The Dolores star., 1903-01-16


Monterey, Mexico, has been ended by
the personal efforts of Governor Reyes.
Marconi is preparing to install q
wireless transcontinental telegraph
system across Canada, the central sta
tion of which will be Winnipeg. Mani
toba.
New Orleans is now without a supply
of fuel oil and all the furnaces recently
converted to the use of oil burners are
being changed back SO that coal may
be used.
The mileage of new railroads built
in the United States in 1902 was 6,026,
being the largest for any year since
1888. There was 5.36S miles of road
built in 1901.
The corner stone of the army war
college at Washington barracks will be
laid Washington's birthday. The prin-
cipal address will be made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt
In commemoration of the coronation,
durbar orders have been issued to re-
lease certain classes of military Offend
ers and 1913 prisoners who are in
civil jails in India.
On March 10th stockholders of the
Pennsylvania railway will be asked to
increase the capital stock to 100000
900 and increase the bonded indebted
ness to like amount
The government has purchased four
more buffalo from private herd in
Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone Ma
tional park. The herd in the park now
numbers about forty-fve.
Increased tariff duties on both grain
and manufactured articles are import
ant features of the new Austrian aus
gleich, which. it is learned, is of a
highly protectionist character.
France and Guatemala have agreed
to submit to the international arbitra
tion court at The Hague the French
claims against Guatemala. They are
similar to those against Venezuela.
Cole Younger has applied to the Min
nesota State Board OF Pardons for q
full pardon. He wishes to return to
his old home in Missouri and his pres
ent parole will not permit him to leave
Minnesota.
Frederick l. Allen, commissioner of
patents, names aerial navigation as the
greatest problem for the consideration
of inventors during the year 1903. He
believes that the problem will eventu-
ally be solved, and by an American.
William ]. Lewis, Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, who recently received an ap-
pointment in the Postotfice Depart
ment, says that he will not work on
Saturdays and the department refuses
to change it's rules to conform to his
scruples.
Direct communication between Well
fleet, Massachusetts, and Poldhu in
Cornwall, England, was established
December 31st by the Marconi system.
Wellfleet is 600 miles further from
Poldhu than the Table Head station at
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Fire losses in the United States and
Canada for the AR 1902 amounted to
$149, ,260,850. This is gratifyingly less
than the figures for 1901 of $164,347 ,450.
and 1900 of $780, $50. During 1902
there were 2,400 fires of greater de-
structiveness each than $1,000
1t is officially announced that King
Edward has appointed Sir Francis Lew
eson BERTHE, X. G. b., now assistant
under secretary for foreign affairs, to
ish ambassador at Rome Lord Currie
lColShOo pooI 4|OSChibOA Acth.
Prof. Robert Koch has delivered a
lecture upon typhus in which he
claims that this disease can be combat
ted successfully through isolation, as
cholera is combatted, for the reason
that typhus is only contracted by
contact with person already infected.
An agreement has been reached by
the representatives of the Toledo &
Western, the Garrett, Auburn & North
ern Indiana and the Chicago Air Line
companies for through electric line
between Toledo and Chicago, passing
through South Bend and Fayette, In
diana.
Construction is in progress on the
Orient road in Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas and Mexico, and the road
is to be completed as rapidly as possi-
BILE, President Stilwell says. The track
contractors in Woods county, Oklaho-
ma, are laying more than a mile of
rails per day.
In a letter to the Navy Department
dated November 20. 1902. Rear Admiral
Evans, commander-in-chief of the
Asiatic station, calls attention to the
crying need of officers for the ships on
his station. and urges the Navy De-
partment to come to his assistance as
soon as possible.
The Southern Pacific and Union Pa
cific and connecting lines will put in
effect from February 18th to April 30th,
inclusive, second-class and so-called
colonist rate of $33 from Chicago. $25
from Missouri river points. Sioux City
to Kansas City, inclusive, and Houston,
Texas, and $50 from st. Louis, Mem
phis and New Orleans to points In CAL
iformnia. The object Of the low rates
is to encourage immigration and to se-
cure skilled and unskilled labor for
sities on the coaat.