The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-06-24
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Col. Harrington, of the marine corps,
has served over 40 years.
The Chicago chief of police has 500
policemen at Chicago races to prevent
bookmaking.
Sixty miners in the Cripple Creek
district have been arraigned on the
charge of murder.
The grand jury Denver returned90
indictments charging frauds at last
falls election.
It is evident that large reinforce.
ments are to be placed at General Kuro-
patlsin's disposal
A mail carrier out of Sedalia, Mo-,
was robbed and the robber is now GER
tain of a term in prison.
The funeral of Abner Mckinley was
held at the home of the late president
in Canton, Ohio, on June 10.
The story of the finding Of two in
fernal machines at the palace occupied
by Car Nicholas is positively denied.
The coal supply at Port Arthur is
low. 1t is estimated at only 9,400 tons
of cardiff and 1900 tons of japanese
coal.
The finest train of the Northern Pa.
cific was held up in Montana and its
express car demolished by dynamite.
The engineer was killed in the fight
with the robber.
The U. s. weather bureau is to add
wireless telegraphy to the equipment
of all vessel reporting stations, which
will be in connection in a range of zoe
miles from coasts.
The National Association of Veterans
of the Mexican War will hold its next
reunion at East St. Louis, ILL.,, on Sep
TENDER IS and on the exposition
grounds at st. Louis, on September 16.
During May the Standard Oil COM
pany handled $50, 6l4,36 barrels of oil
and OF this amount 97,922.35 barrels
came from Chanute, the rest from the
country around Neodesha, and Indian
Territory.
GRANDSON OF EXPLORER. The first
Lewis and Clark centennial flag ever
raised was unfurled upon the Oregon
building at the worlds fair by George
Roger Clark, the 1o.year-old grandson
the pioneer explorer.
Evansville, Ind, was flooded by the
breaking of the banks of an artificial
lake. The police think that the walls
had been purposely damaged.
The long horns have now practically
all disappeared in Texas. Their place
has been taken by graded and thor
oughbred cattle of a larger size and
value.
Sterling, Colorado, suffered from a
cloudburst which left IS inches OF
water in the town. Hail and wind de-
stroyed the alfalfa crop, just ready for
harvest.
George w. Hendricks, who was
thought to have been the train robber
killed at Glenwood Springs, Col, is in
Jail at Omaha under a pcnitentiary
sentence for forging express money
orders.
A Kansas City lawyer was found
guilty of embezzlement, non support OF
his wife and infdelity, yet the judge
declared that this was not sufficient to
secure his disbarment.
The stern of the sunken battleship
Petropavlovsk is visible below low
tide.
sThree arc dead and two wounded,
one fatally, as the result of duel
fought on the streets Of Bryansville
Indiana, over a feud between two fam
flies
The joint army and navy board has
postponed until next fall the consider
alton Of the question of control Of
wireless telegraph systems operating
on the coasts Of the United States,
The forty-eight Philippine commits
sioners to the worlds fair spent sew
.eral days in Philadelphia inspecting
industries and sight seeing.