The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

SHOW UeBdH W lletJ III soutlciu civ
eastern Wyoming on Feb 49,
The heads of the Kansas.state schools
approve the proposed law to fix tuition
fees.
The opera house at Ashland, Ohio,
is burned The public library is also
destroyed.
The lower house of the Kansas legis-
lature killed the bill for branding al!
prison made goods.
Miss Ellen Smith, for 95 years con-
nected with the University of Nebraska,
is dead at Lincoln.
Both houses of the New Mexico legis-
lature have passed bills creating Roose-
welt and Quay counties.
The Excelsior Springs, Mo-, roller
mills are burned at loss of So, 900 and
the insurance is $4,000.
From all parts of the country 1000
dentists attended the 18th anniversary
of a dentists society in Chicago.
The French canal company seems to
be hesitating to close the sale of the
Panama canal interests to the United
States.
G. w. Conl1lin, of Pittsburg, Kas.,
has purchased the Rich Hill, Mo-, Wit
rified brick plant where he will employ
100 men.
There were reported to be 80 cases of
typhoid fever in West Seneca, Erie
county, N. Y, with probably 100 more
not reported.
AS result of the severe weather,
many schools closed in Toledo, Ohio.
Traff of all sorts has been hindered
by the snow.
The anthracite coal commission is
formulating its conclusions, behind
closed doors. 1t will take them some
time to finish.
The resolution which passed the sem
ate providing rear admirars pay and
allowance for Admiral Schley was
tabled in the house.
The treasury department charges
that customs revenues are suffering
from some postmasters failing to carry
out the regulations.
Both houses of the Wyoming legisla-
ture adopted a joint resolution indors-
ing woman suffrage which has been in
yopue there since 1869
The storm which reached its climax
on February 10, is reported as the
worst of the season from points from
| Nebraska to kentucky; from Texas to
| st. Louis; from Ohio to the Rockies.
Even sunny Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory were visited by it.
The Indian bill gives the court of
claims jurisdiction over the claims of
| Delawares and of the confederate
bands of Utes of Colorado and Utah.
The deputy postmaster general of
Canada is studying the free rural mail
delivery of the United States with the
view of establishing free delivery SER
vice in Canada.
Sherman NJ. Bell, member of Roose'
velt's rough riders during the Spanish
American war, has been appointed ad-
iutant general of the Colorado national
guard by Governor Peabody.
President Roosevelt has announced
his intention of calling an extra session
of the senate If the Panama canal
treaty and t. Cuban reciprocity treaty
are not both ratified before March 4.
Joplin, Mo-, is said to be one OF the
heaviest losers in the ST. Louis turf
gambling concerns, of any city in the
country. Joplin and other cities in
the mining district contributed fully
s75, 900.
Dynamiters attempted to destroy the
toll line cables of the Commercial Tele-
phone company at Warsaw, Indiana.
Out of a thousand deaths in Germany
OF persons between the ages of Is and
60, 3Is die of tuberculosis alone. Per-
sons under Is and over co are seldom
affected.
The Colorado senate adopted the res
olution memorializing congress to pass
the good roads bill, appropriating s2o,
900, 900 for the construction Of high
way across the continent
Eight persons were killed and four
injured by an explosion in the Peter
and Fox Magazine Cane factory at
-Fostoria, Ohio.