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Show a nxerc-- I a tyC &ibtv tcw RAKDIXS WIXOM, PARTITIONING CHINA. Washington rrrttorm. ehurla nungMtgafts3ffiffli!3aa TM it kMpllMi Diplomats Is Lott to The tone of press advices from the European capitals have done touch to HiMorafl depress officials In Washington, who ?krN have labored so long to preserve the 8 Foal OOoa u Brtelun City aa taluct rth oooad integrity of China. It begins to appear saner. ilui to them that Manchuria U hopelessly STANDING, MlUf. lost to China, and the best that can he done now Is to save as much as hiBMftal COTfoopaadoata. Iioom of am an aettoltad Iron all pam if possible from the wreck, and there fore the effort will probably be made WriuTapoa aaa (Me of ht paper anly. - Wrlto proper aaatoa rielalf. . . to procure from Russia a binding promise that the powers will not he entirely deprived of the right to exPhaaarar Aealra. ttl ka ploit Manchuria commercially. It may be possible to secure the opening of FUBLISHKD EVERY THURSDAY. one or two ports such as was proposed In the pending treaty between China UTAH STATE NEWS. and the United States, which will probably have to bo amended in view of these latest developments. The fear f The track of the Leamington Is expressed that the Russian moveIs now fifteen miles below Stock ment will be copied by other .nations, ton. and that Germany will proceed to ex on Work was commenced Monday tend her sphere of Influence In the the canal for the electric light plant Shan while France tor Sprlngville. The plant Is being will Tung peninsula, overlap the borders of Tonquln. Jut In by the city. RIOTING IN FRANCE. John Alexander, a carpenter, is Bead from injuries sustained by fall Troubls Dus to Dispersing Unauthorilng from a building on which he was zed Meetings. working In Salt Lake City.' In the provinces of France Sunday Judah Howells of Salt Lake City, was marked by numerous disorderly Is the owner of a freak calf born last from the disoccurrences, resulting week. The calf has five legs and of unauthorized congregapersing three toes on some of its feet. tions. The most serious disorder Is reThere is a strong probability that ported from La where the National Guard of Utah will go 600 peasants who were guarding a CaInto camp this summer with the reg- puchin convent In which the monks ulars at some point In Wyoming. had barricaded themselves, stoned and President Roosevelt will not par- seriously Injured three magistrates ticipate In the proposed buffalo hunt Who came to the convent with officers on Antelope Island, owing to the lim- to close It The peasants finally drove ited time he will remain in Salt Lake the magistrates away. The latest disCity. patches from La . tha arrival of two companies At the close of last week twenty-sicases of smallpox remained in quaran- of Jafaatiy and 100 cavalrymen on the At Saint Nlcholas-du-Potine in Salt Lake City, sixteen new asene. cases having developed during the tfesre was much rioting throughout the day, owing to an attempt to expel week. 1 Government experts will probably tbA Redemptloniats. Investigate the grasshopper pest in BTRANGLED FORMER SWEETyipw to find-du-g jRanpete county with HEART. !'' ma ent-tof- MORMONS EXPELS Believe Man. the Chinese. On Veer. la - PRUSSIA ALL MISSIONARIES WILL BE TO LEAVE COUNTRY. Declaration it Made That Elders Teach Form w Rellgloua Belief Incompatible With Laws of 8tato and Morals. According to a Berlin dispatch the governments of Prussia and of the have Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg decided to expel the Mormon missionaries, of whom there are 145 In Germauy and 90 In Prussia, on the ground that they are propagating a form of religious belief Incompatible with the laws of the state and public morals, and because polygamy la cot excluded from their doctrines. The missionaries, who are all Americans, will he allowed sufficient time to settle up their personal affairs. None of the Mormons havo yet been deported. The government of Prussia defines the expulsion as being simply a police measure, for which no explanation need be made. ""Peter Lantensac, a German naturmisalized In Utah, first organized sionary work here in 1896. He was succeeded In 1899 as bishop by Arnold Schulthelss, a Swiss naturalized in Utah, who directed 100 missionaries. Hugh J. Cannon replaced him In 1900, and the latter has steadily Increased the number of Mormon preachers and has nearly doubled the membership, which Is now 1,800. When a Mormon