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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
cusANs VISIT THE PRESIDENT.


tions In the Island.
General Leonard A. Wood, governor
GENERAL of Cuba, with Mrs. Wood and
his private secretary, arrived In wash
ington Tuesday night. General Wood,
who expects to return to Havana ON
Thursday by way of Jacksonville, Fla,
has made the hurried trip 10 this coun-
try for the purpose of introducing to
President Mckinley, before the latter
leaves Washington for the Pacific
coast, the Ave members of the special
commission on foreign relations, ap-
pointed by the Cuban constitutional
convention.
"The members of the commission"
said General Wood, represent all the
different groups of Cubans composing
the constitutional convention. They
have come to the United States for the
purpose of comforting with President
Mckinley on matters which the con-
vsntion does not thoroughly under
stand, and when they return to make
their report l am convinced that there
will be n thorough understanding on
all sides Of the controversy.
"The constitutional convention has
never voted on or rejected the Platt
amendment. This can state positively,
Notwithstanding tho reports to the
contrary which have been sent to the
United States from Havana. Things
have been cablsd here which had not
the slightest foundation in fact, de-
scribed strained relations between the
and those of the Cuban people
Everything has been harmonious
since went to Cuba, sndthe conven-
tion now in session as . thoroughly
representative one. Before the Platt
amendment was passed by congress
the Cubans knew tho desires Of this
government on the issues which the
amendment contains because they were
submitted to them through the sxecu-
tive. Intervention and the establish
ment of naval station are two things
which they do not properly comprs-
hcnd, and think that when they are
fully explained in Washinton the only
indication of a difference of opinion
will have been removed.
"There are really but two great
questions to be settled. One 10 the re-
duction of the duty on sugar, and the
other Is the passage of the constitution.
One 10 economic, the other political,
yet In measure they are akin. After
the constitution has properly been
framed and adopted, the economic
question will disappear, as there must
be . great reduction in the duty or
sugar. Then Cuba will be prosperous,
and its relations with the United States
settled on solid basis. That will end
the whole difficulty. and in twenty
four hours the country can be turned
over to the representatives chosen BY
the Cuban people.
"To-day all the departments Of The
island are practically In the hands Of
the Cubans, who have been instructed
~ to how things can be managed, and
when the time arrives all We will have
to do will be to take q receipt for tn,
money on hand"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
THOROUGHLY ESTABLISHED
Report OF Government Agent on Condi-
tions of Sugar beet Culture in
United States.

Report OF Government Agent on Condi-
tions of Sugar Beet Culture in
United States.
c. F. Saylor, of Iowa, special agent
in charge of the beet sugar investiga-
tion of the department of agriculture,
has submitted his report to Secretary
Wilson. He says this year shows q
very active tendency toward the insti-
tuition of beet sugar enterprises. Next
autumn, he says, Michigan will have
three new factories, and Ohio, Indiana,
New York, Colorado, Utah, South and
North Dakota and Illinois will install
new factory enterprises, making thir-
teen throughout the United States now
in contemplation.
A conservative estimate, he says, Is
that there will be forty-two beet sugar
facturies in operation throughout the
United States by the end of next au-
tumn. Everything indicates that the
industry is thoroughly established
throughout the country.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Proxrs.. of Roer War.

Lord Kitchener continues the prosess
of wearing down the Beers, who, how
ever, are very active in.the Kroonstadt
district, where they recently derailed
two trains, and also captured, after a
severe fight, twenty-five men of the
Prince of Wales Light Horse, whom
they stripped of their horses and ac-
tournaments and then liberated.
Col Plumer's forces captured small
laager of forty-five men, including the
notorious Transvaal State Engineer
Munick, who planned the destruction
of the Johannesburg mines in the
spring of last year, and his father.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
commiss.ry Omcer Convicted.

