La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1904-12-17
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decided 10 replace lls mai SOaIuss W
electric motor cars.
Mrs. VIII Carleton. wife Of the poet
author. died suddenly on the lith inst.
al her home in Brooklyn.
The Santa Fe railway is estimated
TO have lost 81 900. 900 by the recent
Hoods In New Mexico and Arizona
The bill to abolish capital punish
nent In Vermont passed the house OF
representatives by vote OF ls3 to 81.
William Mayer OF Mount Carroll. IL
linois. lost his hous by betting on Par
ker and committed suicide BY hanging.
The 81. Louis Worlds Fair officials
have repaid to the United States sub
treasury the entire government loan OF
$500 900.
Thomas Richardson. magistrate OF
Henry county. Virginia. was found fro
zen TO death on the public highway
Few days ago
Nine scouts OF the constabulary and
one American attached to the hospital
corps have been killed in an ambush
on the east coast OF Samar.
Serious naturalization riots have
take place in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.
Troops were called ou, and seven per
sons killed and thirty wounded.
A bronze statue OF Robert Treat
Paine, one OF the signers OF the Dec
laration Of Independence. was un-
yeiled at Taunton. Massachusetts, on
the 18th inst
II is officially announced that the
Seoul-Fusan railway was completed.
Traffic will begin December LIST The
time between Toxic and Seoul will
then be fifty hours.
William l.. Douglas. the newly
elected shoemaker governor OF Massa-
chusetts. gave the Democratic state
committee S3i. 300 for campaign ex-
penses and thinks he got OF easy.
The Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
railway into Wichita. Kansas, opened
for business November 18th. Contracts
have been let for the construction oi
522 miles OF road from Wichita toward
Kansas City.
President Roosevelt will recommend
to Congress that authority be given
the Philippine commission TO revise
the tariff now In force in those Islands
Since IL has been in effect many
changes have become necessary for
the development Of the islands.
Rev DR. Herbert Welch. pastor OF
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
at Mt Vernon, New York, has been
chosen by the trustees n. the new
president OF Ohio Wesleyan university,
succeeding Rev. ]. w Bashford. whc
last spring was elected bishop.
The Chinese government has under.
taken, In return for certain conces-
sious as TO remission and calculation
OF interest, 10 pay the whole of the
national indemnity Of 1901 on a gold
Tho q. In
cept the proposals.. which are oner'
pectedly favorable.
The missionary committee Of the
Methodist Episcopal convention at
Boston voted unanimously to appro-
pirate si.220.0oo for missionary work
during the coming year. and that this
sum be so divided as 10 give SIpl 800
for work in the foreign field. and S5lS,-
500 for domestic work.
The American consul at Kharpat DR..
Thomas II. Norton. has been instructed
to proceed to the Turko- Persian from
tier and watch the operations Of the
Turkish and Persian authorities who
have undertaken to arrest the murder
ers OF the American missionary, Rev.
B w Labare. who was killed In April
last.
The straw vote In the American
colony OF Mexico City. which was par
ticipated in by many OF the colony.
demonstrated conclusiyely the choice
of Roosevelt for President. All had
suppos ed that the colony would go
Overwhelmingly Democratic. The re-
suit was; Roosevelt. ass. Parker ais.
Swallow IL. Debs 10, Watson I.
A Vancouver. D. C.. newspaper says
that DR.. Neil s Phelps, OF Battle
Creek. Michigan. the scientist and for
mer millionaire, who mysteriousiy dis
appeared a year ago. has been quietly
living In Vancouver nearly the whole
OF that time under the name OF DR..
Fields. His identity was discovered
by . photograph published in Chi
cago paper and he suddenly disap-
peared.
The following are among the appro-
priations made by the Methodist Mis-
stonary committee c: the conference
In Boston: For colored work. mostly
In the South, S27.5o0; for work
among whites In Alaska. $1,000; in
California, $500. During the week q
total OF nearly 1857 900 was appro-
priated to mission work carried on In
thirty foreign countries and 10 sixteen
languages In the United States.
At Pekin. November 18th the Ameri.
can, Austrian. German. Russian and
Belgian ministers were received in
audience In the forbidden city, and
presented the dawager empress with
autograph letters from their respec-
tive rulers. congratulating her on her
birthday. The other ministers will
present letters later. The dowager
empress Will send her portrait to the
rulers who noticed her birthday
Gabriel Syvcton. the Nationalist dep
uty who struck War Minister Andre in
the face during the debate OF Noyem-
ber 4th in the French Chamber OF Dep
Gties. was arrested on the 10th inst as
he was about TO take up his position
L. .Saix, l..