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Show UTAH NEWS. Rye and winter wheat are being cmt In Utah county. The sugar beet crop of Utah will this year break alf previous records. The bicycle track at the. Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, is said to be the fastest in the world. Merchants throughout the state generally gen-erally report business from 50 to. 100 per cent better than last year. The flood in Vayne county of last weekj did thousands of dollars damage dam-age to growing crops and canals."" " There is a movement on foot to have a special train bring the Utah volunteers volun-teers from San Francisco to Salt Lake. Work has begun on the "right-hand fork" road to Bear Lake county, for which the legislature . appropriated - $1,000. -, - - ; The banks of Salt Lake City report over $13,000,000 on deposit at the pres ent time, 33,000,000 being deposited in one bank. At Junction last week several fami lies were forced to leave their homes and seek higher ground for safety from high water. Business men of Salt , Lake are agi tating a mid week half-holiday, on the ground that it will help to solve the Sunday observance question. The electric light plant atProvo will be in full operation by the 22nd inst., when the Garden City will be lighted by electric lights, as it was in the early '90's. The demand for cattle and sheep throughout the state is unusually strong and prices are correspondingly high. The farm prospects were never better. A prominent Eastern Utah sheepman last week disposed of his clip of 44,000 pounds at 16 cents per pound. Nearly all the wool in that section has been disposed of. The Lehi Sugar company will build, an auxiliary plant in Salt Lake county. This will be located at Bingham Junction, Junc-tion, where the juice will be extracted and piped to the factory at Lehi. Five car loads of eighty-pound steel rails for use on the Sunnyside branch of the Rio Grande Western railroad arrived last week, and track laying will begin as soon as the rails are distributed dis-tributed along the grade. Utah will undoubtedly experience a substantial building- boom this season. From all over the state comes the plaint that vacant houses are not to be found, and more buildings must be ertctcd to supply the demand. John Bingham of Trenton, lost 130 , tons of hay, cattle sheds and several sets of harness last week by fire, presumably pre-sumably caused through waddiDgfrom a shot gun falling into the hay while sportsmen were shooting at magpies. mag-pies. The amount of internal revenue or war taxes paid by the Utah banks last year was $9,500, at the rate of 82 per 11,000 of capital and surplus. The amount to be paid this year will not be greatly in excess of that of last year. The crowd of Mt. Pleasant boys who went to Idaho to shear sheep are all home again. Some of them did no more than pay expenses. Others, who secured work on the machine shearers, 3 id welL The steam shearers are a X reat success. D. W. Barrowman fell through an Dre chute from the 500 to the 600 level u the Mammoth mine and was instantly in-stantly killed. 'Barrowman was going through the mine without a light, his candle having gone out, and he did not stop to light it. The honey crop of Uintah and Emery Em-ery counties this year will be second only in value to the wool clip. Hundreds Hun-dreds of crates of five-gallon tin cans in which shipments "are made have been sent to the market during the past two weeks. , Now that the White River Utes have held their "harvest dance," consumed a few barrels of. firewater, and wound up the ceremony i p. a drunken row in which two were killed and several severely injured, they will probably be good for a few days.' s The first crop of lucern is being cut in Castle valley, and it will be the largest ever raised in any year in this part of Utah. Big as it will be, however, how-ever, there will not be, from the present pres-ent outlook, enough for home consumption consump-tion by more than half. Ami Oakley of Spriugville was hauling haul-ing hay, and in descending a hill, set the brake on his wagon." The friction set the brake-block on fire and the flames siezed upon the hay. The wag-; on was saved from the conflagration by tipping the load over. , While Eddie Simpson, aged 10, and Henry Vincent, aged 9, were playing-in playing-in an excavation in a sand bank in Salt" Lake City, several tons of dirt came down upon the lads, and before assist ance could reach them Simpson died. Vincent escaped uninjured. . T - t ranic vonnors, a tramp, has been cnargea wita the murder of Officer William Strong of Provo on June 27; The sheriff, who swore to (he com plaint, says he has evidence which thoroughly convinced bim that Con nors is the right man. looele county has twelve school districts, with a population of 1,685 children pf school age.