The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-12-06
rEV} Of TIL V[Ek
From Ali Parts of the New World
and the Old.
INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
c,n0,sbsn,iys Review Of the Important Hap
pcninss of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.


Condensed Form.
Cancer has not signed the Pekin pro-
pcol.
s,,ratory Root has returned hom
Cuba.
rrupcr visited the French govern
mcnt officials.
p.,oce cuarls have en- sent to ar
rest Prince luan.
coIouel DENLY may succeed Conger
,s minister to China.
Nome is now completely shut Oft
t.on, tine outer world by barrier OF
ice.
conspiracy to assasslnate LORD
poborts was discovered in Johannes
burg.
Governor Geer has issued certificates
=, election to Republican electors Tor
Oregon.
Heavy iogs preaviled on Puget
souud, causing many minor accidents
m both land and water.
The olrci.l vote for presidential elec-
tors in New Jersey was: Republican,
991 7Ol; Democrat, l64, ,00S.
The population of Texas is 3, ,048, 7l0.
against 2.235, 523 in 1890, an increase
dSl3,l37, or 36.3 per cent.
The population of Nebraska is l,068,-
5S9, against ,05S,9l0 in 1890, an in.
crease OF $500, or g per cent.
Official returns show that the vote
for president in Iowa was: Republi-
can, 3O7SlS; Democrat, 209, 466.
The population of North Carolina is
lSOS,Sl0, as against GIT, 947 III 1890,
an increase of 275,S63, or IL per cent.
The Portland, Or, Chamber of Com
merce urges an appropriation of $4,.
100000 for canal and locks at the
dalles.
The population OF Utah, as officially
announced, is 276, 749, as against 207,-
O95 in 1890, an increase 68, ,844, OF
SS.l per cent.
An irrigation bill allowing more
than $1,000 600 to Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho will be introduced at
the coming session of congress.
SignOr Marconi has practically solved
the question of ocean transmission by
wireless telegraphy, and will soon be
able to use his system across the At
antic.
The population OF Montana, as an.
nounced by the United States census
bureau, is 243, 329, as against 1872, l5e
In 1890, an increase of lilo, OF
A.l per cent. The population in 1886
was 9,l59, showing an increase ol
$4,000, or 237.4 per cent, from 1880 to
1890
Floods and storms are causing great
damage III the East.
Ayoung man was fatally shot Dy
robbers near The Dalles, Or.
officers at Tien Tsin are in favor o.
destroying the Chinese Notifications.
Fire destroyed a cement plant neal
L"ston, Pa, causing loss of 5000, 600
united States geological SURVEYORS
are mapping Eastern Oregon mining
districts
Inc Official vote of Indiana Is as fol
"wS Bryan, 309,594; Mckinley
SS6,O63.
Inc Official vote of the state of Vir
snS Is as follows: Bryan, LAG, 6,l79
Mckinley, ll7,l5l.
sarah Bernhardt and Nj. Coquelir
p'ayed their first night to representa-
i've audience in New York City. The,
appeared In Rostand's "L'Aiglon.
Attorney. y.General Blackburn gives hi
OIcial opinion that reading the Bibl,
auu repeating the Lords Prayer ar,
permissible in Oregon public schools
Ine president has decided to appoin
- l. Bowles, naval constructor il
naige OF the New York navy.yard
s"'ei ot the bureau of construction an,
.Ip Lpair OF the navy department., upoI
' fe'irement from active service mex
Aon OF Rear-Admiral Hichborn. tn
present incumbent.
p.i, "a uispatch received at Berlin iron
aa u Marshal Count Won Waldersee
sa a'eu November "a, says the German
Npeuitlon has hoisted the German fla
N Nef The great wall, which was reaches
Cbi0er Cboun - by way of Hey Lin,
mas s' alter a difficult mountain
F,aN' n' The dispatch adds that tn
"a usn t; mad severe fight with Boxer
"ie'ers south of Pao Ting Flu.
fl hofses h to the number of so. 900 ar
nsrt Ue purchased in this country In th
ish A' Six months by agents of the Brit
Ki,ots tsOVernment for the use of Lor,
Trsuuner Tneners forces in policing til
no% mansvaal and Orange Free state Th;
Brattda has been announced by John s
pEeS OF st. Louis, who has sun
Brit;., "ifectly and indirectly to III
man% u army in the last two YEA,
horses suitable for cavalry use
plorar leopold Kahn. the Arctic OK
swir. Is certain that Lieutenant Pear
~, er'ng at Fort Conger.
pubIie.y e yellow book on Chinese affai,
Shows hneu x, by the French foreign offic
and ,ho oiUse relations between Franc
'ne United States.
Jobns.owlli VIII OF Frank Williams late :
$500 NON Pa, makes a beouest .
South po Ro.,, 70 the Lehigh university ]
Worthy petniehem s,s Pa, for the benefit I