arrived In a German village he would rent a hall and begin to preach and the common result was that the local pastors would complain to the police, who not Infrequently ordered the missionary to leave. The latter would then telegraph to the bishop In the United Berlin, who, through States embassy, would obtain a suspension of the police order IndefThe for initely, or its cancellation. elgn office, owing to the number o! cases pending, took up the subject with the view of settling the status of the Mormons for good. Instead of being bothered by numeroua Individual cases. The result has been ths decision of Prussia and Mecklenburg to expel the Mormons, which course U likely to bq followed by Saxony, where thbre ire twenty-fivmlssiea Hoosler Murders Woman fter Sha ariej, aid itj dther states. Bavuja Refuted to Marty Hfm. home time ago decreed thi expulsion of Mormons, and they quietly lefi The evidence adduced by Coroner (naklng a stir or attracting Carson points almost conclusively to J'iuouf Mr. Cannon, who has been informed the fact that Martha Lawrence, aged Meckle19 yean, who was found dead in the officially of Prussias and house of Silas Beam at Laporte, Ind., nburgs decisions, has not yet determined what to do, but will endeavor was murdered, and that her murderer to obtain a reversal of the policy. He strangled her to death. Truman Beam, affirms' that the missionaries never son of Silas Beam, has been arrested teach polygamy, never persuade their on suspicion of knowing something of adherents to emigrate and always admonish obedience to the laws. The the crime. It Is known he had pro- members are discouraged from emiposed marriage to Mias Lawrence but grating, Mr. Cannon adds, hecause was refused. Silas Beam, the father, the church desires to establish a perThe miscaused a sensation by making public manent foundation here. sionaries in at their own declaration that he believed his son expense, haveGermany, distributed consider able sums of money in charity. guilty of the murder of Miss , Roche-sur-Foro- n x Uttle peels. peaM exterminate the Diphtheria and membranous crou? have been very prevalent in Tropic and vicinity this spring, claiming no less than twenty-on- e victims, all under 12 years of age. A rigid quarantine is In force. Dr. Washington Franklin Anderson, who died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 80, was the first president of the Utah Medical society, and attended President Brigham Toung in' hie last illness. Clyde Ellison, who shot and killed Undertaker A. S. Watson in Salt Lake vCity, la on trial for his life. Ellison will endeavor to prove that he was i Justified in killing Watson on account of family troubles. The loss of sheep in this state during the past winter, according to a report issued by the agricultural department, was 7.8 per cent through exposure and 2.1 per cent through disease, or 353,438 sheep in all. As the result of a fall from a horse, son of Mr. and Mrs. the Don Davis, of Brooklyn, near. Elsinore, Is lying at deaths door. As the boy was alone at the time of the accident. It is not known how it happened. Little Alada Ross, aged 3, of Salt Lake City, while playing in the yard at her home, was struck by a stray bullet fired by small boys who were using a target gun, the bullet entering the thigh, inflicting a painful wound. Victor M. Clement, the well known mining engineer of Salt Lake City, died Sunday morning in Saltillo, Mexico, as the result of an operation which he had undergone a few days previous. Mr. Clement had a worldwide reputation as a mining engineer. Three accidents occurred in the family of George Barney of Brooklyn wltlv In a week. A daughter was run over by a roller and severely injured, another child fell from the shed sind broke its collar hone, while a third fell Into a canal and was fished out just In time to prevent its death. Sheep Inspector Candland of Sanpete county, after visiting the east and west deserts, estimates the loss of sheep through the past winter and pring at 20 per cent The local assert their loss will not reach this figure. Charles Christensen, a Richfield lad, has been convicted of breaking into the tabernacle In that city and stealing a purse which had been left on a seat by the janitor. The 'lad has been sentenced to five years In the state industrial school. The committee from the Agricultural college of Utah, charged with the selection of sites for the five dry land experiment farms in Utah, has definitely settled upon two tracts of