-- ' - Thirty teach ers are employed at a cost of S10.0O0 per annum. Twentv-eiebt ntir.il have graduated from the eighth crade uis jrear. xoueie wny nas a 920,000 school building. The auditor of Summit county has reported his computation of the assessment assess-ment roll for ,1399 and finds the total county valuation to be $4,719,490, which is an increase over the year 1898 of $982,552, tjr 'nearly $1 ,000,000 increase, in-crease, thus placing (Summit county in the eighth class. " - - - The inventory of the estate of the late James M. Peterson of Richfield has been filed in the district court. The value of the real estate has been placed at 86.735 and of personal property prop-erty at $93,638, making & total of $100,-373, $100,-373, being the largest estate ever probated pro-bated in that county. ' The statement of gross earnings jof the Oregon Short Line for the month of May, 1899, shows an increase of $135,701 over the corresponding month of last year. The earnings for the eleven -months ending'' May 3ir show the wonderful gain of $1,150,171.30 orer the same period of the last fiscal year. HEADY FOft PEACE. ACU1NALDO MAKES OVERTURES TO GENERAL OTIS. , Diapatehcs Ara Moat Encouraging to Lortri of Peace Volunteer May Not be Enlisted. Washington, tJuly 19. Important cablegrams have been received at the state department from the Philippine commission and at the war department from , General Otis, concerning a new move in the direction of peace. These dispatches have been in the hands of the president for several days, but he has declined to make tbem public because be-cause the ultra-optimistic views heretofore here-tofore 1 received from the same source have not been borne out by subsequent events. The latest dispatches, however, are more encouraging than the previous ones, but the president wishes to have some positive results before making them public. All that can be learned definitely about them is that direct overtures for peace have been sent to General Otis by Aguinaldo and some of his principal leaders. It was said by a cabinet offi cer that if the promises are fulfilled the volunteers now being enlisted will not be needed. TREATY WITH JAPAN. OTIS IS CENSURED. Correspondents Charge That He Prevents (ablins of Conditions In Philippines Washington, July 19. A stir has been created in the war department by the charges of the withholding of facts presenting the true condition of affairs in the Philippines, which have been preferred against General Otis by all the press correspondents at Ma nila. The correspondents claim that the evident purpose, or at least the effects ef-fects of the censorship, was not to keep information from the enemy, but to keep from the people of the United States a knowledge of the real conditions condi-tions that prevail in the inlands. Sup porting this, the correspondents assert that papers published in Manila.which are regularly carried through the lines to the enemy, are permitted to publish statements similar to those which the correspondents are forbidden to cable. General Corbin, in a statement, de nies that news of occurring events are suppressed, and upholds the course pursued by General Otis in this matter to be wise and proper. SALT LAKE MURDER. Burton V. Morris, a Florist, Killed by John Henbroke Both Loved the Same Girl. Salt Lake City, July 18. Burton C. Morris, a prominent florist, was shot and killed about 8 o'clock last evening by John II. Benbroke, a gambler. Both men were infatuated with Miss Leda Stromberg, who was engaged to marry Morris. Benbroke and Miss Stromberg were dining in a private room at the Merchants cafe, when Morris dropped in on thenr. Morris and the girl had a few minutes talk in an adjoining room. Later he is supposed sup-posed to have rejoined Benbroke. No one witnessed the shooting. The room bears every evidence of a fierce struggle, strug-gle, presumably for the possession of a revolver, as only one was found, while Morris was shot near the heart and Benbroke had two holes in his hat. When the police entered the room Benbroke was astride of Morris, beating beat-ing him over the head with the butt of a revolver. Benbroke says Morris began be-gan the fight. . LONG OCEAN RACE. uoea Away with Old Methods and Sabstl totes New Measures. Washington, July 18. A new treaty between the United States and Japan wenf into effect yesterday, at which time also new treaties between Japan tnd nearly all of the countries of Eu rope and some of the South American rrjjuuucs aviso wen i into err ecu. it is in event of far-reaching importance in the relations between Japan and iue on iieu states, as it does awav with the treaty methods which have been in vogue for nearly fifty years tnd.substitutes an entirely new method it procedure. The treaty with this country was made November 22, 1894, in Washing ton between Secretary Gresham and Minister Kureno, who then represent- id Japan here. The changes it made were so far-reaching it was determined the treaty should not go into operation until July 17, 1899. . The countries in which Japan has made new treaties are the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belguira, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland and Peru. All these went into effect except those with France and Austria, which are ieferred until August 4th. STREET CAR STRIKE. The Rapid Transit Lines of Brooklyn are Tied l p. New York, July 18. Another trolley strike is on in Brooklyn. So far it has not been as effective as the strike of 1893, but there is no telling how far reaching it may become. For weeks past the employes of the several lines controlled by-the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Tran-sit company have complained that the management did not respect the ten-hour ten-hour law. The men demand a revision of the time tables at the different barns and also claim that they should be paid 20 cents an hour for overtime, which is equivalent to $2 per day, the price which they set for a working iay of ten- hours. Meetings have been held daily and nightly for the last week and it was inferred from the reports given out by the employ, ees and their advisors since Thursday ast, that while a strike was imminent, it would not occur for some davs to :ome. i General Master Workman Parsons and District Master Workman Pines had jharge of the men's affairs and a strike was called at 4:30 Sunday morning. 