The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-02-22
LATER NEWS.

Treaty between the United States
and Trinidad has been signed.
Charles Lewis, Of Lewisville, Or,
killed himself accidentally whi.s hun.
ting.
Astoria, Or, is taking special pre-,
cautions against the introduction of
plague.
The antitrust conference has de-
clared in favor of the government own.
ership of railroads.
A press agent of the defunct Franklin
syndicate believes that Miller made
million dollars out of the swindle.
Manufacturing. railway and ice har-
vesting interests have been greatly
damaged by severe stolms in New Eng
land.
Three well.known citizens of the
town of Nanaimo, B. c., were drowned
while on q hunting trip on Vancouver
Island.
The United States government has
81 new naval vessels under construc.
tion, which will require in officers
alone, 1900 men.
Willis P. Sullivan, Mayor Phelan's
secretary, was chosen by the board of
police commissioners of San Francisco
to be chief of police: =
Sam Beswick, an old and we'll
known character on the Chicago Board
OF Trade, died as q charity patient in
the Baptist hospital Of that city.
Mexican papers are giving much at
tention to the proposed construction of
the Nicaragua canal. They believe it
will benefit Mexican trade.
England is suffering from q severe
blizzard. Trains are showed up in all
directions and street-car lines blocked
and telegraph and telephone wires are
| down.
The Salvation Army celebrated the
2Oth anniversary of its establishment
in the United States with the baptizing
of Booth Tucker's-baby. The ceremony
took place in New York.
The Vladimir vostock, one of the
supply ships chartered by the govern.
ment for the transportation of quarter
masters and commissary stores, ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila.
Patriotic women of Vancouver, B.
c., have devised q means to aid the
British soldiers in South Africa. Three
thousand pairs of socks are ready for
shipment, besides sweaters, caps and
handkerchiefs.
The revolution in Venezuela, under
the leadership of Hernandez, is said to
be gaining headway.
The treasurer of Nez Perce county,
Idaho, was arrested for depositing pub
lie funds in national banks.
Two hundred shareholders of the
Panama Canal Company met in Paris
and chose a new board of directors.
A bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for the
enlargement of the postofice building
at Portland, Or, was passed in the
senate.
After an overhauling at Mare Island
navy yard, the Philadelphia will pro-
ceed to the island of Tutuila, one of
the SamOans.
A branch of the miners union has
been formed at Cornucopia. This is
noteworthy in that it is the first branch
to be formed in Oregon.
During the last three months nearly
$50 demented soldiers have arrived in
San Francisco from the Philippines,
and it it said 200 more are on the way.
The Corliss proposition for the gov.
ernment ownership of Pacific cable
was defeated by the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce, by
q vote of 8 to 5.
F. o. TAFT, amatuer golf chapmion of
Great Britain in 1895 and 1898, was
killed during General MacDonald's re.
connaissance at Koodersberg, being shot
through the body. He had previously
been wounded at MagersfOntein.
The anniversary OF the birth Of
Abraham Lincoln was observed as q
legal holiday for the first time in Phil
adelphia. All the federal departments,
the courts, the banks, brokers' offices,
exchanges and schools were closed all
day.
The British ship County of Edin-
burph went ashore near Manasuan life
saving station, on the Jersey coast,
near Point Pleasant. She is hard and
fast aground, and it is expected TO
break up. The crew were taken of in
the breeches buoy by the life-savers.
Iglisias and Eduardo Conde, Puerto
Rican labor leaders, have issued an
appeal to this government on behalf Of
the workingmen of Puerto Rico. They
declare that the working class of their
island have been reduced by reason OF
the war, the hurricane and the action
of this government since the storm, to
a condition of extreme destitution.
BY an executive order, . certain por-
tion of the peninsula in tho district
of Alaska, Immediately north OF the
southern boundary, and embracing
Camp Point Spencer, has been reserved
for public purposes. The tract is
located on the west shore of Port Clar-
ence bay, comprising tho peninsula on
which is Point Spencer. and includes
about four square miles.
Captain Charles Loefiler has been
doorkeeper at the entrance OF the exec
utive chamber in Washington for over
80 years.