The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-06-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


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 bull
lion.
The First National bank of Mineral
Point, Wisconsin, has been robbed OF
SIS, 900.
At the Dunkard National conference
at Lincoln Neb., there was Sunday
school class of over 1000.
The Missouri state board of arbitra-
ton and mediation failed to settle the
linemen's strike in st. Joseph.
The new census gives Australia
population of 4,55O,656; an increase
since the last census of TAO, $50.
The embassies in Turkey protested
and the Sultan has rescinded the order
excluding typewriters from Turkey.
Miss Helen Gould has increased her
donation for railroad Y. M. c. A. at
Coffeyville, KS, from 81 900 to $1,000.
A State Historical society is making
a start in Missouri. The first secretary
chosea 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 Maryville coll
lege will not admit colored students
hereafter.
General A. w. Greeley, chief signal
officer of the army, has sailed from
San Francisco for Manila, for tour of
inspection.
Burglary insurance saved the Blaine
county, Okla, bank the full amount of
it's loss from robbery. The amount
was 81, 1913. Sc.
New York had 97 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
Stands
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.
5Mme WI Ting Fang, wife of the Chi
nese minister to the 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
Plat 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 $50, OOo, 900 com ine is being formed
among coal operators of Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois.
Generals Fred Grant and ]. c. Bates
will return to their stations in the
Philippines.
1t 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 Plat law will accomplish the
best interest of the Cubans and its
future relations with the United
States.
DIR. 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
a salary of $4,000 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.