Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

New Mexico has seventy-eight newspapers. Artesian wells are making of Roswell ths garden spot of New Mexico. Ogden, Utah, is the place of meeting for the next, that Is, eleventh national Irrigation congress, in 1903. Australia, twenty-six times larger than the whole of the British Isles, hns a population smaller than that of London. In nine yeara ending with the close of the fiscal year 1900-1901, the production of gold in Mexico increased from $1,29f1,907 to $9,327,542. 11l Wyoming they are sowing large fields of Russian thistles for pasture. It is said cattle are very fond of it in its green stage and do well on it. Perhaps the saving of seed from this miserable pest will develop into a regular industry. Orders have been issued by the Navy Department directing Commander W. H. Sewell to pr<?tee<l to Guam and assume the duties of commandant of the naval station at that place, relieving Coni•nnnder Kenton Hchroeilor, ordered horn* to await orders. There arc in the civilised world to-day about 450,<)HB,tt»lG sheep, 2tS),00(>,000 cattle nnd 125,000,000 swine. Texas has niqre cattle within ita ls>nlers than any other State of the Union. In 1900 It had 9,420,190, lowa recorded 5.307,030, Kansas 4,491,078, Nebraska 3,170,243 and Illiaoia 3.104,010.