The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-13
LATER NEWS.

The American troops have orders to
get ready to leave Pekin.
Ii Hung Chang will be permitted TO
60 to Pekin Tor q conference.
France agrees unwillingly to Rus.
sia's proposal to evacuate the imperial
city.
Seven vessels were wrecked or
stranded on the Florida coast BY the
recent hurricane.
Two persons were killed and one ser.
lously wounded in q row in q restaurant
at Reno. Nevada.
Commandant Theron, noted Boer
scout, has been found dead on the field
near krugersport. a small town about
20 miles northeast of Lydenburg.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Portland, Or, is co..
426. as against 46, 3S5 in 1890, an in.
crease OF 44.04l, or 94.95 per cent.
Germanys' reason for rejecting the
Russo-American proposals of with
drawal from Pekin is that the time is
inopportune and calculated to prol ong
the war.
The American ship May Flint col.
lided with bark in the bay Of San
Francisco, then drifted onto the battle.
ship Iowa. where she was split open
and sank to the bottom.
Ex-President Cleveland has declined
the presidents appointment as a mem.
Der of the International Board of Arbi.
tration, under The Hague treaty. Ex-
President Harrison has accepted the
appointment.
The staff surgeon of the German lega-
tion at Pekin announces that an ex-
animation shows the cause of Baron
Won Kettelers' death to have been q
bullet through the neck, which must
have been instantaneously fatal.
Francis Edward Hinckley. one of
the incOrporators of the Chica go Uni.
versity, and prominently identified
with many important railroad and com.
mercial enterprises, is dead at his
home at West New Brighton, Staten
Island. aged sc.
The weather in India is now promis-
ing for crops. Excellent rain has
fallen in all the famine districts and
the winter sowings are practically as.
shred. The number now receiving re-
lief is something under 10000 an
encouraging reduction.
Ulysses Kellogg, aged IL years, and
George Oglesby were killed by firedamp
in an abandoned shaft at Newcastle,
Wash. The iormer descended into the
hole to look for chicken which he
had thrown therein, and was followed
by Oglesby. Both were overcome by
the vapor and fell to the bottom OF the
shaft.
The siege of Ladybrand has been
raised.
Natives of Alaska require govern
ment aid.
Ex.Secretary OF State Olney will sup
port Bryan.
The yellow fever situation in Havana
is improving.
The allies marched through the for.
hidden city of Pekin.
New York Republicans nominated
B. B. Odell for governor.
| Connecticut Republicans nominated
| George P. Mclean for governor.
The body of Pocatello. Idaho, fire.
man was found in the Willamette river
near Champoeg.
An Eastern hop man says the. pres
ent strength of hop prices is due to q
| speculative furry.
The National party nominated Senat-
or Caffery for president and A. NJ.
Howe for vlce.president.
Arthur Sewall, Democratic candidate
| for vice president in 1896, died at his
summer home at Bath, Me.
Montana Republicans nominated
David E. Folsom for governor and s.
G. Murray for congressman.
A man with 81, 900 in his pocket was
sent to Jail at The Dalles. Or, for
stealing 25 cents worth OF wood.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.
of Kedleston, cables that the total num-
her of persons receiving relief is 4,SiO,-
900.
The population of Salt Lake City,
Utah, according to the United States
census Of 1900, is 1851; 1890, A.
a4s.
The population of Albany, N. T..
according to the United States census
of 1900, is "a, l51. against 94,923 in
1890, a decrease of 772, or 81 per cent.
Chief Illowahe, an aged Yakima In
dian. who belongs on the reservation,
was murdered about 10 miles below
Kiona last Sunday. The murderer is
John, ecultus Indian" lilowshe
was medicine man. nearly 80 years
of age. The cause OF the crime was
i Illowahe's failure to save the lie OF .
child belonging to his assailant.
| Morgan Robbins, agent of the Ar
mour. Haviland Company. of Chicago,
! said that he, with his associates, had
lust closed the first part of deal in
yolving $40. 900. 600 that is to be in-
vested in Colorado gold mines by the
packers and London men. Mr.. Rob-
bins says contracts were closed for
properties in Gilpin county calling for
the payment of -, 900, 600, but he re-
fused to divulge the names OF tho prop
critics until he had succeeded in trans
ferring all the mines on which he has
an option.