The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-04-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

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The steamer George E. Starr is to take
the run left open by the wrecklng of the
steamer City of Kingston between Seattle
and Victoria.
DIR. Nicholas Sem, who served during
the Santiago campaign as surgeon. is be-
ing pushed by his friends for the Repub-
lean nomination for governor OF Illinois.
i The navy department has ordered the
battleship Iowa to leave San Francisco
and proceed to the Puget Sound drydock,
where she will be provided with bilge
keels.
Fish Commissioner Little was in What
com county last Friday where he went to
make arrangements for establishing the
new salmon hatchery on the Nooksack
river.
| 1t is likely that the Neptune Wrecklng
Company, of Sweden, will open branch
| Office in New York, although it has ADAM
doned the plan of raising the Spanish
cruisers.
News was brought by the steamer
Athenaia, to Victoria, April %, from the
Orient that very serious agitation
against foreigners now prevails through
out the whole of China.
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made the run from Chicago to the Missis-
sippi river, 206 miles, IN 1879 minutes.
This included ten miles of slow running
through the company's yards at Chicago.
Quite number of arrests were made
on the Columbia river for illegal fishing
before the opening of the season. Fines
to the amount $50 in some cases were inn
posed. Besides the fines, fish and fish
ing gear were cOntiscated.
Bogus stamps were discovered by local
internal revenue officers last Friday on
several hundred boxes of cigars which
they say came from Factory No 3741,
Ninth district of Pennsylvania, the pro-
prietors of which are said to have been
arrested in the East.
The White Crest Canning Company, of
Anacortes. has been organized and will
succeed to the clam-canning and fishing
interests of w. A. LOwman. MIR. Low
man will be president and manager. The
company will erect a cannery building
and can salmon as well as CLANS.
Fire, Sunday afternoon, destroyed one
of the large dry houses of the st. Paul Il
Tacoma Lumber Company, of Tacoma,
on the tide flats. Only by the hardest
work, aided by a strong wind, was the
entire group OF buildings saved. The loss
will be in the neighborRood Of $4,000.
A special dispatch to the Post-Intelli-
gencer, from Prosser, WASH, says the
peach, apricot and grape crop of that por-
aged by the late spring. The shipments
will he small this season. The alfalfa
was damaged some, also, and is coming
up in spots.
The most remarkable political fight
fol tut hn Init oI fof0 hos
just been terminated in Philadelphia by
the acquittal Of ex-senator Matthew
Stanley Quay, who has been on trial,
charged with the misrepresentation OF
state funds, practically for the last three
months.
The value of the American farm pro-
ducts sent abroad during 1898 was much
more than double that of our agricultural
imports, the excess of the former over the
latter amounting to S544, PIG, LAG. In 1897
the excess on the side of agricultural ex-
ports was only $2S8, 1888, 725, and in the
years Immediately preceding still smaller.
The fiscal year of 1898 was the banner
year of the foreign trade Of the United
States, our exports being the largest ever
recorded for like period, and our i'm
ports exceptionally small Broadly stated,
for every dollars worth Of foreign mer-
chandise brought into the United States
two dollars worth of our products found
a market abroad.
Statistician Mulhall estimates the
wealth of the United States at SS1, $50 900,
900, which is equal to the combined
wealth of Russia, Italy and Spain, about
double that of Germany, that Of France,
and over $22, 72O, 000, 900 larger than that of
Great Britain. A large proportion of this
fabulous sum is invested in our railroads,
in which industry we lead all countries.
The annual report Of the department of
marine and fisheries, of Canada, shows
that between the years 1869 and 1897, in
elusive, the five principal commercial
fisheries have yielded as follows:
Cod. $ilO, III $50
Herring ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. So, 513, 4l2
LODSCorS.-..... oS,foU, loo
........................... 81, 4O9, 845
Mackerel.. .......................... 8,1S7, 142
An Associated Press dispatch from San
Francisco, says: War is on between the
ShipOwnerS' Association and the Sea-