The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-06-30

'iau tue supply.
The city parks of New York have
been opened to those who wish to
sleep out of doors during the hot sea-
son.
Kotaro Date, Japanese student,
has been awarded the Wayman Grow
medal for 1906 at the St. Louis School
of Fine Arts.
Secretary of State Hay has returned
from his European trip in greatly i'm
proved health and again taken up the
work of his Office.
Announcement is made OF a gift OF
100000 by Mrs. William Mcmillan of
ST. Louis for a girls dormitory at
Washington University.
Benjamin F. Daniels has been ap-
pointed United Statet marshal for the
District of Arizona. The appointment
will take effect July 1st.
The government OF Panama, in ac-
cordance with the desires of the canal
commission and the local bankers. has
decided to coin 100000 silver pesos.
The California Anglers Association
has elected former President Grover
Cleveland an honorary member. and Mr..
Cleveland has accepted in letter OF
thanks.
Vienna dispatch says that Baron
Nathaniel De Rotschild, who died
June 18th. left the sum of s4,O00,0O0
10 be distributed for various charitable
| purposes.
Five hundred persons were killed in
the explosion which occurred at the
Ivan colliery at Khartsisk, in southern
Russia, belonging to the Russian
Donet Company.
The rail mill of the OHIO plant of
the Carnegie Steel Company. which
has been idle since October. 1908, will
resume operations July LIST. The mill
employs 500 men.
Throughout eastern and southeast
ern Texas there is a pest of caterpil-
lars and reports indicate they are
doing great damagep to fruit trees,
corn and truck gardens.
Augustine Roache,. nationalist, has
been elected without opposition to rep
resent Cork city in the house of com
mons succeeding James F. O'Brien,
who died May 2Sth.
At the instance of the Department of
Justice, United States Attorney Nave
will proceed against several Mormons
residing in Apache county, Arizona, on
the charge of polygamy.
The late Premier Delyannis of
Greece, who was assassinated June
18th by gambler named Gherakaris,
died in absolute poverty. The cham
ber will vote a pension to the imme-
date members of his family.
A surveying party OF twenty men, in
charge of r. NJ. Leland, have left Seat
tie to locate the line of division be-
tween the United States and the Can
adian possessions np the vicinity OF
Chilcoot pass and Kotsina river.
The President has appointed Col.
Winfield S. Edgerly, Second cavalry, a
brigadier general, taking the place that
would have been filed by Col. Arthur
l.. Wagner, who died June 18th. Gen
eral Edgerly is now in the Philippines.
A statue of Kosciusko, the Polish
patriot, was unveiled in Kosciusko
park in Milwaukee. June 18th. The
ceremonies were attended by several
thousand persons. The monument was
gift to the city by the Polish people.
A contract between Charles Frohman
and Sir Henry Irving for fourteen
weeks tour Of the United States, be-
ginning in January, has been signed
| In London. The tour does not include
California, as previously contemplated.
| John Muldoon. Nationalist, and
lawyer of Dublin. was elected with
out opposition to represent the north
division of Donegal county in the
House OF Commons in the olace of
William o. Doherty, who died May
18th.
| The war in the far East is causing
such demand for ammunition that the
German artillery manufacturers are
overrun with orders. The Krupps Es-
sen works have ordery. fcr the delivery
of 800 guns monthly for nearly two
years.
| General Kuropatkin has telegraphed
to a marshal of the nobility at Mos
COW. expressing his regret at the peace
agitation among the Zemstvos and
municipalities, in view of what he con-
siders the certainty of victory by the
Russian army.
In the Pittsburg district the struc-
tural, plate and tube mills will con
tinue operations throughout the sum
mer without a shutdown, except for re-
pairs. The unprecedented demand for
finished material forces manufacturers
to keep plants in continuous service.
The driving of piles for the founda-
tion of the new campanile of st. Marks
at Venice has been finished. The work
VI lHt ps a
stone wall ten feet thick Is now pro-
crossing, and the next spring the build
Ing of the campanile itself will be be-
gun.
Chairman Shonts of the Isthnian
Canal Commission, recently announced
that he had decided to place assistant
purchasing agents as follows: Alfred
Anderson, New York: S. Il. Redfern,
New Orleans; Mai. Carol A. Devol, U.
S. A., San Francisco, and f. II. Harm
den, Tacoma.
The Arctic steamer Terra Nova
sailed from Tromsoe, Norway,
June 14th, for Franz Josef Land,
to the relief of the Zeigler ex-
pedision, headed by Anthony Fiala on
the America. The second relief expe-
dition aboard the Magdalena started
I for Greenland June 10th.
Plans are being made by the board
! of health of New York City to build
north of the Bronx a s150,00O labora-
tory for the manufacture of anti-tox-
Inc. Within a few months enough anti
| toxfpa will no made In this laboratory