The Dolores star., 1905-07-07

treaty Of 1894 between Britain and ia.
pan. Japan is willing to agree to it.
A Port Arthur dispatch received at
Rome from an Italian engineer who is
engaged in raising the Russian ships
sunk in the harbor there, says that
three ironclads have been refloated.
The will. of the late William J.
Parmelee of Chicago, provides that the
entire estate. 100000, shall be held
i in trust and the net income devoted to
purchase fuel for poor and needy fam
! lilies.
The secretary OF war has approved
the recommendation of Governor Ma
| goun Of the canal zone that 100000 OF
| the funds of the government OF the
| canal zone. derived from local revenue.
be devoted to establishing forty-two
! public schools.
The biennial election law passed by
the last Nebraska Legislature and de-
signed to do away with the off-year
elections, has been declared unconsti-
| tutional by the Supreme Court Of Ne.
braska. All elections will be held this
fall as heretofore.
The first international congress for
the study Of radiology and ironization
will be held at Liege from the 18th to
the 14th Of September next, under the
patronage of the Belgian government.
and this government is invited to be
represented at the congress.
An Official denial is published at
Berlin of the report from Cape Town
| Of the capture of Warmbad, German
Southwest Africa, by the Hottentots.
who were said to have evacuated the
place and to have taken with them
oil tho ammunition opa cunplioc
The twelfth annual outing Of the
| Mazamas. mountain climbing club
| Of Portland, Oregon, will occur at
| Mount Rainier during July of this
year. and the clab will be accompa-
MED by an unusual number Of promi-
nent scientists and college professors.
DR.. c. C. Rice, assistant professor Of
modern languages at Leland Stanford
University. but whose home is in Lin
| coin, Nebraska, is under police deten-
| ton in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, suf-
fering from violent insanity. and will
be brought back to Lincoln. His attack
is attributed to overstudy.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Telegraph from Peking by way
| of Toxic says it is officially announced
| that within twelve years constitutional
government will be established in
China, and that the intervening pc
riod will be employed in bringing
about the reforms necessary for SO
great a change.
A Melbourne dispatch says that the
| commonwealth government has de.
| cided to invite Secretary of War Taft
| and the members of his family and
Miss Roosevelt to extend their tour
from the Philippines to Australia
Assurance is given that the secretary
| and his party will be cordially vel
coined by all classes.
At the inter-university swimming
meet in London, June 26th, in the
presence of q distinguished company.
including the Duke and Duchess OF
Connaught, the Australian amateur
champion. B. B. Kiernan. eighteen
years old, lowered the worlds record.
covering 800 yards easily in seven
minutes and twenty-four and four
| fifths seconds.
A cooperative experiment Of mag
nitude hitherto untried is to be at
| tempted in this state. The enterprise
is known as the COOPERATIVE Chris
tiaa Federation" with a capital Of
| $50, 100000. The objects of the fedora
uon are to buy and sell lands. build
railroads. operate factories. mills and
dairies in Oregon, to be owned and
operated on the cooperative plan.
Engineer James J. Camp Of the re-
| clamation department Of the United
Stetes Geological Survey has recon-
mended to the Reclamation Bureau
that the irrigation project for south
west Oklahoma, in which water was
to have been supplied from the north
fork of the Red river, be abandoned
and another project in the Navajo
mountains of Oklahoma be taken up.
The ship Arion arrived at San Fran
cisco June 26th from Baltimore with
| the captain and ten members Of the
crew of the German ship Agnes, and
| bringing news that the Agnes foun-
dered in a snowstorm OF Cape Horn.
| The boats crew picked up by the
Arion was but one of three which
| abandoned the Agnes before she sank.
| A search over wide territory Of the
sea for the missing seamen was un-
| avai1ing.
King Oscar has directed the court
martial to issue the following state
ment regarding the rumor that his
majesty would be willing to place q
| prince Of the house of Bernadotte ON
the throne Of Norway: 1.-THE king does
not approve the idea and will not con-
| sent thereto. The only condition un-
der which his majesty could consider
| this decision would be the expression
| Of the wish Of the Riksdag that .
| prince OF the house Of BernAdotte
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