The Dolores star., 1905-06-02
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White Horse, Yukon Territory. has
been destroyed by nre.
The President has issued an order
prohibiting the employment Of convict
labor ON government works.
According to all indications. this
will be one of the biggest outing
summers experienced by the transpo,-
tation companies in recent years
According to the biennial statement
of President Harper Of the University
OF Chicago. the university Is now
worth between $4,000. 900 and SIS, ,000.-
600.
Gen. Maximo Gomez. the Cuban pa
triot. who underwent a serious sur
gical operation recently, is improving
and 1t Is now believed that he will re-
cover.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the well
known reformer, died at her home at
Melrose. Massachusetts, on the 23d OF
heart trouble. She was eighty-four
years old
William E. Cramer. editor-in-chief of
the Evening Wisconsin Of Milwaukee,
died May Goth. from pneumonia. after
an illness extending over period OF
two months.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son OF
President Roosevelt. will spend several
weeks In the Yosemite valley this sum-
mer as the guest OF Stewart Edward
White. the author.
Joseph Jefferson's birthplace. in Phil
adelphia. has been sold at auction for
$8.125. 1t is three and one-half story
stone building at the southwest corner
Of Sixth and Spruce streets.
On May 23d over 400 mules perished
in a fire that destroyed the sales
stables of Maxwell & Couch and
Sparks Brothers at the National stock
yards in East st. Louis.
ihe medical congress at Havana dis
cussed favorably resolution suggest
ing the creation of a branch of the
health department devoted to the ex-
tinction Of infection carrying insects.
More than 800 suits were filed re-
Gently by tie Louisian Purchase Ex-
position Company to collect stock sub
scriptiOns aggregating $4,000. Among
the suits was one against former
Mayor Henry Zeigenhein for 5000.
The accident to the German empress.
Augusta Victoria, who fell downstairs
May 21st, while rather more serious
than at first reported will not have
any serious consequences. The cut on
her forehead probably will leave q
slight scar.
The trustees Of the Mormon church,
at Salt Lake, have purchased forty
acres OF farm land in South Royalton.
Va, where they will erect monument
shrine and cottage on the site of the
birthplace of Joseph Smith. founder Of
their faith.
While catching in q game OF base
ball in Brooklyn. James Miles. a youth,
was almost instantly killed by a
pitched ball. Miles wore no mask
while behind the bat. A very fast ball
which he failed to stop struck him
between the eyes.
Madame Dugast. who attempted to
navigate her autoboat Camille in the
race from Algiers to Toulon, has sent
$4,000 to the sailor who Jumped into
the sea from the French cruiser Kle-
I ber to rescue her during the storm
which scattered the racing boats.
With impressive ceremonies the
monument erected by the Woodmen of
the World to the memory Of Galveston
Woodmen who perished in the tidal
wave of 1900 was unveiled May 21st at
Lakeview cemetery, Galveston, accord
ing to the ritual of the Woodmen.
The bureau of forestry of the De-
partment OF Agriculture has issued a
circular announcing that the mature
timber on the national forest reserve
Is to be offered for sale. The super
visor Of each forest reserve is autho-
rized to receive applications for the
right to cut timber.
At Natchez. Mississippi. May 18th,
Peter Mathewson, a book agent. shot
and killed A. 2. Bidwell and Stephen
Jones, fishermen. and fatally wounded
Mrs. Sue Pruett, his mother-in-law.
The trouble occurred about Mathew
sons child, whom he claimed had been
abducted by its grandparents.
Three-quarters of million OF people
have already died OF the plague in In
dia this year, according to figures fur
nished by Indian Secretary Brodrick
in the House of Commons The NOR
tality from January 1st to April LIST
was 461, IA, while another 215,3 1861 sue
cumbed during the four weeks ended
April 29th.
Judge Rogers of the United States
District Court at st. Louis has issued
an order allowing Ng Jung, a China
man, convicted and sentenced to ninety
days in the Missouri penitentiary, for
passing raised SO bill, to retain his
queue while serving his sentence. Jung
told the judge that wearing a queue
is with him a matter of religion.
The cruiser Reina Mercedes, cap
tured at Santiago during the war with
Spain, sailed from Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, May 21st Tor Newport,
Rhode Island, after having been re-
modelled as q receiving ship. The
cruiser has been undergoing repairs for
nearly five years and is said now to be
one Of the best equipped receiving
ships in the navy.
In view of the death recently OF
Judge Amos M. Thayer of the United
States Circuit Court at st. Louis.
President Roosevelt has decided to