The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-04
LATER NEWS.

England has discovered that her mil
itary resources were overestimated by
30, 900 men.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist
and former partner of John L. Sulli,
van, Is dead.
The queen has given warning that
British subjects must not help Beers or
Free Staters.
Plague of severe type is raging and
many deaths from that cause have oc-
Cured in New Caledonia.
Sydney Paget, William c. Whitney's
racing partner, has left this country to
join the British rough riders.
A Paris dispatch says that France
would be happy If the Delagoa bay in
cident caused an anglo-American quar-
rel.
Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
Francisco WI lie on his wedding trip.
He is charged with being bank de-
faulter. =
Iowa farmers have formed syndi.
cate to grow rice In Texas. They have
secured options on Ia, 900 acres of land
to cost $225, 900.
The Boer army on Modder river is
growing greater each day. They are
building trenches within three and one
half miles of Methuen's picket line.
The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho
was q bad one. After 10 days the last
body had not been recovered. The
trainmen were to blame.
Should all Spanish war pensions now
asked be allowed, it would cost $2.-
$4,000. The Seventy first New Yorks
asks for annual allowances which ag.
gregate $s4.662.
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
approve of Oregon citizens contributing
to fund for Lawton's family. He
thinks the state should look after her
own heroes families first.
The Countess of Canavarro thou9ht'
che was a convert to Buddhism. She
entered their convent and changed her
mind, and has applied to friends in
OdA T4oAOAoCO dSoAoCduCO.
Winston Spencer, Churchill has
cabled to the London Post of his escape
from the Boer prison. He made his
way overland from Delagoa bay and
scaled walls while guards were not
looking. He journeyed for six days.
walking at night, with nothing to eat
but chocolate.
The president of the New York
prison association, who has made an
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells
horrible tale of the conditions there.
Offenders of all classes sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
is provided. Money or influence Il
necessary before they can secure their
freedom.
Christmas seems to have been day
of crimes the country over. ~
Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.
Every employee of the American Ex-
press Company received IS for Christ
mas gift.
Butler has destroyed the Colenso
footbridge, and makes no further at
tempt to advance. tsSs
Armour's canning department., Chi.
cago, is rushed night and day filling
orders for the English army. ~.
A drunken wife in San Francisco has
charged her husband with murder and
he is being held by the authorities.
About 1000 claims have been filed
90 far for pensions for disabilities "a,
ceived during the Spanish-American
| war.
The currency bill, according too
Warrington correspondent, will be
rushed through the senate without
amendment. ii a..
The Great Northern will inaugurate
new departure. A large block of the
company's stock is to be distributed
among the employees at par.
1t is said that, England. had been
warned by General Butler, whom she il
now turning down, that it would not
be wise to attack the Beers until bet.
ter prepared.
Yaqui Indians plumber, kill and burn
villages and the Mexicans do not seem
to make much Roadway in whipping
the sayages. An entire Mexican regi.
ment seems to. have disappeared.
The Fenians are organizing at Buffa-
| 10, N. Y, for an invasion of Canada.
They expect, it is said, to raise l25. 900
men, and have two carloads of arms
and munitions of war in concealment.
There is disaffection among the Free
Slater troops. They complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bet
ter fed than they. The Transvaaler's
are suspicious and the situation Is be.
coming grave.
| The members of the senate committee
on privileges and elections declare
they will carry on the investigation of
Senator Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreme
court under which Welcome was dis
barred from practice on charges Of brib-
cry in connection with the senator's
election.
The Pittsburg baseball club has
bought the pick of the Louisville team
for sum said to be $25. 900 cash.
Mrs. G. A. Burling. mother.in-law
i of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson,
| died at her home in Rochester, N. T.,
aged IS years.
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