The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-04
Domestic Items.

The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men has passed resolutions condemn
ing the present immigration laws and
favoring the exclusion of illiterate and
undesirable classes.
The first two canteloupes received
at Los Angeles from the Imperial val
ley sold for S. each.
The frement's strike on the Georgia
Railroad, which has completely tied up
that line, is causing a serious conges-
ton of United States mail at Augusta
and Atlanta.
Four miners were killed in a mine
near Joplin, Mo-, by falling rock from
the roof of the drift.
New battleship Missouri arrived at
New Orleans from Natchez, Miss, at
o'clock p. m. The Mississippi left
Natchez at o'clock a. m. and covered
the distance 275 miles in IA hours, a
record for the trip.
More than 5000 miners have gone
on a strike near Charleston, w. Va.
President Taft will press key in
Washington that will start the ma
chinery of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex-
position.
A special from Waterville, in Cen
trail Washington, states that distinct
earthquake shock was felt there.
At the request of the city officials
smoking upon the street cars of Des
Moines, Ia. has been prohibited.
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federal court at st. Louis from Judge
McPherson's injunction restraining
the Missouri officers from prosecuting
an injunction case against the rail
roads in the state courts.
The International League Of Press
clubs will hold the eighteenth annual
convention in Bermuda.
James Dodson a negro at Spring
field Mo-, has confessed to stealing
a mail pouch at the railway station
at Rolla. Mo.
The Western Pacific railroad has
placed an order for 40 new locomo-
tives.
The protracted drouth in North
Texas and Northwest Oklahoma that
was causing settlers to desert their
farms, has been broken by good rains
A car of wheat sold at Cincinnati
for s1.53 per bushel, the highest price
paid in that city since 1876.
Mayor Mcclellan has announced
that none of the places of amusement
at Coney Island which involves labor
will be permitted to do business on
Sunday hereafter.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men has elected w. G. Lee president.
Iowa claims a part of Omaha and a
suit is pending in the United States
circuit court. 1t is claimed the Mis-
souri, river changed its course in 1872
and cut the land off from Iowa.
The international conference of
River Brethren at Abilene, Kan,
elected NJ. H. Oberholtzer moderator.
A monument to Gen. George Rogers
Clark the revolutionary soldier and
explorer was unveiled at Quincy, ILL.,
1t was erected by the state.
The Frisco Meteor while rounding
a curve at high speed near Chelsea,
Ok, was derailed and one person was
killed and several others injured.
Reports received by the Oklahoma
State Board of Agriculture state that
the hail and floods have practically
ruined the oats and wheat crop of
Central Oklahoma.
Masked bandits held up the Union
Pacific train just at the edge of Omaha
and took the registered mail from the
mail car but did not modest the pas
sengers or the express car.
The presentation Of a silver service
10 the battleship Mississippi took
Mace at Natchez, Miss.
The firemen's strike on the Georgia
railroad has tied up the road. The
MANAGEMENT announces that no effort
will be made to run trains until the
state furnishes protection.
The Union Pacific railroad has given
orders for the building Of 100 new
locomotives.
The Peoples State bank at Prince
,on Kan. was robbed Of $1,000 by
burglars who cut the telephone wires
and then dynamited the safe.
The new Burlington-Northern Pa
c,fc train out of ST. Louis to north
pacific coast points shorters the time
two hours.