The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-11-10
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

OF Oxford university, in
succession to the late marquis of Sails
bury.
The president has issued a proclama-
ton designating Thursday. the Goth OF
November, as day of general thanks
giving.
Prof. Theodor Monmsen. the great
German historian, died at Charlotten-
burg November list at the age OF
eighty-six years.
Rock Island telegraphers have been
granted a strict nine-hour day for all
classes and an interest of from ten to
fifteen per cent. in salaries.
The cities of Whatcom and Fairha-
ven. Washington, have voted to con-
Golidate under the name of Bellingham,
after Bellingham bay, on which both
are situated.
The Enid & Anadarko railroad in
Oklahoma with all its stations, rolling
stock and other property, has been sold
to the Chicago, Rock Island G. Pacific
for $3.672.000.
Baron Norderskjold has arranged for
a geological and anthropological ex-
pedition to the frontiers of Peru and
Bolivia. The party starts from Stock
holm January l.
The British embassy at st. Petersburg
is being renovated for the occupancy OF
King Edward next spring, when the
British monarch is expected to pay his
accession visit to Russia.
Governor Yates of Illinois has ap
pointed five commissioners to purchase
a statue of Frances L. Willard, the
temperance worker, to be erected in
Statuary hall, Washington.
The United States Supreme Court
has advanced the case involving rights
of freedom in the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw nations in Indian Territory and set
the hearing for January %.
The recent Bulgarian elections have
resulted in the return of LAG supporters
of the government, nine Democrats.
thirty members of the Stoiloivist party
and four representatives of other fac
tions.
Sir Edward Egerton. British minis
ter at Athens. has been appointed am
bassador at Madrid. in succession to
sir Henry Mortimer Durand. recently
appointed ambassador to the United
States.
Senior Mariscal Mexican minister of
foreign affairs. who is now in Germany,
has visited a number of commercial
schools in Berlin and will endeavor to,
establish similar schools in Mexico on
his return.
Thomas McCauley. a youth of six
teen. had his neck broken in football
game in New York city few days ago.
While running with the ball he was
downed and the whole team piled on
top of him.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close OF business
October 81. 1903, the total debt. less
cash in the treasury. amounted to S92o,-
402 Sol, which is an increase for the
month Of s2,649.956.
The total coinage executed at the
mint during October. 1903. was s3,s72.-
.2O. as follows: Gold, S1.540, 900; silver,
81 1924 900. In addition to the above
there We're coined ,425. 900 pesos for
shipment to the Philippines.
Hon. John e. Russell. former partner
of BENJAMIN Holiday in the old over
land transportation line between the
Missouri river and Salt Lake City and
other stage lines in the territories car
rying United States mails, died at
/ Leicecter, Massachusetts, October 29th.
At a recent telegraphers' tournament
in Philadelphia the winner was Harvey
Williams, a Philadelphian, who sent 500
words of straight matter in eleven min
utes thirty seconds. G. w. Conkling of
New York, was second, sending 500
words in twelve minutes and six sec
onds.
The strike begun by the messengers
OF the Pacific Express Company Octo
ber Is for ten per cent. increase in
wages. which resulted in general
walkout of the employees has been Of
.icially declared off by President Mode,
of the Brotherhood of Railway Ex
pressmen.
1t has been estimated by the state
department at Washington that it may
be a long time before United States
Minister Beaupre returns to Panama.
The inference is that the minister will
stay away as a sign of disapproval by
our government of the manner in
which the canal treaty was disposed of.
A London dispatch says that George
L. Watson has declined the commission
OF a prominent Clyde yachtsman TO de-
sign a cup challenger, on the ground
that it is hopeless for British or other
challengers to continue to contest for
the trophy under the measurement rule
by which the challengers have been
rated.
Eighty students from McGill univer-
sity. who undertook to celebrate Halo
we'en in Longueuil, just across the
river from Montreal, in a manner not
appreciated by the citizens, were driven
into the river a number being severe
ly beaten. About fifty We're more or
less injured and several were taken to
the hospital.
Realizing that further curtailmept
of their product is necessary to restore
the pig iron market to its normal con-
dition. representatives of nearly all the
big pig iron producers in the eastern
district met at Pittsburg and adopted
a resolution to continue the same ratio
of reduction. twenty per cent, for Nov
ember as during October.