Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The house of Jean Baptiste Moncham, a French butcher, residing in St. Morbert settlement, Manitoba, was destroyed by Are, and five children were burned to President-elect Palma of Cuba, after conference with revolutionnry generals, decided to postpone payment of soldiers’ claims till fanners have been helped to resume. Invalid soldiers will be cared tor. Thorough inquiry into conditions in iJfeat industry shows that cattle shortage is alight; that tariff and combinations with railroads for rebates enable big packers to keep up prices in spite of satisfactory range conditions. A blllion-dollar packing trust is predicted by Chicago financiers if the United States wins its suit against the packers; combine would follow lines of United States Steel Company and control entire packing Industry of the country. Dawson telegrams state that orders have been received there from Ottawa directing that the royalty on gold be abnliahed and au export tax imposed instead. This means the retention in the Yukon territory of the gold dust now in circulation and that resulting from the present clean-up. According to the Nome Nugget nn important discovery has been made there. A New York syndicate, at the head of which is George D. Roberts, a wellknown mining man-of the Pacific coast, had been prospecting the tundra between Nome and Penny rivers. The result of the work the paper describes as startling. It shows that gold dust estimated in the millions is deposited in the vast tundras which skirt the Bering coast.