Hutchinson gazette., 1901-06-06
Wichita Grain,
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


The 40th y. s. Volunteers was mus
tered out at san Francisco on May 81.
There are TO be SIX summer schools
this year for Indian school teachers,
A steamship arrived at Port Town
send from Alaska with 100000 in bul.
lion.
The First National banlS OF Mineral
Point, Wisconsin, has been robbed OF
s2j, 900.
AT the Dunkard National conference
Mt Lincoln, Neb,, there was Sunday
school class Of over 1000
The Missouri state board of arbitra-
tion and mediation failed TO settle the
linemcns strike in st. Joseph.
The new census gives Australia q
population OF i,i50,O56; an increase
since the last census of 7lO7jG,
The embassies in Turkey protested
and the Sultan has rescinded the order
excluding typewritcrs from Turkey
Miss Helen Gould has increased her
donation for railroad Y. NJ. C. A. at
Coifeyville, KS, from 81 900 to $1,000.
A State Historical society Is making
q start in Missouri. The first secretary
chosen visited Topeka to get pointers
The supreme court decides that YES.
sells plying between Porto Rico and
New York are engaged in the coasting
trade,
In obedience to the act OF the Ten
nessee legislature the Maryvillc coll
lege will not admit colorcd students
hereafter.
General A. w, Greeley, chief signal
officer Of the army, has sailed from
san Francisco for Manila for u tour Of
inspection.
Burglary insurance saved the Blaine
county, okla, bank the full amount of
its loss from robbery, The amount
was 81, 1903, Sc.
New York had COZ inches Of rain in
20 days of May. The records Of the
weather bureau, extending to 1871,
do not chronicle such rainy May.
Ninety-eight Filipinos have landed
in New York en- route to the Buffalo.
exposition where they will illustrate
the manners and customs of their
islands.
The Havana La Discussion says that
the country generally approves the
acceptance of the Platt amendment
and predicts the beginning of an era
of prosperity.
5Mmc WI Ting Fang, wife of the Chi
nese minister to tho United States, Wis.
tied friends in Chicago while enroute
to San Francisco where she expects to
spend several months.
Emperor William has ordered that
the German command in China be bro.
ken up and that preparations be made
to reduce Germany's forces there,
The Missouri Pacific has ordered 90
locomotives and 5000 box cars and
expects to be able to handle the wheat
crop,
"As long as the conditions Of the
Platt amendment are on the statute
books, compliance with them must
precede our REIMBURSEMENT Of the
control over the island" said member
of the cabinet,
A $1,000, 900 combine is being formed
among coal operators of Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois.
Generals Fred Grant and j. c. Bates
will return to their stations in the
Philippines.
II is the earnest desire of the presi-
dent to retire from Cuba at the
earliest possible moment. The ques-
ton is whether withdrawal under the
amended Platt law will accomplish the
best interest Of the Cubans and its
future relations with the United
States.
DR.. A. R. Taylor, president of the
Kansas Normal school, will accept the
offer of the presidency of the new in
dustrial school at Decatur, Illinois, at
salary of 5000 year.
Congressman Reeder, of the Sixth
Kansas district, opposes the suit
brought by Kansas against Colorado
about the use Of Arkansas river water
He says he has given the question OF
irrigation and water supply for the
plains much study and believes that
the more irrigation there is done in
Colorado, the better for Kansas.