The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-08-22
THE WEST.

THE second annual session Of the musi-
| cal association Of the north and west closed
with . grand concert in the pavilion, at Clear
Lake, Iowa, on the 18th.
No clue as yet to the Kansas City, st.
Joe & Council Bluffs train robbers.
The yellow fever is spreading in the
South, and moving up the Mississippi River. 1t
| is on the increase at New Orleans
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company was
held at Philadelphia on the 18th. The annual
report states that A miles are operated Gross
earnings for the year ending May 3lst, 1873,
81, 33l $40; working expenses, 81 las ,439 In
crease Of gross earnings AS compared with the
previous year, $21S, s4s.
THE Chinese at San Francisco deny that
any of their people are going to Chiccgo on con-
tract to work for the boot and shoe mnnufactu-
rers.
The Oregon Indian war is over. The
last Of the hOstiles, with their Medicine man"
have surrendered.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of
Chicago held a meeting ON Monday afternoon
and considered proposition OF the Chinese six
companies OF California to furnish them 900
Cinnamon. half skilled and half green work
men, at as cents per day, for three years. in
place Of the 500 strikers. The plan was favora-
bly, regarded.
THE Railroad Gd-ette states that the
brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers has re-
ported few explosions for the past two or three
months, and has recently organized two new
divisions, one ut Los Angeles, Cal, and the other
at Winona, MINI.
In Iowa, the best wheat only averages
13 bushels per acre.
A CALIFORNIA correspondent writes:
We have the prospect Of harvesting the largest
crop Of grapes ever grown in California and are
making preparations to cure 1000 tons Of the
grapes into raisins.
The English sparrow has reached Colo
RADIO 1t is as great nuisance as the Chinese.
QUIET reigned in East st. Louis this
week. and the prospects that nothing will
be done hereafter outside OF purely legal pro-
ceedings.
JAY COOKE says he still has faith in the
Northern Pacific.
GEORGE S. WINsLOw, formerly Super
intendent Of the Southeastern Railway and re-
Gently Assistant superintendent Of the Burling-
ton Cedar Rapids Railroad was killed on the
latter road a few days since.
The traffic earnings Of the Detroit &
Milwaukee Railroad for the week ending Aug. :
we're $26, 1929, being an increase over those
Of the corresponding week last year OF ST.
232.33.
A PRIVATE letter from L. S. Kelly, one
of Gen. Miles's scouts dated at Priors Gap in
the Big Horn Mountains, July 49, mentions that
the gold prospectors there, without yet having
struck q lead. are prospecting 10 to 20 cents Of
coarse gold 70 the pan.
The Globe Democrats Mt. Vernon, ILL.,,
special says the crowd at the Soldiers Reunion
WAS very great. Gems. Sherman, Logan Shields,
and other prominent officers were present.
HOWARD. WHITE. CRowELL & Co., pub
fishers the Daily Commercial Bulletin, Chicago.
have issued an estimate Of the spring wheat
crop Of the Northwest. Returns have been re-
ceiVed from 26l counties in Iowa, Illinois, Min
nesota. Wisconsin. Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri
and Dakota. The aggregate acreage in the coun-
tics reported is 6,33I .OOO against 1868, 900
last year. The estimated acreage for these
States on the basis of these returns is 1886 900
against 7.l5s,OOO last year. The aggregate
yield is estimated at l2l ,665 900 bushels,
against l27 .423. 900 bushels last year.
MRS. b. J. SWEET. wife Of the late B. J.
Sweet Pension Agent at Chicago, was killed by
locomotive on the Northwestern railroad on
the llth inst.