Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — Holding Wheat for Higher Pricee. [ARTICLE]

Holding Wheat for Higher Pricee.

Flouring mills ail over Kansas are shutting dfrwn because they cannot get wheat to grind. It Is estimated by grain men that nearly 100 flouring mills in the State have been forced to close for this reason. It is declared that the farmers of Kansas have combined to hold their wheat for better prices. More than 70,000,000 bushels of wheat is being held. In the United States Court i»t Muscogee, I. T., Judge Thotmis has rendered hitopinion, in which he holds that the act of Congress giving the United States courts in the Indian Territory jurisdiction over all crimes committed in the territory, irrespective of the citizenship of the parties, and which went into effect on Jan. 1, ISOS, is conatitntionnl. This affirms the validity of the Curtis law, and renders Indians subject to trial and punishment by United States Indian Territory court!. France is in u greatly excited condition over the Dreyfus ••use.