Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-21
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Montana storm ,urnel out to be
Il fearful blizzard.
The citizens Of Colombia unite in the
cry Death to Americans"
That story of the women'o mob at a
New York wedding is Il daisy.
The Fellow fever condition IN Texas
haa been made better by frosts-
Dow-ie complains that many checks
contributed to his fund are: bogus.
Tie latest Austro-Eussian note to
Turkey Is exceedingly pcrcmptory.
The Nelson Morris Packing company
OF s. Louis has suffered It sloo, 900 FIRE
The second day of the Chicago street
car strike was quictcr than the first
day
Fire has totally DESTROYED the bnai-
ness part of Jenkins City, Mo. The
loss is $50, 900.
The Overland cotton mills of Denver
have closed because of lack of coal.
| -Four hundred persons are thrown ont
of employment
Five union men boarded different
ears during tire Chicago strike, and
| paid their fares for chance to use
! their influence TO avoid violence.
Nearly all OF the Chicago stock yards
sausage makers, vino have been on
strike for two weeks, have gone back
to work, although the strike was not
officially declared off.
A fire in Il mail ear of the 81. Peters
| burg Moscow mail train is said TO have
| destroyed valuables estimated ut So
! 500, OCO. Spontaueous combustion is
! supposed 20 be the c;Inse.
! The Mexican Central road, Il Rookie
felicr property is building an extern
sion south To Guatemala. The route
selected follows closely the surrey made
by the American commission.
The largest congressional seed dis
! tribution has begun Over i, 600 tons
of garden and field seeds viii be dis
tributed at cost Of Se7o 900. The
seeds will amount to IS, 900, 600 pack
ages.
Resolutions were introduced in the
Federation Labor convention at Boston
10 the effect that the so-callcd open
shop policy, whether under private or
government management" cannot be
recognized by organized labor
1t is said that the flag used Dy Bur-
goyne's army was stripped from its
pole when Burgoyne surrendered and
wound around n soldiers body. and
that the descendants of the colonel
who came into possession of the flag
have recently sold it ut auction.
Gov Otero has issued proclamation
to the sherffs of the principal coal
producing counties of New Mexico to
enforce the law guaranteeing to every
man the full right 10 work. There
are =, 500 coal miners there.
When the land Office AZ Crooliston,
Mimi, opened for entries on the Red
Lake lands, the rush broke all records.
Many land seekers were in line all
night.
The Katy railroad has bought the
Cane Belt railway of Texas for ST, Co.,
600, mostly cash.
The Colombian consul at Paris be-
lieves that his government win make
| protests and then lay down.
II is stated that all European pctro-
leum concerns are forming II combiua-
ton to Dust the Standard Oil company.
German priest, in making cxcava-
tions in an ancient Babylonian city,
| has ~ .s,I -
1000 years ago.
The striking miners of Colorado sent
an advance agent into Nebras Ska. who
secured work with railroad companies
for hundreds of the strikers.
Reports submitted to President Rip
ley, OF the Santa Fe, at Los Angeles,
Cali, show that there will he sent cast
1900 carloads of celery, 5000 cars of
lemons .and about "A, 900 carloads of
oranges.
A London dispatch locates Ticonder-
oga on Lake George, and as the place
where Burgoyne surrendered. This is
new history.
Three engineers and three frenen
were killed in a freight collision in a
fog, near Newhope, KY. One of the
trains was double-header.
The 1,5oo striking laborcrs on the
power plants of the Canadian niagara
Falls Power company have returned 20
work, accepting 81. so per day, and the
strike is over.
The seed firm of D. I.andreth & Son,
of Philadelphia is bankrupt. There
are millions of people vino have been
familiar with the name of that firm
for quarter of century.
Senator Clark, of Montana. has won
the suit in the United States district
conr; at Butte, involving timber land
! valued at s., 600. 900.