Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

At North Vernon, Ind, Nathan
Powell was nominated fug congress
by the Republicans of the Fourth dis
trct
large British army viii be released
in the eastern district of the Orange
River colony for final operations in the
Transvaal.
General Greedy has started for Alas
ka, to superintend arrangements for
cable and telegraphic communication
with that territory.
In Grass Valley, Cal. a fire which
started in the Twin City steam laundry
burned over two business blocks, caus-
Ing loss of SIS, 900
Agents of the German empire, who
are buying up horses in San Francisco
for the German cavalry are finding
their task not an easy one.
The recently appointed Japanese
minister to the United States, Mr..
Kogoro Takhiri. accompanied by his
wife, has arrived in Washington.
Reports from every fruit-growing
section of the United States shows
that the apple crop this year will be
the largest in the history of the coun-
try.
Princess Cantacuzene of st. Peters,
burg gave birth to a daughter July 81.
ha, ~ ;e a Ia - n,.;er Al
General Fred d. Grant. United States
army.
Last year the product of Alaskan
gold amounted to about SEQ, 200, 900.
This year it will amount to at least
S2f, 100000, according to the best esti-
mates
Reliable returns of the election for
governor held in the Choctaw Nation
show that Judge G. w. Dukes has been
elected. Mr.. Dukes ran on the full
blood ticket.
Returns from Thursdays election in
North Carolina indicate that the DEM
ocratic candidate for governor is
elected by majority of between 55,-
600 and 6o,0o0
In Portland, Or, nearly all the
teamsters of the transfer companies
have struck for an increase in wages.
The men are now receiving 81 per day,
but they demand $3.50.
The Beers are preparing to retreat
from Watervalbeven. Frank Petit
grew, son of Senator Pettigrew, has
arrived there and has joined Command
ant General Botha's staff.
Members of the League of American
Mothers, an organization which con-
sists of 750 leagues throughout the
country, are holding their annual
meeting in Longwood, Ill.
An official cali has been issued for
the annual reunion and encampment
of the Association of Spanish Ameri-
can War Veterans In Chattanooga on
October TO IL, inclusive.
At Tulsa, l. T., large numbers OF In
dians under the lead of one, Harjo,
held a meeting recently at which they
decided to divide the Creek nation into
its original forty-seven towns.
John j. Lynch of Portland has been
nominated for congress by the Demo.
Gratis of the First Maine district Reso.
lutions were adopted indorsing the
national Democratic platform.
Herbert Davenport, who came from
the western part of New York state,
and who was a man about 40 years old,
was the victim of murder on the Yu.
kon river near Dawson, July 16.
Particulars of the eruption of Mount
Azuma, in Japan, on July II, have
been received in Oriental papers. So
far as known 250 persons We're killed
and many hundreds were injured.
The Toxic correspondent of the
japan Herald prophesies war with
Russia ever settling up accounts in
China, and says China would throw in
its lots with japan against Russia.
Application for one of the largest
tracts of timber ever sold by the state
of Washington has been made to the
board of state land commissioners. 1.
includes timber of 1000 acres OF land.
| A dispatch from France announces
that Fort de France has been selected
as one of the chief military and naval
depots and thirteen million francs has
been voted for the defense of the
4 island.
! A large number of young men al
/ Martinique have memoralized the pres.
ident of the French republic, NJ. Lou.
bet, asking him TO furnish arms and
passage to enable them to proceed to
/ South Africa to assist the Beers In
their struggle.
The secretary of the United States
embassy at st. Petersburg, Herbert ID.
Pierce, has been appointed to represent
the United States in the arbitration of
/ the Russian seizure of American fishers
in the Bering sea. The case will be
heard at The Hague.
| E. G. Senkler, gold commissioner OF
the Yukon territory, has received nn.
official information that the Canadian
government Is about to introduce
radical reforms In the Klondike. The
royalty system is to be done away