The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-08-15
SHORT TELEaRAMs.

The National Irrigation Congress
will meet at Ogden, Utah, September
18th to 18th.
The trans Mississippi Commercial
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 Curxon has autographed q
lengthy protest to the home govern
ment against saddling India with the
cost of the South African garrison.
The repairing and painting of 1900
iron monuments marking the interna-
tional boundary between the United
States and Mexico has just been COM
rleted. :.
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 rescuins
the Spanish steamship Ereza In q
storm of Bermuda in February, 1902.
the members of the crew of the Ameri-
can steamship Yeoman Will receive
5000.
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 trust company in New
York City. -
Basil De Guichard established 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 M. 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 list, with the exception of few
counties in the southwestern corner Of
the state. There IL 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 1900. 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 ship'a
company will remain one year, II not
longer. in the region explored.
Russian advices received at Vienna
state that Prince Urusoff. who on July
9th 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
itl, Columbus. Ohio; secretary, Arthur
l.. Sheetz. Omaha.
The commissioner of the general land
office has ordered withdrawn from land
entry $500. 600 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 it will be in full
operation at his capital. Adds Ababa.
| by the first of the coming year, &C.
cording to the report Of Consul Mas
| terson at Alden to the department oil
commerce and labor. Hitherto. King
Menelik has had 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 ID. Rockefeller, who re-
Gently came into possession of the
property through the foreclosure of q
half million dollar mortgage. 1t is said
Mr.. Rockefeller will erect 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 b. the secret service ope-
ratives.
A dispatch from St Petersburg to
the Cologne Gazette says the Russian
authorities are reported to have noti-
fed the government at Pekin that Rus
STA will prohibit all foreigners from
staying in Manchuri9 at present, but
that six years hence when Rusaia has