Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

aged SO years.
A marvellous quartz find is reported
from Dawson. Assays run as high as
$500 ton it is said and the ledge is
mile in width,
senator Foster has introduced bill
to authorize the leasing of lands west
of the ninety-ninth meridian for graz
ing purposes
Reports received for this seasons sugar
crop in the Hawaiian islands gives the
total product as 2se, s07 tons, which is
one of the largest in years.
1t is claimed that the enlisted
strength of the navy today is nearly
1000 men short of the legal limit and
of the needs of the service
Reports from Sonora. Mexico, show
that at the coal fields owned by the
Southern Pacific railway, both coal and
silver are being extracted.
Chairman Burton of the river and
harbor committee authorizes the state
ment that there will probably be no
river and harbor bill at the present
session.
Senators Gallinger and Foster have
both introduced bills in the senate
authorizing the appointment of COM
mittees to investigate trade conditions
in the Orient.
The entire capital stock and all the
bonds of the Coos Bay, Roseburg IL
Eastern railroad, Oregon, are now the
property of j. d, SpreelSels and Broth
ers company.
The training ship Chesapeake, the
first sailing vessel built for the navy in
more than forty years has just com
pleted most successful trip in Mas
saehusetts bay.
The Southern Pacific company will
restore the old lumber rate from Port
land to San Francisco bay points,
Sacramento, Stockton and San Jose, at
the first of the year.
Admiral Dewey has renewed his re-
quest that the Chinese who served with
him during the battle of Manila may
be given the right to enter the United
States free of restrictions.
The subscription started in the
British colony in Mexico City in behalf
of the widows and orphans Of British
soldiers in the war with the Transvaal
has reached the sum ofS75oo,
Senator Mcmillan has introduced a
bill for the construction of Pacific
cable from San Francisco to Hawaii,
Guam and the Philippines, the route
to be decided by a commission
The car shops of the Chicago, Mil
waukee Il St. Paul railroad the largest
plant in Dubuque, Ia,, were destroyed
/ by fire last week, Loss from SIS, 900
to 500 600 and 800 men will be thrown
put of employment
The trial of Emil Zola, on charge of
,aving libeled NJ. Judet, director of
.he Petit Journal, in accusing him of
asng forged documents in an attack
upon Francois Zola, the novelist S
father, has adjourned for month.
President H. C. Symmonds of Fargo,
n. D., college, while standing in a
bookstore, at Fargo suddenly fell to
the floor. Death was instantaneous
and was supposed to have been due to
heart failure.
Corp. Frank Sample company c,
Twentieth Kansas volunteers is dead i'll
Leavenworth Kan, from the effects of
bullet wound in the head received in
battle at San Tomas, Philippines,
May 4th.
London papers display much anxiety
over the attitude of Menelik, emperor
of Abyssinia, toward England. Al
present there is dispute between this
potentate and Great Britain as TO the
boundary.
The navy department purposes tt
ask congress for 81 900, 600 to build TIVE
frst-elass training ships, of 1900 tons
/ displacement tdcHY the ssssein " W
sheathed and provided with militar.
sail power as well as steam propulsion
Hugo Hunfalyy, lawyer of New
York city says there is no possibl
question that two electricians in Chi
cago, E. p and c. S. Carnly, are heir
to an estate in Hungary worth 9, 900, 90
forms or about 81, ,320, 600.
The Queen has sent letter to Ger
eral Lord Roberts, the newly y-appointe
commander-in chief OF the Britis
forces in South Africa, warmly sympat
izing with him on the death of his sor
! and thanking him for the great patr
: otism he has displayed in putting asid
, his terrible private grief in order to d'
J.. vote himself to the affairs of the natior
: The postmaster general has signed
I call for bids for furnishing improve
: mail service between San Francisc
j and Sydney. n. S. w, for an options
+ term OF either five or ten years, begil
ming November /, 1900
Near ogilvie. Alaska Mrs. ]. Run
$ ball, Mrs. Dumbottom, Henry Kelle
Y and two Mcnamara brothers, wi
$ had been passengers on the wrecke
d steamer "ltratton,n hailing from Mi
r neapolis, were caught in an ice jar
Z. Their boat being small was crushe