Show Good News From the Cans 1 I PANAMA September HA wellin formed correspondent writes the Star and Herald It is learned thaf several contracts on the canal have been finished fin-ished turned over to the Canal Company Com-pany and accepted after inspection Facts are stubborn things These irrefutably irre-futably give the lip to the innumerable vague floating rumors in circulation about the Canal Companys shutting down work Of course they are shutting shut-ting down and just as fast as they can but only so at the completion of their work Otner equally important sections sec-tions will also shortly shut down and the outside world suspects and whilst it is yet buttonholing itself speculating on the gloomy prospects of the Panama Pan-ama Canal work the cable will flash throughout Christendom with the tidings tid-ings that ships are floating on their way over the Isthmus of Panama |