Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-02
NO. 8.
NEWS SUMMARY.

1
drowned Sunday in the Canal river
while boating.
Genral Leonard Wood, military gov.
ernor of Cuba, who has been In ths
United States for about fortnight
sailed yesterday for Havana.
General James III. Wilson. recently
governor of Matanzas and Santa Glars
provinces in Cuba. and his two duugh,
ters have arrived In Few York.
The governmental department Of Fo
mento, Mexico, has decided to send or.
hibits to the expositions at Dallas and
st. Louis, as we'll as at Buffalo.
The name of Ex-Governor Wolcott of
Massachusetts is under considerations
as successor to General Draper a.
I United States ambassador to Italy.
The postofiice department has an,
nounced the establishment OF the first
railway mail service in Hawaii. The
line runs around the island of Oahu.
Reports from the gold mine recently
discovered In Hawkins county. Ten.
nessee, state that assays show S4oo per
ton, and that ore is in great abun-
dance.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent letter of instructions to all col.
lectors of customs on the Pacific pro.
hibiting the expectation of arms to
China
The story that Geronimo, the noted
Apache prisoner. has gone mad is de-
MED. He is not imprisoned, but Is liv-
Ing with his squaw on the Fort Sill
reservation.
The government has arranged to
provide the American soldiers now In
the field in China a regular postal
service such as was In operation during
the Spanish war
The Navy department. has received .
cablegram form Captain Wilde, com.
mander of the Oregon, saying the ship
was docked and that her structural
strength was intact.
Full powers have been given the
French consuls In China to take such
measures as should be necessitated b.
the situation to insure the protection
of French subjects.
The exports of gold and silver from
all ports 10 the United States last weeA
aggregated s9s9,425 silver bars and
coin, and $40, 500 gold. The importa
were S19,6os gold and s34, $50 silver.
Twenty-Five Thousand armed Chinese
are concentrated some distance from
Shanghai. A competent military an.
thority declares that precautions taken
for defending Shanghai are insufic-
lent
The war department Is informed OF
the death at Governors island, OF ty.
phoid fever, of Captain John Little.
He was native of Tennessee. He
married niece of the late General
Sherman.
The French consul at Hankow tele.
graphs to the foreign Office that two
military stations at Szechuan have
been pillaged and the Lazarist estab-
lishment at Yao Chou, province OF
Kiang 81, burned.
An order has been issued for the de-
partment commander OF the depart.
ment of Columbia to select one com.
pany of the Seventh infantry at Van.
couver barracks, Wash, for station ~
Alcatraz island, Cal.
The state department has received
word from William I. Fee, United
States Consul at Bombay, India. re.
porting the arrival at that port on
June 25th OF the ship Uito, with 5000
tons of corn contributed by the people
of America for the relief of the famine
sufferers in India.
The conflict between the Paris mnni.
cipal council and the ministry of M.
is becoming serious.
President Loubet is now involved, as
he was obliged to refuse an invitation
to attend series of fetes to be given
at the Hotel Deyille, because the min
istry was not invited also.
Arrangements have practically been
for the purchase from Spain
by the United States of the islands of
Cebuta and Cayayen, which were left
in Spanish possession by the treaty Of
Paris, although part of the Philippine
This will exclude any
power from using them as naval
base.
There is much excltement among
,he miners in the country east OF San
Diego and the residents OF Yuma over
he discovery of what is believed to be
. bed af oil in the pot-holcs district
Colorado river, about fifteen miles
lorth of Yuma.
Plans for enlarging the facilities of
Governors island, in New York har~
or, and making 1t one of the beat
quipped military establishments in
be world, as well as a center OF the
service in this country, are
ow under way.
The withdrawal Of United States
roops from Cuba will end with the
mbarkation of the remaining bateal