The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-04-21
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


new mayor, on his municipal owner
ship policy.
Major-General Gillespie of the army,
will retire June 18th at his own re-
quest. Brigadier-General Randall will
be promoted to the vacancy.
The battleship Minnesota was sue.
cessfully launched at Newport News,
April Sth. The vessel was christened
by Miss Rose Marie Schaller of Hast
ings, MINI.
Br'gadier General Frederick Fun.
ston has assumed command of the De-
partment of California and the Divi-
sion of the Pacific, believing General
Francis Moore.
United States Judge Hunt at Helena
has set for trial on June the cases
against X. NJ. Cobban and fifty.three
others on charges of perjury and sub
ordination of perjury in connection
with extensive western Montana land
frauds.
President Diaz has issued a decree
regulating the designs for the new
coins of the republic. Provision is
made for the new gold coins of $40
and So each. and for new silver dollars
differing but slightly from the pres
ent coins.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union has received from John ID.
Rockefeller a contribution of 100000
and has accepted and acknowledged
the donation. For several years Mr..
Rockefeller has made an annual gift
to the union.
The report of the Department of Ag-
riculture shows the average condition
of winter wheat. April /, to have been
n ST = a
the corresponding date in 1903, and
S3.1 the mean of the April averages of
the last ten years.
The Mckinley antitrust bill, which
passed the Illinois house by a vote of
112 to 3. makes very explicit definition
of what constitutes trust. makes in
surance subject to the trust definition
and provides heavy fines and impTis-
onment for violation.
For her heroism in saving the life of
companion skater from drowning last
winter. Miss Lactina Steele, former
Coon Rapids girl, recently appointed
Assistant State Librarian at Des
Moines, Iowa, is in receipt of Car
negie medal for her bravery.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer. sister of
the late L. S. Grant and widow of DR.
NJ. II. Cramer, was found dead in bed
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Virginia
Grant Corbin, in East Orange, New
Jersey, on the 5th inst. Mrs. Gramer
retired at night in apparent good
health.
AT a great chiefs council IN Chicago
of the Improved Order of Red Men
John NJ. Cherry of Norfolk, Virginia,
was chosen great incohonee TO succeed
the late Thomas H. Watts of Mont
gomery, Alabama, and w. A. S. Bird of
Topeka, Kansas, great senior saga
more.
Mexican Central officials announce
embezZlements at four stations on
their line in the last month, TO the ex-
tent of $25, 900. The money is missing
from the stations of Parral, Chihuahua,
Jiminez and Santa Rosalia, the biggest
sum, $4,000, having been stolen at
Chihuahua.
Thousands of circulars containing
demands for the initiative and refer
enrum and for municipal ownership OF
utilities have been scattered broadcast
by the central committe of the Social
Revolutionary party at Moscow. Pro.
hibition of child and female labor in
certain occupations is demanded.
According to a Rockland, Me-, dis
II,
formed a trust, the humble lobster
catchers have decided to form union.
Delegate Stuart Reed of the American
Federation of Labor has schooner at
his command, and -.lready has organ
lied several unions along the coast.
Higher standards of education for
physicians and surgeons, and uniform
entrance requirements and tuition fees
fnr e.tn ntc Inv
at the annual meeting of the Associa-
ton of American Colleges at Chicago.
Seventy of the principal medical col
leges in the United States were repre-
sented at the meeting.
1t is doubtful if building has ever
shown the activity that now prevails
all over the country. During March
permits were taken ont in twenty-eight
of the principal cities of the country
for the construction of 12,505 buildings,
involving a total cost of $50, ,16O.744, an
increase of IS per cent. over the cor
responding month year ago.
The coroner's jury at Zeigler. Illinois,
returned a verdict that the forty-three
men who lost their lives in the Letter
coal mine April 3rd, were killed by
after-damp due to an explosion of pow
der caused by parties unknown. The
belief is expressed that the mine was
in good and safe working condition
so far as gas was concerned.
1t has been decided to appoint three
foreigners as members of the advis-
ory board, or consulting engineers, of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, one
from Great Britain, one from Germany
and third from France. Each of
these governments has been asked
by the United States to designate an
engineer for membership on the board.
The Department Of Paleontology at
Princeton University Is completing
plans for an expedition to start in June
for Wyoming and Montana. with a
view to collecting fossil bones and the
skeletons of prehistoric animals. The
party will be composed of upper class
men, under the direction of DR.. Marcus
S. Farr, curator of the Department of
Paleontology.
Governor Toole Of Montana, has Is
sued quarantine proclamation d.
rected against the principal stock-rais-
ing states of the union, including Colo