The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-15
LAT Err NEWS.

AAo III Pothy tuo DOcTS.
The total cost of the war in the Phil.
ippines SO far is $50, ,OOO,O
British casualties in the final relief
of Ladysmith were almost 1000.
The island of Tutuila. of the Samoan
group, is to be used as a naval station.
Fire in the retail dry goods district
OF Philadelphia, caused loss of $780,
900.
Beers say that the retreat from Lady
smith was due to commanders mis-
take.
Senator Hoar now wants to give
Queen Liliuokalani $3.50, 900 from the
treasury.
The Puerto Rican tariff bill was de.
nounced from the pulpit by Washing
ton minister.
Steps are being taken to organize a
bank with $4,000 capital at lone,
Morrow county, Or.
Strikes and labor troubles of various
kinds have thrown $4,000 men out of
employment in Chicago.
Civil war is imminent in China
One province is already in revolt over
the dethronement of the emperor.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
me.nt of II. b. Miller, of Josephine
county. Oregon, to be consul at Chung
Kiang, China.
Lady White, wife of General Sir
George White, has been invested by
Queen Victoria with the Order of the
Crown of India.
Congressman Alfred G. Harmer, of
Pennsylvania, father of the house Of
representatives. is dead ct Philadel-
phia, aged 75 years.
The United States government has
ordered that the California Mammoth
Tree Grove" in Calaveras county, be
bonded for park purposes.
The Pure Food and Drug congress.
In convention at Washington, adopted
resolutions seeking congressional action
to provide penalties for adulteration.
Isaac Gordon, of Birmingham, Eng
land, the notorious money lender, is
dead. He was known all over the
kingdom, under various aliases, and is
said to have been worth el,O00,000.
DR.. Nansen, the explorer, questioned
in regard to the possible fate of Andre.
said: 81 believe as long as possible,
in his return, making the most liberal
allowance of time for his reappeaI ance,
but no longer have any hope. l don't
believe that he is living; otherwise we
should certainly have heard of him.
All that can be looked for now is the
recovery of his body"
The plague in Honolulu is under con-
troll.
General Gatacre has occupied Storm
berg.
Cape Colony Beers are etreating to
Orange Free State.
General Joe Wheeler has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
A resolution was introduced in con-
gress asking for repeal of the tariff .on
paper.
The British government has decided
to retain Lord Pauncefote as ambas-
sador at Washington indefinitely.
The latest sugar trusts dividend was
smaller than usual, supposed to be the
result of the fight with Arbuckle.
Yaqui Indians dispersed 800 Mexi-
can soldiers who we're acting as escort
10 the mail, near Potam. Mexico.
Geraldine, the famous racing mare,
holder of the worlds record for half a
mile, is dead at Napa Farm. near
Napa, Cal.
Lieutenant Edgar Koehler, of the
Ninth infantry, was led into an am
bush of Filipino rebels north of Tarlac
md killed.
The Howe Lumber Company of
Lowell, Mass, has assigned as a result
If the failure of the Globe National
oank, in Boston, to which the company
owed large amount of money.
A revolutionary movement near San
Salvador was recently nipped in the
bud, and q confiscation by the govern
nent of $50, 200 belonging DIR. Jose
Alfarado, took place, who, it is report
I'd, was to have led the revolt.
Sir Charles Tupper, ex-premier of
Canada, believes that the Alaska boun-
larry and other disputed questions be-
tween the United States and Canada,
will soon be settled and that Canada
will get the worst of it.
At meeting OF the Baptist Social
Union OF Boston, it was announced on
behalf of the Union Theological Insti-
tuition that John D. Rockefeller has
undertaken to contribute one-half of
the $500, 900 needed to complete the
equipment of that institution.
Chief Officer Cooskey, of the trans
oort Grant, recently arrived at San
francisco, said that on February 8, the
hip sailed over the spot where MoTell
island has generally been supposed to
oe located. It is on all sailing charts,
out at 1880 A. NJ. on the date men.
sioned, the Grant sailed over the posi-.
ton in latitude 20 deg. 81 min. north
Longitude l74 deg. 81 min. east, and
not trace of the island could be
iound. At noon any land 400 feet
above the level of the sea could be seen
or q distance of 25 miles.
Leading Paris hotels have raised the
:ates from s. to 50 day.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., says he has