The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1902-07-05
NEWS OF The WEEK.

afternoon.
King Edward is making excel
lent progress toward recovery.
Congress passed 1,151 private
pension bills during the session
just closed.
Enormous losses from floods are
reported from the states of the
upper Mississippi basin.
The Irish Amer IAN prisoners
in the Boer army will be released
on the same terms as other pris-
oners.
Albuquerque has leprous
Chinaman in her possession and
would like to get rid of him but
doesn't know how,
Capt. George Curry has re-
signed his position as chief of
police of Manila to enter the
mercantile business.
f. c. Weidner, a car repairer
for 20 years a resident of AL
buquerque, was crushed to death
under a car Thursday.
The Santa Fe-Pacific stock
yards just below Albuquerque
were almost entirely destroyed
by fire the first of the week.
According to decisions of the
authorities the Corbett-Sullivau
prize fight can not be brought off
in either Missouri or Illinois.
Michigan and Illinois were
visited by tremendous fall of
rain and high winds Thursday.
The damage was enormous.
Pittsburg had the greatest
Independence Day celebration in
its history yesterday, President
Roosevelt being the central figure.
Col. Jas. G. Meadors, ex-super-
intendeut of the New Mexico
Military Institute at Roswell,
died at Warren, Arkansas, June
p. ~
James Reay, member of the
board of county commissioners of
Sierra county, has resigned on
account of his removal from the
territory.
The senate committee on terri
tories will probably hold meet
ings during the summer at Indian
apolis to formulate a report on
the statehood bill.
Delegate Rodey will be given
rousing reception by his fellow
towusmen in Albuquerque on his
return home from Washington
about the 18th inst.
At Salt Lake, Utah, Wednes-
day night the thermometer regis
tered ~, the coldest July record
since the establishment of the
weather station in 1874.
1t is reported that gold ore
worth $4,000 a ton has been
struck in the southern part of
Santa Fe county by a tenderfoot
named lsidor S;lberman of New
York.
The use of oil as a dust layer
is being discontinued on eastern
railroads, for the reason that
when an oil soaked particle of
dust does ahght upon the clothes
it makes it's mark.
Delegate Rodey has requested
the authorities in Washington to
withhold temporarily the order
for the removal of drift fences.
No assurance was given that the
order would be delayed.
1.-The past week has been one
of severe drouth in all sections
of the territory, with high, hot
winds, most unusual at this
season of the year" says the
official weather report for July /.
The Illinois prohibitiouists
held an exciting state convention
at Peoria Wednesday,. After a
fierce wrangle they decided to
confine themselves to two issues,
the liquor question and woman
suffrage.
The building occupied by
Rupees drug store in Albuquer-
que collapsed Monday on account
excavations being carried on too
near its foundations. An S1l,O
stock of drugs was destroyed. No
lives were lost.
The provincial government was
inaugurated in Laguna July /,
thus completing the establish
ment of civil government over all
the civilized people of the Philip
pine archipelago. The accept
ance of American authority and
general pacifieatiou is complete.