land. One of the farms will be in Juab county and one In Iron county. The memorial adopted by the last legislature asking that a portion of Utahs vast forest reserve be opened to settlement will probably bear fruit, Secretary Hitchcock having stated that much of the land in question will he restored to the public domain at an early date. The work on the Lucin cut-of-f has reached a point three miles beyond the Promontory point and work is being rushed. The pile drivers art being worked two shifts by the light furnished from the electric plants. Piles are arriving every day. The wife of District Attorney Frank K, Nebeker of Logan was burned last week. Mrs. Neb-skwas out In the yard burning clothing caught fire and P1-- it could be put out she was bume 0tt 1118 back, side and flock-maste- serl-TOS- ly er pa-k- 8 e i HAS NO OPPOSITION. Henderson 8ays Roosevelt Will 8ueceed Himself. In an Interview published In the Los Angeles Express Tuesday, David B. Henderson, former speaker of the national house of representatives, who Is visiting his son at Long Beach, said: "President Roosevelt will be nominated, in my opinion, by the next Republican national convention, and he will be elected by the American people In the same spirit of enthusiasm displayed when he made his famous charge up San Juan hill. That he will be renominated goes without saying, and he will have no opposition. No other name will go before the convention. His election will, I believe, follow by the largest majority ever given to any candidate." Whltecappera Whip Women. unmasked men broke into a house in Bloomington, Ind., and switched Misses Rebecca and Ida Stephens, 18 and 16 years old, and also Joe whipped Shively, - colored, 60 The aged years. Stephens lived mother with . their girls which in the samo house In Shively had a room. The negro was w t pped with a barbed wire and was st rk in the eye with brass knuckles. Re. cca was whipped with barbed wire and Ida with apple switches, but neither is dangerously injured. Thirty-eig- -- Twelve Thousand Participants In Riot The Berlin Lokal Anzolger has published details of the recent disorders at Kronstadt, Russia, which began in a brawl between troops and marines, and during which it was said that some officers had been killed. The paper says the trouble developed Into a regular riot, In which 12,000 persons took part. The rioters tore up paving stones and wrecked houses. An attempt to quell the disorder with the fire brigade failed, the fire apparatus being destroyed by the Infuriated mob. Ammunition Intended For Boxers Being Seized. Large seizures of war munitions intended for the Kwangsl rebels are still being made at Canton and Hongkong. Following close on the seizure of 5,000 rifles at Hongkong, news comes from Canton that 20,000 Mauser cartridges were captured while being taken up the river as a result of the panic on the cargo boat due to the appearance ot an armed patrol boat It Is believed that a number of boat loads had already reached the revolutionists. Bluejackets Quelled Mutiny. Advices received In Honolulu from the Orient by the steamer Doric state that a mutiny broke out on the American ship Edward Sewall at Woo Snng. Captain Quick was unable to cope with the mutineers, and he went for assistance to the United States battleship Oregon, which was In the harbor. Marines were sent to the ship and the malcontents were arrested and taken from the ship. The Edward Sewall is on her way to Honolulu. Engagement In Which British Suffer at Hands of Mad Mullahs Men. A dispatch from Aden, Arabia, says Brigadier General Manning, after an engagement with the Mad Mullahs forces, has relieved Colonel Cobbe, near Gumburru, Somaliland, forty-fivmiles westward of Galadi About of the Mullah': men were killed. The British loss Is not known. The few details obtainable of the disaster detachment to Colonel Plunkett's April 17th show the Mullah's forces consisted of 2,000 horsemen and spearmen. They surrounded Col onel Plunketts force in the open, and the Somalis, after a heavy rifle fire, charged repeatedly with their horsemen and spearmen on all sides. The British detachment held out until its ammunition was exhausted, and then charged with the bayonet, but It was ultimately overwhelmed by weight of The British force fought numbers. until all of its officers and 170 men were killed. Most of the handful of men who reached the camp were wounded. The Somalis losses are reported to have been enormous. The Mullahs forces are reported to