The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-28
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

He gram HuiVS
erratic these days.
The Kentucky State reform school,
nea; Lexington, is burned.
The Nebraska State board of health
reports s64 cases of smallpox in the
state.
The price of zinc ore has advanced 70
G3l ton, and the producers are over
joyed.
General Funston assumes command
of the department of Colorado, on
March %
Colorado will vote next fall on con-
fishing of the Australian land tax sys-
TEN.
The Chinese government has paid
$15,S7O for a site for n house for its
minister and officers of the legation,
at Washington.
Harry A Garfield son of President
Garfield, has declined the position of
civil service commissioner, offered him
by Mr. Roosevelt.
The entire Kansas delegation en-
dorSes j. II. Guy as a candidate for
minister to Hayti. Guy is negro
lawyer of Topeka.
The census shows that there are 707,-
26l farms in this country where bees
are kept, having 4,109,62 swarms val
ued at S1O, 1856, 513.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to fur
nish 5000, 900 for free public library
building at Denver if the city will
pledge itself to provide not less than
$40, 900 year for the support of Slc
library
Secretary Wilson, of the department
of agriculture is to send 1000 bushels
of seed corn to the drought stricken
district of Missouri, also an immense
amount of garden seeds and 500 sacks
of seed cotton.
Three officials of the Vatican have
been tried on the charge of stealing
from the private funds of the pope an
aggregate of $4,000. One of them
was convicted and sentenced to eight
years imprisonment.
The Associated Press is authorized
to say that the reports so persistently
circulated to the effect that the wife
and daughter of former Attorney Gen
eral Griggs have become Christian
Scientists are pure fiction.
Major Rosales, who recently surrend-
cred at Calbayog, says that if Lukban
had been successful in defeating the
Americans in Samar, he had intended
to constitute himself emperor and make
his minor officers princes under his au-
thority, thereby placing the island
under an absolute monarchy.
The old Lincoln farm in Indiana,
where Abraham Lincoln's mother is
buried is to be sold for delinquent
taxes.
The supreme court of Missouri up
holds the right of labor unions to
declare boycotts
The Indian committee of the U. S.
senate seems determined to force the
gait of the Dawes commission. The
committee intends to attempt to fix
the limit to the time the work of the
commission must be finished on July
/, 1908.
Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Smith is to re-
turn from the Philippines to take CON-
mand of the department of Texas, at
San Antonio.
The Imperial Tobacco company of
London has issued a circular offering |
large bonuses to its customers. who |
undertake not to sell American goods |
for term of years.
1t is the desire of the vatican to adj |
Just church matters in the Philippines |
in accordance with American views
and interests Nomore Spanish bishopa |
will be appointed for the islands.
Max Schmahl, a German sugar king
has by will given his grandson, otte
Schmahl, of Cincinnati, $4,000. be
cause he was brave and loyal to hi
country, in enlisting TO defend OIL
Glory in the war with Spain.
Laborers employed at the mines il
the Scranton, Pa. district, have
secret organization, to comp1 equa'
pay to the miners and to the laborerS
The miners make double as much as
the laborcrs, while the miners work
four hours a day and laborers work