Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-09

The Scotch coal masters of Glasgow
have large contracts for anthracite coal
TO go to the United States.
Superintendent Fred Atkinson of the
Philippine schools has resigned to take
effect on January 1st next
King Victor Emmanuel has sent
$40, 200 for the relief of the families OF
the victims of the recent storms in
Sicily.
The present house of representatives
has $50 members. The next house,
under the new census, will have $50
members
j. P. Morgan, it is reported in Lon
don, is attempting to arrange a deal
far the Great Western railway, the
biggest line in England.
A special train of : or coaches
passed over the Santa Fee CARRYING
members of the National Druggists
association at Monterey.
1t is reported at Madrid that Queen
Maria Christina, the mother of King
Alfonso, has married her master OF the
horse, while in Austria.
The bank deposits of the people OF
the United States amount to So, $780,.
600, 900, an average of Sl0S for every
inhabitant in the country.
New Yorl. real estate men say that
ground on Wall street will soon be
worth $500 square foot At recent
sale $780,. 30 square foot was paid.
The sheriff of Columbia county, "a.
arrested one hundred and seven strikers
at Centralia in one afternoon on
charges of rioting and incitiug to riot.
Gen. Weyler, it is reported at Madrid,
will resign as minister of war, because
of King Alfonso's refusal to sign a
military decree presented by Weyler.
The board of lady managers of the
st. Louis Exposition adopted Helen
Gould's resolution to purify the mid
way, excluding objectionable features
of the Chicago Worlds Fair.
Edword E. McNeel has been sem
fenced under Iowa's new inebriate law
to one year in the inebriatc ward of
the Mount Pleasant state insane asy-
lum. This is the first conviction of
the kind in this section of Iowa.
elaborate plans prepared by the en-
gineer corps for the war college build
ings at Washington and at Fort Riley,
Kansas. The department will proceed
at once to advertise for construction
work.
The Santa Fe has not been doing
quite so much bridge work as usual
the last summer on account of the diff
ficulty of getting steel, although there
is plenty of it to be done. It is estima-
ted that :, 200 tons of bridge iron have
been ordered in the past.
The Death roll from the hurricane in
Sicily is growing. There are 600 bod
les awaiting burial and an epidemic is
feared.
The Santa Fe paid Sc million dollars
last year, or three millions a month,
or Sl,o0 900 day, in its operating ex-
penscs, and 90 per cent of this sum,
500, 900 day, went to labor.
The hop crop of Washington is one
fifth below that of 1901; willie the crop
in Oregon is HEAVIER than the last one,
sufficiently to make up Washington's
deficiency.
1t was seventy years ago, on Septem-
Der "a, that the first train on the first
railroad in America, il not in the world
made a run between Albany and Sche-
nectady. N. Y. The cars were stage
coach bodies on trucks with Hanged
wheels The tracks were iron bars
spiked to wooden rail
Contracts have been let for pneu-
matte tube mail service in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and st.
Louis. This exhausts the appropr:a-
ton. leaving out Brooklyn and WASH
ington.
The Austro-Hungarian bank is sail
to hold from ten to fifteen million
dollars in American eagles.
A ,yphoou swept over Yokohama,
Japan. which drove several steamers
ashore. II is feared that there have
been many fatalities among fisher
men.
Major General p. R. Hugher has
requested the war department to make
an appropriation for the construction
OF the post exchange or canteen build
ings at the Preside near San Francis
CO, to be used by enlisted men.
The annual report of the directors OF
the Santa Fe system shows its total
mileage TO be 7,s767o miles The ag-
gregate expenditures of the company.
for right of way, improvement of
tracks and terminals, the acquisition
of additional properties, etc, is over
SEQ, AS, 900.
The Santa Fe has received deeds for
ten blocks of land at Oakland, Califor-
mia.
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