3ver 1,000 policemen are guarding the property of the street car company rhere seems to be no danger of rioting- KILLED THE MISSING LINK. Three American Vessels In a Content From Hawaii to Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 19. A race of 15,000 miles for a prize of $1,000 terminated termi-nated at the Delaware breakwater Mon-terday Mon-terday on the arrival of the ships I. F. Chapman and W. F. Babcock and the bark St. Catherine from the Hawaiian islands. All three are American built and American owned vessels and are commanded by American skippers. It was while the three vessels were taking cargoes of sugar that their masters arranged the race. Allowance was made for the difference in time of departure, but notwithstanding over two weeks elapsed between the departure de-parture of the first vessel, the Babcock, Bab-cock, and the last, the St. Catherine, all three vessels arrived within a few hours of each other, with the St. Catherine the winner, Will Stand by the President. Washington, July 19. Mr. Lyons, register of the treasury, exTepresent ative Cheatatn, recorder of seals, and John P. Green, United states stamp agent, three of the leading colored men of the administration, had a con-sulation con-sulation with the president Monday regarding re-garding " matters of interest to their race. The efforts of certain colored men to array the colored race against the administration on account of its Philippine policy was mentioned and Mr. Lyons assured 'the president that in his opinion it would amount to little. and Now the Question Arises, Was it Brute or Human. Bonsteil, S. D., July 18. Upon the question whether his victim was brute or human depends Archie P. Brewer's jjuilt or innocence of the crime of mur der. Brewer is one of the owners of a small tent show. Among the features was a creature of seemingly a higher form of animal life than a monkey and lower than a man. . Brewer and Thorndyke called the animal the "missing link," and laid yreat stress on the alleged fact that no one was able to say whether it belonged be-longed to the human or brute creation. Brewer now avers that the freak was a monkey. In a scuffle with it the showman became angry, and seizing a heavy club, dealt his antagonist a heavy blow over the ear, from the effects ef-fects of which it died in a few honrs. WOMAN'S AWFUL DEED. Killed Her Mother, Wounded Her Hasband and Took Her Own Life. Liberty ville. 111., July 18. Following a family quarrel, Mrs. George Treiter shot and killed her mother, wounded her husband and killed herself. The inarrel was precipitated by long stand ing family troubles. Hot words were exchanged during the morning between the mother and daughter, and Treiter also became involved in the discussion. Mrs. Treiter stepped into the bedroom tnd appearing with a pistol, opened 8re on her mother. The first shot was fatal, and the husband, springing forward for-ward to disarm his wife, received three wounds that sent him from the house In retreat. After leaving the house he heard two more shots, the ones that killed his wife. RAILWAY STATISTICS REPORT OP INTERSTATE COM MERCE COMMISSION. Total Number of Railway Incorporations in the United States is 2,047, with Capital Of 10.918,556.031, Employing 875,-Ul 875,-Ul Persons mt an Expense of 9495,035,618. Washington, July 16. The report of railway statistics for the year 189S, compiled by the interstate commerce commission, shows that eleven roads went into the hands of receivers as against forty-five taken out. while the mileage of receivership roads was decreased by 6116 miles op erated and 5133 miles owner. There was a decrease in the capital stock of the roads in receivers' hands of $221,-927,239. $221,-927,239. The aggregate mileage of railways on June 30, 1898, was 247,532, an increase of 4089 miles. The total number of railway corporations in the United States was 2047. The total number of locomotives in use was 36,234. an increase of 248 ov- the pre iousyear. The total of railway em ployes was 874,558, an increase of 51,082. An interesting feature is a wage sora. mary compiled from over 99 per oeut of the total employes. There was paid in wages $495,055,618, an increase for the year of $29,457,037. This sum represented 60.52 per cent of the total operating expenses. The total amount of railway capital outstanding on June 20, 1898, not in. eluding current liabilities, was $10,-818,556,031. $10,-818,556,031. Of the outstanding stock 66.22 per cent paid dividends. Of the stock paying dividends C.G3 per cent paid from 1 to 4 per cent. There was 4.54 per cent of the dividend paying stock that paid from 7 to 8 per cent. The total in dividends was $90,152,889, being an average of 5.29 per centon all stock on which a dividend was dell de-ll ared. The total number of passengers car ried was 501,0(56.681, an increase of 11,- j.Jl,438. 