The Ordway new era., 1905-06-16
CONDENSED IELEeRAms

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Tho st. Petersburg Englnee, 20 the
sociation has voted pe,o,o1 tho
wife and mother OF ivan h .,,,s
assassin OF Grand Duke sers'u''
The British ship Afghnnis.an,, ,,,s,nn
Hamburg for San Diego. had co'iS, he
with the British man-of'waf 49,. a.,
former sinking with tweh'S''h's'
her crew. 20
Rorsa, banker, who declines W
ar,,I, his name 10 be disclosed ms
,tvan s95. 900 TO Emporia college,
Srosbvterian institution at Empo'i"'
Kansas.
cotton crop bulletin Issued py IN.
nanortment of Agriculture shows tna'
80 acreage of the entire belt mas uo'
creased ia per cent The average
condition is given as 7I.2.
Toxic dispatch says that me Nus @
si,n cruiser Admiral Nahkimon, Mo-
nomach and Dmitri Donskoi havihB
sunk I'm comparatiycly shallow waec''
II is possible TO raise them.
Hoke Smith. secretary OF the Interior
rpder President Cleveland and nj ohe
time editor of the Atlanta Consutu'
lion. has announced himself as can
didnto for governor of Georgia.
The TransmlssissIppi CommetSln' Da
/ Congress will meet at Portland, or
Gon, August 10th, and the Nationa' ,na
/ Irrigation Congress VIII convene ~ '"'
same place August 2lst
| Governor Bell of Vermont has
| granted second rcprloYe TO Mfs'
| MARY NJ. Rogers. who is under sen
| tcnce OF death for the murder oi her
husband. II extends TO June 2dd.
The cruiser Colorado, which had
/ hecu in Boston haTbor fOr several DAYS
and has Just sailed for Poyincetown tor
her final acceptance trial, has lost .VV
men by dcsertion. Unpopularity oil OIL
dcers is the cause.
Brig. Gen. George II. Davis has been
reappolutcd Judge advocate general OF
t..c army for n term Of four years from
MAY g3d last. General Davis was hrst
appointed to that office by President
Mckinley in May. 1901.
The President has established for
est reserve In southern Colorado to be
known rs the San Juan reserve and
10 contain about 100000 acres. The
Payctte reserve Of about the same Size
has been established In Idaho.
The Mexican Light and Power Com
rany. a Canadian concern, has pur-
chasCl all the light and power plants
in the City of Mexico. The total eS'
pcndI;ures Of the company when work
IS completed Will be Si0,00O,0O0.
The Pennsylvania railroad will
shortly establish the fastest long
distance train in the world. II will bo
n new limited between New York and
Chicago, and will make the run in
each direction In eighteen hours.
Tso last viii of the late J. Montgom'
cry Sears. Boston's largest taxpayer,
which dlsposes OF an estate OF about
s25.O0O,OOO, has disappeared. Mr..
Sears attorney turned the document
over to him. it is said. several months
ago.
The National Club Of Budapest.
Hungary. has decided to erect here n
statue in honor OF Washington. as eyi.
dence OF it's appreciation Cf the action
Of the citizens OF Cleveland. Ohio. in
erecting a statue in honor of Kossuth
in that city.
Secretary Taft has denied the appll.
cation OF the state OF Missouri TO take
possession OF the Merchants bridge
across the Mississippi river at St
Louis on the ground that there has
been no violation of conditions OF the
charter.
The Kansas Board OF Railroad Com
missloners issued an order to-day re-
auiring the Union Pacific railroad to
-educe its rates on grain from Chap
man to Kansas City. The order de-
clares that the Union Pacific has been
guilty of discrimination in grain rates.
The commissioner OF the General
Land Office has issued instructions to
registers and receivers of land Offices
throughout the country directing that
in the future that no one person shall
be permitted to acquire more than 800
acres of non-mineral public land under
existing laws.
Negotiations are being completed
for the erection OF n So 900, 600 hotel
in Herald. Square. New York City, be.
tween Thirty-second and Thlrty.third
streets and Broadway. Sixteen stories
high. 1t will have a capacity of coo
rooms and in general appointments
will rival the most elaborate hotels In
the city.
great storm which has swept over
Pinetown. the center of the tea and
sugar plantations Of Natal. South AZ.
rica, caused the reservoir to over.
now. resulting in the drowning OF
many Hindoo laborers. The entire
loss OF life estimated at 500 Hindoo
laborers and so Europeans.
New incororations in the eastern
states in May. together with increases
In capital. show the largest totals
since 1903. Those involving 81 900. 600
or more aggregate s2i9.25O.O0O. This
Is the heaviest monthly total since
May, 1908. when II stood at s307 GGG :.
600. The April figures were slsO.l11..
900.
The Reclamation Bureau recentIv
gave out the statement that the
formal contract with Samuel r. II.
robinson for the construction of the
nrst part OF the work on the Belle
Fourche irrigation project had been