| Show HE STEAMER ISLANDER r Investigation Into Inlo Cause of Its lis Loss Develops r Sensational Testimony T t plain and IIlo fold to Co 0 L Life Lite era Untidy Victoria n D C Sept of or orth ither th r sensational character was wali ought out at the tho enquiry Into tho the thoat theof of at the tho steamer Islander which i continued this afternoon Dr A fv Phillips who lost his lii hi wife wlee and anil tighter In iii the disaster said ho could coul could nd d I no life preservers In his state pan oili an anji ho ie 10 did find them the In III Inho InC ho o C cabin there was nobody to assist r 1 instruct them how ho to put them on one one e C ivan not no and only on I went out his wife heard a noise and was uneasy neasy When Wilen they the Iho deck 11 I the tho boats and rafts had loft left and I they thoy were drawn down own with tho boat boatIc He Ic 10 came caine to the surface again but his ito Ifo and daughter did lid not riot W 0 ci Preson Preston also of Seattle testified fied cd that the boat loat In which he left the I ship only contained fourteen persons I Ione lone one nile of at whom hom was a fireman They The did not neit nick Up tip others ns as II their boat bont was leaking anti and they were not oarsmen ITlie Tire The only Indication that lint the captain vas all Intoxicated Intoxicate was his action In way nr nI a n farewell to some friends on the wharf at tt with his hands and andI I actions In an No one ono seemed to have hae charge of the boats LoatA but when ho lie left the steamer there seemed to be no more passengers to lo take away It took tool the tire men about tO minutes to lower a n boat They did dill pilot hut hot seem to understand it II In one boat there were only oni seven men and they loll all looked like members crow pone one of ot them having a uniform on Ho judged they were members of ot the crew crow r J because they had ha rough clothes on Whey They The may ma have hare been laborers or mm Irs ers No ono one aroused the passengers and f Tin io one all ordered the boats Loats to stand by b io 0 heard a I man at the ho Inquest at nt Juneau give evidence to the effect elect that th pilot lIot was os drunk and his wife wICe re reMarked remarked Marked WI as he ho carrIe catris aboard the strip ship at nt kaguay that he ho looked as though he hall had ail been b drinking Mrs Preston tea tes that the captain though She le had been drinking Pi Capt C McLeod of the steamer Darn Dan DanUbe Ube tibe testified that when running north fond And thinking there Is Ice present he ho ke js u lookout and In when the weather cather catherIe Iii Ie thick two lookouts Heat Boat drills he heid heId id are not generally practiced on this his coast Mice Green of Tacoma swore SOre post lively that the thc captain and pilot were drunk runk The captain was at the I bar barfor for or two hours hourI and ho he had seen een him him ake take two drinks If It nil the tho boats had ad slot Bot left the tho ship shiV many more marc lives lIes auld have havo been toen saved Two of ot time the ule ulo life lito preservers picked up after the reck had been weighed at Juneau nd mid weighed and respectively The Inquiry will wilt tomorrow Conditions In Washington Sept The state do e has Ira received from fron A il I Agent gent at nt Vladivostok 4 tier der date datu of July Jul 21 1 a comprehensive ort JOrt on ba conditions In Manchuria Mr lr Ir Greener keener says Is that there Is ma much ng as ns to the number of at Hui Hu Huan Huian Ban an troops In Manchuria He places their heir number nt at about Manchuria he says rays Is one of ot the most fertile countries on the globe and there are Me no better Letter crops in all 1111 Asia A la laThe If The Manchu says II Mr Greener has hall hardy barely b tI the lie surface and let el elthe I the Ile business activity the actual and the tangible results are a 1 continual surprise American goods Io Ids mire already known and favored on account of ot their cheap cheapness ness mess The area of oi gold goti fields In Manchuria says Kayo Mr Ir Greener extends extend more than 11 s mile along the shores of the Ar At Argun gun run and Amur Amer rivers and there is III no doubt ns as to the richness of ot the mines Only nu and Chinese may mal go Into thu the country overland It not riot bo to safe he lie says tny for tor many foreign us to venture Ino Into the country now 1011 n R ConI roll II lit Interest I I New York Sopt Sept 26 The Herald says nays H n J Or nhut youngest mem mm member ber ter of the this firm of the company hiss has purchased a 1 controlling Interest In the large arge retail store In this thin city from Henry Siegel Mr Me Siegel however will 11 not be b entirely disso dissociated dated from the tho concern The amount I Involved In the transaction Is not known knolln but it Is III said sal to bo be upward of or f I Now New York Sept 20 Mr Maurice Grim Orau who inns hai Just arrived from froni Ku lu rope has hall outlined lila his plans for tho the coming season The Tho opera reason COnSOn at atthe athe the he opera house hous will wilt be Lt begin begin gin Kin Monday December 3 and Continue for eleven cloven weeks week In addition to the standard repertoire Mr Oran Grail has hns decided to produce Pall Pad opera with the tenor In the title role 1011 and by b Isidore Isidoro D Inra Lam In which Mine CalVe Calva will lUIf sini the tho title role rime Tho company will make 0 a R long tour before the time opening of ot the Hie Now New York season The first performance will be bo given at Albany on Oil October 7 Short engagements will be played In Louis Louisville Louisville ville lIle Nashville Memphis Atlanta Ilir New Orleans Houston Los Loin Angeles and San Ban Francisco San An Antonia tonia Dallas Dalins Kansas City St Louis Indianapolis Cincinnati Cleveland and anti then thou back to New York for tor tho the season of eleven cleven weeks A short tour will be he betaken taken In the tile spring to Chicago and Dr Pr Not Marooned Portland Portia lid Me Sept 26 Mrs Peary Peury wife of ot Peary Pear who ho has returned to South Portland a 1111 has hns promptly de denied nied the report that Dr was marooned He positively positive refused to go goback bud buck and said he ho would stay with lith a n patty of ot natives It was wall not Ilot deemed proper to attempt to compel him to ic no urn turn to the Windward because of ot his peculiar mental state It was thought that possibly he lie might recover If left let on shore but In the tho opinion or Dr Cook Co k he lie was In danger of violently Insane It If taken back i Belgian Laborers Uneasy r London Lon on Sept 28 A dispatch from tram Brussels sels to the Times says tho the unrest In the Belgian labor market continues to be manifested among the glass makers and the tho Liege miners At the Is a long longstanding longstanding standing one om caused by b the tho employ employment ment mont of men mum not affiliated with the unions Rioting nearly hearly resulted n a week ago At Liege the he miners demand higher wages Precautions were token taken to prevent disorders there with the tho arrest of ot Louis 1 tho the anarchist ringleader of ot the strikers |
