The Lamar register., 1904-07-27
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at St. Louis on the 18th inst
Owing to the long dry period. forest
fires along the British Columbia coast
have given unusual trouble this year.
Owing to a backward spring. cold
weather and floods the corn crop in
Kansas is likely to fall considerably
below the average.
The Grand Trunk Pacific amended
charter bill passed the Canadian SEN
ate without division. The bill author
ICES the construction of new trans
continental line.
OF hfty-seven presidential postofices
in the state of Washington, forty-one
showed gains in the last fiscal year
which entitle the postmasters to ad-
vances in salaries.
Twenty of the Texas Worlds Fair
commissioners have advanced $500
each to raise the sum of $4,000 need
ed to pay the first Indebtedness. of the
Texas exhibit at the Fair.
The national transcontinental bill
received the royal consent by the dep
uty governor in the Canadian Senate
and is now law. This is the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway measure.
There was a public reception at the
Mexican national pavilion at the
Worlds Fair July 18th in honor of the
reelection of Porfirio DiaZ to the pres
idency of the Mexican republic.
The civil tribunal of the Seine has
cancelled the appeal In the case OF
private companies against the Panama
Canal Company. condemning the for
mer to pay an indemnity of $4,000.
W. L. Gaynes, an American partner
in Mexico City publishing firm. has
mysteriously disappeared and fears
are felt for his safety. The business
was prosperous and large contracts
had been made.
Samuel Plummer McCallum. one Of
the wealthy oil producers of Pennsyl-
vania and one of the odganizers of the
Republican party, and later of the Pro-
hibition party died at Franklin, Penn
sylvania, July 1th.
A Tangier dispatch says that Kaid
Benhimaa. chief of police. has been ap-
pointed governor. General satisfac-
ton is expressed over the removal OF
the late occupant of the governorship.
which was one of Raisuli's stipulations.
o. F. Cook. discoverer of the Guate-
malan boil weevil eating ant, has
wired the Department of Agriculture
from Texas that the new ants are de-
stroying the cotton boil worms and are
attacking similar injurious insects with
even greater avidity than they do the
boil weevil.
Dr. Guachalla, former Bolivian min
lister at Washington, declares in an in
terview that there need be no fear OF
an aggressive policy by the United
States against Latin America. The
United States, DIR. Guachalla asserts.
is the friend OF all the South Ameri-
can republics and anxious to foster
their progress.
: Authoritative announcement was
made at Union Pacific headquarters
few days ago that the Kansas division
of that road will be double-tracked
from Kansas City to Topeka at once.
The material has all been ordered and
part of it is on the way from the steel
mills. The construction work will be-
gin in about six weeks.
After leaving a note containing di-
rections for his funeral and requesting
that files of newspapers he had edited
in Kansas in pioneer days be sent to
the Kansas State Historical society.
Frederick W. Braunhold, seventy years
old. former printer and publisher.
committed suicide at St Louis July
18th by shooting himself through the
heart.
The Santa Fe announces that on
September 1st 1t will open its hotel at
the Grande Canon in Arizona. and
which is to be called the Ell Tovar.
and which has been built at an ex-
pense of more than 100000. 1t viii
be under the management OF Fred
Harvey. The Santa Fe has built the
hotel for the especial benefit of the
tourists.
A drunkard cannot be compelled to
pay his bar bills. Such was the de-
cision rendered by Justice Callahan of
South Chicago in the case of George
Huber, owner of the Ewing hotel,
against Gus Linderman. Huber sued
for bar bill amounting to $3.50, and
the justice decided that as Linderman
was a drunkard Huber had no busi-
ness selling him drinks.
A recently enacted state law requir-
ingn journeyman horseshoers to be
registered has been declared unconsti-
tutional by the appellate division of
the Supreme Court of New York. JUS
tice Hatch. writing the unanimous
opinion of the court. said he failed to
see how the regulation of shoeine
horses has any tendency 70 promote
the health, comfort. safety and welfare
of society.
Berlin newspapers complain because
the international jurymen to award
prizes at the St. Louis Exposition are
required to pay their own expenses.
One newspaper points out that the ex-
pense of the hundred German judges
amounts to at least $4,000. Other
newspapers suggest that the above
outcome shows the Germans acted too
hastily in accepting the invitation to