The Samoan island of Tutuila, "and all other islands of the group east of one hundred and seventy-one degrees west of Greenwich" was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Navy, by President McKinley's General Order No. 540, establishing a naval station in the South Pacific.
The New York Times published the report of Dr. J.M. Selfridge of Oakland, who believed that a cancerous tumor on his face had been cured by x-ray radiation, and that other patients at the Fabiola Hospital had been successfully treated as well.