The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-02-15
LATER NEWS.
Lord Roberts and General Kitchener
AVE started for the front.

Lord Roberts and General Kitchener
iave started for the front.
The insurgents have been driven ont
If Legaspi, province of Albay.
Thousands viewed the remains of
Senator Goebel at Covington, Ken.
Affairs in Santo Domingo are in q
turbulent condition. Insurrection is
breeding.
1t is said the dowager empress of
China is afraid to depose the emperor
vt present.
On account of the serious roadbed
Washout on its Lewiston division, the
Northern Pacific will lose 100000.
The transports Pathan and Sherman
Irrived at San Francisco from Manila.
On board the Sherman are rs invalid
soldiers. ,
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, destroyed
property to the value of $265, 900. The
]. P. Quinn Dry Goods Company will
ose $3.50, 900.
British troops crossed the Upper
rugela river at Kolendrift with the OBJ
iect of storming the Boer positions, but
we're driven back.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners re-
volted at the treatment they received
1t the hands of Filipinos, dispersed
their captors and hold the fort.
The largest office building in the
world is to be erected in New York
City, by the Alliance Realty Company.
It will be 20 stories high and will cost
81, ,OO0, 900. +.
President Havemeyer, of the Ameri.
can Sugar Refining Company denies
that the leading refneries of the com.
pany were closed down as result Of
the loss of business.
Fish commissioners of Oregon and
Washington have issued q statement
that only citizens were granted licenses
and that false claims may have been
made in some instances.
The mortality in the city Of Bonn
bay, India, in one day was unprece.
tented. There was q total of 408
ieaths. The situation is aggravated by
the advent of famine refugees.
Word has been received by the de.
partment of Indian affairs and by the
police authorities of fresh troubles
among the Indians of Upper Laird, B
). Seven members of q Scotch family
are said to have 1een murdered.
The Sunset Telephone Company o
Oakland, CAL, has mortgaged to th'
Old Colony Trust Company of Boston
it's entire possessions in California, Ne
vada, Arizona and New Mexico, as Sc
curity for the payment of gold interest
bearing bonds to the amount of 81, 500,
900.
The Nicaragua canal bill will be
pushed through both houses thi
month.
Mexican liberals favor the candi
lacy of President Diaz for reelection
by vote of three to one.
The league of Republican clubs o
Oregon convened at the armory in Port
land, with 800 delegates present.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake ha
announced her candidacy for the presi
dency of the National Women Suffragis
Association. 4
Members of the algonquin Club, I
leading social organization of Bridge
port, Conn.,, have declined to entertain
w. J. Bryan.
The plague in Honolulu has broker
,ut in several isolated places outside o
the originally infected district, and it
progress is regarded as serious.
John D. Rockefeller is no longe
president of the Standard Oil Company
He resigned hast December, but tn
facts were kept secret until now.
Fifty.seven paintings, the propert.
of Austin H. King. of Providence, X
l., were sold at auction in New Yorl
for $77,s75, an average of $l,s56 pc
picture.
Adelbert s. Hay, the new Unite'
States consul at Pretoria, was received
by the Transvaal government, and pre-
sented his credentials. He created Al
excellent impression.
Secretary Root has sent to congres
an abstract of the militia force OF tn
United States. 1t shows the total mum
Der of men available for military duty
but unorganized, as 10, S43, $50 and al
aggregate organized strength of LOG,
339.
Astoria, Or, now has the right Q
immediate transportation. A dispatcl
from Washington states that Senate
George w. McBride's bill providing TO
such has passed the senate. Thi
means q bonded warehouse at Astori
and the unloading Of Oriental freigh
at that place.
By way of preparation for the grea
struggle now in progress, the Beers II
the year 1898 bought from Franc
alone. guns, swords, carbines, pistols
cartridges. lead, zinc, powder caps
fuses, etc., to the invoiced value
1886, 900, according to report OF tn
state department from United State
Consul Covert at Lyons.
A movement has begun in Oaklan
and Berkeley TO send relief to tn
Donkhobor colonies in Manitoba, whic
are suffering for food. The Donk
hobors are represented as worthy pee
pie, greatly attached to their religion
belief, which resembles that 'of tn
Quakers They will not bear: arms
and were driven ont of Russia by tn
compulsory military service.