The Meeker herald., 1898-11-12
rELEGRAPH;c sRsvITiEs.
Three more transports left San Fran
cisco for Manila last week.

cisco for Manila last week.
The Peruvian government will pay
the McCord award of $4,000.
Consul Hanna warns young men
without money not to 90 TO Porto hlco.
The manufacturers of galvanized
wire have increased the price OF their
products 81 per ton.
By a corner in ribs at Chicago, Ar
mour and Cudahy were squeezed ont OF
a good sum last week.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church will
invade the Philippines.
Negro miners are said to be intimidat-
ing the white residents Of Hanna,
Wyoming coal mining town.
Spain has been told by the American
commissioner that she must yield the
Philippines TO the United States.
Secretary Alger has mustered out
Generals Graham. Liscum. Whittier,
Baldwin, Egbert, Hul!ngs and Worth.
Two English companies have been
Incorporated in Wyoming to develop
properties in the Grand Encampment
district.
Mrs. Jessie Conway is under arrest
At Meetsetse. Wyoming. for the al
legged poisoning of her husband while
he was sick.
Miss Harriet Quillian of Walscnburg,
Colorado, has been appointed nurse at
the Usage Indian School, Oklahoma, at
$40O per annum.
Scrvian brigands seized a prominent
man and when his ransom was not
promptly paid hanged him to tree
not far from his home.
Los Angeles will entertain the next
annual convention of the National Edu-
cational Association II favorable rail-
road rates can be obtained.
Dr. Swallow. the Prohibition candi-
date for governor of Pennsylvania,
charges the Democratic state chairman
with having sold out to Senator Quay.
Leading society women Of New York
are forming n cooperative establish
ment to make their own tailor gowns.
The locked-out tailors will be employed.
Tile Civil Service League has ap-
pealed 10 the President not to withdraw
any places from the operations Of the
civil service law, as has been intimated
in the public press.
The secretary of the interior has or
dered patented to the state Of Wyom-
ing 16,629 acres of land in the Chey-
enne district on account Of the grant
to the State Agricultural College.
The Court of Cessation at Paris has
decided to grant a revision Of the Drey-
nd INC nr1
mentary inquiry. The court, however,
has declined to order the release of
Dreyfus.
Governor Pingree is determined to
carry his suit brought to compel the
Michigan Central railroad to sell him
thousand-mileage book for $50, to
the United States Supreme Court, IL
possible.
H. B. Henderson, state bank exam
liner of Wyoming, reports that the de-
posits Of all the banks in the state on
September 20, 1898, amounted to $3,-
923, 900. an increase Of $3J0,OOO since
July 14th.
The movement of troops south from
Camp Meade has begun. The Southern
camps will be rapidly prepared for the
vanians will not move until after cleo
ton, SO they may vote.
Receipts of gold at the Denver mint
the present month show a total value
of 81 800. .2O2.44. For the same month
last year the receipts We're $780,
556. 10, the increase for the present
month being SOFA, 3,G46.a
Friendly Chinese have warned Rev.
DIR. Gardner of San Francisco. inter.
prefer of the Chinese Bureau. who is
making an aggressive campaign
against the trade in slave girls. that his
life is In danger from highbinders.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
and corn cleared the Philadelphia Gus
tom house Saturday on steamers bound
to European ports. The shipments of
wheat and corn from Philadelphia
since January LIST have aggregated
over 25,OOO. 900 bushels.
The Union Pacific. Denver & Gulf
road is shipping to Grand Island, Ne
braska, ten carloads of sugar beets. to
be made into sugar. This is the larg-
est experiment made in the sugar beet
industry. and is watched eagerly by all
luteEeSltu III llle movement.
The request of the First Colorado in.
fantry to be returned from Manila to
the United States cannot be granted
by the War Department. 1t was stat
ed by War Department officer that
such requests had been frequent from
soldiers of volunteer organizations who
enlisted to fight, but did not enlist for
garrison duty.
Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay
Evans states that up to September
Both the war with Spain had caused
the loss of the lives of 2,9O6 American
soldiers and sailors. He further declar.
ed that the statistics of his office show
that the percentage of deaths in camps
from disease during last summer was
much less than during the civil war.
Baron Won Heyking, the German