Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-10
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q CAdS HdS HduulSu over Lne fOTL
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,
900 to construct a military road from
the city of Leavenworth to Fort Leav-
enworth
The isthmian canal commission has
decided to ask for an appropriation of
S26,34S,2 to continue the construc-
ton of the canal during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1907.
King Edward has arrived in Paris
on a 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 a 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 day in San Francisco. Five
thousand are at work on the ruins.
The state labor commissioner organ
lied 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 s7,4S1, 440. The
military academy bill carries $1,663,-
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 OaEland'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. J. The
company confessed to no assets and
liabilities of s2,000,000 in damage
suits, filed by scores of people after
the burning of the theater in Chicago,
in December. 1908 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 H. 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 a great many bar
ges started on their way Immediately
after the opening. The Black River
canal will not be opened until later in
the season.
At Santa Rosa, Calf, the list of
dead and missing has run up to to-
tai of seventy-seven. The last body
found was that of Mrs. Augusta s.
Rodgers, dressmaker with apart
ments over the Novelty theater She
was killed in the collapse of that
building and her body was partly in
cinerated by the flames.
Engineers of the Mexican Central
will soon locate line to connect the
Port of Tuxpan with the new short
line to Tampico. The Tuxpan harbor
on the Gulf of Mexico will be improv-
ed by the federal government.
E. H. Hartman, president of the
Union Pacific and allied lines, ad-
dressing an audience of Seattle bust
ness men, denied that he is opposed
to the Panama canal, but warned the
people against what he termed the
"anti-railroad agitation" which is now
SO pronounced throughout the coun-
try.
The investigation which the state
is making of the books of the Illinois
Central Railroad, with view to. as
ce-tainirg whether back tazes are due,
has been Temporarily stopped, i. is