The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-04
LATER NEWS.


ltary resources were overestimated by
30, 900 men.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist
and former partner of John L. Sulli,
van, is dead.
The queen has given warning that
British subjects must not help Beers or
Free Staters.
Plague of severe type is raging and
many deaths from that cause have oc-
CURED in New Caledonia.
Sydney Paget, William C. Whitney's
racing partner, has left this country to
join the British rough riders.
A Paris dispatch says that France
would be happy If the Delagoa bay in
cident caused an anglo-American quar-
rel.
Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
Francisco WI lie on his wedding trip.
He is charged with being bank de-
faulter. .
Iowa farmers have formed syndi.
cate to grow rice In. Texas. They have
secured options on IL, 900 acres of land
to cost $225, 900.
The Boer army on Modder river is
growing greater each day. They are
building trenches within three and one
half miles of Methuen's picket line.
The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho
was q bad one. After 10 days the last
body had not been recovered. The
trainmen were to blame.
Should all Spanish war pensions now
asked be allowed, it would cost $2.-
725, 900. The Seventy first New Yorks
asks for annual allowances which ag-
gregate $s4.662.
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
approve of Oregon citizens contributing
to fund for Lawton's family. He
thinks the state should look after her
own heroes families first.
The Countess of Canavarro thou9ht,
che was a convert to Buddhism. she
entered their convent and changed her
mind, and has applied to friends in
San Francisco for assistance.
/ Winston Spencer Churchill has
cabled to the London Post of his escape
from the Boer prison. He made his
way overland from Delagoa bay and
scaled walls while guards were not
looking. He journeyed for six days.
walking at night, with nothing to eat
but chocolate.
The president of the New York
prison association, who has made an
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells
o horrible tale of the conditions there.
Offenders of all classes sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
is provided. Money or influence fs
necessary before they can secure their
| freedom.
Christmas seems, to have been day
of crimes the country over.
| Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.
Every employe of the American Ex-
press Company received IS fora Christ
mas gift.
Butler has destroyed the Colenso
footbridge, and makes no further at
tempt to advance. SEs
Armour's canning department., Chi.
cago, is rushed night and day filling
orders for the English army. 80.
A drunken wife in Sen Francisco has
charged her husband with murder and
he is being held by the authorities.
About 1000 claims have been filed
90 far for pensions for disabilities ra--
| ceived during the Spanish-American
war. -.
The currency bill. according to.a
Washington correspondent, will be
rushed through the senate without
| amendment. ii ,sr, sN,.
The Great Northern, will inaugurate
a new departure. A large block of the
| company's stock is to be distributed
among the employees at par.
II Is said that England. had been
wafned BY General Butler, whom she il
now turning down, that it would not
| be wise to attack the Beers until bet
ter prepared.
Yauui Indians plunder, kill and burn
| villages and the Mexicans do not seem
| TO make much headway in whipping
| the sayaees. An entire Mexican regi-
ment seems to. have disappeared.
The Fenians are organizing at Buffa-
10. N. Y, for an invasion of Canada.
They expect, it is said, to raise 125. 600
men, and have two carloads OF arms
and munitions Of war in conceaiment.
There is -iisaffection among the Free
Slater troops. They complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bet
ter fed than they. The Transvaaler's
are suspicious and the situation Il be-
coming grave.
| The members of the senate committee
on privileges and elections declare
they will carry on the investigation OF
Senator Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreme
court under which Welcome was dis
barred from practice oncharges OF brib-
cry in connection with the senator 8
election.
The Pittsburg baseball club has
boueht the pick of the Louisville team
for 4 sum said to be $25, 900 cash.
Mrs. G. A. Burling. mother-in-law
Of Rear Admiral William 7. SAMPSON
died at her home in Rochester, N. T.,
aged 76 years.
r~.chor;f Weie. Of DAYTON, O., has