The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-01
LAT Err NEWS.

auo university, LafayeCCo, lnd., Is
lead.
The Nez Perces Indians will soon
get nearly 100000 from the govern
ment.
Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
'tevedores at Vancouver, B. c., are on
strike.
All business at Mafeking is now con-
1ucted in "bomb-proof'' underground
cham bers.
Operations in the Philippines are
drawing to a close and police will re.
place soldiers.
Contract has been let for the erection
,f new oil and guano factory near As
soria, Oregon.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has established relief depart.
ment for its employees.
The Fair estate has failed to break
down Mrs. Craven's testimony relative
to her marriage with the senator.
Admiral Dewey says that if the Mic
aragua canal is to be q neutral path
way, Notifications are unnecessary.
Women's rights have made such
progress in Chile that already two
thirds of the public school teachers are
women.
Leslie E. Kelley, inventor of the
Keeley cure for the liquor habit, died
at his home in Los Angeles, CAL, of
heart disease.
The sultan will pay for the losses of
Americans in Turkey during the Ar
menian troubles. The sum involved
is about 100000.
General Hector Mcdonald, COM
manding the Highland brigade and
leading in the pursuit of Cronje's
forces, is severely wounded.
Representative Lentz, of Ohio, intro
luced in the house bill to provide fo1
the public distribution of United
States map to all schools in the United
States.
Upon representations of the Spanish
government to the effect that some OF
the islands south of the Philippine
archipelago, which had been taken
possession of by the United States gum
boats. we're the property of Spain, the
authorities of the state department
have examined the charts and con-
cluded to direct the withdrawal of our
claims to the islands of Caygayen. Su.
lu and Subutu, both of which lie with.
out the boundary lines laid down by
the treaty of Paris.
British have occupied Colenso.
Resolutions aimed at the sugar trust
were introduced in the house.
At Detroit, Mich, Tom Sharkey
knocked out Jim Jeffords in the second
round.
Trains bearing provisions. fuel and
passengers are now to be started fO1
Kimberley.
Queen Victoria has appealed to re-
tired members of the army to enlist fOl
nome defense.
Large bands of Yaquis are marching
on Guaymas, Mex, and will attempt
to capture the town.
John Pentella, of Astoria, has sued
the Clatsop Mill Company for $40,
for the loss of an arm.
A split in the Populist National Con-
vention, being held at Lincoln, Neb.,
Two tickets will be put in the field.
Charles E. Macrum, late consul at
Pretoria, in the Transvaal, furnishes
proof of his charges against the British
censor.
Filipino guerillas who attacked a
SQUAD of Americans on February 2,
killing q corporal, are to be tried be.
fore a military commission on the
charge of murder.
Ex-Secretary of War Alger and Cap
tain Bliss are planning to operate their
extensive numbering interests on Puget
Sound, and will erect large saw mill
at Fairhaven, Wash.
The steamer Coptic brought to local
San Francisco company $40 sacks oi
ore concentrate from the mines OF
Corea, and is the second similar con-
signment within few months.
The war department has issued a
statement that the receipts of public
funds in the Philippine islands, be-
ginning August 13, 1898, and ending
December 81, 1899, amount to $6,696,
O9O.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Treasures, of New York, in their annual
report, state the value of Turner's
Grand Canal, Venice, bequeathed to the
museum by Cornelius Vanderbilt, as
100000.
In Chicago, 500 men employed by
the Gneral Electral Railway Copmany,
fought with employees of the Western
Indiana Railroad Company for the pos
session of the Dearborn street crossing.
A dozen men were injured.
Judge Seaman, in the United States
district court at Chicago, issued an
order denying the injunction prayed
for by the Chicago Tribune against the
Associated Press. This grew out OF
alleged infringements of copyright.
The total wealth of American colleges
and universities is $3.50. 900, 900.
A geological survey expert has found
much coal in the Philippines, but no
precious metals.
In st. Joseph, Mo-, there is offered
bounty of 5000 for every highwayman
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