Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-12-05
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

received
Ne action will be taken by the
French government favorable to Co.
lombia
A dispatch from Manila states that
no more opposition is expected on the
island eff Jolo.
There is no material change in the
Colorado miners strike, which is now
fifteen weeks old.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Salt Lake City on Nov. "a.
No damage was done.
The Colombian government has is
sued orders to raise the army to the
fighting force of 100, 900 men.
Consul Ellsworth, representing this
country, has been repeatedly insultcd
by the Colombian government.
Numbers of foreign miners have
como to the Arkansas and Indian Ter
ritory coal fields from Colorado.
By the Isle of Pines treaty this coun-
try receives consideration in grants OF
coaling and naval stations in Cuba.
On the Cane Belt railway in Texas,
owned by the Santa Fe. IA gusher oil
well has been struck at Matagorda.
The first shipment of Christmas trees
to Berlin, this season, was $50, 900 trees,
brought from the Hartz mountains
The United States has $4,000 post
offices; Germany is next with As, 623,
and Great Britain third, with % 400.
China is becoming hopeless of re-
sisting Russia. The PelIing govern
mcnt, correspondent says, is in
despair.
The press of Colombia continues to
severely criticisc and denounce the
American government for it's reeogni-
ton of the Republic of Panama.
Gen Funston, in his report on
Alaska says that the principal discour-
aging features of the condition of
Alaskan Indians are tuberculosis and
liquor.
The knights of Pythias of Kansas
City, Mo-, initiated nearly 1000 mem
beers in one night last week. The
grand chancellors of about u dozen
states and the Supreme Grand Chan
cellor were present.
The destruction of the warehouses
at Fort Gibbons, Alaska, will not
cause the troops to starvc as has been
feared. Their food supplies can be
made to last to the opening of naviga-
ton and the soldiers are comfortably
sheltered.
Seven of the mutineers at the federal
prison at Fort Leayenworth in Nov.
1901, are on trial in the u. s. district
court in Topeka.
Private pension bills arc flooding the
Calendars in Congress and Kansas
members are putting in their full
share.
Gen. John C. Black, commander-in-
chief of the G. A. r. attended meet
ing of the national council of administra-
ton in Boston, although his old wounds
made it necessary to carry him from
the train in a chair.
The Christian Science people are
building a million dollar temple in
New York city. It is to be dedicated
soon free of debt.
Mrs. Caroline QuantrelI, the mother
in 1868, died on Nov %, at her home
in Springfield, Ohio, at so years of
age.
Scores of fast freight cars. loaded
vi f,Ir.l
strung out along the Pennsylvania
main line, blocking the Chicago limited
and other through trains.
The 9sOth anniversary of the land
ing of the first German colonists in
America was celebrated in Washing
ton Nov. IS.
Maj Gen. Davis. commanding the
division of the Philippines, reports the
death of numerous cavalry horses and
recommends that mounted troops be
replaced with infantrymcn.
Benlah Thomas, who is the prose-
cutting witness in IN assault case at
Arborville, Neb., was kidnapped in
the night by two men. There was no
trace left
There was snow fall on Nov. IS
which extended over eastern Nebraska
and Kansas; western Iowa, southern
Illinois and the whole of Missouri. At
St. Louis there was one and a half
inches.
The recent, heavy rains IN London
cleaned the streets ana washed out the |
sewers, which has improved health and
reduced the death rate
The shipment of stocscrs and feeders
from Kansas City into the country last
week were CSC cars The week preyi-
GUS there we're SCI ears shipped.