The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-08
Err NEWS.

A"o" SooPS A0NC oS0A0 occupied
Rens berg.
Joubert opposes Butler with more
determination.
An arid land conference will be held
at Salt Lake April 18.
The Maya Indians are giving the
Mexicans hard fight.
The Puerto Rican tariff bill has passed
the house by vote of l72 to 100.
The Inniskilling fusiliers were
caught in Boer trap at Railway Hill
and numerically slaughtered.
Two persons were killed and several
badly injured in a collision between
two passenger trains near Kansas City,
Mo.
During the carnival procession at
Caracas, Venezuela, two shots were
fred at President Castro, without
| effect.
All chance of saving any of the Span.
ish armOred cruisers sunk off Santiago
has gone. The Cristobal Colon has
slid into deep water.
The Russian press is clamoring for
intervention. They contend it is time
to end the most infamous war England
has ever waged through lust for gold.
The greatest fire Newark, N. j., ever
experienced swept through the retail
dry goods district, destroying a score
of buildings, causing q loss of 81 ,000,-
| 600.
The Swedish mail steamer Rex
stranded off Lohmergui Island, off the
coast of Germany, during fog. Five
stewardesses were drowned in attempt
ing to leave the ship.
General Miles saws that Cronje's sur.
render is not serious injury to the
Boer cause. He expressed admiration
for the 1000 patriots who stood of for
10 days $4,000 of the British army.
Lon Curry, one of the train robbers
who was engaged in the Wilcox, Wy
oming, hold-up on the Union Pacific
last June, when something like $780,
600 was secured, was shot and killed
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sisting arrest.
Two men who have arrived at Ana.
helm, CAL, from the Santiago noun
tains, report that there have been many
earthquake shocks in the section since
last Christmas. No serious damage is
known to have been done, as there are
few habitations there.
At a meteing in San Francisco, a
plan of organization. has been agreed
upon by the promoters of the Pacific
Commercial Museum. All commercial
bodies on this coast have been asked
to request their congressman and sena.
tors to support the pending bill to ap-
propriate 100000 for public mu-
scum at Philadelphia.
The Puerto Rican compromise bill is
to operate two years.
Lord Roberts casualties at Paarde-
berg. were 721, in one days. fighting.
Profits of the Kimberley Diamond
Mining Company last year were $lO,-
100000.
Democratic officers for minor state
Offices in Kentucky have been given
certificates.
Evansville, Ind, people are heirs to
an estate in the Fiji islands, valued at
$40, 900.
P. D. Armour, Jr, who died recent
ly in Pasadena, CAL, left an estate
valued at So, 900, 900.
Several Klondikers were arrested in
Esquimalt Notifications, under the be-
lief that they were spies.
Astoria, Or, physicians urge the peo.
pie to exterminate the rats in order ia
keep out the bubonic plague.
Just 19 years after the Boer victory
at Majuba hill, Cronje and 1000 men
surrender to the British forces.
The transport Hancock has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila, with
the bodies of sos dead heroes.
The president has nominated Henry
B. Miller, of Josephine county, Or, to
be consul at Chung King, China.
The British intelligence department
estimates the total Boer strength at
81 1898. while England has over $50.
900 men.
Prince Poniatowski, of San Fran
cisco, has purchased the island Of Basi.
Ian, one of the Philippines, for $780,
900. The island is valuable for its
pearl fisheries and hemp trade.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works OF
Philadelphia, has received an order
froom the Paris & Orleans railway OF
France, for 80 10-wheel passenger
engines. This is the first locomotive
contract ever placed by the railway in
America.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco, has appointed committee
to consider the advisability of estab-
fishing q branch of the New York
American.Asiatic Association, the pur.
pose of which is to increase trade with
the Orient.
The steamer Australia arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu. She brings
news that after IL days had passed
without sign of plague, three cases
were discovered ON February 10, and
all ended fatally. The victims were
two Chinese, males, and woman,
half Chinese and half Hawaiian. The
council has appropriated another $780,
900 to allow the board of health to
carry on the work of fighting the
plague.