1 he total number of tonu of freight carried one mile, per mile of me, was 617,810, which was greater by )8,731 than the previous year. lne gross earnings of the whole nileage was 51,247.325,621, an increase )f $125,235,848. The total number of casualties for .he year were 47,741; the asrtrresrate tilled was 6.857, and injured 40,882. Of ailway employes, 958vere killed and 1,761 injured. The passengers killed vere 211, and injured 3,945. The total lumber of persons killed other than assengers and employes was 4,680, ind injured 6,178. This indues persons per-sons classed as trespassers, tramps, ind the like. One passenger was killed tor every 2,267,260 carried, and one in ured for every 170,141. One out of very 448 employes was killed, and one out of every twenty-eight was in jured. SCHEME THAT FAILED. Ex-Governor I'nder a Cloud. Lincoln. Neb., July, 19. The senate investigating committee has begunjan inquiry into the conduct of the governor's gover-nor's office during the four years' incumbency in-cumbency of Silas A. Holcomb. . An alleged discrepancy of several hundred dollars between the amounts drawn from the treasury by the ex-governor for house rent and the amounts paid to the owner of the house was brought out in the testimony of former Deputy Hedlund and Mrs! Charlotte Gould, owner of the house where Mr. Holcomb Hol-comb lived. . ...... In the Land of Fends, r London Depot, Ky., July 19. Clay county has another killing for its annals. an-nals. Dick Loven's body has been found three miles-from Manchester. He was beaten to death in the night. When found his head was severed from his body and had been beaten to a pulp. A 45-calibre revolver was found on the body. Having , killed three men and injured teveral, he was probably killed 'by the friends of one of his victims. He leaves a widow and eight children. "" Millions of Klondike Gold. , Seattle, Wash., July 19. The North American Trading fc " Transportation company's steamer Roanoke arrived here yesterday from St. Michaels. Alaska, with between 500 and 600 .pas sengers and between $2,000,000 and $3,- 000,000 worth of gold dustThe low, est estimate is $1,750,000, and the high-ect high-ect 53,500,000. This latter estimate is of Purser Newcomb, in whose custody a large part of the treasure was. He included in his figures the amounts in the possession of individual passengers- COURT OF ARBITRATION. What the Conference at the Haras Pro poses. The Hague, July 18. The sub-committee of the arbitration section of the peace conference has adopted a resolution reso-lution that the permanent court of arbitration ar-bitration should consist of ministers credited to Holland instead of ministers minis-ters resident at The Blague. This will have the effect of bringing in the smaller states whose ministers are accredited to two or more countries. Fifty Thousand Ilesume Work. Pi ttsburg, ' Pa. , " July 1 8. Ti n-pla te workers throughout the country to the number of nearly 50,000 have resumed work after an idleness of two weeks. The scale fixed in Chicago is based on the price of bars, the minimum ad-nce ad-nce over last year's scale is fixed at x5 per cent, which prevails until June 30, 1900. In addition to the 15 per cent the men will receive a further advance ad-vance of 20 per cent because of the recent re-cent advance of 50 cents per 100 pounds on tm plate. Indians Hold a Smoke Dance. Guthrie, O. T.; July 18 The Indians of the territory are largely engaged in dancing, in spite of the efforts of the government to prevent the practice. At Grey Dorse, the Big Hill band of Osages have ' been holding a smoke dance' for f a week in honor of their guests, Pawhuska's band, and. during that time, have presented him with J nearly $5,000 worth . of presents, ., in cluding -many ponies and saddles,-a thousand yards Of red calico and fifty nickel watches. Carter Harrison for President. Cleveland, 6"., July 18; Vincent H. Perkins of Chicago, who has been mentioned as the successor of Carter H. Harrison for the mayoralty of that, city, in an interview said that 'Harrison 'Harri-son was loyal to Bryan andswonld support sup-port him for the presidency next year. - "Mayor Harrison,", he said, '"will be a candidate for governor of Illinois to succeed Governor Tanner, and in 1904 he will be a candidate for the presidency presi-dency and will be nominated." Capture of An Insurgent Letter Saved the American Army. San Francisco, July 16. The officers of the Second Oregon regiment, while very guarded in their statements, ad mit that the condition of the American troops at Manila at the outbreak of hostilities between Aguinaldo and the United States was very critical, The capture of a letter sent from in- lide our lines in Manila to an emissary" at Aguinaldo Is probably all that saved our army from a terrftble, disaster and possible annihilation. The letter was taken to General Otis, who found in it the plans of a plot to open the gates of Manila, sack the insurgent army to pour into the the American camps and surprise the men. The United States troops were under arms all night to meet the expected attempt, but spies had learned of the capture of the letter, and the only part of the plot that was carried out was the burning of a portion of the city. Talk of Shatter's Retiring-. San Francisco, July 16. Major Gen eral Shafter will have reached the age limit in about three months, and it is said his friends are working quietly, but none the less energetically, to se cure his retention in the service for a few years longer. The friends of the general argue that since the department depart-ment of the Pacific has become so important im-portant by reason of the acquisition of the Philippines, it is inadvisable to make a change in its commander just at this time. 