Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
According to the annual report of

According to the annual report of the paymaster general, army ex- penditures decreased during the past fiscal year $918,819, as com- pared with the preceding year, part l ly owing to decrease in the pay of the army and in part owing to a re- duction of claims for extra pay by volunteers. The total expenditures made by Paymaster General Bates were $52,523,479.
 In quarrel between a school teacher and the board of trustees at Altoona, N. D., six persons were fa- tally wounded. The teacher first shot down three directors of the school and then attacked the s and 10 year old daughters of Director Kuhler. With the last bullet in his pistol the enraged teacher took his own life.
 A. B. Chinn, merchant at Lex ington, Ky, was murdered at his home in a battle with burglars and his son was badly wounded. Young Chinn was aroused by his mothers screams. Going to his parents bed- room, he fired at the two burglars, one of whom at the first shot sent bullet through the elder Chinn's heart. The burglars then made a break to escape, firing as they ran, wounding young Chinn three times.
 It is said the Osage Indians are the richest people in the world, per capita. There are S94 full-blood Osages and 940 of the mixed bloods. They have 6 fund to their credit, derived from the sale of lands in Kansas, amounting to $S,271,143, and an annual interest on that amount which is $413,357. There Is also collected from rentals $138.- 296, $69, ,12O from treaty obligation funds and $S,945 from permits. There is debt of $4O0,O0O on the nation. This makes the total above the indebtedness $8,49O,S41, count ing one years income to their credit. In addition to this there is 1,5OO,- 900 acres of land to be divided among the 1854 members of the tribe.
 The expenses of the offices of the first assistant postmaster general next year will aggregate over $91,- 0OO,0OO, or more than the total an- nual expenditures for the entire postal service prior to 1893. First Assistant Postmaster Wayne inti- mates that the deficit of the postof- flee department next year will be about $1,0OO,OO0, and that in an- other year the department will be self-supporting. The last year in which the receipts of the postal ser vice exceeded the expenditures was just before the rate of letter postage was reduced from 3 cents to 3 cents. Officials of the postoffice department believe that when the postal service again becomes self-supporting con- gress will pass a one-cent letter-rate postage law.
 Reports to R. G. Dun X Go. show failures during the first nine months of 1909 numbered S,723, with aggregate liabilities of $113,- 434,69S, compared with S,144 de- faults in the corresponding months of 1901, with a total indebtedness of $97,956,416. From these totals should be deducted the failures of banks, other financial institutions and heavily capitalized stock com- panies, which numbered 47 this year and involved $2S,027,1 ,198, against 61 in 1901, with liabilities of $17,295,554. This reduces the strictly commercial failures to s. 676 and the amount of liabilities to $S5,407,490, compared with S,OS3 last year for $8O,56O,S62. Further 1,,.,o .l 0