The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-12-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

| TO several thousand people.
A Montreal priest, who has recently
returned from Rome, says that the
Pope is steadily growing weaker.
One thousand more bolomen have
surrendered to Captain Green of the
Twenty-third infantry at Nigan, island
of LuZon.
In Chicago there is one policeman fol
| every 554 population, and the average
in 100 cities is one policeman for every
$50 population.
A wide-awake American has erected
steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup
plying churches all over Europe with
genuine Jordan water.
A treaty has been signed with Nicar-
aqua which gives the United States all
necessary rights for the construction
of the Nicaraguan canal.
A London dispatch says that Rud-
yard Kipling will sail for Cape Town
and will remain some months in South
Africa recruiting his health.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has had
his name placed on the Republican
caucus list. lie has been silver party
man for the last eight years.
The Oregon Short Line will grant
S31. 80 round-trip rate from Salt Lake
City to Portland, Oregon, for the Ma
tional Live Stock Association.
The Manchester Guardian says
Queen Victoria will confer n dukedom
on Lord Roberts and Parliament will
be asked to vote him 100000.
The Illinois State Board of Health
will urge the establishment of a state
sanitarium for consumptives and state
provision for the cure of epileptics.
William Rockefeller and j. Pierpont
Morgan were compelled, with other
wealthy men, to serve on sheriif's
jury in a petty damage case liz New
York City.
Thomas A. Edison has perfected a
device for heating compressed air
which, he asserts, utilizes all the store
energy of coal and obtains fully ninety
five per cent. of II.
1t is estimated that more than n mil
lion dollars have been sent from the
United States to India for the help
of the suff ferers. The New York com
mittee raised $252, SIS.
A Providence. Rhode Island pot
hunter has just paid $25.43 for the pen
atty of killing one robin. Robins are
now protected the year around by the
Rhode Island game law.
Point cadets in the football game at
Philadelphia on Thanksgiving Day by
a score of IL to I. This is something
worth telling to the marines.
The Federal Salt Company has nc
quired control of the salt industry
west of the Rocky Mountains. On De-
cember 1st the price to the trade in San
Francisco jumped from % cents 30 81
II barrel.
The Paris Figaro calls attention to
the proposal to organize n French
branch of the Sons of the American
Revolution and commends it as
worthy of the sympathy of the
French people"
The estate of Charles Stewart Par
nell Mt Avondale has been sold at auc-
ton by the land court. 1t was bid in
for $4,000 and there is n belief that
the purchaser represented the Ameri-
can Parnell fund.
The wine crop of Germany is as i'm
mense as that of France. 1t is the
same way in all the vineyards of Eu
rope, and their output is selling for
lower prices than for generations on
account of the glut.
Insurance Commissioner Stevens of
Michigan has decided that the great
hive of the Ladies of the Macabees
cannot extend its jurisdiction to other
states without amending it's present ar
ticles of Incorporation.
There are 400 cases of smallpox in
Winona, Minnesota, and to prevent its
spread the Board of Health has closed
two public schools and ordered the
street car company to stop its cars at
the boundaries of the infected district.
Miss Eugenie Washington, great
grandniece of George Washington, one
of the founders of the Society of
Daughters of the American Revolution
and president of the society of Found
ers and Patriots. died in Washington, d.
c., November Both.
The well known chess expert. Barry
OF Boston, expects to enter the interna-
tional chess tourney to begin at Monte
Carlo, on February LIST, and as Lipsi-
chuetz, Marshall, Pillsbury and Sho-
walter also contemplate playing, five
| Americans may start.
The British census will be taken on
the last day of March, 1901. The
| years ago, when the last census took
| place the population of the United
| Kingdom was 7,T32,9 800. The regis
trar general estimates the present pop
ulation at 40,921 Al.
At n recent meeting of the Royal So
| ciety in London, it was announced that
| the projected National Antarctic eXpe-
dition would start next autumn and
| that the construction of vessel to be
named Discovery had already been
commenced at Dundee.
The Bolivian government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the preliminary
survey of three railway lines, from
Oruro to La Paz and Lake Titicaca,
and from Callapata to Colqueschaca.
Another road is to run from Potosi to
the Argentine boundary.
An Ell Paso dispatch says the first