Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREvI1IES.
Fort Sumner Man Committed Suicide at Denve
YESTERDAY. The eSanta Fe Will Build From
Roswell TO EI PaSO

| Inc indian appropriation bill compile
ted yesterday carries So, S44 500.
Five thousand dock laborers strucl
| yesterday at Trieste, Austria.
Sergeant B. McSwinney of the ma
rine corps, was killed in an action a
Balangiga in Samar.
Austin Rice outpointed Tim Callahan
in a 15-round bout at the West Enc
Club at St. Louis last night.
George Dixon at New Britain, Conn.
last night received the decision in 20.
round bout with Chic Warner.
Rea H. Smith, prominent business
man of Minneapolis, died yesterday OF
tetanus caused by vaccination.
w. S. Jessup, a wealthy stockman
from Fort Sumner Guadalupe county,
committed suicide yesterday at Den
yer.
Striking salt workers at San Fran
cisco, Spain, rioted yesterday. Shops
were damaged and there was consider
able looting.
Members of the Clerical party at
Mexico last night destroyed the monu-
ments erected to the martyrs of the
Liberal party.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty was CIV
en- publicity in Pekin yesterday and
was well received as it is believed that
it will check the dismemberment Of
China.
The Central Coal and Coke Company
of Kansas City. has purchased all the
properties and business of the Kansas
and Texas Coal Company Of st. Louis
for $3,0000O0.
Work has been resumed on the Wyo-
ming at the Union shipyards at San
Francisco on which work had been sus-
pended for a long time on account of
the machinists' strike.
President Johnson of the Bethlehem
steel works and others appeared before
the house committee on labor yester-
day and made argument against the s.
hour day for workingmen.
Dock Griffith, sentenced to the feder-
al penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for
two years, for selling liquor to Indians
in Indian Territory, was yesterday
pardoned by President Roosevelt.
The strike Of the switchmen in the
yards Of the Northern Pacific Railway
at Missoula, Mont, has been called
off, the company granting every con-
cession demanded by the strikers.
Three hundred strikers who have
been besieging non-union men in a
leather factory at st. Julien, France,
since February IL. yesterday stormed
the factory. A number of men We're in
jured.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Ell Paso says that the Pecos Valley and
Railway will be extended
from Roswell to Ell Paso to compete
with the recent Rock Island extension
to Ell Paso.
The Philippine Exploration Company
was Incorporated yesterday at San
Francisco by several millionaires. The
capital is $5,O00.000. The object of the
company is to colonize the island of
The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs yesterday considered the general
question Of leasing lands within Indian
for the purpose Of mining.
The majority Of members of the COM
mittee are In favor Of the leasing prop
osition.
The Benimsara tribe in Morocco
which Kidnapped two Spaniards few
lays ago, has been attacked by the
1esgna tribe. Three Of the Benimsara
villages were destroyed and 3S Of their
men, including eight chiefs, were kill
3D..
A fierce battle was fought between
he British and the Beers at Heilbron,
The battlefield being over 50 miles long.
rhe Beers were hemmed in and per-
'ormed prodigious deeds Of valor, but
,nly 100 including General Dewet man
lged to break through the British lines.