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Show GUNNISON GAZETTE. r xzrm pled mix a GUNNISON, - - oic. JIT STATEHOOD THE ORINOCO WILDER ft ESS BILL ;n I trnan!o an4 Ciudad me about the same which Ilolivar. the present generation unless a radl distance apart ?' vre Minneapolis and cal change of administration taken St. IouU, it is estimated that there .t place," writes a South American trav- are fewer than 2.oi0 j er!'-ureler. "Its population is believapart from the inhabitants of ed lo be actually less than It was Calcara ami one or two other small Most of these settler, nearly four centuries ago. Tho In- villages. dian stands in such fear of the Vene- moreover, lle among such wretched zuelan and his government that he surroundings that one wonders that The only' frequently prefers to follow tho small- they find life endurable. er waterways of the Guiana region or evidence of modern progress that I take overland trips through the virgin witnessed during the entire trip was forest rather than use the broad high- a windmill and of the various craft way that is his rightful heritage from we sighted not one was propelled by countless ancestors. This disappear- steam. ance of the Indian has greatly imped"Yet the natural wealth and fertiled the gathering of rubber, tonka ity of this region are boundless. The beans and other natural products, and cattle of the llanos, as Is well known, since Immigration Is not encouraged yield the finest hides that the shoe and continuous revolutions have scat- manufacturer can procure, and with tered or killed the settlers of Euro- cheap river freights the traffic in pean and mixed descent it would hides from San Fernando alone seem (hat the country is steadily ret- should employ a fleet of steamer. There is a project on During my visit to that town, howrograding. foot at present to establish a colony ever, the cattle Industry was o deof Boers upon the llanos and Gen. pressed that animals on the hoof Castro is said greatly to favor it; but brought only $3. The rubber forests the Venezuelans assert that this Is of the upper Orinoco are as yet albecause he sees a chance to augment most untouched, except on the marhis army with tried fighters, not be- gins of the streams, and the valuable cause he favors foreign colonization. balata rubber, which is comparatively "I sailed 200 leagues down this new to commerce, is found at various giant waterway and was amazed at points from the delta to the Rio the primeval condition of the country. Negro. "It PISSED 81 THE HOUSE UTAH. Is doubtful If the Orinoco conn- try will be properly opened up during Betwct-- et-tier- to-da- y An exchange speaks cheerfully of Only Thirty-threthe "plethora of gold. surgent e of the Held Out Faithful to the End. So-Calle- d In- Matelle Gilman says Pittsburg nll Ilonalres lack culture. Mabelle ought Washington. The house passed the statehood bill according to schedule dogs In New York on Thursday. The Republican oppoare now wearing earrings. Hut don't sition Jo the measure had spent its enblame the dogs. tire force, and no effort was made to defeat the bill on Its final passage, Gen. William Booth says he has thirty-threof the insurgents no meat in seven years. Vege- only measure. The bii the voting against tarian or trust buster? passed by the vote of 194 to 150. The bill as passed provides that A Cleveland broker committed because he lost $3(O.O00. It hap- Oklahoma and the Indian Territory pened to be his own money. shall constitute one state under the name of Oklahoma, and that Arizona Be kind to the rich, gentle reader. and New Mexico shall constitute one Just think of the things that will be state under the name Arizona. printed about them after they die. Should the terras of admission be the residents of the terriWe question the old saying, ratified by "Theres nothing so bad that It might tories In question, their respective contain constitutions must not be worse." liow about a rotten tAte Intoxof sale clauses prohibiting the egg? icating liquors and plural marriages. A Detroit man has Invented a safe The constitution of Arizona must air ship. Details are not given, but of prohibit the sale of llauor to Indians necessity it must run along the ground forever and that of Oklahoma for on wheels. twenty-on- e years. There are many other stipulations Interesting relics from the frigate Rev. Dr. Parkhurst says that no concerning schools, courts and politi- Constitution, the proposal by Secreman ought to swear. Correct! And cal subdivisions of the proposed new tary of the Navy Bonaparte to destroy no man ought to do anything to make states. which was defeated by vigorous proother people swear. test, are in the possession of J. A. MUST COME OUT IN OPEN. Murphey of Philadelphia. They are Wall street has been worried for Clark the logbook and ledger kept during Objects to Coolie Working on the command a few weeks by "tight money. Now of Commodore Charles Panama Canal. it knows how the most of us feel the Philadelphia LedStewart, says Washington. The house on Friday ger. the whole year round. adopted an amendment abrogating It was the intercession of the Misslaw for alien labor in es Stewart of Any one can become famous easily. the eight-hou- r Philadelphia, descendJust write a letter to somebody advo- the Panama canal zone. The Demo- ants of the commodorq, that was cating that people be chloroformed crats combatted the amendment. The most Instrumental In creating a senfor some reason or other. vote stood 83 to 35. The debate pre- timent for the preservation of the ceding the vote developed difference old hulk. Congressman Sulzer has found out of opinion as to whether the Chinese The logbook embraces the thaty Croesus was worth onl about exclusion act extends to the canal from December, 1813, to May, period 1815, $11,000,000, but some of us would like some of most the including zone. important to be even as rich as that. naval battles of the war of 1812. It used were tactics by Is in one Filibustering handwriting, presumably A woman died In Pennsylvania the the minority in efforts to defeat the of Commodore Stewart himself. that other day, leaving 114 descendants. proposed amendments, but after half