miles an hour for sew
eral spurts.
Notice has been posted at all the
plants of the Tomas Iron Company, al
Allentown. Pa. notifying the EN-.
ployes that wages have been advanced
10 per cent. This is the first order fol
an increase in wages issued in the LIE.
high valley for many years.
An attempt to burn Manila was
made by insurgents. Fires were start.
ed in two portions of the city, which
ragged all night long, sweeping away
rows Of buildings and devastating
acres Of property. After daylight the
American troops drove every native out
of the districts in which fires occurred.
The island Of Negros. the fourth in
importance in the Philippine group,
has been completely pacified. Fou,
commissioners from the island visited
General Otis on the 22d and informed
him that the insurgents had been
driven from the island and the Ameri.
can flag raised, and they desired Otis
to take possession. which he promised
to do.
Private Edwin w. Hampton, Of Com.
pany II, Second Oregon regiment, was
killed in skirmish near Manila Tues.
day. He is the first Oregon soldier to
die in battle. At the same time pri-
Yates Joseph 81. Cardington, Christian
E. Horn and H. D. Hazard, of Com.
pany E, First Washington regiment,
were killed and Corporal W. B. Tucker,
of Company II, of the same regiment,
was seriously wounded.
The deal by which syndicate, made
up of men interested in the sugar
trust, the rubber trust, the Standard
Oil Company, the Union Pacific and
the Santa Fe railroads. the Palmer Oil
Company and others. gains control Of
the Kansas gas fields and the big zine
smelters in the Pittsburg district have
been closed. The company will be or
ganized under the laws Of New Jersey
as the Lanyon Zinc & Smelter Com
pany. with capital Of $2,000.000 Of
which $500, 900 will be reserve fund.
The Continental Tobacco Company,
at Louisville KY, purchased $l38, 3OS
worth of revenue stamps last Monday.
This is an unprecedented sale Of stamps.
The sultan of Oman has revoked the
grant of a coaling station to the French
under the British admiral's threat Of
bombardment. The French consul has
entered protest.
A mum Der of young men in Sacra'
mento, CAL, are organizing a colony
to settle on the island OF Guam. They
propose to engage in the raising OF the
staple products of the island.
The advance guard of the North At
lantic squadron, composed OF the flag
ship New York and the battle-ship In
diana, arrived at the Bermudas Tues
day. The squadron will proceed to
Havana.
The Central Union Gas Company has
been organized under laws Of Virginia,
to control the natural gas wells and
plants in Ohio, Indiana and Southern
illinois. The capital stock will be
ga, 900, 600.
The Duke of Orleans has unexpected.
" arrived at Brussels. It is reported
that he considers the moment oppor-
tune for q monarchistic attempt in
France. He will consult with the
leaders Of his party.
Francis 81. Bawo. head of the great
china and glassware exporting house Of
Bawo & Dotter, is dead in Germany.
aged 65 years. of apoplexy. His per-
sonal acquaintance throughout the
United States was very large.
A hot skirmish occurred near the
Manila waterworks on Tuesday. IN
which. on the American side, two COM
panies Of the Washington volunteers
were the principal actors. The insur-
gents were driven into the jungle,
leaving is dead and two wounded. Two
Americans were wounded by the expIo-
sion Of Springfield rides in their own
hands.
The British ship Drumlanyig. from
.1 r.. u.rnnuvnr has mt into