Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-04-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

ana the American customs O1t1cerS nave
been adjusted.
The original rolls OF the Cuban army
were delivered to Governor-General
Brooke in Havana at o'clock last
Friday evening.
Governor Lee has written to Presi-
dent Mckinley demanding the return
of the South Dakota volunteers from
the Philippines.
1t is announced that the Spanish
minister of marine will submit to the
chamber bill for the construction of
the ten ironclads.
The Spaniards and Cnbans express
dissatisfaction at the appointment OF
Senior de Gonzales Lopez as Spanish
consul in Havana.
The striking Mount Olive and Staun-
ton, Ill, coal miners have resumed
work pending arbitration at Chicago
and East st. Louis.
An order has been passed by the
importation of liquor into the Yukon
territory for the present.
General Maxine Gomez has been
chosen the representative of the Cuban
army to the Americans, with full
power to treat for the army.
AT a political meeting at Logrono,
capital of the province of that name,
Spain, violent speeches were made
against former Premier Sagasta.
The secretary of state has directed
the return to their posts in Spain of
the United States consuls who were
obliged to leave on account of the war.
Arrangements have just been COM
pleted for the consolidation of the
hoop-iron and cotton-tie interests of
the country. Capital stock, S33, o00,-
900.
The president has prepared procla-
nation setting apart 1856, 900 acres of
land on the south side of Lake Tahoe,
California, as a forestry reserve and
public park.
President Mckinley is in receipt of
private dispatch from Manila, to the
effect that the manifesto recently Is
sued by the Philippine commission
had done much good.
The local subscription fund prom
ised by st. Louis of $1,000, 900 for the
Louisiana Purchase centennial, to be
celebrated by worlds fair in 1908,
is from all appearances certainty.
The Missouri senate has passed and
sent to the governor for his signature
the house bill prohibiting the employ
ment of non-residents as deputy
sheriffs, deputy constables or police
officers.
Attorney General Monnett of Ohio is
preparing the information in refer
ence to the alleged attempted bribery
by the Standard Oil representative
which he will file in the supreme
court.
General Maxine Gomez is paying no
attention to the signe statement of
igadier-General Aleman, for some
time Cuban secretary of war, accusing
Gomez of buying cattle at personal
profit
The Chinese government, according
to dispatch from Shanghai, has as
sented to the proposal to open three
new ports in the provinces of Kiang
Su, Kiang 81 and Ngan Hwei or An
Hui.
The officials of the British foreign
Office say the Marquis of Salisbury has
agreed that in the decisions regulating
the provisional measures to be taken
in keeping order in Samoa, unanimity
will be observed.
The idea that the Americans were
favored in connection with the award
of the Atabara bridge contract to a
Philadelphia firm, which has aroused
some feeling in British engineering
circles, is ridiculed in Cairo.
London Daily Mail hitherto strong
advocate of conciliating Germany,
anent the Samoan situation, says:
"We are bound to admit that the Ger
man press and officials are pushing
matters rather far, but we look to EN-
peror Williams moderating influence
to prevent further trouble"
The Cuban army muster rolls,
which were delivered to Governor
General Brooke the other day, show
on their face the total of $4,000
names-6, 900 commissioned officers and
AZ, 900 non-commissoned officers and
privates.
Major-General Lee has rented a
house with fifty rooms at Quemados,
and there seems to be no doubt here
that he will be appointed governor of
the province of Pinar del Rio and of
all Havana province outside the city
of Havana
Captain Huffnagel manager of the
German plantation at Vailele, where
the fatal ambush in Samoa was de-
vised, has been transferred from the
British cruiser Tauranga to the Ger
man cruiser Fake, at the request of
the consuls.
The instructions of this government