The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-20
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

the republic of Honduras.
The storm in Colorado extended for
several days over the entire Rocky
mountain region. The absence of wind
saved the railroads from serious de-
lays.
The senate committee on inter-ocean-
ic canals appointed a subcommittee to
consider the question of fixing salaries
and places of residence of the lsthnlan
canal commissioners.
1t is said that the Santa Fe is on the
lookout for property in the Beaumont
oil field in order to secure its own
fuel oil. The Santa Fe owns its own
oil lands in California.
Wireless service has been successfully
used in New York for transmission of
stock quotations. Two walls each four
inches thick were between the trans
mitter and the receiver.
The Canadian Pacifc's semi-annual
report says that after payment of work.
ing expenses, fixed charges and ~ per
cent dividends there is surplus for
the half year of SO, ?O?, 9o7.
The pope has just completed poem
which is highly praised by literary
people. 1t is dedicated to friend
whom the pope desired to advise on the
best means of prolonging life.
Lieutenant Sartoris, grandson of
General Grant, applied for retirement
but Secretary Root decided that he
cannot be retired until he has scrved
ten years without urgent reason.
The annual meeti ng of the American
Cattle Growers Associa ton, scheduled
to be held in Denver during the first
week in March, has been postponed
indefinitely. 1t will be held Ter in
the year.
The supreme court of Montana has
decided that no franchise tax can be
collected from the Northern Pacific
Express company by the state of Mon
tana because the concern is engaged IN
interstate business.
The president has signed the bill
to expedite the hearing and determina-
ton of suits in equity pending and
hereafter to be brought under the
sherman antitrust law and the law
regulating commerce.
The Colorado senate passed the
Moore eight-hour bill, limiting EN-
plovment in smelters and mines to
eight hours day in accordance with
the constitutional amendment adopted
by the people at the last fall election.
The unsold lands of the Indian res
ervation at Fort Hall, Idaho, which
are within five miles Of the town of
Pocatello, are made subject to settle
ment and sale under the terms provi-
ding for the sale of Indian land.
The Erie railroad is to build four
tracks between Pittsburg and Lake
Erie
General Superintendent Cable OF the
Rock Island, told a legislative commit
tee that he believed n law prohibiting
the confiscation of coal by railroads
would be perfectly just.
The Marquis of Castelane has written
an article advocating a French-Ameri-
can alliance to protect the Monroe
doctrine.
Swis papers say that the Boer COM
mittee is paying French and German
Swiss their passage 10 Transvaal in
order to provide husbands for the Beer
widows.
Ansgar college, at Hutchinson, Min
nesota, is destroyed by fire together
with the library and all furniture.
Two hundred students lost all they
had at the college.
The new cruiser Chattanooga, built
at Elizabethport, Va, is to be launched
on March Z.
The officials of the anthracite coal
railroads announce that they have the
coal situation so well in hand that
danger of further fuel famine is now
over.
An Injunction order issued by Judge
Tuley year ago restraining he'hi'
cago Telephone company from charg-
ing more than the franehise rate for
the use of telephones has been affirmed
by the appellate court