The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-15
CUBAN POLICY.
President Mckinley Has One Mapped Out and Will Soon Make It Public.
SENDING BUTTER TO LONDON
The Secretary of Agriculture Has Received Reports About Ills Experiment-In- formation to Be Given About
 Alaska,

Alaska,
 WASHINGTON, Sept l5.-"You can tell the people that the action of the administration upon the Cuban ques- tion will be satisfactory to every American" This was the message sent by President Mckinley to several of the strong men Of the admiuistra- tion who have recently gone from Washington to deliver their political addresses. These woras from the chief executive have convinced the followers of the administration that President Mckinley has a definite Cuban policy mapped out, and as the time draws nearer when it must of necessity develop itself the interest felt in the question becomes more keen. All the reports which have been re- ceived by the state department and by private parties in Washington during the last few weeks tell of the growing strength of the insurgents and of an increase in the horrors consequent upon the inhuman policy which Gen. Weyler has adopted of starving the non-combatants Before another month has passed, said a close friend of the president yesterday, "the ad- ministration will be heard from upon the Cuban question and you may be sure it will be in such a way as to satisfy Americans At the same time, no nation which looks upon the situa- tion honestly will, think, have any good ground for criticism" Con- sul-General Lee, in an interview with Secretary Sherman yesterday regard ing the situation in Cuba, is reported to have said: "The war will never be concluded by the present methods of Spain.'
 Shipment of Butter to England.
 WASHINGTON, Sept f5.-The secre- retary of agriculture has received com plete reports from the third expert mental shipment of butter to London by his department This consisted of lot of Minnesota creamery butter in 56-pound boxes and tubs. and lot of Massachusetts creamery butter in small tubs and family packages. The export was made in June. It costs 2M cents pound to carry the butter from central Minnesota to London by the single ton. with the best refri gerator accommodations all the way, except short transfers. This butter was all placed by the department agent in London in the hands of retail dealers They paid from 15 cents to 1919 cents per pound for it, the same butter be- Ing then worth 15 cents in New York. It was retailed to consumers at 24, 25 and 26 cents per pound, most of it at 26 cents. Six different dealers took the Minnesota butter at uniform price of is 1-5 cents per pound. It cost about 16 cents delivered to these London dealers. The Massachusetts butter was of about equal quality and although some of it sold to dealers at l91l cents. the small packages were not liked by the trade. This butter was worth 20 cents for local sale in the neighborhood where made. Thus as in other cases the western cream cry butter was sold at fair profit, over two cents per pound, while the New England creamery butter was sold in London at less than it would have brought at home.
 Government Book on Alaska.
 
 WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-The interior department has been receiving hun dreds of letters daily asking for infor- nation about Alaska. The best avail able documents on that country are the reports of the governors of the ter ritory, and so many of these have been sent out that the supply has been ex- hausted. As the demand for Alaskan literature still continues, Secretary Bliss appreciates the necessity of mak ing some provision for supply, and he will therefore have prepared doc 1ment on the territory for future dis tribution. This document will be in the form of answers to the questions which are most frequently propounded by those seeking information about the gold country. The work will probably be prepared by Sheldon Jack son. of the bureau of education, who is now in Alaska, and is the best-posted man on that country in the govern ment service.