The Holly chieftain., 1905-09-15
CONDENSED rELeeRAms

United States Steel Company has de-
cided to maintain the price Of steel
rails to Its customers for 1906 at s2s .
| ton.
Great interest is being taken at Phil
adelphia over the correction OF the reg
tstrafion list. II il stated that 60, ,O00
| bogus names will be stricken Oh he
rolls.
Frank C. Graves. formerly financial
| writer ON . New York newspaper, has
just paid $4,000 for q seat on the
New York. stock exchange. This 10
the highest price ever paid.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
Of knighthood Of the Royal Order ol
Vasa upon B. LoVenstein of Memphis,
Tennessee Mr.. Lowenstein has been
. coosta0t visitor to Sxeden for twelve
years.
The coinaee executed at the mints
OF the United States during August
was: Gold. 100000: silver, Sls2,.
600: Panama half balboas. 100000
pieces: Philippine pesos. 100000
pieces.
The War Department has approved
the plans for the building of q new ar
tillery post at the Preside, near San
Francisco. and $750.000 will be ex-
pended for this. purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied to the note OF
the six embassies. declining to accept
the scheme proposed by them for the
financial control of Macedonia. The
powers will insist on the acceptance OF
the scheme.
On the recommendation of Grand
Duke Vladimir. the emperor has par
doned PrOkope, who was sentenced to
death for the assassination OF Colonel
Kremarenko, chief of police of Viborg
on July 22d last.
Total industrial dividends payable in
September will rise above $10,450, 900,
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal of Commerce. This is an in.
crease of more than $3,50O,000 over
September year ago.
| More Americans have visited the
Yellowstone National Park this sum-
that 10000 persons have been in the
record last year was 10000.
The German postal authorities, who
have always been very progressive,
and who for some time have been ex-
perimenting with automobiles, have de-
cided to put these modern vehicles in
|, use on all rural delivery routes.
Secretary Bonaparte has issued an
order for court martial to try Com
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade, on charges growing
out of the fatal explosion on the gun.
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
The Hartman lines have given an
order in Chicago for seventy-hve chair
cars, to cost about $3.50 900. They will
be used on the system west of Ogden
the Southern Pacific. Oregon Short
Line, Shasta route and Pacific coast
lines.
President Paul Morton reports that
the Equitable society's business has
fallen less than ten per cent. in the
United States and Canada during the
seven months ending August l. 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period OF last year.
+ President Garcia of ECUADOR has ap-
proved the formation of the following
ministry: Minister Of the interior.
Senor Gonzales Cordova; foreign af-
fairs. Senior Carlos R. Tobor; public
instruction, Senior Angel Espinoxa;
finance, asncr Juan T. Game; war and
marine, Col. Tomas Larre.
Alton B. Parker will succeed Profes-
cor Collins as chief counsel for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at
an annual salary of 100000. The Arm
is Collins & Sheehan, which has acted
for years In an advisory capacity to
the company, and will now be known
as Sheehan & Parker.
The Utah Construction Company has
been awarded contract for construct
ing about 900 miles OF the Western
Pacific railroad. The contract Of the
Utah company embraces all the heavy
grading and tunneling in the Sierra
Nevada mountains. The contractors
will commence operations as soon as
possible.
Edward j. Lewis, the defaulting real
estate broker Of Wheaton, Illinois, who
by duplicate mortgages swindled
widows and ether poor persons to the
extent OF 100000, was taken to the
Joliet penitentiary to serve long SEN
1 tence. Lewis secretly went before
Judge Bishop of Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than 10000 acres of land on
the Uinta reservation had been filed
upon as homesteads up to September
I'd by persons who drew lucky num-
bers in the recent drawing at Provo.
So far the names Of 555 persons enti-
tied to make filings have been called
at the land Office, and of these 3S1
have responded and fled on home