The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREviTIES.

Senator from South Dakota to succeed
II. f. Pettigrew
The French council of state hNs re-
iected Count Esterhazy's appeal
against the decree cashiering him
from the army.
Kansas has elected J. r. Burton
Senator to succeed Lucien Baker.
Senator w. j. Sewell of New Jer-
sey, has been reelected.
The first grandson of President Diaz
of Mexico was born on the seven
teenth inst. The father is Captain
piaz of the Mexican army.
President Gruger is said to have no
intention of coming to America at pres
ent, though pressed with invitations.
He may consider the subject later.
Terrific snow storms have been rag
Ing on the South Alaskan coast, and
the White Pass Il Yukon railway has
been blockaded for several days.
The bill to amend the constitution
of Nevada to permit the licensing of
lottery company has been defeated
by the Legislature at Carson City.
The state entry of Queen Wilhelmina
and the future prince consort, Duke
Henry of Mecklenberg-Schwe into
Amsterdam, has been fixed for March
9th.
The oil from the big Texas well re
Gently sunk at Beaumont, will be
piped to Port Arthur and stored there
in tanks. Thence it will be shipped
ia tank steamers.
Recent sales of real estate in Gal
values are held at only about one-half
the figures prevailing prior to the
storm.
A cable dispatch from Constantin-
ople, announces the death on January
nth OF Rev. DIR. Elias Riggs, the old
est missionary of the board, aged
ninety.
Hon. f. NJ. Simmons, chairman of
the state Democratic committee. has
been elected United States Senator
for North Carolina TO succeed Marion
Butler.
The jury in the Jennie Bosschieter
murder case ut Paterson, New Jersey,
returned verdict of murder in the
second degree. This means life impris-
onment.
rived at San Francisco from Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island and sailed
on the Xealandia for Honolulu, II few
days ago.
Minnesota has reelected Knute Mel
son to the United States Senate for
the full term and Moses f. Clapp to
succeed Cushman X. Davis for the
short term.
A royal commission, under the presi-
dency of Lord Kelvin, has been ap-
pointed in England to investigate the
recent widespread outbreak of arsen-
ical beer poisoning.
At Montreal G. +. Little undertook
to throw Louis Cyr, the Canadian
strong man, Graeco- Roman style in
twenty minutes. He accomplished
the task in four minutes. Cyr weighed
$40 and Little 100.
Dispatches from various cities in the
South tell of the general observance
of General Robert +. Lees birthday,
January 10Th, by closing of state and
city offices. banks and stores. parades
and public meetings.
A Brussels paper has received in
formation that bubonic plague is rag
ing among the British troops at Cape
Colony, and many deaths that are at
tributed to enteric fever and dysen-
terry are really due to plague.
Samuel II. Warwick, aged seventy,
inventor of a root beer, and whose
wealth twelve years ago was estimat-
ed at over S1,OO0,OOO, died penniless in
the hospital attached to the aims house
in Philadelphia few days ago.
Some of the students of the Stanford
University are as bigoted as the man
agement. They seized c. ID. Montgom-
cry, junior from Kansas, who had
criticised the action of President Jor-
dan, and threw him into n lake.
Andrew Carnegie has notified the
managers of the Goshen Ind, library
association. that he will donate S15,-
COO toward the building of a library
building in that city. Goshen is the
smallest city he has ever assisted.
Yale graduates propose that the
bones of Elihu Yale, which are in
tered in Wales, be removed to this
country for interment on the Yale
campus. the suggestion is made by
Percy L. Lang, Yale, 'S5, of Waverly,
n. Y.
William II. Croker of San Francis
co has offered to defray the expenses
of solar eclipse expedition to be sent
by the University of California from
the Lick observatory to Sumatra to
observe the total eclipse of the sun
on May 18th.
Governor Hunt of Idaho has sent to
the Legislature a message urging in
strong language the adoption of me-
mortal to the United States Senate
asking for an amendment to the CON
stitution providing for the election of
the United States Senate by direct
vote of the people.
1t is reported the Santa Fe will put
into effect second class rates from
Chicago to Pacific coast points. The