The La Jara chronicle., 1906-09-21

passenger tickets will be extended
when the original purchasers are un-
able to use them on account OF SICK
ness, provided certificate from
physician certifying the facts is OBJ
tanned.
More than 500 members attended
the opening session of the National
Prison congress at Albany. N. Y.
After successful test of gasoline
motor cars the Union Pacific railway
officials announce that their branch
lines will be equipped with them.
The constructing quartermaster at
Fort Leavenworth has received in
structions to proceed with the con-
struction of is new buildings at the
post.
Three batteries of field artillery
have been detailed by the war de-
partment to attend the Pike centen-
nial celebration at Republic City, Kan.
The circuit court of Chicago has
declared constitutional the law au-
thorizing the issue by the city OF
S75,OO0,0O0 worth of street railway
certificates as a part of the plan for
municipal ownership.
1t is understood that Acting Sec
retary of War Oliver. who inspected
the troops at Fort Riley, was greatly
pleased with all he saw at the post.
President Palma, of Cuba. has di-
rected that all hostilities cease while
an effort is being made to arrange
with the insurgents for settlement
of differences and thus prevent in
tervention by the United States.
leyte Pulajanes recently made
night attack on the camp of a de-
taclment of the Twenty-fourth in
fantry, colored, and before being
driven off succeeded in killing two
and wounding eight soldiers.
The Chicago grand jury has re-
turned indictments against the di-
rectors of the wrecked Milwaukee
Avenue State bank. of which Paul o.
Stensland was the president, charg-
ing embezzlement in various amounts.
While engaged in robbing the Hotel
Hamilton in Wichita, Kan, Joseph
Fitzpatrick was shot and killed by
I hacllman who witnessed the affair
from the street
In the peonage case now being tried
ct Cape Girardeau, Mo, negro wit
nesses who were held by the Smith
family tell of the brutality of their
alleged employers who forced them
to work under armed guards.
The attempt to amend the constitu-
tion of the Improved Order of Red
men to exclude liquor dealers, saloon
keepers and professional gamblers
from the order was defeated.
a fire in East St Louis destroyed
a sales stable and the st. Clair hotel.
, Thirty guests in the hotel escaped
! with only their night clothes. Thirty
two mules were incincrated.
( In order to guard against any
drunken demonstrations on Mexican
| independence day, September 1G, the
mayor of every city throughout the
country has been ordered to close all
4 saloons in his territory.
| Robbers broke into the bank Of
, Akeley, Mimi, recently and succeeded
] in carrying away 10000 in currency.
Attorney General Had1ey, of Mis-
souri,, has secured from H. Clay
/ Pierce an admission on the witness
stand that the majority stock of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company is owned
| by the Standard Oil company.
| Two violent and seemingly distinct
| storms visited Johnson county. Ne
| braska recently resulting in the death
| of four persons and the fatal injury
to two others. Much property was
! damaged.
One hundred and twenty sailors of
| the United States cruiser Denver were
| LANDED in Havana recently for the
.s,E
| zens and their property. Marines
! from the gunboat Marietta We're also
| landed at Cienfuegos.
! The scientists of the agricultural
! department have demonstrated that
there is profit in making alcohol from
I the waste material of corn canneries
} fifteen gallons have been secured
! from a ton of cobs.
After having Travelled around the
! world fugitive from justice for
nearly year. Granville NJ Gwyn,
fo.Tuer cashier of the bank of Hayti,
| Mo. who left a shortage of $l7.O2l,
, has returned and voluntarily given
himself up to the authorities.
After a protracted conference with
Secretaries Taft and Bonaparte and
| Acting Secretary of State Bacon Pres
| ident Roosevelt has addressed "A let
| ter to the Cuban minister at Wash
| ington making known the policies of
| tho administration regarding the pres
ent situation in the island. The pres
| ident says tina. unless the Cubans i'm
/ mediately show ability to maintain or
der the United States will be COM
| PEELED to take control under the
| Platt amendment