The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-07-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


Semi-official announcement is made
that Buffalo's population, as revealed
by the census Just taken, is 37S.500.
The steerage rate from Glasgow.
Scotland, to New York has been re-
duced by competing lines to $3.50.
The First National Bank of Topeka,
Kansas, controlled by Charles J. Dew
lin, the big coal mine owner, closed
its doors July Sd.
The supreme council. United Com
mercial Travellers, at it's session In Co
lumbus, Ohio, elected as supreme coun-
cillor Clarence ]. Miles, Hastings. Ne
braska
The cruiser Charleston on her off,
cial trial run June 29th. made an aver
age speed of 22.3 knots an hour. She
exceeded her contract requirement by
.03 knots.
Senator Alger of Michigan has an
nounced that owing to his poor health
he will not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton to the Senate when his present
term expires in 1907.
For the year just closed it is ap-
proximated that 30,O00.O00 pieces of
registered mail We're handled in the
United States, an increase of 100 per
cent. over four years ago.
Second Assistant Secretary OF State
Adee, after a bicycling tour of France.
sailed for New York from Havre July
list on the La Savoie to resume his
duties at the State Department.
The sanitation of Panama is improv-
ing, the number of deaths for June be-
Ing twenty-five per cent. less than that
recorded for May, though June is CON
sidered the worst month of the year.
The recent heated spell in Europe
has caused. it is estimated from the
reports now coming in. more than 100
deaths in Germany. In some places
leaves on the trees have dried and
fallen.
The American revivalists. Rev. Reu-
ben A. Torrey and Charles NJ. Alex
ander, have concluded their five
months revival campaign in England.
Fourteen thousand converts were
made.
At a conference of the executive com
mittee of the civic federation it was de-
cided to hold a national conference in
New York City on September 2Gth and
9th to discuss the question of immi-
grafton.
Confirmation has been received at
Cape Town of Chief Marengo's re-
ported victory over the Germans at
Karasberg,. German Southwest Africa,
June 22d. 1t is said THAI 100 Germans
were killed.
Surgeon Raymond Speer of the navy
has been ordered to Manchuria for spe.
cial duty in connection with the naval,
medical and sanitary features of the
Russo-Japanese war, studying the n.y.
giene of camp life.
The monthly circulation statement,
issued July LIST. shows that at the
close of business June 80, 1905, the to-
tai circulation of national bank notes
was s495,7l9.S06, an increase for the
year of s4G,4S4,711.
The executive committee of the SUI
preme council of the Royal Arcanum
announces that it has no power to alter
the new schedule of rates. The in
crease was an absolute and immediate
necessity. they say.
The German Automobile Club has
voted to hold an international automo-
bile race in 1906 provided the German
government consents. The course was
left undetermined upon, but it is eX.
pected to be Mt Homburg.
Statistics of the port of Boston at
the close of the fiscal year to-day
shows that the immigration record has
been broken with 66.646 immigrants,
which exceeds the greatest previous
record, two years ago, of 65,S50.
The imposing tower of st. Cath
crimes church. at Dantzic, Germany,
built from 1926 to 1880. was entirely
destroyed by lightning July Sd. Some
Of the thirty-fiye musical bells COM
posing the chimes, which were cast in
1854, were melted.
A telegram from Steinkopf, German
southwest Africa, says that Petrus
Christian, the insurgent leader, re-
Gently ambushed the German force
commanded by Major Won Kamptz at
Karasbern, killing fifteen and wound
ing twenty-six Germans.
Henry Seymour of Vantage. Long
Island, unarmed and apparently harm
less, was arrested at Sycamore hill n
few days ago while making repeated
and persistent efforts to see President
Roosevelt. He was released on prom
Using to leave town at once.
The Norwegian war department says
there is positively no truth in the re-
ports published in Stockholm to the
effect that Norway is arming for a con-
WIFI o"tutH- ne
troops. it is explained, are merely I'M
dergoing their usual practice drill.
The official call of the National Ir-
rigation Congress. which is to meet
in Portland, Oregon. from August 21st
to cath, has been issued. The invita-
ton is directed to all interested in the
subject of irrigation and the reclama-
ton of arid lands within the United
States.
Secretary Morton has approved the
report of the board of naval officers
which selected the officers who are to
be retired to create the vacancies nee
essary under the naval personnel act.
Fifty-seven officers from the grade of
captain down have been named for re-
tirement.
A bulletin of the United States
Bureau of Labor states that wages and
the cost of living have risen in the
Philippines since the American occu-
patton and that dissatisfaction with
industrial conditions in the Philip.
pines is manifested by all employing
classes anu reflected somewhat among
the laboring population.
The Interstate Commerce Commits