Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-02-01
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Iucld.
Secretary Taft appeared before the
house committee on insular affairs in
the interests of a pending bill for the
coal lands to enable the United States
to mine fuel for its own use in the
fast mail.
General Manager Pearce, of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company, says
that the Valencia is insured for ap-
proximately $150,O0O, of which
amount three-fourths is carried by
English underwriters and the re-
mainder in San Francisco.
Combinations: Luke E. Wright,
Tennessee. ambassador to Japan;
George Cabot Ward, New York, audi
tor of the island of Porto Rico; Oil
yer r. w. Robinson. receiver of pub
lie moneys at Los Angeles; Fred G.
Havemann, postmaster, Samon, Ida
no.
The wrecked steamer Valencia now
lies submerged and broken but a por
tion of a mast stands above the wa
ter and the fleet of steamers and tugs
have been turning their attention to
patrolling the vicinity in the hope of
finding boats, RATS or wrecksge still
afioat with survivors, though the
chances are small.
President Loubet presided in Paris
at a cabinet council held in the Ely
see palace at which Premier Rouvier
announced that he had received
communication from Ambassador JUS
serand to the effect that the United
States did not consider a French ma
val demonstration against Venezuela
to be a violation of the Monroe doc
trine.
Governor Carter of Honolulu, is
seriously ill. He is suffering with
high fever with some indications of
typhoid. Secretary Atkinson. who is
in New York. has been notified not
to leave for Europe for the purpose
of seeking immigrants for the island
which is the object of his visit. 1t is
said that he may not return to act
as governor.
The finance minister, M. Sakatani
said in the house of representatives
in Toxic that he proposed to con-
vert SS,000,000 of the war taxes into
permanent imposts and to establish a
debt with consolidation fund for the
service of which $55 ,00O. 900 would be
devoted annually in addition to the
s1S,OOO,00 hitherto assigned for the
same purpose.
Ministerial circles in Paris are
much annoyed over the published re-
ports relative to Frances alleged
hesitation and nervousness regarding
the Venezuelan question. A highly
placed official of the foreign office
protested theoretically against the
statements made on the subject.
The Grand Harbor of Masters and
Pilots of Steam Vessels of the Uni
ted States, the supreme body of the
Steamboat Mems Association of the
United States, is holding it's annual
SESSION Ill w DClCSdISS
representing the steamboat men of
every important port in the country
and from st. Michaels, Alaska, and
Honolulu are present.
Felix Gaidst, Russian, who was
cabin passenger on the steamer Mo-
eye. was arrested upon the steamers
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The arrest was made at the instance
of the project of the secret police of
st. Petersburg. A charge of embez-
Element was made against the man,
but it was said by friends that Gaidsi
is wanted in Russia for political rea-
sons.
The government through District
Attorney Morrison made its opening
statement in the packers case in Chi
cago. The district attorney entered
upon his address to the jury with
su..h vigor that the attorneys for the
defense at once interposed objec-
tons.
Stephen Decatur, great-grandson of
Commodore Decatur. first class Uni
ted States naval academy, was dis
missed from the navy by Secretary
8onaparte in conformity with the
sentence of the court martial in his
case on the charge of hazing.
A requiem mass was celebrated in
the Westminster Roman Catholic ca
thedral in London in memory of Ray
mond Prefontaine, the late Canadian
minister of marine and fisheries, who
died in Paris December % last, and
whose body has been taken to Can
ada on the British battleship Do
minion.
According to official accounts the
Baltic provinces are now almost
pacifed." 1t is alleged that 230 of
the 225 townships of the southern
province of Courland are now occu-
pied by troops.
1t is now believed that the French
cruisers Desaix and Jurien De La Ora
Were, which have sailed from Port of
Spain for an unknown destination, are
bound for Fort De France. Island of
Martinique, and not for La Guaira,
Venezuela, as at first supposed.
The will of the late Marshall Field
was filed for probate. Specific be-
quests are made to the aggregate of
So, 5GS, 900. The remainder of the
estate is left in trust for the son. Mar
shall Field. Jr. (wbo died November
2O. and his descendants.