The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-08-23
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Arizona is harvesting banner crop
of alfalfa.
The Santa Fe now has it's own line
into Beaumont Texas.
| General Maxine Gomez declines to
be candidate fot president of Cuba.
Rural mail wagons are to carry
weather signals of the day, commencing
| soon.
| About 500 West Pointers are in
camp at the Pan-American exposition
at Buffalo.
An American syndicate is confident
of obtaining monopoly of the entire
Swiss coal Market.
The town of Chipley, Fla, has beeA
destroyed by incendiary fires, supposed
to have been set by negroes.
A ship load of resin has arrived at
st. Petersburg from Pensacola, Florida,
in spite of Russia's discriminating duty.
| Another case which is likely to result
|
prize ring at Lowell, Massachusetts.
| The seconds and referees are arrested.
A thousand girls of the shirt waist
makers union in New York have struck
for more pay. The union says that it
is the first of many wall<outs unless
wages are raised.
Coal miners of Kansas, Missouri. Ar
kansas and Indian Territory sent dele
gates to a meeting at Pittsburg Kas.,
and will demand that the operators
sign a union scale.
Four-fifths pf the town of Farsund,
Norway, on the North Sea, has been
destroyed by fire. The church, post
office, state bank and schools were gut
ted. About 200 people are homeless.
The Russian ministry furnished
special car for Count Tolstoi's trip to
Crimea. Tolstoi went there for the
benefit of his health. The Importance
Count Tolstoi is always antagonistic to
the government.
A delegation of fullblood Creeks Wis
tied the interior department to protest
against allotment. They were told
that their treaties and the action Of
Congress governed all that that the de-
partment had no authority to take any
action.
Two hundred wood workers of Den
yer struck because their walking dele
gate, who had been permitted to go
through the mills once a month to find
| out the number of non-union employees,
was prohibited from continuing the
practice.
| Jamaica has an enormous crop of
frnit and the cultivators of it are dis
satisfied with prices offered.
There is only one $4,000 United
States note outstanding and the treas
ury department wants to know where
it is.
Vice President Roosevelt stopped at
|
| Colorado, long enough to talk to the
veterans assembled there, together
with thousands of citizens. He did not
] leave the train but spoke from the rear
platform. TT
Chicago has 4,4Os lawyers $50 of
whom have entered the profession from
law schools during the last year. There
are 900 more lawyers than doctors in
the city. The average lawyer in Chi
cago earns less in a year than the av-
erage skilled artisan.
A horse and mule buyer for the Brit
ish government is authority for the
statement that it costs $500 to get $40
horse from the Missouri river to Cape
( Town, and that the average life of the
American horse after landing there is
three months.
The appraising of the Chiclzasaws
and Choctaws has been completed.
Powers county, Colorado has been
pounded by hailstorm which DESTROYED
all crops.
Boss Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Steel Workers, says that the men in the
west who have not obeyed his strike
order ''are no longer union men," and
Secretary NJ. 5. Tigue has revoked
their charters
Illinois is proud of her wheat crop
this year, which was almost one-half as
much a. the crop Of Kansas.