It tells in a concise and most matter-Would it not be well to have her por- a dozen attempts to obtain a rollcall of-fact style the thrilling incidents trait put on a postage stamp? on various motions had failed, the of that historic time. Among the house went into committee of the more is stories the recital interesting curan reason Another elastic why amendwhole and the eight-hou- r of the of the Levant. capture rency would be popular Is that ment was at once offered under the The ledger contains the roster of could then use it for garters in- rule. Mr. Clark of Missouri gave notice officers and men, and is an account of stead of carrying it in their stockings. that he should immediately prepare a the advances to them to pay, etc. Its A New York actress has left the bill extending the Chinese exclusion early entry is August 19, 1803. The of Panama, "and I officers of the Constitution at that income from $15,000 for the care of act' to the isthmus will make it extend to Japanese a dog, a parrot, and a cage of lovecoolies, too, he declared, "because birds. It ought to be worth more than all coolies look alike to me, and I will that. make you get out into the open if you intend to dig that canal with ChinaOne of the queer sights of a down Of course, Secretary Wilsons plan men. town street the other day was a balkof reforming the American hen will OF NO VALUE. GOLD WAS ing horse hitched to a hearse. include instructions to do all her layI have seen a good many stubborn ing at home and her scratching at the Bag of Yellow Stuff Kicked About on lorses in my time, said a man who neighbor's. Broken Deck. happened to be one of the bystanders, "and likewise a good many funerals, Whenever Castro takes up his Seattle, Wash. Among those who but Sundays exhibition was the first morning paper and finds that the are supposed to have perished when combination of the two I ever came world isnt talking about him he hurto pieces was J. B. across. It was a curious spectacle. went Valencia the ries out and insults the French diploGraham, a passenger, and with him Nobody seemed to know what to make matic agent. went a bag containing $1,500 in gold. of a horse who would so far forget Survivors of the wreck say that Gra-lamanners as to delay a Until it is known whether John offered the hag of gold iis good If frantically the horse had been any Gibson Hale is a husband and father ;o any one who would place him on funeral. color other than g gray, I should have his remarks on marriage and shore. But the others paid but little more even Deen surprised at the diswill not be permitted to go leed to the pleadings of the man, and of cussedness. lis gold lay on the broken deck, play in the record. A short while ago a horseman imvicked underfoot, no one bothering to Some of the young men at the An- even pick it up. parted to me some very interesting deductions of his own in regard to napolis naval academy insist that it in Fourteen Lives Lost Explosion. balky horses. According to him, fully doesnt hurt a cadet to compel him t s of the horses that balk are Poteau, I. T. Fourteen lives were stand on his head. But does it really do him any good? lost in the explosion in Slope No. 4, gray horses. Just what affinity there of the Witteville mine. The explosion s between gray coloring matter and Andrew Carnegie is awakened every was caused by firedamp. Three of the a predisposition to delay general trafstretch is a morning at 7 oclock by the notes of ourteen bodies have been recovered. fic for half a day at a me. too for Perhaps deep an organ. If the average man were The at 11:15 question explosion occurred as rich as Andrew he would have that oclock Thursday in entry No. 4, some scientist can figure out the anwhere sixteen men were at work. Two swer. organ set for 10 oclock. Another thing worth noting is that of the men nearest the entrance weri a horse traveling toward the north able to make their escaD to know. Ultra-fashionabl- e e RELICS OF FAMOUS FRIGATE time were: Commodore, Charles Stewart; lieutenants, James R. Caldwell, Michael B. Carroll and Joshua I. Maxwell; midshipman, Clement Biddle, and sailing master, Alexander C. Harrison. The name of Dr. Samuel R. Marshall also appears. The book is an example of old-fashion- ed thoroughness. It Is hand-rule- d In red Ink with the precision of a lithograph. The entries are in bold, clear script, as legible as If they had been written yesterday. In contrast with the luxurious circumstances of an officer of a modern man-o-wa- r is the entry against Lieut. Caldwell. He evidently had recourse to the slopchest, from which at the present day the ordinary seaman only is fitted out with clothing and other necessities. Under the heading of "Advance of Slops, Lieut. Caldwell is charged on the dates Jan. 31, and July 31, 1804, with eighty cents and $1.13. It had been Mr. Murpheys intention to present the old records to some appropriate historical society. In view of the fact that Old Ironsides will probably become itself a national museum, he now thinks that their most appropriate resting place will be on the old vessel. AROVT THE 'BALK.y HORSE m child-rearin- two-third- seldom balks. When going east, west or south he may, on occasions, suddenly take root in the pavement, but if northward bound there seems to be an irresistible current that sweeps him along, no matter how strong his inclination to stop and ruminate. Furthermore, according to my informant, a horse hitched singly is more apt to balk than when driven with a mate, and also much harder to reduce to an amiable frame of mind. "It is strange, too, what a boundless most horses respect have for certain kinds of freight. Very seldom does a horse hitched to a milk wagon stop to think things over unless given permission to loiter. Bakers carts are likewise immune, and no horse ever thinks of going into a tantrum when drawing a load of flowers. The drivers of pickle wagons also give a good account of their teams, and nobody ever heard of a candy wagon being held up by an unruly horse. Up to last Sunday I had supposed that hearses were equally fortunate, but the escapade of t.e gray horse smashed that illusion. New York Press self-respectin- g s, |