'UNDER TWO FLAGS." A Little Incident in Honolulu That May Cause Trouble. San Francisco, July 15. The follow ing has been received from Honolulu under date of July 7: There was a flag incident here on the Fourth of July which promises to.be made an international episode. Carl Klemme, the proprietor of the Orphe um hotel, gaily decorated his building ing in American colors, hoisted the American flag oyer it, and under the American flag the German flag. iater a iriena oi nis wanted to use an American flag and Klemme good naturedly loaned him his, leaving the German flag floating alone from the flagstaff. J. H. West saw it and ordered Klemme to haul it down. There had been ill will between the two men before be-fore and Klemme refused to take or ders from his enemy. west thereupon gathered a lot of soldiers from the transport Sheridan and showed them the German flag floating on the Fourth af July in Amer ican territory. The soldiers at once proceeded to the roof, tore down the German flag and destroyed it, and put In its place some red, white and blue bunting torn from other decorations of the building. West was today fined $100 in police court for malicious mischief and the German consul-general will make a report re-port of the matter to his government. FIGHT WITH INSURGENTS. Fourth Cavalry Has an Engagement With Kebels .Near Ma'ntllupa. Manila, July 15. Lake Laguna de Bay is being patrolled by three troops of the Fourth cavalry under Captain McGraw and the army gunboat Napi- dan, commanded by Lieutenant Lar-sen. Lar-sen. The force makes its headquarters on an island, movinc on cascoes. in which the men are towed about to make unexpected visits to towns where there are small forces of insurgents, for the purpose of keeping the rebels moving. On Tuesday the troops had an en" gagement at Mantilupa, on the south shore of the lake. They found 500 insurgents in-surgents there, intrenehed near the shore. The Napidan shelled the rebels and a party of American troops numbering num-bering 135 landed and drove them by a sharp running fire to the hills, where they were too stronirlv intrenched for the small force to attack them. Two of the cavalry men were wounded and the bodies of ten insur gents were found. It is supposed that the enemy's loss is thirty-five. LONG TRIP ON AUTOMOBILE. the Revenue Stamps on Checks. Washington, July 16. Commissioner Wilson of the Internal Revenue department de-partment has issued a circular absolutely abso-lutely prohibiting banks from affixing stamps to checks unstamped when presented pre-sented and requiring them to return the same to the drawers. In his circular circu-lar to collectors the commissioner says: "You are directed to notify the banks that are guilty of stamping unstamped Checks that if the practice is not immediately im-mediately discontinued they will be reported to the United States district attorney for prosecution." Lost Both Hands. Seattle, Wash., July 16. David Mat- therson of Tacoma, a victim of the Edmonton trail, arrived here with both hands amputated and both feet useless, the effect of frost. In company with three men, he started for Dawson over the Edmonton route with a large herd of cattle. Nearly all the cattle were drowned, but the men pushed on, and after much suffering reached Dawson. One of their number left the party on the trail and took the back track home. Mattherson thinks it doubtful if he got through aliye. Reward for having a Man's Life. Springfield, Mo., July 16. Accord ing to a letter received by Chief of Po-liceJBishop. Po-liceJBishop. Robert M. E. Cooper is heir to half a million dollars in Cripple Creek mining property and Texas reaj estate left by Captain John Crego, a frontiersman who died .recently in Cripple Crip-ple Creek. Cooper formerly edited a pa per here and was at one time prominent promi-nent in Missouri politics. He became penniless and has for years lived in St. Louis. Years ago, in Texas, Cooper saved Crego's life. Cashier Wins 168,000. New York, July 16. The Middlesex County bank of Perth Amboy, N, J., has been closed by the banking department depart-ment on account of a shortage in the bank's funds, variously estimated all the way tip to $165,000. Its cashier, George M. Valentine, is in jail charged with the theft of the funds. The closing of the bank and arrest of the cashier caused consternation and dismay among the business men of Perth Amboy. where the JU lames County bank was considered as strong as the Sternal mil- New Yorker and Wife Start Across Country for San Francisco. New York, July 15. John D. Davis and his wife started at 11 o'clock on Thursday last for a trip to San Fran cisco on a gasoline automobile. The trip will be the longest, if completed, ever made by an automobile. The automobile is a handsome contrivance, built compactly and with the purpose in view of traveling over rough roads. It resembles a road phaeton. The wheels are bicycle type, with 6teel spokes and pneumatic tires. The back is built high, well cushioned and comfortable. com-fortable. A long row of automobiles followed the travelers to Harlem. Robbing' Railroad) Company. Philadelphia, July 15. Eight men, formerly employed in the freight department de-partment of the Philadelphia & Reading Read-ing railroad, are under arrest here charged with having stolen thousands of dollars' worth of goods from the company's cars. Two of them were employed as conductors, the others as brakeuien, and their alleged peculations pecula-tions cover a period of more than a year. The value of the plunder will aggregate more than $5,000 and the stolen merchandise includes thousands of cigars, barrels of whisky, valuable silks and woolens. NEWS SUMMARY. Transports to Arrive. San Francisco, July 15. The next transport due here from Manila is the steamer Indiana, now out twenty-six twenty-six days with sick and wounded men from the various commands at the front. The Morgan City is out twenty-five days with invalids, and the hospital hos-pital steamer Relief is supposed to be in company with her. The cruiser Boston is out sixteen days from Nagasaki, Naga-saki, and it is just about at Honolulu. The