St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-09

money order blanks to their customers
will be supplied free of cost with special
money order blanks in which the name
of the pavee or firm sending them out
will be printed conspicuously in red ink,
with blank spaces for the names OF re-
| mitters.
1t is announced by the department that
| if the use OF these forms is adopted, small
coins and stamps as means OF the
exchange of values may disappear from
the mails.
mines Had Been Worked Before,
Evidences have been found which estab-
lish the fact that mines in Kougarok dis
trict near Nome were worked many years
ago, according to passengers arriving
on the ST. amer Queen. A Golfer dam built
of rocks and a bedrock drain FIVE hum
bred feet long, bear undisputed evidence
to that fact. These discoveries were
made at considerable depth from the
surface. Those who have gwen the mat
ter close study say the mines were work
ed by the Russians while Alaska was
under lease to the Russian Fur Co.
Big Potato Crop in Maine.
There is evidence to show that this is
the greatest potato producing year in
the history of Maine. During the month
of September, Sill 900 bushel were ship
ped over the Bangor & Aroostook rail-
road for points west and south. The
crop is big one, particularly in Aroos-
took county, and along all lines of de-
pendent work business isrushing. Spec
al trains have been run to carry the pc.
tatoes from the farms to the various
markets. All the potatoes shipped go
to Boston, from which point many OF
them are shipped farther away.
Cost of Free Delivery System.
The official estimates for the 6saI year
beginning July 7, 1902, which Post
master General Charles Emory Smith
will submit to congress at the opening
of the session, call for an aggregate of
Sc, $50, 900 Tor rural free delivery service
throughout the country. This is an in
crease of So, 100000 over the expense of
that rapidly growing service Tor the cur
rent year. The total for the free delivery
service proper, which is that operated in
cities is SIS, $4,000, an increase of nine
per cent. The grand aggregate for the
entire postal free delivery systems OF
both the free delivery and rural free de-
livery is $24, 995,O00.
Captain Joseph B. Coghan, who was
in command of the cruiser Raleigh in the
battle of Manila Bay, has assumed the
duties of captain of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. He succeeds Captain Frank
Wildes, who is at Washington tor exami-
nation, preliminary to his promotion to
the grade of rear-admral.
The Harvard library has recently re.
ceived through L. Wiener the second
largest collection of books in the Slovak
language in the world. Slovak is dia-
lect OF Bohemia spoken by nearly two
million and a half of the inhabitants of
northern Hungary The collection at
present contains about 1000 volumes
and from these Mr.. Wiener expects to
secure material for history of the
Slovak language The money for the
collection was given by Assistant Pro-
lessor Coolidge and the library.
The consolidation of the Pennsylvania,
and Baltimore and Ohio railroad systems
will result in a new union station in
Washington, on the site of the present B.
and O. station. 1t is proposed to make
the new depot the finest in the world.
The United States Steel Corporation
made public last week a statement of the
net earnings of the concern during the
first six months of it's existence. The
total amount is $54,954,871 and
strangely enough the strike month
August shows the heaviest earnings OF
any of the six.
The great strike of union teamsters in
San Francisco which began July II, and
has been marked by much violence and
terrorism, ended last week in defeat
for the union. The strike did not con.
Germ hours or wages, but was made
solely on the question of union labor. By
the terms of the agreement the employers
will not recognize the union hereafter ex'
cept in matters of wages and hours
they reserve the right to take back only
such men as they need, and they will not
discharge any efficient non-union men
who have been employed during the
strike. The strikers lost over half mil
lion dollars in wages.
A report issued October 3by the United
States geological survey shows that the
total value of minerals OF all kinds pro
duced in this country in 1900 was
81, O7O, 10S,S99. The total value of the
metallic products was 1852 AIS, 627
the non-metallic, $516, 690,262; anC
estimated value of mineral products I'M
specified 81, 100000.