From Ssartux Parxns, Seattle is to have a direct steamship lino to Australia within a very few months. Frank Waterhouse, of Frank Waterhouse & ('o., stated, in response to questions, that in com-friends in ho render of Port Ar: h and the battle of the rea of Japan has to death Lieut -Ges,, Storssel, who commanded t'@ Ru sian forces xt Port Arthur, and Rear-Adwiral Nebozatoff, who: commended one of Admira! Riahdestvensty's squadrons and who surrendered duti al battle (o the Japanese.
Fairbanks, 23rd May business district of Fairbanks part of the city ata loss estimated at $2,000,000. It started in the Fairbanks Block, which was 6oon a mass of flames and spread with frightful rapidity, although a south wind at first drove the fro toward the water front, Th firemen by concentrating their efforts feet and her tonnage tons. Since she loft th 18th, she has been engin ped' with the usual fittings. progress has been made locally in shipbuilding that the engines are constructed and fitted here, though many of the fittings and material have to be brought from home. The staff of Mesars. Lane, Crawford & Ca. ro also been at work on ti i 16 she took to the water, and the adequate accommodation and conveniences shown in the construction of the vessel have been which Comfort is every-In the twelve state-tors for first-class European travellers, there are two beds in each, and thei understood that by developing present trade with Australia ips sai on a monthly schedule would carry shipments of Iumb mou, and machinery. There agricultural districts in that country steamers already running to Sydney Melbourne carry many tons of farm impiements, In past years sailing vessels and chartered steamers have malo many trips from Puget Sound to Australia with lumber. By the astabli 8 direct service from Seattl would have a regular I upon and n big trade would probably be developed in a year's time that would warrant an incronso in the fest. While the names of the stoamera to be used in the Puget Sound-Australian service have not been Th steamship service with Seattle as the terminal point on Puget Sonnd would mean deal for the North Pucific Conat importance of Seattle as a shipping centre, It has been learned that the first of the steamers on the Aust: willie available to sail from Seattle withthe six mentha' time, Wrahington, 21st May.
The Supreme Court of the United Btates to-day rendered a docisi in the case of Unite? States Son Ralph Burton, of Kansas. The sion was agi afirming the decision of the United States Circuit Court of the Eastera District of Missouri, by which Burton was sontenced to nine months' imprisonment in the gaol of Iron County, Missou required to pay a fine of $2,500, prived of the right to hereafter' hold office under the government, opinion was by Justice Har the points made in Burto were overruled, Senator Burton was prosecuted on the charge of violating section 1,782 of the revised statutes, which prohibi ing compensation for services rendered before any of the government dlepartinents which the government may be intor-J. Ho was spec with accepting fon of for five months from the Rialto Grain and Securities Cv., of St. Louis, for services rendered that company effort to prevent the issuance of an order by the post-office department prohibiting the use of the mails by the company.
St. Petersburg, 41st May.
is rumoured that the military court which has been investiga ing the sur-stored the camp's great food supply. Ti people of the city took the matter over the city twenty men with shot-guns are guarding property in the burned district. Dynamite was used to stay the progress of the lanes, but. the efforts of the fruitless. st toSargont and Pinsk store on the west, ani back from the water front to Third Avenue, At mid-special train beans came in from the er cluded in the ger the steamer Lottie Talbot, which was sunk by the ico and was being raise She was en water line, the firemen ard citi telegraph offices, altho tors were—compelled Thomas McGowan, attorney. for the Northern Commercial Company, who had offices on the second floor of the Washington-Alaska Bank Building, ind sensational escape, Although scores called to him to jamp, he waited until a 1 was raisoil to him. In the m clothes were on fire. The ington-Alaska Bank and the First saved their books and other popers. The only of the Fairbanks Banking Con pany. The court-house and fede: wore saved. The federal prisoners wore chained tos stub in the outskirts of the city and afterwards transferred to temporary city gaol. The citizens eboorfal and will st once begin to id. The saw mills have started working with night and day crew The churches are being used ae pi of refuge for the homeless, and food being furnished frve by the Northern Commercial Company.
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