t NOTES vancouver is covered w th from thre to for four feet of inov sno v it is still snowing and threatening to suddenly turn into a thaw george compton formerly of ogden was killed in a smelter at anaconda mont saturday by being caught ill III a rev revolving olvina shaft general H 0 merr am command ng the department of colliado do who A i invest gating the abandoned post at port fort whipple arizona will mend that the post be re established C L N a ater united states marshal ii at t nome alaska has sent his nation to the pres dent he ile is from montana F P L riel richards lards of washing ton wae waa recommended foi the bacan vacancy cy measures are being taken to intro duce a b 11 in the washington legisla ture to submit to a vote of the people an amendment to the constitution des gusting tacoma as the state capital instead of oly naia andrew carnegie the iron and steel magnate haa has promised seattle a dona doua tion of 9 00 to be expended in the construction of a ne v public library mr carnegie cond lions his offer byi bin i ung ing a yearly guarantee of 50 maintenance and improvement six out of nine c of south bend wash who were charged with perjury in the federal court for brov ing up valuable timber lands as home breads and then selling the timber to mill companies were discharged by judge califord Ha II liford in seattle and the other three were released on bond the first news from rampart this winter shows that district to be boom ing all of the creeks are looking well and big manook is corn com ng to the fiant with a rush according to the borun on auby creek near bg manook john folger rolger panned 83 in three days last august owing to the demand of the imperial authorities that all mounted police re cruised in british colomb a for south africa must pay their fai faie e to Cape capetown towa and submit to inspect on for fitness by english officers all ideas of raising a corps in british columb a have been abandoned the navy department has been in formed that the citizens of seattle have pledged themselves to raise a fund of to be paid moran brothers the local shipbuilding con cern to enable them to accept proposal of the navy department to build a battleship at the figure named in the act of congress reports are current in washington that because of the decree issued by puss russ an officials in manchuria seeming to imply a protectorate over that chinese province the un ted states in have asked from bt st petersburg an eipl cit on of its purposes so far as can be ascertained offic als in washington have no such power thomas nancey a fisherman of south seattle was struck by a north ern pac fie passenger train shortly after afternoon noon monday about lOO yards south of the brewery at georgeta Geor geto wash the man was walking in the at the time and did not seem to heed the whistle the body was terribly muti dr robert lawrence a young den aist of denver shot himself in the head bead tuesday while lying on a couch beside his wife death resulted the doctor doctors s suicide 19 attributed to despondency and despair over the condition of his wife mrs lawrence had enjoyed good health previous to beinar vaccinated on the th gh about a year and a half ago the ne virus it is sa d produced atrophy and paralysis followed K an official of the jap anese government arrived in butte last week from vancouver to look into the trouble between the labor unions and the japanese laborers laboi era ers on the rail roads complaints have reached the japanese government of assaults and outrages on the japanese by members of montana labor unions and others says his government will demand protection for its citizens in this cou coultry latry but that no more lal borers would be allowed to come to the united states P 11 molan editor of the jonsland the prine pal Afu kander newspaper in capetown has been arrested on the charge of seditious libel cons sting of reflections upon the conduct of general french and his troops he is a member of the cape parliament glassware ilas manufacturers ners of penn sylvania and the eastern states have held daily meetings in philadelphia the past week looking nation in the trade twenty of the largest concerns are said to have signed an agreement regulating the bus ness the body of the late L eu tenant george 11 barber paymaster in the navy and lephe v of pres dent mckin ley has been taken from the transport grant to the mare island navy yard it will be transported to the east for burial in the commercial treaty to be by the with china a pro vision will be inserted if the uni ed states government can compass it for mally z ng the principles of the open door and it is hoped tin this may prevail