Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


jail at Tyler, Tex. Among the fugi-
tives is Jim Mite, the surviving member
of the Dalton gang.
Senator Kimball has introduced bill
in the Arkasas senate for the erection of
new state capitol building, the cost
not to exceed 81, 900, 900
A new leather combine, capital $780,.
600, 600 is being organized to take over
the tanneries outside of the United
States Leather company.
The British Columbia buget shows
deficit of S647,723 and estimates that
the new government has to start with
balance on the wrong side of S160 900.
Governor Generl Brooke has deter
mined to modify the military control
of civil affairs by putting the govern
ment into the hands of Cuban admin.
istrators
The first authentic and official report
on the recent damage throughout
Georgia by the recent cold wave shows
several million dollars.
1t is said that General Gomez is now
arranging with General Brooke for the
distribution of the SO 900, 900, which it
is expected will be paid to the Cuban
troops within very short time.
The North Dakota senate has passed
bill providing for the appointment
of commission of three physicians in
each county for the examination of all
applications for marriage licenses.
The Brook Iron company has posted
a notice at it's works at Birdsbore, Pa,
of an increase of IS cents ton in the
wages of puddlers, to go into effect
April /. The new rate will be $3.50
ton.
Marshal de Campos is about to sub
NIT to the Spanish senate a motion
signed by all the generals in the SEN
ate, demanding a parliamentary in
quiry into the conduct of the recent
war.
The celebration in honor of Gomezs
arrival in Havana has left pleasing
impression, No disorder occurred, and
the absence of rancor toward the Span
ish classes is causing favorable com
ment.
The extradition treaty negotiated
between Mexico and the United States
has been signed by Foreign Minister
Mariscal and ambassador Powell Clay
ton. The treaty is to have retroac-
tive effect.
Rear-Admiral Dewey has informed
the navy department that he has de-
posted $4,000 tons of coal at Cavite,
Manila bay, making that first class
coaling station for the use of United
States ships.
A sensational discovery of opal is re-
ported from Opalton, Queensland.
The find is said to be one of the big
gest blocks of opal ever discovered, its
value being estimated between $1,000
and e10, 600.
There are persistent rumors among
the natives at Peshawur that the
Ameer of Afghanistan Abdur Rahman
Khan, is dead. The Indian govern.
ment has not received any confirmation
of this report.
The city of Havana is able, ii is said,
to bear SIS, 900, 900 debt. The pres
ent G per cent obligations, amounting to
Sl2, soc, 600, will be refunded and the
remainder of the new bond issue will
be used for improvements.
The Cuban assembly has transmitted
to Major General Brooke an official
communication which has been for
warded to Washington, thanking the
government for the honors paid to the
remains of General Calixto Garcia.
The American members of the joint
high Canadian commission feel that
they have not been to blame for the
failure to reach an agreement and that
they are justified in the statement
that they have made many concessions.
NJ. jules Carbon, the French embas-
Bador. has received letter from Nj.
Loygues minister of public instruction
and fine arts of France, accepting from
the people of the United States the
offer of a monument to General La
fayette.
Neither the navy department nor the
Niearagaan legation has any recent
news of the Niearaguan revolution nor
of the e. S. S. Marietta, which was
dispatched over a week ago to Blue
fields to look after American interests
there.
The uniform of a Cuban general
which Gomez wore on his entry into
Havana was presented to him at Ma
riano by a Spanish school teacher of
Havana, and the horse he rode was the
gift of General Torres, who is now in
Jamaica.
Captain Greble has finished his re-
port on the inquiry regarding the
widows of Spanish officers lie found
eighty-fige widows with 40 children.
occupying government buildings in
Havana, and subsisting upon Ameri-
can rations
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