CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
itoings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Events
Presented In Condensed F orm
fo r O u r Busy Readers.
Special census agents report no ir­
regularities whatever in San Francisco
returns.
The steamer Regulus was wrecked
during a storm off the Newfoundland
roast and her crew o f 19 perished.
Officials o f
Tacoma have been
obliged to order recall petition blanks
printed, to be used against themselves.
A red hot rivet falling onto a tem­
porary flooring started a Are in one o f
Portland’s new steel frame skyscrap­
ers.
Losses from recent forest fires in
Montana and Idaho are estimated at
$16,000,000.
The burned areas will
be sold.
H u lk B u rie d fo r C e n tu rie s U n co ve red
on C anal.
Washington, D. C.— The hull o f an
old vessel which has every appearance
o f having been buried in the sand sev­
eral centuries has been unearthed by
workmen on the Panama canal nc
Nombre de Dios. A report o f the diS'
covery has been made to the Washing­
ton office o f the canal commission. The
hulk was uncovered by a steam suction
dredge working in the sand deposits,
The wreck was lying in the middle
o f the sand zone 300 feet from the
beach line, and at from 18 to 20 feet
below the surface o f the ground. The
dredge unearthed the old hulk for the
entire length of about 60 feet, and has
now worked past it.
The wood of
which the ship was built resembles
oak and is put together with wooden
pins. During the time the dredge has
been operating in the vicinitv o f the
wreck, its suction pipe has drawn in
several hundred pounds o f iron, some
pieces weighing as much as 40 pounds,
The cutter o f the dredge also en­
countered a great many pieces of hard
mortar, severing, Instead o f breaking,
the pieces when it came in direct con­
tact with them. The mortar is practi­
cally the same as that^seen in the ruins
o f buildings on the isthmus constructed
by the early Spanish.
A storm and tidal wave swept an is­
land in the Mediterranean, causing
M IL L W O R K E R S T R O N G E S T .
great property damage and the loss of
several lives.
G irl o f 19 S m a s h e s W o r ld ’s R e co rd
United States Senator Shively, o f
in S p o r t W ith Ease.
Indiana, will suffer the amputation of
Boston— Many acquaintances o f Mis9
a toe to prevent infection from blood Margaret A. Graham, employed as a
poisoning from a corn.
“ reeler” in one o f the mills at Ludlow,
In view o f the steadily decreasing
deficit in postal revenue, the postmas
ter general predicts one-cent letter
postage in the near future.
Surveyors are running a line prepar­
atory to Duilding a barbed wire fence
between Texas and Mexico, to prevent
cattle from crossing into each others’
terri lory.
The estate o f Stanley Ketchel, late
champion middle weight pugilist, who
was murdered by a farm hand in Mis­
souri, is valued at $18,000. He won
over $100,000 in the prize ring.
On the third day of the internation­
al aviation meet at New York, J.
Armstrong Drexel set a new American
altitude mark by reaching a height of
7,105 feet. He then landed safely in
the center o f the field,
Eggs retail at 5 cents apiece in Ta­
coma.
believe she is the strongest woman in
the country. Although but 19 years
o f age, she stands six feet 3% inches
in her stockings, weighs 189 pounds,
and carries no superfluous flesh.
Re­
cently she threw a baseball 262 feet 6
inches, and ran 100 yards in 11}^
seconds, wearing skirts.
Miss Graham has smashed all world’s
records in skating for women from one
mile to 10, her world’ s record time for
a half mile in this sport being 40 sec­
onds, and one o f her aquatic feats is a
100-foot swim in 23 seconds.
All her records are officially timed
feats and the apparent ease with which
she has won different record events has
caused coaches and experts to wonder
what the limit o f prowess o f this
giantess may be when once put to her
utmost strength test.
B A L L O O N IS T S A R E L O S T .
Walter Wellman says he will again R e lie f P artie s H u rr y in g to C anad ian
attempt to cross the Atlantic in an
W ild s in S e a rc h .
airship.
