The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-05-04
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

i GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
1 1t now seems more than likely tina
the wreckers will be able to raise tn
big ship "Andelina" which sank II
Tacoma harbor during gale some tim
ago.
Lieut.. F. DimOck, one of the hes
known officers in the revenue service
has just been reinstated In that branch
of the government employ after having
been retired to private life for ovel
a year.
The Yukon Midnight Sun, after 9
thorough inspection of the goid-Dear-
ing creeks of the Yukon district, places
the output of the various creeks at $40
100000. 1t is the opinion of a great
many that lis is under the real out
put by several million dollars.
A Washington City dispatch dated
May l says that Assisteut Secretary
Vanderlip has handed to Secretary
Hay drafts for $40 ,OOO, 900 to be turned
over to the Spanish government
through Ambassador Cambon accord
ing to the terms of the treaty.
Tuesday morning about 1880 the
sheriff of Skagit county arrested a man
who gave his name as Joseph Roll
stone, on a charge of attempting to
wreck a passenger train on the Seattle
& International railroad, near McMur-
ray, OH the evening of the 2lst ult.
AS result of the tornado that swept
through Kirksville, Mo-, last Thurs
day, demolishing half of the residences
and office buildings, two hundred
families are homeless and nearly fifty
dead bodies and seventy injured per
sons have been recovered from the
ruins. More than dozen of the in
jured will die.
On Saturday last Wardner, Idaho,
was the scene of the worst riots since
the deadly labor war of 1892. One man
is dead, another is thought to be NOR
tally wounded, and property valued at
$500, 900 has been destroyed by giant
powder and fire. The damage was
done by union men and sympathizers
from Canyon Creek, about twenty
miles from Wardner.
The State Fish commission left Ia
coma Tuesday morning to make a trip
to inspect the site selected for hatch
cry on the Nooksack river in What
com county. The commission is COM
posed of Commissioner Little, Gov
ernoe Rogers and State Treasurer
Young. AS SOON as the site is formerly
accepted, work will be completed as
rapidly as possible. It will be ready
for operations by summer.
The steamship Olympia, just arrived
from the Orient, brought large con.
signments of rice and sugar, besides
the usual cargo of straw braid and mat
ting which is imported at this time of
year. In one consignment there were
10000 pounds of sugar and there We're
1921 100 pounds of rice. Both these
articles bear two cents pound duty,
making the revenue of the government
$49, 422 from these two shipments.
A special dispatch from Fairhaven
dated May l says: Mr.. c. X. LARA
bee, president of the Fairhaven Land
Company, today made cash sale of
Eliza island to the Pacific American
Canning Company. The island COM
prises 100 acres and will be used for the
company's net driers, fertilizing plants
and matters supplemental to the main
canning plant. The location of the new
cannery at Fairhaven is now an as
sured fact, the agents of the company
being here to make final arrangements.
A WhatcOm message to the Times,
dated May 2, says: Rumor is rife here
TODAY that the Bellingham Bay and
British Columbia Railway company
and the Bellingham Improvement
company, and Kindred corporations
here have sold their interests, the
Canadian Pacific Railway company
being the supposed purchaser. One
thing is certain, that all the abstractors
in the city are buisly engaged in furn-
ishing titles to every piece of property
owned by these various corporations.
A Montreal dispatch dated April %
saws: Seven years ago ThOs. Stewart,
then 10 years old, lost the sight of one
eye, the blade of a penknife having
been accidentally run into it. DIR. Alex
ander Proudfoot attended him. Re-
Gently DIR. Proudfoot advised the re-
moval of the useless eye as the only
means of preserving the other optic.
This was agreed to and the delicate
task was entrusted to DR.. Proudfoot,
who is assistant oculist and aurist to
the general hospital. The operation
took place at the family residence and
ut it's conclusion it was found terrible
mistake had been made-the healthy
eye had been removed. On recovering
from the effects of the anesthetic the
patient found himself blind.