The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-31

II u rep0fte0 thAt u b0ilAA0B q
thy Anur railroad. $50 miles l0aG. q
4 cost Of el50. .OOO. 900. Is being hurried
owing to Representatives Of Ruasioa
officials that there is danger Of q sec
ond war with Japan in consequence of
the struggle for control In Manchuria-
1t is proposed that the French chan
ber OF deputies shall vote by electricity
next year. A screen will be placed
near the secretary's table containing
the names Of the deputies. and against
each name will be ave spaces. marked
Present" Absent" YES" No."
Vote unrecorded."
The merger Of the Utah Copper
company and the Boston Consolidated
Copper company has been finally Of
fected. The consolidation. it is said, 10
without prejudice to the proposed alb
sorption of the Nevada Consolidated
company by the Utah company.
Admiral w. s. Schley (retifedD has
called upon Commander Peary to sub
nit the proofs that he reached the
North pole to the consistory of tho
University Of Copenhagen. Admiral
SChley boldly reiterates his belief that
DR.. Cook also reached the pole.
The finance committee of the United
States Steel corporation has voted to
offer the employees OF the corporation
the opportunity of subscribing to its
preferred stock At Sl25 q share. In ad-
dition q bonus Of 100000 in com
mon and preferred will shortly be d.
vided among the employees.
Robinson Watson. in q statement
telegraphed to New York from Mon
treal. reiterates that his brother. vii.
liam Watson. the English poet. now in
Havana. is insane. although the poets
wife. who is with him, is unaware Of
her husbands mental condition. Mrs.
Watson has cabled from Havana that
the statement Is a wicked attempt to
injure her husband.
The battleship Utah. the greatest
warship ever built in the United
States, was launched December 23rd
from the yard of the New York Ship
building Company at Camden. N. j
The vessel was christened by Mary
Alice Spry. daughter Of Governor Spry
Of Utah. who was present with hia
family. together with the members oi
Congress from Utah and represents
tives of the Utah Legislature.
In his opeAing address to the inter
national Zionist congress at Hamburg
David Wolffsohn Of Cologne. president
Of the executive committee, said that
Zionists must not believe that it Il
their duty to follow the Young Turks
without discrimination. They are
merely political party Of the Otto
man empire and 1t would be tactless
and unwise for the Zionists to mix in
Turkish political affairs by committing
their cause to any political party.
The American expedition arrived al
Kamjala, Uganda, December 21st
and was received by Sub-Commis
sioner F. A. Knowles. Colone
Roosevelt came by motor cal
from Entebbe and the others arrived
on the steamer. Before leaving En-
tebbe, Colonel Roosevelt and Kermi
Roosevelt had luncheon at the gov
eminent house and held public re
ception. In the afternoon they visited
the Mill Hill mission and later re
ceived King Daudi Chwa of Uganda.
A committee which was appointed
by the Brooklyn neighbors Of DR.. Cool
some months ago to raise funds fol
the erection of q monument to the
explorer, has decided to go on with it:
work, in spite of the cables from Co
penhagen. "Dr. Cook" according tt
one member of the committee, "as {
noble martyr. The rest Of the worlt
may take the word of those indoor
polar explorers over in Copenhagen
but his neighbors in old Bushwicl
know that DR.. Cook discovered thu
pole, because he told us SO himself.