tendant and reduced rates w'ere given decrease of 58 per cent. During tho on the railway. It would hao been a same period, exports from tho Pacific, good move had our county done the ports were 1,501,982 bushols as against same. Education can not beeucouraged 1,298, 514 Jast year, an increase of about From our regular correspondent. Everything In our quiet little town is loo much. putting onholidayal rs." T h es tcTnTw i The curfew sounds loud and clear over dows remind the little ones that Christour city at 8 oclock. The younger class mas is near at hand. seem quite coutented at home, and those The past week has been quite stormy on t lie streets soon get there. and cold. The wet snow made the good oiU-fartuerssui- During the past month much work lias been done on our streets and sidewalks, ok and they are now beginning quite respectable. You need notfear of bieaking your neck if you should by chance stroll along the sidewalk some evening; for most of the ditches are limned or have ditches acrosscd them. This speaks well for the energy of our town incorporation. to-lo- The boys from town who were chopping wood out at Deerlodge returned last week." There is very little to be made intho business. A That dreaded whooping cough has been in our. midst for some time. Sev oral families are aillicted with it; but we are thankful that we are Hot classed with the northern towns that have been besieged with small pox. 12 percent. Johti Y. Smith, tho dynamiter, convicted last jjauirday on thochargo-- uf attempt tolnurder Judge Powers and Warden Dow, took a erase of morphine with intent to commit suicide and died A good time is anticipated on Christat 3:30 Sunday morning. Sentence was mas. Call around and well tuako you to have been pronounced Monday, aphonic. There is some talk of a masGen. II. W. Lawton, major general of querade ball, but talk is cheap you know. At anjr ratetbere will bHa volunteers, and brigadier general in the jChrjstmas treevin the. day for the child regular armyT sfatfonedln the Philipren, and something for the big boys pines, was shot dead Xuesday by-tat night. insurgents at Sail MateoQrlIe was standin front of his, troops Prof. Whitaker of tho Ik B. Y. A. will ing was committed by ono of a baud of bush hence forth bo a Mincrsvilleite on Satwhachcrs. urdays, as he is conducting a musical association here. lie will no doubt bo Mr. James II. Bacon, convicted in of great assistance to ourj-ounpeople 1896 by the FederM coiir.t in Sait Lake We are greatly in need of more able City of making fraudulent reports to singers in our choir. The people have tho controller of the currency and all given their support to tho sentenced to seven years in State prison, iwas pardoned Wednesday Dec. 20th, by ho -an- d-the-act President McKinley on recommendation o the linked" States Attorney-Gener- al and is now a free man. C0NGL0IRAT10N. WASHINGTON LETTER (IE NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE. i The little child of Sid and Pauline. (From" our regular Correspondent.) Carter die d l as t F r i d a y. T h e ca ti so o f " Owl n gLTcLthe on or m o u s s h i p m e n f death is thought to tie a severs'coldoiT . of ex man ufact uri the HTugsand In the head. The young Washington Dec. 18, 1S99 over ports Imports for the month of Editor Blade . , couple receives the heart felt sympathy Novemberwas over 49,0G0,QC0, ot their many friends and relatives.' Gov. Grosvenors speech Itr favor of The New York stock exchange was tho Finance bill was one oflhoevehits T M ah o f o u r to w mf ol kstre retu rn i irg the scene last Monday of tho greatest of the debate which has occupied tlie homo from different sections of the panic in its history. One hundred and entire week in tho House. Following -to drink be and eat, couhtry merry, eighty-si- x per cent, was paid for money are its closing sentences; The republi- Christmas. 4n can party does not need during the day. In the halts of Congress nor dessertations Onr district schools will close FriEngland is becoming very anxious to In the press of tho couutry upon these Then day for Christmas holidays. comeR the fun say the boys, but4 the . vital questions. There aro voices which final. alLdc-ces, menf, prestige, pride, I , t proclaim the triumph of republlcanism teachers, n oj o u b twJ - sayr a II a vo- -1 h e inand it; but the bloody Boers recognize, Hut do not depend upon human fun out When schooi resumes. nothing but compliance with their ul for their effectiveness. From thoorganspine4 limatum. schools were The visited last week by j clad hills of Maine to tho utmost the Iron county teachers, who were on wheat, Including flour.from ern extent of Now Eugland the whirl of jheir way to attend the institute to be the Atlantic sea board during first two the spindle, the ring 6f tho hammer, held in Salt Lake Ci ty. They were al- weeks of December were 5,328.269 bn- - and tho shout of tho happy, well-pai- d lowed a weeks vacatiomby their superin sliels as against 11,129,459 last year, a operatives Is a constant and most voel- - to . 5. y-- oral-argum- I ent St t 1 1 . i t A f A-