The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-14
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF

The gang Of professional passers of
forged checks has been working Kan
sas City, Mo.
A thousand Maoris, of New Zealand,
have volunteered to join the British
army in South Africa.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared another quarterly dividend Of
twenty million dollars.
A large mill of a lumber company at
Stamps, Texas, 80 miles north of Tex
arkana, is destroyed by fire.
The navy department asks an appro-
priation to experiment on the use Of
Texas crude oil for the navy.
The Cruiser Brooklyn has been or
dered home from Hong Kong to New
York by way of the Suez canal.
The worlds visible supply of cotton
is 4,563.337 bales; of this the total Of
American cotton is 1856, TT bales.
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered
his brother-in-law shot. He is not in
Turkey and is likely to stay away.
S. NJ. Edwards, for 81 consecutive
years probate judge at Mexico, Mo-,
has resigned at the age of 20 years.
An independent glass company of
Pittsburg, Pa, has voluntarily adj
vanced the wages of it's unsbilled men
ten per cent.
The Good Roads convention of New
York state asks the legislature to APP
propriate $50, 900, 600 for the improve
nent of highways.
Department regulations prohibit the
receiving or considering of political
endorsements, in the selection of rural
route mail carriers.
17,s4S citizens of the United States re-
siding in Germany. This is an addition
of 1000 in five years.
The Philippine department of in
struction is preparing a school of teleg-
raphy, to train civilian successors to
the military operators.
Because Mrs. Secretary Long is q
lover Of home the fashionable people of
Washington do not approve of her, but
the nation loves her for it.
And now it is said that the Santa Fe
and Rock Island are wrestling for the
Mexican Contract, which extends from
Ell Paso to the City of Mexicy.
Steel for bridge work and steel rails
will have to be made of imported steel
billets next summer. Orders are in
excess of posi- BILE home supply.
For year or more there have been
dispatches published about the Presby-
terian creed revision committee, bit
not one of the dispatches has given
even hint of what they are doing or
propose to do.
The postmaster at Washington, Pa,
saws that much mail matter is addressed
to his Office to the names of high Off
Gals in Washington, d. c. Much other
mail is received for Washington, d. c.,
people but the postmaster, not know
ing them, can only send their mail to
the dead letter office.
The circuit court at Cadillac, Mich,
declares the state law prohibiting the
sale of uncolored oleo to be unconstitu-
tional.
The NJ. E. presiding elder at Mexico,
Mo-, explains the decrease of member
ship in the conference by saying that
Western real estate agents have en-
ticed the people to immigrate.
Prince Henry, of Prussia, expressed
a desire TO place wreath on the Lin
coin Monument in Chicago, and plans
will be made for impressive ceremonies
on the occasion.
Secretary Hitchcock has asked con
gress to increase the salary OF Tom
Ryan, his first assistant, from $4,000 to
5000 year.
A steamer reached New York the
other day, from Porto Rico, with
1,7sO, $50 cigars on board. This is the
largest cargo ever received from Porto
Rico.
Mrs. Ed. Kushner and two children
were burned to death in their home at
Waterloo, Iowa Another was fatally
burned and three others injured. An