The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-04-11
NEWS Of Till W[[k
From All Parts Of the New World
and the Old.
of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important liap
psninss Of the Past Week hs
Condensed Form.

legislative council.
Kitchener is arranging to replace
stale by fresh troops.
California oil experts have bonded
1000 acres near The Dalles.
The striking dock laborers at Mar
Soilles have resumed work.
National railway employees union
will investigate Portland trouble.
Assurances of support from British
Columbia for Portland's 1905 fair.
Earl Lii says no more bitches are
probable in negotiations with powers.
II daily becomes more evident that
the Beers intend to fight to finish.
The United States armored cruiser
New York has left Algiers for Manila.
Augustus Byram, pioneer mining
man of California and Colorado, Is
dead.
B. F. Durphy brought from Cali
fornia to answer to charge of big
amy.
Captain H. X. Steele, of the British
ship Khyber, was arrested for kid
naping.
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton has begun Sunday afternoon
services.
United States commission makes
recommendations for civil government
to be established July 1.
The largest steamer ever built has
just been launched at Belfast. She
is over $50 feet in length.
Lawyer Patrick, also accused Of
murder of Millionaire Rice, says Valet
Jones confession is not true.
Oregon will have to buy wood from
men who have supply cornered, says
principal factor in transaction.
The czar of Russia has given 1000
roubles toward the building of a new
Greek orthodox church in New York
City.
Official in charge of American lega-
ton wires that Russia will not re-
China.
L. S. j. Hunt creates a sensation by
returning to Seattle, and paying heavy
outlawed debts. He will found news
paper.
American officials are much per-
picked over Russia's refusal to re-
ceive official communications from
China.
Burglars wrecked a safe at Frank
fort Ind. They were pursued by the
proprietor and one of them fatally
wounded.
The revenue collector of the second
district of New York recently received
an order for $5S7, ,413.S4 worth of reve-
nue. stamps.
The Japanese minister at Washing
ton says the rumors of hostilities be-
tween Japan and Russia are greatly
exaggerated.
High water at Richmond, Quebec,
carried away steel bridge which cost
$4,000. The inhabitants have fed to
the high hills near the town.
High official of the ordnance depart.
forts at Fort Stevens and Fort Co.
mmbia, and also superintend repairs,
Three old temples in Japan burned
recently.
A snow storm in Pittsburg caused q
heavy loss.
The army frauds at Manila are not
as bad aS fret roportod
Russia contemplates a permanent
occupation Of Manchurlz.
Olympia has presented Sylvester
Park for capitol grounds.
The Franco-Italian fetes at Toulor
are expected to mark a new era.
The ministers at Pekin are making
good progress with the negotiations.
China formally notifies Russia she
Will not sign the Manchurian treaty
A peaceable settlement of the Chi
nese trouble is considered impossible
Washington & Oregon will be run
nlng trains into Vancouver in Sepfem
Der.
Aguinaldo wants to come to Amer
lca, then return home and retire tt
private life.
The law of the state of Washington
creating the Office of fire marshal vii
remain imperative.
A strip of Washington county wal
Inadvertently added by the Oregon leg
iSiature to Columbia.
AT the Mare island navy yard 45t
morkmen have been discharged on &C
count of lack of funds.
An oil well at Beaumont, Tex.
Saught fire. The flames are shooting
lou feet above ground.
The Alaska Steamship Association
at recent meeting, fixed rates tt
Aiaska points. To Skagway the fart
VIII be $25 first class, SIC SECOND
elass; to Dawson, first class, $100i
second class, $50.
The Edinburgh Castle" public
inouse, situated in the Strand, London
W De hauled down, and the Lond0I
county county council has to pay f22,50o al
compensation.
q. PROBABLY the smallest monarch II
cue cue world reigns over the Hindu vas
nai state of Bhopaul, and governs
TSpe TTsSopie OF more than a million souls
a, nls dwarf is woman, Djihan-Be
sum by name, but although she Il
oout not SO years old, she does not ap
year larger than child OF 10.