The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-06-01
CONDENSED TELEeRAMs

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 transport
tation companies in recent years.
According to the biennial statement
of President Harper of the University
of Chicago. the university Is now
worth between $1s.00o,000 and $4,000
900.
Gen. Maxine Gomez, the Cuban pa
triot, who underwent serious sur
gical operation recently, is improving
and it is now believed that he will re-
cover.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. the we'll
known reformer, died at her home at
Melrose, Massachusetts, on the 23d OF
heart trouble. She was eighty-four
years old.
William K. 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 speud 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
1925. II is three and one-half story
stone building at the southwest corner
OF Sixth and Spruce streets.
On May 23d over 400 mules persisted
in a fire that destroyed the sales
stables of Maxwell q Couch and
Sparks Brothers at the National stock
yards in East st. Louis.
lhe medical congress at Havana dis
cussed favorably resolution suggest
ing the creation of branch OF the
health departmer. devoted to the ex-
tinction OF infection carrying insects.
More than 800 suits were filed re-
Gently by tie L.ouisian Purchase Ex-
position Company to collect stock sub
scriptions aggregatiDg $4,000. Among
the suits was one against former
Mayor Henry Zeigenhein for $1,000.
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 a
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 a monument
shrine and cottage on the site of the
birthplace of Joseph Smith, founder oil
their faith.
While catching in a game of base.
ball in Brooklyn. James Miles, a youth
was almost instantly killed by Q
pitched ball. Miles wore no mask
while behind the bat. A very fast bal
which he failed to stop struck hin
between the eyes.
Madame Dugast, who attempted tC
| navigate her autoboat Camille in thu
race from Algiers to Toulon. has sen
$1,000 to the sailor who jumped into
the sea from the French cruiser Kle
Der to rescue her during the storm
which scattered the racing boats.
With impressive ceremonies tn,
monument erected by the Woodmen p
the World to the memory OF Galveston
Woodmen who persisted in the tida
wave of 1900 was unveiled May 21st a
Lakeview cemetery, Galveston, accord
ing to the ritual of the Woodmen.
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partment of Agriculture has issued I
circular announcing that the MATURE
timber on the national forest reserv,
is to be offered for sale. The super
visor of each forest reserve is autho
rized to receive applications for thu
right to cut timber.
At Natchez. Mississippi, May 18th
Peter Mathewson, a book agent, sho
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Jones, fishermen, and fatally wounded
Mrs. Sue Pruett, his mother-in-law
The trouble occurred about Mathew
sons child. whom he claimed had beef
abducted by its grandparents.
Three-quarters of a million OF peopl
have already died OF the plague in In
dia this year, according to figures fur
nished by Indian Secretary Brodricl
in the House of Commons. The NOR
tally from January 1st to April is
was 461.744, while another 215,961 sue
cumbed during the four weeks cnde'
April Goth.
Judge Rogers of the United State
District Court at st. Louis has issues
an order allowing Ng Jung. China
man, convicted and sentenced to ninet.
days in the Missouri penitentiary, fo
! passing Tdlseu DIV Dill, 10 Tetdlu HI
queue while serving his sentence. Juni
told the judge that wearing queu'
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 for Newport
Rhode Island, after having been re-
modelled as a receiving ship. TIT
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nearly five years and is said now to b,
one of the best equipped receiving
ships in the navy.
In view of the deatk recently O.
Judge Amos M. Thayer Of the Unitct
States Circuit Court at St. Louis
President Roosevelt has decided t
promote to the vacancy Judge Elmei
| b. Adams OF the United States Dis
| trict Court at St Louis In succession