The Delta independent., 1902-09-26
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| Nine vessels Of the French cod feet,
! floundered in the North sea during the
recent gales and fifty fishermen were
drowned.
The long-distance cowboy pony race
between Deadwood and Omaha was
abandoned on the request Of President
Roosevelt
Queen Wilhelmina opened the staats
! general in person September 10th, ap-
pearing to have completely recovered
from her illness.
| 1t is estimated that as many as fifty
! lives were lost in the recent great fires
1 in Clarke and Cowlitz counties in the
state Of Washington.
The Frisco road has purchased the
Ozark & Cherokee Central railroad now
building from Fayetteville, Arkansas,
/ to Shawnee, Oklahoma.
| The new route surveyed for the
Central Pacific through the Sierra Ne
vada mountains will require q tunnel
nearly seven miles long.
/ George Lindhurst of Brooklyn, New
York, was bitten on the thumb by
fly and died of blood poisoning after
an illness Of two weeks.
London journals advise people to
. keep AWAY WhelS
employment Is scarce, rents enormous
and beer a dollar u bottle.
/ Naval Constructor Hobson will be
placed on duty at the Pensacola navy
yard, the command to which Rear Ad-
miral Wise was recently assigned.
/ A statement of British finances
| shows that the gross liabilities March
3lst were So, 2S2, 216, $50, an increase of
Itt. to hn
war.
The Republican territorial convention
at Honolulu has nominated Prince Jo-
nah Kalauiauaole. popularity known as
Prince Cupid" for delegate to Con-
gress.
Passengers on the Bertha. recently
arrived at Seattle from Alaska, saw
volcanoes in three mountains-Re-
doubt, Iliamna and Augustine. in act
i've eruption.
A lone highwayman in Topeka, Kan
sas, recently held up and robbed nine
separate persons Of money and jewelry
in one night, after which he escaped
with his booty.
The United States Senate commits
sion, appointed to investigate and re-
/ port upon Hawaiian affairs generally,
has organized at Honolulu and begun
holding daily sessions.
( Late Manila dispatches report cholera
light In Manila and bad in the prov.
inces. The totals TO date reported from
the islands are 59.579 cases and II, SA
deaths. These are unofficial estimates.
| The vatican has definitely decided to
send the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio
to Washington as papal delegate in the
United States. Mgr. Falconlo is now
an apostolic delegate for the Dominion
/ of Canada.
Secretary OF State Hay has accepted
the invitation to be present at the dedi-
cation of Camp Roosevelt, which IL to
be a feature of the coming G. A. X.
encampment in Washington. and to de-
liver the Grafton.
The business men OF Manila are or
| ganizing for the purpose Of agitating
for limited Chinese immigration to the
| Philippines. They have planned to
send n memorial and possibly dele
CATION to Washington.
| At his reception to the people OF Mas
sau county at Oyster Bay, President
7 Roosevelt told n woman, who asked
him II he was getting tired, that 1t
1 took more than trolley car to knock
| him out or n crowd to tre him.
At Kansas City September 10th sew
I enteen head Of native steers, averaging
1,2G6 pounds, sold at SS.75, being the
I highest price ever paid on that market.
| On the same day over 10000 cattle
were received at the stock yards.
Captain Windsor was retired on the
| 10th inst. with rank OF rear admiral.
His retirement will result in the pro-
motion of Lieutenant Commander Regi-
maid Il. Nicholson, navigator on the
Oregon during the Spanish-American
| war.
A nephew of General De Wet, the
! Boer commander. arrived in Berlin re-
Gently to be treated by Professor Berg
man for n gunshot wound. 1t was err
roneously printed here that General De
| Wet himself had n bullet removed from
his body.
Eta Hannie Maddox Of Baltimore
! has appeared before the Clerk of the
| Court of Appeals in Annapolis, Mary
land, qualified and taken the oath OF
admission to the bar. She is the first
woman to be admitted under the new
Maryland law.
Destructive storms ragged in many
parts of Germany September 18th. In
Saxony the temperature sank to zero
and hurricane-like wind unroofcd n
number or houses ana injured many
I people. The damage Is estimated ut
! millions of marks.
| The San Francisco savings banks
| have the largest per capita of deposits
of any banks in the United States.
They report an aggregate of 2O2,3S1 de-
positors with S13S, ,193,433 standing in
their names, which amounts to per
capita deposit of $G32.
japanese papers received at Victoria
contain kilograms stating that 5000
| persons lost their lives by the over
| flowing of the West river in China.
| There was also heavy loss of prop
erty and life in Formosa by floods, fol-
! lowed by tidal wave.
| Marconi, in an interview published