Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-01-13
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jumped trestle near Omaha, and five |
people We're injured, one fatally.
William Dobbs, of Union, Or, has
received the Maui prize for raising the
largest table beet for 1885, The con-
test was open to all growers in the |
United States and Canada. The prize
consisted of $50 draft. The beet
weighed seventeen pounds.
Some boys while hunting near Peta-
luna, CAL, shot pigeon on tree,
and the bird dropped with a broken
wing. A message tied to the birds
wing proved that it came from Walla
Walla, Wash, four days previous.
The note was addressed to a San Fran
cisco firm.
Important papers showing the
amount due the Pacific roads sinking
fund, on account of subsidies paid the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have
apparently been lost. The senate
adopted a resolution calling for them.
The acting secretary has replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river salmon packers
held a meeting in Astoria for the pur-
pose of fixing the price to be paid for
salmon during the coming season. 1t
was decided to offer cents a pound,
end a communication to that effect was
sent to the Fishermen's Protective
Union. The union met later, but no
action was taken in the matter of the
Gamers proposition.
A thousand warning Poles, in Bay
City, Mich. We're determined that Fa-
ther Bogacki should not officiate as
their priest. They attacked the par
sonage of St Stanislaus' church, and
stormed it for over an hour. They de-
molished the edifice and one man was
shot and several others wounded with
clubs. The priest finally surrendered,
and the police quelled the riot.
A Chicago paper says that President
elect Mckinley will select Colonel John
Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to
Great Britain. Colonel Hay has been
secretary of the legation at Paris,
Vienna and Madrid and was often
charge d'affaires ad interim at each of
these capitals. In Hayes adminstra-
tion he was first assistant secretary Of
state. Hay was one of President Lin
elon's secretaries.
Sir Charles Tupper at dinner in
London is quoted as saying: 81 feel
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti-
tutions. | feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for
life, property and liberty. Canadians.
are greatly flattered at the desire of
the United States to possess Canada,
but so deep is their loyalty and so
united are the Canadians that the ques-
ton is impossible" The speech of the
ex-premier was received with great ap-
plause.
In answer to Senator Mitchell's reso-
luton on the Yaquina' and other inn
provements in Oregon, the secretary of
war has reported that the matter had
been referred to Captain Fisk and that
considerable correspondence had ensued.
Captain Fisk is endeavoring to ascer-
tain the best method of proceeding
with the project The work on the
Willamette river has been ordered, and
the Yamhill locks are in the condition
Of the Yaquina project. Evidently
there has been delay in the matter,
which may be continued for some time.
The Pacific cable conference will
meet within fortnight in London to
sign the report already agreed upon. 1t
is semi-officially stated that the report
unanimously recommends that a cable
be built, as it is practically feasible
and commercially and politically neces-
sary There is some difference of opin-
ion regarding the relative share of ex-
pense to be borne by Great Britain
and the colonies concerned, but the del
egates have agreed finally to recommend
that less be paid by Great Britain and
more by the colonies than originally
considered necessary. The sum asked
from Great Britain is understood to be
considered financially feasible by Secre-
tary Chamberlain.
A band of masked regulators went
to the house Of O. w. Reddick, few
miles west of Newport, Idaho, and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, took him 8
short distance from the house and gave
him terrible beating with horsewhipt
and switches His condition is critical
The alleged offense of Reddick was inn
proper attentions to a married woman
of the neighborhood.
1t is stated that G. p Huntington
has corps of engineers in the fielc
making preliminary survey for a rail
road from Port Alvarado, south of Yer;
Cruz, to the port of Salina Cruz OF
the Pacific, and that, if he can secure
advantageous routes, he will ask TIN
government for concession for tn,
purpose Of operating the line in con
nection with Pacific Mail steamers, do
ing away with the Panama route.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Managua, Nicaragua, send
word that the government is about t
effect forced loan of $500, 900 to pa
debts contracted by the present admin
istration.
The authorities in Jamaica have pre-
hibited the importation of cattle froI
Colombia. BY way of retaliation it
suggested that the government shoul
issue decree against the importatio
of laborers from Jamaica, many {
whom are now at work on the Panam
canal.