The Dolores star., 1901-07-26
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4 puihuihEs
The Santa Fe railway has 135 oil
burning engines on its lines in south
| ern California.
The total number of plague cases In
Cape Town up to June 10Th was III,
! with 33S fatalities
Senor FREDERICK Errasuriz. president
of Chill, died on the 10Th instant. He
has been unwell for year.
The Canadian department of trade
and commerce has decided to establish
fast Atlantic steamship service.
General Maxine Gomez has returned
| to Cuba and expressed himself as well
| pleased witlt the result of his trip to
the United States.
Chinese officials will try to erase all
the scars of war and evidences of for
| eign occupation at rekin before the
| Emperors return.
The consolidation of the Detroit and
Toledo Short Line Electric Railway
| Company with the Everett Moore syn
dicate has been concluded.
About a million bicycles and 6,ooI
motor carts are in use in France. The
latter number represents an increase of
| forty-onc per cent. in one year.
4 fire near Great Bend, Kansas. on
the 18th instant. burned 10000 acres
of standing wheat. William Gerhardt.
farmer, is said to have perished.
Officials who have had in charge the
preparation of the Philippines tariff
estimate that it will bring in reve-
nue. of S1o.o00,0Oo for the first year.
Colonel John Mosby, the eN-Confeder-
ate cavalry leader. has been appointed
a special agent of the federal land of
flee and assigned to duty in Nebraska.
The Massachusetts Republican state
convention has been called TO meet in
Boston, October 4th. Governor Allen
of Porto Rico will be invited to pre-.
| side.
oil was recently struck at Granite,
| Oklahoma territory. nj a depth of -.
feet, spouting TO the surface in large
| quantities. The well will be bored
! deeper.
The San Francisco board OF supervis-
ors has adopted resolution formally
accepting Andrew Carncgie's offer of
| S'5O,0OO TO that city for public library
| buildings.
The State Department has received
| the amount of the American indemnity
| for the claim against Turkey. $4,000,
| through the American legation at Con-
, stantinople.
Many protests are being made be-
| cause the Russian authorities at Port
Arthur. China. are opening all letters
10 and from the American and Euro
| peon residents there.
i Emperor Nicholas. according to n dis
| patch from st. Petersburg. has issued
an order that 3OS.OO0 nen shall be re-
cruited for the Russian army and navy
during the present year.
Every beneficiary certificate issued
by the Endowment Rank of the
knights of Pythias will be protected
so says an address issued by the SUI
preme officials of the order
Edward Hanlon of Toronto is 10 be
the Columbia University's permanent
rowing coach and is to make New
F., York his home in the future, and will
/ become an American citizen.
The Duchess of Albany will ac9om-
pany King Edward on his approaching
visit to Scotland. and the bctrothal Of
her royal highness to Lord Rcsebery
will be announced during the visit.
, A Valparaiso dispatch says that J..
| Pierpont Morgan has purchased the OIL
ly railroad line completed across the
Andes. connecting Chile and Arsen-
b, tine. The price paid was SI50,OO0,000.
I'VE learn from official sources in
! Paris" says Vienna paper, that the
difficulties of organizing an effective
| European customs league against the
| United States are considered insupera-
ble"
A. W. Brewster. n st. Joseph attor.
ney, is said To- have received draft OF
$3.50 Il few days ago, sent him by Pat
Grove, the alleged abductor of young
Cudahy, from Johannesburg, South
Africa.
| r. II. Newell who was known as q
humorist forty years ago under the
name of "Orpheus C. Kerr" was
found dead in his apartments in Brook
lyn on the 10Th inst. He had beer
dead for several days.
Lord Roberts has decided that in the
future the use of the rifle must be the
first consideration in the training of re
cruits for all arms of the British ser
| vice. Sword, lance and bayonet eXer
cises have been abolished.
General Wood has issued circular
strictly prohibiting the sale at the Gu
ban post exchanges of beverages con
tanning any percentage whatever of nj
cohol that would bring them within til.
provisions of the anti-canteen law.
A fire at the smelter of the American
Smelling and Refining Company neal
FL Paso, Texas. on the 10th instant
caused property loss of nearly 500.
600 and injured thirteen persons, thre,
of them perhaps fatally. all Mexicans
In the United Suites the savings de
posits of 1870 were $549. .S74. .35S, dis
tributed among 1,G30,S4G depositors
This amount was muiuplied by NOR,
than four in 1900. when S2.3S4. &c, ,S4!
was distributed among 5.S75,45O de
positors.
An Important scheme creating n sink
ing fund for the Chinese indemnity ha
been accepted by all the powers, say
the Pekin correspondent of the Dali,
Mail. 1t is on an ascending scale, pro
viding for the complete redemption o
the bonds by 1894.
DIR. August Unger and Weylan,