The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-14
&, SHORT TELEaRAMs.

Delng estimated at Soo,op.
Eight thousand people shook hands
with President Roosevelt Mt his New
Years reception in the White House.
Official returns at London show that
the Boer losses by killed, wounded ana
surrendered during 1901 totaled 1857.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will spend
most of the winter at Palm Beach,
Florida, to which place they have just
gone.
The historic liberty bell has been car
ried to Charleston to be exhibited at
the Exposition. 1t was accompanied
by military escort.
The Calcutta correspondent of the
London Mail says that at a recent con-
ference 1t was decided to adopt the
standard gauge on the Indian railways.
Argentina and Chile having come to
an agreement upon the protocol, all the
questions in dispute will be submitted
to the arbitration of the British COM
| mission.
The University of Michigan football
! team went to California and on Janu-
airy 1st, at Pasadena, defeated the
Stanford University team by score OF
40 to o.
State Auditor Weston of Nebraska
has revoked the license of the Nation
al Aid Association of Kansas to trans
act the business of fraternal insurance
in Nebraska.
The St Louis Worlds Fair Company
will offer a 500, 900 prize for competi-
tive aerial trials, to be feature of the
coming Worlds Fair, the best airship
to take the money.
The San Francisco mint has COM
pleted n coinage record which makes
1901 the banner year in its history,
SS1 ,OI2, $50 having been converted
from bullion into coin.
General Miles had an immense num-
ber of callers at his residence in Wash
ington on New Years day; many more
than called on Secretary Root who so
recently censured him.
An increase of from four to twelve
per cent. in the wages of about $4,000
trainmen will be announced soon by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
to date from January 1.
Paul Blouet, better known as Max
O'Rell, who recently underwent sur
gical operation. is improving in health.
His physicians and nurses are confl-
dent of his speedy recovery.
Canada is being congratulated In
London on the progress experienced
last year. The fact that public depos-
its in Canadian banks amounts to
S40O. 100000 is considered remarkable.
Alaska and the United States may
soon be connected with line of wire
less telegraphy. Seattle, Washington,
capitalists are negotiating with Chica-
60 firms for equipment for the proposed
line.
1t is reported that the executive COM
mittee of the National Epworth League
Of the Methodist Church has boycotted
| Dr. Robert McIntyre's new novel, THE
Modern Apollos." as being too sensa-
! tional.
1t is understood that, much against
his will, King Edward will be COM
PEELED to ask Parliament for n grant
toward the Queen Victoria memorial.
Only f1S5, 400 has been thus far sub
scribed.
The town of Mendon, Utah, has just
awakened to the fact that it has over
looked an election. Everybody forgot
about it, and now the town officials
must hold over until the next regular
election.
Cole and Jim Younger have applied
to the Minnesota state board of par
dons for commutation of their life SEN
tences for murder to thirty-tive years.
They are now out on parole and cannot
leave Minnesota.
Capt. B. II. McCalla, now in COM
mand of the Kearsarge, the flagship of
the North Atlantic squadron, has in
view the erection of a fine club house
at Vallejo, California, for the enlisted
/ men of the navy.
| In his first message to the board OF
aldermen, Mayor Low of New York
declares that blackmailing must be
stamped out and asks every citizen
who is approached for blackmail to re-
port the fact to the mayor.
The Senate of Georgia rejected the
part of the proposed constitutional
amendment that would make the term
of the governor of the state four years.
1t refused to strike out the prohibition
against banishment and the whipping
post.
Chickasaw full blood Indians are
waging a hot campaign for the cleo
ton of William l.. boyd to succeed
Governor d. NJ. Johnson. They claim
they fear a scheme to keep the full
bloods from their share of the lands
and money.
Official statistics show that 302, ,S4S
emigrants left the United Kingdom for
places outside of Europe during 1901,
an increase of 4,2S7 as compared with
the figures of the previous year. AS
usual, the great majority of them went
to America.
/ Most of the Cherokee Indians have
joyously received the news that their
bill has been introduced into Congress
to compel the rich members of the
tribe to relinquish the large tracts of
land. Some of them are holding from
5000 to 10000 acres each.
! Miss Anne Leary of New York has
received word from Rome that the