The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

J. Pierpont Morgan has been elected
president of the New York Metropoli-
Ian Museum of Art.
Secretary OF War Taft will be in
command of the naval forces OF the
Ethmus of Panama while he is there.
Commander Booth Tucker, who for
Eight and half years has been at the
aead of the Salvation Army in this
country. recently sailed for England.
Gen. Louis Palma Di Cesnola, d.
rector and trustee OF the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City, died
Orders are being prepared opening
to commercial business the naval coast
wireless telegraph stations at Yerba
Buena, California, and Mare Island
navy yard.
Joseph Brown. son of the late Gov
ernor Joseph NJ. Brown of Georgia.
wants all the southern electors to cast
their votes for Roosevelt, making his
election unanimous.
Col. William C. p. Breckenridge died
at Lexington, Kentucky, November
18th from the effects of a stroke OF
paralysis three days previous.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company has opened Its eight-mill
plant in Pittsburg and is said to be ar
ranging to start eighty-four Idle tin
plate mills early in December.
In the foot ball game at New Haven
November 18th Harvard was beaten by
Yale by score of Il to 0. being the
same score made by Yale in her VIC
tory over Princeton a week before.
Twenty-one department stores in
1r,t
alliance to prosecute shoplifters. Losses
of half . million dollars from this
source have been suffered during the
past year.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
Turkey is ordering hundred new bat
teries of artillery from German. French
and English factories at the cost of
s100O0,000. The Krupp company gets
the largest contracts.
Queen Liliuokalani and former Dele
ggate Kalanianole came over from
Honolulu recently to atte ! to the
queens project of securing an appro-
priation from Congress to pay her for
the former crown lands.
Secretary Taft left Washington No
vember 18th for New Orleans on his
way to Panama, where he goes as the
Roosevelt to present message OF am
ity and good will to President Anna
dor.
Pat Grove. for whose capture Cud-
ahy, the millionaire packer. is reported
to have offered a reward of $4,000 as
the kidnaper of his little son, Is
. thought to be in the City Of Mexico,
and the police are endeayoring to To-
cate him.
A forest fire in the Illinois bottoms
seven miles north of Peoria, Illinois
has devastated seven square miles oi
territory. The countryside was filled
with small game driven from their lairs
by the flames. Several farm buildings
were destroyed.
Miss Anna S. Peck, the American
mountain climber, arrived at New Yori
recently from Colon. Miss Peck, who
left New York last June. has been in
Peru, where she succeeded In ascend
ing Huascan mountain to height ol
/ 81 900 feet Immense crevasses pre-
vented her reaching the summit.
In a sensational finish on the Associa'
Con track at Oklahoma City, Novem'
ber 18th, Dan Patch lowered the
worlds record for pacing a mile on g
half-mile track, the official time being
2:03 fiat. The previous record, held by
Dan Patch himself, was made at Biz
mingham, Alabama, last year. beini
2:03A.
]. P. Storm, former county treasurer
of Yavapai count, Arizona, who wa:
found bound and gagged in the vaul
of his Office on November 9th. and who
reported that he had been robbed o.
$4,000 by two men and then placed II
the vault, where he claims he was fol
fourteen hours, has been arrested OF
the charge of embezzlement.
An automobile train with four carr
was successfully tested at Berlin few
days ago by the German War Depart
ment. By means of special couplings
the cars were drawn after the auto
mobile round sharp curves. keeping
the same track. The velocity was fif
teen miles an hour. The train wen
over meadows at the rate of eight mile.
an hour.
President Roosevelt has announced
the appointment of Francis e. LeupI
to be Indian commissioner, vice VIII
/ liam A. Jones, resigned. Commissions
Jones' resignation and Mr.. Ieupps ap
pointment will take effect January lst
Mr.. Leupp is Washington correspond
ent of the New York Evening Post ant
has been identified with Indian affair
for many years.
Spelterini, prominent balloonist, to
gether with two members Of the Aero
static Club of Berlin, recently made AZ
ascension from Zurich, Switzerland
passing over the Bernese Alps ant
making a safe landing in the villag'
of Corbatiere. in the canton OF New
chatel. They attained an elevation
two miles, experiencing bright sun
shine but intense cold.
The Holland government has notified
the American charge d'affaires tha
Queen Wilhelmina will be glad to se'
the second peace conference meet a
The Hague. and that the United State
may count on the cooperation of Th'
Netherlands so soon as Emperor Mich
olas, originator of the work begun IL
1899, and other powers have givei
their adhesion to the proposal.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker an'
Mrs. Parker will spend the winter II
New York City at the Hotel Neither
lands. He has engaged the suite for
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