The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-08
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

kota.
The mounted police will be with
drawn from Dawson and local force
substituted.
The degre of LID. has been con
ferred on General Leonard Wood by
Williams College.
The pension list for the fiscal year
ending June Both shows decrease of
$95O,OO0 from that of the previous
year.
1t is reported that all the big coal
mines of Missouri are to be absorbed
by a syndicate controlled by j. Pier,
pont Morgan.
About l,500 Canadian troops sailed
from Durham for home June 9th. Two
thousand additional Canadians will
start for home July -.
\ contract for the building of a sugar
mill by the state of Arkansas has been
signed and ratified by the state penl-
tentiary board and the governor.
The permanent census act, operative
July LIST, leaves census force of 100
clerks. Twenty, who have been en-
gagged on special work, are dropped.
Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer.
nandez, lying 600 miles west of Val.
paraiso, is to be given civil govern
ment by Chill on account of its lobster
canning industry.
Pneumatic postal tubes We're ordered
put in service again July LIST in New
York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel-
phia. Their construction IS authorized
in six other cities.
1t is said in st. Petersburg thar the
Russian troops have already been
Withdrawn from Moukden. Manchuria.
The Manchurian railroad guards Will
number 10000 men
The Missouri Republican State Con-
vention strongly endorsed President
Roosevelt, whom Congressman JOY
designated as the Little Rough Rider
of the White House"
The Minnesota Democratic cOnven-
ton nominated l.. a. Rosing for gov
ernor and passed resolutions approving
the Kansas City platform and eulogiz-
ing William ]. Bryan.
For the third time in twenty years
Ex-Governor Robert Pattison of Phila-
delphia was nominated for governor OF
Pennsylvania by the recent Demo
cratic State Convention.
The Canadian government has appro-
priated $4,000 to build barbed wire
fence along the boundary between
Montana and the Dominion, extending
from st. Marys Lake TO the Sweet
Grass Hills.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has de-
clined the peerage offered him by King
Edward. He says that after thirty
four years spent in the House of Com
mons. he is reluctant to change his
sphere of work.
Three Victoria crosses, ten distin-
guished service medals, two promo
tions to commissioned rank and four
mentions in dispatches have fallen to
the lot of reform school lads in South
Africa, says Lord Leigh.
1t is announced that the Ozark and
Cherokee Central, now building from
Fayetteville. Ark, through Indian Ter
ritory. has decided to secure coast con-
nection by constructing the line to
Guthrie, thence west to Denver line.
Advices from Ads Abeda. capital of
Abyssinia. announce the safe arrival
there OF FitZhugh Whitehouse of New
port. Rhode Island. and Lord Hindlip.
who started from England, February
1st. on an exploring trip to the upper
Nile.
The International Sunday School
Convention. which closed its session in
Denver June 3Oth, voted to recommend
Jerusalem as the place for the next
Worlds Sunday School Convention in
1904. The International meets next at
Toronto in 1903.
j. G.. w. Cowles of Cleveland has
been elected chairman of the board of
trustees of Oberlin College. The cleo
tion means that Mr. Cowles will be
president of Oberlin College until n
permanent successor to the late Presi-
dent Barrows is made.
The net earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation for the quarter end
ing June Both amounted TO S3T. .691 ,i9G.
as against S26,362. 900 for the same
period last year. This statement
shows an increase of net earnings for
the quarter of S11.329. .696.
The idea prevails in London that Mi
chael Henry Herbert will not long oc-
cupy the post of British ambassador
to the United States. but that he Will
be transferred to Paris when Sir Ed
mund j. Monson. the present British
ambassador there retires.
Lord Warwick, in proposing vc te
of sympathy for the king before the
Warwick town council. said that he
was 'authoritatively informed that his
majesty's first words on recovering
consciousness after the opera ton We're:
''Wnl my people ever forgive meT'
Hundreds of INDECENT Americans
now in Cuba are petitioning the min
lister for aid. This prompted Minister
Squires to call meeting of the Ameri-
cans in the lega ation, when liberal sub
ScriptioIis were made To send the
needy Americans to the United States
on the marriage of Miss Jeanne
Langtry. daughter of Mrs. Langtly
the actress. to Ian Malcolm. member
of Parliament. IL few days ago. King
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