Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

General Quintero Calderon. the act
ing minister of war at Bogota, is seri-
ously ill.,
President Castro st'll cherishes the
hope that che Colombian revolutionists
will be the victors.
The total shipments of wheat flour
included1 from Portland, Or, for last
week were 479,925 bushels.
There are twenty thousand people in
the Yukon territory, aud the popula-
tion of Dawson City is approximately
eight thousand.
An official of the municipal tax office
in Buda Pest named Keiskematy has
decamped with funds to the amount of
500, 900 crowns.
For Freedom, the great coursing
hound with a worldwide reputation,
is dead in San Francisco. The dog was
valued at $4,000
l.. j. Girouard, government registrar
In the Klonkike, was shot and killed in
Dawson on Monday. A man named
Lord was the murderer.
A cablegram has been received at
the Office of the surgeon-general of the
marine hospital service, saying the
plague had broken out at Odessa. Rus
sia.
The Capetown guard has again been
called out and Lord Kitchener has is-
sued an order directing that all Beers
captured in British uniforms are to be
shot.
The official count of the vote at the
last election shows that the Democrats
will have sixty majority on joint bal
lot in the general assembly of Ken
lucky.
William Ogden of Mclean county,
ILL.,, has bought 100000 acres of land
in western Kansas, which will be con-
verted into the largest wheat ranch in
the world.
Trustees of Columbia university say
there is no truth in the story that
Chinese Minister Wu had been offered
the chair of Chinese language and
literature.
A large sheep feeding firm of Sioux
Falls, s. d., is preparing to ship e.7oo
head of sheep direct to the Liverpool
IN arket the sheep being brought from
Big Timber, Mont.
The stage and mail coach running
between NARROW and Bailey, l. t., was
held up Thursday by highwaymen.
Mail pouches were riiied and the pas
sengers and driver were robbed.
The new star IN the constellation,
Perseus, concerning which important
discoveries are reported from the Lick
observatory, has not yet been observed
by the Yale university astronomers.
The news of the French Intervention
in Turkey was suppressed at Constan-
tinople for three days, but the Sultan's
cabinet being in constant session
showed that a serious crisis had arisen.
The widow of the murdered Million
aire, Frank Richardson of st Joseph,
Savannah, Mo-, when the court granted
a change of venue on grounds of preju-
| dice.
In Mexico City Tuesday, Charles Ed
win Rensen, an American of long resi-
dence in Mexico, committed suicide by
shooting himself while in his office.
Business trouble is assigned as the
cause.
The cruiser Olympia, which has been
undergoing repairs at the Boston navy
yard, will be put in commission Decem-
ber 18th and be assigned to the North
Atlantic squadron. She will be flag
ship of Admiral Higginson.
Reports from the pig iron manufac-
turers, covering production in October,
show that the month was a record
breaker. The output reached the
great total of 100000 tons, or at the
rate of l6, 800, 900 tons per annum.
The projected treaty of cessions of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States is not so well advanced as ii
was hoped would be the case at this
time. 1t is now doubtful whether the
treaty will be completed in time to
submit to congress when it reassem
bles next month.
If the American people, says the
Bulgarian Prime Minister. knew the
kind of hellish barbarities perpetrated
by Turkey in Macedonia, the voice of
the nation which freed Cuba and
fought the most chivalrous and unset
fish war of modern times would
awaken the cabinets of Europe to
sense of their duty regarding Macedo-
mis-.
Representative Boutelle of Illinois
has arranged for a future con ference
with the president on the subject of
the abrogation of the 1917 treaty with
Great Britain in which the building Of
war vessels on the Great Lakes Is pro-
hibited.
Dunlap Moore. assistant surgeon
United States quarantine service, who
has been stationed at Nome during the
past season, confirms the report that
the natives of western Alaska are rap
idly disappearing from the effects of