The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-08-09
LA1ER NEWS.

Chlnese attack Tien Tsin after allies
moved forward, but were repulsed. s.
Boxers and imperial troops fought
together against Admiral Seymour. .
General Chaffee has started for Pekir
with the British and Japanese forces.
A fire at La Grande, Or, consumed
property to the value of about $25, 900,
Chinese government orders that the
ministers have proper escort to Tier
Tsin. -
Feeling against Boise, Idaho, waite,
company may lead to municipal own.
ership. E
Senator Teller says congress should
be called to deal with the Chinese sit.
uation.
General Dewet is said to be SO hem.
med in that escape flom the British il
impossible.
The United States civil commission
will take charge in the Philippines,
September l..
Naval officers are favorable to the
construction of drydock on the
Columbia river. 1g
Towne will announce in few days
whether he will stand as candidate
for the vice-presidency.
In the Philippines. small Ameri.
can command, under Lieutenant
Altstaetter. was captured. %Sa
A bridge near Eddyville, Or, COL.
lapsed, carrying down|five persons, Que
OF whom was killed outright. Il
A party backed BY, e. H. Harriman,
the railroad magnate, is looking fo1
copper on White river, Y ukon territory
Sheng says an imperial! decree hal
been issued that there sliall be free
communication with the foreign min.
listers in Pekin. y.
In decision at Albany, Or. Judge
Boise held to the doctrine that it is the
buyers loss if he accept grain from
warehousemen that belongs to storers
The Russian war office has received
a dispatch from General Grodekof
dated Khabarovsk, announcing tha,
Aguin had been taken by the Russians
after a stubborn fight, and that the
Chinese were being pursued.
Japan, if necessary, can send 10000
men to China. S.
Kentucky Populists nominated A.
II. Cardin for governor ~
Smallpox at Cape Nome is well in
hand and decreasing.
Iowa Republicans remembered Min.
lister Conger in their platform.
The allied forces are marching or
Pekin. and are due there in eight days
A workman was crushed almost to
jelly in Lane county. Oregon, saw
mill. N
New Hampshire Democrats nominat.
ed Dr.. Frederick T. Potter for gov,
ernOr.
King Victor Emanuel III, successor
to King Humbert, has arrived al
Monza. @ h 80
In Germany, 8, $50 officers and 20,.
900 men have volunteered for Chinese
service. hsag
Governments will investigate the
anarchist activity in the vicinity q q
New York. 80
Chinese imperial governments is u.s.
ing diplomacy to check advance OF al.
lies on Pekin.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, liberal
leader, estimates the cost of the Boel
war at .$40O, ,OO0,0 900. ..3f@ ia 81
Edicts of the Chinese imperial gov
ernment issued as late as. July 2 order
ed the Boxers to kill the Christians.
Ex-Governor Roger Wolcott, o.
Massachusetts,, has accepted the ap
pointment as United States minister tt
Italy.
1t is strongly intimated that Oregon
school land business is manipulated by
officials for the benefit of private
graft.
Senator Foraker says the Democrats
have az much show of winning con
zress as they had of carrying Oregon
last June.
Navy department shares the genera
aistrust that all was not we'll on the
battle-ship Oregon when she went
ashore.
The amount OF gross gold In thu
United States treasury is $43l, l7O.'
764, the highest in the history OF tht
government.
The government of Nicaragua hal
saken possession of the property OF tht
MARITIME Canal Company and removed
the company's cars, rails and property
to the interior from Greytown.
Crop reports from Yakima. WASH
and La Grande. Or, are rosy. grain Y
;urning out poor in Yamhill county
Oregon, and farmers declare they viii
,bandon 1t for stock raising.
Pol Plancon, the opera singer, sing
|, whole opera in admirable German
without understanding word of thai
anguage.
| New York Chinese have issued
PROCLAMATION saying none of them ar
IRON the tribes involved in Boxer dis
nrbances.
| A ranch of $50 acres, with 200, ,O0(
,hickens and an output Of 80, O0O. COZ
egs year will be sstablished at Man
lsquan, N. J. .iss