The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-07-12


little of the king so as 10 more clearly
recognize his sovereignty over the en-
hire British empire.
A number of Japanese war ships
will be present, in addition TO the four
American war ships under Rear-Ad-
miral Rodgers, at the unveiling, on
she 18th, at Kuriham ma, Japan. of the
monument to commemorate the land
sing there of Commodore Perry, July
~, 1853.
There was a shortage of cars to
move the Kansas wheat crop before
the marketing of that cereal had bare
" gotten under way. The wheat
movement started much earlier than
usual this year owing to the fine
harvest weather, and the railways, it
= reported, are unable to care for 1T.
The financial secretary of the Brit
ksh war Office, Lord Stanley, in the
house of commons, on the sth, in an
swer to question, gave the total
number of Beers killed, wounded or
made prisoners, from among the ac-
tive commands, recently, as follows:
March /, 472: April 2, 434; May 2, GAO;
June, incomplete, 1,53s.
The Kansas state supreme court, on
Rhe It'll, handed down a decision de-
claring the Kansas irrigation law to
be constitutional and that the con-
demnation of land by the Pawnee
Lake and City Irrigation Co. is valid.
This will make it possible to carry
into effect the biggest irrigation
scheme ever attempted in Kansas.
Edward Wilder, treasurer of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
has returned from two months tour
of Europe. While abroad he made an
extensive collection of curios through
France, Germany, England and Italy,
(which he will present to the public
library of Topeka. Ancient pottery
and rare wares form the donation.
Mrs. Philip ID. Armour, of Chicago,
through her attorney, on the sth, de-
clined to take one-half of the estate of
her brother, Frank Ogden, who died
recently in Cincinnati. Mr.. Ogden left
an estate which, by his will, was to be
equally divided between his wife and
his sister, Mrs. Armour. BY the lat
tiers action the whole estate will GO
to the widow.
The excursion steamer Queen az
rived at Port Townsend, WASH, on the
9Th, from the north. Her officers re-
ported Glacier bay one mass of ice.
and that no nearer than IA miles of
Muir glacier could be reached, an ice
jam from thirty to forty feet high
extending clear across the bay. The
ice foes in the channel were greater
than ever known before.
In arranging for the twenty-fifth
anniversary, in August, of the admis-
zion of Colorado as a state, the Colo
RADIO Springs committee, on the 5th,
completed the details for a banquet
20 the editors OF the state, at which
Nice-President Roosevelt is to be the
guest of honor and principal speaker.
Henry Watterson and other noted ed
jtors have been invited to attend.
For the triennial conclave of the
knights Templar at Louisville, KY,
August 27-30, the Central, Trunk line,
New England, Southeastern, Western
Southwestern and Trans-Continental
ISOLATED Railways of the Virginias and
Carolinas have made reduced rate,
two associations granting one fare
plus two dollars, the others one fare.
The United States Philippine com
mission has ordered Ii. Phelps Whit
marsh, governor of Benguet province
to Manila to sumbit to an investiga
ton, on account of the allegation tina,
he has been using his position to his
personal advantage in acquiring lane
and mining rights from the natives
He is at present charged with indis
erection and violation of his instruc
tions.
The official reports to the New Yorl
bureau of vital statistics of deaths
from heat for the week ending july
q show that the actual number in the
five boroughs of Greater New Yorl
was $50. For the boroughs of Man
haitian and the Bronx the number wa:
l69s; for Richmond, -; for Queens, "a;
for Brooklyn, 264. The records cover
the days when the heat was most in,
tense.
Frank Tazelow, an aeronaut from,
Grand Rapids, was killed at Muske-
gon, Mich., on the 4th, while making
a cannon parachute drop. When the
balloon had reached height of 1000
feet the ropes holding the cannon
broke, and the big gun containing
Tazelow dropped into Muskegon lake.
Tazelow's body was found in a terri
bly, mangled condition. The accident
was witnessed by thousands of people.
Porto Ricans are contrasting the
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