The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-11
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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& Texas has handled over the Fort
Worth division over 100000 head of
cattle.
1t will be several days before Secre-
tary 'Bonaparte can resume his Off
cial duties. He is suffering from
ptomaine poison.
Two hundred men calling them
selves socialists, attempted to march
through the streets of Chicago under
the red flag and were prevented by the
police.
Representative Curtis has asked the
committee on appropriations for $780,.
600 to construct military road from
the city of Leavenworth to Fort Leav-
enworth.
The isthmian canal commission has
decided to ask for an appropriation of
$2G,348,2S1 to continue the construc-
ton of the canal during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1907.
King Edward has arrived in Paris
on three days visit and is stopping
at the British embassy. He will dine
with President Fallieries at the Ely
see palace before leaving Paris.
Gov. Pennypacker issued procla-
nation in reference to the industrial
disturbances in Pennsylvania in which
he calls upon all citizens to assist in
the maintenance of the law and de-
clares that violence will not be toll
Grated.
Simultaneous raids in New York.
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Glou-
cester on the headquarters of the
Honduras lottery, formerly the Louisi-
ana lottery, implicate prominent men
throughout the country and struck
hard blow at the lottery concern that
may eventually put it out of business.
Hundreds of arrests will follow.
The cutting off of provisions from
able-bodied men has forced $500 to
accept employment at clearing the
streets for which they receive two dol
lars a day in San Francisco. Five
thousand are at work on the ruins.
The state labor commissioner organ
lied a labor bureau which is expect
ed to furnish employment to 10000.
There is considerable fear in San
Francisco business circles that valu-
able Oriental trade will be lost by the
removal of the Chinese population to
Seattle and other coast cities. The
Chinese are indignant over the way
in which they are forced from camp
to camp by the military. Unless per-
mitted to occupy old Chinatown. they
threaten to move their entire colony.
The house completed the agricul-
tural appropriation bill and passed
the military academy bill. The agri-
cultural appropriation bill as it passed
the house carried $7,4S1,4 40. The
military academy bill carries S1,GG3,-
lis.
The action of Mayor Mott of Oak
land in authorizing the opening of all
saloons which have remained closed
in that city since the fire, does not
meet with the approval of Chief of
Police Oman, who deplores the pro-
clamation issued by Oakland's chief
executive on behalf of the thirsty and
fears that it will complicate the work
of the civil and military authorities
in this section.
The Iroquois Theater Company. of
Chicago, was placed in the hands of
a receiver at Jersey City, N. ]. The
company confessed to no assets and
liabilities of 100000 in damage
suits. filed by scores of people after
the burning of the theater in Chicago,
in December, 1903. The merchandise
creditors of the theater company have
been paid out of the proceeds of the
sale of the theater to the Metropoli-
tan Theater Company.
The president sent TO the senate the
following names: To be postmasters
Indian Territory, John McAll. Jr.. at
Ramona; Kansas. Alonzo II. Williams.
at Holton, and Frank E. Shoemaker.
at Neodesha; Missouri, J. H. May, at
Holden.
The Erie, Champlain and Cayuga
and Seneca canals were opened TO
navigation and it is reported from
various points that great many bar
ges started on their way Immediately
after the opening. The Black River
canal viii not be opened until later in