aggregate from 3,000 to 4,000 mounted men and about 80,000 spearmen. e 10,-00- 0 EnMembers of the Illinois Legislature in Scrap. gage Slugging and rolling over each other across the speakers platform In a frenzied general fist fight at the feet of a score of women guests, the members of the Illinois legislature Thursscenes of day surpassed the wildest the Austrian reichsrath. Charges by the speaker of the house, Isaac Miller, that attempts had been made to bribe him were formally made as an explanation for the extraordinary actions on his part that precipitated the riot railway franchises Chicago street more valuable than gold mines were directly at stake, federal receivership proceedings against the Union Traction company of Chicago having brought the matter to a sudden issue. The federal receivership was held by many to Indicate an intention by the street railway company to fight out a franchises, claim to instead of negotiating with Chicago city council for a renewal of franchises on a twenty-yea- r basis, with a municipal ownership option on the part of MAKE WAR ON NEGROES. Illinois Mob Makes General Onalaught on Colony of Negroes. An unknown negro, aged about 17 years, was lynched by a mob near the village of Santa Fe, Ills., Sunday afternoon for attempting to assault the daughter of Branson Davis, a farmer. The lynching was followed by a general onslaught upon a colony of negroes living In tents In a bridge construction camp. The tents wer burned and dozens of shots were exchanged between the whitee and blacks. Several negroes were shot, but so far as known none was killed. No whites were hurt DO NOT TEACH POLYGAMY. Missionary Cannon Makes an Appeal to the Emperor of Germany. t Hugh J. Cannon, the Mormon missionary, intends to appeal to Emperor William for permission for the Mormons to remain In Germany, hoping that bis majestys policy of religious tolerance may include the Mormons, In his petition Cannon sets forth the morality of Monnon doctrines and refers to the Inability o I his adversaries to cite any example of the Mormon teachings which bag been subversive of the laws of the state or of orderly citizenship. He declares also that by the command of the supreme head of the church polygamy Is not taught . Miszing Man Returns. Deputy United States Marshal who was lost In the Gunsight country several days, and who It was stated had been killed, has returned to Phoenix, Arizona. He said one of the Indian smugglers he went after NAVAL STRENGTH IN CHINESE was captured near Barrajlto ranch by himself and the two Mexicans acWATERS. companying him. While handcuffing Indian escaped and seized a America Hat Two Battleship and him, the near carbine the cabin door, but beTwenty-fou- r Other Smaller Vessels. fore be could use, one of the MexiIn view of the laest developments cans shot him dead. The Indians are In Manchuria, the naval strength of swearing vengeance against the officer. the various powers in Chinese waters , Sacrifice Was Useless. becomes interesting. The Russian fleet has been gradually increased unTwenty years ago John Crempa, til now It cumbers forty-twvessels. who has Just been burled at Perth France has thirty-onand Amboy, N. J., was living with his wife , ships twenty others In India and Cochin in Neutla, Hungary. She was accused China waters. Great Britain at last of stabbing a man, a former admirer. accounts had thirty-sevewar vessels Crempa confessed to the crime to save in Chinese waters and Germany sev- her, and went to prison that she might enteen. The Kentucky and Oregon remain free to care for their child. are the only American battleships on After serving ten years he was sot the Asiatic station, but there are free. Then he found that his wife had twenty-fou- r other smaller American been living with another man all the warships, including two monitors and time he was In prison. Crempa came some small gunboats in Philippine to America, and spent the rest of his waters. Japan has a strong naval life In New Jersey. force on the coast. A Million Dollar Life Insurance Policy. Macedonians Massacre Party of Turks A New York life Insurance comfor 8laying Their Captain. pany, through Its Philadelphia agents, Dispatches from Sofia announce has just issued to Rodman Wana-makethat a hand of Macedonians recently son of John Wanamaker, a polsurrounded and slaughtered forty icy for 31,900,000. The premium on Bashl Bazouks and fifteen the policy will be 130,000. This makes near Petrich, Macedonia, out Wanamaker one of the