Hancock with the First Nebraska and the Utah battery is out fifteen days. Cavalry for the Philippines. Washington, July 15. A dispatch has been received from General Otis re questing that there be sent to the Philippines 2,500 horses, in order that a brigade of cavalry may be organized for use at the end of the rainy season. General Otis has tried the horses of Manila and nearby countries, but none of them seem to be suitable for cavalry. It is the intention of Secretary Alger to have the mounts carefully selected and he thinks that animals from the southern states will be selected. Three Tramps Killed. Kansas City. Mo., July 15. Three tramps were killed and five others were seriously injured by the wrecking of a freight train near Glendale, Mo. The body of another man is believed to be at the bottom of the wreckage, which consists of ten car loads of merchan. dise, hogs and cattle. All of them were stealing a ride in an empty stock car when the train left the track on a sharp curve. Among those in the car was a woman in male attire. She es" taped uninjured. Won a Million Acres of Land. St. Paul, Minn., July 15, The North ern Pacific Railway company has won over 1,000,000 acres of land in the suit of the government to declare void part of the land grant of that road, which was based on the question whether the terminus of that road was at Dulnth or at Ashland, lne decision or. the United States circuit court of appeals was handed down Wednesday after noon and is in favor of the company's contention that Ashland is the terminus. ter-minus. . ' - . j ( Millionaires Mast Pay Taxes. Chicago, July 15. The fight against the collection of the inheritance tax by the heirs of George M. Pullman and Albert M. Billings has been lost. as far as the lower courts are concerned and the collection of the taxes in question, ques-tion, amounting to about $200,000, will be made unless the supreme court interposes. in-terposes. The Pullman-heirs are taxed on the net value of the estate in Illi nois, amounting to $8,120,082. The net value of the Billings estate in Illinois is $7,412,000. Ex-Secretary John Sherman is daily improving in health. The state department is watching with anxiety the developments in Guatemala. A scheme to establish a negro colony at Oak Grove, near Flemington, N. J., is assuming form. The report that the king of Belgium would visit Newport is discredited in official quarters in Washington. The loss of cotton crop by flood in the Brazos bottom, Texas, will be 200,-000 200,-000 bales, representing $5,000,000. The drought is still terrible in the pastoral company of New South Wales. Fifty per cent of the stock are dead. Five thousand refugees in Salvador and as many more in Mexico and Honduras Hon-duras are ready to take up arms against Cabrera. At Fort Smith, Ark., ten of the strik ing miners were convicted ia the federal feder-al court of entering into a conspiracy to intimidate negro miners. It has been many years since the Panama isthmus has been visited by such an outbreak of yellow fever as is prevailing in the city of Panama. The Separatist uprising in the Southern South-ern provinces of Peru is spreading, and the government has sent 500 infantry and cavalry into the rebellious district. It is reported that Russia is arranging arrang-ing a loan in the United States and that large orders have been made for rails and armaments to counter balance it. There are now 40,000 troops in South Africa. The official estimate for the Boer males of 16 years and upward, plus a third of those under 16, is only 39,038. The t late Czarowitch, according to the Paris correspondent of London Daily News, was privately married with his mother's consent. He left no children. Secretary Alger reports that General Otis, in response to an inquiry, had cabled that there was no necessity for shipping cavalry horses from this country. Attorney-General Crow won the first round in a suit to oust the Continental and other parties from doing business in the state for violation of the antitrust anti-trust law. Mrs. Rich is to be surrendered to the Mexican authorities to be tried for the murder of her husband. This has been decided upon by the authorities at Washington. Besides dynamite guns,.Gatling guns will probably be sent to General Otis, and the army transports are to be armed with six-pounder rapid-firelguns to prevent any possible attack by insurgents. The customs receipts at the port of j Havana for June were $1,012,899. The total receipts for six months of 1899 are, to be exact, 5fr,i4b,H.io. ine monthly average for six months is $857,805. It is problematical what attitude will be adopted by our government in case an attempt should be made by the European governments to seize custom. houses in Guatemala to collect money for bondholders. An order of the war department per mits the immediate family of a regular volunteer soldier, who is absent abroad, to purchase at post prices fuel and subsistence stores which are for the immediate use of the family. H. S. Coleman, a Wisconsin man, has sailed for Alaska with a cargo of cats on which he expects to realize at least $3,000. He says the rats are very troublesome in Dawson and his cats will bring from $20 to $50 each. Dynamite guns are to be used by the American troops in the fall campaign against the Filipinos. Preparations are being made by the ordinance department de-partment to supply General Otis with six Sims-Dudley dynamite pneumatic weapons. No representations have been made to the state department as reported from Pretoria touching the reported intention of American citizens