Iron County register., 1897-09-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sebastian, on the 3Oth, to present to
the queen regent the proposition of the
state department. for ending the war in
Cuba. The result of his mission is
awaited with much interest
IT is estimated that in Oklahoma ter
ritory, during the year 1897, the stock,
grain, fruit. and all other products will
amount to 500, 900, 900. OF this the peo-
pie at home will consume 60 per cent,
leaving $40, OOO,O 900 of products for ex-
port
SECRETARY GAGE and Attorney-Gen-
eral Mckenna issued a joint circular,
on the 30th, to collectors and customs
officers and United States attorneys
and marshals relative to the enforce
ment of the Chinese exclusion laws. 1t
is proposed to let the suspects pass on
to their destination, and arrest and try
them where they are supposed to be
known and can be identified if their
claims are genuine.
THE next official maps of the Cana
dian government will show a change
in the spelling of "Klondike." The
new diggings and the river will be re-
ferred to officially hereafter as ''Troan-
dix"
HERMAN W. VAN ZASDEN, private
secretary to Secretary Carlisle in the
last administration, and Dennis j.
Canty, formerly clerk in the inter
state commerce commission, were ar
rested in Washington, on the 3Oth,
on warrants charging them with en-
bezzlement of 81, SS7 from Viking &
Co., a brokerage firm. They were
charged also with maintaining a gam
bling table.
OPERATIONS were resumed at the At
lantic mills at Lawrence, Mass, on
the 3Oth, after a shutdown of four
weeks. This gives employment to
about !, 200 hands. Work was also re-
sumed in the weaving department of
the Methuen company's mills at
Methuen, Mass, where nearly all of
the $50 operatives employed in those
mills are now at work.
THE Catholic board of school COM
missioners of Montreal, Can, having
refused to comply with the order of
the provincial board of health to re-
fuse entrance to their schools to chill
dren without vaccination certificates,
the city will station officers at all the
Catholic schools to Vaccinate the chill
dren.
The Great Falls cotton manufactur-
ing mills at Somersworth, N. H, re-
sumed operations on full time. on the
3Oth, after having run 40 hours q week
since May.
The First state bank of Mcpherson,
Kas., of which Senator Royal Mat
thews is president, failed, on the 31st,
with liabilities amounting to SIS, 600.
The bank was placed in charge of
Bank Commissioner John w. Breiden-
thai.
THE board of naval officers appointed
by the secretary of the navy to exam
inc facilities for the manufacture of
armor plate investigated the plant of
the Illinois Steel and Iron Co., at South
Chicago, on the 3Oth. Three days will
probably be spent in looking over the
various branches of the works
AT the session of the Zionist con-
gress, held in Basle, Switzerland, on
the 3Oth, the delegates present unani-
mously adopted, with great enthusiasm,
the programme for re-establishing the
Hebrews in Palestine with publicly
recognized rights.
THE car will visit Paris at the end
of autumn.
Mrs. ANNIE KIRK and her husband,
w. s. Kirk, have sued w. A. Atwood,
q San Francisco dentist, for $3.50 dam
ages, alleged to have been sustained
because he positively refused to exam
inc the lady's teeth after he had agreed
to put them in good condition. The
reason for his refusal was that she
went to his office ON her bicycle and
wore bloomers.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the S1st, by n
vote of 53 to 26, the state democratic
committee adopted resolution declar-
ing vacant the seat of William F. Har-
rity. of Philadelphia, on the Demo
cratic national committee.
ANXIETY as to the fate of the Yukon
steamer p. b. Weare. said to be laden
with gold. was set at rest, on the 31st.
by advices that the Weare was tied up
near Circle City, repairing her boiler
hues.
WHILE making hay near Bartlesville,
/. T., on the 31st, Smith Lonsbury set
fire to the grass, in order to destroy a
nest of bees. The fire got beyond his
control, and considerable hay and sew
eral farm buildings were destroyed be-
fore IL was Su DQueQ-
On the SIst the Seattle Wash. cham-
ber of commerce received q letter from
miners at Skaguay, warning people of
the futility of trying to reach the Yu-
kon by that route this season.
ONCE more Paris is singing the Mar
seillaise, and accounts from the prov
inces show that the whole country is
given up to delirious rejoicing over the
Russian-French alliance.
FRED MCCONNELL, cashier of the Am
bia bank of Ambia- Ind, has fed
the city and about 81, 600 of the banks
funds are said to be missing. The bank
failed to respond to a recent call froT
the state auditor for statement
DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says
that a German sailor, who stabbed d
Russian in a public garden during the
visit of Emperor William, was tried by
a naval court-martial and shot
THE flibuster Bermuda, with her
machinery still out of order, remains
at Port Antonio in the custody OF the
government of Jamaica which paid off
the crew and officers and betrayed
their passage to New York.
CA"-. MURPHY, who was convicted
and fined $500 some time ago for nom
compliance with the customs .regula-
tions while captain of the filibustering
steamer Laurada, having failed to pay
his fine, has been sent to prison at
Kingston, Jamaica, for 30 days.