The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-04
SHORT rELEeRAMs.


Harvard has cancelled the proposed
athletic meet between the eastern
track team of the University of Cali
f0fnia and the track team of Harvard
university.
The Katy Railroad Company has an
nounced to the citizens of Ell Reno
and Anadarko its intention to build
through those cities from Guthrie and
ON southwest into Texas, distance of
l50 miles.
Nearly 1900 delegates to the student
volunteer movement convention are in
Toledo. The convention opened We'd
uesday and the many visiting dele
gates from the United States and Can
ada were given hearty welcome.
February 10th was the coldest day
ever recorded in Honolulu, the ther-
mometer registering as low as 80 de-
grees above zero in the morning and
| showing the greatest huctuation ever
known there, for it rose "A degrees
during the day.
Henry G. Marquand. for many years
president of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, and until his retirement head
of the banking house of Marquand Il
Parmly, died at New York on the 26th
He made many notable gifts and loans
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
| A daring and foolhardy attempt was
made February 20th to rob the Lon
don and Mexico bank, one of the
strongest financial concerns in the City
of Mexico, by an unknown robber,
who, after killing the cashier and see
ing that he would be captured, blew
out his own brains.
The veteran journalist of the Black
Hills, Albert w. Merrick, died at
Deadwood on the 26th of pneumonia.
He was sixty-two years old and vet
eran of the war of the rebellion. He
started the Deadwood Pioneer in 1876,
when there We're no other papers in
that part of Dakota.
The woman suffrage measure intro
duced by Senator Allyn has passed the
upper house of the Iowa Legislature
by vote of 2S to IT, with six mem
bers absent or not voting. 1t was in
the Senate that the greatest opposition
was expected, the House having voted
favorably two years ago. the Senate
afterwards killing the bill.
Memorial services Were held in the
Tombs prison on the 23rd for Mrs. Re
becca Foster, known as the "Tombs
angel" who was burned to death in
the Park Avenue hotel fire. For
twelve years Mrs. Foster seldom had
missed n Sunday in the Tombs. Many
of the convicts who had come to love
Mrs. Foster wept ut the services.
DIR. Charles II. Gilbert, head of the
geological department of Stanford uni
versity, and party, will sail In few
days from San Francisco on a six
months scientific expedition to Ha-
wall, where he will take charge of the
United States fish commission that
was conducted last year by David
Starr Jordan and DR.. Oliver +. Jen-
kins.
n letter received from an important
business house at Carthagena, Colom-
bia, says that a large number of in
fiuential people, including merchants,
are turning TO the support of the Lib
erals, through conviction that the pres
ent government of Colombia is doing
all possible TO block the sale of the
Panama canal property to the United
States.
In spite of the bulletins of victories
over the insurgents published by the
Venezuelan government, advices from
Caracas indicate that the revolution Is
gaining ground daily. New uprisings
are TtpOIleu III ulllost III DiTls Ol lle
country, notably in the Tachira dis
trIct ON the Colombian frontier and in
the vicinity of Barcelona. where the
insurgents are concentrating.
The New Jersey assembly, after
long and humorous debate, has passed
the mosquito exterminating bill by a
vote of As to .. The bill appropriates
$4,000 to the state experiment station
for the purpose of making scientific
investigation OF the habits. origin and
breeding places of the mosquito and
its relation to malarial and other dis
eases. The money is to be expended
by the state entomologists.
Sixty-four men are reported 20 have
been killed or wounded during fighting
which occurred on the MontenegrIn
frontier between Albanian, and Turk
ish regular troops. The trouble was
due to the recent assassination of an
Albanian chief. Mulazeka. The latters
clansmen demanded the surrender OF
the murderer, failing which they at
tackled II force of Turkish frontier
troops. The fighting continues.
The series of festivities to celebrate
the centenary of the birth of Victor
Hugo opened at Paris on the 26th With
n grand ceremony within the PAN
theon under auspices of the govern
ment. President Loubet, Premier Wal
deck -Rosseau and the other members
of the Cabinet, the members of the
Senate and the Chamber of deputies,
representative delegations from the ill.,
stitute and other state bodies Were
present.
The postoffice at Campton, Delaware
county, Iowa, is to be discontinued. 1t
has u unique record. September !,
1857, A. V. Brown was appointed
postmaster and has held the office ever
since. His commission has never been
revoked; the men who signed his bond