most heavily of revenge for the murder of their insured private individuals in the leader. Captain Saeff, who was re- world, as he carries policies for His Insurance Is said be excently killed In an engagement in the district of Melnik. The band subse- ceeded only by that of King Edward of England. John Wanamaker, his quent captured the district chief of father, carries policies aggregating Petrich and twenty-fivsoldiers, 31,500,000. whom they strlppod and released. Looks Bad for Hulze. King of the Gypsiee Dead. j Jennie Fox, the consort of A1 Hulze, James Stanley, known as King of the Gypsies, who died in a traveling has made a confession In which she Hulze and an unknown wigwam near Haverhill, Mass., Mon- implicates man as having defended Outlaw Mcday, has been burled from a tent In West Roxbury. Ills will leaves 25,00Q Kinneys room in the Chinese Joss In cash and a house In West Roxbury house at Bakersfield, Cal., against tha of officers, in which McKinney assessed at 113,000, to his widow and attacks and two officers lost their lives. The eight children. The undertaker who woman claims not to know the Idenhad chaVge of the uineral says that tity of the third man in the room. Hulze has Stanley had an iron casket weighing Since his imprisonment 800 pounds, made for himself some made two attempts at suicide, and has as if acted Is but It believed he insane, time before his death, which was used Is shamming. In his burial. Ut-tin- o e Bailey Received Big Fee. United States Senator Bailey of Texas Is receiving congratulations on having recently been, paid a fee of J200.000. John Kirby, the "industrail king of Texas, recently determined to refinance one of his large companies opening the pine forests of southeastern Texas, and employed Senator Bailey to assist In enlisting New York financiers tn the enterprise, his compensation to be a fee and commissions mounting to 1200,000. The negotiations were successful - Drank Carbolic Acid. Miss Annie Day Kellogg, the adopted daughter or ex President Kellogg of the University of California, com. mltted suicide at Berkley by swallowing carbolic acid. Just before committing the act, Miss Kellogg conversed with a friend whose dinner she was to have attended in the evening. After dismissing the friend Miss Kellogg went upstairs to her room and poured the arid into a cup. She then called out that she had taken poison and rushed downstairs, expiries In a short time. Valuable Electrical Discovery. Prof. Braun announced before tha Strasburg Scientific Society that ha has discovered a method of producing electrical energy of unlimited volume and projecting it Into space In the form of electric waves, to any de' aired distance. Hydrogen Gas Travels Faat The highest speed which matter has been known to reach' Is that attained by the eruption of hydrogen and other gases from the sun, which is, at times, several hundred miles a second. Soured on New York. A New York soman who Is 102 years of age says she has lived long enough and wants to die. She says that when she was a young woman of 90 she could do as much work as anybody, but at 102 life has lost most of Its charm for her. Cleveland Leader. Want Prison Flogging Abolished. The Humanitarian league has petitioned the British Home Secretary te abolish or largely restrict the custom of flogging for breaches of discipline which still exists tn English prison Free-for-A- James F. Kelly, on trial at Butte for the murder of Dr. Cayle, testifying In his own behalf, declared that he shot the doctor In of According to the official census was Butte of 1900 the population The directory canvass just completed makes the population 61,116. A Havre, Mont., special says that oil has been discovered 25 miles from that city. The indications warrant the belief of the existence of large quantities of oil. At Missoula, Mont., Judge Webster has refused a new trial for Louis H. Mott, sentenced to death for the mur- ninety-nine-ye- the city. DONT WANT MUCH. Russia Makes Demand Upon China for Sovereignty In Manchuria. Russia has demanded that China sign an agreement practically ceding to her the sovereignty of Manchuria and excluding other nations from that country. The Russian charge daffaires, M. Plancon, has Informed Prince Chlng, president of the foreign office, that no further steps In the evacuation of Manchuria will he taken until this agreement Is signed. Prince Chlng refused the Russian terms, but his refusal probably pleased Russia as would have well as his acceptance