Commissary Sergeant John Meston,
charged with completely in the COM
missary frauds at Manila, whose trial
ended April 18th, has been sentenced
to dishonorable discharge and to two
years imprisonment. The sentences
of the other sergeants and clerks simi-
larly implicated will probably be
greater. Lieutenant William Patter-
son of the coast artillery, formerly a
Philadelphia lawyer, is to be tried by
court-lnartIal for misappropriating the
company funds.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
CUBANS PLEASED,
vssat to the President Impressed Cuban
Favorably.

Impressed
Favorably.
The Cuban delegation com mpleted its
labor In Washington Saturday. In the
morning the delegates met Secretary
Root, who escorted them to the White
House, where they had final and de-
cisive talk with the President, Then
they paid visits of courtesy to each of
the officials whom they have met, and
nnaliy they started for New York at
ii o'clock, homeward bound.
Senior Capo:e later said; 1--WE have
concluded our business here. We have
mad two interviews with the President,
and four with the Secretary Of War,
during which all the matters we came
to discuss had the fullest and most mi
mute consideration. We came to con-
slider the relations between Cuba and
the United States, and these, both DO
htical and economical, have had the
most careful attention. We return to
Cuba, and will deliver to the constitu-
tional convention all the information
We have obtained, Information which
Is highly important and interesting.
senor Capote spoke in high terms of
Secretary Root. He said that the ques-
tions were of national Importance, and
that the conferences were conducted
with the care that serious matters uu-
der consideration demanded.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
SHORT LINE WINS.
United States Land once Decides short
Line Entitled to Grade ir Nevada.

United States Land once Decides short
Line Entitled to G Gr~ds ir Nevada.
The San Pedro, Los Angeles Il Salt
Lake railroad, the project Of Senator
w. A. Clark, received q setback We'd
nesday by an adverse decision relative
to right of way made by judge Willis
Van Devanter, assistant attorney gen.
eral for the Interior department The
Utah & California fled right Of way
maps In the general land Office for
seventy-five miles of its proposed limo,
extending from Uvada, U tab, to Glover
Valley Junction, New, and from Glover
Valley Junction to Phoebe, forty miles
of the distance being upon the right
of way originally secured by the Ore
gon Short Line and Utah Northern,
transferred to the Utah, Nevada &
California railroad, the line with
which the Union Pacific proposes to
shut out the Clark road.
1t was contended by the Clark rep
rssentatives that the Oregon Short
Line interest in the right Of way had
lapsed because of failure of that COM
pany to utilize the Same for period of
five years. By the Union Pacific IL
was contended that the transfer Of the
right Of way to tho Utah, Nevada &
California and constructing on certain
portions of tho grade and track served
to keep alive tho right Of way, and
this view was sustained by Judge Van
Devanter.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
How Commissary Frauds Were Discovere
Counterfsiters at Butte.

Two of what is supposed to be a big
gang of counterfeiters were arrested at
Butte Monday and identified by several
people on whom they had passed bogus
$40 gold pieces. They got rid of quite
number. William Dougherty, one OF
them. has lived at Butte for years, and
10 supposed to have only recently be-
come connected with the gang. John
Mulligan, the other, has been here .
much shorter time, and was q faro
dealer until the law caused the game,
to close or run very much under cover.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Plot to Capture Empress of China.

A Paris paper affirms that General
Bailloud and Colonel Marchand some
time ago contemplated an attempt to
seize 'he Chinese empress and court.
General Bailloud approached Colonel
Marchand and asked him if he would
undertake certain enterprise which
would very probably hasten the end OF
hostilities.
The colonel replied that he was will
ing and General Bailloud and Colonel
Marchand drew up plan, the execu.
tion of which was venturesome, but
feasible. The diplomats, however,
opposed the scheme and it fell through.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Heaisrs Confesa Fraud.

