The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-08-01
EVENTSOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
4 Comprehensive Review of the lmpestaal
happsaiass oi the Past Week Prsssatsd
h Condensed Form Which Is Most
likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

Drawing Ct Oklahoma land has be-
gun.
The Kansas drought is effectually
broken.
Negotiations in Pekin will be closed
in two weeks.
General Wood has left Havana for
the United States.
Shamrock II has sailed from Eng
land for New York.
The battleship Maine was launched
at Cramps shipyards.
It is reported in London that Kru-
ger has asked Choate to end the BOer
war.
Teamsters from interior are taking
the places of strikers in San Fran
cisco.
Transport Meade arrived at San
Francisco with soldiers from the
Philippines.
The run of fish on the lower Column
bia is larger than has been known for
several years.
Formal negotiations for a settle
ment of the great steel strike have
been opened.
The Cuban government offers a re-
ward of $1,000 for the capture of
.Bandid Lima, dead or alive.
The feeling is growing stronger in
England that that government should
not oppose the Nicaraguan canal
treaty.
The steel trust will carry the strike
into the courts.
The sugar trust will add SIS, 600,
600 to its capital stock.
The Constitution beat Columbia
four minutes in % mile race.
There are rumors in London OF
peace negotiations to end the Boer
war.
DR.. Koch says bovine tuberculosis is
is not transmissible to the human
system.
A lone highwayman held up the
Cazadero stage near Mendocino, Cal.
but got nothing.
The teamsters' strike in San Fran
cisco is becoming serious. Both sides
are standing firm.
A fire in q reduction plant near
Florence, COL, destroyed $3.50, OOO
worth of property.
Petroleum on board an American
ship at Stockholm, Sweden, exploded,
burning Is persons and the ship.
Rear Admiral Schley will demand
an investigation of Maclay's charges,
and will sue the author for libel.
An excursion boat on the Saginaw
river sank near Saginaw, Mich, with
30 passengers on board. All were
saved.
The Beers have given up all hope
of Intervention and realize that they
must fight the war out on their own
account.
The Canadian Pacific Railway il
considering the question of substitut-
ing electricity for steam on its heavy
grades.
William III. Hunt, present secre.
tary of Porto Rico has been selected to
succeed Charles III. Allen as governor
of that island.
The mine firemen's strike has been
declared of.
The southwest was again scorched
by hot wave.
The steel trust has made no effort
to start up idle plants.
The rivers and harbors committee
has returned from Alaska.
The international mining congress
has opened at Boise, Idaho.
Whitmarsh has been exonerated ol
the charges brought against him.
San Francisco teamsters have quit
work and the Wholesale trade is about
tied up.
Colonel Albert jerks, a we'll known
artist, dropped dead in Los Angeles ol
heart disease, aged IS years.
A Pittsburg woman started the fire
with kerosene and, with her three
children, was burned to death.
The mayor of Santa Paula, CAL,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by tough character of that place.
Corbin and Chaffee have decided on
radical changes in the army in the
Philippines. The military force will
be reduced to 20, 600 or 30, 600.
A movement has been started by
the labor unions of San Francisco to
shut out japanese, placing them on
the same footing with the Chinese.
At . Chicago race track four horses
became frightened, threw their riders
and bolted from the track into the
spectators and several persons were
severely injured.
President Palmer, Of the Rio
Grande 4 Western, has sold his in
terests in the road to the Gould inter
ests for g, 600, 600.
Prince Bonaparte's philolgical libra
~ Of l6, 900 volumes, the finest in
the world, has been secured for the
Nevberrv library. Chicago.