Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — PEACE BRINGS LOSS. [ARTICLE]

PEACE BRINGS LOSS.

The Boer War u Source of Kcvenuc to Americana. The stock growers of the western part of the C nit ul States will lose u great deni of money by the termination of the war. for the repoit or .lud.v Advocate Crowder of the army to the President shows that the a gouts of the British government at I.nthrop. Mo, (near Kansas City) have spent $J7.U35,:t50, or nn average of sol)7.ti7s a month, for burses and mules to be shipped from New Or--I**iius to South Africa. The number of horses shipped was DS,tW7, and the number of mules 75.108. In addition to this the agents of the British araiy have expended corresponding sums for freig.it. forage, labor and other necessary purposes in the same connection. They have" l aid us high as sno a bead for mules ami SSO for unbroken ranch horses.

N. H. (Jravos, n mining man, shot his wife twice In tin* head nml instnntly killed her nt their homo nt Suit Lake City, Utah. (Jrnros then allot himself in the temple, inflicting a fntui wound. No i-e.t---«on Is known for the murder uml ■uleide. Our lug the {MM year thirty-live vessel* Imre been completed for (treat Hritnin’s nary and seventy-five are in course *or const ruction. Jose and Tomas Palma, sons of Cuba’s president, hare been aeut to New York to attend school.