In the federal court at Kansas City
Wednesday, Stephen A. Weltmer and
Joseph 81. Kelly, president and sscrs-
tary, respectively, OF the Weltmer In
stitute of Magnetic Healing, at Nevada,
Mo-, pleaded guilty to the charge OF
using the mails to defraud.
The institute advertised to heal "all
diseases known to man or woman, :"
giving absent treatment" and did
such tremendous mail order busin ess
that the Nevada post-office was raised
from fourth-class to first-class office.
The postoffice department At Washing
ton ordered their mail stopped, and the
grand jury indicted them.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
out,.v,, head severed bv Rop..

Thomas E. Ketchum, alias "Blacls
Jack" the notorious outlaw who had
terrorized the people of the south west
for the past fifteen years, was hanged
at Clayton, N. NJ, Friday afternoon,
his head being severed from his body
by the rops as II by guillotine. The
headless trunk pitched forward toward
the spectators and blood spurted upon
those nearest the seaffold. The execu.
ton took place inside a stockade built
for the occasion, 80 people witnessing g
the horrible spectacle.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Riots In Russia.

During the Easter celebration scenes
of riot and disorder occurred in the
town of Tagarourog on the Sea of
Azov, Russia. Incidents of drunken
violence were almost con ntinuous for
several days. Apparently, however,
the disturbances did not arise from po-
litical causes. In Ekatorinostav riots
occurred at the same time, and the au-
thoritles have suspended public gath
erings in the town for three months.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Wyoming OIL Fields.

There is quite stir in the oil fields
ut Lander, Wyo., at present. DR.. Hem
derson, an oil expert, is making ar
rangements to sink new well near
the old Murphy wells about eight
miles southeast of Lander. He has
ordered machinery which will be in
Casper on the 9Th of next month, and
he will rush to the oil fields as fast as
possible. The syndicate he represents
have an option on the Murphy oil wells
and II the new wells show that there
10 . good body, things will boom
In that part Of Wyoming.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Boer Agent Accused OF Innooulsting Horse
With Disease.

A London dispatch says that the
British agent In New Orleans has dis
covered that the Boer agents employed
as cattlemen have infected horses des-
tined for South Africa with glanders
and other diseases. Hundreds OF these
animals are said to have died on the
way to the Cape. while many on their
arrival have had to be destroyed.
The government has advised the
British agents in Texas and elsewhere
to take some precautions and 1t is
hoped that the United States authors
ties will also take measures.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02

The claim that Japan will make
upon China for indemnities amount to
e4,75o, 900.
In Venezuela the coffee, cotton and
cattle export duties have been sup
pressed. The import duties have been
increased 12 per cent, to taxe effect
May 1st
Preliminary work is to be COM
menced Immediately upon the new sur
vey to accurately define the boundary
line between British Columbis and
Montana and Washington.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES,

Forty Members Fourteenth Cavalry Have
the Disease.
An epidemic of measles has broken
out among the members of the Four
teenth cavalry at Fort Lesvenworth,
and it Is feared that the disease will
practically disable the regiment for q
time at least. Forty men are now In
the hospital and new cases are appear
ing daily. The disease is in a mild
form and no serious results are antici
pated.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Bryan win Not Seek Another Nomination.


In a statement given publicity Thurs
day, w. j. Bryan says, in effect, that
he has no intention of seeking third
nominatios for the presidency. Mr.
Bryan's announcement is in answer to
an article in an eastern paper speculat-
ing on his future plans as political
leader. Mr.. Bryan said:
81 am not planning for another presi
Dental nomination, for il l were
could not be editing paper; II ever
become a candidate again it will be
because it seems necessary for the ad-
vancement of the principles to which
adhere, and that does not now seem
probable. l shall, however, continue
to take an interest in politics for sew
eral years yet, if live, and can be re-
lied upon to support those who as can
didates advocate Democratic principles,
and who can be entrusted to enforce
them il elected"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
200 KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
Smokeless Powder Factory In Germany
Blows up With Fearful Havoc.

smokeiess Powder Factory in Germany
Blows up with Fearful Havoc.
One of the most destructive explo-
sions on record occurred Thursday
evening at the electro-chemical works
near Greisheim, Germany, where
smokeless powder Is manufactured.
Most of tho boilers exploded, causing
fearful loss OF life. the number of vic
Tins being placed at 200. The noise
was so tremendous that it was heard at
great distances. including Frankfort
and Mayence.
The factory became mass of flames
Immediately, and a northeast wind
carried the sparks to neighboring vii
lagos, where several houses we're set
on fire. Eighteen cylinders, each con-
tanning about 100 hundredweight OF
smokeless power. were in the room
where the explosion occurred.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Topeka Joint Keepers Threaten to Lynch
Policeman.

