The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-01-17
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,r INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
ronD.sbsnsive Review Of the important Hap
psninss of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.

Orecon's state levy tax has oeen
fixed at 81 mills.
The kingdom of Saxony sollclts
loan Of $4,000, 900.
Burglars blew open safe IN a STORE
-. Icing Or, but secured no booty.
poars CAPTURED three agents OF Brit
- nooce commissioners and put one
10 death.
Tho Umatilla reef lightship has
.,ain broken loose and dirfted from
her station
Tho rebels in Colombia made des'
rprate attempt to enter Colon but were
driven back.
Prince Chang protests against con-
templated appointment OF successor TO
Ii Hung Chang.
Governor Hunt, of Idaho, has abol-
;sbed the famous permit system in the
Coeur d'Alenes.
London papers loudly demand that
endorsements be sent to the scene OF
war in South Africa.
Leavenworth, Kan, fiend only
escaped lynchIng by being placed In
the state penitentlary.
Northern Pacific train was wrecked
in Washington while passing over
sinking bridge and five people injured.
Samuel Lewis, the notorious money
lender and usurer, who has been called
the greatest and meanest of modern
ShyIocks, is dead.
During a theater performance in Chi.
caro, man raised the Cry of fire and
asa result seven persons were killed
and many injured.
While engaged in thawing dynamite
in one of the tunnels of the Ample
mine, near Lillooet, b. c., John OLE
son, miner, was instantly killed and
two others seriously injured.
An artesian oil we'll has been struck
near Beaumont, Texas. Thousands Of
people are tlocking to the place to see
the novel sight. So Jar, it is esti-
mated GO, 600 barrels have been wasted
on the prairie.
The Chehalis- South Bend, WASH,
train ran into landslide about eight
miles west of Chehalis and the engine
and three freight cars ran off the track
into the Chehalis river. The passenger
coach left the track and the front end
hung over the river bank. The engineer
was the only one injured.
A metropolitan police force will be
organized at Manila.
Won Bulow made his debut as chan.
cellor in the Prussian diet.
J. J. Hill denies that he is trying to
form railroad ombination.
Canada will send recruits for Baden.
POwell's African constabnlary.
The Chinese emperor's brother may
be the imperial envoy to Berlin.
There is objection to commissioning
the battleship Wisconsin on Friday.
The Rome press is indignant at the
Duke OF Norfolk address to the pope
Southern Philippine ports may be
cIosed to prevent communication be.
tween rebels.
Northern transcontinentals announce
d reduction In through rates to the
scents basis.
Ambassadors Choate and White are
working Tor the removal OF negotia-
lions from Pekin.
Inc Northern Pacific has declared q
regular quarterly dividend of l Der
'ent on Its preferred stock.
~, MIX b. Armour, nephew of the late
inllip ID. Armour, and head of the Ar.
; mOur interests in Kansas City. is crit
''"iIy Ill at his home with pneumonia.
by the accidental discharge of Q
mast IN the Malachite mine 1T Mindls
Ass ARR, one man was blown to
ONis ana two others seriously injured.
cornelius l.. Alvord, the defaulting
te ew York bank teller. pleaded guilty
r' Te'ore the criminal branch of the
Iu''eu States court and thus saved
VIC slate the expense OF a trial.
A l5'year.old boy, who was stealing
y. .'ue on freight train, near Salem,
los. wl,' lost his hold and fell, the train
anos s over and severing both legs
luries. '' Lac AZ
On Al a water front fire in New York.
"a ' fireman fireman was seriously injured and
T,s seSmen narrowly escaped with their
hn es' one steamer and a pier was
100000. ~ e'se' LOSS
,OaG ~ collision on New Jersey rail.
w;.a au' near Laurel Run, a car filled
th". powder exploded with such force
N~ "s 'he report was heard 90 miles
N. tU one was injured, but the cars next
bIOn que In which the powder was were
''Owh to pieces.
,0a aIe hundred motor carriages nar
Sraa ras Is Is the average output of a Paris