Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-08-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

sluiced from winter dumps, near
Nome.
The crops in Sweden are ssrioualy
suffering as result of the continued
hot weather, II
Captain Harry A. Smith OF the
Fifteenth infantry has been appointed
military governor OF Laguna province,
Luzon.
The government has determined TO
make vast improvements in the
Notifications around the harbor Of
San Francisco.
Exports Of gold and silver from the
last week aggregate 1924, s+5 silver bars
and coin, and sa9, ,4lo gold.
Passengers from Nome report
rich strike In the Fairhaven district,
ninety miles north OF Nome, and say
stampede has occurred from Nome.
The transport, Thomas" sailed
Thursday for Manila via Honululu,
with the 700 teachers who are going to
accept positions in the schools in the
Philippines.
A dispatch from Rome says a man
named Narcesso Miotti has been ar
rested, charged with being concerned
in an anarchist plot to kill King
Victor Emmanuel.
The imports OF dry goods and mer-
chandise at the port of New York Tor
last week were valued at $lo,370,s77.
The imports OF specie amounted TO
SIS, 1865 gold and 500, $40 silver.
Count de Lichtervelds, Belgian
Minister to the United States, will re-
tire from the post at his own request.
He will be succeeded by Baron Mon
cheura, Belgin Minister to Mexico.
''It is believed" says the London
Times, "that grant will be made to
Lord Roberts in recognition Of his SER
vices In South Africa and to enable
him suitably to maintain his peerage."
Director Campbell of the Lick observa-
tory puts no faith in the theory ad-
the extraordinary weather conditions
in the middle West are due to solar
causes.
The Chilean government Is prepar-
ing bill which viii effect q reorganiza-
tion to large extent of the national
finances. 1t ontemplates the accumula-
tion of an additional fifty million pesos
as a reserve.
1t is thought that the number OF
seals which will be taken during the
present season from the seal Islands.
Aalaska, will not equal that of last
year, when about 22,5oo sealskins
were secured.
The military authorities of Great
Britain, 1t is understood, are satisfied
that the war is nearing it's end and
that the sum already voted by Parlia-
ment will be sufficient to meet the mill
tary expenditure.
About 24o species Of fish from Hawaii
have thus far been collected and classi-
complete report OF the laws and
customs of the island relative to flsh-
ing is being made.
The Hawaiian legislature has an
ished the business of passing appro-
priation bills, for which it was called
in extra session. The amounts appro-
priated are largely in excess Of the
estimated income.
New York quarantine authorities
have been advised that five cases Of
yellow fever are reported at Santiago
de Las Vegas town of 5000 inhabi-
tants thirteen miles from Havana. All
the sufferers are Spaniards.
Exports from the. United States 70
all American countries and islands
south of her boundaries show a marked
increase in the fiscal year just ended,
and exceed those Of any other year in
the history of our commerce.
A special from Tucson, Arizona,
tells of the holding up OF the big
Apache gambling-house there, when
the proprietor was robbed Of several
thousand dollars. A lone robber COM
mitted the deed and escaped.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, civil governor
Of Benguet province, Luzon, has been
exonerated of the charges against him
by the civil commission. The resigAA-
tion of his secretary, who preferred
the charges, has been accepted.
The Pacific Union Mining and Smelt-
ing company, with capital OF $500, 900
and headquarters in San Francisco.
was Incorporated in New Mexico
Sunday. The offices OF the concern
will be located at Lordsburg.
The American Locomotive company
has appropriated the sum OF ss0o,ooo
for the purpose Of enlarging its plant
at schnectady, N. Y. 1t is stated that
the capacity of the plant will be In
creased from 425 to 1000 locomotives
yearly.
An explosion OF petroleum on board
the American schooner Louise Adelaide
from Philadelphia, in stockholu
harbor, Tuesday resulted In the death
of Capt Orr, ten members Of tie
achoonar's crew and four Swedish Gus