The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-08
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

California wheat prospects are re-
ported exceedingly fine.
Wheat on the chicago market is now
of slow sale and very slim commission
business.
Ex-Governor st. John is now attend
ing to his large interests in Missouri
coal fields.
Brigadier Generals James III. Wilson
and Fitzhugh Lee have been placed on
the retired list
The New York Sun says that j. r.
Burton reminded the New Workers of
Roscoe Conkling
The Big Four railroad system has
advanced the salaries of it's telegraph
operators l219 per cent
The business portion of Park River,
N. d., is destroyed by fire. Loss over
500, 900 with only partial insurance
Governor Shaw, of Nebraska, is send
ing out warnings to sheriffs of that
state against permitting prize fighting.
The American Biscuit company has
given its employees an opportunity to
become shareholders in the trust on
very favorable terms.
The interstate commerce commission
has ordered reduction of 20 cents a
ton on coal on shipments to points in
Kansas and Nebraska.
A saloon man has put in claim to
have the cost refunded of the stamps
destroyed with the beer which he said
had been ''nationized."
The coffee and sugar war has been
settled again; this time with an ad
vance of one-half cent per pound on
coffee. Jobbers will be pleased.
An auction sale of Angora goats at
the Kansas City stock yards disposed
of 1900 hundred of them, The high
est price paid for ewes was $3.50.
Senator Edward o. Wolcott has re-
signed as member of the Republican
national committee from Colorado, and
Archie NJ. Stevenson has been desig-
mated as his successor,
William NJ. Evarts is dead. He has
been very feeble for several years and
for time was nearly blind. This
greatest of American lawyers of his
generation was SO years of age.
Fifty years ago, on March 4, Galusha
A. Grow first took seat rs a member
of Congress. lie served ~ years and
then was private citizen for a third
of century, returning to congress
again in 1894. lie is now ,G years Old.
The Hereford sale in Kansas City
disposed of 20? head for $50, 5j5. The
COW Cleopatra brought Sl,0l0 and the
bull Pretorian S90j.
John Julian, but little more than 81
years of age, was sentenced by Judge
Wofford, of Kansas City, to 40 years in
the parliamentary FOR robbing man
of 81. 50 and locking him up in his ice
chest
Sir Cavendish Boyle has been ga
zetted governor of New Foundland in
succession 10 Sir Henry McCallum.
appointed governor of Natal.
The new reduction plant at Colorado
City has commenced work with $50
men. The plant comprises - build
ings covering acres. The cost is
$4,000 1t will treat Cripple Creek
ores.
Rev. Henry Blatchford is dead at the
age of 90. His life was spent as mis-
sionary with the Chippewas of the Lake
Superior region.
Striking coal miners at Gallup, n.
NJ. have been enjoined from in any
way interfering with negroes who have
taken their places.
The new Illinois apportionment law
gives Chicago more than one-third of
the voting strength in the legislature
Magistrate Crane. of the Harlem, n.
Y. police court. advised the police to
go into any place where they are sure
there are gambling games. batter
down the doors, smash partitions and
clean the place out from cellar to
attic
The railroad telegraphers' paper pub
isles list Of 10 men who refused to
20 out on the Dolphin strike and asks
he o. r. T. men to shun them.