New York, Oct. 24.— No word has
One man was killed and two others yet been received by officers o f the
injured in the first football game under Aero Club o f America as to the where­
new rules at St. Louis.
abouts o f the balloon America II,
Andrew Carnegie has returned from carrying Alan R. Hawley, pilot, and
Europe and appeared very feeble upon Augustus Post, aide, and anxiety for
the safety o f the two aeronauts, both
landing from the steamer.
o f them prominent Aero club members,
TA* New Mexico constitutional con­ is increasing.
vention refuses to support the initia­
I f the men have landed safely it is
tive and referendum feature.
believed they are cast away so far in
Graham-White, in a Farman biplane, the Canadian wilderness that their re­
made over 63 miles in two hours in a turn to civilization will be a matter o f
great difficulty.
drizzling rain and a 27-mile wind.
William Hawley, brother o f Alan R.
Dredges on the Panama canal have Hawley, accompanied by F. Stoddard,
uncovered an ancient galleon buried in
friend o f the aeronaut, left New
2 0 feet o f sand 300 feet from the beach York tonight for Ottawa.
line.
Charles Heitman, secretary o f the
Federal officers in Chicago seized Aero club, said today that not even one
$300,000 in counterfeit Nicaraguan o f the bulletins with which all contes­
bank bills, and also captured three of tants of the SL Louis race were sup­
the counterfeiters.
plied and which were to be dropped at
intervals o f two hours to furnish news
An attempt was made to assassiqato
of the movements o f the balloon, has
Major General Pino Guerra, command­
been received in New York from the
er o f the Cuban army, by a member of
America II. Several o f these bulletins
the Cuban secret police.
dropped by each o f the other contest­
The imperial senate o f China, before ants in the race were picked up and
it had been in existence three weeks, mailed to the Aero club.
voted to memorialize the throne for the
establishment o f a general parliament.
Japs to Spend $ 4 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
A dynamite bomb with lighted fuse
attached was hurled from a suburban
train into a Chicago residence, but the
lady o f the house seized it, pinched off
the fuse and threw the bomb into the
street.
A slow moving freight train on the
Southern Pacific near San Jose, Cal.,
ran into a pile o f boulders which had
been placed on the track with the evi­
dent intention o f wrecking a train.
Had a passenger train struck the ob­
struction a serious wreck would have
resulted.
MINERS DESERT
ALASKA CAMP
D R E D G E F IN D S G A L L E O N .
Tokio— Count Katsura, the premier
and minister o f finance, speaking at a
dinner o f the associated
clearing
houses, outlined the
next
budget
briefly, and said that the government
would faithfully adhere to the policies
already followed.
The only new feature in the next
budget will be an appropriation for
naval increase, amounting to $40,000,-
000, payable in six years.
This, the
finance minister said, has been necessi­
tated by the sheer requirement o f
maintaining peace.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, who has
G re e k C abinet Re sign s.
been ill all summer, is reported to be
Athens— The cabinet formed only a
improving.
few days ago by Deputy Venixiles has
Thirteen are known to have been resigned, due to the fact that on every
killed in the recent Gulf storm, and attempt to get a vote o f confidence in
some localities have not yet been heard the national assembly, a majority of
the members absented themselves.
from.
King George, however, has refused to
The Swiss balloon landed at Villa accept the resignation and 20,000 citi-
Marie, Quebec, 1,100 miles from the xens held a demonstration in the streets
starting point in the international bal­ in support o f Venixiles.
loon race.
Kaiser Honors Caruso.
The National Y .’ M. C. A. has raised
Berlin
<— The kaiser’s customary
one million dollars with which to ex­
tend its work in foreign countries. birthday surprise to the kaiserine took
the form o f a concert at the palace at
John D. Rockefeller gave $460,000.
Potsdam, at which Geraldine Farrar
The new White Star line steamship and Enrico Caruso were the perform­
Olympia was launched at Belfast, Ire­ ers. Their majesties afterwards chat­
land. She is the largest vessel afloat, ted with the singers.