Patrolman 8. M. Hall, who is in the
county jail, charged with killing a
drunken man named George Head,
Friday night, has been in considerable
danger from mob violence.
Hall was arrested and placed in Jail.
Joint keepers and their sympathizers
have been trying to organize q mob to
lynch Hall. 1t could not be recruited
to sufficient number to make the at
tempt ON the Jail and the attempt has
been abandoned. Head was a Joint
keeper and was arrested by Hall for
disturbing a religious meeting.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
CHINA WILL GUARANTEE.
PROTECTION TO FOREIGNERS

Ceisstiais VIII Keep the Peace II EossigD
Troops are Removed.
A Washington dispatch says II IL un-
derstood that the Chinese plenipoten.
tiaries at Peking, Prince Ching and II
Hung Chang, are prepared to give .
guarantee to the powers for the pro-
lection of all foreigners in China II the
foreign troops now stationed there are
withdrawn. Thus far the retention Of
the foreign forces has been urged a.
necessary in order to preserve order
and protect foreigners, but the Chinese
authorities say that order has been SO
far re-established that the imperial
government is fully abls to direct the
Chinese troops in such a way ~ to So
cure complete safety to the interests Of
all foreigners. This 10 understood ia
be the basis of the withdrawal Of To-
900 French troops, and II is earnestly
hoped among Chinese officials that thiI
will be forwarded by q similar move
ment on the part of the other forsign
forces in China
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02


For three miles down through the
Middlefeld, Conn, valley there 10
nothing but ruin and destruction ~
the result of the great food on Sunday
evening. Where was formerly the res
srvoir, mile and a half long and COW
sring nearly 200 acres, thereis now but
q diminutive pond, from which fows
the receding river through the gorge
of the dam that broke away.
Down stream at the Boston h Albany
railroad bridge nothing is left but q
few granite blocks and the rails of the
arch bridge that spanned the factory
river and the highway leading up to
Middlefeld Center. The food carried
in its wake houses and barns, bridges
and culverts. 1t made great gullies in
the highways and did thousands of
dollars damage. Nobody was drowned
or even in jur ed.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
Germans Defeated by Chlness.

The Germans were virtually caught
In trap near the Kukuwan pass. A
detachment of eighty had forty-nve
casualties, while the Chinese losses are
said to have been nominal The Ger
man expedition is returning, leaving
the country greatly disaffected, owing
TO the hardships inflicted upon the
population. Altogether the expedition
appears to have produced a very bad
effect. The current Chinese gossip is
that the Germans were driven back
with heavy losses, and this is implicitly
believed by the bulk of the people.
How Commissary Frauds Were Discovered.
Copies of Manila papers a month old
have been received at the war depart
ment, containing stories OF the discov.
cries of irregularities in the matter of
commissary stores. 1t appears from
these accounts that Major West, who
was sent to Manila to be depot commits
sary, would not accept charge of the
depot until the stores either were
shown upon invoice or accounted for.
This led TO an investigation, and some
of the enlisted men and civilians EN-.
ployed about the commissary store
house were arrested.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29

ford owned by the company. Mr. Whit ney said that this is reserve supply and whenever it is felt that the supply is needed the piping will be commenced and the water brought into one of the storage reservoirs in New Haven. AL ready Improvements which will result in increasing the present supply many millions of gallons are well under way or nearly completed. On August 1 it is expected that the tunnel that will carry the water from Farm river into Lake Saltonstall will be finished The tunnel is now nearly finished, only about 450 feet being left to be drilled to make the tunnel completed.
 The Water company has purchased several hundred acres of land in Wood bridge along the watershed and barns and other buildings located close to the West river and to the Woodbridge and Bethany reservoirs are being moved away.
 President Whitney could not say definitely when the work of building the new tunnel in Orange would be com menced, but it is probable that this will not be done for some months yet. The Maltby Lake supply is now ade- quate for the present consumption in the district supplied from that source.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29
NEW HAVEN IN TT.

