Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-01-06
ELMORE BULLETIN.
G. NJ. PAYNE. MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
Terms Of suhsorlption,
EVENTS OF THE DAY

The steamer CaFanzs, from Rotter-
dam. is reported lost OF Cape Abjoa.
Six members Of the crew were saved
and fifteen arc missing.
Police Officer Bratton was badly .
shot while trying. 20 capture two bur-
glars in store in Tacoma. He fired I
at one burglar, when another, who was I
watching, opened fire and shot Bratton
twice in the back of the head. He
will probably die.
Eddie Chandler, about years old,
was drowned in Portneuf river, in Po-
catello, Idaho. He threw his hat on
the ice and tried to get the dog to get
it, and, failing in this, he went on the
ice and broke through into deep water.
The river was dragged and the body
found in about an hour.
One of the last official acts of Mayor
RAIDER of Los Angeles, CAL, will be to
attach his signature to an ordinance
making expectorations upon the side
walks of public streets, entrances 80
public buildings or the floors of street
cars a misdemeanor, punishable by
either fine or imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen OF the secret service at
Washington, has issued circular
warning against a new counterfeit $40
national banknote ON the Union Ma
tional bank of Detroit The note is
the product of the same hand which
produced the recent counterfeit ON the
National Bank OF Commerce Of New
York One distinguishable feature is
that the back of the note is upside
down.
Miss Celia Strahm was killed by her
brother. n-law, Eden Buroker, at
Dixie, eighteen miles west of Walla
Walla. Miss Strabm was visiting the
family, and after the family had re-
tired she went out of the door, and
upon returning the noise awakened
Buroker, who drew pistol from under
his pillow and shct Miss Strahm. He
mistook her for an enemy, whom he
had heard was intent ON doing him
harm.
Japan has a larger carrying trade ON
the Pacific than the United States, and
Americans who are near enough to
watch the shifting scenes in this new
and rapidly developing contest for COM
mercial supremacy find little matter for
pride in present tendencies. This is
the statement of United States Consul
Bell, of Sydney, contained in his report
to the state department upon the open
ing of tha new Japanese steamship line
between Yokohama and Australia.
The president has extended the civil
service rules SO as to include all officers
and employees in the federal peniten-
tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
though it is to apply to all such gov
ernment institutions and to all peni-
tentiaries hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment. Attorney
General Harmon is subjecting the re-
cent civil service schedule as affecting
the department of justice to a rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
to overcome defect in the rules pro-
mulgated and further amendments on
similar lines may be expected.
Radical changes in the procedure of
the pension Office have been made. All
claims for increase, save in extraordi-
nary cases, hereafter will be sent direct
to the medical division of the bureau,
the board of review. This action il
taken on the ground that the bulk of
increase cases involve only medical ac-
ton. Hereafter there will be no me-
cessity for cases before the board of re-
view being passed upon by three or
four examiners. Commissioner Muir
ply has fixed the number of examiners,
who must review each claim at once.
The Mexican government. recogniz.
ing the increasing Importance of its
west coast commerce, is determined tc
improve the harbors. Arrangements
have been made to raise a considerable
sum for this work, in addition to the
So. 600, 600 for the improvement OF
O. atzacoalcos and Salina Cruxz, the
eastern and western termini OF the Te
huantepee road. The move to improve
the harbors is also caused, it is said, BY
the rapidity of railroad building to
ward the Mexican Pacific coast, which
will open fertile country and develop .
large commerce through the ports be
low Mazatlan.
A strike instituted at Georgetown
Mass, has thrown out of work 20s
men, and promises to embrace the en-
tire six shoe factories of the town. A
threatened cut in wages was the caus
of the strike.
The constructors of the Siberian rail
road have undertaken to build a lin
through Mantchuria. starting from
point on the river where the Siberian
road joins the trans Baikelia line am
terminating at Mikolskaya, Russia
The ministerial press of ST Peters
burg points out that this line vii
make Russia the intermediary of peace
full civilization between Europe an
Asia.
Notice has been posted at all th
Philadelphia 81 Reading coal and iro
collieries, numbering forty, and ais
at number of individual collieries
that work would be suspended for
week, Twenty thousand men and boy
will be idle.
The executive committee Of tn
monetary conference with headquratei
in indianapolis, Ind, are sending OF
call TO all commercial organization
who intend to send delegates to the COZ
ference. Ii is now believed that abor
500 delegates will be in attendance.