done, because either alternative means the relinquishment of Chinese sovereignty In Manchuria. The Russian demands are as follows: First, no more Manchurian ports or towns are to he a opened; second, no more foreign are to he admitted Into Manchuria; third no foreigners except Russians are to be employed in the of service Manchuria; public status of fourth the present the administration of Manchuria Is fo remain unchanged; fifth, the customs receipts at thg port ot e are to be given to the bank; sixth, a sanitary commission is to be organized under Russian control ; seventh, Russia is entitled to attach the telegraph wires and poles of all Chinese lines in Manchuria, and, eighth, no territory In Manchuria Is to be alienated to any other power. con-tul- New-chwa- Russo-Chtnes- POSTOFFICE IN ROW DEPART-MEN- 29,-93- Is Tyner Dismissed From the Service. A most sensational development of the investigation of postoffice department affairs occurred just before the department closed Thursday, when Postmaster General Payne announced the summary dismissal of James N. Tyner assistant attorney general for the postofflee department, coupling With the announcement the startling charge that all the papers and records in the safe of the latters office had been abstracted by Mrs. Tyner, wife of the discharged official, with the assistance of others. The postmaster general states that Mrs. Tyner has refused the demand of the government for the return of the papers taken, and said the circumstances in the case would be submitted by him to the department of justice. Other sensational developments are expected. The question of arrests will be passed on immediately by Attorney General Knox. DEFEAT THE BRITISH. . Ten Officers and 180 Men Killed In Battle in Somaliland. The Britsh transport Hardinge has arrived at Aden, Arabia, from Berbers, the capital of Somaliland, East Africa, and confirmed the report of a British defeat in Somaliland. The officers of the Hardinge say that ten officers and 180 men out of a total British force of 220 men, were killed recently in an engagement with the Somalis. SLAUGHTER OF JEWS. Killed by Rioting Russian Workmen. Twenty-fivJews were killed and twenty-sevewere wounded, many of them fatally, during riots at Kishineff, capital ot Bessarabia, April 20, when a number of workmen organized an attack on the Jewish Inhabitants. The minister of the interior has ordered the adoption of special measures to restore order In the town and district. Twenty-fiv- e e n c IK1A UCftQBI attention: At the end of its business year (May 6. 1902), the Tecklenborg at Bremerhaven, capitalized at 2,000,000 marks (3476,000) paid a dividend of 20 per cent This concern was occupied to its utmost capacity during the entire year and the repair der of his wife. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court. Shortly after returning a verdict In a damage suit, D. J. McGinley, foreman of the jury, dropped dead of heart disease at Hamilton, Mont. He was a prominent rancher of that section. Governor Sparks of Nevada has appointed Senator Hardin of Humboldt county to act with James Yerington and himself as Nevadas commissioners to the Worlds fair at SL Louis. Mike Sinai has been captured at Falls, Mont , as a fugitive from Justice from Canada. He was serving a term at McLeod for grand larceny when he broke prison. He claims to he a Russian count. President Roosevelt will he the guest of Buttes labor unions during a portion of the time he expects to spend here. May 27th. He has accepted the Invitation ot the Silver Bow Trades and Labor assembly. The Chinamen who work in the Chinese laundries of Butte are on strike, to the numbor of 300, for higher wages. They have been getting from 31 to 32 a day for washing and delivering clothes. Now they demand 34 a day. Mrs. Frank Doolittle, living near Solo., Mont, has developed a genuine case of spotted fever, traceable to a woodtlck bite. On April 14th Mrs. Doolittle was In the woods with her her husband. While there the woodtlck bit her. Six days later she was taken ill. com-pan- and dry docks were continually In use. Six double-screfreight and passenger steamers and two very large sailing vessels were building, of which three steamers and one sailing vessel were delivered to the owners. The firm is famous all the world over for building sailing craft and the vessel completed a few weeks ago is probably the largest In the world. Her name Is Preussen. She is a d steel vessel, Her length is throughout. 