The silver star., 1897-09-02
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Silver gained little on the 2Oth, 60
Ing to 52aa cents.
The noted Luetgert murder trial be-
gan at Chicago on tho 23rd.
Eddie McDuffee has lowered Hamil-
toms mile record to :3S 10.
The price of the sugar trust stock
has gone up from 1O3 to lao within II
year.
Quakers from Illinois are inspecting
New Mexican lands with a view Of col
; onization.
Government timber inspectors are
vigorously prosecuting timber thieves
in Idaho.
Canadian lumbermen propose to re-
taliate on the United States on account
of the Dingley bill.
1t is reported that Russia will soon
forbid the expectation of wheat owing
to the small crop there.
President Mckinley attended re-
union of the Army of the Potomac at
Troy, New York, on the Goth.
The loss to the governmen. OH silver
bought under the Bland-Allson and
acts now aggregate $221, ,5SS, ,17S.07
The International congress called to
discuss measures for the protection of
workmen opened at Zurich on the
23rd. There We're 800 delegates pres
ent, and all countries were repre-
sented.
The mill of the Treadwell company In
Alaska is to be doubled in size, giving
it 300 stamps, reducing ore at cost of
81 per ton and producing $125,0O0 per
month. There is 7.OOO,OO0 tons of ore
in sight in the mine.
The Elgin Watch Company has ad-
vanced the price of watch movements
ten per cent. The advance is ON all the
better grades of movements. Cheap
movements have been advanced also
from ffty to seventy-five cents on each.
The London Chronicle announces the
settlement of the long-pending strike
in the famous slate quarries of Lord
Penrhyn in Wales. The men have
won complete victory, Lord Penrhyn
conceding them the full right to com
bine
George L. Eldridge of the geograph.
1cal survey has returned from trip to
the Utah gilsonite deposits. where he
has been establishing the reservation
line, and has settled beyond a doubt
that all the valuable gilsonite beds are
on the reservation.
Good rains have fallen everywhere
throughout India except in the districts
of Bombay and Deccan. aud the crops
promise to be exceptionally large. The
number of the relief list are steadily di-
minishing and evidences of famine are
rapidly disappearing
Princess Kaiulani. who has lust at.
tained her majority. will return to Ha-
wall in October, after an absence of
ten years in England and ON the con-
tlnent. She has hopes of being made
queen of the present island republic II
annexation fails.
The Havana police have discovered
printing outfit which has been used
to print the proclamatlons issued by
the insurgent leaders. The proprie-
tors OF the establishment. Peralta
Bros, have been arrested and are con-
nned incommunicado.
The government of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order for 1.OOO. 600
five-cent stamps has been given to the
American Bank Note Company and nm
other for 2000,OO0 stamps of other de-
nominations will follow.
Several men who have Illegally cut
timber in Idaho have been bound over
TO answer at the next term OF the Fed.
eral Court In Blackfoot, and the gov
ernment has also instituted civil pro-
ceeding against them to recover the
value of the timber taken.
The first official trip of the com.
pressed air motor invented by Robert
Hardy has been made on the Sixth
avenue division of the Manhattan ele-
waited railroad. The train made the
run from Rector to Fifty-eighth street,
over five miles, in eighteen minutes.
United States Marshal McDermott
has been advised by the attorney gen
eral to double the amount Of the re-
ward offered by the Department of
Justice for the capture of stage rob-
bers In the National Park. Five hun
dred dollars will now he paid for the
arrest and conviction OF the hold-ups.
Active work on the tunnel of the
Great Northern railroad In the Cas-.
cade mountains has been commenced.
The tunnel will he two and One-half
miles long, sixteen feet wide and TWEEN
ty-three feet high. 1t will cost $1,000
900 and require two years In building.
1t Will reduce the ascent by 1900 feet.
1t is the Intention of the Santa Fe
company to equip all locomotives In
the passenger service with electric
headlights. Some time ago n similar
light was placed on 427, running be-
tween Topeka md st. Joseph, and so
satisfactory has been the test that all
night engines will he equipped in o
like manner as speedily as possible.
The Argonaut, submarine craft,
was launched at Baltimore on the 10Th.
Miss Myriam LIKE, daughter Of the In
ventor, Simon Lake, Of Baltimore,
christened the strange craft. This yes.
sci Is one OF the most unique ever con.
structed. 1t IL intended for CONNER.
cial work. including the exploration of
the bottom Of rivers, lakes, bays and
even seas, for wrecklng work.
Range ponies are selling In Arlxona
at 81 head. This IL the price paid
~ Hicks Il Brigham, cattlemen of
Tempe. Arizona. and Denver, for 900
head now being gathered on the range
north OF PHOENIX. The ponies are NOT