The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The Spokane Amateur Athletic Club
will build a $40, 600 club house.
Gold has been found in the black sand
on the shore OF Port Townsend bay.
The receipts of the Everett postoffice for
1899 were $40, 92O.22. The city will shortly
have free delivery system.
Fish Commissioner Little has arranged
to plant a carload of eastern Holsters in
Puget Sound waters rs an experiment.
The liquor men of Spokane have raised
$25, 600 to defeat Mayor COmstOck and his
administration for their espousal of the
night-clOsing movement.
A Washington, D. c., dispatch says
that General Corbin announces tn It the
subscription to the LlwtOn fund had
reached over $50, 900 up to last aturday.
All Russian Jews condemned to depor-
alton are to g. t. b,ria hereafter. in
stead OF to the Tsachalin islands, whose
horrors are said to far exceed those Of ST.
IBERIA.
The business portion of Kendrick,
Idaho, is under water, the POtlatch river
having overlooked its banks. The water
was three feet deep in the principal streets
Oh the 14th inst.
The paramount subjects considered at
the California Fruit Growers Associa-
ton recently held at San Jose, were the
"Proper Mth,,ds of Distribution of Fruits
and Organization"
During the year 1899 there were $50 no
tarial commissions issued in this state, a
slight increase over the year 1893. Each
of these commissions brought in $40 to
the state library fund.
Colonel John w. Pinkerton, one eff the
pioneers of Tacoma, died at that place on
Sunday of pneumonia. He was 20 years
of age at the time of his death. A widow
survives him, but no children are left.
In the circuit court of Kansas the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Leaven-
worth has just obtained judgment against
the DhicagO Great Western railroad for
disturbing the peace of worshippers by
running its trains on Sunday.
Lewis E. Goldsmith, for years the as
sistant cashier of the Port Jervis, N. Y,
National bank, who pleaded guilty to
having stolen about $lOO, 900 from that in
stitution; was last Saturday sentenced to
serve eight years in Sing Sing.
The steamer Danube, from Skagway,
brings news that large part Of the bust
ness portion Of Dawson was wiped out by
fire on the night of Wednesday, January
TO- According to brief dispatch receiv-
ed at Skagway the loss will exceed half a
million dollars.
A Rensberg, Cape Colony, dispatch,
dated the 18th inst, says the Beers at
tempted to rush a hill held by a company
| of Yorkshires and New Zealanders, but
were repulsed at the point of the bayonet.
The Beers had twenty-One men killed
and about fifty wounded.
A telegram from Newport, Wales, to
London, dated the 18th inst, says that
Rutherford Harris, formerly the resident
director in South Africa of the British
cablegram to the effect that Gen. Butler
has suffered another reverse.
A dispatch from Pretoria, dated the 18th
inst, says: AS result Of the lombard
ment Of Mafeking the British fort east
| One Boer was wounded. Advices from
the head laager at Ladysmith report That
| the attack on that place, January 9, was
disastrous to the British and that Lady
smith appears to be in some straits.
| Last Friday afternoon the Northern
Pacific company began tracklaying at
Spokane, which the Great Northern peO-
pfe say is designed to prevent the Great
Northern proceeding with its improve
ments in that city. Mayor COmstock
temporarily put a stop to the proceedings
by sending special policemen to to the
scene, bnt the matter will be further
fought out.
The Canadian government expedition
sent to the relief Of the Moffat Edmonton
trail party has returned to Dawson City
after an absence Of four months. with the
report that in all probability the three
men comprising it have persisted. The
unfortunates were A. +. Moffat. OF Penn
broke. Canada; Phil Belloue, Duluth,
and Californian named Holmes, who
had lived at Fresno. 1t has now been
| EIGHTEEN months since Moffat and his fol-
lowers left Edmonton for the Klondike
gold fields.