Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-04-04
NO. A.
NEWS SUMMARY.

The fourth oil gusher In the Beau.
mont, Tex, district, was struck Satur.
day.
Governor Allen Of Porto Rico has ap-
pointed sixty-eight Police Judges and
established new code for the District
courts
~ regard Funston's capture of Agui.
naldo as one of the bravest acts since
the present war began" says General
Joe Wheeler.
Judge Joseph NJ. Bartholomew, for
ten years justice of the supreme court
of North Dakota dropped dead in Bis.
marck Sunday.
Chancellor Won Buelow has determ-
ined to introduce a bill to check the
continued growth of Polish influences
in the eastern provinces.
The will of Horace Cousens, late of
Newton, Mass, which has been filed for
probate, gives practically all the estate
OF S350,ooo to the deserving poor.
Tom L. Johnson, Democratic candi-
date for mayor of Cleveland, O., caused
the arrest of Augustus Hubbell, bar.
ber, upon the charge of criminal libel.
Lord Salisbury, according to the
London Daily Express, is suffering
from a kidney atfliction which ia
likely to incapacitate him for some
time.
Heavy snowstorms have prevailed,
especially in Scotland, where there
are drifts eight to ten feet deep Snow
plows have been requsitioned to open
the roads.
In San Francisco the young wife of
George Kent, a longshoreman, has
been arrested on suspicion of having
mailed a bottle of poisoned whisky to
her husband.
In Sioux Falls, S. d., Mrs. Joseph A.
Holland and son, Daniel, aged IL, were
suffocated by escaping coal gas Sun
day. The woman's husband was over
come, but will recover.
As result of vote taken on board
enlisted men of the Twenty third and
Twenty-fourth regiments to be mus
tered out in San Francisco.
The London Daily Express story that
Lord Salisbury Is suffering from q kid
ney complaint which viii incapacitate
him from duty for a long period. is en-
phatically denied as utterly ground
less.
England, Germany and Japan have
presented identical notes to Russia and
China, warning them that the signing
of the Manchurian agreement will in
volve the partition of China. This
combined action deters Russia from in
sisting on the signing of the agree
ment.
After one Sundays trial East Chicago
Ind, gave up the blue-law system.
Sunday everything in the town was
wide open," in spite of the promise
made a week ago by Marshal Patterson
that not even milk wagons and street
cars would be allowed within the limits
on Sunday.
The safe of the postoffiee in oberlin,
o., was blown by robbers Wednesday
night. They escaped with everything
of value. A young :aan who slept in
the building was found lying In the
Office unconscious, bound and gagged.
1t is believed he was drugged by the
cracksmen
Last month the girls high school at
Ataloma, near Leone, Samoan islands,
was opened. The building will ac-
commodate 100 girl boarders 1t cost
over $4,000, all subscribed by the ma
tives of these islands of Tutuila 1t is
under the auspices of the London Mis-
sion society.
An extensive project is likely to take
form soon for an international con-
gress of representative scientists, san
itarians and doctors of the United
States, Central and South America, for
the purpose of considering plans for
the eradication of yellow fever, not SO
much by cure as by prevention.
British experts estimate that at least
2o,000,000 pounds must be raised by
fresh taxation next year, even if 13&
100000 pounds can reasonably be ex-
pected from The existing basis of taxa
tion, and another so. 900, 900 pounds be
added TO the national debt These fig-
ures forecast budget of 200, 900, 900
pounds.
Chinese appeals for support have
failed to produce any direct remon-
strances from Great Britain or, appar-
emily, from any power to st. Peters
burg, for Russia persistently adheres
to her contention that the agreements
concern no one except herself and
China
Senator Mitchell of Oregon is con-
fined to his bed in Washington with
an acute attack of the grip, and has
been prohibited by his physician from
giving any attention to correspondence
or business.
The coal miners of the Pittsburg
district in convention ratified the
wage scale signed last week by the
scale committee This action insures
steady employment for more than
10000 men in the district for the CON-,