The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-31
LATER NEWS.

VIII peat mckinney. lie does not con-
slider Dewey sin it."
The steamers Geo. w. Elder and
Nome City sailed from Portland for
Cape Nome with 750 passengers and
large quantities of freight.
The secretary of war has awarded
the contract for the construction of q
breakwater at San Pedro, Cal, to the
California Construction Company, at
its bid of $2,375,OO
Arthur Rehan. brother of Miss Ada
Rehan and Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron,
died in Brooklyn, aged 3S years. He
had managed many of Augustin Daly's
theatrical road companies.
Timothy D. Blackstone, formerly
president of the Chicago & Alton rail.
road, and one of the oldest and most
prominent railroad officers in Chicago,
died suddenly at his residence in that
city.
Captain Page Mccarthy, one of the
principals in the famous Mccarthy.
Mordeci duel, is dead, the result of q
long illness. The duel, which took
place at Richmond, Va, in the spring
of 1878, was one of the most celeb1 ated
since the civil war.
General Wade, who was directed to
proceed to the Northern Cheyenne In.
dian agency, at Tongue river. Mont,
and investigate the reports that the In.
dians had the Messiah" craze, and
intended TO rise against the whites,
has telegraphed the Acknowledgment
that he could find no reason to antici.
pate trouble. He says the Indians are
in bad condition, but peaceable and
well disposed.
Commissioner Hermann, of the gen.
eral land Office, has issued an order in.
structing superintendents of forest re.
serves throughout the West to plant
suitable saplings and trees where por.
tions of the forests have been destroyed
by fire. He is also making arrange.
ments for the establishment of tele.
phone system, which is to connect all
the forest stations in certain districts
so that in the future in case of fire
help may be summoned Immediately.
Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch
is making preparations to establish an
Office in Honolulu. the Hawaiian
islands having been added to the Dis.
trict of California. The internal reve.
nue. laws 60 into effect in Hawaii on
June IA. All deputies at the Honolulu
Office will be selected from citizens oi
Hawaii. The stocks of beer. wines,
liquors, opium, cigars and tobacco now
in the islands will be inspected and in.
ventoried. Alter June IA goods from
the United States must be stamped be.
fore being sent to the islands.
Eight hundred Beers surrendered al
Vryburg, north of Kimberley.
Plague in Honolulu has been effect.
ually stamped out, not recording q
single case in 46 days.
Recent injunction decisions have
stirred up the labor unions. and they
urge concerted action.
The auditor of the war department
finds it big task to straighten out the
Cuban and Puerto Rican finances.
Twenty-Five miners, 10 whites and IL
Negroes, lost their lives in an explo
sion in a coal mine near Raleigh N. @.
At Pueblo, Col, a negro fiend who
had ravished and murdered two girls in
an orphan home, was lynched by q
mob.
Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brother.
hood of Locomotive Engineers. was re-
elected at the convention at Milwaukee,
Wis.
General Warren occupied Douglas
after heavy fighting and without sus'
tanning any loss. The Beers have re-
treated to the north.
The will of the late Benjamin H.
Howell, the sugar merchant, OF New
York, disposes of an estate valued al
81 500, 900. and gives $l5, 900 to Brook.
lyn charities.
The Methodist general conference al
Chicago, after considerable discussion,
voted to abolish the time limit on pas.
torates. The result of the vote was re-
ceived with great applause.
Another note regarding the Ameri-
can indemnity claim has been handed
to the sultan's envoy, Terofik Pasha.
1t is couched in more precise terms, in
sisting on prompt settlement.
Considerable California capital has
been invested in an extensive mining
enterprise in Siberia and Manchuria.
Concessions for large tracts of land
have been obtained from the Russian
and Chinese governments, and the work
of development will soon begin.
At the Kansas Democratic conven.
tion, at Wichita, to elect delegates to
the national convention, in his opening
prayer, Rev. Dubber set the delegates
wild by tho praying of the nomination
and triumphant election of Bryan.
The applause lasted several minutes.
The water of large lake near the
town of Zapotalan, Mexico, disap-
peared in great fssure In the earth,
produced by an earthquake. The, bed
of the former lake is now dry, and the
fssure can be plainly seen. 1t is over
three miles long and from one to three
feet wide. A tidal wave which swept
in from the ocean after the shock did
little damage.
Nearly 5000 Spanish prisoners still
are held by the Filipinos.
The postofiice department has ap'
pointed over 20 postlnasters for Puerto