The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-11-26
vELEGRAPHIC BREviTIEs.

long and vigorous in tone.
Copenhagen dispatches indicate that
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies by the United States will soon be
completed
The colombian government has ac-
cepted the proffered mediation of Chill
to settle the troubles between Colombia
and Venezuela.
Seven troops of the Fifteenth cav
airy now in the Department of Cali
fornia will sail for the Philippines
December 10th.
Forty thousand acres of land near
Navajo, Greer county, Oklahoma, were
sold Monday to n colony of Germans
of 1000 families.
An earthquake in Cantonbury dis
trict, New Zealand. has devastated the
township of Cheviot. Many people
have been injured.
According to the Petit Bieu of Brus-
sells, the wife and family of former
President Steyn have been deported
from South Africa.
Citizens of Oskaloosa, Iowa, by
popular subscription, have pledged a
fund for the erection of n $4,000 build
ing for the Y. NJ. G. A.
Spain is having serious trouble with
students in Madrid and other large cit
les. 1t is announced that the govern
ment will adopt severe measures.
During the late fog in England the
driver of London omnibus was found
dead in his box while the vehicle was
still running lie was victim of cold
fog.
1t is announced at Oyster Bay, Long
Island, that President Roosevelt and
family will occupy their country villa
on Sycamore hill at oyster Bay next
summer.
Fire in the canning building of the
Cudahy packing establishment at Kan
sas City on the 18th instant damaged
the building and stock to the amount
of $i5G000.
Rumors are published in Japan that
the governor of North Kiang Slang,
province of Korea, has given orders
that all foreigners living in the prov
ince are to be killed.
"Tne Indian government" says dis
patch from Simia, has abolished the
sword for the cavalry, both British and
Indian, and n short rifle will be issued
to all mounted troops"
An advance of twenty per cent in.
the prices of leather betting was agreed
upon by the Leather Betting Manufac-
turers' Association at it's fifteenth an
nuaI meeting in New York.
For S1,o00,oO0 the American Bridge
Company of Philadelphia has secured
n contract for the construction of
twenty steel bridges along the line of
the Uganda railroad in East Africa.
Argument was closed November 18th
in the Federal Supreme Court in the
Al, In
Grande Irrigation Company, the Ele-
phant Butte dam controversy, and the
decision was reserved.
The delegation of the Argentine Re-
public to the Pan-American congress mt
Mexico City entertained their United
States and Mexican colleagues at
banquet. The full delegation of the
United States was present
News from Hardin county. Texas,
confirms the report that a well of al
most pure lubricating oil has been
brought in that flows $50 barrels of oil
per day. The new well is about thirty
miles northwest of Beaumont
Inspection of the spectrum of flash
of lightning as shown in u photograph
leads Professor T.. C. Pickering, di-
rector of the Harvard observatory, to
believe that hydrogen is a compound
element, made up OF at least three
compOnents.
Captain Berniex of Quebec is plann-
ming an expedition to the North Pole.
He will take with him large kites fit
ted with cameras. These will enable
him, even if he fails to get to the Pole
to take photographs of many points
which he cannot reach.
The numerous grievances of Austria
Hungary against Turkey have been
settled by the agreement of the porte
to pay 10000 francs to the Armenian
victims and by adjusting, financially
and otherwise, the wrongs arising from
eight other matters of dispute.
Huntington interests have come to
the front with another big incorpora-
ton. The Kern Power company, with
a capital of S5,OO0,OO0 fully subscribed,
filed papers of Incorporation. 1t is pro-
posed to obtain power on Kern river,
$50 miles north of Los Angeles.
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse,
the widow of Professor Samuel +. b.
Morse, the inventor of the telegraph,
died in Berlin, Germany, on the 18th
inst She was Professor Morse's sec
ond wife and was married to him in
1S4S. She was born in 1922.
William Stone, chairman of the
Ornithological Society, at its recent
meeting in New York reported that at
the rate of progress made it was safe
to predict that the feather dealers
would soon be driven to the wall, or
at least find their business much re
stricted.
The japanese minister at Washing
ton says that his country has enjoyed
one of the most DrOSDprOuS years in
its history. The rice and silk crops
have been unusually large and there
is steady influx of gold as a result
of the trade. Renorts of the eXistence