The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-07-06
LATER NEWS.

S"Oy uOuio Iuuu Contributions
have reached nearly tl2, 900.
A German company will build a
smeiter In Shasta county, Cal.
Spain has sold the gunboat velas.
ques to Venezuela for 1000 francs.
A steam flue collapsed on . Missis.
sippi river steamer scalding Eve men.
two fatally.
Alter an absence of six years Min.
neapolis man returned to stand trial
for grand larceny.
Captain Coghlan will 60 to Puget
sound after all. 40 commandant of the
naval station at Bremerton.
The navy department has received
information that Admiral Dewey sailed
from Colombo for Port Said.
Owing to the i'll health of Mrs. Nc.
Kinley. the president has abandoned
bis proposed trip to the coast.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas. has
issued a proclamation In which he
Bays the importation of miners must
bease.
Two Japanese sailors jumped from
the plague ship anchored at San Fran.
cisco. hoping to reach shore, but were
drowned.
The campaign will cease in the Phil.
ippines until the bad weather is ended.
Meanwhile Otis force will be increased
to 40. 900 men.
The secretary of war has sent a re-
quest to General II. q. Otis, at Los
Angeles. to come to Washington for
conference in regard to affairs in the
Philippines.
The coroner's investigation of the
two negroes killed in the Alabama race
riot. found that they were shot down
in cold blood, but failed to bring to
light the guilty parties.
Railroad ticket agents in the entire
territory west of Chicago will have
their incomes materially increased
after July l. After this date agents
will receive liberal commissions for
selling tickets over foreign or connect.
ing lines. These commissions will run
from % cents to 81 per ticket. the av.
erage being about 81.
A st. Louis police officer found con.
cealed in dirty trunk and valise a
sum of money exceeding SIS. 200 IN
government bonds. gold and bills Of
large denominations. The police
think that this small fortune is the
property of Mrs. Walbonger Wackerle,
an aged German woman who is now q
patient at the city insane asylum.
At Wallace. Idaho. deputy SHERIFF.
have posted notices forbidding the
public observance OF July IL. This is
the anniversary of the riot at Gem,
seven years ago. It has ever since been
observed as Miners Union day, the ex.
ercises in the forenoon being similar to
those of Memorial day, while in the
afternoon Fourth Of July spots are
held.
Our sales abroad have more than
doubled since 1880.
New Orleans will furnish the first
two of the Spanish court stenographer
Otis asked for.
A new sugar company organized in
San Francisco has IS, 600. 900 to use in
Hawaiian isles.
One of the Prince Luigi party panned
out 81 800 in four days time at Cape
Nome, Alaska.
Alter % ballots were taken, the Ken.
tucky Democrats nominated William
Goebel for governor.
A japanese vessel has arrived in
San Francisco and is said to have bu.
bonic plague on board.
Rioting has broken out afresh in
Cleveland. Severa: street cars were
demolished by the mob.
The government will use shell Of
terrific explosive power in the fall cam
paign in the Philippines.
The freight steamer-Pawnee burned
near Cape Henry. coast Of Florida.
Her crew of 81 was picked up.
The ship Selkirk went down on Ape
reef, in the Philippines. with $780,.
600 cargo. All hands were saved.
The Chicago stockyards strikers have
been successful, and have returned to
work at an increase Of % cents day.
The peace conference will lay aside
disar mament proposals. The Russian
proposals. were declared unacceptable.
The varsity boat race was won BY
Pennsylvania, with Wisconsin second.
Twenty -seyen thousand people were in
attendance.
Vanderbilt has bought another road
in the East, and the rumor is being re-
viyed that he intends establishing .
new transcontinental line.
Twenty-Five picked men. who went
az representatives of New York min
| ing company. have persisted from pFi'
walton and cold in Siberia.
Yellowstone has new geyser. The
size of the opening is about the same
a. the famous Fountain geyser. The
eruption plays from 900 to $50 feet
high.
San Francisco authorities have dis
covered counterfeit dies for stampina
certificates Of identification 40 given at
Hong Kong. They cut an important
mart in the Chinese smuggling schemes.
Not sovereign or ruling prince IN
Europe failed to send Queen Victoria
Fluctuations on her 60th birthday.
The ive-ton schooner Coke has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila. Cap
tain Freitch, tho solo occupant OF the