The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Fnitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rrRSE TICKS FROM GHE WIRES

,nrDt.resting Collection of Items From
.hc Two Hemispheres Pres Hlt a
m CorIensed TClm.
The three silver parties in Colorado
will fuse.
France will accept Prince Ching as
peace envoy
Americans and French nearly
clashed III PeE'n.
Lord Roberts is pushing operations
in Eastern Transvaal.
American soldiers took no part in
the looting OF Tien Tsin.
Many gulf coast towns in Texas suf.
cred severely from the storm.
The state department is not ready to
heoin negotiations with LII Hung Chang.
New Hampshire Republicans nomi-
mated Chester b. Gordon for governor.
Colonel w. b. Shaw, of Illinois,
will make Republican speeches in Ore.
gOn
The steamship San Pedro arrived at
Seattle from the north with 800 pas.
senpers and $50, 900 in Nome gold.
Americans Oh their way to hunt gold
in Siberia got the best of trick at.
temuted by Russians, and seven Yankees
took 80 Russians.
The controller of the currency has
issued call for the condition of ma.
tiopal banks at the close of business
September ], 1900.
The population of Duluth, MINI as
officially announced by the census
bureau, is 50, 969, an increase in popu-
lation OF 1854, or 59.9 per cent from
1890 to 1900.
At Reno, Nevada, wreck on the
Nevada, California q Oregon extension
derailed II cars of beef cattle. reduc.
ing the cars to kindling wood and kill.
ing 20 head of fat steers.
The destruction of shipping at Gal
weston may reduce the volume uf early
cotton deliveries at Lancashire, Eng.
land. Reports from there show that
10000 looms had stopped and that a..
900 operators were idle.
The postmaster-general has received
communication from F. w. Vaille,
director of posts in the Philippines,
showing that there will be surplus of
receipts over expenditures up to June
30 OF $l9,447. This does not include
fees for money orders of $4,000, and
there is one department., that OF Baco.
lOr, yet to hear from.
The government transport Lawton
sailed from San Francisco on her
errand of mercy to the far north.
With all available space below decks
devoted to berths, provided with bed
ding for nearly a thousand persons, be-
sides the regular complement of off,
GERS and crew, the big transport will
proceed to Cape Nome, stopping at
Seattle for supplies.
General Joseph Wheeler has retired.
0"l'oh0So hoopS Will uOb WltuuIdW
from Pekin.
The American troops will winter in
the Philippines.
Republicans carried Maine by 81.
VOO to $4,000 majority.
An appeal is issued by Texans in be.
nall OF the Galveston sufferers.
Germany and England are said to
have agreed to remain in Pekin.
Kumor is denied that stock grazing
Oh forest reserves is to be restricted.
Galveston's death list number fully
l'oOO. Some estimates place it higher.
Texas City and many smaller towns
near the gulf were partially wrecked.
Oregon has been asked to erect q
Oulldlng at the Buffalo Pan-American
exposition.
oregon prune prices have been
poomed by action of the California
Fruit Associate
Nlhety-three missionaries are known
10 nave been killed and 10 are missing
nom the recent uprising in China.
Henry Watson died at his home near
Albany, Or, aged 20 years. He was a
pioneer of lS47, and an Indian war
veteran.
Inc Eureka shingle mill at Harrison.
iuSho' was burned recently. The loss
VIII amount to about $4,000, of
Nnich only $1,000 is covered by insur.
ance.
AT Rock Creek, in Park county.
Nont., Frank Forrest, ranch hand,
"sea ~, shot and killed Willis Hoard,
aNeil'to-do rancher, aged 30; fatally
Nounded Miss Laura Linn, aged l6.
anu tnen committed suicide by shoot
'Ns himself through the heart.
Henry A. Chittenden, a journalist Of
no'e and the man who secured for Oak
.anG, Cal, the $3.50, 900 Carnegie free
PUBIC library, is dead at that city oi
uioat affiiction, aged 81 years. He
9erVed as reporter and editor on
Eastern papers. For Is years he was
"pioyed by James Gordon Bennett.
"'fking on the Herald and Telegram.
NO. oohlcago police have recovered q ST..
Soo poodle that was abducted the other
aay' out there are number of $3.50
niiuren quite hopelessly missing, "a
say nothing of $25 parrot.
t.
>, Earl Calvin Titus, of Iowa, and oi
ne fourteenth United States infantry,
was the first soldier tn plant the Auari.