Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Fears for the safety of the corn crop in the Southwest have advanced prices of all grains. Dun & Co.’s Review of Trade' says business is unusually active for the midsummer season. The Reliance has been chosen to defend the America's cup against Sir Thomas Lipton’s third challenger, Shamrock 111. The Postoffiee Department is investigating the purchase of time clocks, the contract for which was so irregular as to invite inspection.’ William E. Curtis says the “bonanza'* farms of the Northwest are being broken up by settlers, who are establishing homes and diversifying the crops. The Department of Agriculture is endeavoring to have the British government raise its quarantine against live stock from the New England States. The Valhalla Colonization and Improvement Company, composed principally of California capitalists, Is looking for colony sites in Mexico for 500 Danish families.

Government bookbinders, who are opposing the reinstatement of Assistant Foreman Miller, may be unable to get their charges before the President. Less talk of a general strike heard. Fr. Jose Algue, the Jesuit astronomer, who is the director of the government observatory in the Philippines, is coming to this country to arrange for the scientific exhibit for the archipelago at the St. Louis exhibition. A- street faker, discussing various cities, says Chicago police give protection when it?is paid for; New York is full of greenhorns anxious to be separated from their money, while Philadelphia is a good place to take the rest cure. The only information the State Department in Washington has concerning the reported trouble in Panama is contained in a cablegram received from Consul General Gudger, in whieh he states that the “governorship' has been tendered and refused,” and that the situation is grave. An area of coal estimated to contain 250,000,000 tons has been located in the Peace river country, British Colombia. Some of the seams are said t» be nine feet thick and the coal of good 'quality. The scene of the discovery is near Hudson Hope, not far from the entrance to tV« Peace river pass.