The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-11-16
LATER NEWS.


The Washington volunteers were nrs.
sented with medals in Seattle.
Major-General Ludlow, civil oover.
nor OF Havana, is visiting in New York.
Twelve socialists and six liberal.
were elected to the Berlin municinal
council.
The late John S. Pillsbury. of Mime.
apoils. left 500, 900 to a home for
children. NJ
A marriage license was issued at
washington to George Dewey and Mrs.
Mildred Hazen.
Twenty men of the Forty-second repi.
ment were injured in railway acci.
dent on their way to San Francisco.
Nez Perce Indians have demanded
more money than is paid for railway
rights OF way through their reservation.
Assemblyman Mazet, of New York.
claims he was defeated by fraud, but
MS friends say they will contest the
seating of Stewart.
Ihe danger of Basuto uprising is
now admitted to be imminent in Sout,
Africa, and may render necessary the
mobilization of second army corps.
An agreement as to the partition OF
Samoa has been reached at Berlin be-
tween England and Germany, subject
to the approval of the United States.
A bark is loading 100000 feet Of
-ecially selected timber at Vancouver.
B. c., for the Cramps. of Philadelphia,
to be used in building United States
ships.
The civil governor, counsellor, judges
and secretaries who constitute the new
government of Negros. sent greeting to
President Mckinley on taking their
Offices.
A cable message from General Otis
says that Major Hugh McGrath (cap-
tain Fourth cavalry died at Manila
from wounds received at the battle of
Novaleta, month ago.
Frederick ]. Cross, of Honolulu, has
the exclusive rights to operate the Mar.
conf system Of wireless telegraphy in
the Samoas. 1t is expected to have
the system in operation January 1.
A $780, 900 gold brick, the largest
ever melted in Canadian mine, is to
be sent down from the Kootenai dis
trict shortly. This years wash-up is
the richest ever known in the district.
Russians apd the Japanese on the
Corean peninsula are on the most
friendly terms. The Russian and Jap
anese ministers assert that the reports
of friction are unfounded and are in
tended to distract attention from other
questions.
The validity of government contracts
made by swindler Captain Carter will
be tested.
The convention agreeing to arbitra-
ton of Samoan claims was signed at
Washington.
Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Hazen at
tracted great attention on . shopping
tour in New York.
Influential San Diegans will build .
transcontinental railroad via Salt Lake
from their city.
Huntington denies that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company has absorbed
the New Japan line.
The bicycle, automobile and rubber
trusts now propose one great concern
with capitalization of $500, 600, 900.
The British have been victorious in
an engagement at Ladysmith and the
Boer loss was heavy, including 1000
prisoners.
Wisconsin lumber dealers have just
bought 1000, 900 acres of timber land
on the Pacific coast. They paid
Sc, 900, 900.
Owing to the poor telegraphic and
cable service from South Africa the
London papers can get no news for
their special editions.
The submarine torpedo-boat Holland
has been successfully tested by Uncle
Sam and purchase will probably soon
be made by the navy department.
The battleship Oregon has sailed
from Hong Kong, supposedly tor CeDu.
She sailed sooner than expected and
was seemingly unprepared for sea.
A boats crew of the British E.
Pathan, recently chartered for tram
mort service, refused TO accompany the
ship to the Philippines. Twenty-one
OF them were placed In irons.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says
that Russia, France and Spain have de.
cided to intervene and suggest arbitra.
ton between England and the Boers u
Germany is willing to cooperate.
Otis cables that the Thirty-ffth In.
fantrv has reached Manila. This 10 the
regiment which was quartered at Van
conver and embarked from Portland.
private Cleary died on the voyage.
The Berlin correspondent of the Paris
Figaro says Emperor William ts 70.
solved TO occupy Tiger bay, south o.
ANGOLA. on tho west coast OF South
Africa, If England occupies Deiagoa
bay.
Russia wants us to define our policy
In the partitioning of China. She
seems anxious 10 know II We are In tine
scramble for q port of entry and Q
srhara az influence. The impression is
that America will only insist upon an
open-door policy and protection OF her
treaty rights. Great Britain and japan
,-;ll snnnort her in these demands.
Gem. John Bidwell, of Chico, CAL,
vho lad the first party of whites over
tha 81 sierras into the golden state. is
VIZ h..r+v af the a0o of 80.