The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-12-17
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smasher announces the suspension Of
her Smasher's Mail. She says it did
not pay.
NJ. Labori refuses to disclose the
cause of his rupture with the Dreyfus
family, which has occasioned much
comment.
Agitation has been started in north
ern Idaho in favor of opening the
Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation to
white settlers.
The University of Michigan football
team will play against the Stanford
University team at Pasadena Califor-
mia, January list.
The newest slot machine dispenses
X-rays to enable the passer-by to see
the bones of his hand. The tube is put
in action by the usual nickel.
Vienna dispatch declares that as
result of the recent appeal to the pub
lie to take the matter in hand duellng
in Austria Hungary is doomed.
Manager Johnson of the Postal Tele-
graph Company, his son and negro
driver We're killed three miles from
Newton, Mississippi December 9th.
A successful demonstration of the
economy and efficiency in the use of
Texas crude oil as fuel has just been
New York City.
The Cleveland police has refused to
allow the Liberty Association" which
| includes in its membership n number
of the disciples of Emma Goldman, to
| hold meeting.
| Charles HartZell, secretary of Porto
Rico. who is acting as governor during
the absence of Mr. Hunt, has issued
call for the Legislature TO convene
New Years Day.
Rev. DR. Thomas Kennedy, rector of
the American College in Rome, has
Just purchased n building near the
Pilotta palace. where the American
College will be installed.
Santiago Iglesias has organized a
federation of labor at San Juan. Porto
Rico, which will affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor. 1t
starts out with SEQ members.
There is smart saying current in
London that nowadays all the peer
esses are either actresses or Amerl-
cans. and that the members of the old
aristocracy have all gone into trade.
The British ship Nelson. which left
Astoria, November 25th, with cargo
of lumber for South Africa, capsized
December 4th, and sank with her crew
manded by Captain Perriam.
Professor F. LamsonScrlbner. the
agrostologist of the Department of
Agriculture, has been appointed chief
of the insular bureau of agriculture
in the Philippines. This is u new Of
flee.
A novel project Mt Rouen is the plac-
ing of electric fire-extnguishing pumps
80. Of tlt..
switches to take current from the wires
of the street railway when a fire oc-
ours.
} Three more Holland submarine tor
pedo boats may be sold to n foreign
power. Captain V. Geelmnyrden OF
the royal Norwegian navy has been
sent by his government to buy, If pos
sible, that many destroyers.
War Department officials say that the
reports to the effect that Aguinaldo is
to be court-matlaled and transported
to Guam because of correspondence he
has been conducting with the Hong
Kong junta are without foundation.
Colonel John Doniphan, veteran of
the Mexican and Civil wars. and for
fifty years prominent in the affairs of
Missouri. died at his home in st. Jo-
stDU. NlSSOuTl, JtH- ,bloHtl
Doniphan was born in Ohio in 1896.
The Mckinley monument fund is in
creasng rapidly. In Minnesota Gov
ernor Van SAINT has given assurance of
$4,000 from the school children alone.
Governor Hunt of Idaho has set apart
special day for school contributions.
At recent meeting the faculty of
the Kansas State University decided
by vote of IL to ). to permit out-of-
town games next year by the football
team. An attempt had been made to
restrict the playing to local games
only.
The Washington Post gives what it
claims are the first authentic figures
in the distribution of Spanish war
prize money. as recommended by the
secretary of the navy. SIMPSONS share
is alleged to be $4,000, and Schley's
$50.
A. II. Muller. who was arrested in
Philadelphia for saying that President
Roosevelt should be shot. has been re.
leased from custody. III discharging
Miller, Judge Martin said the remark
was a foolish one, but was not neces-
sarily n crime.
Instructions have been given to ev-
cry school throughout the island of Lu-
Zon to celebrate annually the birthday
Of Jose Rial, the Filipino patriot who
was executed by the Spanish. and
fund has been started TO raise Il monu-
mcnt to his memory.
Mgr. Sbaretti. formerly archbishop
of Havana, and who has been ap-
pointed apostolic delegate to the Phil
ippine islands. will shortly leave Rome
for Manila. His mission is to discover
a modus vivend in the matter of the