, 1905-10-05
TOLD INV n FEW ORR
Leading Events of ire Big World Briefly Stated for ssss,
Big Horn County People.

to Mexico, if he wants that post.
Senator Depew was the gamer to the extent of 100000, in one of
Equitables syndicate stock operations.
Some clever thief managed to steal S360O0OOO worth of securities
from a Wall street brokerage firm.
Thirty Japanese fishermen were killed by the natives of Upika
which is situated on the Kamchatka peninsula.
Antonio Marianeina, the six-yearold son of a Brooklyn contractor
was kidnapped and is held for ransom in the sum of $4,000.
Because OF the prevalence Oft typhoid fever and diphtheria 1T the
naval academy in Annapolis, Md. That institution has been quarantined.
The Dupont Powder Company will, in the nea future, construct q
large powder mill in Colorado and will make Denver the distributing
point.
Secretary of the Treasury, Shaw, who has aspirations to occupy
the presidential chair is about to make a tour through the country to
fix up his fences.
At Baku Caucasia the natives broke out and burned and otherwise
destroyed large property interests in the shape of oil well derricks and
other oil we'll machinery.
A mountain called Putra Colombia, near the town of Ajelo, split in
two the other day and threatens to bury the town. All or the in
habitants of which have fled.
In a railroad accident which happened on Sep. ., let Phiadel-
phia, when the New York limited colided with local passenger train
five persons we're killed and twenty injured.
The Standard Oil company pays in dividends yearly the sum of s37-
100000 and it is said that the operation and maintenance expense
amounts to from $50,0oo,OOO to $75,000yOOo per annum.
Mrs. J. P. Cloudy of Marks street, Parkenburg, w. Va. became
mother of a healthy, well formed baby girl, weighing 24 pounds, latest
reports say that both mother and child are doing well.
Owing to the illness of Speaker Nixon of the New York assembly,
the legislative investigating committee now probing the affairs of the
New York Life insurance company, has been seriously delayed.
The BARRIERS of Bloomington, ILL.,, have announced their determine
ton o 10 serve Fiipinos in the future; this action is taken to prevent
the impending boycott threatened by the students of that place.
The good ship Chatham wa sunk in the channel, off Port Said with
81 tons of dynamite and blasting gelatine or boaro, and in order to
clear the way, it became necessary to blow her up, which was accoding-
ly done.
Jno. w. 1erkes will succeed Victor Il. Metcalf IS secretary of the
department of commerce and labor. Mr.. Metcalf retires because he is
a ar1aEce with the presidents CnlneSe SclusiO policy MT. \ rRe
is Kentuckian.
According to Mayor Louis A. seamon M. D. of New York, surgery
as pracuced by the japanese is far and away ahead of American meth
DDS and the college Of physicians and surgeons have asked the doctor to
show them.
M. White, the Russian ambassador, who was instrumental in bring
ing about the FussioJapanese treaty, arrived home in st. Petersburg
the 18th of September and was the recipient of the glad hand from
high Russian officials.
While George link and Phillip Schryard, both of Lacrosse, Kansas,
were engaged in fighting a duel, Mrs. link wife of the former rushed
between the duelists and as murdered by bullet from schryards gun.
The murderer was apprehended.
The business men of Buffalo contemplate holding a carnival in that
secy. Howard Mason, of the Buffalo chamber of commerce, has written
the Omaha gang to find out how its done.
Livestock in and about Laramie, Wyo, are dying in large numbers
o oase ass sst .hs " result 70 Of f' al inv &c irnla saon ON h 5s sbe aevel ope TO D n n
whole valley will, in all probability, be quarantined.
All but one of the board of directors of the Equitable insurance
society have failed to answer or otherwise plead, in the suit filed by the
Attorney General Mayer, of New York, for an accounting of the socie-
ties funds. The time for answer has been extended.
Thos. Lawson, of frenzied finance fame is one among Others who
were made defendants in a n action instituted by Messrs. Paine, Weber
K Ca. to restrain the circulation of some 10000 shares of copper range
stock which was to be held awaiting an advance in the market.
1t has developed in the course of the investigation now being on
Quoted by Mr.. Chas. Hughs that when j. Pierpont Morgan was short of
money he tapped the Equitable fund. The manager of that society,s
financial affairs seemed to be completely under his control.
BY what is know IS the "Yoakum & Hawley Coup" the Colorado
and Southern railroad will run its trains over the Santa Fe tracks from
Fort Worth to Ciburne and from Houston to Galveston, thus giving to
the Rocky mountain states, a more direct outlet to the gulf than any
The shades of Kosuth are lowering over the Austrian capitol. the
Independence party in Hungaria have made certain demands upon the
emperor-kiug in reference to army regulations, which that august per-
sonage has declined to grant. 1t is said that he is influenced by the
German government.
In order for a young lady from the normal department to secure a
situation IS a teacher in the public schools of Chicago she must enter
into n agreement with the school board OF that city, o tt marry for
a period of five years. This action is prompted because of the resigna-
ton in the past year OF 50 young women who were about to be married.
AT Salt Lake, Utah, the antt-Mormon party under the name of the
American party, has placed in nomination a complete municipal ticket
headed by EXMayor Ezra Thompson, who was mayor of the town some
years ago, having been elected on the republican ticket. In their plat.
form the American party declares that the Mormon hierarchy controls
both of the old parties in the state of Utah, and they propose to have
the issue Mormon, oil antiMormon, well defined.
Fred E. Carlton, a commissary steward in the New York navy
yard was found guilty of bigamy in the Kings county court on Sept. 18th.
He had four wives, all of whom are still alive and from none of whom he
had been divorced. He is also charged with larceny and will be tried
in the anne court for that offence before sentncei lis passed upon him for
the commission of the crime of which he has already been convicted.
A young who was a student at Harvard university as found
by the husband Of a certain New York woman in her bed room, and in
order to protect the honor of his paramour and deceive the husband he
pleaded guilty to house-breaking and was sentenced to serve a term in