The Dolores star., 1905-09-22
CONDENSED TELEeRAMs

The Western Pacific railway has In
ereased Its capital stock from 0.000.-
NO 70 $4,000, 900.
Canton. Ohio. has been chosen to b
the next years meeting place Of the
National Letter Carriers' Association
Henry White, the American ambas-
sador at Rome. Contributed 500 TO the
fund for the relief oe the earthquake
sufferers.
n. Kuiikovsky. who on July 18th last
assassinated Maj. Gen. Count Shuva-
Ion at Moscow. has been sentenced TO
imprisonment for lilo.
Charles +. Pnster. charging District
Attorney McGovern and other onicials
with conspiracy. has begun suit at NIL
waukee for 100000 damages.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has cele-
brated her sixty y-seventh birthday. A
reception attended by natives was held
at her home In Honolulu on the 12th
inst.
Timely rams in the Rajputana and
other droughtstricken districts OF In
dia are relieving to some extent the
failure Of the crops and possible fam
inc.
Miss Martha Weeks Of Washington.
d. c., aged forty, who was seriously
scalded by falling into hot water pool
in the Yellowstone park, died Of her in
1uries.
II is expected that Commander Eva
Booth will make tour OF the feud dis
trict Of Kentucky in company with the
other salvation army officials next
spring.
The National Postoffice Clerks con-
vention, at its meeting at Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, defeated the organization OF
the proposed mutual benefit associa-
tion.
A thanksgiving service commemora-
tive of the conclusion of peace was cell
ebrated at Peterhof in the presence OF
Emperor Nicholas and the state dignt-
taries.
The aggregate assessed value OF all
property In the state Of New York Is
S7,73S, ,165, GAO, of which $7.051. .455. .025
is real estate and $75S.SsS,605 personal
property.
DR.. David e. Salmon, chief Of the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry Of the Agricul-
tural Department, has rendered his res
ignation and 1t has been accepted to
take effect October 1st.
The Union Pacific shops at Omaha
will be enlarged at a cost of 100000.
Among the additions will be q locomo-
tive construction building costing
about half million.
At Cedar Rapids. Iowa. the national
convention Of the postofiice clerks split
a. e. IL. tAu
fifty-fve branches, including Tacoma,
Washington, withdrew from the hall,
some snatching on their badges and
trampling them under foot as they left.
The ptandard OIL Company at Pitts
burg on the 18th inst. advanced the
price of all grades of crude oil. Penn
sylvania oil was raised cents and the
other grades were advanced cents.
The price of Western oil 1t Independ-
ence, Kansas, was at the same time
raised in amounts varying from to
cents a barrel. e
The total receipts for the Britt-Nel.
son fight at San Francisco were $48.'
311. That amount was divided as fol.
lows: Nelson, $18.S41.29; Britt. $12.-
560.S6; management. $16,90S.S2. Added
to the winners share is $1,000 he got
for his interest in the moving pictures.
which brings Nelson's profits up to
$23,841.29.
Exhaustive experiments with the use
of oil as q fuel on battleships have
proved SO satisfactory that the British
admiralty has ordered the erection
Of . great oil storing depot at Ply
mouth, with jetties at which tank
steamers can moor. 1t is understood
that stores Of oil will be established
at most of the home ports.
The Esch- Townsend railroad bill will
be introduced at the next session OF
Congress practically in the same form
that 1t passed the House last session
This was determined on at confer
ence between Congressman Townsend
of Michigan and Congressman Esch Of
Lacrosse, Wisconsin. who fathered
the bill.
Moritz Thomson, president Of the
Centennial Mid Company at Seattle
estimates that California will use 6,
OO0,00 bushels of Washington whea1
for approximately 100000 bushels
this year. He also states that orders
J have been received from the United
I, Kingdom. The present harvest II
Washington is estimated at $4,000, ,00t
bushels.
A convention of 1000 butchers from
all parts Of Germany met at Berlin ant
adopted resolutions declaring that {
great and Increasing scarcity of liv,
animals casts in the German empire
and petitioning the imperial govern
ment to speedily abolish the meat fam
inc by opening the frontiers for the ad
mission Of animals from other coun
/ tries.
Following is the summary Of the cot
ton crop of 1905. as reported by the sta
tistical committee of the Southern Cot
ton Growers Association: Production
S,5SS,133 bales; percentage of condi
/ tion as compared with last year, 1913
as compared with the governments es
innate Of 72.1. The yield is regarde,
/ as eyceedingly small aa from ten I,