Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-12-13
Wichita Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

One-half of the imports into this
country are of materials for manufac-
turers.
The Oregon short line has announced
pension system for its employees after
20 years service.
United States Minister Bnclc, for
Japan, died suddenly in, Yokohama on
Dee. 4, of apoplexy.
Charles Henry Butler. of New York
City, has been appointed reporter of the
United States supreme court.
The Lincoln hotel, in Chicago, which
had been condemned as unsafe, has
burned and Is lives were lost
The United States supreme court has
sustained the constitutionality of the
stock quarantine law of Colorado.
While the battleship Texas was at
/ target practice at Hampton. Va, two
of the large turret guns exploded.
A New York syndicate has offered to
furnish Mexico with $50, 900, O0O to en-
able that government to establish
! gold basis.
The federal grand jury at Omaha is
expected to return indictments against
cattlemen and war widows for frauds
in connection with land entries
Correspondents say that the local
Chinese officials are making the in
demnity to the powers an excuse for
further robbery of the merchants.
Zinc miners of the Joplin district
| GO
tons of zinc for export: This is done to
stop the drop in price in this country.
The District of Columbia court of APP
peals has decided that there is no :lu-
thority lodged with the postoffice de-
| partlnent to determine w!,at is second
class or third class mail matter.
Rain and sleet at Memphis and frccz-
ing weather in Arkansas and Texas are
reported. The frosts were heavy at
Galveston, Houston and Beaumont.
Western Louisiana has dangerous
| foods
The war department has ordered that
| fifteen regiments in the Philippines
| shall bc exchanged for the same num-
Der OF home troops. The first of the
home troops to go will leave San Fran
cisco on February next
Francis R. Moore, a New York f.
nancier, believes that, of the sc, 900, 900
silver dollars now in circulation, one
half are counterfeit One of the New
York banks turned in $50 silver dollars
to the sub-treasury, of which 10 were
contiscated as being counterfeit.
In the last ten years deposits in the
banks of the United States have in
creased, so says the comptroller of the
currency in his annual report, from
42$ billions to ga billions, or more
than 100 per cent.
Mr.. Cannon (nl.) has introduced a
bill appropriating $50, 600 to pay the
expenses OF the coal strike commission.
The House committee on appropria-
tionS has agreed upon the pension APP
! preparation bill. It appropriates $139,-
| SAT. 600. which is So, 80 more than for
the current year.
Senator Hale proposes by Il bill which
| he has introduced to change the age
| limit for admission to the naval aca-
| denny from between Is and 81 years to
| between i and 20.
The anniversary of Glenn Studebaker's
| burial was made memorable by his
family presenting to the South Bend.
/ Ind, Epworth hospital directors over
$50, oo0
All gambling at Seattle has been
stopped by the police. Bawdy houses
and slot machines were also ordered to
! quit their business
OF the $50, III claimed by the state of
! New York for expenses incurred in
! aiding the United the United States to
raise a volunteer army in the war
with Spain the comptroller of the
treasury allowed only S5,s
| An order from South Africa for 49,
| oCO eight-horse plows has been received
by plow manufacturer in the United
| States
! Tne market for crude oil has adj
vanced three cents, the quotations be-
! ing 81. 06 for North Lima and 81. 10 for
South Lima, Indiana
| Vienna correspondent reports that
Russia and Austria have agreed to
make determined effort to end the
perpetual Macedonian question by car
rying out specific reforms under their
| combined control.
The cigar makers strike in Havana
is off. the men having voted to return
to work. and the factories are running
as usual.
December was the frstday in many
weeks that the railroad yards at Pitts
burg, Pa, were cleared and ready to