The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-09-09

| A dispatch from Barcelona says
that Antonio Halatypujol. q notorious
revolutionist leader in the recent in
surrection, was shot in the presence
OF General Mora.
Hester Campbell. a famous Scotch
cook. who was employed for many
years in the family of former President
Roosevelt. died at Montclair, N. j., at
the age Of 96. She was particularly
noted for her recipe of Johnny cake"
and always accompanied the Roose-
velts on their trips.
Mayor Sweeney of Ell Paso. Texas.
was received Tuesday by President
Diaz at the Palace at Chepultepec.
The president. through Ambassador
Thompson. was rendered formal in
vitation by the people of Ell Paso 20
visit the city and meet President Taft
in October. and he accepted.
A survey of the Cunard line steamer
Lucania. which caught fire at her dock
in Liverpool Aug. IA. and was sunk in
order 10 quench the flames. shows the
damage to be so extensive that the Gu
nard company probably will decide not
TO repair the vessel. II is estimated it
will cost more than $500 900 to refit the
steamer
For two months the police in Nash
vile have been combating the ''odor-
less drunk" Men are carried into the
station house every day drunk with
something that leaves no odor on the
breath. When they are questioned as
TO what they have been drinking they
almost invariably say "beerette." but
''beerette' is not considered an intoxi-
cant. The ''odorless drunks" are usu-
ally without bottles in their pockets.
There were forty-one drunks on the 90
lice docket in one day.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva. successor TO
the late John Alexander Dowie as head
of the Dowies religious cult. is pris-
oner in the McHenry county jail at
Woodstock. Ill. The leader OF rhe
Dowieites was arrested at his home in
Zion City and sentenced to Jail In de-
fault OF payment OF a $4,000 Judgment
rendered against him by Judge Wright
in favor OF Philip Motherall. farmer
OF Montana. The judgment was OBJ
tained on a slander charge brought by
Motherall. Voliva declared he would
stay in jail the entire six months 3ro-
vided by law rather than pay the judg-
ment.
A strong earthquake was expert
enced here shortly after O'Clock
Monday morning. The people were
greatly alarmed. but no serious dam
age has been reported and no one was
injured. The administration buildings
OF both the government and the canal
commission here and at Ancon were
so severely shaken that the clerks
left their desks hurriedly for tho
street. They soon returned. however.
when II was seem that no damage had
been done and that the first shock
was not followed by second. The
quake was felt also at Aguadulce. II.
Cocle province. and at Pacora. in the
province OF Panama. points more than
100 miles apart.
The landing of hve great Trans
Atlantic liners at Castle Garden.
taxed the new customs organization
TO its limit and on the piers they
were working all one night eNamin-
ing the baggage of the 3.i5O cabin
passengers who had arrived during
the day Collector of the Port VIII
liam Loeb. accompanied by Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury James ID.
Reynolds. witnessed the operation of
his new customs regulations and tho
several hundred inspectors under his
watchful eye saw that a minimum of
foreign merchandise was smuggled
into the port. In addition to the 1924
.l.Ft h..
Washington. the Columbia landed sol
from Glasgow, the Cedric 1875, the
Cleveland S95. and the Touraine 305,
all cabin passengers. The passengers
were handled eXpeditiously and under
the eye OF the collector.