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Show Relinquishes Claim. HONOLULU, Jan. 5. (By Pacific cable.) A. letter received here from Thomas Fitch, the Washington attorney of the Marcus Island Guano company, says that Japan Is relinquishing her claim to Marcus Mar-cus island and is willing to allow the united fetates to take possession. Japan will also deport her subjects now on the Island and Is ready to pay as reasonable Indemnity $10,000 on account of the loss sustained In the trip of the schooner Julia Whalen, which was refused a landing land-ing on the island. |