Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-02-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Government will in short time
start line of vessels between Seattle
snd the Philippines,
twenty-five feet of snow on the trail
Is recorded at White Horse, while a,
skaguay it is six feet deep.
Last year the exports from Java to
the United States amounted to near v
s27, 900, 900, manly sugar,
The United States will in the future
follow the policy Of buying steamers
instead of chartering then by the day.
The present winter in Alaska is
I said to be the severest ever known
since American occupation, over thirty
/ years ago.
! Rear-Admiral William T. Sampson.
commandant of the Charlestown navy
yard is i'll. Capt. Barcklay is acting
commandant.
John Callan, miner employed at
the Franklin, Wash, mine, was killed
by fall down l2o-foot shaft on
A"eSo"y uiBht
The Thirty-seventh infantry regi-
ment, United States volunteers, was
mustered out of service Wednesday in
San Francisco.
During the past year 1878 women
have been admitted to membership in
the Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
John Gates, assistant janitor at the
btatehouse' in Salmen Or, is under
arrest at Albany, Or, an a charge of
larceny by bailee of $4,000.
The South Carolina dispensarv
system is very likely to be put in force
In Hawaii as solution of the liquor
problem. Liquor men will fight it.
Senator Teller has given notice OF
an amendment he will propose to the
st. Louis exposition bill requiring the
management to clase the gates on
Sunday,
bill has been introduced in the
Washington House to abolish the
State Board of Audit and Control
This bill would create an executive
council.
Official statistics estimate the French
vintage of 1900 at 67, 1852. 66l hectolitres,
an increase of 1914, 9s1 hectolitres
over 1899. The harvest is the biggest
since 1875.
President Mitchell of the United
mine Workers, has issued call for
joint convention of the anthracite
coal operators and miners at Hazleton,
Pa, March 18th.
Russian troops are committing shock
ing depredations along the northern
frontiers of Korea. They often cross
the Lumen river and loot villages,
carrying off vuluables.
DIR. Thomas O'Reilly, for ffty-two
years a prominent physician of St
Louis and notable home-rule advo-
cate, died suddenly Sunday from la
grippe. He was "A years old
Several buildings were consumed
and John Clendenning was burned to
death in fire in Stringtown, Pa,
Wednesday. Two men have been ar
rested for arson and murder.
The list of British casualties in the
fight between Smith Dorrien and Com
mandan t-General Louis Botha at Both
well, February 9th, is twenty-four
killed and fifty-three wounded.
Judge Hazen of Topeka has post
poned the case against Mrs. Nation and
others for the malicious destruction of
Sunday, until the next term
Of court, which will be in April.
The Citizens bank at La Cygue,
KAN, was closed Friday morning by
Bank Examiner Waterman, who has
aiken charge. The capital is SEQ, 900.
Z, S. Turner, the cashier is missing.
According to mail advices from Yoko-
1ama the secret convention believed to
1ave been concluded between Russia
md China bids fair to prove a source
If serious trouble in the Farther
East"
The President has sent to the Senate
report made by the geographic board
lpon the spelling and pronunciation of
names in the Philippine
stands. A list of 1000 coast places is
.iveu
The President indicates his intention
o call the extra seassion to meet two
weeks following his Inauguration.
his is taken to mean that it will be