The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-07-05
LA1ER NEWS.

nal battles of the war.
Japanese fishermen at Stevenson, b.
e., are said to be arming.
Colorado still maintains Q quaran.
tine against San Francisco.
Penitentiary at Salem has lSO pris-
oners less than a few years ago.
Germany has ordered 25 big guns for
immediate dispatch for China.
Speaker Henderson has been renom.
mated for congress in his district in
Iowa.
England is making poor headway
with the rebellion in the Gold Coast
Colony.
Beers attacked the British at Eena-
kal aud Roodvalspruit, but were beat
en- back
Spreckles Bros. have purchased the
California Lumber Company's sawmill.
at Marshfield, Or.
Will Larkin, logger, was drowned
at Monroe, Or. John Baynon fatally
4 Stockmen of Polk county, Or, have
united and offer liberal bounties tor
scalps of wild animals. a
The steamer Geo. w. Elder, which
arrived at Portland, made the round
trip to Nome in 33 days.
David Bell, formerly one of the best
known lumbermen of Canada, is dead
at his home in New York city, aged 70
years.
Remains of Reinhart Brook, of Port
land. recently drowned by falling off
the Bailey Gatzert, were found near
Kalama, Wash.
In Chicago, tive slaughter houses oc-
cupied by Hess Bros, and Ruddy
Bros, were destroyed by fire with q
loss of $40, 900.
Ralph Platt, formerly of the Oregon
volunteers. just arrived at Tacoma
flem China. He claims to be accred-
tied agent of the Chinese emperor on a
special mission to Washington.
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
roads have perfected traffic deal that
is designed to control effectually all
the passenger business in California,
within the territory of the two COM
panies. The main features of this
agreement are an interchange of tick.
cts to San joaquin valley points, no
Santa Fe passenger trains to Los An
geles and no rate cutting.
Hill sentiment is worrying Charles
A. Towne.
Americans and British were the first
to break into lien Tsin.
Germany does not yet consider that
she is at war with China.
Rear-Admiral Watson homeward
bound has reached Suez.
The East reports many deaths from
excessively hot weather.
Smallpox has broken out in the
pos toffice at Alpha, Wash.
United States Commissioner Rawson
has been chosen governor of Nome.
Allen Cochrane, young man OF
Myrtle Greek, Or, was dragged to
death by q horse.
Outbreaks are now expected in
Southern China. Indications of upris-
ings at Nankin and Canton.
Torpedo-boat destroyer Goldsborough
made the round trip run between Taco
ma and Seattle in about two hours.
An uprising against British rule in
the island of Baralonga, South Sea, has
taken place, 100 British being killed.
China is said to have immense guam
titles of arms and officials assert that
she will stagger humanity if driven to
it.
Governor Roosevelt has informed the
Republican national committee that he
will give three solid weeks to campaign
work after August i.
Minister WI Ting Fang is said to be
playing policy at Washington being
desirous of standing in with which
ever side that wins in China.
Two deaths were caused by excessive
heat and humidity at Chicago. The
thermometer registered 80 degrees on
the street, and the humidity was al
most at the saturation point.
A new gold beach has been discovered
IS miles below Cape Nome. Gold is
among the grass roots. A Thousand
men are there and over a million has
been taken out in few weeks.
After suffering with Bright's disease
for six months, and with all hope of
recovery gone, William j. Montgom-
cry, well-known mining man of Salt
Lake, Utah, committed suicide by
firing q bullet through his brain.
Montgomery had been resident of
Utah since 1866.
The board of health in New York
City has decided to thoroughly disin-
feet the Chinese quarters in Manhat-
tan. Brooklyn and Coney island, as .
measure of precaution against the
plague. The board of estimates appro-
priated $40, 900 for the work, which
will be begun immediately.
China's new railroad from Canton to
Hsnkow, with its branches, will be
900 miles long. II will be built by
American capital.
Rev. Charles S. Wing. of Brooklyn,
told the New York Methodists that all
the best Methodists were against the
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