Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-20
NO. 20.
NEWS SUMMARY.

| INC legislative assembly or Victoria
has passed the woman's suffrage and
old peoples pension bills.
Seattle is in the near future. to have
new gas company, according to plans
which are very well materialized.
Representative Hit of Illinois has
made formal announcement of his can.
didacy for the United States senate.
Maj. James Converse, widely known
throughout the southwest, is dead In
Abilene, Tex, aged II years, He built
the Southern Pacific railroad through
Texas
The Taft commission has passed an
act authorizing General Macarthur to
establish police in the cities and towns
and appropriating $3.50, 900 for their
maintenance.
sensation has been caused in Bu.
enos Ayres by report that the Ameri-
can minister at Rio Janeiro has re-
qnested the brazilian government TO
Increase the duty on Argentine -four.
The mystery surrounding the strange
disappearance of John Harder, OF Se-
attic, who was last seen Tuesday night,
Novem Der 10th, has been solved by tho
finding Of his body in the bay near the
Ocean dock
II the wishes of high ranking officers
in the Philippines are observed many
important changes will occur at the
end Of the present dry season. Several
OF the general officers are urging that
they be ordered home.
In order to keep abreast with modern
requirements, the German war office Is
negotiating with "a Scandinavian inven-
tor for the pattern Of an automatic
breech-loader. The pattern, however,
has not yet been supplied.
A treaty has been concluded between
the United States and Great Britain
amendatory OF the existing extradition
treaty and intended to correct certain
imperfectons in that instrument de-
veloped by recent experiences.
In Philadelphia George 8. Wagner, q
salesman, committed suicide Wednes-
day by driving large pair of shears
through his neck, making use of
hatchet to accomplish the act. Domes-
tic troubles is the reason assigned
The reason the Empress Dowager
hates Emperor Kwang Su is, according
to Pekin dispatch, that the latter has
actually become christian, having
converted by British and American been
missionary books that come under his
eye.
Martin Stickel, the prisoner held at
the county Jail in Tacoma for the MUIR
der of the aged Cornelius Knapp and
his wife near Castle Rock on the night
of Novembe card, has confessed to
having been the only party to the
crime.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua re-
peats his former statements that he
will not place any obstacle in the way
OF the construction of the Nicarapuan
canal by the United States govern
ment, but will offer every possible
means in his power to aid the great
work.
Gen Russell A. Alger, ex-secretary
OF war, was awakened Wednesday
night by hearing some one prowlinp
about in his house, and started to in
vestigate. burglar grappled with
him and then escaped. An investiga-
tion showed $500 worth of silverware
had been taken.
The British government having noti.
fed this government that it has been
unable to locate the reported Philip
pine junta 10 Hongkong, our govern.
mental agencies have been put to work
to ascertain where the munitions Of
war and other supplies which reached
the insurgent Filipinos originate.
Max Lenzemann, the ten-year-old
son of Berlin laborer, has been dis.
missed from his gymnasium and for.
hidden to enter any other in Prussia
for committing lese majestic when the
principal of the gymnasium mentioned
to the pupils the recent attempt at
Breslau upon the life of Emperor viii.
liam.
The Ohio supreme court by an equal
~ divided vote refused TO hear tho
charges of contempt Of court preferred
by Frank s Monnett, late attorney.
general of Ohio, to that court against
the Standard Oil company aud its offi.
GERS. including John d. Rockefeller.
The information in contemptis by this
decision dismissed.
The president has for warded the
treaty with Spain, for cession for tho
the consideration of Slo0, 900 OF the four
or five small islands in the Philippine
archipelago which were not included
in the cession made in the first peace
treaty.
Six masked burglars Wednesday
night seized Town Marshal Weaver al
Seville, o., and, after binding and gag.
ging him, blew the safe in Highs
bank, securing about $1,000. Several
citizens chased the burglars, but they
escaped.
The German ship Gertrude, which
put to sea last week from Astoria on
her way to the United Kingdom, and
later was reported as foundered Off the
Washington coast with all hands on
board lost, has been sighted of San