The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-08
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the year 1900 amounted to $3.77O,OOO.
The lumber output or Oregon for the
year 1900 amounted to sos, ,160, 600 feet
The members of the Cleveland city
council on trial for bribery We're all
acquitted.
Colonel A. e. Buck, United States
minister to Japan, sailed for home on
tie 2Sth inst.
Queen Victoria has appointed the
luke of York to be colonel-in-chief of
the Royal Marines.
The Gar and Czarina will return to
Tarskaoe-Selo, near st. Petersburg;
about February 2nd.
Glasgow, Scotland, has established
an institution for the confinement and
reformation of drunkards.
Michael Maloney lived to be 1O7
years old and died in Lenox township,
pennsylvania. few days ago.
Canadian soldiers returning from
South Africa We're given "A grand ova-
ton at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
9th ult.
Moses Soft Tyler, professor OF Amer
lean history in Cornell University, died
on the 2Sth ultimo, after an illness of
three weeks.
An original picture of General Wash
ington has been discovered in England.
1t represents the father of his country
as wearing IL pigtail.
A Tacoma dispatch says that labor
is likely to be scarce in Washington
this year, where much railroad con-
struction is to be done.
Colonel Willicocks has cabled the
British government that the Ashanti
rebellion has ended, all of the rebel
chiefs having surrendered.
Miss Jessie Ackerman and Miss Ada
Mercutt have gone to Honolulu to in
augurate a temperance crusade under
the auspices of the w. c. 4. U.
The total output of Pacific coast sal
mon canneries in 1900 was 2,994 ,4S5
cases; British Columbia produced 52I,-
2S1 cases; Alaska, 1.554,74 cases.
The Holland Society of New York
received a cablegram from The Hague
saying that Queen Wilhelmina's mar
riage has been set for September 9TH.
Secretary of the Navy Long has rec
commended that one of the new battle
ships whose construction is to shortly
commence shall be christened Califor-
mia.
Two German tourists, Herren Lainer
and Kindllnger, ascended Mount
Schwartzbergen without guides recent
ly and fell into an abyss and were
killed.
Thirty-three families of Russian i'm
migrants in McHenry county, North
Dakota, are in starving condition and
will have to be supplied with food and
fuel till spring.
More than 6,oo0 persons, four-fifths
of whom went to- the United States,
emigrated from Christiania, Norway,
during the last twelve months, as
against 1900 in 1890.
A big wine trust was organized in
San Francisco on New Years Day. 1t
expects to control seven-eighths of the
wine business of California and will
have $S,00O,0O0 capital.
Miss Esther Stevenson. late OF Den
yer. and a graduate of the University
of Michigan, has made application for
admission to the bar of Seattle, to be-
come a legal practitioner.
Captain Torkildsen has written
strong article to the Norwegian pa
pers. urging all parties in the Storth-
ing to pass Il law compelling the King
to live six months yearly in Norway.
In imitation of the Omaha affair,
would-be kidnaper has written the Rev.
DR.. John T.. Peters. the pastor of Il
fashionable New York church, demand
ing ransom or his daughter will be kid
naped.
Last year the total imports and ex-
ports out of and into San Francisco
from the Philippines islands We're: I'm
ports. S436, ,293; exports, SGO1.TO4. In
1890 they We're: Imports, S29O,O0O; ex-
ports. S325, 900.
Estimates of pig iron production are
that the aggregate will be little below
100000 tons, and therefore slightly
in excess of 1899. Iron ore shipments
by lake route will run nearly 100000
ton. the largest ever'recorded.
Professor w. w. Campbell, at Lick
observatory, wires that the comet Gia-
Goblin was observed ut Aitken, Decem-
ber 2Sth, 81 .93 Greenwich mean time,
in right ascension 23h 23m 1S.5s, and
declination minus % degree I'm 2Ts.
Replying to an address from the
American Boer committee, Mr.. Kru
ger expressed Il desire to visit the
United States, but said he must post
pone the visit on account of the affec-
tion of the eyes from which he is suf-
fering.
Dense fog of what is called the pea
soup variety. and the worst in several
years. covered the whole of the London
district January 1st, seriously interfer-
ing with traffic of all kinds. Even pc
destrians had difficulty in finding their
destinations.
Mrs Carrie Sinclair Hunton of Con-
cord, New Hampshire, the former So
ciety belle who was arrested on a
charge of conspiracy to kill her di-
vorced husband. Walter C. Hunton,
has been pronounced insane and taken
to an asylum.
The Luxembourg museum has pur-
,hased several pictures DISPLAYED at the