in the Transvaal to become British citizens in order to avoid impressment into the Boer army. Count Boni de Castellane, who married mar-ried Anna Gould of New York, has not challenged the prince of Monaco to a duel, as was reported by a New York newspaper, and if be expected a challenge chal-lenge from the prince he has been disappointed dis-appointed so far. Charles G. Dawes, comptroller of the currency, has resigned the office of treasurer of the Lafayette Memorial commission because of his inability, in the pressure of official duties, to supervise super-vise the sale of the $50,000 of souvenir coins voted by Congress. The orders issued last summer which allowed sixty cents a day per man for soldiers undergoing hospital treatment, treat-ment, have been revoked, and an order issued allowing forty cents per day per man from the appropriation for subsistence sub-sistence of the army. It is said at the. state department that the financial conditions in Guatemala Guate-mala and impending repudiation threaten severe loss to American citizens. citi-zens. But so far our government has not consented to take any joint action with England and Germany. News has been received in San Fran cisco in the shape of a telegram from Billy Delaney, Jim Jeffries's trainer, which seems to indicate that the champion cham-pion has backed out of his proposed four-round go with Jeffords, the husky heavyweight from Angels Camp. A large portion of the employees of the dye-house of Battary worsted mills, Passaic, N. J., have struck for an increase in-crease of 30 cents a day in wtes. They have been receiving $1.20 a day. All "the employees of the worsted mills, who number 3,000, threaten to quit. During the week the state depart-, ment expects to receive by mail the full reports of all that has been accomplished accom-plished at The Hague conference. This will include the formal draft of the treaties and procotols which the United States government is expected to accept. 3 An order has ; been issued . by the president extending the protection and privileges of the American flag to the shipping of Porto Rico and the Philippines. Philip-pines. All ships owned by residents of these islands, at the time of the exchange ex-change of the ratification of the treaties, treat-ies, are included NORTHWEST NOTES. The citizen ts of Victor, Colo., spent over $15,000 in red fire and fire-Forks on J aly 4. The school children of Wyoming have contributed $192.20 to the Lafayette Lafay-ette fund. Mining men of the Cripple Creek, Colo., district expect that camp to break all previous records for their gold output this season. The city of Rawlins, Wyo., has been presented with several hundred books for a public library by Miss Ballard of Springfield, Ohio. The library will be known as the Ballard public library. Deputy Sheriff Christian of Wilson county, Missouri, was in Rawlins, Wyo., last week with requisition pepersfor Dan Chapman, who is wanted at Ozark, Mo., for robbing an old man of $140 and beating him almost to death. The Cheyenne Rifle club is completing complet-ing arrangements for the big shoot which will be held during the celebration celebra-tion of Frontier Da3 August 23-24. It is expected that the shoot will attract a large number of the best marksmen in the Rocky mountain country. Mike Sheridan, section boss on the Central Pacific railroad, at Reno, was riding along the track on a railway rail-way velocipede when he -was s'truck and instantly killed by a special train conveying teachers tojthe National Educational Edu-cational convention at Los Angles. Word has just been received to the effect that another rich strike has been made on Cow creek, in the Grand Encampment En-campment district, Wyoming. Particulars Par-ticulars are very meagre, but it is claimed that the vein uncovered it five feet thick and runs very rich in copper. cop-per. August Bodien, whose body was found in a room in the Grand Central hotel at Helena, Montana, did not commit suicide, as was at first suspected. sus-pected. The coroner's jury which inquired in-quired into his case returned a verdict that he came to his death from natural causes. The Postal Telegraph company of Wyoming has filed articles of incorpor- ation-in Cheyenne, with a capitalization of $50,000. The company proposes building build-ing a line of telegraph from Denver to Cheyenne, and from Cheyenne to Salt Lake, and will commence work of con struction at once. While stealing a ride in a box car on the Great Northern near Spokane, G. R. Martin, who says he formerly kept a restaurant at Chico, Cal., was mortally mor-tally wounded by a masked thug. The purpose was robbery, for there were eighteen or twenty other men in the car and all were relieved of their money. Advices from White Rock, Shoshone Indian reservation, Nevada, say there are prospects of disturbances on that reservation in connection with the In" dian school, and that the fourth attempt at-tempt to burn the school building has been made. A telegram has been sent to to the commissioner of Indian affairs apprising him of the situation. The highest price received for wool in Montana for five years was paid at Fort Benton, a clip of 17,000 pounds sheared by John Washes being sold at 19 cents. The average price of the sales at that point was 18. Buyers from all over the state had appointed the day to go to that point to make purchases, and twenty buying houses were represented. R. W. Bradley, owner of the extensive exten-sive sandstone quarries at Iron Mountain, Moun-tain, on the line of the Cheyenne & Northern north of Cheyenne, has closed a