Thoughtful Uncle Sam's Purchase of
 Plum Island.
 The "far-f1ung battle line" of the de- lenses of this city-defenses which once were practically limited to the lower end of Manhattan Island--is now to in- clude Plum Island, at the farther end of Long Island. The United States gov ernment has bought the island and will fortify it. One purpose of the batteries to be erected here will be the defense of the back door of New York city; though of course New Haven, the mouth of the Connecticut and the sound generally will get the benefit of the new works, which in one direction will look toward Long Island sound and in the other to Block Island sound. The easy passage to Hell Gate the other day by the battleship Massachusetts is new reminder that warships could reach New York without running the batter ies at Sandy Hook, on Staten Island and at Rockaway. Long Island sound certainly could not be given to an ene- my in case of war without enormous danger and damage.-New York Mail and Express.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29
DRY SHAVING A BLESSING TO
 CHINA

| Dry shaving has been a blessing to
 China, and in less than three hundred
 years has almost removed boards from
 the faces of the men of the empire, ob-
 served an intelligent Chinaman to a
 Star reporter. "Originally the Chinese
 had heavy boards. This is easily veri-
 fled by an examination of any of the old prints of Chinamen, for all of them show long bearded men In time the
 people found out that there was no
 particular use for a beard and that the
 wearing of it was expensive, outside of
 the time actually occupied in trimming. or shaving it. How many Americans hours a week in a barber's chair? Many
 men that l know, Americans and Flu
 ropeans as well, spend twenty minutes in the barbers chair every day
 "The Chinaman of the olden time the kind of Chinaman who figures as pirate in your prints, for the good Chnaman never seems to have got his picture in your books at all, until with in the last fifty years at most-always wore a long beard in reality as well as In the pictures. But even he found out that there was no necessity for 1t. The learned men of the empire were asked to consider the matter, and they arrived at the conclusion that dry shaving was to some extinct remedy. Anyhow, official edicts were issued giving this information. The old fel- lows who had boards of course were not in it, and they lived out their days and passed out of existence with full boards. but the young were asked to
 dry shave Thus the reform started, and in five or six generations of peo- pie the beard has practically disap- peared. so that the average Chinaman of to-day does not have to devote over one-half hour in a month to keep his face hairless In the next two genera | tions boards are expected to disappear absolut ely. It took time to bring this about but in the life of nation such | a thing as a century should not be all lowed to count much. l think boards would disappear from Americans and | Europeans in five generations of people, | if the people wanted to have them dis appear" From the Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29
RELIC UNEARTHED.

Indian Mortar For Grinding Corn
 Found on Stratford Farm.
 Another relic of the original inhab- itants of this country, tlre American Indians, was unearthad in the old town of Stratford June 25. It consists of a solidly constructed mortar and pestle which was undoubtedly used by the Indians in the grinding of corn. The find was on the property of Louis Beardsley, owner of Beardsey's corner, near Londies Lane, Stratford, and To- cated just east of the turn in the troll ley road into the main street of the old town.
 The Beardsley property has been owned by the family for 70 years and was handed down to them so that the Indian relic has been slumbering on their property as near as can be fig ured some 200 years yet it shows per feet ton. The mortar is set In a solid base of masonry some six feet deen with bed smoothed to a polish showing that the Indians had ground much corn on it during their time. MT. Beardsley was making excavations yes terday and removing a fence on the by which the workmen stum- bled ganst the antiquity. The ground was cleared from about the find and it now attracts considerable curiosity.