The Monte Vista journal., 1899-10-28
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.
General Miles is Inspecting the west
ern forts.


From Key West were reported nine
new cases OF yellow fever Monday,
making total OF l.2;s0 to date. The
total deaths number fifty.seven.
Bishop Henry c. Potter Of New York
has sailed for Honolulu and the Philip
pines on the steamer Gaelic. He goss
In his ol1cial capacity In behalf Of the
Protestant Episcopal church Of Amer
lea.
Ex-President Harrison. accompanied
by Ambassador ChOate, called on the
Prince Of Wales Monday and had u
private audience. Balfour. first lord
Of the treasury. gave a dinner In hon.
or Of the ex-President.
The engineers reports confirm the
previously reported discovery OF ex-
tensiye and commercially available
coal beds In the state Of Puebla, which
may lead to the resuEcitatiOn Of the
gas business in Mexico City.
Telegrams from Chihuahua, Mexico,
say that Grant Gillette. the cattle
plunger, who fled from Kansas q year
ago, after double nOrtgaging his stock
Tor more than $1,OOO.OOO. II very Ill
with What n believed to be smallpox.
The thirteen negro soldiers Of the
Twenty.nfth infantry accused OF beat
Ing with clubs four Tonic Indians on
the night Of October IL at San Carlos
indian agency, have been arrested and
are held for trial In the United States
court.
Four men from the guni,Oat Mnrive-
los were lur,I ashore. eighteen miles
from llOilO. .,hy n fing OF truce, and the
insurgents killed one OF them. wounded
one and captured II third. The gun
boat WINS unable to fire for fear OF
wOunding the Americans.
The box ear famine is becoming Sc
rlous In sOutlern California. In q
short time the movement eastward OF
the orange. dried fruit and walnut crop
Will begin. and there are not enough
cars to make II showing. The Santa
Fe line In %D ears short and the South
ern Pucific IL also very short.
Count Torrannz, governor OF the
Bank Of Spain. has been appointed
minister OF Justice. In succession to
Senior Duran. who resigned In cOnse-
Quence of the decision Of the govern
ment to suspend the constitutional
kuuiuu'cr Ut EbaTttlbnt. MhIt ldN
has been gnzcttcd at Barcelona.
Captain c. o. Howard. formerly Of
the Nebraska National Guard. nj pres
ent living In Philadelphia. has written
to Secretary Of War Root. volunteer
Ing his services 10 take the place OF
his brother. the late Captain Guy
Howard. who was recently killed dur
Ing an engagement with the Filipino
insurgents.
Princess Chimny. nee Clara Ward,
is coming to New York. and will go on
the burlesQuc stage. \ firm of variety
agents. who deal in European special
ties for the American market. have an
nounced that they have secured Chimay
and her gypsy husband for n tour Of
the United States. She and Rlgo. 1t is
said. will receive salary OF $lO.UO "a
week.
The Santa Fe railway IL bringing
the Kansas regiment home without
amy pay. at least FOR the present. as no
money In available In the treasury Of
the state for the transportation. The
railway company Will look tO the next
Legislature for compensation. The
railway supplies tourist and Pullman
sleeIerr aud furnishes meals en- route
10 the regiment.
According to ndvices from Pckin. the
Empress lbOwagcr in trying to compass
the at,iicntion Of her nephew md fos-
tcr-son. the Emperor kunng Hsu. de-
string TO ndopt and proclaim In his
stead n youth Of ~. sOn Of Ptu-sunn.
one Of her councillors. This intention
IL suid TO liz nj the bottom Of much OF
the Inlace intrigue Of the last few
weeks.
Serious riots have brUk.n out In the
Lower Chidwin district Of Burmnh. \
number OF scIpOys Of the Karen mill
tnry police who had been proiiiAtsSi
from attending Burmese thenter.
thcater and attacked 4 number Of
four. The s4Ioys ARE dissatisfied with
their long detention In the cholera dis
trict. Other outbreaks arr reported.
Susan Il. Anthony corrol'orate,i the
statement In y Philadelphia paper that
she would retire from the presidency
OF the National Suffrage Association
at the convention In Washington Ia
February. ahc had endenvorsd To
keep the matter s4.cret. MtAs Anthony
has been nj the head Of the movement
for for,y.ihrcc years. aud will bc ~
years old In February. AMI now sets
herself the voluntary task Of raising
x.aS.nS ms II permanent suffrage ngi.
tntIon fund.
An operation was performed on the
czar nj Dnrinutn,lt on October ~. to re-
licvc the pressure ON the brain from
which h. had b~n suffering for soinc
time. The operation was entirely sue
ccssfui The cxar's nilincnt WINS cnus-
cd by mn attempt On his life In Japan
several years ago. which caused epilci,-
Tie Hts nnd severe headaches. lie wns
struck On the head by II Japanese IA
nniic and his life wns savcd by Prince
George Of Gr,sce, who was travelling
with him.
The Chicago Chronicle says: As a
soliiation deal. the read justmcht Of
railroad properties on nm enormous
scale II said on high authority tn IL.
III. next move Oh the hoar,i-. \ Imam
cicr with close relations tn the Morgan
financial syntiicnte Of New York I. au.
thority for ~, statement that tn. next
few months will witness the welding
together of the railroad Interests con.
troll,-i 10y the linrrimnn-Gould nnd
Vanderbilt interests.
City Councilman !. l.. Reilly II
Cleveland. Ohio. hns fallen heir To $50.
IN. -Four years ngo. while IN San An
tonic. Texas. Mr. Reilly stopped n
runaway team. probably saving the NJ.
~ III" driver. n wealthy farmer Of