Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-10-07
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

NJ. Witte. .Rnssia's chief envoy al
Portsmouth, has been created count.
The car bestowed this honor in re-
cognition of his work in the treaty ne
gotiations.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho is in the
Stone Leigh court in Washington suf-
fering from appendicitis. The case is
not regarded as dangerous, however.
and the senator may be out in few
days
August Krall, a farmer living near
Glare, Ia, was ground to pieces under
a train near Clare. The accident was
not known until the train reached
Clare. Pieces of the body were found
on the engine pilot.
The sixteen railways which sought
in the Texas district court to enjoin
the collection of 1 per cent tax on
their gross earnings, waived their Pc
tition for temporary Injunction: and
the cases were set for October II.
The navy department is making in
quiries of the Suez Canal company as
to the dimensions of the Suez canal
and tonnage charges in order to de-
termine whether the floating steel dry
dock built for the Philippines will be
taken by the Suez route or by way
Of Cape of Good Hope.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures,
which were issued October 2, show
-
customs and internal revenue sources
For September, 1904, the customs re-
ceipts amounted to $23, 100000, and
for the three months of the fiscal year
SOS, 131. 7S4.
In a fire which started from an I'M
known cause on the first floor of a
two-story hotel patronized by long
shoremen at 222 West street, New
York, two men were burned to death
and two others were taken to the hos
pital in dying condition. One of
them died there later. Nearly dozen
others were injured.
Commissioner Richards of the gen
eral land Office has forwarded to the
secretary of the interior his annual
report covering the fiscal year ending
June so. 1t shows that in the year
16,909, 075 acres of the public lands
and 77,546 acres of Indian lands were
disposed Of the total exceeding that
for 1904 by 65O,SO acres The total
receipts for the year, including those
for the sale of Indian lands, were
$7,017,811. The patents issued num-
bered 91,O84, as against 5G,SSG the pre-
ceding year.
1t has been suggested that October
I5 be fixed as the date on which to
end the yellow fever quarantine. The
Louisiana state board of health has
issued a letter to the county boards
making this suggestion. October IA
will be another general cleaning up
and fumigating date. The threaten
| ed gulf storm hovers over New Or
leans, but no hurricane is in sight.
! Heavy rains all over this section are
doing the cotton much injury.
| Thousands of his fellow citizens
turned out to welcome President
Roosevelt to the national capital, Sep
TENDER so, and made his home COM
ing an occasion for an ovation from
| the time he was sighted on the plat
| form of his car until he passed with
| in the doors of the White House.
| At Chicago James Murphy, aged 20,
is at the county hospital in dying
condition suffering from a bullet
/ wound in the lung sustained during a
| A
| informed that the chances for his re-
covery are slight he refuses to di-
vulge the name of the person who
| shot him or the cause.
Willard s. Wickard, charged by
Governor Hanly of Indiana, with hav-
ing forged notes given TO former
| State Auditor Sherrick in return for
loans Of state funds was arrested on
ali Indictment as he arrived in Indian
apolis,
/ The open season for big game in
| Maine opened October l and for two
months to come the forest Businesses
of the Pine Tree state will be the
Mecca for sportsmen from many parts
OF the country. According to all indi-
cations regular feast is in store for
the hunter this season
Senior Pedro Alvarado, who has ris
en- from poverty TO the proud position
of the wealthiest man in Mexico with
in the last five years. has renewed his
offer TO pay of the Mexican national
debt. which amounts to over
/ SIS. coo. 900
James J. Hill and a party Of railroad
magnates representing a tenth of the
mileage IL The country with a capital
of billion dollars. are in Seattle,
Wash. They win be shown the posi-
bilities of the system and the strength
of Hills position in his contention IN
the Hartman fight