The La Jara chronicle., 1906-10-05
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niac confnei in an asylum III New
York. The suit involves the pay
,nent Of $1,000 life insurance.
The army will shortly adopt new
bullet. which has a long, straight.
.apering point in place o. the rounded
| point of the bullet now in use.
President Roosevelt and family have
| returned to the White house after
having spent the summer at their
home at Oyster Bay.
Practically all the gold offered In
the London market Monday totalling
about s4.5O0.00O, was secured for the
United States.
Fort Morgan at the entrance to
Mobile harbor was seriously damaged
by the recent storm, the entire post
having been under water and every
building suffered injury. some of them
having been entirely destroyed.
Secretary Taft has issued procla-
nation declaring himself provisional
| governor of Cuba and cabled the war
| department to send $500 troops tu
Cuba at once. Orders have been is
sued and the troops will start from
! Newport News, Va, as soon as possi-
| BILE.
E. o. Bode, defaulting treasurer of
Falls City. Neb., has been found guilty
of embezzling $4,000.
Gen. Stoessel is being tried before
high military court for having sur
| rendered Port Arthur to the Japanese.
It is estimated that so per cent of
the yellow pine timber in Mississippi
has been ruined by the recent storm.
A French architect has been award
ed the first prize in competition for
designs for the Carnegie palace of
peace and has received from Queen
Wilhelmina an order for the construc-
ton of That building at The Hague.
Judge C. F. Irwin, of the district
court at Kingfisher, Ok. has ordered
the Rock Island railroad company TO
at once commence the erection of a
substantial bridge across the Cimar-
ron river where the recent accident
occurred and severely censured the
railroad management for maintaining
so flimsy a structure.
Orders have been issued by the
navy department for the Glacier to
stop at Joppa while en- route from
the Philippines in ordcr to allow the
crew to visit the Holy Land. This
is considered an unusual privilege.
The strike of the boilermakers, ma
chinists and blacksmiths of the Wa
bash railroad has been ended by the
company granting an increase in
wages.
A monument to Zebulon Pike. the
discoverer of the peak which bears
his name, was unveiled recently at
Colorado Springs with fitting cere-
mony.
A general order has been promu1-
gated by the war department pronibit-
ing the soliciting OF pension or other
| claims against the government on
military reservations or at military
posts.
The government is experiencing
great difficulty in securing horses
, and mules for the army. Cavalry
horses are now quoted at S140 and
mules at $3.50 per head
Fifty representatives of lumber
companies of Missouri, Texas, Ala
bama, Louisiana and Mississippi re-
Gently met in ST. Louis and formed
an association. A capital Of several
million dollars was represented.
Three persons were killed and 81
injured in the wreck of a Wabash
fast passenger train at Catlin, Ill.
The train ran into an open switch
and all the passenger cars but one
At the meeting of the Missouri State
Bar Association, the committee OF leg
islation recommended an amendment
to the constitution permitting courts
. send to Jail divorced husbands who
refuse to pay alimony to their wives
when ordered to do so by the court
In the federaI court at Wichita,
Kan, the Boyce Cattle company
pleaded guilty to fencing government
land and was fined $3.50 by Judge
Pollock.
Kansas farmers are now asking
for help to husk the largest corn crop
in the history of the state.
The Cuban congress in special ses-
sion failed to act on the designations
of President Palma 1nd his cabinet
because of inability to secure a quo
rum, thus allowing the government of
the republic to. die by default. The
United States marines were immedi-
ately landed at Havana to protect the
treasury.
A salute of II guns in honor of
Brig. Gen. Zebulon Pike was recently
fired from the summit of Pixies Peak
in honor of the discoverer. A bronze
tablet commemorating the event was
also unveiled.