The Lamar register., 1905-09-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


cided to maintain the price of steel
rails to its customers for 1906 at SIS
ton. L
Great interest is being taken al Phil
adelphia over the correction of the reg
istration list 1t is stated that 10000
bogus names will be stricken OFF the
rolls.
Frank c.. Graves, formerly financial
writer on a New Yor!, newspaper, has
just paid $4,000 for a seat on the
New York stock exchange. This is
the highest price ever paid
The population OF Massachusetts Is
2.99S.95S, an increase of 49S,775 over
1855. when the last official census was
taken. Doston'3 population is 59359S,
an increase of 3G,6.S in ten years.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
of knighthood Of the Royal Order of
Vasa upon d. Lowenstein of Memphis.
Tennessee. Mr.. Lowenstein has beer
constant visitor to Sweden for twelve
years.
The coinnSe executed Mt the mints
of the United States during August
was: Gold. S9,O20000: silver, $193,.
900; Panama half balboas, 100000
pieces; Philippine pesos, 100000
pieces.
The War Department has approved
the plans for the building OF new ar
tillery post at the Preside near San
Francisco, and $750.O00 VIII be ex
pended for this purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied TO the note OF
the six embassies, declining to accep.
the scheme proposed by them for the
financial control of Macedonia. The
powers will insist on the acceptance oil
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 Niborg,
on July 22d last.
Total industrial dividends payable in
September will rise above S10.450 900,
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal of Commerce. This is an in.
crease of more than s3,500,00O over
September year ago.
More Americans have visited the
Yellowstone National Parl. this sum.
mer than ever before. 1t Is estimated
that 10000 persons have been in the
park since the season opened. The
record last year was $4,000.
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 a 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-five chair
cars. to cost about $750.000. 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 societys business has
fallen less than ten per cent. in the
United States and Canada during the
seven months ending August /. 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
Edward J. Lewis. the defaulting rea!
estate broker of Wheaton, Illinois. who
by duplicate mortgages swindled
widows and ether poor persons to the
Joliet penitentiary to serve a long SEN
tence. Lewis secretly went before
Judge Bishop Of Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than seS0O acres OF land or
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 filed on home
steads.
The Carnegie Steel Company. which
is sub-company of the United States
Steel corporation. has ordered in every
blast furnace capable of being ope-
rated. The demand for pig iron is SO
great that the steel corporation wants
to get into operation its total capacity.
1t is not improbable that the Carnegie
company will run 100 blast furnaces
for time.
The amalgamation of the lumber In
terests, intended principally to operate
in the redwood districts on the Pacific
coast, was effected at Detroit August
31st and the Pacific Lumber Company
was organized. with a capitalization Of
SlU,UOU,UUU. ATtlCleS OI luCOTDOTdllOu
will be filed under the laws of Maine.
The new company is an outgrowth Of
the Pacific company of New Jersey.
The new 1G,OO0-ton battleship Yer
mont, built for the United States gov
ernment by the Fore River Shipbuild
ing Company at Quincy. Massachu.
sets, was successfully launched Au
gust 31st The Vermont is one OF the
largest and most powerful of the
ships of war that has been constructed
for the navy. She has length of 45O
feet and extreme breadth of 76 1912
feet.
The directors of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society have decided to
abolish the $25.000 pension now en-
joyed by Mrs. Harry B. Hyde. widow of
the founder of the society; also to
abolish the prospective pension of s1s.
900 to Mrs. James w. Alexander. wife
of the former president. who recently
resigned, which she would have re
ceived in case she survived her hus
band.
AS a result of the investigation OF