Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-26
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing crops.
Secretary Hitchcock is spending ten
days at the st. Louis fair.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
will not lease wires to pool rooms.
The Ninth Artillery band is to be
transferred from Fort Riley to Key
West Florida.
The National Editorial association
at st. Louis selected Guthrie, o. T., as
the next meeting place.
Cuba expects a boom in prices of
land and in business generally on &C.
count of the isthmian canal.
The Citizens association in st. Louis
has demanded that arc lights be placed
in the parks to prevent ''spooning."
The finest timber bodies in the Uni
ted States are in Idaho and there is
white pine there almost without limit.
A binding snowstorm ragged through
out the copper co untry in Michigan
Three inches of snow fell in Calumet.
In the four land lotteries of this
summer 1000, 500 acres of land will be
subject to entry at from S1.25 to 81. so
per acre.
Thirteen lives were lost when Brit
ish steamer, during fog struck on the
rocks at the northern point of Cape
Breton.
Gar Nicholas is reported to be I'M
able to sleep and has no appetite since
the destruction of the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk.
The Illinois Republican convention,
after taking So ballots, adjourned for
ten days upon unanimous consent of
the candidates.
In Eastern Virginia there are several
thousand acres of oyster farms, where
oysters are raised by artificial methods
on artificial beds.
At dinner in New York 81, 500 was
subscribed for the Russian Red Cross
society. OF this So, 900 was given by a
man who refused to have his name
made public.
Fire damaged all buildings in two
sides of the public square of Charlton,
Iowa, the total loss being about $685.
600. Two men were caught stealing
goods from one of the burned stores.
The yard and greater part of the
plant of the Sierra Lumber Co., at
Chico, Cali, are burned. Loss, $3.50, 600.
By the Inauguration of scores of
suburban worlds fair trains the st.
Louis Union station now has $40
trains daily running in and out of the
sheds.
A better understanding between cat
tlemen and railroads is the result of
the conference of cattlemen in Denver,
especially upon better service, more
prompt delivery and return tickets,
each of which was conceded.
It is believed at Berlin that the car
is being urged by the Russian war
party to end the stouggle by putting
Korea under the protectorate of Japan
and letting China have Manchuria
again.
Contract has been let for the cree
ton of new Santa Fe shops at La
Junta, Colorado. The figure is SIS, 200.
The shops will be the fourth in i'm
portance on the Santa Fe system.
Sunday, May Is, was the day when
train loads of editors and their families
reached St. Louis from everywhere.
Rear Admiral Albert s. Kenney, re-
tired, it is stated, has been selected as
treasurer of the Panama canal COM
mission. He was formerly paymaster
general at the navy department.
At some of the public libraries in
London the racing news is carefully
BACKED out of the newspapers before
they are put upon the files for read
ing.
Sister Francis Xavier, notable per-
sonage in western charitable and
religious circles, died from apoplexy at
st. Joseph's hospital in Denver.
The aggregate amount of gold
shipped to Europe from New York dur
ing the past month is in excess OF
$50, Ooo, 900.
1t is stated that the German govern.
ment has just decided to increase the
forces in German Southwest Africa to
5000 men.
Judge George Gray has been chosen
to succeed the late Marcus A. Hanna
as president of the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON, John Mitchell and Bishop
Potter were the nominating committee
which named Gray.
Commissioner Ware says that the
number of applicants so far who will
have their pensions raised 81 month
is probably 10000.
Judge johnson, of Denver, holds
that builders of reservoirs are liable
for all injuries or damages caused by
the collapse of dam constructed by
them.
The board of managers of the Ameri
can Bible society has voted to amend
the constitution so as to permit the so
ciety to print the revised version Of
the Bible.