Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
Kansas Farmers Paying
Off Mortgages.
PATRIOTIC SONS OF VETERANS
Have Refused to Expunge the Word
white" in Their Consti-
tution-Ete.

GQGlOll-LLC.
The fat has gone forth that tive-cent
shaves in New York must go.
Chicago is about to erect an apartment
house which will contain 707 rooms.
The Texas Trunk railroad has been
turned over to the Southern Pacific.
The Wilmington (Del.) $250,O0O post
office will probably be built of cut gran
tie.
Baltimore is to have tin-plate factory
in operation in the course of three
months.
Spreckels says he is padding his own
canoe, and has not nor will he join the
sugar trust.
The officials of the Auburn On. W
prison have set the convicts at work
making pearl buttons.
The sanitary inspectors in Brooklyn
say that leprosy does not exist among
the Chinese residents there.
An effort to combine the various com
mercial organizations of the Kansas
Farmers Alliance has failed.
| Eight hundred thousand acres of land
in Eastern Oklahoma recently coded by
Indians will soon be open to settlement.
The relief fund for the families of
those who persisted in the Park place
disaster at New York has reached $4,000.
1t is said that there are more salmon
in the Merrimac river now than there
has been at any time during the last
forty years.
During the months of May, June and
July of this year 81 ,450, 900 Kansas farm
mortgages have been paid off. This is
very good sign.
The annual report Of the ST. Paul road
shows that after paying a per cent. div
idend on preferred stock there is a sur
plus of 5000, 1853.
Petroleum, which actually flows up
unaided through the rocks, has been dis
covered at Crows Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
A special from Washington to the New
York Erening Post says it is believed
that Ex-Governor Cheney will be Secre-
tary Proctor's successor.
During the past few weeks the exports
of wheat have averaged 100000 bush
els weekly, an increase of nearly three
quarters over this time last year.
In the 100000 letters that reached
the dead-letter office last year there was
money amounting to $28, 612 and checks
and notes OF the value of $l,47l,8 7l.
Andrew Senscal, Superintendent of the
| Canadian Dominion printing bureau,
has been dismissed. He was implicated
in the scandal which is being investi-
gated.
Work on the government ietties for
the deepening of Galveston harbor nm
der the $6, 100000 appropriation bv the
! last Congress is now beginning apparent7
| ly in earnest.
Two-thirds Of the applicants for adj
mission to West Point and Annapolis
according to DR.. Cheeseman of Chicago
are rejected because of the cigarette habit
and its results.
The emigration from Germany to
| America during the first five months Of
the present year amounted to 55 ,567, or
nearly 900 more than the largest total
during any five months of the last five
years.
The bureau of American Republics is
informed that the Brazilian Minister
of Finance has ordered the collection
of all import duties in gold and has for
hidden the sale of gold at the custom
houses.
1t is great pleasure to learn that
there are to be no expensive side shows
at the Worlds Fair. The directory has
decided that the entrance fee shall en-
title the visitor to see everything within
the inclosure.
William E. Bear, the English statisti-
clan, writes to BradstreePS that later in
formation leads him to mark up the
European deficiency of wheat from 2Sl,-
100000 bushels (his first fgures) to 800
900 bushels.
The Patriotic Sons of Veterans in ses-
sion at Philadelphia refused to expunge
the word "white - in their constitution
where 1t refers to those entitled to mem
bershlp. Lebanon, Pa, has been chosen
as the next place of meeting.
EX-Assistant Cashier Lawrence of the
defunct Keystone Bank at PHILADELPHIA
has made Confession of the manner in
which the books of the concern were
doctored. 1t shows system of duplic-
ity and thievery almost unparalleled.
James E. Lyon has brought suit against
Senator William NJ. Stewart of Nevada
for 81 900, 900 damages. The suit grows
out of complications over mining deals
among the properties concerned being
the Emma mine of Utah. The Senator
charges Lyon with blackmail.
Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss has presented
to the Board of Trustees of the Yale
preparatory school, of which she is the
founder, the sum of 1926. 900 in cash. OF
this sum $50, 900 is to be expended upon
the buildings and 100000 used in the
endowment fund for professorships, etc.
j. j. Coyle of New York, who served
in the British army in Egypt, saws from
information he received from three
French nuns and from priests he is sat
lsfied General Gordon is still alive and
held as prisoner, and he is determined
to find out whether the report is true or
not by entering Khartoum disguised as
a native.
A dispatch from San Francisco re-
ceived at Washington, D. c., says that
many sailors OF the United States steamer
Pensacola are deserving, because thew
tear the vessel is not seaworthy and a
trip to China would be perilous The
Navy Department says that the Pensa-
cola will not so to China, but only to
! Honolulu.
Postmaster-G General Wanamaker has
sent a personally-signed letter to the
postmaster at each county-seat through
out the United States, asking him for
the public good at his own expense to
make personal visit to each postotfice
IN his county and make a detailed report
upon its condition, the needs of the
service, etc.
A business building $50 feet high is
proDosed for Broadway, New York. The