The kaiser be­
m e s i ring 882 H feet in length and »4 stowed on Caruso the title o f Koenig-
I in width.
Houses and Lots in Nome Sell
at $50 Each.
M a ch in e ry S e lls fo r S o n g — N e w Fields
Lu re .M in e rs and T h o u s a n d s
Will T a k e Trail.
Nome, Alaska— Nome would be
wonderful surprise, not only to the
stranger, but to the thousands of
miners who were here in this city’ s
palmy days.
A few years ago Nome
was a wide awake and bustling camp.
Every one was talking o f his good
claims and what he expected to do
the near future in the way o f taking
out fortunes, and then going back to
the States.
A stranger on landing in Nome to­
day would say “ Where are all the peo­
ple and why are these hundreds of
houses em pty?” Now it looks as if
great plague had struck Nome, and all
o f the people had fled in terror, leav­
ing everything behind.
Four-fifths of
all the houses and business blocks are
for rent or for sale.
Good four-room
houses, furnished, can be bought,
house, lot and all, for from $50ato $150,
Large boilers and heavy machinery,
are for sale at scrap-iron
prices,
Wreck, ruin and poverty meet the eye
of the stranger.
Two-thirds o f the
people here are trying to get a “ home-
stake” to get out on the last boats.
The cause of this is that the day o f the
pick and shovel is gone in Nome. The
rich placers have been worked out, but
the low-grade ground is now coming to
tne front, where large capital only can
handle it wih dredges and hydraulic
machinery on a large scale.
During the summer three strikes
were made. One is the Squirrel river,
a tributary to he Kobuck river, 800
miles north by sea, but from Nome
overland it is but 350 miles by winter
trail. Now there are about 70 men
prospecting there. They say they have
found coarse gold, nothing smaller
than nuggets weighing about 25 cents
each, but so far not in large deposits,
but just about rich enough to pay
wages this winter.
Winter will de­
velop the country, and when spring
comes miners and residents here will
know whether it will be a good camp.
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M A D R IZ IS C O U N T E R F E IT E R .
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M o n e y to S t a r t Revolution.
Chicago— H. Nathan Secrest, a na-
tivesof Indiana, owner o f a Nicaragua
rubber plantation and a “ revolutionist
and a soldier o f fortune” who was
captured here, with George B. W il­
liams and Richard J. Trumbull, print­
ers and engravers, together with $300,-
000 bogus Nicaraguan money, has un­
folded a new opera bouffe plot.
He said that when Madriz decided to
abdicate in favor o f Estrada, he and
his “ cabinet” had the foresight to
raid the treasury o f $15,000,000. The
five peso notes were quickly disposed
o f along the coast by the fleeing pat­
riots, $2,000,000 being realized. Ma­
driz, General Toledo and 40 other gen­
erals and dignitaries then hastened to
Guatemala, which was safe territory,
and proceeded to make merry with the
$2,000,000. In a month or so, wine
suppers and other festivities had cut
deeply into the exchequer and the de­
posed dignitaries began casting about
for means o f replenishing the funds.
Secrest, during his 11 years in Ni­
caragua, had become a close friend of
Madriz, who sent for him. They held
a secret conference in Guatemala and
it was decided to come to the United
States and have printed a million or
more 5-peso notes and spread them in
Nicaragua for a two-fold purpose— the
first being to furnish the conspirators
with funds and the second to embar­
rass the Estrada government, which
would be forced to redeem the bogus
notes or face another revolution.
Realty D e a le r in T o ils.
Seattle— With the arrest o f D. M.
Green, a real estate dealer, with offices
on Madison street, and who is charged
by Andrew Wold, a miner, with swind­
ling him o f $200, the police believe
they have the ringleader o f an organ­
ized band o f real estate “ sharks”
who have been conducting illegal sales
in Seattle for two years.
Green is said to have been arrsted
on a similar charge in Los Angeles
and he may be charged with using
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
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H eavy S h o c k s Recorded.
T San Joae, Cal.— Heavy earthquakes,
the centers o f which were thousands of
miles away in the southwest, were re­
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