440 feet, beam 50 feet. She has a carrying capacity of 8,000 tons, while her registered tonnage Is 4,000. Recently she started on her first voyage to the west coast of South America. G.-e- steel-sparre- d MONEY IN HIS DREAMS. Insomnia Would Be Real Affliction to Augustue Thomas. When Augustus Thomas, the playwright, was a newspaper reporter In SL Louis be enjoyed the reputation of being able to walk less and get more stories than any other man on his paper. He was what Is called nowadays a good dreamer, and this accomplishment has aided him wonderfully in the profession which has made him famous. Some of the best situations in his plays have evolved from his dreams. Many of the plots, the scenes and the stage settings have come to him, according to his Intimate acquaintances, while he has been taking a light nap In a steamer chair on the spacious piazza of his home In Newt Rochelle. It was one afternoon in June that he discovered Alabama, and It was while the cool breezes from the Sound swept over him one night in August that he found In Mlzzoura. It was by a big log fire In his den that he first met The Earl of Pawtucket," and he Is now awaiting the coming of other distinguished personages to introduce to the public. Some persons have money in their dreams, only to find themselves broke when they wake up, but every time Gus Thomas opens his eyes after one of these pleasant experiences he finds himself many thousands of dollars richer. If he is ever afflicted with, in; somnia It may cost him his fortune. The mines ot the Sheridan Coal company at Deitz, near Sheridan, Wyo., have been closed down as the result of a strike, about 200 men being out The men recently organized and demanded recognition from the mine owners. It Is believed the trouble will soon he settled. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Church, the ranchman anl wife whose murder W. C. Clifton, now In jail at Newcastle, has confessed, were found f two and miles from their ranch burled three feet deep. The searching party had been directed to the spot by Clifton in his confession. The Western Union Telegraph company has closed Its offices in Butte, and declare they will remain closed indefinitely, or until the troubles with the labor unions has been settled. arose over the demand of the A. D. T. messenger boys employed by the Western Union to deliver messages for a recogniton of their recently formed union. The Blessed. Low Is the lintel of our dear Lords door, And who would enter In Must the new life begin With little children, and the crouching t poor; With mourners, and with meek and lowly eouls; With those who long for good As prisoners pine for food, Or kneel in dreams where living water rolls. The-troub- Beneath those gates too low for human The estate of Marcus Daly, who died In 1900, has been apraised by the appraiser apointed by the surrogate for the assessment of the inheritance tax, and his report shows that Mr. Daly left personal property in New York of the value of 31,450,437. Mr. Dalys wll was probated In Montana, where the bulk of hts property Is situated, and his entire property is valued at 311,000,000. The supreme court of Montana recently decided it had no jurisdiction In an injunction to restrain the school text book commissioners entering into a contract requiring that only text hooks bearing the union label be purchased. pride The blessed come and go. Each bearing seed to sow In God's great gardens, or His meadows ' wide, With gentle Mercy, Peace and Purity, They find their glad employ Sowing the seed of Joy, Nor know its name, nor what the fruit shall be. Sometimes day. the memory of a long past When they had suffered shame And death for Christ's dear name. Sweeps o'er them like a cloud above their way; But on a golden morn there falls a Voice: "Come, O ye blessed, cornel is the harvest home. And all the fields are white with Joy. ; Rejoice! It , While drunk John Culver struck his mother during a discussion. Filled with remorse for his act, he placed the muzzle of a rifle In his mouth and blew the top of his head off. The deed was done in front of his home at Great Falls, Mont. Christ Benson, who effected his escape from jail at Olympia, Wash., March 1st, after killing Jailer David Merrell, and who was convicted of manslaughter, has been sentenced to twenty years In prison, and in addition was fined 32,000. Fire CAII Recently Built In the Yards of a Busy German Firm. The extraordinary activity display, ed by the builders and managers of German