The Conway log cabin., 1901-05-21

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 l Wyoming is rivaling Texas as an oil center. Several new wells have been brought in in the former state the last week.
 Vim. Cooley, wife and one child, and Chas. Dack, wife and three children perished in a burning tene- ment house in Chicago.
 A company backed by the Choc- 1 taw railroad has been formed to de- velop salt lands in the Bad Lands territory of Oklahoma.
 The market reports are full of l information as to winners in the recent advance of stocks, but noth- ing is said as to who the losers are. Russia has arranged with France for loan of 500,000,000 francs. An additional loan is being nego- tiated with English and American bankers.
 The Chinese indemnity has been fixed at $327, 100000. This is l S127, 100000 more than the United States government recommended the empire should pay.
 It is believed Archbishop Ireland will urge the pope to send Ameri- 
 can priests to the Philippines to dis place the friars that have been the cause of so much contention.
 Chas. Washington, lad confined in the reform school at Louisville, murdered a young companion by crushing his skull with a club be- cause of some trivial difference.
 The report comes from London that Lord Salisbury's health is re- ported to be slowly mending. The members of his family in office are
 striving to create the impression
 that his courage and interest in pub
 lie life have revived, and that he
 has no intention of retiring. He
 will not lack their encouragement for their own importance as minis terial figures depends upon his re- , tention in office. The word has been passed around the government benches that the prime minister will remain in public life until the cor. onation, and that Mir. Chamberlain will not leave the colonial office un- : til the South African question is settled.
 l The picture of the worlds com r merce presented each month by the treasury bureau of statistics in its monthly publication, the monthly summary of commerce and finance
 presents in the current number some interesting facts about the commerce , of the principal nations of the world Perhaps the most interesting fact
 which it shows is that the United
 States stands in the fiscal year 1901
 at the head of the worlds list of ex-
 porting, nations, her average month / lv expectations for the nine months 5 ending with March, 1901, being t $124 4,49f,S ,S53, while those of the a United Kingdom, her closest com f pctitor, were $117,S16,246 per month during the same period
 those of Germany, the next largest exporter, $S7,551,000 per month during the twelve months ending : with December, 1900: France S56, 6,461 ,000; Russia, $29,550,000 per month; British India, $26,14 47,- 600 per month; Austro- Hungary $25,753,255 per month; Belgium S23, 3,5G3,o00 per month, and Italy . $20,51S,000 per month.
 The grandstand at the National
 Baseball park, St. Louis, was burn
 ed on the lth. A game was in prog
 ress when the fire broke out, and the
 spectators had to flee for their lives.
 China will request the powers to 5 obtain for her a loan sufficient to pay the indemnity as soon as the
 amour thereof is made known. She
 will also ask for an extra twenty million taels, to be provided an
 nually, according to the proposition of the foreign ministers.
 Oom Paul Kruger will visit this
 country next October.
 | It is estimated the gold output 7 of the Cripple Creek district, since gold was first discovered in 1889 mounts to over $1o0,000, ,000.
 The Armour packing house at Chicago was damaged to the extent of $lo0,000 by fire on the Sd. A ire proof wall prevented destruction If the entire plant.
 It is claimed one man owns oil lands in Texas upon which several wells are now flowing valued n,