The Dolores star., 1904-11-11
CONDENSED TELEcRAl1s

The president has issued q proclam4-
ion appointing Thursday. November
s4th, ~ Thanksgiving Day.
A telegram from John H. Fesler.
consul at Annoy, China, states that the
consulate has been burned. with most
Of the records.
Baron Sternberg. the German am
bassador. expects to sail about No
vember 22d for q few weeks visit at
bis home in Saxony.
The supreme council for the United
States, Scottish Rite Masonry. has
elected M. w. Bayliss. Washington, D.
c.. sovereign grand commander.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
In st. Louis for the week ending Octo-
Der 10Th was 749 1868. and the total at
tendance up to that date 15.933.925.
Colonel A. N. F1agg. who until Q
few weeks ago was editor Of the Du-
luth News-Tribune. committed suicide
At Duluth November LIST by drowning.
Secretary Hays note to the powers
inviting them to convene in conference
At The Hague has been cordially re-
ceived BY the diplomatic corps at
Washington.
The secretary Of the Merchants Ex.
I CA0A6C ~ o0A IoAClSCO cStlu6lco tuo
present population Of California at l..
7s6.000. an increase Of 100000 since
tie census Of 1900.
The British naval force now at Glib
raltar Is composed Of fourteen battle
ships. thirteen frst-class armored and
other cruisers and a strong fiotilla Of
torpedo boat destroyers.
Tho Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company on the 31st ult. reduced the
balance due upon the United States
government loan of $4.600.000 to $751;.
s51 by depositing 100000.
In q cock-crowing contest at Paris.
for which hundreds of roosters had
been trained In all parts of France, a
little bantam won the prize by Growing
thirty-two times In half an hour.
The army general star has decided
to dispatch American army surgeons
as attaches to the Japanese and Rus
sian armies operating In the Far East,
providing the consent Of the authori-
ties can be secured
The trotting record Of Maud g.,
mile in 2:0SZ. was beaten with the
same kind Of q vehicle, high-wheel
sulky. by the trotting champion, Major
Delmar, at Memphis, October 26tn, the
time being 2:07 fat.
The remains Of former President
Kruger of the Transvaal republic, who
died in July last, were removed from
the cemetery at The Hague October
31st and taken to Rotterdam for con-
veyance to South Africa.
Many cotton mills in the Eastern
states that have been shut down on
~ d,,11 do n
operations. At Rugusta, Maine, 1900
operatives went to work at a ten per
cent. reduction in wages.
According to the September report
Of the Santa Fe, the road is in a pros
porous condition. The gross earn.
ings were $6.156.340, an increase Of
e2S5.039. The net earnings were
$1.59s. .152. an increase Of $109.039.
The Mississippi Congress at
81. Louis recommended the appoint
ment of q special committee by Con
gress to investigate the arbitration
laws Of New Zealand and other coun.
tries which may have such laws.
Great discomfort is reported in Co.
lombia. Apparently President Reyes
with his political enemies in the ma
jority in both houses Of Congress, can.
not control the situation. Paper cur
rency is being issued in unlimited
amount.
The Supreme Court has decided.
after six years of litigation, that the
famous Lopez ranch of Tamaulipas
rightfully belongs not to Lopez. but to
]. o. Brictson. The value of the prop
erty is $3,500,000. Brictson bought the
ranch in 1898.
NJ. Santos-Dumont Gays he hopes in
q few weeks to be ready to take an
eight-day cruise in the air. The new
airship he has had constructed is larger
than he has hitherto used. 1t has sleep
ing accommodations for two persons,
four motors and boiling apparatus.
According to financial statement
issued November LIST by the Worlds
Fair Company. covering period from
the opening, April 80, to October
there was a balance in the treasury
at the latter date Of $s41,254. The
total receipts were $22 2.673,72 and The
total disbursements $21. 1.s32,46s.
France and the United States ex-
pect to begin the negotiation of an ar
bitration treaty at Washington soon
after the elections. The treaty will be
known as the Hay-Jusserand arbitra
tion treaty, and. according to the pres.
emit program, will follow closely the
lines Of the British-French arbitration
treaty.
Advices have reached the insular bu-
reau at Washington that by legislation
contained in one of the appropriation
bills recently passed at Manila, the
strength Of the Philippine constabu-
larry mas been reduced at one stroke
by 1900 men. The reduction will take
effect at the beginning of the next fis-
cal year, leaving the strength Of the
force at 5000 men.
The United States Supreme Court
has ordered a re-argument in the case
of the Creede & Cripple Creek Min
ing and Milling Company, against the
Uinta Tunnel, Mining and Transporta-
! tion Companv. involving the Little