Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

begin its sittings until August 10th.
The total output for the season in
Klondile is estimated at SEQ, 100000
The lack of the usual fall of rain in /
Cuba is delaying the maturing of the
sugar crop.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila
There is no confirmation of the res
port that Chief Justice Chambers of
Samoa will resign.
The Noll,sraad at Pretoria, in secret
session, has adopted the seven years
franchise proposition.
Christian A. Geoffrion, member of
the Canadian cabinet and a distin-
guished lawyer, is dead.
News of the Arctic whaling feet is
that so far it has been bad year, as
very few whales have been seen.
The Federal government has sent
agents to several points in Texas to
secure horses for service in Cuba.
Tremendous storms have destroyed
bridges and Frustrated telegraph wires
in Chile, interrupting communication.
The new tug Fearless, recently
built for the Speckels brothers, San
Francisco, has been chartered by the
government.
he Rothschild, notorious diamond
thief and crook, has been sentenced to
tiary for forgery.
United States Consul Jenkins has
cabled the state department that San
Salvador is in state OF siege as n re-
suit of revolutionary plotting.
The past week closed the period of
two years prescribed by the Ding
ley tariff law within which recipros-
ity treaties may be negotiated.
An English syndicate has paid S2l5,-
900 for the Iowa and Yellow Jacket
groups in Boise Basin, Idaho. They
join the famous Gold Hill group.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky has
declined to call special session of the
legislature or send troops to Clay
county where feudal war Is in pro
Rress.
The Mark Lane Express says tina
the British wheat promises a full aver
age yield, and barley an average, anC
that the oat crop is distinctly de
ficient.
A reciprocity treaty, under the pro
visions of the Dingley law, has beer
negotiated between Portugal and th'
United States, and went into effec
the goth inst.
Americans built the first street rail
way constructed In Korea. 1t is al
overhead electric trolley road, 81
miles in length, and runs througl
Seoul, the capital.
The Argentine minister of fnanc
proposes to reduce the taxes on fol
eign insurance companies from 10 to
per cent, raising those on Argentin
corporations from 2 to per cent.
FROM John Sherman's closest frien
and former law partner, Henry
Hedges, it is learned that the veneri
BILE statesman is improving slowly frol
his recent illness and hopes to be abol
again soon.
The triple murder of an America
named Ward and two Japanese wome
at Yokohama, the supposed cause b
ing jealousy, brings an American sailt
named Miller under the Japanese la
as the suspected murderer.
The agricultural departments TO
eign crop report for July states tn
shortage in the Russian wheat crop
, from So, 600, 600 to 1870, 900, 600 bushel
as compared with last year
: The United States district attorne
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warn'
: from Washington to beware of fill
clustering expeditions from the Flo
!. da coast to Honduras, Nicaragua al
a other Central American countries
d The removal of tresspassers-wh
6 settlers-from the Leech Lake India
Y reservation, has been postponed un
d August %, by order of Assistant Sc
: retary of the Interior Hitchcoc
e The settlers are vigorously opposil
:. removal.
St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands,
ports the Italian steamer Cent
America from Montevideo June 80,
!. Genoa with go passengers, has be
towed there for distance of 300 mil,
:, having been disabled by the loss of b
!. propeller.
4. Work has begun on the construct
v of passage from the cell of Ca
y. Dreyfus to the hall in which the cou
lo martial before which he is to be trt
"a will sit. This win enable the prison
to escape the annoyance of observati
by the curious
General Shafter will be retired
lis October 49, when he will reach the
limit. Friends are endeayoring
n have him retained in the service.
at the law is mandatory and the only