The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-08-11
SHORT TELEGRAMS


Congress meets at Seattle, Washington.
August 18th to 2lst.
Rich naphtha wells. extending over
distance of 200 versts, have been
discovered in the Kuban territory OF
Cis-Caucasia.
Viceroy Curzon has telegraphed
lengthy protest to the home govern
ment against saddling India with the
cost of the South African garrison.
The repairing and painting of 1,500
iron monuments marking the interna-
tional boundary between the United
States and Mexico has just been COM
pleted.
Mrs. Lydia Hancock died last month
at her home in Palmer, Massachusetts,
at the age of 100 years and one month.
Until recently she had been able to
read without glasses.
Startling increase in suicides in
Washington this year has prompted
Dr. j. Ramsey hewitt, district coroner,
to recommend more stringent laws to
govern the sale of carbolic acid.
For their heroic work in rescuing
the Spanish steamship Ereza in
storm off Bermuda in February, 1902,
the members of the crew of the Ameri-
can steamship Yeoman will receive
10000.
More than 200 miles of electric rail-
way, worth millions of dollars, ex-
tending throughout Queens and Mas
sau counties, Long Island. has passed
into control OF a trust company in New
York City.
Basil De Guichard established a new
worlds record for pace followers by
riding forty-eight miles three laps and
two hundred and ninety yards in one
hour. in the Golden Wheel race at Bos-
ton, July 31st.
Samuel NJ. Shaw, eighty years. of age
and for fifty-two years editor of the
Freeman's Journal at Cooperstown, n.
Y. has just retired from newspaper
work The paper has been published
weekly for ninety-five years.
A heavy rain fell over Kansas
August 1st, with the exception of few
counties in the southwestern corner OF
the state. There is no longer any
doubt as to the excellence of the corn
crop. The yield will be large.
A decree has been issued in the
United States Circuit Court at Tren-
ton, n. j.. providing for the discharge
of receivers of the American Cycle
Manufacturing Company, and permit
ting the company to resume business.
Six thousand more aliens entered the
United States through the port of New
York last month than during the same
month last year. The total for July
this year was $4,000 compared with
36. 900 for July. 1902 and $4,000 in the
same month in 1901.
The Canadian government expedition
organized to explore Hudson bay in
the solar Neptune, consists of forty
persons, fifteen of whom are scientists
A party of twenty-five of the ships
company will remain one year, if not
longer. in the region explored.
Russian advices received at Vienna
state that Prince Urusoff. who on July
27th was reported as having been
wounded in the Razan district by peas
ants. has become insane. The dispatch
says he was in the habit of testing his
skill as a marksman on the bodies of
his peasants.
The fourth annual convention of the
International Federation of CONNER
cial Travellers at Mackinac Island,
Michigan. elected the following Off
GERS: President, Louis Labeaume, st.
Louis; vice president, Charles c. Dan
i,l, Columbus, Ohio secretary, Arthur
l.. Sheetz, Omaha.
Office has ordered withdrawn from land
entry 2,S00.000 acres of land in Oregon
for the creation of the Warner noun
tain forest reserve. The larger part
of the land withdrawn is in the Lake
view land district and the remainder
in the Dallas district
King Menelik of Abyssinia is to have
his own mint. and il will be in full
operation at his capital. Adds Ababa,
by the fiji st of the coming year, ac-
cording to the report of Consul Mas
terson at Alden to the department of
commerce and labor. Hitherto. Kins
Menelik has had a limited silver coin
age, the minting being done in France,
The Weddell house at Cleveland, one
of the oldest and most historic hotels
in Ohio, has been ordered closed at
once by John d. Rockefeller who re-
Gently came into possession of the
property through the foreclosure of a
half million dollar mortgage. 1t is said
Mr.. Rockefeller will erect a magnifi-
cent twelve story Office building on the
site.
Profane and abusive language was
directed toward President Roosevelt
and his family Sunday. August End,
as they were driving up to Christ
church to attend the morning service,
The defendant was a resident of Oys-
ter Bay, Mccain by name. He was
hustled away from the church uncere-
moniously by the secret service ope-
ratives.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg to
the Cologne Gazette says the Russian
authorities are repoNed to have noti-
fed the government at PelSin that Rus
sia will prohibit all foreigners from
staying in Manchuria at present, but
that six years hence, when Russia has
restored quiet and order in Manchuria,
the country will be opened to foreign