contract with the Union Pacific for 100 cars of stone for immediate delivery. The stone, which is the finest building material in this section will be used in making the additions to the Union Pacific Pa-cific roundhouse at Laramie; also in the construction of the new roundhouse round-house at Rawlins By direction of the president the military post near Spokane, -Wash., has been named Fort Wright in honor of General George Wright, who was colonel of the Ninth infantry and a brigadier general of volunteers. Colonel Colo-nel Wright defeated the allied bands of Indians near Spokane plains on Sept. 5, 1858. He was drowned July 30, 1865, in the wreck of the steamer Brother Jonathan while on his way to assume command of the department of the Columbia. The comptroller of the currency has given out an abstract of the report of the national bank in Nevada of its condition con-dition June 30. It shows that since the date of the last report, April 5, the total resources have increased from $499,238 to $539,100; loans and discounts increased from $251,657 to 269,633; reserve re-serve in banks decreased froia $27,324 to $25,448, of which the gold holdings increased from $19,495 to $20,910. The deposits increased from $391,212 to $430,-482, $430,-482, and the ratio reserve held increased from 19.47 to 22.06 per cen.t. Charges have been filed, against In. dianag-ent John S. Mayhugh of the White-Rock agencyin Nevada, alleging, among other things, arbitrary administration. admin-istration. These charges are the outcome out-come of a dispute as to the management manage-ment of the agency school, and have already caused twe investigations by order of Washington authorities. Mr. Mayhugh has sought to have School Superintendent Anna G. Eagan removed re-moved and other radical changes made. She has requested a transfer, and with others, will be assigned to another' school. . Dave Putty and Bud Nolan, who were arrested in Dillon, Mont., on suspicion sus-picion of having a hand in the robbing and dynamiting of the Union Pacific mail train at Wilcox on June 2, have been taken to Cheyenne by Montana officers. The prisoners have been identified iden-tified as the notorious outlaws, the Roberts brothers. They have also been identified as twoof the men who robbed the postoffice at Big Piney, Wyo., a year ago. It is "believed by the authorities author-ities that the prisoners were impli-sated impli-sated in the train robbery on June 2. Governor De Forest Richards is arranging ar-ranging to have a ay declared as a state holiday when the Wyoming bat- 1 talion reaches Cheyenne from the Philippines. Phil-ippines. It is believed the troops will reach home about the middle of An-just, An-just, and an effort will be made to have them remain and participate in the Frontier celebration on August 23. Governor Richards has secured half rate transportation for the wives of the officers of the battalion from Cheyenne to San Francisco, a number of the ladies having signified a desire to go to that city and meet their husbands, MARK ET REPORT B1LTCK. New York fH San Francisco ". 60'n London '2731 LEAD. New York Exchange ti. 6034. 65 New York brokers , 4.35 COPPER. New York Exchange 18.25 eiP.V) New York Brokers 18.S0 Name of Stocks. Bid. Asked 1 2 .1 1 it) d.NS .-'4 6.'. .y.i's .61 40. Hi .37'. 3. 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Native beef steers J4 75 Western steers 4 0,1 Texas steers. . 3 so Cows and heifers 3 ho Canners 2 25 Stockers and feeders 3 75 Calves 4 (in Bulls and stags 3 00 Western muttons 4 00 Stockers 3 50 Lambs 4 00 i5 50 (t Ml luA 75 a 4 ;.o (?. 50 Q 8ft (TrU 50 Qr 20 4 40 to 4 00 (&s 00 Denver. Beef steers 3 75 (55 30 Cows 3 50 to 4 50 Feeders, freight paid to river.. . 3 50 to4 t'o Stockers, freight paid to river.. . 3 75 tol 75 Bulls and stags 2 25 fci 00 Good fat muttons 3 75 ii 4 75 Lambs 5 00 toO 00 KEBEIPTS. Chicago Cattle 18.000 Sheep 14.000 Kansas City-Cattle l. Sheep 2.00c Omaha.. Cattle 1 l.flOO Sheep 4.4' Denver Cattle 50C Sheep 1,700 American Religions HtatUtirft. In the United States aie seven religious re-ligious denominations each of which has over 1.000,000 members. They are: The Disciples of Christ, who number 1.085,615 members; Jews, 1.200,000; Lutherans, 1,526,552; Presbyterians, 1,542,401; Baptists, 4,364,427; Methodists, Method-ists, 5,898,094; Catholics, 8,395,178. The Diamond as Tramps. Quinn "You seemed enraptured with the French soubrette. Did she capture your heart?" DeFonte (feel-lrg (feel-lrg his bosom) "No; but I believe she's captured my diamond." The most interesting of the "hanging" "hang-ing" ohurches is St, Swithin's. In former times it was like any other church, but when King Charles went to live at Winchester he attended service serv-ice at the cathedral and the St. Swith-ln Swith-ln church building was in the way and prevented his taking a short cut, so he had a mad cut through the church' cal red the King's Gate. The ohurch was 'not demolished altogether and services are still held in the part over the gate. Ilfracombe has a church built on a pier and shares the distinction with no other town In the world. A church that may be reached by a climb of 199 steps may? be said to be queerly situated. situ-ated. Whitby, the Yorkshire seaside resort, has its parish church on a steep cliff and the climb up to it on a Sunday Sun-day morning Is most picturesque. " Led church is built on a battlefield and stands solitary in all its ugliness. Under it lie the bones of many who were killed In the battle of Towton. The church will hold only thirty people peo-ple and was built after the battle. |