Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1901-07-18

ITEMS OF INTEREST PICKED FROM
THE WEEKS DISPATCHES.
Harvard Professor Critioiscs Papers of
students $4,000 stolen From the
Mint at san Francisco-Andrew Car
negie Makes Munifcent OGer.

were destroyed by fire, and ten families
Of miners were left homeless. The loss
is $4,000.
Sumner Suwatt, lineman at Seattle,
was instantly killed while at work ON
the electric wires, 1000 volts having
passed through his body.
It is announced that j. P. Morgan 81
Go. have purchased the Northern Pacific
Steamship company and the Washing
ton and Alaska Steamship company.
These lines, along with others recently
purchased, give Morgan 81 Co. u COM
plete system of transportation around
the world, with headquarters at New
York
Train No. 3 on the Great Northern
road, west-bound, was held up near
Wagner Station, about 200 miles east of
Great Falls, Mont, by three masked
men. The express car was blown to
pieces and the through safe shattered
with dynamite and large sum of money
secured While the robbery was in
progress several people were wounded
by the fusillade of shots that was kept
up alongside the coaches. The express
company has offered a reward of $1,000
| for the arrest and conviction of the
robbers.
Professor Barrett Wendell Of Harvard
university, who is delivering a course of
lectures at the university of California
summer school ut Berkeley, gavo q
| u class an example of the Harvard
method of criticism He had previously
/ requested the members of his class,
which is almost entirely made up Of
/ teachers from the public schools of tho
state, to hand in in u paper setting
forth tho benefits they expected to de-
rive from the course. The writer of
one paper said she had "como to the
university lured by the fame of the
great professor from Harvard, whom
she had worshipped from atar of, to sit
at his feet and gather inspiration from
his gifted lips" The professor declared
this and other oifusions idiotic, and said
he never before had known of a case
where a woman had made such fool of
herself ON one page. The papers, ho
said, were "disgusting s1op."
Williams, A. r., was visited by a
disastrous fire, the loss amounting to
nearly $l,OOO,OOO Every store in the
town except one, the Williams Hard.
ware and Stationery company, was de-
stroyed. 70 show the grit and enter
prise Of the people Of Williams the
different merchants were tolegraphing
for new stocks while the fire was ut its
height, and the Williams News had a
new plant ON board the cars at Los An
geles three hours after the fire began.
Mayor Phelan Of San Francisco is in
a receipt of letter from Andrew Car
negie, in which an offer to give 500, ,0O0
to erect public library buildings in that
city is made if sites therefor are fur
uishcd and the municipality agrees tc
, expend S15, 900 year for their mninten-
ance Mr. Carnegie writes from Sklbo
Castle, Ardgay, Scotland, that he will
furnish the money as soon as needed foI
the buildings.
A remarkably daring burglar, as COO
as ne was polite, entered the bedroom OF
Mrs. Hammond, wife Of \. b. Ham
mond, wealthy lumber dealer, al
26lO jackson street, san Francisco
q about lO.3J o'clock in tho evening
, shortly after the family had gone {.
bed, Mr. Hammond being absent from
! the city. With pistol IN his hand tn,
, burglar requested Mrs, Hammond no
, to scream, telling her that he was
burglar and had come TO rob the place
Mrs. llammuud's purse was ON thl
table, from which hc tool, s23, aud re
turned the purse. The other member
C. OF the household hc threatened 20 shoe
o il they alt mpted to give an alarm
10 After remaining for half an hour, th,
. maid accompanied him down stairs an,
4 he PASSED out boy the front door.
A decision OF tho commissioner Of th
. United States general land Office wa
received Boy Registrar George W. Stew
art Of the Ni.ala (CalJ land Office. 1
settles tine famous test case OF miuera
claimants against serippors. The till
70 of the caso ls l. 4. Boil and Others VI
Richard NJ Lyman ana Others ana IN
i wolves section oil land Inc decision
& oi the local land once IN laYor OF IN
mineral claimants Is Affirmed and th
"a commissioner goes lurlher and hoIu
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u between 800 ana 4JJ japanese wer
rounded mp by Indians and penned 10
canuery on the sheona river Just o.
tho Japs wcse starting out TO fish. Ih
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