Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-02
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Inc -V'l century CIub of San Fran
cisco, has matched Joe Wolco,t and
Kid Carter to box 20 rounds m Tho
night of Oct. Is. The men will meet ~
catch weights.
Eight hundred employees at the uipe
Brook shaft of the Ontario Coal 70 ut
Scranton. Pa. struck. Tuesday. against
working with other men who had ma
working cards.
Fire which broke out in the Kitchen
of the Douglass house at Houghton.
Mich. destroyed that structure. early
Tuesday. The guests were aroused and
all safely made their escape. Loss be-
tween $4,000 and 500, 900.
Sol Smith Russell, the wel,-knoyp
actor, is ill at his summer home at
Edgartown. Mass. Mr. Russell was
making preparations to close the house
Tor season but was overcome by a
serious sinking spell. His physician
thinks that the actor will have recoy-
cred in few days.
Lieut.. Commander John b. Milton.
L. S. N, has accepted charge of the
branch photographic office at the Mer-
chants Exchange in San Francisco. He
relieves Lieut.. Commander Calkins
who will go to Portsmouth, N. H..
where he will take command of the
Vixen, survey vessel.
The president general of the Sons Of
the American Revolution and president
of the Empire State Society of the Sons
of the Revolution. has announced the
dates for the Saratoga pilgrimage"
1t Will take place. Sept. 10, 20, q and
%. 1902, and will be made an annual
meeting. 1t will be conducted under
the auspices of the Empire State So
ciety.
The German minister of commerce.
Herr Moeller. speaking at a banquet.
Monday evening, in connection with
the sittngS of the German Commercial
Diet declared the government was in
n difficult position. 1t must admit that
commercial treaties for long periods
We're necessary and that higher pro-
lection for agriculture was a political
necessity.
Archibald Freeman, a well-known
lumberman of Menominee, Mich. and
formerly in the employ of Raber &
Watson. railroad contractors of Chi
day evening. charged with forgery and
cmbeZZlement while acting as district
agent at the Raber & Watson Cedar
mills in Menominee The amount in
volyed is $50. 900. Freeman had just ar
lived from Portland, Oregon, when ar
rested.
A decision by the United States
treasury department affecting the
status of Chinese born or naturaliZed
in the Hawaiian islands before their
annexation. has been handed down to
Port Collector Stratton. 1t was in the
case of Ii Ii Hong, q merchant who
became a citizen of Hawaii several
years ago. BY the ruling of the
treasury department he has been al
lowed to land at San Francisco. as an
American citizen.
The directors of the American Loco
motive Co. have authorized the ex-
penditure of 1850 600 to enlarge the
CAPACITY of the several plants owned
by the company. The greater part of
this money will be expended by the
Broows and Schenectady plants.
former appropria ton of 100000 for the
purpose was found Inadequate and the
additional allowance was agreed upon.
The new allowance will bring the
plants up to capacity of about 2oO0
locomotives a year.
Frank Wilbert Stokes. an Arctic art
list. who was with Lieutenant Pcary in
1924, will start from New York.
Wednesday. on the Philadelphia. of the
American Line. to join the Swedish
Antarctic expedition under DR.. Otto
Ncrdenskj old. at Southampton. An
agreement has been reached by which
he will be the artist for the Swedish
expedition. Mr.. Stokes was to have
accompanied the Baldwin-Ziegler eX-
petition but at the last moment he
gave this idea up to go instead into the
Antarctic regions.
Customs Collector Stratton Of San
Francisco, has received an order from
immigration Commissioner Powderly
10 allow Fei Chi and Hung Hsiang
Hal. Chinese students, to remain until
they can procure certificates from
China as required by the exclusion act.
The applicants are students on the'r
wav to Oberlin College. They came to
San Francisco with passport signed
by Ii Hung Chang. but Collector
Stratton decided that passport from
even the Empress Dowager would be
OF no value because the act requires
a certificate not a passport.
A special to the New York Times
from Chicago. says: After travelling 29o
miles in his automobile and breaking
long distance records for such trips,
Arthur J. Eddy came squirting into chi
cago. Monday afternoon. He has been
travelling in the East for 60 days. hav-
ing left Chicago. Aug. l. The trip
extended partially through Canada and
as far east as Boston. He covered
ahout 100 miles a day through the en-
tire trip and at times Travelled. he says.
at the rate of fully 40 miles an hour.
Mr. Eddys machine is one weighing
1900 mounds and having horse power
of S1s.
The interior department is rapidly
counleting plans for the opening OF the
Fort Hall. idaho, Indian reservation.
The date for the opening has not yet
been fixed as the preliminary work mas
not been completed, but it is expected
that the reservation, which contains
400 600 acres, will be thrown open TO
settIemert within a few weeks. The
Ouinoult reservation in washington.
onn ono acroS prObably Will