steamship lines during the past three decades has been equaled by the energy shown In constructing sailing vessels of the latest type, according to the New York Times. Within tne past few weeks one firm of German shipbuilder has completed what will be probably the largest galling craft In the world, according to a report received by the state department from Henry W. Diederich, United States consul at Bremen. The following Is the record of the years work of but one of several firms to whose activity Mr. Diederich calls one-hal- Assistant Attorney General r Cigars From the Colonies. Slowly but surely the Porto Rican cigar Is winning favor among the devotees of nicotine. When the product of the colony first was Introduced Into America it failed to meet the approval of smokers. It was sold at a price which made It compete with Havana, and the average man preferred the Havana. Now the Porto Rican cigar competes with the lower-pricedomestic grades. It was Bold for five cents, and at this figure has made a big stride forward in popular favor. The real Porto Rican, the plantation made, Is uncouth in shape and Is easily distinguished from the "Porto Rican cigars made In Connecticut, which are turned out of molds. Tobacconists advise that care he taken to give the colony weed a good light and avoid chewing the end any more than possible. Under these conditions, they say, It Is as satisfactory as the ordinary fifteen-cen- t cigar. high-grad- e d In the Olesen block, a three-storImlodging house In Butte, perilled the lives of 200 persons. Fireman Captain Fred Thomas was painThe flames were fully injured. checked after hard work on the part of the fire department. The sixteenth annual meeting of Dropped Box of Giant Powder. the Eastern Montana Wool Growers' Three men are dead and a fourth association was held at Miles City, His "Character. probably fatally injured as a result of Mont., last week. The association There was an opening for a butler an explosion of giant powder In the readied on 7 cents with board and' in the family where Bridget was cook Chloride Bailey mine near Dedrick, 8 cents without board for and she promptly applied for the Trfntity county, California, Thursday. either by hand or machine. shearing, position in behalf of her brother. The names of but two of the victims 1 take it that his reputation morThe commissioner of the genera of the accident are known. .They are land office last week issued orders com-- ' 1 ally is all that could be expected," tried Linden anil Joe Wilbur, both Madame. withdrawing from entry, ir suggested dead. Linden and Wilbur were work- porarlly Xcuse m,e, hut would you mind connection with the proposed irrigaat the breast of a drift Onq. of tion ing enterprises, about 368,000 acres of saying that question over sgin? askthem dropped a box of giant powder. public land located In the Buffalo and ed Bridget There was a terrific explosion, shakLander land office districts of Uyo-minI say" repeated Madame, doubt' ing the entire mine. less he is a man of moral character. Sure, mum, sure but I dont Japanese Looking For Trouble. According to the crop report of the know If Im afther unerstandln Three Japanese warships have been Agricultural department just Issued waxed slightly Impatient ordered to Newchwang. Marquis Ito this has been an unprecedentedly "Oh, Is he a good man, Bridget? bard on 'sinter far western has held a secret conference with the "Good, Is it? Sure he could lick th Wyoming leads the list of leading Japanese statesmen. The Rus- sufferers with the loss of 792, 35d eyes out of any shpalpeen from Cork sian demands for privileges in Manwas the enthusiastic sheep and 71,777 cattle through dis- to Kilkenny! churia have excited the Japanese ease and exposure. reply. press, which Insists on vigorous acMore than a majority of the memtion, confident that the Untied States, Lead Made from Coke. as well as Great Britain, will support bers of the last Montana legislature The "lead of black pencils is now have expressed to the governor their An Japan. has been arrangement made from coke. It is ground and reached by which the political crisis willingnes to serve without pay at mixed with iron ore and chemicals, an extra session to pass an has been averted, but the governappropriament's naval increment proposals re- tion for an exhibit at the St Louis and subjected to pressure under great exposition and to greet the president heat main unchanged. on his visit to Helena. y g. you."-Madam- e stock-grower- |